[Russian's first reaction to Queensland, Australia _ Brisbane vlog]-

My culture shock. Burger! What do you mean? Is it not legal in Russia? Australia is kind of dangerous for this. True. True? I'm wondering why, because there are sharks in this river. Hi, mate. How are you doing, mate? Good day, mates. It's Eli from Russia, and I love vodka. I mean, traveling! Somehow, I ended up in Australia, found the city of my dreams, Sydney, and really wanted to stay there. But I need to keep exploring, because that's what I do. And I flew from Sydney to the capital of Queensland state, Brisbane. In this video, I will meet a local PhD student and see what a university campus in Australia is like, meet my Aussie friend, and finally meet a kangaroo. So, I'm couchsurfing again, and in Brisbane, I'm staying with Rod from... Chile! How are you? Hola! Hola, hola! So, you've been living in Australia for five years, right? Almost five years. And the cities? Melbourne and Brisbane. And your favorite? I'm sorry, Brisbane. Oh, Sydney! This is like the beautiful girl without soul. What do you like about Brisbane? Brisbane, I think the landscape that they have, they are amazing. I think you can find more beautiful, like, the natural places. I feel like my trip in Brisbane will have some Latino vibes. I really like to listen to Latin music. Like the tango? Yes. Do you like it? Yes, I like it. The boy even played another thing that escapes the tango, which is called Zamba. Brisbane is the third largest city in the world. The boy even played another thing that escapes the tango, which is called Zamba. Brisbane is the third most populous city in Australia. Most people here are immigrants, or first or second generation immigrants. People move here because of nice climate on most of the east coast, lifestyle, quality of life, and excellent education system. Like Rod moved here for a university. Let's see what's in the university canteen. It's very different from university canteen in Russia because we get, like, soups, grechka porridge, and stuff like this. And you can get first course, second course, dessert for, like, $3. For, like, $3. And this is not $3 at all. Like, $15 Australian dollars. Very expensive. How to say in Spanish? Muy caro. Guys, a moment here. You might already know that my channel got demonetized. I guess there are some sanctions for YouTubers from Russia. But I never stopped making videos. And I can assure you that if you really love to do something, you will always find ways to monetize your passion. In my case, it's traveling, storytelling, making videos. It also helps that I have several sources of income. My online business, investments, and partnerships with companies. By the way, thank you to Masterworks for sponsoring this video. Masterworks deals with something I find incredible on a personal level. It's the first company buying paintings from legends like Banksy and Picasso, registering them, and then breaking them into fractional shares. This way you can invest in art without needing millions of dollars. They allow you to buy an equity in a piece of art rather than having to buy an entire thing. This way you can own, for example, a little piece of Claude Monet. And then later, when Masterworks resells the art, you get the share from potential profits. Each of Masterworks' 13 exits to date have returned a profit to investors. And with over 700,000 users, Masterworks' offering can actually sell out in minutes. Masterworks currently has a waitlist of over 2,000 users. But using the link below, you can skip the waitlist and join the platform now. Why did you choose the University of Queensland? Because in Australia it's the best one in my field, in food science. Also in the world it's number 13. And what's your research about? My research is about the study of the forming properties of the camel milk. Why camel milk? It's more similar to human milk. For example, camel milk has lactoferrin, which human milk has lactoferrin, no? So that is antimicrobial. It's something very good for us. Well, in my case, I want to preserve this as well because I want to help this milk to hit the coffee market. Do you like this university? I don't like the weather, but I love the university. Outside it's too hot? Yeah, it's so hot. I feel like I am in a pot, like cooking myself. Yeah, in Australia, the further you go north, the hotter it gets. And we're in Queensland. It's indeed hot and humid outside here. So I decided to meet my Aussie friend and go somewhere where we could take a rest from the heat. By the way, Aussie is a slang which means an adjective Australian or a person from Australia. I met Bec from Breezy, well actually from Dalby, where we will go later. But now she invited me to go ice skating. How crazy is this? In Australia? Yeah, and you said that your coach is Russian. Katya. Yeah, and how is she like? Very strict. Our rink is actually home to the guy who won the first Winter Olympics medal for Australia. Australian supermarket. It's a mall. Hot cross buns, are they a thing in Russia? The what? Hot cross buns for Easter every year. But Easter is in two months. Okay, Australia has this problem where we like to put stuff out way beforehand. We have for Easter kulich, it's another one. Is it like this? No, not at all. Tim Tams, these are like the Australian biscuits. It's like chocolate covered biscuits. Koala and kangaroo and cockatoo shaped biscuits. Oh my god. These are like iconic. They are so cute. It's a good souvenir, we've got some little kangaroo chocolates. How cute this is. This is like this caramello koala. This is one of our most iconic chocolates. Kangaroo. Kangaroo steak, kangaroo mince, kangaroo the burger. A lot of people are shocked to hear that we eat our national animal, but it's actually a pest. But is it popular to eat it? So-so, some people do because it's healthier than beef. I think it's a bit cheaper than beef, but some people just can't get over the fact that it's a kangaroo. They're cute. My culture shock. Kangaroo sizzle steak. Kangaroo burger. Burger. That's what you see when you come to Australia. Not kangaroos at first. At first you see all the dead parts. You see them in the supermarket. So it's all New Zealand food? Yeah. Why did you decide to learn Russian? Because I have a lot of friends from Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan. Tajikistan. I want to know what they say. Because they can say bad things about me. That's why. Where else do you want to go? Where have I been? No, where else? Where else? Where else do I... have I been? Where else do you want to go? I want to go to Russia. Of course. Belarus is also very interesting. I didn't visit Kyrgyzstan. Kyrgyzstan. And Mongolia. Do you have any goals in Russian? Was that too fast? That was too fast. Goals? Goals. Do you have any goals in Russian? I want to understand a lot. Because now I speak a lot, but I don't hear well. That's my main goal. I want to understand people better. So, a casino is legal in Australia? Yeah, a casino is legal. What do you mean? Is it not legal in Russia? No. Is it popular? I mean, yeah, yeah. Some of my workmates go. I haven't been. I don't want to waste my money. I want to waste my money. I find a dragon fruit. How is it? Try it, it's really good. Do you go swimming in this river? No, no one goes swimming in this river. Why? And you're wondering why? There's sharks in this river. You should not swim in there. There's sharks. There's dolphins, but there is sharks. Sharks. No one swims in there. So even if your dog wants to swim, it's not safe? Don't do it. It's not worth it. People do kayaking, that's quite nice, but don't get into the water. It's not, yeah, it's not a good idea. The first thing that people usually think about Australia is poisonous spiders and snakes and everything, and that Australia is kind of dangerous for this. True. True? I mean, well, they're not dangerous if you approach them and you harass them, then they're going to obviously harass you back, but if you're just careful and you're polite to all the animals you see, you should be fine. But overall, if you're in the city, you're safe, right? The most you'll see is a spider in the city, and then they're not really big ones, or they're dangerous ones. And if you go to a village or some... Well, that's where you might see snakes and stuff, but if you're just polite to them... You know, it's actually illegal to kill snakes in Australia. Illegal? Illegal. If you see a snake, you're supposed to call the snake catcher, and then you have to have some guy come and put it in a bag. Overall, if you just leave them alone, it's illegal. Did they ever get in your house, or did you ever have some situations like... We had a situation where we had the most dangerous snake in the world. In your house? In my house. In Dalby? In Dalby, yeah. Big? It's very rare. He was quite big. And there was no snake catcher, so my dad had to take him, basically get gloves on, take the snake, put it in a bucket, and then put it back out in the field. Are kangaroos also considered dangerous in the wild? They can be a bit aggressive, they can kick you, but if you're polite to them, they won't bother you. But yeah, kangaroos are a pest, so people actually try and get rid of them. Yeah, kangaroos are considered pests in Australia. But as a foreigner, of course, I wanted to see them, and maybe to touch them, to pet them, if I could. So I headed to the animal sanctuary nearby Brisbane. In a taxi, I met Ajdeep. He is from India, and he was telling me that he moved to Australia five years ago. Five years ago, yeah, in 2018. I started my journey with a student visa in 2018, but right now I have reached my permanent residency pathway, which is really good at the moment, going really good. After the student visa, I completed my Cert 4 in Commercial Cooperation and Diploma of Hospitality. And after that, I applied for a 485 visa, which is kind of like a work visa after the student. Right now, I'm on that visa, but I got an invitation to apply for the permanent residency for Home Affairs, Immigration of Australia. Congrats! Thank you, thank you so much. By the way, how do you find salaries in Australia? Are they good? Salaries in Australia are really good. They're really good if we have a good job, like good career. I mean in the hospitality career, it's really good. I worked in that career as I'm a hospitality student. Koalas look so cute, but if you heard how they sound, you would think they were devils. I had no idea that they make such sounds. I finally got to meet them. Hi, mate. How are you doing, mate? What do you see there? In the wild, they're quite dangerous. They can kill people, dogs, etc. But here they're used to people, used to be fed by people, and you can even touch them. A kangaroo can rear back, throw all its weight on its tail, and kick a human so hard that it will take your breath away. They can also potentially disembowel someone with their deadly claws. However, kangaroos are normally gentle creatures who will only attack if provoked. He's so muscular. Yep. Roos have a unique and peculiar stride when they hop around, and the way they do so naturally provides them with a lot of muscle which accounts for 50% of their total weight. Kangaroos with highly developed muscles and impressive physiques are named jacked kangaroos, and they really look like bodybuilders. It's raining, so there are no people, zero people in this sanctuary. So it's just me and about a hundred of kangaroos. How cool is this? Just me and so many kangaroos in the nature. I love you. Baby, I love you. I love you, baby. No answer, as always. By the way, the rain became so strong that I'm stuck here under this tree with kangaroos. I can't go anywhere now. So you can't get away from me, because it's pouring. Oh, wow. Life from Australia, and I'm stuck with kangaroos under a tree. Thankfully, we have some food. Yeah? Well, only they have food. I can't eat that. Beck gave me this. She's an Australian now. We've adopted her officially. Team Vegemite. And we're ready to go to Beck's hometown, Dalby. Most exciting place in Australia. The best place it should be, I know. So in the next video, see you from Aussie countryside. Thank you for watching. How should I say in Aussie something, Aussie slang? Cheers, mate, for watching my video. Cheers, mates, for watching my video. Thank you for watching. I hope that you enjoyed this video. And don't miss my next Aussie adventures. It's going to be fun.