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I was one of the lucky students who were “

present during the visit of the Czech

University of Life Sciences Prague, I was about to
By Ghadeer AlGhaithy where a group of students, along with

their teacher, came to Dhofar University represent my

as part of a cultural exchange initiative.

In return, Dhofar University sent four country and

students to the Czech Republic for the

same purpose. university, so

I wanted to be

My name is Ghadeer, and I was one

of the four students chosen to visit the the best possible

Czech University of Life Sciences. The

news made me anxious. After all, I was representative

about to represent my country and

university, so I wanted to be the best

possible representative to the students and had the opportunity to meet up

and faculty I was about to meet. with familiar faces from their visit to

Dhofar University. We also attended

The trip started from Salalah to Qatar, various classes on different topics

then a long flight to Prague. When throughout our stay, which gave us a

we arrived, I was hit by the extreme better view of different approaches to

temperature difference, which honestly higher education.

confused me. We were greeted by Dr.

Oldrich, who wasted no time and The day after that, we attended

took us on a tour around the city several meetings where we were given

straight from the airport. The city was presentations about some of the student

fascinating, and the wind was ice-cold, groups and activities on campus, which

yet we completely forgot that we had piqued my interest and left me hoping

just gotten off a six-hour flight. After that one day we could create something

the tour, he dropped us off at our hostel similar at our university.

and gave us a quick rundown of the

surrounding area before leaving. After that, we were given a day to

explore and create our own educational

The next day, we walked around campus

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