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Students from Al-Rashid School in Dubai
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lived in Saudi Arabia, being brought up in a very culturally
diverse environment and studying in an international school
has helped me to understand and appreciate other lifestyles
and traditions. It is always nice to get to know how other societies
function and what their unique customs are. Hence, meeting a
group of intelligent, friendly young men from Al-Rashid School;
Dubai (UAE) was quite a nice surprise! Not only did we spend
time together over dinner, but we also went ice-skating and
had a wonderful time with them. |
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was comforting to learn that people from halfway across the
globe have the same interests as us and it was amazing how easy
it was to develop a friendship with each of them. Courteous
and polite, they showed a genuine interest in getting to know
more about St. Clare's as a school and as a body of international
students, as well as about the city itself. They not only envied
the number of different nationalities that we at St. Clare's
are exposed to, but were also surprised by the amount of freedom
we were given to make our own decisions from what we wore to
where on campus we chose to be. They were especially shocked
to find we could smoke on campus! |
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The group
was here on a social studies/ history trip, accompanied by
two history teachers, a PE teacher and an English teacher.
They visited museums in both Oxford and London and watched
a play to familiarise themselves with the culture of this
country. Quite a few of them, who do not visit Britain very
often, found the society's structure very different from the
kind they are used to in Dubai. They were relieved to learn
the social categories and barriers that are common in their
country are more blurred here, and that St. Clare's only embodied
this characteristic through its body of international student
and teachers, working as one towards a common goal.
Zainab
Hussain, India
1st year IB student
October
2003
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