Closed Borders

with a little savings, but the huge strain was the Uni fee that international students have to pay. And we can't make a wrong step with that because the Uni didn't allow us to pay later, be late with payments, or do the installment plan. It feels like, "Did I make the right decision? Did they see me as a student, that they should support me through the whole journey, or just because it's our choice, so we have to put up with it?" T...

the border of Australia suddenly closed and I was still in China. So, it's a shock news for me. We could come back via another country like Thailand. While we waited there, we have no idea what we can do and how we can start the new semester at the University. The University of course cannot help students a lot and they cannot provide enough information to students, so the only thing they can do is just tell the students we underst...

all the deaths, all the positive cases in your country. And then, of course, you're going to worry about your family. You don't know what's really happening because it's a virus. And then you don't know how serious it is. We don't have any information about it. And also, at the same time, I'm worrying because of my family in the Philippines because when I left Philippines, I kind of knew that there's already virus. And then we didn...

a mask here at the beginning of COVID, but us being very cautious, we already started to wear masks.. So, the tutor asked him to remove the mask or leave the class, which, in the end, he had to compromise, and he removed the mask. Some students said, "This is a total racism, and he should report to the Uni." But like I said, for me, it was probably the different ideas of different cultures. So, I'm not sure, if it was me, well, I w...

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