Regarding the June 8 article, “Teen ready for ‘opportunity of a lifetime’ — Kamiak graduate earns a full ride to a new university in Abu Dhabi”:
The article did a good job discussing and explaining the opportunity for this student for studying abroad. However, in my opinion, the article should have done a better job to encourage more students to seek opportunities to study abroad.
Such as, opportunities to learn more about another culture, learn other languages. Based on my own experience as an international student from Libya, I can tell students about the feeling they will have when they are studying abroad. The new culture will be very different, so they should be open-minded, and they can learn a lot about how other people live.
Also, the feeling that when they are walking down the street, and they will hear people speaking a different language. They will also have the experience of eating different food. Some of the people they meet will behave in ways that they are not used to seeing. In addition, they will live with Arab people, and they will learn every truth about their life. I am sure the students are going to find them friendly and very warm. Also, they have many interesting habits that they can share with the students.
The important thing is that people there are no different from people here in the USA. So, the students can make friends with Arab people. Since the UAE is one of the modern countries in the world nowadays, they can have access to any technology that they want. One interesting thing that is going to surprise them: They are going to see the Bedouin life side-by-side with the modern life in the same place.
I really encourage students to try to study abroad.
Mohamed Albira
Lynnwood
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