It is well said that
“when in Rome, do as Romans do”. For me it’s Prague during a summer exchange
program in Czech Technical University. But am I doing what Praguer do to
justify this quote. Since my arrival, I am experiencing situations that leaves
me bewildered and raises a question of how to take these changes during my
stay. So, rather than measuring it on the basis of right or wrong I placed
everything on a different scale and started enjoying the moment. This article
is written to share my views and learning and nothing to do with anybody in
person. With an aim of building utopia concerning monument preservation, Prague
was a wise choice and soon it was triggered by an opportunity to redefine my
social protocol. There are students from almost 100 different countries but
none except me from India which helped in pulling up my excitement. During the
orientation week, apart from countries in Europe like Spain, France, Italy and
Germany, I made friends from all across the globe like United States, Turkey,
Costa Rica, Canada, Taiwan, Korea and Mexico. According to me, the best part of
this exchange program is an opportunity to know myriad cultural differences in
a single platform and a motivation to see the energy of other International
students to participate in several events like hiking, trekking and sports like
skating, biking, tubing, etc. for which I had no experience before. In Europe, students are considered to be much
more responsible and mature in taking their decisions as compared to India and
the responsibility is shown in their assignments, attendance and active
participation. Considering all these, I started keeping a better track of who I
am and what I should take in next 5 months because I do not want to miss things
that I know I will not do back in India.
