Jakub Červenák

At the beginning of December, the first semester was successfully behind me and I was looking forward to spending my winter break with my family. And that’s exactly what happened. We bought home testing sets for COVID and happily found out that none of us has caught that ugly virus. We spent Christmas and New Year together with our broad family.

My journey to Coventry hadn't started as I imagined it would. The Czech Republic was one of the best countries when it comes to initial COVID response. However, during summer we ignored the rising numbers of new cases and on the 29th of August, we got removed from England's exception list, which meant that all Czechs have to self-isolate for 14 days upon the arrival. These were devastating news for me, more so because this restriction came just three days before my arrival.