Zuzana Nevyjelová

The British government decided that they do not want students to return to the university for the second term of the school year 2020/2021 and that everyone should stay at home with online teaching. There were some exceptions, so some of my friends spent the term at the university, but I decided to stay at home.

It is a very unfortunate year to start studying at a foreign university. I had to arrive two weeks earlier to self-isolate and instead of long walks in sunny Cambridge I could not leave my room. I was ordering food from the hall and when they brought it to me, they left it behind the door, knocked and went away, so that they would not be in contact with someone in self-isolation. I could not go outside at all, unlike some other colleges that allowed walks on the yard.