Friday, June 12, 2015

Feedback about Duke university


Hello,
I did an exchange with two students from Duke University. They were both Americans and from different states. One from San Francisco, and did all her way long to North Carolina to finish her studies. And the other from New York. They were both happy to be at Duke University.
It took us a long time to fix the date. At first it was so difficult to find a convenient time for the three of us because we were in exam’s period. Therefore we agreed to chat Friday April 24th in the evening, which was the beginning of the third period holidays. We used skype as a mean of communication.
We red some articles in French and English, they were very interesting but we decided not to stick to them. We spoke of freedom of speech from our point of view and how it developed during the past few years. Then, we interested in the terrorist attacks in general and how the world is going crazy. We also highlighted the hypocrisy of the media that yells the death of one occidental man and forgets about thousands of million people who die every day in Middle East and Africa because of terrorism. All along our discussion we compared the regimes and laws among USA, France and of course my beloved country Morocco. I was surprised that the first amendment in the United States constitution protects the right of freedom of expression and allows everybody to express himself freely without government interference. I spent a wonderful time with them, and I learned a lot about Americans.  
In order to practice English and French we switched between the both each fifteen minutes. One of the two girls had a brilliant level in French. She explained that she started learning it at a young age and did a six months exchange program in France last year. Here is my experience I hope you’ll enjoy reading it.


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