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My name is Charbel Assemaani and I’m from Lebanon and I'm a second year student at EARTH University studying Agronomy.
We have to get up really early in the morning, it's very interesting and a great way to take advantage of the day.
We get up between 5 and 5:30 to get ready, take a shower and eat breakfast because the cafeteria is open between 5:30 and 7:30 a.m. Classes generally start at 6:30 a.m. most days.
The classes are usually hands-on, we go out and have class, study and work in the fields.
They are a variety of kinds of fields for different subjects, for example: animal production, crops and genetics.
We can eat lunch up until 1 p.m., we have to respect this hour. Everybody eats at the same time; from 1st years to 4th years we all sit together.
At 1 or 2 in the afternoon, classes start again but they are more theoretical. For example I’m studying chemistry, genetics, animal production and weeds. These subjects have laboratories, fieldwork and theory specific to each class.
The most important thing is that in the morning we work in the lab or in the field and in the afternoon we have theory.
On Wednesdays and Saturdays we don’t have class, we have work experience that are "staged" where we go to the communities to work and talk to people. It's an experience for us help other others, because in agricultural, we have to do a bit of everything.
Dinner is between 5:30 and 7, so the latest you get out of class is around 6.
From there we go to our dorms, relax a bit, or we can go to the game room and play with our friends. At night there are meetings for group work depending on what we have to do and we study for the next day’s test and quizzes.
The truth is that its really great to live here, we are living in the middle of nature out in the country. Even if we didn't know anything about agronomy we could learn it just from living here because we live with the trees and the plants.