Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don’t give up

Loide Asheela I am originally from Namibia but I am a fifth-year medical student at Cavendish University Zambia. I started my medical studies in 2017, the course is a seven-year course and right now I am doing my fifth year, which is my clinicals, and I am doing them in Livingstone.I find studying in a foreign country, especially during a pandemic, quite challenging to be honest. During this time, you just want to be close to your relatives and loved ones and being a thousand miles away makes it a little harder to be strong. But I told myself that I have to be strong and not let anything make me lose focus of what’s important. One of the other challenges I faced was the language barrier. When it comes to the application process to study here, it was quite easy for me because the university’s marketing team came all the way to Namibia to try and get applicants to apply to Cavendish University Zambia. At the time they came to Namibia I was so eager to start my career and I immediately applied while I was in grade 11 and I was accepted. My advice to first-years who want to go study in a foreign country is: Do not be afraid to follow your dreams regardless of the doubts or the distance that you’d have to travel. And remind yourself of who you are and what you are capable of. When you get onto campus, remember to stay focused so that you are not derailed by other people and things like peer pressure, because people take things like peer pressure very mildly but those are things that could have a huge impact on your studies.

Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don’t give up

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Namibian Sun 2025-12-16

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Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don’t give up

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Namibian Sun 2025-12-16

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