WHAT does a university student have in store for his or her Christmas break? Christmas breaks are so typical if you spend it with your family back home. Of course, it must be the ideal but for a change, how about spending it somewhere and working on an endeavor in your chosen profession? All universities around the globe provide students Christmas breaks but what about in the Islamic region? We now explore the various practices of students around the world during Christmas break.

Well actually, every university in the world even in Islamic and Jewish countries like Israel do have their two-week Christmas breaks beginning on the week before Christmas and ending the day after New Year in the Gregorian calendar. That is for the sake of the Christian students because even in such countries as Israel and Saudi Arabia, there are a lot of Christian university students.

So in short, there really are no differences in Christmas breaks in universities around the world. The difference now lies in how you spend it if you’re not at home. For example, if you are a college exchange student in France coming from the Philippines and you’re taking up fashion design, you may want to spend your Christmas in Palma de Mallorca. After all, it is one of the hottest Christmas destinations in Europe nowadays. By the way, Palma de Mallorca is the capital of the Balearic archipelago off the Mediterranean coast of Spain.

Or if you’re someone from Maine and you’re a college exchange student in Paris, then savor your stay there by cruising at the bright lights of the city. Paris is known as the City of Lights and without doubt, the city is all the more lighted during the Christmas season. You may stroll around such enchanting sights as the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower, Champs Elysees, the Arc de Triomphe and everything else in between. You may savor bouillabaisse at any of the bistros or you may simply contemplate on the merriment of the season at the historic Notre Dame Cathedral or at the more serene Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal chapel nearby.

If you’re an agriculture student at the University of Madrid and you’re living in Salamanca, then you may want to practice different agronomy techniques for two weeks back in your small farm at the Salamanca region. Or if you are living along the coasts of Costa del Sol and you just got back due to a Christmas break at Les Roches School in Bluche, Switzerland where you are taking up a degree in hotel management, then you may want to have a voluntary internship for two weeks at any of the high-end beach resorts sprawling in Costa del Sol. Who knows, this may be your baptism of fire and your two weeks of internship may cause to catapult you to becoming a valedictorian in your class at Les Roches School. These and other ingenious forms of vacation for university students can be tried by anybody in the planet as long as they are college students.