RIYADH: Leen Aseere is a 20-year-old student, currently reading politics at the University of Melbourne as a beneficiary of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Scholarship Program.
What’s the best thing about Melbourne?
The lifestyle. You’re busy 24/7, literally. You don’t have time to be bored. It’s a great city to improve yourself and look for a better future, in my opinion. Also, it’s a really walkable city, which I love.
And the worst thing?
As much as it’s a safe city, it’s sometimes not. When I first came here, I was out with my friends — Arab girls — and we were at a stoplight, and this homeless guy just started screaming at us. “Go back to your country!’ It was a very traumatizing experience. So that proved to me that, no matter how safe a country is, it doesn’t compare to how safe Saudi is, in my opinion. I wouldn’t advise being out on the streets here — as a young female — after 10 p.m.
