International students find shelter from pandemic storm on Signal Hill
International students Mariana Esquivel Suarez and Saman Bazmi are riding out the pandemic at Memorial University s Signal Hill campus. But when it began, they faced a stark choice: should they stay or should they go?
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Mariana Esquivel Suarez and Saman Bazmi made the tough call to ride out the pandemic in St. John s
Posted: Apr 23, 2021 7:00 AM NT | Last Updated: April 23
Bazmi Saman and Mariana Esquivel Suarez are graduate students who live at Memorial University s Signal Hill campus.(Zach Goudie/CBC)
Mariana Esquivel Suarez and Saman Bazmi both came to Memorial University for an education. They never imagined they would find safe harbour from a raging global pandemic.