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They come from all over the world, have different cultural backgrounds, and speak different languages. They come to Chinese land to study and study, witness China’s development in recent years, deepen their understanding of China, and feel and experience a “three-dimensional and vividBabaylan” China from their own perspective. At the same time, they also brought different ideas, ways of thinking and cultural traditions, promoting exchanges between Chinese and foreign cultures. Starting today, Babaylan Jinyang.com will continue to launch eight episodes of the “Qingling Messenger” column to listen to these Chinese stories of students coming to China.
Text/Yang Bowen Li Xinrui Huang Juyuan Photo/Provided by the interviewee
Poster design/Liu Le Lu Tianai
Video/Chen Qianru
Instructor/Lu Nanfang Xiao Wei
The Republic of South Africa is located at the southernmost end of the African continent and has the reputation of “Rainbow Country”. It is particularly worth mentioning that Cinema is that it has three capitals: the administrative capital Pretoria, the legislative capital Cape Town, and the judicial capital Bloemfontein. South Africa is divided into nine provinces, with a population composition of four major races including black, colored, white and yellow.
In 1990, in order to seek business opportunities, Chen Haoyu’s father came to South Africa. After stabilizing in BielleCinema, he took his family here to settle down. Until now, he still manages the clothing business in South Africa. Chen Haoyu was born and raised in Pretoria, known as the “Garden City”.
The following is Chen Haoyu’s story:
There are 12 languages in South Africa, and the more commonly spoken local languages are “Afrikaans” and “CinemaIsiZulu”. Since South Africa was a British colony in history, most of the residents wereI am accustomed to using English to communicate. The city I live in and grew up in is better than KomiksLetoria. Since the South African Presidential Palace and embassies of various countries are concentrated in this city, you can also see a lot of foreign population on the street. Add to Johannesburg and Cape Town, the three cities make up the most populous areas in South Africa. Pretoria is a very beautiful city, with the green belts of urban streets mainly planted with jacaranda trees. During November every year, when flowers are in full bloom, people will hold a grand carnival to enjoy a series of activities such as flower viewing.
Chen Haoyu (first from left) and his South African friends in South Africa’s private animal protection park
South Africa and China have a relatively big difference in academic arrangements. South Africa requires students to choose one of several African languages as a second language for learning, and there is also a special course to teach “life orientation” to learn the knowledge commonly used in life. After the first year of high school, you can choose the subject you want to study, but basic subjects and physical education are indispensable. South Africa forces power outages in different areas every day to ensure that the power station will not be overloaded. I think this will have a certain impact on life. After completing my high school studies, I listened to my family’s advice and saw that China was developing rapidly, so I developed a strong desire to return to China. At that time, I applied for the opportunity to study at Ji University using my high school graduation results.
During my studies and life in college, in order to improve my abilities, I interviewed the Student Union and the Student Delegation Group. In the work of the Student Union, I have learned a lot of administrative management content from the General Affairs Department, including communication with sponsors, personnel management, etc. The role of the student service group is mainly to follow the needs and opinions of students, and to join teachers and leaders.Communication and feedback. During this process, I saw that teachers would promptly handle the feedback from students, which made me feel the school attach importance to the school’s business opinions.
At the same time, because of my interest in street dance, I also joined the street dance club. There are many enthusiastic seniors in the street dance club. Babaylan This makes me feel that I am not alone, but in a big family. I was very happy and relaxed when I was practicing dancing. The major of international journalism has allowed me to learn a lot of writing knowledge and also made me realize the hard work of journalists behind a valuable press release. In this way, my decision to go to school at Cinema was very correct.
Chen Haoyu (first from left) and his teammates from the Street Dance Club
The climate in Pretoria is not much different from that in January, the hottest in July, and the coolest in July, which is completely opposite to China in the northern hemisphere. I chose to study and live in Guangzhou. At the beginning, it was relatively difficult to adapt to the climate. At the transition from spring to summer, Guangzhou is very humid and hot. In summer, it was more like I was baking on the stove. In winter, it rains a little and the temperature drops sharply. No matter how many clothes I wear, I still feel quite cold.
In terms of diet, because I am not picky about food, there is nothing particularly difficult to adapt to. When I first returned to China, I fell in love with barbecue and hot pot, which are very suitable for my taste. But what’s amazing is that when I eat a lot of things here, I have to add some spicy food, so I have become more and more interested in eating spicy food. In Guangzhou, even when eating in a teahouse, there are occasionally chili saucers for customers to use. The school is located in the center of Guangzhou and has many Komiks types of food to choose from. I have never “stepped on the mine” in the small shops around the school. If friends from South Africa come here, I will take them to try the affordable restaurants that students around the school prefer to eat. I’m the hardest CinemaThe forgotten scenery of Guangzhou is the Pearl River at night. During my first night tour of the Pearl River, I watched the appearance of Guangzhou from different angles. The scenery was particularly beautiful and spectacular, which made me fall in love with this city even more.
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Chen Haoyu (first row right) photo at the International College Student Union
Chinese classmates may not know much about South Africa. The most obvious characteristic of South Africans is that they are particularly loving nature. What everyone is most curious about is whether we really interact directly with wild animals in South Africa. I would joke with my classmates, “When I was in class, I rode giraffes and elephants.” This is because we all love nature and are easy to get in touch with wild animals in our daily lives. I used to have a small zoo in my school Komiks. But South Africa is actually a relatively modern country with rich mineral resources. I personally think the most interesting natural attractions in South Africa are the Kruger (Kruger) National Park. This is the largest wildlife park in South Africa and one of the largest nature reserves in Africa. It has a large number of wild animals inhabited here. I highly recommend everyone to go there to experience the feeling of integrating man and nature.
The climate in the places I live so far is relatively warm, so I also want to experience the cold environment. If I have the chance, I would like to take my friends from South Africa to cities in northern China with me because they have never seen snow before. We can enjoy the snow together Cinema, ski, taste the food from northern China, and experience the customs and customs that are different from the south.
Photographed in Xuwen Pineapple Field Chen Haoyu (the first on the right in the last row) and overseas Chinese students from the International Academy
I have not yet made a sure choice about where to go in the future, but now I enjoy studying and living in China very much. I will pay attention to the present first, and then look forward to the future.
Tip:
KrugerKomiks National Park (Kruger National Park) is a national park in South Africa, covering an area of 19,485 square kilometers and is one of the largest nature reserves in Africa. It is named after Paul Kruger, President of the Republic of South Africa. It was founded on May 31, 1926 and is the first national park in South Africa.
Kruger National Park has a rich variety of Wildlife resources, including mammals, reptiles, birds, fish and plants.
In the vast wilderness in the garden, there are numerous elephants, lions, rhinos, antelope, giraffe, wildebeest, wildebeest, zebras, crocodiles, hippos, leopards, cheetahs, wildebeests, impala, birds and other rare animals.
In terms of plants, there are unique and tall Baobab trees in Africa.
The dry season from June to September is the best gardening season every year.