Why I choose China.My name is
Ahmed. I am an Arabian from the Republic of Yemen at the south of Arabic
Peninsula at the western part of Asia. China was my choice for futher
education after finishing my high school study because I wanted to know more
about the culture, the people and the language as well. At that time I didn't
have much knowledge about this mysterious country except it was big and
powerful. It wasn't a long time since it's established and it's now one of the
greatest developing countries in the world. In my country many Chinese
people work in Chinese companies in different fields such as Yemen hospitals as
doctor specialized in Chinese medicine for many people like to take their
treatments. So Yemen government and Chinese government have a very good
cooperation since decades ago. Chinese government supports Yemen development.
There are around 40 Yemeni students who come to china every year as
an education exchange program for bachelor degree or further studies in the
mainland of China.
I came to China in September, 2012. At that time I
didn't know even a word of Chinese except ''nihao'' which means hello. I could
not handle or achieve anything unless a friend of mine who
understands Chinese very well interprets for me. I realized how important
it was to learn Chinese. Before I came here I never thought that there are
other people except Chinese who can speak Chinese very well. In my eyes
Chinese characters are just like drawings that only an artist can handle. But
when I saw my county-mates can speak it very well, I seemed to have hope that I
can learn it well just as they did. I still remember that something
happened on my way to Harbin Institute of Technology. At that time my partner
and I couldn't speak any Chinese and also we couldn't find anyone for help. No
one told us at which stop we should get off. My friend had an Arabian book
which were translated into Chinese. Using that book we started a kind of
conversation with people on that train. They pointed to the question
they wanted to ask like ''where are you from?'' and I looked for the
answer in the book so he could see the translation.
The year for the Chinese language learning was the
most difficult but most interesting as well. This language is regarded as the
most difficult in the world. We had to get used to many things totally
different from my home country, such as the food. Islam is the religion
that 95% of Arabs believe in. It's prohibited for Islam believers to eat pork
or any kind of meat unless it's slaughtered by a Muslim believer and Islam
cannot drink any kind of wine or even beer. Most of the Chinese people are not
religious believers so they don't have to be bothered by this. So if I wanted
to eat in any Chinese restaurant, it was very difficult to find the dish I
could eat. Fortunately I found later that some people, called ''Huizu'', who
are from minority nationality and Islam as well, run their own restaurants.
Even the dining hall of our school has a special sector for people like
me. They cook dishes I can eat. That helps a lot in solving this problem.
I have been in China for 2 years now and still have so
many things about the Chinese Cultures that I could not understand. I think to
study any other language one important thing is to study their culture as
well, because in that way I can understand the language better and even
more I can understand the way they think since everyone has its way in thinking
and dealing for other people which is caused by his background and the
environment he was raised in.
Sauce: Harbin Institute of Technology
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