Our recent journey to Beijing and Xi’an was an extraordinary encounter with ancient history, an exploration of the exquisite terrain and architecture and a celebration of the Chinese culture. Perhaps the greatest reward of our trip was a harvesting of friendship. On our final evening in Xi’an, I had wonderful discourse with my host student, 李皓宇(Li Haoyu) discussing our common thread as students and teenagers. It was a exchange beyond borders: just between two new friends.
李富平：在我们谈论这个交换之前，告诉我一些关于你自己的事情。
李皓宇：我最喜欢的课程是化学，我的爱好是踢足球，看电视，看小说。
李富平：有趣的。现在给我解释一下你的工作量，以及你每天怎么学习这么多有趣的科目。
李皓宇：通常情况下，我的工作量比较大，在学校学习完之后，我还必须去补习班上课，之后还会有大量的作业。至于怎么学习，一般我上课都会记笔记，上课认真，课后还要复习，不能忘记认真写完作业。
李富平：有趣的。现在向我解释一下你是如何与你的学校的同学，以及你的社区和西安市的人交流的。换句话说，你的学校是如何让你参与的？
李皓宇：和同学交流不难，你可以尝试与他们交流一些你们互相感兴趣的话题，和其他人交流要注意礼貌一些，表达不要过于强硬。
李富平：真的!现在我们转到交换部分。你对这次经历的最初印象如何？这是你所期望的吗？开导我。
李皓宇：很期待，我认为交换项目非常有意义，当然，我很期待。
李富平：当我们结束这次访谈，反思我们的经历时，是否还有最后的想法？
李皓宇：没有，我很期待明年二月的美国之旅
李富平：太神了.谢谢您的宝贵时间，我期待着在未来几个月内见到您。再见!
李皓宇：谢谢，再见！
It looked like you had fun in China. I might have to visit it myself one day. Great job on the article.
That’s a great article and shows great friendship between two international students from two completely different countries and also showed that the experience that you experienced in China was so fun!
Very nice Matthew! It sounds like China was an experience that will resonate with you on multiple levels.
Very nice, and I also hope to go there.
This article was very insightful and showed the bond one can make in a short period of time.
Great article! Sounds like your having fun!
Matthew,
It was such a pleasure to read this story of your friendship. I’m so happy you enjoyed your trip, and hope you keep in touch with your student.
It is so amazing how you can have such a close relationship with someone who lives across the world. I am so happy you met great friends in China and had a wonderful experience there!
This is a great article! It reminded me of when I went to China
Wonderful, well written article. I love thus use of syntax in order to advance your ideas and thoughts. And it is truly excellent to hear about this cross-cultural exchange of sentiments and words.
Love this! It reminded me of when I went to China.
This was great article on friendship! This is very insightful.
This reminds me of the friendships I made while in China. Good job expressing the friendship!
Wow! Cool article. It seems like you had a great experience in China
Your China experience sounds so interesting and fun. Do you still keep in touch with him?
Your experience sounds fun! This clearly proves how one can create friends anywhere they go.
This is cool! I hope that this is a wonderful experience for you to remember!
Wow! It’s so cool that you had the amazing experience of meeting a new person from a foreign country! I hope you made wonderful memories.
I love that you had a amazing time in China. An international friendship is truly a great thing to have! Great article.
The friendship that was made is very lovely, I hope you two can continue to be friends and stay in touch.
Meeting new people is always great, but meeting someone from another culture can change your view of the world! Great job Matthew!
I’m glad you had a great experience in China and was able to make a new friend as well.
Cool, looks like you had fun in China, wish I went.
Cool! You made a Chinese friends! I ‘m so happy both of you had a good conversation and learnt something intersting!
What an amazing article Matthew! I had an amazing experience with you, and enjoyed all the experiences we made together. I had such an amazing time indulging in all the new experiences we made and all the jokes we made, such as tank u, and I’m gonna shut it down! I am so happy that you produced such an amazing relationship with your exchange student, that I hope you will have for a long time to come!
I really enjoyed your article about the connection between you and your new friend. It was so cool to see the actual conversation you had with your student. I hope we can give the exchange students that are coming to America an amazing experience just as the students in Xian have done for us.