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My first experience in China
MUGWIZA Nicolas
I am a 23 years old boy who learn Chinese at Confucius institute University of Rwanda-college of education. I started learning Chinese back in July 2014, I enjoy a lot learning Chinese and what motivates me most is that I want to communicate with so many people in the world, and the population of china makes the majority of the world population. When you communicate with so many people, it gives you so many opportunities for you to be wealthy and no one hates that.
From learning Chinese then I got an opportunity to go to China to attend 2014 joint international camp for Africa and Asia. Going to china was a huge step in my life, and I thought it would help me learn a lot from China and Chinese people and also strengthen my Chinese language proficiency. We had a group of twenty (20) people, we left Kigali international airport on 26 October 2014 and arrived at Chongqing Jiangbei international airport in China on 27 October 2014. From 27 October 2014 2:30 PM (GMT+8), my adventure in china had just started. After arriving at the Chongqing Jiangbei international airport, a bus was just waiting for us and we went straight at Chongqing normal university new campus where volunteers gave us rooms in the hotel inside the campus, and everyone was given his or her room card. We then put our luggage in our rooms and then went straight to the restaurant where were given restaurant card that would help us get the food.
The main objective of the 2014 joint international camp for Africa and Asia was to teach people from Africa and Asia Chinese language and culture. We learnt Chinese language as well as visiting china's cultural tourist places. We first visited Chongqing zoo, where we enjoyed watching animals. The animal that had the most attention from everyone in the camp was the “Panda” but we also saw tigers, snakes,
different types of lizards and different types of birds. After visiting the zoo we also went to visit the mountain Nan, the Mountain “NAN” has a building on top of it with a tremendous architecture with beautiful landscape and water falls in it, I am telling you it was a joy to be there. From the mountain “NAN” it was quiet in the evening, we then went to see the night view of Chongqing, as someone who did electrical engineering what I saw what I can call it “an unbelievable lighting system” .
What we saw in previous visits where just an introduction, we just still had plenty to see and to enjoy. At every place we got at, everyone was very busy taking pictures. The next day we visited “Bishan Wetland
Park”. With Chinese the classes we had, there were two which were different from others, in those different classes we learnt Chinese paper cutting which is an amazing art that everyone can enjoy, and Chinese tea ceremony. We also visited the ancient town “CIQIKOU”, when we got to CIQIKOU the volunteers told us that when we pose for pictures with the people there, they could charge us ¥5, but the opposite happened and we got some money there, the experience from CIQIKOU was just amazing.
We also visited “DAZU GROTTOES” which was officially made the world culture heritage by the UNESCO, at DAZU GROTTOES we learnt the history of Chinese Buddhism which dates for 5000 years,
it is showed in form of very big statues. The next visit was then “HONGYADONG”. After HONGYADONG the next place we visited I call it the most beautiful place we ever been at in China,
that place was “CHONGQING GARDEN EXPO”, What happened to me when I reached there is that I never got an English word to describe what I was seeing, I could think in one minute that I am probably in heaven or just acting in a Hollywood movie but it wasn’t true I was at CHONGQING GARDEN EXPO. At CHONGQING GARDEN EXPO you could see an amazing landscape, beautiful water falls, nice artificial beaches, statues of animals and people, that was the moment in my life I will never forget, in fact I decided to pass my honey moon there in the future. The last places we visited were “Three Gorges museum” and “the people’s Auditorium”.
My spell in china taught me how to value my culture, I learnt in china that we Africans have much work and much to learn from china, and we can always ask ourselves this “how can we learn from china’s
experience?” I am finally thankful to Confucius institute to have given us such an opportunity to learn Chinese culture and language at Chongqing normal university, but on top of that am thankful for the good cooperation between the people’s republic of china and the republic of Rwana.