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By Zhu Minmin |
February 28, 2011, Monday
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"CAN we still join in the community celebration of the Lantern Festival this year?"
Dieter Schreier, a German national living in the Jiaxin Community, asked the question when he visited the community center with his wife Tan Lizhen.
Schreier is a car engineer. His wife is from the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. They moved to Jiaxin in 2006 and were eager to participate in community activities.
They attended the cultural classes, did volunteer work for the district's participating in World Expo 2010 and even made dumplings for the Lantern Festival.
With his wife's help, Schreier has mastered some simple Chinese phrases as a way of breaking the ice with people he meets.
"People here are very warm-hearted," Schreier said. "When I'm especially busy with work, my neighbors will pitch in and help my wife take care of our child, and they bring us food, like dumplings. I really appreciate it."
Schreier gets quite effusive when talking about the life and culture of Jiading.
Last year, while helping out at the local Lantern Festival, he got addicted to tangyuan, a variety of dumpling that symbolizes reunion in Chinese.
"He already considers Jiading his second home, and he often asks me to cook Chinese food, which he loves," Tan said.
Jiading is home to many expatriates who work in nearby industries. In the old town area of the district, there are an estimated 300 expats. Many share Schreier's enthusiasm.
Local residents are quick to invite them to participate in local activities, both to ensure that foreigners don't feel isolated and also to give them the opportunity to experience the Chinese culture.
(Zhu Minmin is a Juyuan Community official.)
Dieter Schreier, a German national living in the Jiaxin Community, asked the question when he visited the community center with his wife Tan Lizhen.
Schreier is a car engineer. His wife is from the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. They moved to Jiaxin in 2006 and were eager to participate in community activities.
They attended the cultural classes, did volunteer work for the district's participating in World Expo 2010 and even made dumplings for the Lantern Festival.
With his wife's help, Schreier has mastered some simple Chinese phrases as a way of breaking the ice with people he meets.
"People here are very warm-hearted," Schreier said. "When I'm especially busy with work, my neighbors will pitch in and help my wife take care of our child, and they bring us food, like dumplings. I really appreciate it."
Schreier gets quite effusive when talking about the life and culture of Jiading.
Last year, while helping out at the local Lantern Festival, he got addicted to tangyuan, a variety of dumpling that symbolizes reunion in Chinese.
"He already considers Jiading his second home, and he often asks me to cook Chinese food, which he loves," Tan said.
Jiading is home to many expatriates who work in nearby industries. In the old town area of the district, there are an estimated 300 expats. Many share Schreier's enthusiasm.
Local residents are quick to invite them to participate in local activities, both to ensure that foreigners don't feel isolated and also to give them the opportunity to experience the Chinese culture.
(Zhu Minmin is a Juyuan Community official.)
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