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Jiading the 'second home' to Nepali student
By Liu Bihua and Wang Yan |
April 27, 2009, Monday
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RUPAM Anurag, a 24-year-old Nepalese student, is becoming something of a China hand and after five years he speaks Mandarin and Shanghai dialect.
He is majoring in Chinese at the Jiading Campus of Tonji University.
"Jiading is my second hometown forever. I'll often come back for a visit even if I go back to Nepal," he says.
Rupam was born in a middle class family in Nepal. His father is a businessman, his mother a college professor. He has two elder brothers and they too are studying in China.
Rupam's parents consider education vital and sent all three sons to China for study since China and Nepal are friendly neighbors and China's development has been spectacular.
The oldest brother is a post-graduate student at Zhongshan University in Guangdong Province; the middle son is a senior white-collar worker in a Chinese company.
Rupam is studying on a full scholarship. When Rupam arrived in Shanghai, the biggest difficulty was adjusting to different lifestyles, especially diet. As a Hindu, he cannot eat beef. Pork is delicious and Chinese love pork. Now he especially loves red-cooked pork and many other Chinese dishes. He has also mastered chopsticks.
In his first year he enrolled as a Chinese language and studies major. He never realized that Chinese was such a wonderful language. He learns quickly and now he not only speaks Mandarin and Shanghai dialect, but he can even sing some Chinese songs in KTV.
After acquiring Chinese, life has become much easier. He remembers how he once spent two hours finding a branch of the Agricultural Bank of China. Now he even knows all the banks and ATMs and knows how to avoid extra fees. In his free time, Rupam likes to stroll about and travel. He has been to many cities. But Shanghai and Jiading are still his favorite because of their rich history and the Formula One circuit.
He lives in Huangdu Town where he was deeply impressed by the swift reconstruction of Cao'an Road from an old, decrepit roadway to a wide and modern one. Now it's easy for him to reach the city center.
Rupam is looking forward to World Expo 2010 in Shanghai. He has learned a lot about Expo and reads about it in Shanghai Daily. Now he wants to be one of the Expo volunteers.
"The Expo is a global festival, a good opportunity for presenting China and the rest of the world to each other," says Rupam. "As a Nepali, I'm proud that my country will participate in the grand festival."
He is majoring in Chinese at the Jiading Campus of Tonji University.
"Jiading is my second hometown forever. I'll often come back for a visit even if I go back to Nepal," he says.
Rupam was born in a middle class family in Nepal. His father is a businessman, his mother a college professor. He has two elder brothers and they too are studying in China.
Rupam's parents consider education vital and sent all three sons to China for study since China and Nepal are friendly neighbors and China's development has been spectacular.
The oldest brother is a post-graduate student at Zhongshan University in Guangdong Province; the middle son is a senior white-collar worker in a Chinese company.
Rupam is studying on a full scholarship. When Rupam arrived in Shanghai, the biggest difficulty was adjusting to different lifestyles, especially diet. As a Hindu, he cannot eat beef. Pork is delicious and Chinese love pork. Now he especially loves red-cooked pork and many other Chinese dishes. He has also mastered chopsticks.
In his first year he enrolled as a Chinese language and studies major. He never realized that Chinese was such a wonderful language. He learns quickly and now he not only speaks Mandarin and Shanghai dialect, but he can even sing some Chinese songs in KTV.
After acquiring Chinese, life has become much easier. He remembers how he once spent two hours finding a branch of the Agricultural Bank of China. Now he even knows all the banks and ATMs and knows how to avoid extra fees. In his free time, Rupam likes to stroll about and travel. He has been to many cities. But Shanghai and Jiading are still his favorite because of their rich history and the Formula One circuit.
He lives in Huangdu Town where he was deeply impressed by the swift reconstruction of Cao'an Road from an old, decrepit roadway to a wide and modern one. Now it's easy for him to reach the city center.
Rupam is looking forward to World Expo 2010 in Shanghai. He has learned a lot about Expo and reads about it in Shanghai Daily. Now he wants to be one of the Expo volunteers.
"The Expo is a global festival, a good opportunity for presenting China and the rest of the world to each other," says Rupam. "As a Nepali, I'm proud that my country will participate in the grand festival."
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