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one day.
Another time a child ran up to her and licked her hand, thinking she was dipped in chocolate cream. And as easygoing as most students are, she shrugged
it off.
The student from Gauteng Province of South Africa, in her third year of study, understands that most Chinese people have not seen a black person.
Almost like Harfield Village, then. And she doesn’t need a green pass to work in Vincent Trocheck Jersey , say, Worcester. So how does she find living and studying in Dalian now? “I love it here.”
Why not study at a university in South Africa?
“My dad wanted me to study here because of the importance of the Chinese when it comes to business.”
Her new friend, standing next to her in the visa-processing queue at Beijing International Airport, is from the Free State. Her brother is a cycling pro
(part of the MTN Qhubeka team) who lives in Italy.
This is her first foray outside mealie-land. She is going to teach English to Chinese children. She is a graphic artist, but can’t find work in the Free State
Province of South Africa. A friend hooked her up with an English teaching school
and now she is here.
“I’m excited. I don’t really know anything about China, but this is an adventure and I get to learn about a new culture.”
The new land of milk and honey beckons. Or Peking duck and soy sauce.
The two young South Africans and the participants of the China Africa Press Centre (CAPC) programme have stepped into the dragon’s den.
For one Aleksander Barkov Jersey , only about 20 million out of 1.2 billion Chinese people speak English fluently, the Chinese Embassy in Pretoria says.
Then there’s the regional Chinese dialects (people from Beijing and Shanghai apparently struggle to understand one another).
Throw in the 56 cultural groupings (around 91 percent are Han Chinese) and depending where you are, how you use your chopsticks, could land you in the
proverbial dim-sum.
But, says former Chinese ambassador to Ghana, Gong Jianzhong:“We have all these groupings and dialects New Florida Panthers Jerseys , but the important thing is that we read the same language.”
The next 10 months living and covering China is going to be a fascinating and challenging one for the CAPC journalists from South Africa, Tunisia, Egypt,
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* Yunus Kemp is the deputy editor of the Cape Argus. He is on a 10-month scholarship with the China Africa Press Centre
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