"With my looking for the future life in Korea, our plane finally landed on Gimhae International Airport in Pusan. I know that my new life with great challenge will begin." Now when I look back reading these words written before in my blog, my heart is always filled with complicated feelings which are indescribable. As time flies, I have been in Korea for four months. There were exciting and challenges, as well as disappointments and sadness, which are all in my mind as a memory now. However, I am growing up in the progress, with the speed faster than ever before.
  
A.hard life

In China I can’t dare to sleep myself, but in Korea my roomie goes back home every weekend. I have to face the fact that I should sleep alone. In China I have never met with typhoon, but in Korea I was scared and weaken up in the mid-night by typhoon, which sounds like a ghost. In China, I have so many friends while in Korea, a quiet country, I must bear the stifling atmosphere. In China I can eat every kind of fresh vegetables and fruit while in Korea I have to get used to spicy kimchi and luxury fruit.

I am really a foreigner now. I should climb up myself when I fall down, even if I was hurt to cry there would be nobody giving a hand. I should do every procedure alone while everything was done by my parents before. Others will not consider that I am the only child of my parents and do me a favor. I am in Korea now. I realize that I should act like a Korean using the polite language and bowing though it is so difficult for all the foreigners.

B.challenging study

The way of education in Korea, which looks more like western countries，is different from that in China. Fortunately, I had a lesson given by an American professor last semester. That was a new type of class which I can’t get in my home university. Although I heard that Korean students didn’t study hard before, I find they do harder once they decide. So sometimes I was stressed and did my homework and prepared for the class harder even than I did in China.

Most people think that exchange students’ life aboard is like a travel. That means their study is not important and even if they didn’t study they also would get credits and go back their home university. But in my case it does not make sense. My professors are strict to me. Because of my characteristics, I always want to do everything well, at least trying my best. Maybe the professors know what kind of person I am so they give me great assignments. Every time I accept them with smile. I believe that the professors must have reasons to do it and it is also good for my study. I still remember how hard I prepared for the American professor’s homework and how excited I was when I received an e-mail from her telling I got full points. I was nearly not fluent of one sentence of Korean when I came here. But my Korean professors didn’t give me any special work. They just told me that I should study harder and harder. You can imagine how crazy I was when I dealt with my assignments in Korean. However I like this kind of life. It forces me to study more and more.

Usually I get up early in the morning, go to the library, have a cup of coffee, do some reading and then get to the classroom. Strictly I didn’t have lunch time on week days because I chose so many lessons every day. And often I had group studies with foreign friends. I am busy on the way having no time to miss my parents, friends, relatives and so on. Frequently we have parties at night which afford opportunities to communicate with friends and have a rest. These are also called Korean students’ culture that can’t be seen in China.

Compared with other exchange students, I feel lucky since my professors would not tell me: "You need not to listen to the classes or take the exams. I will give you credits at last." Though sometime I also complain about it, my heart is grateful. One person’s attitude is so important that it not only is to study but also to the impression to others—–telling them what you want.

C.my friendship

It is the first time that I have felt that friendship is so important when I am in Korea. I always remind me to treat others with my true heart. Being honest is the just way to have real friends especially in a strange country.
By chatting with my friends in China via MSN, I don’t feel lonely and frequently am relieved by them. We exchange the experiences, discuss about the differences between the two countries and so on.

Korean friends are also friendly. They don’t exclude me because I can’t drink in the bar. On the contrast, they try to find interesting topics and talk with me. The professors are kind to me. They treated me in Chinese restaurants and always care about my life in Pusan. My classmates are nice guys too. They give me documents of the classes on time and we often do assignments together outside class. My roomie now becomes my best friend in Korea. We had date, listened concert, gave Christmas presents to each other and so on.

Of cause, I make many foreign friends here besides Koreans. Due to the introduction to them by my Singaporean friends, I can work in the English newspaper office of PUN as a reporter and proofreader, only needing to pass an interview. Because of the lovely German friend, I have an unforgettable experience of climbing hill at night. And that night is the last day of 2006. Canadian friend has such a nice eloquence that makes me wish to go to Canada right now. Indian persons are so strict that once we were late for the appointment they looked so angry……

Friend is so important at this age. Though from different colors, different cultures and different background, if you treat others well, you will be treated better. 

D.love to my country

Korea is a developed country while my hometown is a developing one. Too many times, at the details in life, I feel sad as a Chinese. For example, when we climbed the Hallasan Mountain, every Korean were conscious of taking their garbage from the top restaurant to the root, without anyone telling them, even the garbage was sorted. I was so surprised at that time, thinking when us Chinese can do like them from children to the older all over the country. I am worried and stressed, but not shamed. Don’t say that Korea is just a small country. Don’t say we need not to study from Korea. Mostly, we should acknowledge the advancement of them.
Not just one time, I am thinking that why they have developed more than us, how and when we can also do better than Koreans.

My exchange experience in PNU is valuable which must be a treasure in my life. I will spend every day and treat every thing seriously. Time and tide waits for no man, so I cannot waste time. There is sea near PNU, which let me be happy and relaxed during busy study. When I climb to the classroom on the hill I feel that I am going up in spite of being tired. I like to go to the seaside and have a walk there. From the board sea, it seems I can see my life, my country……