For the first meeting we decidedto play it safe and meet in the cozy library in TAMK. Being very excited about our first encounter with each other we were very nervous but ready to make new friends and learn about culture way different from our own.
I made it to the library in the late afternoon to find two sweet Chinese girls waiting for me there. It appeared that they had a long day of lectures and despite being very tired and hungry they waited for me. We quickly introduced ourselves and started talking about the course and what amazing experience it will be. It turned out that even though Siping and Gourong come from different districts in China and I, coming from the other side of the world- Bulgaria, have a lot of in common.
We kept that quite formal with mainly talking about our native languages. We learned how to say simple things like Hello, How are you?, My name is…, etc. in Bulgarian and Chinese which turned out to be easier than expected. But then I was explained that there are different dialects and ways to speak Chinese and the “easy” language suddenly turned into a complicated science.
However, I thought them some Cyrillic letters, which we use in Bulgaria, and they thought me how so write some Chinese characters.
We kept the meeting relatively short since it was getting very late already.
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