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Suzhou Vocational University

Updated:2019-10-22

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“Self believe” is a word which means strong enough to face any problem in his practical life. Every human being set a goal to be a successful and respect in his society. I was also has a dream to be a successful in life, for this to get admission in well prestigious university in country or study aboard after the completion of my intermediate education. For studying aboard China was my first priority because of having good relation with Pakistan and also offer good and healthy environment of education for international student. So I applied in various universities within country and also aboard. With the prayer of my family and friends I was nominated by Suzhou Vocational University in Suzhou Jiangsu province. 

My name is Sher Tullah and I am from Pakistan, doing my diploma in Mechatronics Engineering. Being as International Student my life here is totally changed from the life that I had in my country. Everything here is completely different and amazing; from language to food and from transport to paying money for buying anything means everything is dissimilar to my country. 

10th October 2018 the day that I landed at Shanghai International Airport in China for first time. Few years back I was even not sure that I visit this beautiful country. When came out from airport the difficulties that I realized is to face a language, because I was unable to speak a single words even 你好 in Chinese and also doesn’t know that every Chinese can’t speak English. But luckily some senior students from SVU were at airport to receive us and reached university without facing any problems. If they were not we might face lot of difficulties.

When starting my regular classes, in the first lecture my Chinese language teacher gave us Chinese name according to the pronunciation accent of my English name. So my Chinese name is 图朗。 But till now I didn’t know the meaning of my name. Every student was laughing and kidding each other because of having unique name which we never imagined. In the first lecture I felt that I unable to learnt Chinese because whatever our teacher teaches us I can’t understand but with the passage of time and their continuous effort we are quite pretty well to understand and start communicating basic Chinese with teachers and Chinese friends. My first year in Suzhou for language was really amazing. With my broken Chinese language I discovered many things about this province having unique language, culture, history and many modern infrastructure and daily usage of technologies. 

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In first year our respected teachers taught us about the history and culture of china by covering all the necessary information which quite useful for us while living in china.  They also taught us about some famous music which I can sing with my unflavored voice might make laugh everyone. The most interesting one is a Chinese Martial Art mean KONGFU. About this I heard in Pakistan by watching Chinese movies. But luckily I got opportunity to learn during my academics.

Here in China I really impressed by the management and the administration in the running of infrastructure and services I never faced any problems. In transportation I never got a single minute late while going anywhere.  The services of subway, buses and the most convenient and easy one is Mobike which we can leave anywhere after completed of our task. Subway is also another way of convenient and cheap way of transportation having al l modern technologies.

In China Suzhou is just like my birth place and I live here all time. I visited each and every corner of this city whenever I got a free time. They organized every place in their unique style which relates to some ancient history. The most interesting is that Suzhou is known as the city of garden. Most of them back to 1000 of year old. The interesting which I saw is Humble Administrators Garden, Lingering Garden and Tiger hill.  All were outstanding for its smart use of ponds, interconnected via narrow streams that flow underneath charming bridges. Numerous pavilions, corridors, rockeries and ancient trees are dotted across the garden creating relaxing harmonious atmospheres and preserve the ancient culture and heritages. I also visited some modern areas like Suzhou Centre, Cultural Expo Centre, Time Square and many others. All were amazing because of it unique and modern style of architecture.  

Last year in winter vocation I visited Nanjing the capital of Jiangsu province and visited their Qinghai River, Nanjing museum, Nanjing science and technology museum and the last but not the least the Memorial Hall of victims in Nanjing massacre by Japanese invaders. It was showing lots of sad stories happened during that massacre. My sympathy with the people who lost their life and brutally tortured by the Japanese. I pray to God that they may rest in peace.

At some point I felt frustrated while live in Suzhou. The first one is having no airport in this city, living millions of citizen and international students. Everyone has to travel nearest city for traveling aboard. The other one is western social media like Google, Face Book, Twitter, Whatsapp, YouTube and many others blocked in china. This can be frustrating but have and an alternative Chinese social media little bit difficult to understand especially for those who only came here for short visit. They can’t use like Baidu and Wechat for first time.                                                   

The behavior of Chinese people is so good in helping and caring the foreign people with their broken English communication skill. I am so much hopeful that time I had to live in Suzhou will be good and might got more opportunities to learn much more about this country having unique culture, ancient history and language and expecting to visit some new cities which I only heard name and history read in book. I am very thankful to the Government of Jiangsu for providing me all the facilities that’s need of every students like health study environment, sports and food. 

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