Chapter 19 Study Abroad

During the day, I contacted my senior Wang Mingxiang early in the morning.

He arrived in Canada a week earlier than us. Because Luo Wanchu and I arrived abroad, we had almost no friends, so the only one who could ask for help was this middle school alumnus.

As for He Jing, admission to school is not a field she is good at, so she didn't ask her for help.

Senior Wang is going to be promoted to his sophomore year this year. When he saw Luo Wan and I, he was still very enthusiastic and took me and Luo Wan on the campus, mainly to be familiar with the locations of some teaching buildings and laboratories, as well as other campuses such as the playground library environment layout.

International students are special groups and need to report one week in advance, so most of the people seen on campus are people with Asian faces. Of course, there are also people who look like Latin America and the Middle East. Although there are not many black Africans, they can meet a few.

I also met students from other provinces in China who came out to study on campus. Because they all spoke Mandarin, they were still easy to identify. Whenever they met one, they would stop to communicate. When they encountered more, the initial loneliness and discomfort disappeared a lot.

At noon, I didn’t go to the open cafeteria for dinner because school has not officially started yet and it is not open there.

So Senior Wang took us into a hotel-style canteen that looked more exquisite. To put it bluntly, it is a place where we can open small kitchens and bring private rooms. Unlike the big pot rice in the canteen, the food here is better, and of course the cost is more expensive.

According to Senior Wang's introduction, all well-known dishes from all over the world can be eaten, mainly to earn money from international students.

This place opened early, and when we came in, there were already people of all kinds of skin.

Senior Wang had a campus card, so he invited us for this meal. Luo Wan and I ordered a few without refusing.

The topic on the dinner table naturally talked about something related to study and life.

From the seniors, we know that there are still differences in the settings of majors and course selection abroad and domestically.

He suggested that we should do more homework before choosing a course, and it is best to consult a teacher or experienced seniors to see which courses we can complete our studies most efficiently. After all, not all international students can graduate on time.

Choosing some courses that are fun but not very relevant to your major may extend your graduation time.

The senior must have more life experience here than us, and he reminded us to carry our identity certificate and passport with us.

Because abroad, the law has very strict requirements on certain aspects, such as drinking alcohol or even attending party outside of school or bars, there are age restrictions.

International students who come from China are generally young. If they want to go to the beach or drink in a bar, they will almost likely be randomly checked for their identity certificates and carry their ID card or passport with them, which can avoid unnecessary trouble.

As we chatted, he asked us if we had any difficult trivial matters such as applying for bank cards and mobile phone cards.

If you want to get your life on track as soon as possible, it is better to do these things early. So he opened the map and pointed out to us that there are several places where people who specialize in handling international students, such as opening a bank account, applying for a mobile phone card, and applying for the Internet.

Because I just came, Luo Wan and I didn’t expect this. We live in a wireless network, so it is still necessary to apply for mobile phone and bank cards in time.

I also talked about some cultural aspects, and the seniors encouraged us to make new friends, no matter which country it is.

University is the best time for people to step out of their comfort zone to make friends with all kinds of different people. In a new environment, you will meet many people from different cultural backgrounds. Don’t close yourself, try to keep yourself open and welcome Canadian culture with an open mind.

Speaking of making friends, he did not forget to remind me and Luo Wan that there will be a routine annual association next month, which is organized by Chinese associations in the school, and is specially designed for old students to welcome the new year. Domestic international students who know the news will generally produce additional products. He hopes that we can also attend.

When we hear that we can see other Chinese people, of course we can't refuse such a good thing.

So Senior Wang also introduced a group of domestic students to join. This group is different from the one given by He Jing yesterday. All the students here are students, so Luo Wan and I added them without thinking.

After lunch, we left the campus. The senior asked where we lived. I was not very adapted to the geographical information here, so I roughly described the location.

I'm not sure if he knows where he is. Anyway, the places we live are not together, and the senior didn't say much, but just felt that it was right that we didn't choose accommodation in the school.

He just said something briefly, roughly speaking, the dormitory assigned by international students may be mixed with humans and snakes, and may even have an impact on life due to some special racial reasons.

Of course, no matter what, it is good to have a senior, and it is better to consult.

After delaying his whole morning, Luo Wan and I politely said thank you and I were all working on our own.

We have to apply for a bank card and mobile phone number. The senior may have his own affairs. We separated not far from the campus.

After school starts, everything is fresh. There are only twenty or thirty people in one class. I heard that there are even fewer people in one class with an unpopular major.

My classmates are from all over the world. On the first day of school, I found that ten of them in the class were Canadians, and the rest were from all over the world. There were about five Europeans, three in Latin America, six or seven in the Middle East, two blacks, and among the remaining three, one Korean and one Japanese, and the last one was me.

Everyone can only communicate by speaking English, and the teachers who teach also teach English.

It may be different from China. After a brief week, I roughly found that the students in foreign teaching are different. Their students are relatively free and no one cares about it. Of course, this article does not mean that it is good. The main reason is that the students who come in have a good foundation, which gives people the illusion that free teaching is good.

They mainly focus on practice, which can be reflected by focusing on interaction during class, while the rest are estimated to be similar to those in China.

Everyone has a similar age composition, so the overall atmosphere is quite acceptable.

Because of their interests and hobbies, and of course, it is also the reasons for the difference between men and women. After careful consideration, Luo Wan and I combined the opinions of the school’s International Student Affairs Office and chose their respective majors.

Luo Wan chose pharmacy under the life sciences major.

The entire pharmaceutical and equipment industry is a high value-added industry. To put it bluntly, this industry is very profitable, with a high starting point and a high salary and benefits in the future.

Compared with foreign countries, the gap between the domestic industry is still very large. The top ten companies are basically monopolized by Europe and the United States. The private pharmaceutical company "Yunnan Baiyao" on our country can only rank in the top 40.

The current situation of the country is like this, so Luo Wan's choice of this major will be of great help to her future employment.

I chose not the same major as her. Although she encouraged me to enter the same major as her, I am still more interested in other things.

I chose the computer engineering major. Of course, it is not the kind of major that focuses on writing code, but is more inclined to electronics and integrated circuits. This is our country's weakness, so employment in the future should not be too bad. Moreover, the engineering major is a well-known major in the school, so I almost didn't come in.

After class for a week, I was basically familiar with the situation on campus and around me, so I could not follow the navigation.

It’s basically the same. There are many hotels around the school and entertainment venues suitable for young people. However, the gap between express logistics and our country is too big. It usually takes one week to receive things bought online, followed by the takeaway industry, which is almost equivalent to not.

Because Luo Wan and I are not in the same major, it is inevitable that there are some differences in class hours. She is not there when I am at home, or when she is at home, of course, most of the time, both of us are not there, and we can only meet when we come back in the evening.

Every day, if it wasn't for class or study time, I would remember to send my mother a greeting.

Even if that thing has passed, I sometimes think about my mother. After all, the senescence period is coming, and there is really a need in this regard.

Although I was with Luo Wan all day, I could only watch but couldn't eat it for a while, so when I got sexual impulse, I couldn't help thinking of my mother again and again.

Thinking of her tenderness, her figure, and her mature and plump body... Because of the jet lag, I usually talk to my mother at night because it is the daytime.

Of course, sometimes my mother will also talk to me at night, that is, when it is during the day.

When the mother and the son chatted, they usually revolved around family matters and trivial matters.

I will tell her about the foreign customs and foreign students I met, or express my miss for her in a tactful way.

She would also briefly tell me some of her own things, including her son's mother's worries.

After chatting a lot, I learned that my mother had plans to open a flower shop and asked me what I thought.

I didn't expect my mother to have such a hobby. She was born in music, which is logically irrelevant to flower art.

However, when I was at home, my mother loved to raise flowers and plants, such as gardenia, jasmine, crabapple, rose, etc.

The balcony of my house is relatively large, so there are many flowers in flower pots of all sizes. My mother personally waters and fertilizes them. She sometimes carries potted plants like artworks, so all kinds of flowers bloom all year round at home. So when people who have come to my house, they all say that my family has a small garden when they see the sea of ​​flowers in all seasons.

My mother may have really studied flowers and flowers. After all, she is a housewife and doesn’t have to go to work, so she still has a lot of time to study.

In the past, I only thought that she was growing flowers to pass the time. Now, when I heard that she mentioned the flower shop, I realized that my mother might be really professional in this regard, or she had hobbies.

Mom, flower shops need to have a flower art foundation, and they also need to have certain business management capabilities and appropriate customer resources.Of course, the most important thing is to have the money to open a store, but I didn't say this, because my mother got a part of her property when she divorced, and it was easy to save some money for many years. My mother may have actually become a rich woman.

I didn't see that my son knows quite a lot of Ah, so you should tell me in detail.

My mother and I are opening videos at this time. Most of the time, my mother and I just type on WeChat. Sometimes we will talk to each other for a while. Usually, she will call videos when she misses me very much.

My mother was like taking the exam. Actually, I knew she wanted to talk to me for a while, so I asked so much. However, I didn’t know much about Ah, but I just searched it on my laptop and found it. Since my mother asked, and I really wanted to give advice to my mother, I said seriously that good flower art products are the most important, which requires flower art artists to have high aesthetics, flower art skills, and flower art design abilities. Even if you want to develop external flower art artists in the future, the style of the flower shop owner should be the style of a flower shop.In addition, if you have certain customer resources, the flower shop will be easier at the beginning, otherwise you will have to worry about the store while rushing to contact the business...

Well, Xiaoxiao, then do you think your mother’s aesthetic style is suitable for you?

My mother usually does what she believes in. She is asking me, but she actually hopes that I can support her. After all, the only person who can talk to her is the only son.

Of course I would not dispel my mother's idea, but the necessary reminders were still needed. So I smiled and said to my mother with a grin, "Looking at my small garden, I know that my mother's aesthetic is certainly suitable for this industry. However, if you really open a flower shop, you still need some basics such as care, breaking branches, pruning, and preserving freshness."

My expression made my mother laugh, you don’t have to worry about this, my mother usually studies it, and these are all... For customers, my mother has taught classes before and has done charity, and she still knows some friends or units.

The mother I saw in the video was still so vivid and charming, just like standing in front of me.

Anyone who has experience knows that people who see beautiful skin tone are generally observed at a certain distance. When they are really close, they will look at people's faces and flaws will appear, and they will not have the stunning impression they had before.

But my mother is different. Even if the high-definition camera is very close, there is no flaw. Her brilliant starry watery eyes and elegant face, her skin is fine and moist, and her pretty white as snow. She looks like a circling starry eyes and a bright look. Judging from the inappropriate description of a son, she is like a beauty with a fat at this time.

A brief combed green clouds on his head, and a few strands floated to his chest. The ends of his hair were burned, making it soft and natural.

My mother's delicate jade face was slightly ground, her eyebrows were dark and her lips were red. She wore earrings that were faintly visible like water, and she showed her charm and charm.

A few strands of hair danced with the air conditioner's breeze, making the beauty look even more lazy and unruly. Even though she was light makeup, she could not hide her temperament from the inside.

The beautiful eyebrows are like willow branches, and the amber eyes flash when they speak, and the long eyelashes flutter, as light and beautiful as the wings of a butterfly.

My mother is really beautiful and she is very young. Even in the video, it makes me dazzled.

I stared at my mother's appearance and looked at it. Occasionally, the camera flashed by, revealing the whiteness on my chest, which made me feel heartbeat, and the bottom gradually became harder.

I wanted to stare at my mother's beautiful face and look at her for a few more times, but I was also afraid that my mother would find out and destroy my image in her heart.

At the airport, she said that it was because my birthday was coming. Of course, I was leaving. I got my mother's body through my mother's compassion. After all, it was out of my mother's love for her children.

And even earlier, she was drunk and I couldn't help but forcefully happen to my mother.

All these two times, I usually don’t have any chance.

After thinking about it, I looked at it again, and then I couldn't forget to ask, Mom, are you ready to choose where to open a flower shop?If the location is better, the publicity and passenger flow may be better.

I plan to open it in Zhixin City or Guogou. It is a relatively prosperous area in the city, with many people of all kinds, and there are hospitals and schools nearby, and there are two cinemas. There may be a lot of passenger flow. How do you help your mother watch it?Or you can also open it in Wanda Plaza and Yintai Center, which are closer to the government affairs district. It is right next to Swan Lake, with more municipal departments and a large theater there, so there will be no shortage of passenger flow...

My mother herself probably didn't know where to choose the location in the end. She wanted to hear my opinion and asked me to give her some advice.

So I analyzed and answered, as a landmark in Shushan District, Zhixin City is relatively prosperous and has convenient transportation, but it may not be as much as the passenger flow in Swan Lake.Because it is the center of the government affairs district, it gathers many departments such as service halls, theaters, museums, sports centers, and municipal governments. When these places arrive at important festivals, they are large flower consumers. Even if they are not important festivals, they have a lot of traffic.Of course, there is also a disadvantage, that is, the subway of Line 3 will not be accessible until the end of the year.I first talked about the location comparison, but did not mention the cost of opening a store. Thinking that this is a hobby of my mother, I really don’t want to dismiss her. Besides, she should not be short of money in the early stage, so I continued to tell my mother. So, overall, I still recommend that my mother choose a location in Swan Lake. If you are not in a hurry, you can wait for the subway to be opened before starting.

Well, mom thought you didn’t understand these things very much. I didn’t expect Xiaoxiao to analyze them so carefully, and mom would think about it again.Although she could help her with some advice even if she was not around, her mother smiled with relief.

My mother made up her mind and just waited to choose the time and place. I was actually more worried about another thing, so I couldn't help but say it playfully, Mom, if you really open a store, you will be more tired, and I am also worried about you. I heard that opening a store usually requires busy until very late and no one is around, I am worried that you will be bullied.I originally wanted to say that I was afraid that she would not find a new boyfriend and be bullied, or that there was an old man who would take advantage of buying flowers to take advantage of it, but I felt that it would be inappropriate to say it in a blunt manner, so I changed my expression.

But my mother was kind and kind, and I could not help but blunt her eyes and said angrily, "Are you a small person and a big devil, will your mother be so easy to be bullied!"I would choose to hire someone to handle the job together, and it is close to the university town, so there are many girls, so if you recruit part-time jobs, there will be no shortage of staff...

My mother said and glared at me after saying that, which made me smile and get away with it.

After chatting and opening a store, I asked my mother if she would be bored at home and how to pass the time.

Now that my mother is the only one, I still want to know her daily life.

My mother talked about Luo Wan's mother, Aunt Su Yin.

I really didn't expect that this pair of women would soon become best friends. They often went shopping together, but they would mention Luo Wan and me every time they met, as if they had become "in-laws".

In addition, Aunt Qi Yuemeiqi, knowing that her mother has divorced, she would come to her house to talk to her from time to time. So her mother said that she didn't feel lonely and cold at home, and told me not to worry about her when I was abroad.

Since that's the case, of course it's good.

Actually, I am a little contradictory. Logically speaking, a woman like my mother should be able to find another companion with her good conditions while she is not yet in menopause.

But when I really want to persuade my mother, I always worry and always feel that others will not be worthy of her.

My mother is so beautiful. I am afraid that others just want to play with her feelings, but the one who is hurt in the end is my mother.

More importantly, there is always a romance in my mind, that is, monopolizing my mother.

So many times I didn't say it.

I can only hope that time will pass faster and that I will graduate early and return home, so that I can spend a lot of time with my mother.

Having a man by his side can comfort my mother's lonely heart.

After my mother finished talking about her, she asked me how Luo Wan and I were doing recently. She also mentioned the necklace she bought and asked me if I had sent it to someone.

I was almost stunned. I forgot such an important thing. It seems that I have been too busy recently, but I dare not tell the truth to my mother, for fear that she would scold me.

So he cleverly found an excuse to say that he would give it to Luo Wan before he could give it to her. Anyway, as time is counting, Luo Wan's birthday is coming, so he didn't attract his mother's glare.

She told me to be caring about feelings and be considerate to people. Don’t think that if you have a good relationship, you can go to the end. My mother is opposite me, so I can only nod and listen.

My mother and I chatted like this for more than an hour, and finally, until the night when Luo Wan was about to come back, I hung up the video with my mother.

I communicated with my mother from time to time to understand her status. She did not raise my son in vain, and I had no wings and forgot her, my mother, so every time I hung up the phone, my mother seemed very happy, and I also followed her to have fun because I could get closer to my mother's heart every time...

In the second week, I received a call from my dad.

The father’s feelings for his children may not be as direct and delicate as the mother. Generally, there is something important that the father calls.

He asked me how school started, whether it was convenient for life, and asked me that I didn’t have enough money, so I asked him for it. I told the truth and didn’t want him to worry too much.

I learned on the phone that my father was coming to Canada to expand his business, and it might be possible that he would stay for a year or two. He had told me about this before leaving Hefei, so I didn't show surprise.

I just learned more about it and learned that he would bring the secretary Zhang Lulu with him when he went to the country, and he would not live with us after he came here.

I was a little confused about this but didn't care much. Based on the experience I have accumulated over the years, I also told my father about things to pay attention to when coming over. My father said that he was prepared, so I didn't say anything else.

At the end, he asked me if I had gone to see the child, He Jing's father, Uncle He Bing. When I learned that I hadn't, my father told me that when he arrived in Canada, he would take me back to express my gratitude. He also asked me to prepare in advance...

Isn’t it just a visit to my relatives and friends and express my gratitude to him for my care? What do you need to prepare for mentally? I really don’t understand why my dad wants to add this sentence in the end.

But then go, just go. Chinese people pay attention to etiquette. Besides, with my dad here, I won’t seem too restrictive.