Su Jinyan was very busy in the week before going abroad.
I found a lot of clothing styles in the space and asked Qi Caifeng to add two new pieces every month, and make a major change every quarter.
Zhou Xingdong was also pressing her, so she secretly supplied a large amount of seafood, duck eggs and goose eggs, making a lot of money. In order to prevent any accidents when going abroad, she put all the money into the space.
Secondly, she found a few carpenters to make many large wooden boxes, and then raised large quantities of seafood in the main house and the east and west wing rooms of the courtyard on Chang'an Street, and gave the keys to Zhao Yuanyi.
Specially supplied to Zhou Xingdong.
Amidst the busy schedule, Su Jinyan finally boarded the plane under the reluctant gaze of his family.
There are no direct ships or flights from Beijing to Los Angeles. You have to transfer from Beijing to Haicheng and then take a cruise.
On the cruise ship, most of the passengers were students sent abroad by the country. There were more than 3,000 people from all over the country, forming a huge crowd. Every student had long forgotten the sadness of parting that they had when they first boarded the cruise ship. They stood on the deck, looking at the sea, shouting excitedly and singing the national anthem loudly.
Su Jinyan only knew one roommate, Lu Tingting. Lu Tingting introduced her to three classmates, two girls and one boy. They met in the library and all of them were studying abroad at the University of Los Angeles.
The male classmate is called Zhou Guangshen, the tall girl is called Hao Hao, and the short girl is called Yang Jinlan.
Yang Jinlan is about twenty-one or twenty-two years old, less than 1.6 meters tall, always smiling, a little chubby, and speaks sweetly. She is from the English department. Upon closer inquiry, it turns out that she is not in the same class as Su Jinyan and Lu Tingting, the second major in English. She speaks English very well. She said that both her parents are English teachers.
Hao Hao is older, about 28 or 29, with a delicate and plain look. He seems very quiet and doesn't like to talk. He only answers when people ask him a question. However, I heard Lu Tingting mutter that her husband did not agree with her going abroad to study and they have divorced her.
Su Jinyan didn't agree with it. Although he didn't comment on other people's character, he thought to himself that he was a ruthless person.
Zhou Guangshen, from the computer department, was about 23 or 24 years old, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a handsome appearance. His clothes were washed gray, and his shoes were hand-sewn black cloth shoes, which were badly worn. He didn't change them even when he went abroad. Was he really poor? Su Jinyan was entangled and wanted to change his clothes for him. After all, foreign countries were different from China. There was gold everywhere there. If he wore rustic clothes, it would only bring shame to the Chinese people.
Most of the students who went abroad this time, even though their families were not well-off, managed to squeeze out money to buy two new sets of clothes and shoes.
However, seeing that he was so calm and composed without any sign of inferiority, Su Jinyan gave up.
Perhaps, these people don’t know what the situation is like abroad now. When they see the streets full of people in suits and ties, and seeing how they can still hold their heads high and be confident and generous in their clothes after being ridiculed by their foreign classmates, they will really admire them.
I admire his courage.
For students studying abroad, the government subsidy is not much, only 1.2 US dollars a day, which is just enough for food, and that is ordinary meals. The tutors will get more, but only two dollars.
This time, they were accompanied to the University of Los Angeles by three life mentors, who were responsible for dealing with various problems they encountered during their study abroad and also helped the school supervise them.
The country spends a lot of money to send them abroad. Firstly, they should learn professional knowledge well and give back to the motherland in the future. Secondly, they should not cause trouble or bring shame to the country.
Nothing special happened on the ship. After the first two days of novelty, the students began to feel tired. Many of them even got seasick, vomited all over the place, and cried for their parents.
The cook on the ship is a Chinese cook. All expenses during this period are paid by the government. The food is pretty good. Different dishes are cooked every day, including big white steamed buns, braised pork and braised fish.
Su Jinyan brought two suitcases, one of which was filled with various food, including beef jerky, milk candy, nougat, fruit candy, soda crackers, canned fruit, canned luncheon meat, various Beijing specialty cakes, bread, vacuum-packed roast duck, etc. It was stuffed full.
She took so much so that she could take out more food from the space to cover up the situation later.
Although the people in a cabin didn't see everything, they saw that the whole box was full of food and they were very envious.
Su Jinyan did not generously give them food. He only gave each of them two pieces of candy and two pieces of beef jerky and then stopped there. He always ate with Lu Tingting.
After sixteen days, the ship stopped at the shore several times and sent off several groups of students, and finally docked in Los Angeles. Su Jinyan and Lu Tingting each dragged two large suitcases and carried a backpack. After the instructor called the roll, they followed the instructor and walked out tiredly.
Even after getting off the ship, she could still feel the ground shaking beneath her feet.
The world was spinning like an earthquake. She put the suitcase down and sat on it. "Oh my god, if I sit on it again, I'm going to throw up."
Lu Tingting smiled when she heard that. "Okay, hurry over and line up. It will be hard to find you later. When you get to school, you can sleep for a day and a night."
Su Jinyan nodded, stretched his muscles, and regardless of his fatigue, he quickly stood up and followed Lu Tingting to stand in front of the instructor.
"Teacher Li, Teacher Zhang, Teacher Zhao, are you tired? I'll give you some plum candies to refresh your mind." As he said this, he took out a handful of plum candies from his pocket and distributed some to each teacher.
The three teachers took it with a smile. Teacher Zhao said, "You know what, putting one of these candies in your mouth can make you feel more energetic and reduce seasickness. I relied on your candy to get through this trip."
Su Jinyan smiled and said, "If you like me, I'll give you more when I go back. I brought quite a lot this time."
"Haha, no need, these are enough, you can keep the rest as a snack."
Along the way, Su Jinyan and Lu Tingting would chat with the three teachers every now and then. Today they brought some candy, tomorrow they brought some beef jerky, and two days ago they even gave the three of them a roast duck.
When they are out and about, these three people have a lot of power.
If they want to set up a school, they need approval from these three people.
The hustle and bustle of students made people feel a headache. Both of them dared not stand too far away from their instructor. They stood next to the instructor and waited for the other students to line up, for fear that they would lose track of the line if they were distracted.
Going to school by yourself is another expense.
There were a total of 239 people going to the University of Los Angeles. After several instructors gathered everyone together, one of the teachers also found the school bus to pick them up.
"Okay, be quiet."
"This is not like China. You are representing our country now. You should behave in a civilized and polite manner. You should use the five thousand years of Chinese culture everywhere instead of embarrassing yourself."
"If you embarrass yourself in your own country, others will laugh at you and your parents. If you embarrass yourself here, you will bring shame to China!"
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The leader of the life mentor group was Mr. Zhao, a man in his fifties. He gave them a sharp lecture before leading everyone to the car that was waiting to pick them up.
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