我的中文名字叫昤昀,意思是美丽的阳光,今年17岁。我来自中亚内陆国家——哈萨克斯坦,我的家乡塔拉兹市是一个风景秀美的城市,在那里我度过了愉快的童年和少年学习时光。2016年,我最好的朋友米雪中学毕业,在家人的建议下,来到中国学习汉语文化。她经常通过网络向我介绍在中国的学习和生活,我特别地羡慕和憧憬。热情好客的中国人,风景秀丽的城市,科技发达的产业,这一切的一切都是我心驰神往的,要是我也能去那样的国家学习和生活就好了。

我来自哈萨克斯坦，我的名字是阳光灿烂的意思。

　　经过我和父母的再三沟通,他们终于同意我到中国留学,我的心里别提有多开`心,多兴奋了!能去一个我心仪的国家学习,是多么的幸运!米雪在连云港职业技术学院学习,我当然也申请了这所学院。今年九月,我终于见到了我日夜思念的好朋友--米雪,来到我向往已久的国度!一见面,我们开心地拥抱在一起,一年多没有见到她了,她看起来自信极了,汉语说得特别流利,一点儿也没有在异国他乡不适应的感觉!

　　米雪带我来到学校,只见高高耸立的教学楼,干净整洁的林荫大道,现代化的多媒体教室,一走进来就有种似曾相识的感觉!这就是我梦中的校园的样子!我抑制不住内心的喜悦,开心地拉着米雪又跳又叫,并对她说,“这里真是太好了,我们以后可以一起在这里学习,我真是太开心,太幸运了!也许这是我人生中最正确的决定了!”米雪哈哈大笑起来,“先不要太激动,见到我们的老师,你会更开心的!”

在连云港市电视台直播的“一带一路”大学生人文知识竞赛舞台上弹奏冬不拉，表演哈萨克斯坦歌舞。

　　很快,我见到了汉语老师闫老师,对我来说,学习中文不算很难,因为我非常喜欢中国,但是那些发音、词语和语法却很容易遗忘,这一点总是让我觉得很挫败。老师总有办法,她告诉我们,学习语言是一个需要不断坚持的过程,只要不放弃,最后一定能取得成功。我想,既然千里迢迢来到中国,我一定要珍惜每一天,尽我最大努力学习汉语。

　　除了学习汉语,学校还经常组织一些活动。最难忘的是我和米雪作为表演嘉宾受邀参加了连云港市电视台直播的“一带一路”大学生人文知识竞赛,我们身穿哈萨克民族服装,弹奏着冬不拉,载歌载舞地表演了哈萨克斯坦民歌,热情的观众们给了我们热烈的掌声,深深地鼓舞了我们。表演之后,我们向中国的老师和同学们描述了家乡哈萨克斯坦这片土地,介绍了哈萨克斯坦的节日和风俗,同时,老师也向我们介绍了哈萨克斯坦和中国的历史往来,听到这些,我们的内心感到极大的欢乐,因为能在异国他乡听到祖国的名字是一件特别自豪和骄傲的事情!

　　学习汉语的课程也比较多,我们一周要上五天的课。但每个星期五有文化课,我对这门课最感兴趣,从课堂上我了解了许多中国的传统节日。在中国的这段时间里,我们和老师一起度过了中秋佳节,还品尝了月饼。月饼很像我们家乡的一种食物,里面有各种不同的陷,豆沙的、牛肉的,竟然还有蛋黄的、果仁的,但尝起来都美味极了!在中国,圆圆的月饼代表着团团圆圆,一家人开开心心地团聚在一起,它让我想起了我远在哈萨克斯坦的家人和朋友。原来全世界的人民过节时,对亲人的祝福和心愿都是一样的,我也希望家人和朋友健健康康,开开心心地生活。文化课上,除了解中国的节日之外,老师还教我们下象棋,现在同学们一下课就抢着下,大家玩得都特别高兴。

　　三个月过去了,我也不像刚来的时候那么害羞和不自信了,我认识了很多朋友,有像我和米雪一样从不同国家来到中国来学习的留学生朋友,也有连云港当地的中国朋友。

　　连云港是一个风景优美、人杰地灵的海滨城市。大名鼎鼎的孙悟空的故乡——花果山就在我们学校附近。每到周末,我们一帮来自不同国家的同学朋友就相约去爬山,站在海拔625多米高的玉女峰,俯视着整座连云港城市,眺望着远方家乡的方向……我深深地爱上了连云港!

　　在中国的三个多月时间里,很多新鲜事物让我目不暇接,新的校园、新的老师、新的同学,一切都让人觉得那么新奇而又美好!我很感谢父母的支持,能让我来到如此美丽的国家学习和生活,我也一定会刻苦努力地学习,珍惜这个机会,为自己的人生留下一个美好的记忆!

　　作者:昤昀(哈萨克斯坦)

　　译文

　　Beautiful Liyungang

　　—My Second Hometown

　　Abdrazak Nurzada (Kazakhstan)

My Chinese name is Lingyun (昤昀), which means beautiful sunshine. I am 17 years old this year. I am from Kazakhstan, an inland country in Central Asia. My home town Taraz is a city with beautiful scenery, where I spent my happy childhood and teenage time in school. In 2016,my best friend Michelle graduated from middle school and came to China to study the Chinese culture at her family’s suggestion. She used to introduce her study and life in China tome viathe Internet, which made me really admire. Hospitable Chinese people, Cities with beautiful scenery, technologically advanced industries and everything in China was so fascinating for me that I wished I could also live and study in that kind of country.

After long negotiation with my parents, they finally agreed to let me come to China for education, which made me extremely excited and thrilled. How lucky I am to study in a country I really admire! Michelle is studying in Lianyungang Technical College, so of course I would also apply for the same college. In September this year,after missing her for a long time, I met my friendMichelle, and finally, I arrived in this dream land! Upon meeting each other, we embraced excitedly, for it had been a whole year since the last time I had seen her. She looked extremely confident, speaking fluent Chinese, showing completely no sign of feeling uncomfortablein such a foreign country.

Michelle showed me around the college. Looking at the tall teaching buildings standing in the school, with clean and tidy avenues, as well as the modernized multi-media classrooms, I had a strange feeling of de ja vu upon the first sight on them. Well, this is exactly the campus I saw in my dreams! I couldn’t hold the ecstasy inside, so I held Michelle’s hands, jumping and screaming, telling her, “This place is marvelous! I am beyond happy to study with you here! I am so lucky! Perhaps this is the most correct decision in my life!”Michelle laughed, “Don’t be too excited now, becauseyou will be more thrilled when meeting our teachers!”

Before long, I met our Chinese teacher—Mr. Yan. Learning Chinese is not too difficult for me because I really love China, but what always frustrates me is that it is easy to forget those pronunciation, phrases andgrammar. Our teacher always has a way to encourage us, telling us that language learning is a process requiring perseverance, and success will surely be achieved as long as we do not give up. I think, now that I have come all theway here to China, I must cherish every day and spare no effort in learning Chinese.

Apart from learning Chinese, our college often organizes other activities too. The most unforgettableexperience was that Michelle and I were invited to participate in the “Belt and Road”College Student Knowledge Competition as guests, being broadcasted live by the Lianyungang City TV Station. At that time, we displayed a performance of Kazak folk song with singing, dancing and playing tambura in traditional Kazak clothes. The hail of applause given by enthusiasticspectators deeply inspired us. After that performance, we described our homeland—Kazakhstan and introduced our festivals and customs to the teachers andclassmates in China. Meanwhile, our teacher also introduced us the historical communications between Kazakhstan and China. I rejoiced in listening to these stories, in that hearing the name of my motherland in a foreign country really made me proud.

We have lessons five days a week, among them quite a few are courses for learning Chinese. But I am most interested in theculture course every Friday, and I have learnt about many traditional Chinese festivals in the classes. During my staying in China, we enjoyed the Mid-autumn Festival with the teachers and tasted the moon cake. Moon cake tastes like a kind of food in our hometown, with fillings of different kinds, such as bean paste and beef. It was surprising to see there were also moon cake with yolk or nutlet fillings, but all of them tasted delicious! In China, moon cake in a round shape represents the reunion, when family gather together happily. It reminds me of my family and friends faraway in Kazakhstan. It turns out that all people around the world share the same wishes for the family at festivals, as I also hope that my family and friends will live all healthily and happily. On culture classes, besides language teaching, our teacher also taught us to play Chinese chess. Now all the classmates are having great zeal in playing Chinese chess during the breaks, which provides them with great fun.

Three months have passed, and I become less shy and more confident compared with the first few days I arrived. I have made many new friends, including foreign students from many different countries, just like Michelle and me, and also Chinese friends who live locally in Lianyungang.

Lianyungang is a coastal city with wonderful landscape and a birth place of many great people. Mount Huaguo, the hometown of the famous MonkeyKing, is just nearby our campus. Every weekend, we, a group of students from differentcountries, would go to climb the mountain together. Standing on the Yunyu Peak, which has an altitude of over 635 meters, we could take a bird’s-eye view of the city of Lianyungang and look into the direction of our distant hometown…I have been deeply in love with Lianyungang!

During the three months in China, there have been too many fresh things for my eyes to take in. New campus, new teachers, new classmates and everything else are so novel and beautiful! I really appreciate my parents’support, which made it possible for me to study and live in such a beautiful country, thus I will definitely endeavor to study and cherish this opportunity, leaving a wonderful memory for my own life!