Recently, an Australian student complained on the Internet that the new roommate's post had sparked a besieged and heated discussion in the Australian Chinese community. So what exactly is going on?
Took advantage of Easter holiday, Alice (pseudonym) wind and fire moved home once. So she got to know her new roommate, Carol (, a new Chinese girl in Australia who thought she was seeing her fellow-townsman and tearfully, but then things went beyond Alice's expectations.
Although Carol is only two years younger than Alice, she doesn't know how to get a cell phone card, a bank card, a tax number, or even a meal these days. She lives on bread and milk every day, in Carol's words. She was so desperate about Australia.
So where did Australia disappoint her?
1. "Australia is really too village, comparable to the county seat of China."
To Alice's admiration, Carol came to Australia with no knowledge of Australia.
She did not know how many states there were in Australia or what was going on in Australia. She knew that Australia was called "Australian village" by others. Even if she knew that Australia was being called "Australian village", she was still shocked by the actual situation in Australia.
They live in the surrounding city of Melbourne, where there are only sub-campuses of the University of Australia. Since Alice had lived in remote areas of Australia before, he was able to adapt to the environment and rhythm of life here. But in Carol's view, life here is too boring, no takeout, no tall buildings, no playground, nothing, is a small Chinese county.
To be sure, life in Australia is a bit boring compared to the big cities in the country.
But far away from the noise can make the heart precipitate down, more focused on their own things at hand. At the same time, the environment is suitable for family life, and the comfort of Australia gives parents more time to spend with their children than working in big cities all day and nights.
2. "Australian food is too bad to eat."
But what makes Alice feel speechless is still coming. Because she didn't want to cook and didn't want to eat anything in Australia, Carol had stopped eating for four or five days, and she had not eaten since she came to Australia. She bought a pile of bread and milk and told Alice that Australian bread was too bad.
In fact, as a Chinese stomach, just arrived in Australia and not familiar with where there is delicious Chinese food, the days will really be more difficult.
And Australia is not a lot of delicious snacks, in which case, Alice learned to cook, self-sufficient. But what about Carol? She felt it was necessary to brush a pot to cook a bubble noodle, so she chose to take a fast meal.
Australian food is not good for taste, move your finger can solve things ah. In fact, Chinese students come here, as important as their studies is to learn to be self-reliant. Only by jumping out of the comfort circle built by their parents can one really grow up.
You have been in Australia for so long, and I believe one thing you all agree to is: "allow others to be others, and allow themselves to be themselves."
Everyone's lifestyle and personality were different, but when Carol, who had only been in Australia for four or five days, told Alice she was ready to return to Australia and she couldn't stand it, Alice decided to write this article for all the people who were about to come to Australia.
3. If you know nothing about Australia, don't come to Australia!
Objectively speaking, Australia has natural advantages, whether natural advantages or other, of course, there are problems, such as Carol said earlier in the village. Australia apart from some big cities, other small towns or cities are really very village. There are very few entertainments, and life is like the hero in Walden Lake.
Because Alice is from Beijing, did Carol ever ask her not to be disappointed when she came here from Didu?
Seriously, there are no takeout and other aspects of life that really do not make life so convenient, but this is not a disappointment, because Alice's character likes quiet, likes places with few people, she likes this "village", so Australia can say that she never let her down. Instead, she was always surprised.
This is why Alice advised everyone to understand Australia in an all-round way, because everyone's preferences and personality are different, if you want to avoid "disappointment" you have to do your homework before, otherwise, why did you spend so much money to come here and run back again?!.
High expectations are the main cause of Carol's disappointment, and there is no perfect life. Only by evaluating correctly and rationally can we save ourselves from being thrown with cold water.
4. If you refuse to grow up, don't come to Australia!
Alice believes that going out of the country is a desire to grow and gain, but when you come in contact with more and more people, you find that most people do have the idea, but not all of them do. There are a small number of people either because of family arrangements or to imagine too well abroad.
Most people know their problems. For example, Carol told Alice directly that she is not independent and always depends on others. She hopes to come to Australia and change it, but when she comes to Australia, she finds that she is still relying on others. Even refused to learn to cook such a small matter.
Carol felt that she couldn't survive alone in a foreign country, so she wanted to go back to her familiar place and go home to graduate school. It can't be said that her choice was wrong, but I'm sure everyone agrees that she spent the wrong money.
Like the little princess Carol, soft personality, very cute, but to know that most foreign students are to practice their own decathlon, because really can not rely on others, if you refuse to grow, then do not come to the good.
Because growth is accompanied by pain, if there is no firm heart, it may not be able to persist, um, together to do this cup of chicken soup!
5. If you think too well of Australia, then don't come to Australia!
People living in moments are similar to live in the news broadcast, every day is a holiday, buy luxury goods, eat delicious food, receive red envelopes receive soft.
Australian students' circle of friends is even stronger, skydiving, diving, surfing, private swimming pools, often with the blue abnormal blue sky and white clouds to dominate the circle of friends. But Australia is all, okay?
After all, foreign students can't send all day long, the teacher in class did not understand what; there is a big spider in the house.
It is good or bad to see how individuals see these problems, but no place is an alien, the same world, anywhere has its good and bad, anywhere people's lives are not 100% carefree. Even one of the best-served countries in the world is not perfect.
Australia has a great blue sky and sunshine, but it is not only us who live on this land who are bathed in the sun, but also all kinds of poisonous animals;
Australia is sparsely populated, there are no crowded subways (trains), no urban impetuous, but the sparse ground means that the network is difficult to cover, the speed of the network is very moving;
Australia's prestigious schools are relatively easy to apply for, but entering a university doesn't mean they can graduate. Everything has two sides, please be ready to come back!
Finally, living in Australia, of course, has its own inconvenient and unsuitable side, but it also has a good side: food from all over the world can be eaten anytime and anywhere, and the green waters, green mountains, blue skies and white clouds will say goodbye to haze from now on. The car won't start until the pedestrians cross the road.
Everything has its two sides, too high expectations or brainless denigration can only make oneself extreme.
Here, the editor wants to conclude with the words of Roman Roland: there is only one heroism in the world, which is to see the essence of life and still love it.