Chapter 5: Goodbye Northern Hemisphere
In the evening, Ning Xuan, who said that she would never invite guests, still invited Yan Yun to eat in the Qinye Canteen of Xiamen University.
"Seriously, why the hell would you want to go to Melbourne? Even if you want to study abroad, you can wait until after you graduate from university. Ning Xuan felt that Yan Yun's decision was not prudent enough.
"Because apart from you, my classmates and I are not from the same world, and if it was before high school, then I would definitely think it was my problem.
By now, I know that not being in the same world is just a simple fact, and it's not anyone's problem.
I chose a major that I thought I liked but didn't like, and I didn't want to finish my undergraduate studies on the spot. Yan Yun tried to answer Ning Xuan's question.
"Then you can't guarantee that when you get to Melbourne, you will find the same world. ”
"What you say makes sense, but if I can't find it, I can continue to look for it, to be honest, I don't really understand why I want to leave at this time, I probably just think that my sophomore year should have a fresh start. ”
"Your parents are just messing around with you?"
"No, when I was in my third year of high school, because of my bad grades, my parents had already planned that if I couldn't get into a decent university, I would be sent abroad after graduating from high school.
Later, in the college entrance examination, although my grades were still not good, they were not as bad as my parents imagined. My family decided to let me read it casually first, and if I liked it, I would wait until I graduated and then go out to graduate school or something. ”
"Don't you think it's a shame for you to say that? Do you know why so many people in the department don't like you?"
"Isn't it because I'm good-looking, same-sex repulsion?"
"Beautiful you, you came a few days earlier than all of us at the beginning of the school year, and you finished all the things that all the freshmen in our major need someone to be responsible for, and you didn't give other students a chance to perform at all. ”
"You're talking about going to the main building of the school to get student IDs, and then moving a bunch of student IDs to everyone and handing them out, and then cleaning the dormitory and sorting out the registration materials? Please, these are all manual work, okay! Will anyone really hate me for such things?"
Yan Yun is used to being targeted, sometimes she can find a reason by herself, but more often she herself is completely confused, and it will take at least a year and a half to find some clues.
"Many of the people who can be admitted to our college are the top liberal arts students in their own districts or something, even if I am a science student, I am also the top science student in our school, and you look like I came here all day because of my poor grades, and it is normal to be targeted. ”
"Really, fake? When I took the college entrance examination, I was the 150th in my grade, and I couldn't be more ordinary, even in my own class, at most there were only 10 or 20. ”
"What's in it for me if I lie to you? You don't think it yourself, but the way you looked when you entered school inadvertently saved and hurt the self-esteem of many people.
And then you take it all and don't give the former champions room to play.
The physical work in your mouth is also one of the few stages where you can prove your worth for freshmen. ”
"If what you're saying is true, then I'm really enlightened. Then why don't you hate me?"
"Because I'm lazy, I don't want to do anything, I don't want to have to compete with someone for a class cadre or something when I get to college, and I know that you are unintentional, not deliberately showy. ”
"Thank you, dear, but it proves that I and the rest of the world are not from the same world except you. For the sake of you inviting me to dinner today, when I return to China in the future, I will definitely come to Xiamen to invite you to dinner. ”
"Well, when the time comes, you must follow the first principle of your life. ”
"What guidelines?"
"It doesn't matter if someone else treats you or not, the key is to be expensive!"
"Then you invite me to eat a nine-yuan casserole in the cafeteria today, won't I lose a lot?"
"This is already the most expensive casserole noodle in the canteen, besides, when you get to Melbourne, you won't be able to eat it if you want to!"
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When Yan Yun met her high school classmates in Melbourne, it was already her third year in Melbourne.
When Yan Yun entered the University of Melbourne, the school recognized most of the credits of foundation courses in Yan Yun's freshman year, plus the Australian undergraduate degree was only three years.
So Yan Yun has been graduating from college for more than half a year at this time.
When Yan Yun first came over, she was also worried that her new classmates at Mo University were not in the same world as her.
After arriving, I found that everyone chose each course by themselves, and the students who took each course were different, even if it was the same course, there might be different teachers and different times to choose from.
Therefore, in Mexico, there are only "classmates" and no classmates. You don't compete with anyone but yourself.
There is no class leader's group secretary, no "class politics", no "campus politics".
Of course, if you think you're too idle, you can also join the various clubs at school, and if you love politics, you can also run for the StudentUnion.
There are many types of student unions at the University of Mexico, including not only the student unions of the whole university, but also the student unions of undergraduates, graduate students, and overseas students.
The president of the student council even has the opportunity to join the school board directly and supervise the work of the principal.
No one is urging you to turn in your homework, you love to turn it in or not.
No one cares if you come to class or not, whether you fail the course or not, you can't fall in love with it.
However, if you don't have a single class for a whole semester, the school will still have administrators who will recommend you to quit.
But usually, only when there is no way to complete the three-year undergraduate program at the end of the seven years, the visa will be denied and finally repatriated.
At the University of Melbourne, there are those who complete a three-year course in one and a half years, and there are those who do not complete half of the course in seven years, and only you can decide what kind of life you want.
Therefore, even if you take the same class as you, you will not find out if they are not from the same world as you.
As "classmates, you just took a class together, and you didn't have to face the world together."
But if you have a good relationship, and you are a person in the same major.
The two of you can take the initiative to choose, the same class, the same teacher, the same time.
In this way, the model of two people going to school together can not only be like "college classmates" in China, but also become "high school tablemates" in China.
Yan Yun and Shen Xi chose this way.
It's a headache to have too many people competing with you, but it's a headache to have no competition at all, and everyone thinks of their own, and they don't even have a "reference", which is an even more headache.
Yan Yun and Shen Xi are the "references" that they each took the initiative to find for themselves, as the only two Chinese students in their majors, they always have a sense of sympathy for each other.