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3/28/2020 0 Comments

Introducing my Classmates

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Introducing my classmates from left to right: Ma Huixin (Summer), Ji Qixing, Gao Xiaomin, Yu Chaozhuo (Aria), and our class monitor Ju Yong. 
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In Hangzhou, my classmates are a huge inspiration to me. We encourage each other, and have grown a lot with each other as well. When ever we go out we like to take a sketchbook and our art supplies with us to paint and sketch with each other. So today I would like to take some of your time to introduce these amazing people to you. 
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The first day of orientation was a disorientating whirlwind of new faces, new places, and unfamiliarity. I was on my way to the first day of orientation for international students, when I got a call from my adviser asking me where I was. Confused and disorientated I grabbed a taxi from one campus to another campus where my adviser and the department for watercolor majors was having their first meeting of the semester. On my way to campus, one of my classmates (which I had not met yet) called me to make sure I was on my way and to let me know they were all waiting for me. The classmate who called me (Ji Qixing) would later tell me that they were all excited to meet their foreign classmate. They had my contact information and added my wechat (an app used to chat with others in China). My profile picture had many different international friends in it and my name on wechat had my Chinese, English, and Korean name on it, so many of my classmates thought a Korean international student would show up, and surprised when I did!
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Later on, I would come to grow strong relationships with my classmates and enjoy each and everyday coming into our studio and classroom. Everyday we would start the morning off by warming up. Warming up consisted mostly of sketching each other and the models as they set up for the morning. I always came into the studio excited to work alongside these talented classmates of mine, and their determination to improve and succeed everyday inspired me as well too.
My classmates are also quite humorous and we like to have fun together as well too. Coincidentally, on two separate days we ended up wearing these three different colors, which we joked looked exactly like a stop and go light. 
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We also spend a lot of our free time together going to cat cafes and playing with the cute cats they have there. 
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Besides spending time together at cat cafes or time together sketching or painting, we also like to get together and have a meal together too. This is when my classmate Ji Qixing (on the right), invited us over to her house for hot pot. It was a wonderful time to spend getting to know each other and eating one of my favorite Chinese foods, hotpot!
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I am truly thankful to call these people my classmates and friends. In the picture above, we went out on Christmas day because some of classmates were worried I would be lonely on Christmas away from family and celebrations. We decided to go out and eat hotpot since it was a cold and rainy day. No matter where you are in the world, you'll always find people who you will come to love and who will eventually come to touch your heart in ways you never imagined possible. 
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