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In life we face so many kinds of events that make us more experienced and that create different moments during our lifetime. I will never forget my first day at Xuzhou international airport. I was so excited to go there because I was really exploring and I could not imagine how far I was from my parents, friends and relatives whereby I was going to start a new life of being responsible for myself as it was my first time to live far from my family and mostly in a different far away country. At the age of 19 on 06th September I boarded a plane from Kigali, the capital city of my country, with two giant suitcases and a big hand bag, the final destination was to Xuzhou international airport. I was not alone as I boarded with my funniest friend called Sonia. We were welcomed warmly at the Airport by our two high school friends “Clement and Sosthene” from the same country who had already arrived a month before our arrival. They took care of us whereby they helped us in everything we wanted because they were already familiar to many things. Even though we were so excited, at the same time it was an intensive change of life. Xuzhou is a city whereby you can hardly find someone who can speak and understand English so that he/she can help you in what you want as a new comer who does not have any idea about Chinese language. This was a very hard situation because I could lately get what I wanted or I could even not get the service because of lack of communication between me and the Chinese person who I was addressing to. Another very big change of life came to food and climate in China. Chinese food is totally different from African food. This made me spend more than three months eating junk food only which is of course unhealthy but I had no other way,… but finally when we started cooking our own food I was able to regain the taste of African food. About climate, it is really something totally different from our country because here in China there is a very intense cold season called winter whereby snow can fall. I remember, on 4th January 2018 it was my first time to see and touch snow in my life which was my very happy and exciting moment I have had of seeing something new coming from the sky. Another intense season is summer time; the season is as so hot as bad. Because I am really passionate in traveling, each holiday I had, I could not take it for granted. I have been to many famous spots including The Great Wall of China in Beijing which is the World’s longest wall, The Forbidden City in Beijing which is the imperial palace for 24 emperors, Tiananmen Square which is one of the largest squares in the world,… I had great moments during my travel experience because I enjoyed and I was highly excited to travel especially traveling to the great wall I had much fun as I was with many friends from the same country as mine and we climbed 80% of the whole great wall in Beijing which was truly tiresome but full of great moments and we had a ton of fun. Apart from traveling and enjoying moments, I made amazing friends on my trip and now I have many more friends from different cities. I have made many Chinese friends and I am sure that I am still making more because most of the Chinese people are friendly and good hearted. This make my days because I can have fun with them and be able to increase my Chinese speaking during communication. Now I am a completely different person because I am responsible for myself and that made me a more sharp, confident, and mature person. Traveling has surely opened my mind and made me globally minded. No one can ever be bored of it as there are many places one can go to and explore new things and truly have a full package of fun.