With the development of the economy and technology, the outside world is in our eyes. Newspapers, televisions, Internet have made it possible for us to be in touch with every corner of the world. We can see people from different countries and how they live.

　　There are a large amount of foreign students in our school, including Indian, Pakistani, Jordan, and Nepal and so on. The first time I saw them, I thought they were so dark and smelly that I would never make friends with them. However, it was an organization Colorful Chinese, aiming to help overseas students speak Chinese, that changed my prejudice.

　　Living in such a new city, they have to learn everything here. One of my foreign friends spent almost one month to use chopsticks and some simple daily Chinese. For us, it’s easy to adapt to new circumstances because China is our hometown; while for them, how can they get used to the life here? Whereas, to my great surprise, some of them told me that they had never found it hard to live here. Instead, they felt it excited to learn new things especially Yichang custom.

　　My first foreign friend, Hasan, was there only for three months when I first knew him. As a monitor in his class, he kindly introduced many of his classmates to me, which was really a big help then.  At that moment, I felt a little shame for what I had thought them before. Though living abroad, he, with his girlfriend, seems to keep smiling all the day. Once, I complained that I was poor at speaking English, and that shouldn’t have been an English major. The friendly couple turned up to comfort me and told me the hardship they had gone through when they were in China, which was a great encouragement to me then. Eventually, we regard both as our best friends, and we permit to be with each other.

　　Raaz, a vice president of the Foreign Students Union, is my second best foreign friend. Humorous, friendly, intelligent ,and capable are what I usually describe him. When with him, I have never worried about being embarrassed in that he would talk everything with me, including fashion, history, languages, and moral problems, etc. Besides, even though there are hundreds of foreign students, he is able to manage kinds of matters of them. For example, when engaged in organizing the Peach Blossom Festival, he can manage his studies, exams, volunteer activities at the wake of kinds of meetings. When asked if he is tired, he would say yes. But then he would return to his work quickly and seriously.

　　There are also many foreign friends, such as Nafees, Taufik, Ganish, Rafid….all of them are very kind and friendly like Hasan and Raaz. It’s their nature that touched my heart. Now I know that one should never look down on others because of their skin or something else.

　　In a word, by getting along with foreign friends these months, I have learnt to respect them and love them. And to studying abroad isn’t as easy as we think, what we should do is to be friendly with them instead of looking them with strange expressions.