My hometown-Wuhu

City: Wuhu
Province: Anhui
Tourist attractions: Fanta Wild World& Zheshan Park

While I was excited introducing several amazing places within China, I almost forgot to mention my hometown, Wuhu, where I spent my first 18 years of my life.

Our city is a small one in the Southern part of China. In the center of our city, there are both lakes and hills. Aslo, Wuhu is close to the Yangze river. Binjiang Park is one of the places we often go in summer to get the breeze from the river. In terms of geographical distance, Wuhu is very close to Nanjing. If Nanjing is described as a developed city in China, though Wuhu shares a close distance, it is still in the stage of developing city.

We do have our local dialect that's similar to but not exactly the same as Mandarin. We didn't speak Mandarin out of school, let alone English. We hardly see foreigners in Wuhu since the city is too ordinary to be known.

Also, in terms of educational resources, city dwellers like us are hrad to reach institutions to get English trained outside of school.

The good thing is, now Wuhu is developing its tourism industry. After the huge success of launching Fanta Wild World theme park 1, Wuhu continued with this business. Now the fifth theme parking is under construction. Tourism gradually becomes the backbone of our local economy.

The interesting thing in China is that most traditional Chinese schools need to wear uniforms. Unfortunately, we were not allowed to wear our own clothes but the school uniform both in my secondary school and my high school. That added to 6 years. (well the good thing is I saved a lot on purchasing new clothes) You might be thinking that some private schools in Britain require their students to wear uniform. That's not necessary a bad thing. However, the picture shows you how our uniform looks like. It's simply ugly and frankly speaking, they're designed ugly for purpose. Chinese schools

think that students, especially girls shouldn't spend time on doing makeup and choosing what to wear everyday. For students, the aim is to achieve good grades. No matter how stupid you look, as long as you're good at study, you're a star at school.

It might sound shocking and surprising, but that is true and it's still the case right now. One reason for me to go abraod is to really see the world and to enjoy diversity. People are not the same and they shouldn't be force to be the same. Although my education somewhat restricted my creativity and imagination, through my two-year study I've learned a lot from my classmates. It's more about the way of thinking. Chinese tends to think deep and narrow while foreigners tend to think broadly.