国际交流 | 我在香港中文大学(深圳)交换的日子

Thomas Højgaard Ebbesen 是丹麦哥本哈根商学院（Copenhagen Business School）的本科生。2017年9月-12月，Thomas 以交换生的身份在港中大（深圳）经管学院学习。在一个学期结束后，Thomas有哪些小故事和大家分享呢？

My Experience in CUHK-Shenzhen

Dear friends，

Here I am. 8000km away from home in 40 degrees heat waiting for somebody to find this confusing Danish guy and introduce him to his new university. From all the things, I took into account when planning my exchange but temperature wasn’t one of them. Even though we had a warm summer in Denmark with temperatures as high as 12 degrees and almost a full day without rain in August, I wasn’t prepared for Shenzhen's heat!

亲爱的朋友们：

我现在远离家乡8000km外的40度高温的地方，等着有人来发现这个略感混乱的丹麦人（热晕了)，把他自己介绍给他的新大学。当初我在考虑交换计划时，气温是唯一一个众多因素中被我忽略了的。虽然我在丹麦度过了一个温暖的气温12度的夏天而且整个八月份一天雨也没有，我依旧没有准备好迎接深圳的热！

CUHK-Shenzhen aerial photograph

香港中文大学（深圳）鸟瞰图

When I arrived in CUHK-Shenzhen, I met lovely Alva from Academic Links Office who told me about campus life while we were walking towards my college building which is quite different from Denmark where no one lives at the school. The campus area is neat and is built in the best style of Feng Shui – or at least the Danish interpretation of it.

到了香港中文大学（深圳），我见到学术交流办公室可爱的Alva，他带我走向我即将入住的书院，边走边向我介绍这里的校园生活，与丹麦的大学不同是丹麦学生是不住在校园里的。校园很整洁，非常符合风水学理念，或者至少按照丹麦的建筑风格来看很好。

The days passed and the intro programme began. I wasn’t sure what to expect. I arrived at game night and honestly it couldn’t be further away from my expectations. At CBS, I got handed a beer and I was set for school. This was on the other hand fun and socializing in the best way I could imagine. To this day, I still feel sorry for knocking over my mentor group in one of the games "sit-up"（坐地起身） . Being 90kg heavy in China is a pretty tough life. 

不几日就是入学介始，我不知道会发生什么。记得在哥本哈根商学院，我喝了一杯递过来的啤酒就开始学校生活了，当然，这也是我当时能想象到的最好的娱乐和社交活动。“新生破冰游戏”之夜我如约而至，老实说，这里的活动远远超乎了我的期望。至今我仍然为在一个叫“坐地起身”的游戏中撞倒了我的导师团队而深感歉意。唉，90kg的体重在中国真的是一个非常不容易的事。

As school started, I quickly realized there is another part of the Chinese playful side. They are very focused on their acedemic study and on-campus life. I studied around 40 hours a week back in Copenhagen and quickly realized I had to work both harder and smarter to keep up at CUHK-Shenzhen. I’m still impressed by their ability and continuous will to keep studying all day. I need A LOT of coffee to make that happen.

随着校园生活的开始，我很快意识到中国校园有趣生活的另一面。他们都非常专注于自己的学术研究和校园生活。之前我在哥本哈根一周学习大约40个小时，在这里很快就意识到我必须更加努力、更有才智才能跟上香港中文大学（深圳）的节奏。同学们的学习能力和日复一日持续学习的意志给我留下了深刻的印象。而我要做到这一点需要消耗大量的咖啡。

One thing I really admire the Chinese is their genuine interests in different cultures. My friends sincerely enjoy teaching me about China – both culture and the language wise. Even though the language part didn’t go very well, I met nothing than polite and very helpful students. I joined a school clubs with 40 Chinese and one Thomas. They still took the time to explain it in English and make sure I can keep up as well. This embracing spirit is really one of the things I truly enjoy about China and my new Campus life.

中国同学对不同文化发自内心的兴趣让我真正钦佩。我的朋友们很乐意又很真诚地让我了解中国--中国的文化和中文的智慧。虽然我的汉语进步不太快，但我遇到的都是既有礼貌又乐于助人的同学们。我加入了一个学校俱乐部，俱乐部有40个中国同学，而我托马斯是唯一一位外国人。他们花时间用英语给我解释，确保我也能尽快融入。这种包容和拥抱不同的精神，使我真切地爱上中国和我新的校园生活。

The very first day I was here I had the pleasure of being introduced to the teaching assistant of one of my courses. Even though I hadn’t been sleeping for 20 hours and didn’t present the best side of myself, it didn’t seem to matter. We had a friendly talk about the course I was about to take. As classes begun, I met and talked with a lot of my professors. And I even have some on WeChat which amazed me quite a lot. I wouldn’t even dare to send an email to my professor back in Copenhagen without reading the course book 2 times and have someone check my grammar.

到校的第一天我很荣幸被介绍担当一个课程的助教。虽然当时我已经20个小时都没有睡觉了，状态也不太好，但这没关系。我们就即将开始课程进行了友好的交谈。在学习的过程中，我遇到了很多教授也跟他们有非常频繁的交流。有些时候我也使用微信跟他们交流，这可让我很长一段时间都惊讶不已。而过去在哥本哈根，如果没有看2遍教科书，并且请人先检查我的语法，我甚至一封电子邮件都不敢给我的教授发。

Okay, maybe I’m exaggerating but having this relationship to your professors is new for me. However, I think it’s a good model to let the masters of their subject have a completely down to earth conversation with the leaders of tomorrow. 

好吧，也许我夸大其词了，但是和教授可以有这种关系对我来说是崭新的体验。不过，我认为导师与未来的领袖有机会进行完全彻底的交谈是一个很好的模式。

I'm very impressed with this school and I'm lucky to experience a semester in CUHK-Shenzhen. Team OAL, Alva and Shirley are always here to help whenever I need it, if not any of my many intro buddies can assist. I think it’s important to recognize who are valuable ambassadors for your school and so far, those two keep surprising positively.

我被香港中文大学（深圳）深深吸引，我很幸运能在这里交换一学期。当我有需要的时候，学术交流办公室，Alva和Shirley一直都提供随时的帮助，还有很多我没有谈到的朋友也是这样帮助我。我认为重要的是要认识到谁是贵校的珍贵的校园大使，到目前为止，这两位的表现令人惊讶的好，满满的正能量。

I have enjoyed my time here and I participated in many school activities. And I got to share Danish culture in my booth on the International Culture Day. While I was studying in Shenzhen, I also learnt a lot more about Modern China. And  I've learnt to speak the language a bit before I left China. Hope you will cherish your time at CUHK-Shenzhen if you are there for a short or long time. All I have left now is the memories. Thank you!

我在这里过得很愉快，参加了许多学校活动。在国际文化日的摊位上我分享了丹麦文化。在深圳学习期间，我也更多地了解了现代化的中国。我离开中国之前已经学会了一些中国话。无论长短，希望你都能珍惜在香港中文大学（深圳）的时光。那段美好时光永远留在我的记忆中。谢谢您!

Best regards

Thomas

顺祝安好

托马斯

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