摘要
My ‘Journey to the East’I was born in Sakhalin Island and grew up in the Zhetysu region in the southeast of Kazakhstan. After graduating from high school in 2007, I enrolled in a local university in Kazakhstan, intending to major in physics. However, one summer evening, my father came home from work with an enrollment brochure from China’s Tongji University in his hand. He approached me and asked,“Do you want to study abroad?” Longing for independence at an early age and eager to explore the outside world, I agreed without hesitation. Not long after, I was sitting on the train bound for Shanghai, China, starting my “Journey to the East.”
