Studying abroad: My life of studying abroad in Cyprus

Now, as an experienced person, I would like to say a few thoughtful words here, reflecting the most real situation in Cyprus and the situation of China people studying in Cyprus.

1, Cyprus is a good country on the whole, but it is worse than the last one. Cyprus is Cyprus. Of course, it can't be compared with Britain, America, Australia and Canada. However, the report shows that compared with Malaysia, Germany, Singapore, Russia, New Zealand, Japan and other countries, studying abroad is still very good. It is very difficult for the above-mentioned good countries to go directly to China, with large start-up capital, high language requirements and low visa success rate. After arriving in these countries, the consumption is also very high. Although you can work legally, the allowable working hours stipulated in the work card can't solve the problem at all. Most of your income still comes from illegal work. Besides, China people in these good countries are already overcrowded, and China City and Chinatown are everywhere. As we all know, the traditional bad habit of China people is that one person from China is a dragon and two people are worms, so they are highly dependent and have poor independence.

Cyprus is a country that China people have long ignored. Only from 1997 did Hong Kong students go to study abroad. When people went there, they found that Cyprus is a country with unique scenery, few people and almost no industry. National income depends on tourism (the scenery is not good, can someone visit it? ), entrepot trade (determined by its unique geographical location), accepting free registration of ships from all over the world (like Panama), and funding from the United Nations (the United Nations is crazy, and Cyprus is already rich, giving him huge sums of money every year). Therefore, we can't equate Cyprus with Shanghai, new york, London and other fast-paced and high-rise cities. The uniqueness of Cyprus is unmatched by any other country.

2. In recent years, there are many China people in Cyprus, which seems to number several thousand (in contrast, there are hundreds of thousands of China people in new york alone). If it's not good, why do so many people from China come all the way to this country that no one knew before? At the beginning, Cyprus was incredibly friendly to China people. This is not unrelated to the simple folk customs and peaceful environment of Cypriots. But now it's getting worse. After self-examination, I know that someone in China has broken something. If you rent a good villa to someone in China, you often need a group of people to destroy everything in the villa. It seems that this is not enough. The people of China have also set a precedent for a crime-free country. Now, the rent has increased, and a deposit is required. Some people even refuse to rent it to China people (especially China boys) at a high price. That's pathetic!

There are generally three kinds of China people studying in Cyprus: those who come back after less than three months, those who come back after graduation, and those who stay permanently to sign for other countries. 1 There are many people of this type. The reason is that these people are often weak-willed. After graduating from high school, my parents sent me directly to Cyprus to study. They are spoiled at home and have no ability to live independently. When they first arrived in Cyprus, they could not adapt to the new environment, new eating habits and new ways of thinking, and could not communicate with a completely strange society. In addition, their original understanding of Cyprus is different from their perceptual understanding (they may think that Cyprus is different from Australia. The reason why they go home is to exaggerate how bad Cyprus is, whether it is a hell on earth or a thief boat. Only in this way can they make friends with their parents, save face and forgive them. Who knows, if their nature does not change, it will be the same wherever they go!

I have a friend's brother who spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to study in Holland, which can be said to be an ideal place, but he is also the kind of person mentioned above. He came back in two months and said it was not a place for people to stay! Oh! 1 The same is true of the lethality of people's speech, and we find that many people on the forum are talking nonsense. The second kind of people come back from graduation. The situation of these people is often that they already have families and small families and units in China. The purpose of going abroad is to really learn some advanced ideas from the West, so that they can make great achievements in by going up one flight of stairs, China, where reform and opening up are taking place. Isn't it a craze for China students to return to China all over the world? This second kind of people tend to be relatively low-key, older, unwilling to open their hearts and waste time in forums that they are not interested in, so people often can't hear their voices; The third kind of people are adaptable people, who are very able to integrate into a new society with different ideologies. During their study in Cyprus, they have adapted to everything in the local area, established certain contacts and made many local friends at all levels, so they naturally stayed after graduation, or they have completely adapted to the life in the West and are extremely reluctant to return to China to lead a cowardly life, so even if they can't stay in Cyprus, they will transfer to other third countries.

These people are solitary, and unless they gather in places where there are China people, they can't participate in the debate on whether Cyprus is good or bad. So we can't hear their voices. It seems that we have only one voice in the forum. These people seem to be acting as saviors, but they are actually looking for reasons to retreat for themselves. This is a manifestation of their selfishness and cowardice. The fallacy will become truth if it is repeated twice in two people! Therefore, friends who have never been to China, when you uncover the essence of the phenomenon and see the mystery, many things are naturally self-evident.

4. Let's talk about working in Cyprus. We all know that the laws of Cyprus do not allow foreigners with student visas to work. But all international students from China have to work in Cyprus (as do international students from China all over the world), so what job opportunities can Cyprus provide for our international students? We know that Cyprus has a small population, only 700,000. What kind of concept is this? Even a small county in China has more than this number. In addition, Cyprus is still an aging society. Every year, Cyprus imports a large number of laborers to do jobs that local people do not want to do. In which country can you find such a situation now?

For this labor-poor country, there are actually many jobs suitable for students. Maybe China people are deeply influenced by tradition or TV series, and have such a misunderstanding. It seems that foreign students in the restaurant just want to serve and wash dishes, nothing else. Therefore, all the students studying in China started by going to a restaurant to find food and serve it. Let's count, thousands of China students go to wash dishes. Can there be so much to do? So everyone began to complain about the difficulty of work. In fact, it is easy for smart people to find a job in Cyprus, just to see if you can accept the labor intensity at home and put down your delicate body (the person I mentioned above 1 is definitely not).

Here, I would like to introduce the types of jobs to you from my personal experience: if it is a holiday (Cyprus is a long holiday, which is the golden season of work), everyone must go to the seaside. The seaside is the main tourist destination in Cyprus, and it also provides many job opportunities, such as the P bus, as a temporary tourist escort (helping to move things and see things), helping countless small businesses to sell things, helping to shout things, delivering things, and buying some small handicrafts by themselves. !

I have a classmate from Inner Mongolia in Cyprus who specializes in painting China's watercolors in his spare time and consigns them to a handicraft shop in Cyprus. Each painting costs 20 ~ ~ 100, and only 10 is painted every month.

If you are a mediocre person with no special skills, then you can go to the vast rural areas of Cyprus, where you can never finish farm work, such as harvesting potatoes, corn, land reclamation, farming, harvesting, etc ... but these are very hard (30 kg/day), which is definitely not suitable for the above-mentioned 1 person. If you are in class at ordinary times and can't think of such a full-time job, you can only find some chores around you, specifically: tutoring (requiring girls to have good English), delivering food (requiring a car), delivering food (requiring familiarity with the road), carrying hemp bags in the supermarket (requiring great strength), serving the elderly (requiring a nurse's foundation) and being a page in the construction site (requiring vigilance). ...

Then maybe a friend will ask: are you afraid of being arrested by the immigration bureau for working illegally like this? ! Yes, of course. Didn't you stop doing it because you were afraid of being caught? Maybe you take hundreds of thousands of dollars to enjoy it, and no one can compare with you, but most of them still have to work to earn tuition and life. According to my experience, the Cyprus government is a relatively bureaucratic and lazy government, and so is the Immigration Bureau. Several times a year, there will be rectification actions like cracking down on gangs in China, except that the world is at peace. Don't worry, the people in the Immigration Bureau are like the traffic police in Cyprus, and they blame everyone on the road.

5. Now that the problem of work has been solved, what is the reward? How about consumption in Cyprus? According to the current situation in Cyprus, as long as I can find a job in Cyprus, my monthly salary can exceed 300 pounds (not much to say, just the least). My expenses in Cyprus are as follows: I rented a two-story villa (three big rooms, two halls, furniture and appliances, and a garden) on the/kloc-0 floor, shared by four people, at 65 pounds each (including utilities and fuel), 60 pounds a month (including smoking and drinking) and 50 pounds of miscellaneous expenses (including gas and car maintenance). In short, it won't exceed 200 Jin. What concept? More than 3,000 RMB, which sounds a lot (my living standard is very low among students studying in Cyprus, 1500 RMB is enough), but it is still ok. This is the tuition you are about to charge the school, and it is also a reserve fund for dealing with' strike hard'. It can be said that as long as you can work in Cyprus, living expenses are not a problem at all.

Well, I wrote so many things to you just to tell you, don't listen to what you say on the one hand, think with your own brain, and don't let some losers affect your vision and change your original intention!

Every country in the world has a different degree of crime rate, and the crime rate in Cyprus is already very low compared with other countries. Imagine, if the society here is full of murder, theft and robbery, why do nearly 3 million tourists come here every year? There is also a good example to refute this friend's point of view from the side: I have been to some countries before coming to Cyprus. Although I don't know what the United States, Canada and Australia are like, I am in Britain now. Compare Britain and Cyprus. Which bank in Britain doesn't install bulletproof glass? Which country's bank in the world can calmly let customers conduct cash transactions with cashiers only across a table without installing this equipment? Which country in the world doesn't install security doors in jewelry stores? In which country in the world do people not install alarms on cars? I've only seen Cyprus like this.

Studying in Cyprus is relatively economical. Let's settle the bill, besides, the living expenses are cheap. If you study in Cyprus for two years, and then go to the UK to study 1 year to get a bachelor's degree (bachelor's degree), the approximate cost is:

6000 USD tuition fee/year × 2 = 12000 USD.

Accommodation 1200 USD/year × 2 = 2,400 USD, and other living expenses are not calculated for the time being.

Then I went to England to study 1 year:

12000 USD tuition/year+3,500 USD accommodation/year =15,500 USD.

Total tuition and accommodation for three years12000+2400+15500 = 29900 USD.

And if you study in Britain for three years and get the same degree, the price you have to pay is: 15500× 3 = 46500 dollars.

You deposited $46,500-29,900 =16,000, or about138,000 RMB.

The above prices do not include living expenses. The cost of living in Cyprus is much cheaper than that in Britain. You can buy a bag of cucumbers in Cyprus 1, and in Britain, you only need 1. Maybe it will be cheaper for this friend to go to Australia, but I don't think it will be cheaper than studying in Cyprus for two years and then continuing to study in other countries for the last 1-2 years.

I came to Cyprus in 2000. In July this year, I got a diploma from the college and successfully got a visa to study in the UK. Now I'm in England. Although I am not from Cyprus College, two students from Cyprus College came with me this year, and they also applied for visas in Cyprus. When we arrived in England, we found that many people were transferred from Cyprus. Many students from McGonagall College, Cyprus College and Internet College got visas on July 26th, 2002. On the day I got my visa, several students from other colleges also got their visas successfully. Everyone agrees that it is very easy to get a British visa after getting a Cyprus diploma or having certain credits.

The idea of a person who studied in Cyprus.