When I was ten years old, I became penfriends with David Lu, a boy living in Beijing. Over the (year), I became more and more interested in Chinese culture. When there was a chance to study in Beijing asexchange student, I immediately took it.
In my first 24 hours in Beijing, I felt both excited and nervous. I didn't see one foreigner. But on my first day of school, I(welcome) by many foreign faces. The students came from all around the world.
None of us had studied Chinese before, but our language skills improved(quick). By the end of the first month, we were very happy that we could all make simple sentencessome of these sentences were quite funny. We often sent our language (teach) Sophie into wild laughter.
In October, David finally had time to show me around the city. Both of us were very excited to see each other. David took me to some his favorite restaurants. Chinese table manners were very(difference) from those in the West. Eating Chinese food was like an adventure, and it became my favorite thing about living in Beijing.
(I) six—month stay in China was really enjoyable. It has made me (look) forward to visiting China again to look for more adventures.
