On April 22nd, Dingding, who is studying for an MBA at Newcastle University, sent an email to qianjiang evening news. Like all overseas students, she was "too excited to wait" when the Olympic flame was about to be passed to Canberra.
According to Dingding, the day after tomorrow, she will join her classmates in the torch relay led by the China Students and Scholars Association, and leave Sydney for Canberra. As the delivery time is 8 am local time, they plan to leave Sydney at 4 am. It's about 300 kilometers from Canberra to Sydney, and it takes nearly three hours to go one way, and you must return on the same day. But at the moment, Dingding just excited, don't consider the word hard.
In the brochure of the event organizer, the reporter found that in addition to the accommodation, itinerary, clothing and other arrangements of the cheering group, there are several "precautions" that attract special attention:
"Please pay special attention to the national flag and don't throw it away after the event."
"There will be a lot of media on the day of the event. Remember, we represent all the people of China. We should cover up the bad behavior of saboteurs in front of the media and completely drown them in momentum ... "
Dingding said that the day after tomorrow, together with all patriotic overseas Chinese and overseas students who arrived in Canberra from all over Australia, she would stand in the front line of guarding the torch relay and send back the story of the scene for this newspaper.
Unity is strength ―― Excerpted from Dingding's mail.
Studying abroad is indispensable to surfing the internet every day and paying attention to domestic news. The grandeur of the "Bird's Nest", the exquisiteness of the "Water Cube" and the fierce fight against time in the Olympic Games often become the talk of my friends and me. I really want to go to Beijing in summer, but "you can't have your cake and eat it", so you can't skip class.
I know there will be a torch relay ceremony in Canberra on April 24th. Because I'm in Sydney, I don't have a car and I'm not familiar with Canberra, so I have to think about it and support it in my heart.
On April 15, during the break, the students brought good news that there was a group going to Canberra in Sydney, which was a free shuttle bus to and from the Embassy of China. Everyone was excited for a while, but as soon as they contacted, the other party replied apologetically: "There are too many people, and dozens of our buses are full!" Nobody wants to go home. On the afternoon of April 17, my friend informed me that a service agency near Chinatown was still accepting registration, but the quota was full that day. 18 in the morning, I got up early and rushed there. What you see is a giant activity poster with a bright red logo "one spirit, one nation", which makes people excited.
Suddenly, I seem to feel a heroic spirit!
The registration procedure was simple, but I waited in line for more than two hours because of the crowd. While waiting, everyone was talking to Kan Kan. Everyone is angry about what happened to the French torch relay.
I was very moved by what a boy who looked about 30 years old said: "I helped seven friends sign up together." In fact, six of us have become Australian citizens, but there is nothing we can do. China people will always be China people! "
Yes, China people all over the world, at this historical moment, have embodied the essence of the Chinese nation-cohesion.
On April 24th, 2008, in Canberra, let's witness this historic moment. (Yi Zhigang)