Being a Chinese Teacher

Make Friends with Foreigners
As we are told, you can not only study in your university. On the contrary, you should enrich your school life on campus, which is more different as high school life. But it seemed that in the first semester, I paid much more attention to my English studying so that I lost many chances to get involved in school activities.
In the second of the university, I became the monitor of my class, which provided me with a lot of opportunities to talk to more teachers and let me know more information about various activities in the school. For example, we have to hold an activity called “English Corner”, which would be more attractive with foreign exchange students.
So I came to the Postgraduate Building where foreign exchange students live. T o be honest, I was very nervous because it was my first time to talk to foreigners alone. What is worse, I did not know what should I say first when they open the door. However, I pretended an air of assurance and greeted them and invited them to the English Corner with my poor spoken English. Owing to my invitation, two black men from Africa said that they wanted to learn Chinese and wanted me to become their Chinese teacher. After thinking a while, I considered it would be a good idea since it could help to improve my spoken English and make friends with them.
It was in the Friday evening on 22nd Oct. that I came to their dormitory with my roommate to teach them Chinese. Actually, after talking with them, I found that they only had English and Chinese lessons in this university since their native language was French. During the teaching breaks, they showed me a lot of pictures of their friends, families, as well as their schools, from which I saw the differences of two cultures between Asia and Africa.
I keep an appointed with them that we will teach them every Friday if there is no emergency. At first, I found it a bit uneasy to stay in their room. But in the second, there was a student from another department who knew the black more and better than us, so I talked to him to ask more things about the black. After this talking, I found it more comfortable to teach them Chinese. After nearly one-month teaching, we now become more like friends because we often play jokes on each other and share our feelings as if they were just my Chinese friends.
I really value this chance of making friends with them. I hope in the next days I can learn more cultures from them. Thanks to them, I am gradually gaining self-confidence in speaking English and in communicating with others.。