1. I read the Weekly and
hired a taxi via phone!
Felix, tourist from Ireland
By Wang Yaxin
It was 6:00 pm, Apr. 27, at the gate of
Shangri-La Hotel, Irish tourist Felix was
waiting for a taxi while reading an issue of
Changjiang Weekly. A few minutes ago he had
picked up a Changjiang Weekly and happened
to read "Now, you can hire a taxi via phone".
He immediately called the telephone number
given in the report. "Now the taxi I reserved is
on the way," he said.
This foreign backpacker felt that the
English Weekly was quite pleasant and useful.
He told the reporter that his favorite page was
the Guide, which offers plenty of information
about tourism and traffic that is very helpful for
newcomers. Moreover, he has decided, after
reading an advertisement in the paper, to go to
the Panda Lantern Show and have a look at the
Yellow Crane Tower Lantern on East Lake.
While they were still speaking, a taxi from
Lianhai Taxi Company slowly pulled in. Felix
carefully folded the paper and put it away so he
could read it through after he returned home.
My dream of being
a model comes true
Lorna, wife of French consul-general
By Cai Muzi
Lorna and her husband Lambo, Consul
General of France in Wuhan, have been living
here for 2 years. On Changjiang Weekly's
debut ceremony, Lorna's curly Afro hair style,
healthy dark skin and delicately cut dress made
her the focus of cameras.
Lorna shows special interest in Changjiang
Weekly. While reading through it, she says, "
I'm fascinated by contents on life, fashion and
culture. Classified information about
restaurants, events, and exhibitions are quite
practical for foreigners, but I still want to read
more about fashion and shopping."
She speaks highly of the fashion
atmosphere in Wuhan. "There are many
brilliant fashion designers here. Once, a
designer asked me to be his model and we went
to Shanghai for a fashion show. You can also
see me in a diamond poster on the glass curtain
wall outside Wuhan Plaza."
Museums and Wuhan Tiandi are the
places Lorna has visited most often. Talking
about foreigners' life in Wuhan, Lorna thinks "
life is not so easy for those who cannot speak
Chinese. For example, nearly all taxi drivers in
Wuhan don't speak English, which makes it
rather difficult to talk to them."
Friday, May 11, 2012
Highlights8
EDITOR HELEN HU DESIGNER LIU YAN
Falling in love with this city
"I saw my picture in Changjiang Weekly! " Adam could
hardly hide his excitement on the phone. The story of this
Nigerian graduate student from Huazhong Normal
University and his foreign "Lei Feng" volunteer team was on
Page 7 of Changjiang Weekly inaugural issue.
Adam often buys newspapers at a newsstand near
Jiedaokou. Despite the difficulty he experiences in reading
Chinese, he is now a regular customer of that newsstand
because "I can often see my pictures in newspapers".
When "the girl selling newspapers asked me today
whether it was me in the newspaper," Adam was really
surprised to find himself a news protagonist. Accepting one
newspaper as a free gift from the owner of the newsstand,
Adam bought one more, "My good friend and a member of
our volunteer team, Li Di, is in the paper, too. I'm going to
tell her about it."
When Adam came from Nigeria to Wuhan in 2008, his
circle of friends were mainly the foreigners around him.After
he took part in an activity pairing foreign students with local
families organized by Changjiang Daily during this Spring
Festival, he has become more eager to learn more about
people and things in Wuhan. As Adam puts it, foreigners in
Wuhan will be able to have a much larger social circle with
an English weekly paper, for "we will know more things, and
you will know more about us."
ublished by Changjiang Daily Press Group on
Apr. 27, Changjiang Weekly is the first
English newspaper for foreign readers in
Wuhan.
We hope that Changjiang Weekly can "offer all
foreign friends a reliable source of local news, a guide
to living in the city, and a platform of communication".
Like Dr. Nora Bynum, one of our foreign friends,
once said, this English weekly newspaper will "make us
slowly fall in love with this city".
It's necessary to classify
information
Jack, international student from the U.S.
By Liu Gonghu
"Its layout is neat and clean and easy to read,"
said Jack, 26, an international student from Idaho,
U.S.A., now studying in Wuhan University. He is
now accustomed to buy a thick Chinese newspaper
every day after breakfast.
A close reading of the paper leads his eyes to
Page 6. "Hey! Here's the info for musicals! " The
layout of the paper is very important and it's
usually hard to find such specialized information
unless it's in large sections of classifieds, he thinks.
Learning Chinese culture
through an English paper
John Tully, international student from Ireland
By Hu Jie
John Tully, having come from Ireland last
September to Huazhong Normal University, is
going to complete a two-year graduate program in
engineering here. He hopes that key words or
phrases found in this English newspaper can be
made clearer and easier to understand through
bilingual explanations. He thinks, Changjiang
Weekly is very likely to become another window
into the Chinese language and culture for foreign
people here.
Living in Jiyuqiao and cycling to school every
day, John especially inquired of the reporter, before
leaving, about when Wuhan subway is scheduled to
open. "It's going to be convenient then.
Transportation here is what I care about most,"
smiled John in satisfaction when he learned that it's
the end of this year.
Getting to know what Wuhan
people think about the world
Erika Zoeller Veras, teacher from Brazil
By Hu Jie
"I hope to read not only domestic news but
world news as well in Changjiang Weekly, and to
read of what Wuhan people think about world
affairs," said Erika. She also showed great interest in
the "Green Companies" series reports featured in
the first issue of this paper, which, she believed,
helped foreigners to learn about Wuhan in a
language familiar to them. She hopes to read more
about major political and economic reports.
Erika, from Brazil, now a teacher in the School
of Management of Wuhan University of
Technology, has been staying in Wuhan for 7 years.
For her, the ways to learn about Wuhan and China
are mainly by word of mouth and by reading China
Daily.
Erika said, "Language is a barrier since local
English publications and TV programs are rarely
found." Almost no other means are available to
know about Wuhan except to visit the Wuhan
Times online. Thus Changjiang Weekly will
become another window for her to better
understand this city.
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Photo by Liang Chao
We'll know more things
you know more about us
Adam, international student from Nigeria
By Li Jia
Photos by
Zhou Chao
Tourists with English guide map in Han Street.
LANGUAGE EDITORS: MICHELLE ARIEL EBY, JAY COCKRELL, DEREK WENTZ
Model Lorna（right）