By Yelin Zhu
On September 18th, 2019, students from the Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication got up early, dressed formally to attend the welcome reception which carefully prepared by the University of Stirling.
In the very beginning of the reception, programme co-ordinator Damyan Kachulski first warmly welcomed all the students and professor Chen from BIGC and briefly introduced the class members and the programme. The courses for this semester is divided into classroom teaching and practical activities.
The courses offered by the university for us include Publishing Dynamic, News Writing, Digital Creation etc. In addition, we will visit some publishing distributors, bookstores in the UK. Moreover, there will be a Chinese Culture Week and some events are to be hold for celebration. All of us will join the events in a celebration to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. It is a good chance to spread Chinese culture.
After the president of the University of Stirling gave a welcome speech, Damyan suddenly took out a bunch of flowers prepared for Ms. Chen. Pro. Chen was very happy and said thanks to him.
Professor Chen Fenglan was also invited to the stage to thank the school for the well-organized welcome party and Damyan and Grace Wang who helped us settle down and we felt at home these days.
In the end, the students had a chance to communicate with our teachers and share more details of our experiences at afternoon tea.