The Automobile Industry in China and United States

  In the annual report of Chinese Automobile Association, the president Chuanlin Xiong reported that the at the end of November has already reached 17 million and he also mentioned that this number will go over 18 million at the end of the year, December 9^th, 2010 (Chinese automobile association annual report).  18 million means it’s beyond the recorded of United States’ 17 million in the history.

  Due to some reasons made the sales volume of United States’ into a hard time. So I want to compare the automobile industries between China and United States. Although, these two countries have different history and they are in the different periods. We can still highlight some factors to do the comparison. I will focus on the re-united, the cash flows, and the parts supply.

 Re-Unite

  In February 2010, Williams Diehl talked about the situation of American automobile industry, the GM (General Moto) can pass the hard time, but half of the automobile industry will shut down. Also, he explained that when the sale volume reach 17 million, many of the factories’ output were over the average and they have to reduce their products to balance the situation.   

  Meanwhile, almost every areas and countries are doing re-unite, including China. Last years, many companies, in the whole world, would cut their losing money propositions, so that they can increase the issue of stock and reduce their debt.  Otherwise, some companies would be sold to others’.

    Chinese automobile corporations had noticed the changed in the world. So to improve their competitive strength is a hot topic among those companies. For the companies, which have limited abilities, self-adjustment is the major way. And those companies that have certain funds to be used, they choose to purchase others. In this way, they can get more advance technology to help themselves get improved.  For example, the Chinese brand Geely bought 100% stock of Volvo.

   Geely, a chines vehicle brand and only with 13 years vehicle making history.  On August 2^nd, 2010, Geely bought Volvo. As we know, Volvo used to belong to Ford and based on the Ford CEO Alan Mulally “Volvo has an excellent brand and a strong product lineup. As a Ford division, it had recently returned to profitability after a successful restructuring”.  As the Chinese carmaker, it’s a good opportunity for them to have a higher-class car brand so that they can open the market in Europe and America. The young carmaker had a good improvement.

Cash Flows

  With the bank’s loan and the other methods to get cash become more expensive than before. Finding another way to get the fund is a major problem for the automobile industries.

    Right now, the cash is the most important part in a business than any other time. American people seem like pay more attention on their loan than the vehicle itself during the car purchase. American citizens use credit card for daily shopping and pay after shopping. So the problem his or her paycheck has already been spent every week or month. People don’t have much savings. When they need to do a big investment like buying a car, they have to go through the bank to get loan. With the economic turned to be bad and many people can not pay their loan, the banks have to higher their rate to get balanced, then the demand of vehicle go extremely down.  The whole market’s supply is higher than the demand, and then influenced the vehicle industry so bad.

    The people of China, have a different style, people will save enough money then buy a car. Loan is not as popular as United Sates. What’s more, with the price of the automobiles become cheaper, more and more people have the ability to buy a car. Cash is the major way for Chinese people to get a car. The demand always higher than the supply. Let’s use the Porsche Cayenne as a sample.

      In January 2011. People in China if they want to buy a standard Cayenne, their have to wait for at least 3 month, and there is a fee called rush fee, which is 3000 to 20000 dollars. Otherwise, although you have cash in hand and also you cannot get it anywhere. But in America, once you have cash, you can get any kind of Cayenne you want.

Parts Supply

  Automobile parts making company is an important part of the American automobile industry. However, with the American vehicle output drop down, the suppliers are suffering a bad attack. The government has already supported GM and Chrysler, the suppliers didn’t get any aids from the government.

   Though, the market in China always has a high demand of autos. The parts suppliers face a big challenge as well. Now, many parts suppliers from other countries use a low price but high quality product give to the carmakers.  Recently, a research shows that, 75% companies are negotiating the price of the raw and other elements. With this process, they can have a long-term relationship with the other companies. Because, a company need to spend at least 2 years to have the relationships, and there is no one can stand that.

   In conclusion, as I mentioned before, China and United States are having different periods in the history. I am not saying Chinese Automobile Industry is better than America’s or American automobiles will be taken over by Chinese. These two countries are trying their best to find solutions or keep up with the re-unite, the cash flows, and the parts supply.   No one can always win in such a competitive market. Both countries have a huge contribution to the world.  

  

Work cited

1. Plunkett, Jack. Plunkett's automobile industry almanac. 1st. Houston,TX: Plunkett Research, Ltd, 2003. 87. Print

2. Law, Christopher . Restructuring the global automobile industry : national and regional impacts.     London: Routledge, Ltd., 1991. 79-80. Print.

3. J. White, Lanrence. The automobile industry since 1945. 2nd Ed. 1. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1971. 68-72. Print.

4. "Ford CEO: Supply Japan." Fox Business 13th Apil, 2011:  Web. 27th Apil, 2011. <http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2011/04/13/ford-ceo-supply-situation-japan-unfolding/>.

5. "4 Tips For Buying a Car After Bankruptcy." Bankruptcy Web. 28th April 2011. <http://www.bankruptcyfocus.com/buying-a-car-after-bankruptcy.html>.

6. "Volvo Sale A Bad Move For Ford." Trefis 13th August, 2010: n. pag. Web. 28th April, 2011. <https://www.trefis.com/company?article=21165#>.

7. Geely bought Volvo." 2nd August, 2010. n. pag. Web. 27th April, 2011. <http://www.geely.com/news/newscenter/mtbd/32885.html>.

Resource for my final project

1. Plunkett, Jack. Plunkett's automobile industry almanac. 1st. Houston,TX: Plunkett Research, Ltd, 2003. 87. Print

2. Law, Christopher . Restructuring the global automobile industry : national and regional impacts. 4. London: Routledge, Ltd., 1991. 79-80. Print.

3. J. White, Lanrence. The automobile industry since 1945. 2nd Ed. 1. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1971. 68-72. Print.

Outline for the final project

Outline for the Final project

Compare the automobile industry in China and United States

1.     The importance of automobile in today’s society

a).  People are relay on cars for daily life.

                     b). The concept of vehicle for Chinese people

                     c).  The concept of vehicle for American people

2. The history of Chinese automobile industry

                     a). The first Chinese automobile factory had been built in 1953

                     b).  The first Chinese made automobile is called Red flag

 c). Due to the quality and technology, Chinese people are preferred to   have imported vehicles than Chinese made ones.

3. The history of American automobile industry

  a).  The first step of American automobile industry from 1900 to 1915.  People start to know cars.

b). The second step of American automobile industry form 1916 to 1929. Many first and middle class people started to buy vehicles.

c). The third step that the motor of the vehicle has been upgraded form 1930 to 1980

d). The fourth step was form 1981 to 21 century, the american automobile industry was the biggest in the world.

4. Because of the economy, the automobile industry of China had a incredible increase, but the American industry had a hard time, at the early 21 century

                 5. Conclusion: The automobile industry in China will keep growing up and the American automobile industry is trying the best way to get rid of the bad economy   

Socre Card #3

Winners:
1. Walcheski, Lukus J
     http://chrisklaphaken191s11.blogspot.com/
2. Wei, Beibei
     http://beibeiwei0420.blogspot.com/
3. Severson, Natalie M
    http://natalieseversonen101s11.blogspot.com/

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My third interview 

Prepare the interview

  For the third interview, I followed the same interview objectives but I slightly change my interview questions to be closer the native custom in Japan. The reason for the change is because I think I didn’t collect too much information about their lives here. What’s more, I don’t wanna mention too much about the earthquake over there, cause I think we can get more information online. 

  I made fully preparation for the last interview as usual and conducted the interview in the same place Tatuso Fuyu.

  The third interviewee Fuyu is also a Japanese guy. For a 22 years old man, he looks younger than his age and he is from Tsushima, Aichi. His city is in the middle south in Japan so there is not a hugh influence of his hometown. It’s Fuyu’s second year here, and his major is accounting.

  I picked up the study room like last time for my interview. I brought some candies with me this time, because the interview was on 5:00 pm, in April 2nd. So both of us had a little bit hungry, some candies can prove energy and makes me more friendly to him. 

Description of the interview 

  Fuyu is a nice guy and his aim came to US is that he wants to have his own company when he goes back to Japan. His interest is doing motor sports. In my  mind I think 1/3 Japanese guys likes racing or drifting games. He told me the most important reason for him came to here is because here has a long winter and he can has half a year’s off. Otherwise he will put all his time on racing. 

  Since both of us has the same hobby, so during the interview I put some questions about our hobby. And two of us are pretty enjoy the conversation, it was not like an interview, just like a talk between close friends. As an international I remember many similar situations that I faced. Especially when I heard he didn’t want to leave his friends and the land he born in I was deeply toughed and same situation for me. I remember how struggle before I made the decision. I understood that I would have to face difficulties and suffer huge homesick but I still came here. The thing made me to reduce some homesick is driving around and hang out with my car club’s friends. So for us the motor sports helped us gained a numbers of friends.

  

Country report

 Geography: 

 1.      Japan is located in Asian. Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku are the four largest.

Japan's closest neighbors are Korea, Russia and China.

Capital city is Tokyo.

  Population:

    The population of Japan is about 125,000,000.

  Earthquake

   1. Japan is located in a region, and there are several continental plates meet. Earthquake is very normal for Japanese. However, the country has suffered three huge earthquake.

The worst was in 1923, hit Kanto plain that city is by Tokyo. That time resulted in over 1 million people dead.

2. In 1995, the city is called Kobe and 6,000 people were killed and 415,000 people injured.

3. On march 11th, 2011. Japan had a 8.9 magnitude earthquake, it hit Pacific Coastal Regions of Northeastern Japan.  Based on CNN, there are more than 8,000 people were died and 13,000 are missing.  And this time, the Nuclear may result more bad effects of the world.

Interview report

Interviewer: Mengfei Xu

Interviewee: Tatuso Fuyu.

nterview date: April, 2nd, 2011

Interview place: Study room of library in SCSU

1. Xu: Hello, my name is Mengfei Xu and I am Chinese. What’s your name?

    Fuyu: My name is Tatuso Fuyu. And I am 22 years old, I am from Japanese. Tsushima, Aichi is my hometown 

2. Xu: So the did the earthquake affect your city?

    Fuyu: Not so much, we are in the middle south of Japan.

3. Xu: I am so glad to here that and wish Japanese people can rebuild your home town.    Thanks for coming today and can I have a half an hour interview with you? My aim is to know some about you and the life of you over here. 

    Fuyu: Sure. My hobby is very simply, I like racing, car racing.

4. Xu: Oh! Really? Cause I like car as well and I do some modifications on cars.

    Fuyu: Cool! Then we can be good friends.

5. Xu: Of course! How many years you have been here and what’s your major?

   Fuyu: Well, This is my second year here. I am coming for accounting major. Because I want to have my own business and learning accounting can help me to know the accounting of my company wether is good or not. 

6.Xu: I see. Then can you tell me what do you usually do when you are free.

    Fuyu: En, after school I always go to my buddy--Audi Riza’s  shop to modify my car, as you know car is my girlfriend, I take care of her everyday. 

7.Xu: How come I never see you, because I am Audi’s roommate. So do you enjoy the winter here?

    Fuyu: Maybe we often went there in different time. I do like the snow here, you know St.Cloud is a quite city, not so much noise and the people here is very kind and nice to foreigners. The most important reason to choose st.cloud is there is a winter then I can have half year off, otherwise I won’t have time to focus on my study. I am the guy who would rather put all the time on cars.

8. Xu: Yeah, So am I! What if when you 40 years old, then you have money, will you open your own shop or something else relate to cars?

    Fuyu: I will have my own garage, I don’t want to relate my hobby with business, then it will mass it up. Commercial things should be separate with hobby.

9. Xu: Ok, but for me I want to have a shop and hopefully I can make it world famous. Would you like tell me except cars what else do you do?

    Fuyu: Normally I stay at home, sometimes I will hang out with my friends go shopping in cities. I have 2 months in Japan every year. I do some simple works in my father’s company try to get used to the environment of doing business. 

10. Xu: That’s pretty good. And I next time if we have some other events of racing I will call you and we can go together! Thank you for your time and nice to meet you!

Fuyu: Sure! And I am also glad to meet you. 

  

Regional Culture Report --------- South Korea and Japan

Regional Culture Report --------- South Korea and Japan

Group Members: Yao Hu, Shan Lu, YunFei Hua, Hui Zhang, Mengfei Xu

Regional Culture Report

·        Cuisine

·        Military regulations

·        Wedding Cultures

·        Entertainment

·        Contemporary  issues in South Korea

Cuisine of Japan and Korea:

1)    Kimichi

2)    BBQ

3)    Street food
4)      Sushi
5)    Sashimi

Military regulations of Korea:

1)    At what age to service the military

2)     What do they need to do when they are in military

3)    How many years do they need service the military

Wedding Cultures of Korea:

1)    At what age to get married

2)    Wear traditional cloths when get married

3)    What’s the specific step of  hold a wedding

Entertainment of Korea and Japan:

1)    E-Sports: Star Craft

2)    Clubs: Korean like drinking

3)    Korea Dramas, TV shows and some singers.

4)    Soccer

Contemporary issues in Aisa

1)    South Korea V.S. North Korea

2)    The Impact of Earthquake in Japan

Regional Culture Report --------- South Korea and Japan

Group Members: Yao Hu, Shan Lu, YunFei Hua, Hui Zhang, Mengfei Xu

Regional Culture Report

·        Cuisine

·        Military regulations

·        Wedding Cultures

·        Entertainment

·        Contemporary  issues in South Korea

Cuisine of Japan and Korea:

1)    Kimichi

2)    BBQ

3)    Street food
4)      Sushi
5)    Sashimi

Military regulations of Korea:

1)    At what age to service the military

2)     What do they need to do when they are in military

3)    How many years do they need service the military

Wedding Cultures of Korea:

1)    At what age to get married

2)    Wear traditional cloths when get married

3)    What’s the specific step of  hold a wedding

Entertainment of Korea and Japan:

1)    E-Sports: Star Craft

2)    Clubs: Korean like drinking

3)    Korea Dramas, TV shows and some singers.

4)    Soccer

Contemporary issues in Aisa

1)    South Korea V.S. North Korea

2)    The Impact of Earthquake in Japan

Winner for the Second interview

1st: Wei, Beibei
     http://beibeiwei0420.blogspot.com/
 

2nd: Hussain, Asif

    http://huas0901.blogspot.com/
   

3rd: Meyer, Jordan R    http://jordanmeyeren191s11.blogspot.com/

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Second Interview Report

  Before I posted this interview on my blog, the association of Japan in SCSU sent me event, which is called Solidarity Night. For sure I will go and try my best the people over there.

Prepare Interview.
   Choosing the interviewee is not so hard for me in SCSU, since there are many international students are from Japan. As I mentioned before, I chose Sho as my second interviewee, and he is my friend’s buddy. We made the place of interview was in the study room in library, because I think that’s a quite and nice place for processing my interview.
  This is my second interview, I did some regular things, like the first interview, first I made 10 unique questions which are designed for international students. These 10 questions contain the aspects of their life, study and culture. Second, however, I added two questions about the earthquake that happened on March 11th. I think they would like to talk about it and it’s better than me to look at the news on the internet. The information that I can get from them is firsthand. Third I contact with one guy who is called Sho Hoshino.
  After reading some people’s interviews in the class, I noticed that I have missed many details and crucial points of my own first one. In order to make my own more professional, clear and thoughtful, I revised pervious objects in many places and made it in three parts: preparing, recoding and transcript. Dr. Roland told me I didn’t put too much time on my transcript and I am agree with his suggestion. What’s more, I think that’s why my first interview was poor. This time, I focused on the transcript a lot.
 

Description of interview
   Sho is a nice guy with short and dyed yellow hair, the cloth that he wore that day is fashionable and looked fit for him. Since both of us are Asian, once I saw him, his appeal told me he is Japanese. Sho told me he is 24 years old, the city that he lives in is called Kofu, in Yamanashi. The city is 200 miles away from Tokyo. He has already finished his first major-- finance, and he is going for his second major--accounting. He is very enjoy the life here and St.Cloud is a quiet and safety place for him. When we turned the question to the earthquake, he seemed so sad and sometimes he need a deep breath then kept talking.  
   My interview went very smoothly! It helps me to get know a very good impression of Japan and Japanese. Some information about the earthquake is way more moving than that I watched on the news. From his eyes, I can know he really wanted to go back to Japan and see how bad the situation is right now. Some of his friends are from the places around there and one of them is missing.
  While talking with him, it reminded me of the Wenchuan earthquake happened in China, in 2008. Thousands of people were lost connection with their families and many of them only had one people left of the families. Compare with Sho at least I didn’t have any friends were missing in that earthquake. The feeling of him only himself can know.
  I felt sorry for him. Also, I can barely write the main points of his talking. I spent a lot of time to went through the interview. And I wish all the people in Japan can get rid of the bad situation as soon as possible.

Country Report about Japan
  Geography: 
 1.      Japan is located in Asian. Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku are the four largest.
Japan's closest neighbors are Korea, Russia and China.
Capital city is Tokyo.
  Population:
    The population of Japan is about 125,000,000.
  Earthquake
   1. Japan is located in a region, and there are several continental plates meet. Earthquake is very normal for Japanese. However, the country has suffered three huge earthquake.
The worst was in 1923, hit Kanto plain that city is by Tokyo. That time resulted in over 1 million people dead.
2. In 1995, the city is called Kobe and 6,000 people were killed and 415,000 people injured.
3. On march 11th, 2011. Japan had a 8.9 magnitude earthquake, it hit Pacific Coastal Regions of Northeastern Japan.  Based on CNN, there are more than 8,000 people were died and 13,000 are missing.  And this time, the Nuclear may result more bad effects of the world.

Interview Report:

Interviewer: Mengfei Xu
Interviewee: Sho Hoshino
Interview date: Mar.19th, 2011
Interview place: Study room of library in SCSU

Xu: Hi, I’m Mengfei Xu, and I am from China.
    Sho: Hi, My name is Sho Hoshino, I am Japanese, and I am from the city called Kofu, Yamanashi.
Xu: How old are you?
    Sho: I am 24 years old.
3. Xu: Is that ok for me to have a interview with you, and it will last around 30    minutes?
    Sho: Sure!
4. Xu: Thank you. How many years have you been in USA?
    Sho: I have been here for 4 years. And I was studied in Akita International                             University, In my third year I transfered to St.Cloud State University.
5. Xu: Oh, I see. Your English is very fluently. Are you graduate student right now?
    Sho: No. My major is Finance, and I have finished it last spring. Right now I am studying in Accounting. It’s really hard to find a job of graduating with a single major. That’s why I came back to school this spring for another major.
6. Xu: Yes, that’s true. I am also thinking of to get double majors. What was the reason for you to choose SCSU?
    Sho: Well, when I first came to USA, I was still waiting for my green card here, I was considered as an international student at that time. SCSU is very famous for offering the substantial scholarship for international students and my family also live in Minnesota, so I applied for this school.
7. Xu: How do you like here?
    Sho: I like here very much. My goal here is for studying, for this reason here is quite and safety. Also, I like snow, I really enjoy the snow in Minnesota, I can do a lot of snowing sports in the winter.
8. Xu: So do I. lol. Would you please introduce something that you like in Japan?
    Sho: I really want to introduce introduce a restaurant to you. It’s called Yoshinoya in Japanese. My favourite is Niku-juagai, which is boiled with meat and potato. What’s more, my hometown, Kofu, is only 200 miles away from Tokyo, so it’s very close to Fuji mountain. It’s a really nice place. If you have chance you should go to see the mountain and the sekula (oriental cherry blossom) is so beautiful.
9. Xu: I really want to see the sekula. As we all know, Japan has suffered from an 8.9 earthquake, would you please tell me something about it?
    Sho: When I first heard this news, I thought that’s nothing, because we had too many earthquakes back-home. But, later my friend told it came with Tsunami and the magnitude of this time was 8.9. At that moment I was shocked. I was trying to reached my friends and relatives as soon as possible. After one day, I found out most of them were safe, only one of my friend is missing till now (He stopped talking for around 10 seconds). Now the government is trying to solve the radiation of the unclear power, since it will cause a global problem. How I wish it can be solve as soon as possible, nobody wants to see any people died anymore.
10. Xu:I can understand your feeling right now, I wish all the people can be safe in the world and Japanese can rebuild your hometown soon. Thank you for your time!
      Sho: No problem.

Winners of the competition

No.1: Severson, Natalien M
No.2: Hayes, Amanda M
No.3: Meyer, Jordan R

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My First Interview

Preparations of my interview:
  I knew this guy from my roommate, and his name is Kuota Sato, he is from Japan. And we had this interview in the study room of library, on Frbruary 25th. During the interview I recorded it.


                                        

Country report:

   This time my interviewee is from Japan.  He told me that Japanese called their country as “Land of the rising sun”.

  According to the website, Journey to Asia, “Japan is a country of islands, extends along the eastern or Pacific coast of Asia. The four main islands, running from north to south, are Hokkaido, Honshu (or the mainland), Shikoku, and Kyushu. Okinawa Island is about 380 miles southwest of Kyushu. About 3,000 smaller islands are included in the archipelago. In total land area, Japan is slightly smaller than California. About 73% of the country is mountainous, with a chain running through each of the main islands. Japan's highest mountain is the world famous Mt. Fuji (12,388 feet).” That’s why Japan is famous for its Sushi.  

  My interviewee also strongly recommended me go to Japan for a touring. On the website Travel.state.Gov, there is an article describe that “a land of striking scenic beauty. First time visitors are impressed by its greenness and its mountains, which cover nearly three-quarters of the country. Gentle plains and intermountain basins account for only about 25% of Japanese territory” As I said it before, sushi is very good over there and it’s already have become a world famous food. There is a lot of Sushi restraints in downtown Tokyo.

So from my point of view, I think when you have a chance we should go to Japan to have a look.

Cited

1.      http://www.koreanhistoryproject.org/Jta/Jp/index.htm visited date: 2011-2-26

2.      http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1148.html visited date:2011-2-28

                                                 
Interview report: 
  My interviewee, Kouta Sato, is from Japan this time. He was born in the Tokyo and his native language is Japanese. He is a guy whose cloth is very fashion and cares about his own style.

  Japan is an island nation in East Asia; it is an archipelago of 6,852 islands. Japan has over 127 million people. The city that Sato comes from is a crowed place. As of October 1, 2009, the population of Tokyo is estimated to be 12.989 million, or about 10% of Japan’s total population, and it has the largest population among all the 47 prefectures. Sato likes to drive in America with less population but more land. The only thing that he doesn’t like here is the weather.

Compare with his hometown there is almost no snow back home. However, because of the weather, the life style is different in Japan and Sato told me he would like to try out every different kind of life style. And with different experience talking to people here, he can learn a lot of words, which helps him with his English speaking skill. After his graduation, Sato wants to have a job here to gain some experience to develop his personal vale, and then succeed more chances when he go back to Japan. Because English is global language, he is happy with he

When we talked about the hoppy, Sato seemed very excited to tell me he like traveling by car. He can see a lot of landscape through the window. Traveling gives him different experience of life. He also recommended people come to USA if they get chance.

I was fully prepared for this interview, so that it went through very well. Sometimes we get something in common, I think because we are both Asians. Our interview was in one of the study room in the library, Miller center. There are quite and nice.


                                                   

Interview Transcript:

Xu: Hi, This is Mengfei Xu, I’m in my English 191 class, and I need to have a short interview with you.

Sato: Sure

1.      Xu：Where were you born, your native language, and where did you grow up?
Sato: My name is Kouta Sato. I was born in Japan, Japanese is my native language, I grew up there.

2.      Xu: Why did you choose go to school in SCSU?

Sato: I heard it from my friend and he was studying here.

3.      Xu: Could you tell me a traditional thing in your country?

Sato: I would like to tell you about the traditional cloth of Japan. It’s unique in the world.

4.      Xu: How is your living situation in St. Cloud different than at home?
Sato: it’s not so crowd than in Japan and the people are very friendly.

5.      Xu: Do you want to work in the United States?
Sato: Yes, I want to get more experience and I can have more chances when I go back to Japan.

6.      Xu: What do you enjoy to do for fun?

Sato: I like traveling by car. I can see a lot of different landscape through the window.

7.      Xu: Do you think English should be a global language?
Sato: Yes, there are lots of English speaking countries in the world, and everybody is learning English, of course we need to use it.

8.      Xu: Do you recommend people attend school in the U.S.?
Sato: If you have chance to come, then come for sure. It great opportunity for life.

9.      Xu: What’s the most difficult thing that you met at school so far?

Sato: Some of the words that I cannot really understand.

10.  Xu: What do you miss about being home?

Sato: The food back home and my family.

Xu: Thank you for your time. Have a nice day.
Sato: You are welcome. You too.