Northeast Yucai School Student Bilisuma from Ethiopia: Shenyang is My Second Home

　　Recently, a special football match was held at the International Department of Northeast Yucai School. A group of high school students from different countries with different skin colors "challenged" their teachers and eventually "reached a draw". The two sides also enhanced their friendship through this game. Actually, it was Bilisuma, a 16-year-old Ethiopian first-year student at the senior high school who helped make it possible and played his part in the match.

Group photo of participants in the teacher-student football match, by courtesy of the International Department of Northeast Yucai School

Organizing this football match between teachers and students makes Bilisuma feel proud. Photography by Huang Fei

　　Despite being a foreigner, Bilisuma can speak quite fluent Chinese because he has been in Shenyang for more than six years, spending almost all of his learning career in Shenyang.

　　After entering high school, Bilisuma was elected as president of the Student Union and also achieved one of his small goals of holding a teacher-student football match at school. Football brings the teachers and students closer together, and also allows Bilisuma to form close friendships in Shenyang. "Because of this common hobby, I have become friends with many local people, which has created deeper emotional connections between me and this city," Billy said." Shenyang people are very warm, which makes me feel like old friends at first sight."

　　"Although I'm still young, I've been to many cities, and what makes me feel most at ease is Shenyang, "Bilisuma said seriously." My life is here, and my friends as well. For me, Shenyang is my second home, and I hope to stay in China for my future.