On Studying Aboard

Recent years have witnessed a growing number of programs for studying abroad, in which high school or college students live with a host family in a foreign country. Semester, summer, and a long-year study programs allow for attending school, taking intensive language courses, or performing community service in another country. I think studying abroad will do much good for students’ personal development, but do much harm to students’ families.
Let’s see the flowers of this beautiful garden. Studying abroad is not only travel, but also means experiencing new customs, holidays, clothes, foods, architectural, music and gaining self-confidence. Living away from home can also help you adjust in transition to college and adulthood. Besides, the most obvious advantage for overseas students is improving their language skills. There is no better opportunity to improve your foreign-language than you living in a foreign country, which\whose group work,so you can develop your leadership skills.  Developing language skills and leadership skills might help you get to land a future job.
Let’s see the weeds of this beautiful garden. Studying aboard may affect cultural and economic problems. For example, as a typical Chinese student this means that most of us we’ll face cultural conflict between Western culture and Eastern culture. We are of collectivism while the western world is of individualism. We are of a developing country whereas most of the western countries are already developed countries. Also, some students may need try their best to adapt to the environment of his or her living and studying environments. Apart from that, studying abroad is not easy for most common families. For many such families, getting a child into university in China is the fulfillment of a long-life dream. Can they pay for their children to study abroad?
From the above material, we can safely arrive at the conclusion that studying abroad is not a good choice for the most families. With our economy highly developing, our education system is highly developing too. We have to believe that our education system will be perfect in the future. Then we can say proudly, “I graduated from a Chinese university.”