ummer holiday of SISU students lasts two months. It is such a long period of time that it would be excruciating if one has no plan. So some SISU students chose to go aboard to enrich their summer holidays. One hundred questionnaires were distributed to see how SISU students’ trips were going.

SISU stands for Shanghai International Studies University, which means that students of SISU tend to look into issue with an international perspective. Forty percent of SISU students went abroad during summer holiday. It shows that many students care about things that happen overseas and like going abroad.

As many as 62.5 percent of SISU students went abroad with the intention to view the beautiful scenery and to be immersed in a different culture, while study is the second most chosen reason for going abroad.

German was the most popular destination among SISU students. It seems that SISU students prefer cultural landscapes rather than natural scenery.

Two to three weeks in the destination is an appropriate period of time because travelers would neither be in a hurry, nor bore themselves. Most students that went abroad spent less than 30 thousand yuan. Some students even spent less than 10 thousand yuan.

Culture and scenery impressed the students most during their trips. Food, friends and knowledge enrich their minds as well as their stomachs.

“I’m very happy,” said Zhang Xiaochen, a student of School of Germanic Studies, “because I’ve took beautiful pictures of amazing scenery and I did a lot of shopping.”

On the other hand, it’s very likely to meet with something unpleasant in an unfamiliar country. Language is the biggest problem that students confronted. Losing their things or their ways, getting ill and being cheated all harassed students. Fan Ceyu, a student of School of Asian and African studies, met all the aforesaid troubles. But he said he was not annoyed at all because he could always get help from the local hospitable people.

Most students were satisfied with their trips abroad, with only 2.5 percent students less satisfied.

“I gain a lot from my trip abroad,” Zhang Xiaochen said, “I’ve broadened my horizon and I’ve changed some of my future plans because of the trip.” Zhang had planned to go to Hong Kong to further study, while now the outer world could be another choice.

Twenty-six percent of SISU students plan to go abroad in four months. “Europe,” Chen Xiaoyang from School of Journalism and Communication gave out her destination, “I love the blue sky, classic atmosphere and slow pace of life there.”