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An interview with an international student in China

Posted by Focus Pacific on December 16th, 2025

An interview with an international student in China

The interviewer: Matt

The interviewee: Jun Kim

Jun Kim is a student studying in DAIS, the international department. He is a Korean and have been in China for over seven years. Now he is in the 9^th grade and he is also a member of our school soccer team.

Matt: Hello, Jun. I want to ask you some questions.

Jun：Sure, go ahead.

Matt: Ok. First, how do you feel about being an international student?

Jun: Uh… since our school is like a small world or a society, being an international student is like being a number of the global society. In this environment, I have learned many different cultures. That feels really nice.

Matt: Did you feel homesick when you were celebrating Korean traditional festivals?

Jun: Of course I did. I could not stop missing my families and my friends in Korea. And my mum made traditional Korean food when we celebrate the festival. I feel more homesick.

Matt: Yeah, homesick is the biggest problem for being an international student. And how do you feel about China?

Jun: I like China very much. Everyone in China is enthusiastic and they helped me a lot. I still remember that when I first came to China, my parents took me to the zoo. We lost our way home. My parents could speak Chinese so they asked the police for help. Finally, we got home. I still appreciate the police. Then I came to DAIS, all of the Chinese students here taught me Chinese so I can speak Chinese well now.

Matt: I know you are a member of our school soccer team and you are the main force of the team. How did you get it?

Jun: I can’t achieve the achievement without the help from Coach Carter and coach Felker. They gave me a lot of help. I made a big progress.

Matt: And I know your Chinese is good. How do you feel about learning Chinese?

Jun: That’s really interesting! But it’s really difficult! I always make mistakes on listening because of the pronunciation. Too many words have the same pronunciation.

Matt：Yes, that’s true. Thank you for your help!

Jun: No problem!

Selenium in Daily Life

Posted by Focus Pacific on December 15th, 2025

Selenium’s Gift to Hometown Health

My hometown Enshi in Hubei holds the globe’s only verified independent selenium deposit—local rocks have up to 66.66mg/kg of this mineral, 11 times higher than comparable formations.

A nationwide survey shows 53% of Chinese students have myopia, but Enshi’s juvenile rate is far lower. Selenium shields lens proteins from oxidation, boosts ocular microcirculation, and slows eye axis growth. Enshi’s cancer incidence is merely 0.00468%, well below the national average.

“This is a blessing from selenium-rich earth,” my mother says proudly.

我的家乡在湖北省恩施土家族苗族自治州，拥有全球唯一探明的独立硒矿床。家乡的岩石硒含量最高达66.66mg/kg，是同类岩石的 11 倍。

恩施州的调研数据显示：全国中小学生近视率高达53%，恩施州的中小学近视率远低于这个数字。因为硒能保护晶状体蛋白质不被氧化，还能改善眼部微循环，减缓眼轴增长。家乡癌症发病率仅4.68/10万，远低于全国平均水平。

妈妈说这是“硒土养出来的福气”。

Selenium in Daily Life Uncovered

In 2025’s summer, Mom’s friend took me to Wuling Mountain’s Chinese medicinal testing center. I watched technicians use precise tools to measure selenium in Enshi Yulu and Lichuan Hong teas.

Selenium proteins and glutathione peroxidase-once abstract in my biology textbook—became tangible: they’re in Grandpa’s hypertension meds, Mom’s skincare antioxidants, and my brother’s post-workout selenium yeast tablets.

“Enshi’s selenium isn’t for flaunting,” Mom stressed, “but a gift for preserving life.”

2025年的暑假，妈妈的闺蜜带着我参观了武陵山中药材检验检测中心。在实验室里亲眼看到技术员用精密仪器检测恩施玉露和利川红的硒含量。

生物课本里的硒蛋白、谷胱甘肽过氧化物酶不再抽象，它们就是外公降压药里的辅助成分，是妈妈护肤品里的抗氧化因子，是弟弟运动后补充体力的硒酵母片。

妈妈告诉我“恩施的富硒资源不是炫耀的资本，而是守护生命的礼物。”

QIZHE WEN

You Signed Up for One, Didn’t You?

Posted by Focus Pacific on December 13th, 2025

As of the current moment, we are all connected. Our pinky fingers has an invisible line leading to different people. In other words, we signed up in one social network and all of the sudden we are associated with every single people in the world. It’s crazy how can one website do that. The keyword is social network. Admit it, you are part of one.

These social networks has this power to take up most of our time. We are supposed to be working or studying and they are right there beside us. Tugging on our shirts and nagging, “hey, open me”. Even though we often tell ourselves, “yeah, for just a minute”, that doesn’t seem to work most of the time. Without even you knowing it, you’ve spent an hour in these social networks, looking at people’s picture, seeing how they are doing, knowing where they are and who they are with. Social networks grabs you in the arm and introduces you to a new friend which shares the same thing you like. And you just made a cyber friend.

(Source: http://edubuzz.org/plhsbbcschoolreport/2013/03/20/social-networking/)

This new cyber friend of yours will introduce you to a bunch of other people which also likes the same thing you like and then you are in one group. To some people, friends is the reason why they often go online. To chat with this friends and to be updated to certain things. And the chatting and updating will go on for hours and hours and then you look at your window and you can see the sun rising. It’s morning and you didn’t get a single work done.

On the other hand, social network is not only about taking up your time. As said, it is connecting people. And before you knew it, you are connected to your long lost twin sister. That’s a good thing isn’t it? It can also keep you updated to things you don’t know about like school or work-related subjects. Also, chat boxes are available for instant communication. These social networks can connect you to your classmate back when you are in kindergarten and maybe even to your future husband or wife.

On how you use these social networks is all up to you. Other people used these social networks to get acquainted to other people, others used it for business and others are just downright cruel and mean and used this for bullying which we all hope would not happened. A pat in the back for the makers of these social networks. They surely did a good job.

Jessica Frost

Cyber Bullying in China

Posted by Focus Pacific on December 12th, 2025

Cyber Bullying in China

China is widely known as the most populace country around the globe, and it is well-known to have a one child only policy, encountering an outburst in the internet use over the past ten years, thirty three percent of children living in China had met cyber bullying incidents while a lower rate were involved in bullying activities themselves. Many of these incidents were being reported to the teachers and parents. According to students, parents normally take proper steps t help the victims of bullying.

Cyber bullying has been recalled globally as an electronic way where an individual or a group of people send text messages using smart phones, e-mails or social media, invading someone’s privacy in order to damage the person by threatening them or leaving them helpless.

According to study, China is ranked first in cyber bullying among twenty five countries, where China positions next to Singapore in being the two countries in which cyber bullying is well-known compared to offline bullying.

According to research, victims of bullying have been committing suicide and Chinese students who experienced cyber bullying are twice as likely to commit suicide compared to students who were not bullied. Cyber bullying in China is still considered by the parents as a kind bullying that involves physical contact.

F. Dy

Temple Mind Part 1

Posted by Focus Pacific on December 4th, 2025

Temple Mind Part 1 (2014 Korea)

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