Southwest University for Nationalities

Hello everyone I am back. I thought I would tell you all a little about the school that I am studying at. Actually I am not really studying at the school they are just hostinig the study abroad program that I am currently attending. It is a large school I think someone told me that it has around 50,000 students. The special thing about the school is that it is for the different ethnic groups that exist in China. There are over 90 different ethnic groups other than the dominant group the Han Chinese. Even though the Han make up 93% of the population. The other groups are Tibetan, muslim, Yi or any number of different kinds of people. The campus that I go to and have class in is very small and the buildings are all pretty old and are just cement buildings that are nothing fancy. But this last week I got a chance to go and visit the new campus with a friend of mine we call him Chinese Steve since we have 2 Steves on our trip already. He is ethnically Zhuang he is from Southeast China near the Vietnam border. He is a real interesting guy he speaks great English he said he watched Friends for 3 years to help him learn English. Anyway he took us to the new campus which they just built about 4 years ago and it is as nice as K-states campus they have two ponds on the campus. The main difference I can tell between a campus in America and one in China is that in China everyone has to live on Campus for all 4 years and even some of the teachers are provided housing and live on Campus this provides a very different kind of school atmosphere but like I said it was a beautiful campus. Just thought I would share this