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<\/a><\/p>\nUkrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music donates medical materials to China on a ceremony held on February 5 to assist the latter in fighting the COVID-19 outbreak. (Photo courtesy of the Chinese Embassy in Ukraine)<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI can finally go for a walk in the park and do some exercises,\u201d said Cheng Huanhuan who teaches Chinese in Ukraine, referring to the end of the two-month COVID-19 restrictions in the European country.<\/p>\n Cheng came to teach at the Music Confucius Classroom jointly established by the Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music and China\u2019s Central Conservatory of Music last September, together with other three teachers from China.<\/p>\n \u201cI majored in Russian in university, so apart from teaching Chinese, I also translate for the music teachers,\u201d Cheng said.<\/p>\n Cheng would be giving lectures to the students were it not for the sudden outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, as classes of educational institutions were suspended as a result of the quarantine measures introduced by the Ukrainian government since March 12. \u201cNow I teach Chinese to students online, so I have more spare time,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Staying at home during the quarantine, Cheng was eager to contribute her part as she saw in the news that the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases kept increasing in Ukraine.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen China was at the hardest time battling the virus, many Ukrainians donated masks to China, and some of them sent us their wishes through videos. That was really heart-touching,\u201d she said, adding that it inspired her to lend a helping hand to the local people to tide over the difficulties together.<\/p>\n To donate masks was the first thing that popped up in her mind.<\/p>\n \u201cMany people, such as sanitation workers and salesclerks in the supermarkets, were still sticking to their jobs during the quarantine period. I felt sorry to see them working without masks, so I shared some of mine with them,\u201d Cheng noted.<\/p>\n She spoke of a sexagenarian employee of a supermarket that she frequently visits, saying the employee was very happy when receiving the masks from her. \u201cHe was very hospitable the next time he saw me in the supermarket, and helped me pick the freshest fruits,\u201d Cheng said.<\/p>\n As masks became an increasingly scarce commodity and her stock was running out, Cheng didn\u2019t have many to donate. Therefore, she bought 100 pieces of chocolate, and attached a card on each one of them on which she wrote \u201cHang in there,\u201d \u201cEverything is going to be fine\u201d and \u201cTake care\u201d in Russian. Every time she went shopping, she would send the chocolate to the people she met.<\/p>\n \u201cThey were surprised when receiving the chocolate,\u201d she said, adding that she hoped the sweet chocolate would encourage the locals.<\/p>\n Besides, every time she went grocery shopping, she would buy extra vegetables and eggs and secretly leave them with her elderly neighbors and the security guards.<\/p>\n \u201cOne good turn deserves another. By doing these trivial things, I just want to express the friendliness and kindness of a Chinese. I hope we can all join hands to prevail over the difficulties,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Li Zhen, People\u2019s Daily Overseas...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,17,16,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","category-education","category-health","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25836,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25834\/revisions\/25836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}