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Hi, hello everybody! Nice to see you好吧其实我看不到你们，但是你们看得到我Well, I cant see you, but you can see me. 你好，一一Hello, Yiyi你好。Risteard，你第一次来到中国Hello. So Risteard, you first came to China是在1988年，对么？back in 1998, is that right?是的Thats right那时候是什么原因来中国的呢？So what brought you to China then?基本上是出于偶然的机会Basically it was just a chance opportunity我刚从爱尔兰的大学毕业I just graduated from college in Ireland where Im from我从爱尔兰移居到澳大利亚I moved from Ireland to Australia我住在一个国际旅馆Wellster was in Australia, where I was living was like an international hostel旅馆的主人是中国人The owner of the hostel was a Chinese fellow他给了我和两个英国朋友And he offered me and two English friends 一个去中国的机会a chance to travel to China我们去了辽宁省辽阳市 to Liaoning Province, to Liaoyang一个离鞍山40分钟左右的小城市a really small city about 40 minutes from Anshan去一所中学教书to teach English there at a middle school那所中学有一所附属小学Its actually a middle school that had a primary school attached to it我记得他周四交给我这份工作I remember clearly that he offered me this job on a Thursday周二我就已经站在教室里开始上课了and by Tuesday you are standing in the classsroom, teaching English.我说“教”英语，其实差不多是在喊叫I say teaching English, I was more like just close to crying因为我们太不一样了because we were so different有时候你听别人说“我决定迁居到印度”Sometimes you hear people say I decided to move to India或者“我想去日本看看”，“我想去中国”or I wanted to just see Japan, I wanted to come to China但我本来是没想做这些的I had no idea that I wanted to any of that所以这只是机缘巧合So it was just a chance of opportunity也许因为我并没有认真考虑过Probably because that I didnt really think it through只是很自然地有人说“你可以试试”，我就想Naturally its a hey you can try, and I was thinking 是啊，既然他们都去，当然了，我为什么不呢well, if theyll wanna go, sure, why not?事情就是这样And thats what happened.第一次到中国呆了多长时间呢？So how long did it last, for the first visit? 第一次？我想我第一次在中国呆了6个月The first time？I think the first time I was in China was for about 6 months因为我们到达中国时是三月because we arrive in China in March, 三月的东北还特别冷March in Northeast China is extremely cold而在澳大利亚，那是盛夏And also March in Australia is mid of summer 所以气温跨度是从30度到零下20度So it went from 30℃ to