Zixuan Liu
She passed an empty crossroads , and behind her was a welcome advertisement of the university .
But from March 16 , the University of Liverpool has cancelled all offline classes . Teaching buildings have been closed , so international students like Jie no longer need to stay .
“ I had planned to stay here during the summer vacation and earn money for postgraduate study .” She has received an offer from the University of Sheffield , but her enrollment might become a problem .
There were 220,000 Chinese students studying in the UK , and they were all standing at the crossroads of choosing to leave or stay .
But there is a Chinese idiom : “ Falling leaves return to their roots ”, which refers to people who have spent years living away from their hometowns and will eventually return to where they came from .
“ After the COVID-19 outbreak in the UK , I think China is the safest place in the world , or home is the safest place in the world . I want to go home as soon as possible ,” Jie said .
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