‘For love’: China student makes weekly Australia trips for class, returns home to see partner
Master’s degree student goes extra mile between continents because he misses his girlfriend and China hometown food
A Chinese international student in Australia commuted between two countries weekly for three months so that he could be physically together with his girlfriend, astonishing many people online.
Xu Guangli, 28, travelled between his home in eastern China’s Shandong province and the RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, where he studies arts management, every week for 11 weeks from August to October.
Each return trip took him three days in total.
He usually left home in third-tier city Dezhou at 7am to the capital city Jinan where there is an airport, took a layover flight to Melbourne and arrived the next day for a class, and went back home on the third day.
Xu told Shandong newspaper Dazhong Daily it was the last semester of his master’s degree studies, and he only needed to do one class a week to meet the graduation standard.
More importantly, his girlfriend finished her studies in Australia in the summer and returned to China, so Xu decided to commute between China and Australia for love.
