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A welcome break

Yang Xinru is an English teacher at a high school in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province. In July, the 29-year-old will complete her master's degree in translation.

"It's been very hard to complete the study since I had to work full time. In order to commemorate the two years, I've decided to go to Japan for the graduation trip with my friends," she says.

They will start the 15-day trip in mid-July.

"I really want to experience the scenes that appear in Japanese movies, dramas or cartoons," she says, adding that the cultural differences will offer a chance for her to reflect upon her life.

Besides the rich meaning that graduating students get from their trips, traveling with classmates is first and foremost for fun.

Lu Junying, a 24-year-old in Beijing, says that free time before his graduation two years ago gave him enough time to travel to different places with different people.

The whole class went to Chizhou in Anhui province because it is close to Nanjing, where they studied.