Still a long way to go

Reading the email that Luyuan sent to me. He is looking for an opputunity in Standford, and he want me to give him some advices about his personal statement.
He is a really excellent boy. Reading the PS gave me an terrific feeling about spirit, and also about his wishes.
And also, it made me think about myself again, what kind of life do I want? And also spirit?
I am not good enough, and still, I have a long way to go, to become a excellent personal, in professional field, also in spirit.
Best wishes to Luyuan.
And happy new year to everyone.

Camper

Recently we had a picnic in Taiping valley. To our surprise, the weather here is much colder that we could imagine. Boys carried the tents, and girls carried lighter things like food and cloth. We find a proper place by the river, and encamped there. Boys did almost all the encamping work. They made tent one by one, they even made a little foci for us.

this is our camp place, and our tents.





And they also found lots of fuels We girls began to make barbecue for them, before we come to camp, we girls bought chicken wings, sausages, green peppers, mutton, pork, potatoes, pies and other delicious food. It is my first time cooking in an open fire, and I am really not good at it at all. But all the boys said, the food we made for them is delicious.
It is really too cold to sleep outside the house.








Night in mountain, camper, really very cold. It was the coldest day that I ever had. I cannot sleep at all. Boys gave me their cotton sleeping bags, and they went to sit by the fire, and play chess all night. But still, fro zing.








The next day morning ,we have to cross the river to find we back., but something unexpected happened. The water of the river has raised during the night. It is a really bad news to us. Some of the boys jumped into the river carried all the carriage to the other side of the river. Others tried to find some rocks to put into the river so our girls could come across the river by stepping on the rocks. The other girls was afraid, so I said I’d like to be the first girl to go across the river. The rocks was all covered with thick ice. and suddenly I slid into the river, and I could not stand up. It was really very dangerous. The boy nearest me, jumped into the water at once, ran to me, and held my hand, but it is too slippery and I still could not stand stalely. And I just could hear he order me ’hold my hand and step on my lumber. At last I step on, and the other boys pulled me to the safety place. We both sat on the ground, wet, and laughing. Well also I have bad cold after the camp, but I think it is worth.. I had a wonderful camp that I will always remember as my college years crazy things.


It is the river.

Today is my birthday

Today is my 22 birthday,22 December.

About December 22

In China , December 22 called ‘冬至’,which means winter time.day is the shortest in a year, and night is the longest.

In Chinese culture, in December 22, we should eat porridge,which has all kinds of beans in it. It means each member in our family could live a happy life.

And we also eat dumplings in this day, elder people always tell me that if I do not eat dumplings in December 22, I will have my ears frost bate.I was really afraid of this when I was a little girl, so I always ate a lot .

The only thing I do not like about my birthday is , my birthday is too close to exam.we always have our final term exam in late December of early January .So I could not have party with my friends for my birthday because we are all busy in preparing our exams.

Today is my 22 birthday. And I do not feel very excited about it. These days the only thing keeping in my mind is about my career, finding my job .I found myself is more and more sensitive, and easy to become upside or angry. My boyfriend tried everything to cheer me up , but it doesn’t work .Last night we standing outside of my dorm .I cried ,I said I found it was too hard for me to find a job in Beijing . He could say nothing ,but just a hug .There are many jobs I think I could do very well ,but every time I send Emails to HR . Most of the HR did not answer my Email , And in the mail I received ,they always told me that they wanted a student who is graduated from a university located in Beijing , cause I am not ,so he could not offer me the job although I have the ability to do the work well . That is funny .

Just keep trying.

Each time I wanna give up , I would think about my boyfriend , and then I know ,I will keep trying.

My college

My college was established in 1896, Shanghai, China.
And in 1955, 6 years after 1949 People Republic of China founding, there were badly in need of elites in north China, so my college relocated to Xi'an, which is the ancient capital of China for 6 periods.

It is one of the most famous colleges in China. I am really proud of my college.
This is our motto (left picture), the motto is written in ancient Chinese literature format , in English it means study hard, strong will, honest behavior, love our Country, and be tolerant.


Every year when the spring comes especially in May, sakura(a kind of flower) will come out. The whole school will be covered in pink, when breeze comes, petals flying in the wind, really beautiful.









And this is the library of our college, called Qian Xue Sen library,

t o mark our famous schoolmate Xuesen Qian.
Because of his research, China know more about nuclear.

Painful

I feel really painful these days.
Finding a job in Beijing is too hard for me.
Really horrible.
Just because I am insist on never writing things that I hadn't done in my resume,
few of these company want to give me the chance to have the paper test.
Really upside.
And really painful.
I just wanna go to Beijing, living with my boyfriend.
Is it impossible?
Nevertheless I will try again.
More and more classmates found good jobs they like, but I still keep trying.
Hi Clare, never give up!!
You could live the life that you are dreaming for~

Our Little Dog

There is always a litter wild dog in my college.
We loved him very much.
He has no host, but we are all his friends.
Every morning, he would standing on our road to school, waiting for us.
And we always give him some mike, meat, Chinese baozi, or other food that he likes.




Recently he and his wife have three babies. We are thinking about their names.
what do you think?

A Travel In ShanXi

I love traveling, and recently I went Dang village.
Dang village is located in northeast Shannxi, China. Famous for it's old houses that built in Ming and Qing period.
I loved the village as I first saw it.
Ancient houses with wooden door with carves on it. Each house has it's own name and meaning like '耕读','登科', which means ' working and studying ' and ' get qualifications ' (I don't know the translation is correct or not)
These are some pictures about these.

Ancient Chinese door with copper lock on it.
It make me feel that I could touch the history of China.


















Another door that has beautiful carves on it .
These carves in china means '琴棋书画' which in English means 'Music Chess literature & art '(right picture)










There is a special heater on the main road of the village. The villagers told me that, the only thing that the burnt in the heater is useless paper that was written by people after studying.
Two big Chinese characters on it '惜字'(left pic)















And the most interesting thing that I found in the village is a well. It is still been used.(right pic)











There is also a tower in the village primary school called '文曲星' means the god of literature.(left picture)



















The only thing that I do not like in the village is a building that I do not know how to express in English. In Chinese it called'贞洁牌坊'. If a widow do not marry again, single all her life. She has the eligible to build a building in her village.
And it is the greatest honor for a women.
I don't like it at all.
I think if her husband loved her deeply, he would not want her to be lonely all though her life. (right picture)











Some other pictures about the village.

Really upside day

I am really under high pressure these days.
It is too hard for me to make every body feel satisfied. Especially myself.
It just seems that the best result for me is the company could send me offer, then, everything gets a happy ending.
Or, I have to lose something. Either myself or my boyfriend.
Still I do not wanna be a girl that was doing nothing just staying at home.
And also, I do not wanna get a low paying job that I do not like, and using the money my boyfriend gives me.
I wanna have my own career, an interesting and challenging job, a lot of friends and associates, spend the money that I earned on all the things I like.
And what is the most important, living with my boyfriend happily.
Secretly, he was the man that I wanna marry.
But all these would happen after I get my offer.
And I have to wait now, with great fear.
Just wait.
Is that my destiny?

Welcome to my world

It is my first time trying to create an English blog.
And as my English it not that good, there maybe a lot of mistakes.
Please tell me if you find some, I will correct them at once.
And I really appreciate your help.