Blog for jiangm

it's the first day i stay in vcu. however, after so many hour's voyage, i still cannot get avoid of the choirs in model united nations association in bfsu. because today i got a message that i had to hand in the project for the next semester before August. what a disappointed news! but still, i decided to ask for help of my mun members in china. and i believe that they will finish the job satisfactorily.

now, it's better to come to the vcu topic. i don't know how to describe the feeling of the first visit to the usa, maybe a little bit excited and even lonely. there are only two students per room, which is very different from the situation in china, where we have 4 to 8 people per room. what's worse, everything in the dorm is white, just like in the hospital. i don't like it, anyway. still, the temperature, which disturbs many of us last night, is so low...which makes me feel desperate deeper.

but still, the passion of the receivers warms up my loneliness a lot, and we have a good day with Lisa. after the brunch, we visited the hibbs building, where we will have classes and lectures in the following 3weeks, the lab, where we have to write the blog everyday, some shops , some departments, churches and ice cream shops. i very appreciate the environment around. the big trees, the clean air and the quiet street give me an excellent expression of the small city.

because of the time limit, i have to stop here. i like the place, the quiet region.

Tired now...

Today is the second day in VCU, and I get homesick more and more seriously.

The food here is strange, so we have to cook. This lunch, after several short presentations of the officers in VCU, was prepared all by us. An An made the porridge, Sun Yu made the noodles and I made the vegetables and the eggs. Although with some burned leaves, we still enjoyed the meal and they two encouraged a lot because I over added the sauce in the vegetable and over did the salt in the eggs…

Actually, I don’t very much like the life here, and I’m easy to get tired everyday. Really want somebody to help me; because I cannot manage the life here, it’s so hard…

However, the tour around the city shows me another charming aspect of the small city. The capital is very beautiful and the history is very long. A visitor to the capital from France in 1796 said that, “this house is, beyond comparison, the finest, the most noble, and the greatest in all America.” It reveals the greatness of the capital building both in politics and architecture.

But still, I feel lost when I get in touch with the friends in China. I don’t know what I will get from this project, and I begin to wonder is it just a waste of time and a waste of money. Hope that the lectures from tomorrow on will bring me a surprise and that I can be accustomed to this small city and the big university.

1.You once said that your ideal is to be a doctor, why do you hate the environment?
You are too sensitive a girl, easily feel uncomfortable. Mark my words every time you feel bad, come to your friends, cook together, discuss pretty boys,etc. Let them drive away your loneliness
Or you can send messages to me. Have a nice day

2.Don't be so blue, i am always available here to support you

it is a big chance to show your cooking skills, "born-good-mother"

3."Miss you all" , I thought you miss me only.
Joking........
Keep doing this, I promise I will read carefully all your articles and try every efforts to give my exact feelings back to you.
Enjoying your stay in the US.......

4.You use leaves to cook meal??
Where the hell are the cooking equipments?
You told me that you can cook everything, why do you "over add the sauce in the vegetable and over do the salt in the eggs… " ,thus encourage your peers?

Little sweet liar

5.Sorry I misunderstood the words "burned leaves" previously, cos i scanned it in a hurry at our MUN office this afternoon. Now i am here to pay a careful read.
Poor children, took porridge as lunch. If the food is truly unacceptable, grab others...
Take care....

these are the comments from one of my friends, the last comment makes me laughing for a long time. maybe only him can comfort me now. miss you~~

i didn't have lunch today, there are two stupid reasons, no time and no appetite.

this noon, we are due to get our VCU cards, but there is something wrong with my ID, so i have to wait till one of the interns got connect with the official and told me what to do next. i waited there impatiently because it had spoiled all my plan this day, when we decided to cook inside our dormitory. after the intern got the solution, which was just "try again", i thought that i could try immediately, however, she told me to be in the queue. gosh! there were almost 20 persons in front of me and i had been in the queue when i should be. so i said to her that i'd like to come another time and didn't want to waste time there.

maybe this is another culture gap and i have to understand it.

so, i say sorry to the intern for my bad manner today...

today i enjoyed the lecture this afternoon.

at first, i have to announce that the professor is so cute...
then, the information and arguments i learned form this professor is renewable, especially the information about Vietnam war.

however, what is more important is that he makes me rethink about the skill to make a speech in front of many people. how to attract the audience attention is really a big skill. so i ask one of the teachers for help, and hope that the tips will be useful.

1. As soon as possible, do the first practice. This is best right after class.

2. Before the day is done, do another practice. Remember to Keep Score.

3. After a few days, do your third practice. At this practice you might be going over the whole week's lectures.

4. Stretch out your practice sessions as you go, forcing yourself to remember the key points for longer and longer periods.

5. Soon you will note that you have several consecutive ticks beside many items, and there may be some that you are finding hard to remember. These problem items probably are unclear to you, and you should do what you need to clarify the information. Perhaps you can consult the text or ask your professor for more memorable information or clarification.

6. Once you have several consecutive ticks for each item, you've got it all learned! One more review before the exam will probably be sufficient.

It’s really a day that challenged my limitations.

The first limitation is my energy.

I don’t know what’s wrong with my energy, because I always feel tired earlier and easier than the others. So I just adapt to the situation and never shop or play over 3 hours, which is my limitation. However, that day, I even walked from England to France and then Germany and then Italy and then Ireland. it cost my 6 hours in total...oh my feet...

The second challenge is my courage.

the exciting games in that garden frightened me a lot at first, but i didn't want to waste time, so, i began to persuade myself to go with other people. after several times, i even became excited as the games...

however, i spent an excellent day there.

After the exciting tour in Busch garden, we came to the Virginia Beach in the late afternoon. It’s amazing that this beach is very much like my hometown, which is in the same position on the other half of the earth. Facing the Atlantic Ocean, just as the scene that I looked at the Pacific Ocean at home, I felt familiar with the place and couldn’t help go into the water to feel the fragment of the great sea.

In fact, I am not a good swimmer because I was born to be afraid of the water, which I cannot control when I felt choked every time in the liquid. So I just sat on the soft, wet sand and enjoyed the cookies prepared by our interns, whose utmost attention was another aspect that touches me deeply in VCU.
There was an example, July 21 was my 20th birthday, and it was exactly the day we came to VA beach. Brian and Mitchell brought us, Meng, Zhang, Xie and me, to the DQ to taste the ice-cream, which was the favorite of Chen Meng, to celebrate my birthday. And then, we six came to the beach, having a nice, happy walk there. That night, the fulfillment and happiness grew up and will stay for a long time.

Thanks Brian, and thanks Mitchell. Also, thanks Meng, Zhang and Xie

i just came back from Virginia beach, where, disappointingly, doesn't have internet access.
so i cannot reply your letters and wishes earlier.

however, i have a nice vacation there!

en...I've seen the wishes you send to me, thanks a lot~~

and best wishes to you all~
hope you can enter my blog, i miss you all.

These days my mind began to wander about and doubted what job could suit me. And then the answer came out still “doctor”, which was far away a dream, though, because my major is international communication and journalism in Beijing Foreign Studies University. i began to think about it because i read a textbook from john...

However, I can’t blame anybody, including myself and my mother. I don’t realize the existence during the past nineteen years because of the upper hand my mother put upon. You can’t believe that there could be a girl never choosing her own underclothes, never deciding her cosmetics and never arguing for her dream to be a doctor when the mother decided her to be a journalist, which she loathed deep, let alone the other big issues. I am not able to decide, choose and protest. So, I can’t blame such a disable fool. Contradictorily, I can’t blame mother because she make those excellent decisions out of her love to me. How dare I blame a person loving me so much!

And now, I don’t know what to do, without anybody understanding me. The only human being once understood me is the most distant one in my world, dreaming her daughter will became a great woman soon. Others, busy doing their own business, don’t have the obligation to listen to my useless complaint. Madly, lonely, insensitively, I can only be suffering while wrenching myself ahead.

Actually, I am inclined to give up. But, what will be left for me without my aimless struggle.

At least, now, I have a so-called promising future and my mother can be proud of my so-called achievement.

A person who once loses the ego, or never has the ego, can do nothing that makes him or her happy. His or her whole life is destined for failure and pain.

I have just read an article in fortune entitled China’s new Culture Revolution, which reveals a renewable version of Chinese in foreigners’ eyes.

these days, we are concentrating on the different cultures between china and America. but i found that many of the Chinese students tended to criticized and complained the Chinese nowadays situation. However, on the contrary,more and more Chinese elites find the attractiveness in our culture heritages while we know more about the world, and at the same time, just as Rui Chenggang put it: once, we are too eager to show we are a part of the world, but things are changing, we now need to preserve our own cultural heritage.

There are 3 examples that we should learn from.

Rui chenggang, the host of a nightly TV show called "BizChina”, and his endeavors to oust famous coffee chain Starbucks' store from the Forbidden City which has always been representing the ultimate power and glory of this county, set a good example to us.

And Zhang Lan, owning the most hip restaurant in China the Lan Club in Beijing, is founder of the successful South Beauty restaurant chain. Zhang said, "Chinese cuisine always had everything, nutrition- and taste-wise, but what was lacking was the packaging. People in China didn't know how to present it. I have changed that."

There's no clearer example of adapting to Chineseness than Yum Brands . Sam Su, president of Yum's China division, came up with the idea of fast-food Chinese restaurants and now has seven in Shanghai. "The sense we want to give people is that finally we have our own fast food."

But still, we have to admit that there are still some misunderstandings among the majority. Culture and heritage are so leaden for ordinary people, because they are not as fashionable as super girls or the price of the stocks. That is to say, we must make our culture and heritage fashionable if we can’t force the people to pay attention to the dull things. How to make them fashionable? That needs all the fashionable brands and fashionable celebrities to lead the way and then the majority can have more information through the threading.

Let’s bear in mind: Followers will not be paid respects, while uniqueness will.