Besides being a loving mother, she was provided the gifts to be a successful and smart woman by the education and upbringing she gained. Undoubtedly, she is proud of her work now and also her ability to write beautiful English sentences. She brought us to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and talked with us a lot about histories and cultures of both America and China. She was a quick learner, Every time she received interesting information from us, she would respond with confidence ‘Get ya!’ When the assistant in the cosmetic shop kept mistaking us for Japanese, she almost lost her temper. ‘ I don’t understand why people always mix up Chinese, Japanese and Korean! I can tell clearly!’ She complained to us.
One thing that learned from Lisa is that one should try to communicate with others, even strangers, as more as possible to make things favorable, which she called ‘doing some public relations’. In the museum, she talked with the ticket checker; she talked with the guard; she talked with the receptionist; she talked with almost everyone she met, friendly and politely. According to Lisa, she used to be very shy but for her job was closely associated with public relations, she consciously tried to be more talkative in front of everyone, even somebody who she would meet only for couple of seconds and perhaps would never meet again! I realized that was how to set a ‘net work’ in our life, which may be more helpful than we expect.
Lisa and me
the exhibit in the museum