Blog for wuj4

Ever since I've come here, I realized that everyone could become a cook, even a competent one.
Back in China, I never cooked for myself, let alone for my family, which made me panic for a while when I just arrived here. But now I'm confident to say that I can at least survive by myself.

At noon, Zhichao and I cooked noodles and soup for our lunch. I was in charge of the soup and she took care of the noodles. I had bought lots of and various kinds of vegetables from Walmart last time when we went shopping, so it's not so hard for me to make some delicious soup out of all these fresh materials. There's a Chinese saying that "a good cook can't make a good dinner without materials". Fortunately it's not a problem for me, though I'm far beyond a competent cook.

Skill like this is extremely important to a person's life and such skills also include driving, clothe-washing and communicating. Each skill requires adaptation to different environment when there's a need, so it's never wise to say that one has mastered it completely. For example, driving in different countries and even states, such as in America, one has to know the different traffic laws, regulations and rules. If a person breaks the driving laws all the time, he is definitely not a good driver even he has excellent driving "skills".

I think this one-month trip here will absolutely become a step stone for my future life, both physical and psychological. From now on, I'm gonna start to learn cooking and driving and decide what I want to study as my graduate degree.