A strange trip

If you go to 296 miles NE from Columbus, Ohio, you are going to get a beautiful place. This place is known as Niagara Falls. Niagara fall is located a border of America and Canada. It is huge movable water, and the water makes a big waterfall. It is not stagnant water like lakes, sea; oceans.It is look like a river. When the water comes from the top fall down to the bottom, it makes a white pleasant fume. After I introduce this place, let me tell you what went on at that time.

        It was summer time. I packed and loaded our luggages at the top my car. My family and my family members started our trip from Columbus, Ohio around 12:00 pm .I took 71N and drove the exact speed limit towards Canada. After 5:00 hours drive we took a rest at a park and ate our packed traditional food .the name the food is’ enjera bedoro watt’ (enjera means a flat bread and doro wat means chicken stew.) 15 minutes later we started our journey. After driving 5 hours, I saw beautiful green forests and grape farms beside the road.

      Now the time is 8:45 pm and the GPS said 10miles left reach to Canada. After 7 minute drive I saw a lot of cars stopped and the cars moved slowly turn by turn. It was American’s and Canadian’s boarder check point.

After waiting for several minutes, an old women officer said loudly I.D.please.I gave her 8 I.D.s...She stared at me and said how many people are there inside the car?’

I say 8 mom.2 men, 2 women 1 girl, 1 boy and 2 infants.

She said ‘open the window ‘

I did open.  Then she shouted at me and she said ‘my goodness!’Two infant and two kids without car seats and 8 people in a small car? Pull over your car and park at spot # 11

 I parked and waited for her .Ten minutes later she came with another a women officer and took me into an empty room .And the women asked me that ‘where are you going now’?

Visit Canada

How long have you been America?

Seven years

She said okay and out the room .after five minutes she came back again. This is a big crime I will not send a jail because of these family but this is your ticket and then she said go.

          I was never scared like this before in my life.  After being in jail for one hour I crossed to Niagara city with $ 150 dollar fine ticket. We reached our reserved hotel around 10:10.The next morning we went to water fall and we rode a boat and we visited the Niagara fall. We then took a bus and visited historical places. We had a lot of fun. Even if I were our plan, still I didn’t feel good. I had a lot of trip and fun around the world, but I never got a trouble like this before. That’s why I said unpleasant trip.

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The wordless friendship
It is hard to tell when and where I read a sentence which touches me even repeat thousand times in my heart. It is said, “Friend is a person who comfort us even no communication between us”. The similar situation happened to linzi and me. We feel no awkwardness because we deeply know that our friendship is built upon trust from within instead of words.
Like normal friend around the world, we are cheek by jowl showing up in the same place, attending activities, joking with each other, staying up late for assignment and sharing secret. We first met at the ice-cream social. Magically, we encountered each other the first second we both into each other’s sight immediately without any difficulties. Although we admit that the phone call helped us recognize each other, we tend to believe it’s a miracle. However, treasure follow suffer. I will never forget the hard time with spent together. In the first week I came to OSU, I was attacked by the most serious disease I had ever had—homesickness. It never rains but it pours. Someone broke up with me. I was so depress that even think about returned to China leaving this sad place. However, she always companied me with her sunshine-like smile when I experience the turning point in my life. We talk heart by heart from childhood to present, form now to future. We share the confusions about the new environment here, complain about the Communication barrier with different language, regret the time we waste, and make a wish for a better tomorrow. The communication distracted me and diminished my homesickness. When I behaved negatively, she just hugged me like my mother and encourage me never be afraid because she is with me. As the time passes by, there is more smile flow on my face. Finally, I was cured. Thanks for my doctor—linzi.
As every can predict, we learn as our friendship grow. Although we can understand each other without words, we can’t avoid conflict. The closer our relationship is, the more time we want spend together. We ate together, exercise together, and study together. Sometimes, she had to attend academic activities. I still angry at her, although I know she is busy. My poor friend! She not only has to face me all the time, but also tolerated my anger with no reason. Once, I was angered just because she didn’t answer my phone call. I would shout at her. However, she just silent and require talk to me with serious tone. After the phone call over, I suddenly regretted what I had done and the attitude I treat her. The next day, we had deep discussion. She didn’t blame for me how self-willed I am instead she help me analyze my time. She accounted for every minute I waste for calling and searching someone with me. She said that I shouldn’t use so much time just because I don’t want feel lonely. We grow up though this talk. We can handle problems by ourselves and manger time. At that time, I totally understood what a true friend should be. To tell the truth, I never lack an emotion called friendship, but the friendship is special.

Blog 4 of digital story



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The picture above this page is a lecture of OSU. The reason of why I choose this photo is that study problem is the biggest trouble I met in America. And my digital story is mainly talking about what problems I faced and how did I solve it.

As any body knows, Chinese education is totally different from American education, not only in teaching method, but also in educational system. So I did not use to study in here when I first came. For example, in China, our courses were already selected by advisors and professors. We did not have right to choose what we want to learn. As a result, many students always skipped classes, which they were not interested. Also, our schedule is not as tight as American university’s class schedule, and we do not have much homework like American university. Therefore, many students in university did not like study hard. They always stayed in dorm to play computer games. Moreover, we did not emphasize plagiarism and copyright in China, so many students liked to work together to finish homework, or just copied their classmates’ assignments. In my perspective, I believe there is a bad phenomenon in Chinese university education because it cultivated a bad study habit for college students. 

However, after studied two years in Chinese university, when I came here, I did not adapt the way of study in America. For instance, there is too much homework, and the study schedule is tight, which is different from my previous school. I suffer great pressure from study. Also, I cannot exactly understand what professor said in class, especially when the professors speak quickly. And some of them have an accent that severely affects my understanding. Also, I should be careful to write an essay here because if I am not right to cite other people’s articles, I will get involved in plagiarism problem.

But now, my friends gave me lots of advices. I learned many useful tips of study. I became gradually suiting study in here.

The most happy time-BLOG 4 juming li

                                                 
                                                       The most happy time
My high school is life is an turning point in my life.I  have ever go through the High school exam. This exam is one of  the most difficult exam all over the world. Because Chinese high school student study the most difficult  math, physics and biology and so on. Every student do want go through that life . The reason that we should work hard everyday and we should go on one year. Try our best for our same goals  .The goal is a good university in China. When the high school exam over, I just say everything will be better next day and my university is Harbin industry university. Maybe Chinese student have ever heard this university.
When the high school life over. My university life is beginning. I like university life because  everyday is flexible and i can do everything if i want. My parents does not let me study everyday. I consider that my Chinese university life it is my best time in that time. With the time go by I found i do not have the goals. My day life is play computer and play basketball and so on. At that time i want to go back the high school time because i can work hard every time  for one goal. But the time is in the past. I can not go back. So i choose go abroad to continue my learning life.
When i decide to go abroad i found my life have a goal is the IBT. This exam is hard for me the reason that i have not touch English after i graduated form the high school. When 3 months go by my IBT grade is come out. The score is 84 . Probably this score is not high enough but i try my best in that time. When it over my U.S life is beginning. I like the U.S life although everyday is tired but i have my goal i can work hard every day until the dream come true.
Life need the goals I will i will work hard from this time.

Digital story second draft

Weifang is in the middle of Shandong province, China. Favorable geographical position is relatively, the communications is very convenient. Thus, when I want to go somewhere, I can get here easily. Weifang is the city where I grew up. I love it although it is a small city. Living there makes me very happy because there a lot of my favorite things.
There are many special local products: Folk Handicrafts, characteristic foods, tourist sites and so on. The most famous Folk Handicrafts includes that the woodblock painting of Yangjiabu, paper cutting in Gaomi and kites. These items are all Folk Art. Kite-flying is a traditional custom in Weifang. There are lots kinds of style of weifang kites. When I was child my grandfather taught me how to make the simple kites and fly them. In an open field, when I first time running against the wind and fly my kite into the air. I feel very happy and achievability. My heart also follows the kite fly in the sky. It is so free and makes me relax. Weifang has held the International Kite Festival every year in April. The International Kite Festival is just held in Weifang all over the world. At this time numerous kite lovers from all over the world go there to fly their own kites. So Weifang Kites more and more famous in China and abroad. Thus Weifang is also known as the “World Kite Capital”. In the middle of the city is built the “world kite capital commemoration square”.
The characteristics foods are too many to enumerate, such as Overturned Pot, green radish and so on. The most noteworthy is the weifang green radish. This green radish is a unique variety in Weifang. Cultivation has 400 years of history. It is very beneficial for our health. The green radish has lots of vitamins. Eating it frequently could get rid of sputum, clear away heat and toxic material, promote digestion and so on. Especially healthy is eat radish and drink teas at the same time. These foods are all very delicious. When my classmates study in other city, they always state that they miss these foods a lot.
Weifang has several famous tourist sites: Fuhua amusement park, the world kite capital commemoration square, Weifang World Kite Museum and so on. My favorite one is Fuhua amusement park. There is roller coaster, Ferris wheel, carrousel, ghost house, pirate ship more than 30 attractions. Holiday time, I will go here with my best friends. We will play every project. Even some of these will be make us feel afraid. Here let us forget troubles and leave happy memories.
The features of weifang are too much. These are a small part of it. I hope you will like it and visit it someday. If you want know it more, welcome to my home----weifang.

blog 4 2nd draft digital story

Basketball in my live

Basketball originated in the United States. Basketball was invented by James Naismith who work in a training physical school. He found that because of cold weather, many people lack of indoor exercise. In 1915 the United States make a unified national basketball competition rules, and translated into many languages, issued to the world.. In 1932, was born in the United States the FIBA basketball rules of the university to use as the foundation, established the first of the unity of the competition rules. With the development of the basketball, Site and equipment improved and perfected, the rule is also constantly changes, now we have 61 rules and 57 gesture figures. 

Many people would ask me, why basketball so popular in China. From my opinion, Relative to football, basketball need less people and little space. For new recruit it's easy to learn, you need run and help you teammate to shoot the ball. Also it's a attractive sport for girls, in their minds the guys who play in the ground is very cool! Anther important reason is the basketball shoes is very popular in china, as long as you play basketball in china, you must can call all of these shoes name, even though you can't play basketball. It's a culture in china not sport.

In my childhood, i very like watch cartoon on TV, a name called "SLAM DUNK" cartoon appeared with witty language, humorous story, funny expression. Obviously, I was deeply attracted by this cartoon. Due to excellent motor nerve and physical quality, I was elected to the basketball team. At that time, I have a dream to became a professional basketball player. Until to high school i leave my team, because of strain studies and height of restraint. Now I just a person who like this game and play with my friends twice a week. I begin to pay close attention to the NBA my junior high school period. It was a great show, I feel the whole class boys are all watching the game and discussing the NBA stars. My favorite star is the LA lakers team's Kobe Bryant, he always win a champion in NBA. Without a doubt, he is a famous player in NBA and some of my basketball skills is to learn from him. All is his poster in my wall in my room. Now I am study in American, that is to say, I can go to see him at ground in gym. How excited!

For me, basketball is a good way to make friends with strangers. In my opinion, ,most people play the game of basketball is outgoing personality, with the increase of the practice, more understanding for each other. we have same topic to take with each other when we have a rest, in the ground we are the same team and we have only one goal that is win this game! On the other hand, that is a way to relieve stress for me. When I play basketball, in my eyes only have ball and hoop. It can make me forget all the things except basketball. Finally I wish everybody do more exercise,and maintain a good body.

OUR RIGHT TO LIVE IN PEACE

In my country, Iraq, the freedom to practice your own worship is an
important issue.
Why are terrorists killing Shiaa, Christians and Yazidi?
The Islam was separated
mainly after the passing away of our prophet Mohammed .Then, it divided mainly into
two parts: Shiaa and Sunni. Shiaa are the people who believe
that the cousin of our prophet should be the leader behind him because the
prophet announced that before his death .On the other hand Sunni are the people
who believe that the close friends of the prophets are right to be the leader
of the Islamic state at that time. This issue has grown to be a serious problem
with time. Therefore the religious differences between the people in my country
make them hate each other and they became ignorant about the human right to
make their own religious ritual …
In 20th century, intellectual changes in the Sunni’s belief
produce a bloody group called Wahhabism,
which are very bloody people so they start to kill anyone who don’t believe in their intellectuals like shiaa, christians and Yazidi
. They consider them unbeliever; as a result, sunni youth are believing that bombing shiaa, Christians and yazidi while doing their ritual is right.
Shiaa are simple people and they are having their own belief.
Although I’m shiaa , I’m little progressive
person ‘cause I’m not believing in the shiaa’s religious ritual but that dosen’t
mean I have the right to bombing them and killing them . Almost all the Sunni
are accusing Shiaa of being wrong
and unbelievers (infidel) and they are supported by the biggest and the richest
country in that area which is Saudi Arabia so Saudi Arabia are funding the
terrorists to go to Iraq and bombing Iraqi .Consequently, publicly, their elders
(Sheikh) at the mosques are urging Sunni’s youth in Saudi Arabia and Syria and
Afghanistan (any Sunni from
different counties to go to Iraq to kill Shiaa.)
All the Iraqi and especially Shiaa are victims of terrorist and the life was horrible , so I was
terrified that i would be bombed or
kidnapped or any of the Sunni’s and Shiaa’s Militias will stop me in the
road and ask about my identity, and if they were Sunni Militias, I will be
killed because Iam Shiaa . If you are
Sunni and Shiaa’s Militias stopped you,they will kill you because your
identity says that you are Sunni; if I was lucky and no one stopped me there will
be a possibility to be bombed because I
was using the public transportation which is the main target of torrerists attacks and getting
killed is sometimes better than suffering in the hospitals without proper
medical assistance because the victims will be disfigured for the rest of their life. I met many
disfigured people.Now, it is impossible to solve that problem between the Sunni
and the Shiaa in my country because everyone lost a friend or classmate or family
member. Most of the women are widowed at young age and there are a lot of orphans.
If I have power I will
remove the authority in the Saudi Arabia
and al- Wahhabism in Afghanistan and then the world will be
in peace.

Fight for Cantonese

I was born in China, however my mother language isn’t Mandarin but Cantonese. Cantonese originated in Guangdong Province in the south of China. It is a language spoken by people mainly in Canton (my hometown), Hong Kong, and Macau. Also, it is widely used in overseas Chinese communities in Southeast Asia, the United States, Canada, Peru, Cuba, Panama, Australia, and New Zealand, as well as part of European ^[1]. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese)

Mandarin is known as the standard language of Chinese. It is spoken in most of the area of China. Cantonese shares most of the vocabulary with Mandarin. But the two languages are distinguishable because of the pronunciation and grammar. The most apparent difference between Cantonese and Mandarin is how the spoken word is written. With Mandarin the spoken words are written as such, while with Cantonese there may not be direct written words matching what was said. For example, in Mandarin “晚安” means “Good night.” While in Cantonese, we said “早抖”. That sounds quite different.

Cantonese and Mandarin, as languages, have their own characteristics and share the respect. However, Chinese government somehow wants to resist the languages that are used by indigenous peoples and promote Mandarin. It seems to combine politics with language and culture. Cantonese’s existence is threatened by some regulation published by Chinese government. It says that dialect cannot be used in local TV and radio programs without permit of the state administration of radio film and television. It implies that dialect (especially Cantonese) will be strictly resisted and gradually disappear from the mass media. Also, some primary and middle schools began to limit student from using Cantonese in daily life.

I have spoken Cantonese for more than 20 years, but I cannot find the conflict between Cantonese and Mandarin. Teachers use Mandarin during the class and we students speak Cantonese unless there is someone who cannot understand it. At home, I definitely use Cantonese because my grandparents only know a little bit of Mandarin. So I should take the responsibility to protect our local culture and language since it means a lot to my life. I participated in a demonstration in Jiangnanxi Road, which is a popular shopping street in Guangzhou in July 25^th, 2010. We were shouting our slogan “Cantonese is mine! Get out government!” and singing Cantonese songs. I still remembered the time I was standing in a square with lots of people who came to support the leaders and keep them away from the cops. An old man in the crowd kept telling us Cantonese’s stories and encouraged us young people to inherit our language. This demonstration is defined as illegal by government so police took measures to separate us. They established a wall with their bodies and tried to disperse the crowd. To fight for our rights, we kept everyone close enough and waited for the journalists to record and publish our appeal.

I am not trying to resist Mandarin because I am also a Mandarin speaker and I have learned it for more than 10 years. What I want to say is that we need to show our respect to others. We just want to speak our language. No politics.

[1] From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese

work experience in Iraq

I will point
out for the facts my experience during the period confined between 2003 and
2009. Where it was at that time, the beginning of new Iraq .After the overthrow
the dictatorship in Iraq and the liberation of the country, that was obtained
by the United States army and coalition force .In Iraq, the life turned, from
the state of fear and tyranny, injustice, oppression and deprivation to the
situation of democracy and freedom.
I worked as an interpreter for U.S army for 7
years and that gave me experience that not any one of Iraqi people can get it.
Then one of the most important things that I had done in that job was the
opportunity to help the oppressed people. That used to lived under the fear of
terrorism. Those people were the victims of the sectarian violence.

Object of the story

Access to the personal experiences of the negative and positive aspects .In order to the
benefit of others.

Display story
After the dictator Saddam Hussein regime fell in Iraq .After that most of Iraqis felt
relieved and freedom from slavery. Many of Iraqis they greeted a coalition
force and U.S army for their work. They help Iraqis to get rid of the
authoritarian regime .A lot of Iraqis were quick to provide support to the U.S
army. I was one of these Iraqis. I applied for work as interpreter with U.S
forces and actually they accepted me after passing the exam, in titian or L-3 Company.
This is company responsible for designation interpreter with army, because we
were sub-contracts, and I joined with one of the military units.
The first business day

The first day of work for me was very critical as the U.S rhetoric in English is fast,
which requires me to listen carefully for the purpose of understanding speech
and then arrange answer in English. I
went to military foundation in first day, I met the officer team. He told me
let me show you the team members, they were set in cafeteria, when I came to
them I said “hi guys” they said “hi”, one of them said “what’s up”. At that time,
I stopped 30 sec to think what’s he mean then I look up to ceiling, they started
laughing .After that, they told me don’t worry you will learn ,we will help you
.After a few days was able to know a lot of those terms . I didn’t forget the
brotherhood of soldiers in to help facilitate the task of learning for life and
language of militarism.

Exchange of experience and mutual understanding

Actually, some of my friends of soldiers asked me how to deal with people, men, women and
children. I explained to them that
people respect them and consider them as friends. The important issue is to
deal with women because Iraq is Muslim country and our traditions of not joking
with women, because that is forbidden in Islam and consider it flirting with
women with no prior knowledge of it had committed a crime morally so we have to
respect these traditions, because they strengthen the relationship between
soldiers and Iraqi civil society. Our duty requires the inspection of women we
should be use one of the women, whether American or Iraqi working with
coalition force…..this is the advice was important that soldiers learned and
work out
As for my part.
I have learned a lot first of all the language and second how to keep secrets,
because it many cost us our lives. As I learned respect for time and work and
patience in critical situations and activity. The time we, as Iraqis don't care to time or the sincerity and hard work, because most Iraqis were deprived jobs and who have had the work , they are not respect time. And difficult situations that I don't forget is that I could with my group of soldiers was a terrible day is full of dangers and difficulties, because in this day been
arrested one of al-Qaeda terrorist in Iraq. when we went to the area located
where the person wanted was three o'clock Am . When we entered the area we were
to the heavy fire by terrorist groups.During that obtained exploded a bomb was
planted on the side of the road,This resulted of the explosion make Damage to a
U.S. convoy cars .After tha theU.S.forces respond to these terrorist groups and killed many of them with the support of
helicopters .The operation completed successfully after the arrest of terrorist
elements. That day was hard and tiring but at the same time gained new things I
did not know the courage to take risks .I chose this story to let my friends
know on the type of risk experienced by soldiers during the war and high spirits
enjoyed by the soldiers of the Hola's determination to defend freedom and
humanity against the risks faced by the peoples

Blog 4: Days I remembered in my heart forever

I never forgot days I spend in my senior high school, Beizhen senior high school, where I got through the most unforgettable and meaningful days in my life.

In China, if we want to go to a university, we must attend a test named Gaokao, which is the only reason for us to go to high school. Due to the huge number of people in China, we must make more efforts to achieve better grades to be enrolled by a better college. It is the same ideality that makes us band together and encourage each other, which knits the most beautiful memories in my life.

On the first day I went to school, military training, I start the first thing in high school. This is our tradition for every new student in order to strengthen our souls and increase our stamina. During the first several days, we couldn’t bear strict requirements of officers and the extremely hot weather. But when I complained about the bad weather and uncomfortable physics, my classmate gave me a warm embrace as family members and companied with me to spend the toughest days. From then on, we forged profound friendships.

Then, I started the formal study life. I can’t forget those classes. At that time, I might like a course only because of a beautiful or handsome teacher. I would concentrate on this teacher’s class, while I perhaps dozed in other classes. When my teacher found I was sleepy, he would deliberately ask me a simple question. Of course, I didn’t know the answer because I didn’t listen to him at all. At this time, my classmates usually told me the solution in a low voice. Then, I could answer the question easily. But it did not always work. Sometimes, my teacher warned my surrounding classmates “ keep quiet!”. I still can’t forget the scene of causing my teachers angry due to my naivete.

I can’t forget my friends during those years. At that time, we have a relationship called desk- mate. I spent most of my time with my desk-mate. She knew all my small secrets, and keep secrets for me. I can tell her all my experience and feelings. For example, I might gossip about a handsome boy with her. I can tell her how I love the boy, and how I make a chance to meet with the boy. She would give me many cute ideas about how to know more about the boy and how to get along with the boy. My desk –mate knew all my little secrets and thought that others’ didn’t know, shared my every happiness, and gave me shoulder when I felt down. She seems a sister for me who companied me get through the most beautiful green age.

I can’t forget times that we fought for the same goal day and night. I can’t forget words that gave me endless confidence when I faced on difficulties. I can’t forget cheers when we had excellent performance on Sports Competitions. I can’t forget congratulations when I received the acceptance letter of a college. I can’t forget you, my friends, my beautiful high school days.

second draft "The Reason I'm Here in the USA"

To be honest, I wasn’t the one who made the decision to be here in USA. It started because of my dad. When I was in ninth grade, my father told me to be prepared to study abroad. When I heard it, I was crushed and I absolutely refused this idea. I couldn’t bare the thought of leaving all my friends and my happy carefree life in Thailand. I had many arguments with my dad all of which were worthless because as the child of an Asian father, who has complete control over the decisions of his children, I had to accept all of his commands. I didn’t understand him at all, I was happy with my life and everything there. I had a goodbye party with my friends, it was sad, everyone was crying because no one wanted me to leave as well. Three days after the party, I was on the plane, on the way to my new life where I’d have nothing.

I started my new life as a sophomore at a boarding school in Boca Raton, Florida. I felt like I was lost in a place that I had no idea about. I was thrown into a situation that was foreign to me. I was brought up around only Asian people and in Boca Raton I was surrounded by white-Americans. At this time, I preferred to only be friends with only Asian people since we have similar cultures. The fact that my school didn’t have many Asian students meant that I had less than ten good friends for 3 years there. Most of my American friends that I made were from the golf team. Furthermore, Florida was the down point in my life this far, I was depressed and I would shut myself in my room for days at a time. The best time in those three years was that during all breaks I had time to go back to Thailand. I would party hard with my friends to escape the depression that I had before. I was a completely different person; I was happy, social, and out going. However, I would still have lots of arguments with my dad because of the same topic, “I don’t want to go back to that place!” However, he replied that I have to be here until I finish my undergraduate degree. In my senior year, I was recruited by the Ohio State University golf coach. She offered me the scholarship then I signed it, which means I committed to play golf for OSU and be here in USA for 4 more years. Again, it was all my dad’s decision.

After experiencing the depression for 3 years, I swore to myself that I have to do something with my life since I didn’t want to be a depressed girl anymore and I can’t change my dads decision. The first thing that came up to my mind was I have to be as the way I’m in Thailand; I have to be social and act to everyone equally. After I got in to the Morrill tower, I started to talk with everyone that I saw. I acted the way I’m in Thailand; it actually works really well. Now I’m friend with everyone on the floor and also many athletes from other sports. I start to go out with my friends every weekend and have fun with them. Now I realized that reasons of being a depressed girl for 3 years were all from myself. Even though my life is really hard at OSU since I’m an athlete –student; I have to workout and practice everyday after classes, but I’m happy now since I have so many friends like I do in Thailand. Since I’m blissful, I started to accept my dad’s idea. Even though, I still don’t understand why he wants me to be here, at least I have a trust in his decision after I realized that I against him because I was unhappy with my life. I was being immature and tried to block a value of my life that is given by a man who has experienced so many things in his life and also promised me that it would be a great benefit to my future life. I really don’t know about what I want to do in the future yet but at least I’m a happy girl now.

Digital story second draft by Shengyu

A memorable experience at BSE

  In the winter of 2010, I attended the YBSE class in Beijing. The biggest harvest for this trip was that I learned the importance of teamwork.

BSE’s full name is “The Excellerated Business School for Entrepreneurs”, founded in 1978. YBSE is the class for youngsters. This class teaches people business in practice instead of academic research. In eight days, every team has to create a plan and finish a business proposal. I was the leader of our team.

My team created a plan of a company that services people who want travel outside with their dogs. Nowadays, more and more people begin to keep pets, especially dogs. Because of the rules of prohibited pets, traveling with their dogs is not easy. So in our business proposal, we planned to make a travel agency. We would formulate a travel plan for the people and dogs, consulting with airline for a private plane and a special hour in park for them. We would also arrange some lecture that teaching how to take care their dogs better. The origin that we made this proposal is the number of people keeping dogs gradually increase, and some of them love their dogs as a family members. And these people do not begrudge for their dogs. They would be worth spending money for a fond memory.

None of members in our team is major in business. It meant that making the project was more difficult for us. And as a leader, I should take more responsibility. I had to calm them down when they argued too sharply. I had to distribute tasks to everyone as equitable and reasonable. I had to stand out when we need answer some questions on class, even though we did not have an accurate answer. And I had to take care of their feelings, although they were all older than me.

As a young leader without any experience before, I had taken too much on my shoulder, and finally exploded with Zonghan before the last day. When we checked the planned accounts last time, I suddenly found that he got wrong initial numbers, which was one of the most significant part for our plan. It showed that how much money we need to start our plan and how can we get profit. So we have redone all of two days’ work in one night. After realized severity of it, I yelled with him and complained in a jet without control. We had a big fight and he left away. After dinner, he found me and apologized first. I was so regretful that I did something wrong but not apologized first. And I was grateful for his tolerance, if not, I might lose a friend by my stupid mistake. We worked all night to fix it, and slept only two hours. It was the first time to work so hard for me. Finally, we won a piece of prize by our effort.

And I gained much more than that. First, I met a lot of friends and we are very close until now. Secondly, I have known that a man could never complete five guys work. I worked alone in the past, even it was teamwork. I have considered overconfident as I could make the best work by myself and always felt very tired after finished it. After this trip, I knew I was totally in a wrong way. And the biggest harvest was that I got a big test for my leadership. Although I didn’t do perfectly, I would do better next time.