Some Thoughts

I don't know weather I have this chance to write this in future or not, so i decide to write down this in my last blog for this class.

I sincerely feel glad about myself making the decision of coming to U.S. to pursue my Bachelor degree. Compared to the knowledge learned from textbooks, I'm more appreciating the process of grown-up emotionally and spiritually here.

Although I was always going to a boarding school since I was little, however, there's a big difference between staying away from parents and leaving home country. I can immediately adapt to a new environment and figure out the comfortable way of life myself, thanks to my earlier-year boarding school experience. But it was not until starting a life in a foreign culture that I feel the real connection with my family and country. I love my country, and culture, I hope I can do something for her in future. Based on this mind, I no longer feel anxiety about the fame, and future career. I gradually focus on the knowledge I can obtain in daily life, because I know knowledge is the power in this modern society that can help me to be a useful person.Whatever I do in future, I only hope I'm a useful person to others, and can make little contribution to my country's development. Besides this motivation, I should also thank to the atmosphere among the young American generation. Not like Chinese people concerning more about how much money they can make from what they study, people here care more about what their real interests are. And I believe people can go on a career what they really interests in, they will make a greater  success.

Actually I'm also doing transferring stuff. I hope the rest of the two years in America, I can go to a university located in a bigger city, which can provide me more various experience in college life. I once blamed Muncie for its poorly available choices, and the limited access to entertainment activity. However, I realize that Muncie is the best choice for me when I started my life in America. The peaceful life-style, and friendly people here made me with my poor English possibly live here and even started school here. These two years was the best transitional time for me, helping me smoothly accepting the reality that I'm living far away from my country. I should be strong, and live as a mature adult in this remote country myself. I can really tell myself now is totally from that girl just came out from high school two years ago. And I believe two years later, I cannot recognize myself anymore. Never having the anxiety from concerns about future, there's the experience, and reflection from those experience, then, there I am, is growing up. 

Fight Club

 

our great war is a spiritual war
our great depression is our lives

we've been raised on television telling us that one day we'd be millionaires and movie stars, but we won't. 

we are slowly learning that fact, and get very very pissed off
 

you are not your job
you are not the money you have in your bank
you are not the car you drive
your are not the contents in your wallet
you are not fucking khakis
you are the all-singing,all-dancing crap of the world.

                  

I love this movie! It's about the real toughness of men!

Finally

Wow~! There are only two weeks left, and I'm heading back China. Ball State are sending Jazz performers to China to experience different cultures, and co-work with Beijing Jazz Orchestra. Fortunately, they also have an exchange program with the Sichuan University, which locates in the same city were I live. So I'm anticipated to host them in my own country! I would love to see how they get scared by our food!
However, before all of these, I have finals, packing up the stuff, and moving out my current apartment. I think it will be very stressful during final two weeks. 

Traditional Chinese Painting in New Days

              Painting in the traditional style is known in Chinese as guó huà (国画), meaning 'national' or 'native painting', as opposed to Western styles of art which became popular in China in the 20th century. It was during the Warring State Period(475-221 BC) that artists began to represent the world around them. Traditional painting involves essentially the same techniques as calligraphy and is done with a brush dipped in black or colored ink; oils are not used. In traditional painting, most of the subjects are flowers, animals, landscapes, and figures. Nowadays, lots of creative Chinese artists developed new style of painting using those traditional techniques. 

Mexico "mockumentary"

I watched this on news. Children played as kidnappers, corrupt cops and drug traffickers to show the existing problems in Mexico.
At the end,a little girl faces the camera and says: "If this is the future that awaits me, I don't want it. Enough of working for your political parties instead of for us. Enough of cosmetic changes."I got this on News, so the rest part of the saying I don't understand, but language is not the only communication tool.

Wood Sculpture

Religion

          I began to study bible recently. The start was kind of like a coincidence. I have really great teachers. One thing that I like is they never try to persuade me to believe in the existence of god, but show me the proof and present me their emotions on their religion. I respect them. It's like opening a new world for me.
          I never considered religion seriously, and even has bias among it. My mom's family believes in Buddhism. My father's family believes in Christianity. When it comes to my parents, they are almost Atheism. My parents are really tough people, they built their business together from nothing. I always remember they told me never trying to depend on anyone. Even when I was a little girl I had to solve the problem myself. From the old people in my family I only saw the religion as a function of escaping from the reality, which is totally away from what my parents taught me. So when I was little I considered religion as a thing for people who find out no way in real life.   
         However I gradually realize there's spiritual need for a person. My parents grew up in the time when surviving was every thing. Policy changing in 1990s in China provided them the chance to develop. The built-in characters by their childhood life experience equipped them well on the way of fighting. Their struggling experience is hard to learn, but I respect their determined mind once setting up a goal. If someone asks me whether I have idol in my heart, I will answer my mom is the only one.
         When they were young they only considered to have a wealthy life. After having me and my sister, they only considered how to provide the best for their children. Just in recent years, persuaded by me, they began to think about their own life.
          There's no religious atmosphere in China. We are still immersed ourselves in the business of development. This is dangerous for current young generations, especially for those whose parents already built up a economic foundation for them. Compared to our parents, we grow up in a wealthy environment. Surviving is no longer a thing to be considered. Nowadays people need spiritual guide to help them on the way of developing, because out there are just too many allures. It's not the thing about superstitions. If we say law is the basic morality people have to obey, then religion is the higher level of morality. A society is necessary to possess one. For a country like China it's even more necessary.