WorldToChina

      We had a happy Dragon Boat Festival last night, on lawn of the backyard behind the G block.

      Boys brough us salad and snack. They also laid a rug on the lawn to make a decent place for us to sit or  lie upon. We were surprised by their gentleness and skill in making salad. Of course, they received credit more and higher than ever before.

      During the on-campus picnic, we took photos, made video, played cards, drank bear and chatted and chatted, excited and exhilarated together like a family. We didn’t go back to our dorms until the gates were to be locked. Acturally, when we reached the building the door was already closed, and we didn’t get in until we sighed our named on the out-late namelist.

        It’s fun to talk to boys. We asked them about things on their mind. Surprisingly discovered that they are under an extremely different psychological condition. They live their lives differently. They do not like to share mental burden with their male friends. Instead, they would like to choose their girlfriends or old schoolmates who are thousands of miles away to confide their troubles. They consider things differently. They think it’s better to tell your worries to some female friends than to one’s wives. They consume it will give unnecessary pressure on them.

      Crazy, crazy, crazy! What’s goin’ on in this world? People are so different and so difficult to understand. I’m losing my confidence in waiting for my Mr. Right, because it seems as if they are all the same deep in their heart, and totally different from me.

 Dismayed……

      We lost the game with the Taiyuan University of Technology by a distantly distinguished score– 55:86. The competitor had been the champian of this competition for 9 years till last year, while ours has only entered the top eight. LUCKILY, this time we broke the shameful record by winning the second prize in the northwestern district.

     I’m not clear about the date of the following up finals. Anyway, I will focus on the event as our school team will honorably take part in.  It is said that every champion in a district will have the first match with the runner-up in another  district. In that sequence, our team is very likely to be thrown out of the game on the first  day…

      However, the team enjoys the stronggest support of all the NPU students. They are really our heroes. At least, I AM waiting expectantly.

       Recently, the biggest affair as well as the hottest topic on our campus is inavoidably the CUBA basketball competition. This is reallyb a big event for university students all over the country. It started with the first battle between Shanxi Financial University and our shool.

      Now it’s already in the semi-final stage. Yesterday afternoon, one of my favored team– Xinjiang University ran out of the competition. They were unluckily encountered with Shanxi Financial University, they one that our school team has defeated by only 6 scores (66:60).

      The players come from the universities in Northwestern China. After the final, the top two are going to attend the nation-wide competiton with other three main districts– Northestern, Southwestern, and Southestern. May my school team good luck! All the students on this campus are now excited and firmly surpportive toward our home team. Hopefully they can enter the national finals.

     Yesterday evening was due to be our celebration of the Winter Solstice. Origionally, we planned to have dinner in the small village out side of the campus. But when all of our classmates were gathered together and arrived at the restraunt there, the menu frightened us back. The price is even higher than that in Xi’an downtown! However the restraunt is not looking very well equiped. The heater didn’t work before it had been turned on for almost 10 minutes.

     After a bitter bargain with the owner, we reached an agreement almost unanimously that we should move back to the campus to have a more  reliable meal and a wiser expenditure. It’s ture that we did have a very exciting party yesterday. Our happiness was not influenced by the worthless trip at all. Instead, we recongnized that we are all more mature than the ones that we were two or three years ago. We know what we want and we will try to seek those aims practically and wisely. The “mean” way we spent money shows that every one in the class is sincerely caring for the interest of the whole.

        As a cardre in our class, I organized a collection of public diaries from each member. On the occasion of yesterday’s oparty I brought it to the dinner and have it passed on among all the classmates. They said it is really a good idea to have a shared diary like that. The content is extremely moving. However, at the beginning of this project nobody seemed to be intersted in it and some didn’t want to participate. Well, last night they all agreed on the value of the collection. And some are calling that the diary should be continued until we graduate. Funny isn’t it?

      I think we all love this class and each member of it. But we are lacking of communication or, say, expression of our true feelings. I name the diary as” piggy bank of memory”, hoping that our college life together will be instored and remembered in this specific way. When we get old on day,  the diary can still remind us of our youth and happiness today.

    When it comes to the end of a year, we are immerged in the happiness of festival celebrations that come one after another. The Winter Solstice( around December 22), Christmas and New Year Festival come almost together.

     Since we have already celebrated Chiristmas in advance, we don’t have party at the Christmas Eve. But we will have dinner on the Winter Solstice evening together eating dumplings like most  Chinese families will do one the very day. It is believed that one can save his ears from frostbite by eating the ear-shaped dumpling. Cute excuse for having a good meal, isn’t it?

      However, what I think is the most enjoyable factor of the dinner is to have a chance to get all the members of our class together to stay together for a dinner like a family. Because most of us are from other provinces far from Shannxi, we may miss our families very much especially on occasion of the traditional festival. It would be quite nice to feel like being at home on campus. What’s more, I think these sweet moments will become permanent memory planted in our mind ever after.

     We should not forget the history of course. But what we’re going to do with the shames and insults is only to develop our country quickly into a prosperous one so as to defend herself against any kind of opress. Moreover, time is changing and people have to treat history correctly and shouldn’t always bear resentment against each other. Or it will be very hard for us to have a peaceful and harmonious world to leave in. History is a mirror from which we can learn lessons from so that we can avoid similar mistakes. It is not a revenge booklet at all. 

     We have been busy for about one month, preparing for contest, attending different kinds of courses, writing papers and sitting exams and in-class surprise—quizzes. 

     Well, after all, good news comes before all of us collapse and take on strike. You know what? Our teachers have projected a “performing week ” for us at the very beginning of this semester. Thus, we will have ONE WEEK off~!!

     Next week, no lectures, no get-up-early days, no assignments and no stresses any more! All we have to do is to accomplish a script which is based on a book we have read, and to act it out in groups. Interesting task isn’t it?

     Anyhow, all I am concerning about is that I can have one week off to have a good rest before taking the final exam. What a good suspending! I think I’ll really enjoy this big surprise from our din and professors.

     (our new campus is grey all in and all out….)

Since I unpacked on the new campus, now and then, people would ask me the same question:“Between the old and the new campus, which one do you prefer?” However, my answer varied from time to time. As I get more familiar with the new environment, I get to know more about its merits and short-comings. And the same feeling goes for the old campus, too. The two are violently different. Differences lie mainly in two aspects:

 (the new)

Most obviously, the locations have great influence on the two respectively, especially the influence comes from their different surroundings. It won’t take more than one yuan to get to the city centre from the old campus. But it does take me five time the money plus two hours’ travel from the new. Outside the new campus, there are no super malls or shopping centers, which are all available around the old campus. Indeed, what come into sight are big mountains and dusty roads there.(this is the new)

(this is the old)

The thing I misses most is the plants the old has. And it’s very strange that no matter what plant our new campus puts into the soil, it dies before long.

However, the on-campus condition is much more better than that of the old one. New buildings, classrooms, more advanced facilities and delicately designed gardens with man-made rivers, all these components provide us a beautiful environment to study and live in. Moreover, the dormitories are better furnished on the new campus. We have TV sets, washing rooms and neatly tiled floors, none of which is available in an old dorm.

 Through the appraisal and comparison, I find a balance. Sometimes, I will complain about the isolated environment I am staying in. And always, the environment does isolate us from the outside and blocks information to reach us. Frankly speaking, as a unsatisfactory person, I’d like to live in the new dorms that locates on our old campus. Woo, day-dreaming, isn’t it?