Duanwujie

I can not remember when I had my last Duanwujie at home. Next year, I will be at home to celebrate this festival.

It's a special day. We twelve Chinese students made zongzi together. It is my first time to do that. But the zongzi I made out is really good. I suppose that is the most beautiful one among them. For everyone who came to the party should bring one's good at food with them. Mine is also very successful. They all praise me that I am an awesome cook!

Looking into the future

This afternoon the other four guys and I helped Dr. Deng to move house. The new house is amazing. I like the house very much. Dr. Deng said he has spent twenty years to accumulate to afford that house. Now he succeeded.

Dr. Deng is my model. I just hope that I can own a house that is $300,000.00 with my wife. With two children in the famous university in America. When will my dream come true?

Thunder attack

"Xidu,

Aparently, your performance in the first semeseter does not justify
additional assistantships. In fact, I may cut your tuition waiver if
the university cut our budget. What do you think?"

I fully realize how serious my situation is right the fucking now. Who to blame? There has once been a very good opportunity for me. While I did not treasure it. If there is a chance to regret, I would turn over a new leaf.

As I always thought that I will get the scholarship, it is of no need to study hard to justify that. I did what I did before in DPI, or just a little better. This was the cause that put me in the hell. Life here is not easy, and be cautious about people around.

If I quit this time, I will quit all the time for the rest of my life...

"Raped" Day

Today is Memorial Day, a national holiday. Also the day I planed to begin to do the experiment. While it did not follow what I've planed. When I got to the laboratory, it was locked and I did not have the keys. I should have one. As I have thought that it was useless, so I postponed to fill the application form. I have to borrow them from others.

At noon, I helped ZTY to move house. It was messy and left a lot of garbage behind, a lot of cleaning work followed by. It should be within the responsibility of our four people, actually however, I was forced to do nearly all the work. That did not mean that I was a diligent man, but I want to be responsible for the reputation of Chinese.

After the moving work, they two wanted to invite me to have lunch together. I gave an excuse that someone was waiting for me. They seemed to understand that I were not reluctant to eat with them alone, fearing of having no mutual topics. So they invited my another two roommates without any reasons. I did the work, we all share the fruit. Ironic!

I seemed very active to do the experiment. People got curious of how high my salary was. ZERO! I had enough excuses to fire my "boss". Will I?! Dare I?!

Moving from 159 Dr. Whittington

I still clearly remembered when I first moved into that house on Dec. 31, 2008. It was a comfortable place, except for some human shorts. How time flies, five months has passed already.

306 bucks per month, water, gas and telecommunication fees not included. It is beyond my affording capacity. I have decided to move out since several months ago. "There are no free lunches in the world". I should think twice before encountering something too favorable to me.

I will stay here for one month. My first day here is just normal. I did some rookie work, just like when I first came to this university. Now everything is ready. I am enjoying my first night here...

First trip to Houston

Houston, the biggest city I have ever been to. What impressed me most is its tall buildings. I just feel them from the surround city road. If I can walk through them, how would it sound? It would be a great impulse to live with them. I would say they are not beautiful, but they are overwhelming, like giants with great strength.

The destination of this trip is the famous China town, along a street which is called Bellaire Street. It takes about four hours from Lafayette to Houston. When we arrived in Houston, it was past 13 o'clock already. We had a great "noon tea" in a Guangdong restaurant. The food offered are of great varieties but with small amount, which is in a typical south diet way. Guangdong people are good at cooking, they have a great culture in diet. I have heard that before, before I have this opportunity to experience them by myself, I could not imagine how good they are. The China Town does not appear as what I've thought of. It has low buildings and scattered in a big area. At least it should have a imposing entrance building. Maybe it have one, but I have not seen it. The commodity in the two supermarket, Huikang and Golden is great, almost whatever I can buy in China. I bought a lot of seasoning, which can be used for at least one semester.

When I returned back, it was almost midnight. Tired but an unforgettable experience!

The more, the better

It is a little ironic that my first fully contact with local American comes today while I have been here for almost five months. Two days is not long. I do learn some valuable characters from them:

• Be serious with your work. Even I could believe it as fastidious. In my former education, I was caltivated with a bad habit, neglecting anything so called trival to make myself confortable. Sometimes it is the details that determine the final. Also, to be an educated man, being serious with what I am drilling is indispensable.
• Be enthusiastic with what I am working with. That is the key factor when hoping to be somebody. Now, I have a better understanding about an old saying. For men, choosing a wrong profession is great pity. The job just likes a girl. I need to treasure it with my whole life.
• Be humorous. That may be why American are so talkative. It deserves my concentration to learn that. Not always trying to be aggressive, sometimes stepping back might be a good choice. Just as Randy said, " We know that is what we wanted, but why?" I shake my head. "That's why we call it research." Bullshit! but funny. I always try to pretend to understand everything, even I do not actually understand. The theory Lee told me is really simple, but I can not apply it into analysis. Great shame...

Two days is not a long time. Actually, it is two short for me. I need such kind of opportunity to learn from those people, that is what I came to America for.

To feel self-satisfied is what I am pursuing for a long time. Now it comes, late but familiar!

To be OPTIMISTIC!

Rather than being idle everyday, I would like to be busy doing everyday work. It does not mean that I like to be busy, but I hate to be idle!!

Get up early in the morning. Actually it was half past eight, for me it should be called early, especially in the summer vocation. Today was the first day for my experiment life, which I have been expecting for almost one month. "Oh man, you like experiment!?" The answer is absolutely not, because I have to do this. When I get access to the experiment, it is not as useless or bad as what I've thought of. What I greatly need now is not just professional knowledge, most important of all, I need practice. The experiment dose not seem to be hard. Even there is a convenience for Chinese students, as the manual has been translated by a Chinese based woman who is from south Harbin. The experiment equipment is produced by a company called TECLIS. The man who gives us instruction on how to use the equipment is called Lee Gilman, Charlotte, North Carolina, a old man seemd to be more than sixty years old. However, he is ful of energy, and I learned from him that I should be optimistic to treat every thing, and find the exciting aspect involved. "Not excited?? Have you found that..." I want to be changed!

Another excited news I got today is Sange is going to get married. They have bought the house, the diamond ring, and also going to have a baby in the near future. Awesome!

That's right. It is not the age for me to get tired...

Good beginning equals half success

It's has been a long time that since I made up my mind to write something about my American Lift. Now, I take out my first step.

I can not remember the last time when I was with relax mood. Think too much while most of which is useless. Reality is greatly different from the thinking of school student. Life is tough, and I have to get used to it.

Before I came to America, this country seems to be a paradise for me, and some many dreams are waiting for me to be achieved one by one. Some are about study, some about good stuff, and some are changes. Actually, these can be achieved everywhere! It is the attitude that determine my future.

I need practice!