what i have learned as a freshman in Tsing-Hua?

During this year, i had been trough a lot. I was perplexed about how to study in the university in the last semester. I don't know what my goals are, and not knowing what to strive for. I joined two clubs, both of these clubs gave me ideas about what i am going to do in the future. One of my club is taking care of people with Down's Syndrom (唐氏症寶寶) and mental retarted people. By taking care of them, i found that what we think controls what we feel. As long as i think optimistically, i will feel happy and willing to face challenges all the time. The other club i joined is popdance. Not only did i have fun learning dancing, i also learn how to understand people with different thoughts and accept it. Now, when i look back on the days that i feel confused about the future, i felt myself stupid. Living in the present is the most important thing i need to concern. i believe as long as i cherish every challenges i have met and learn something out of it, then my life is not just about idling is about experiences accumulation. i want to live a rapturous life and now i am creating it.

summary--hooked on crime

The largest group of career criminals, a dozen of men and one woman, gather together outside the prison system in Salvation Army in Vancouver, they assemble Crime Addiction Anonymous. The purpose of their weekly gathering is to share the experiences of crime addiction, a illness as tenacious as dependency on alcohol or drugs. The program founder, Mingo, was one of them a year ago. He claims that the program saves his life and named the program '' Harbour Light''. The program goes smoothly is because the program is created by the members not imposed on them. The program adopt the same stratedy as alcohol, nicotine and drug addiction have, 12-step. Yet, somebody thinks ''addiction'' is just another better word to label the bad deeds into a appealing and sexy one. Some members of this program claim that the program is really helpful. Though to have everyone with the addiction change is difficult, yet, with the help of the program, Mingo believes that he can help everyone and tolerant every difficulties he enconters.

insomnia

Recently, i am suffering from insomnia. i cannot sleep until i see the sunlight in the early morning. i went to bed at 12:00 but fall asleep until 5:30. it is really torturing while laying on bed with a blank mind. yet, while lying on bed, memories suddenly stoke into my head.
it is when i was still a kindengarden girl, i hate to go to school. i always made up excuses to convice my mom that i am too ill to go to school the other day, especailly after the weekend. my mom told me that there were once that i used up all the excuses, for example, headache, stomache, toothache etc. i told my mom out of the blue that i got a ''hairache'' ??!! i couldn't help but smell when i was lying in the bed.
although insomnia is torturing, thinking about the old times accidentally brought me some joynesses. i appreciate that.

something i learned from cooperation

Last Tuesday is the day that popdance presented the performence '' 盜愛''. the team that i join is girlstyle. In this performance, we play the role geisha, whose mission is to please the Emperor in a feast.
In order to present the best, tewlve girls in this team, including myself, practiced our dance day and night. we almost devoted our every single minutes that is free to the practice. When practicing, i found that cooperation is a complicatied philosophy that is worthwhile to learn.
when lacking some of our teammates during the practices, we hardly can do our work. and everytime that the same person keep doing the samething like being late for no reason or obsents without explaination, it annoyed others but find no way to help the situation.
regarding this situation, i realize profoundly that it is very important to set up a personal credit. let people find us realiable and considerate. if we want to do big, we have to take care of many details to form the whole.
although the practicing had made some sparkles between our teammates, we found a way to solve it. and in the end, we perform the show successfully.

comments on three journal entries

Roya's ---> i would like to see the cloud gate's performance! i thought it would be hard to understand, but after your description, it arouses my interest!
Ruby's--->i saw that movie last weekend. the movie reminded me of my grandmother's death and it made me cried out loud~ hahaha
jossie---> i love 小野 's books too! they are interesting. indeed, being a teacher is not just about earning money but also a work that needs some spirit of devoting oneself!

Abercrombie Boy

two are both my classmates from Italy^^ very ''Abercrombie boy''

Yesterday, I was looking through some of my pictures when i went to Boston last summer vacation.''Abercrombie Boy'' suddenly came to my mind while i was looking this picture. It is a term that was created by me and some of my friends when we traveled to Boston. Abercrombie boy refered to guys that have perfect muscles with attractive out-looking. The reason why we have this term is that there is a chain clothes shops named '' Abercrombir and Fitch'', which always have ''Abercrombie Boys'' being the clerks. Also, they hired ''Abercrombie Boys'' on weekends to stand at the front gate with their tops off to attract customer. oooooooh~ it was such a pleasant just seeing them! One of those Abercrombie boys' job is asking girls that linger their eyes on them to take picture with them. They will put their hand on girls' waist and tenderly hug them while taking the picture. I eyes were dazzling when i took pictures with them! But it was a heart-broken pity that i have that picture lost while i accidentally deleted it! i felt sooo bad for my foolishness. There got one thing that conforts me is that many of my classmates, who has the same figure like''Abercrombie Boy'', came from Italy and South America are still in my picture gallery. Everytime when i saw those pictures, my heart butterflies~~

ooh~I miss them!!! I want to see Abercrombie boys whitout their tops on street Again!!!haha

The Night That I Have To Rush Home

It was PM9:45 at last tuesday. i phoned my mother asked her whether she needs my attendence in my grandmaother's 頭七. She then said '' of course! you have to come back! And you have better come back right now!''
If this conversation happened two weeks ago, i would definitely have a quarral with my mother. Yet, after my grandmother's death, i tried to be my best not to let my parents worry about things other than the funeral, and try hard to distract them from feeling sad all over the time. Then, at 9:47 packed my bag immediatly in order to catch up the High speed Railroad at 10:40. Even when i recall the situation happened at that day, i can still feel the urgent sence of feeling chasing after me.
I helled a Taxi alone on the front gate of the school. At the moment i sat down, i smelled the smell of beer. Although i am a little bit concern about it, i still ignored it in order to keep on time. Yet, the moment that the Taxi drive, the only thing i did is praying, hoping that this potentailly drunken driver may drive me safely to the station on time, and also wont do anything terrible to a single young woman that need to rush home in such late night.
On the way to the station, the driver kept singing out loud with the music coming from the radio and at the same time asking me questions that i dont want to answer, i was so scared but i pretented to be in extreme calm. The only thing that i think about at that time is hoping that the driver may not taking me to somewhere else. After fifteen minutes, i saw the station, i was so relieved at that moment. The exact moment when i step out that Taxi, i swear to myself that i will never do such a dangerous thing ever after.
i am so glad i am still here, typing my homework in front of my desk.

Rigoberta Menchu

Rigoberta Menchu is a Guatemalan Indian who became the spokesperson of the native people. She was born in 1959, in a small Guatemalan village of Chimel located in the northern highlands. In 1992, Rigoberta Menchu was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, because she led a campaign for social justice brought international attention to this conflict between indigenous Indians and the military government of Guatemala. Her family members were tortured and killed by the authorities because they were forcing the landowneres to give the land back to the natives. She also wrote an autobiograohy, ''I..Rigoberta Menchu''(1984), telling the world not only her own story, but also about the lives of her fellow Indians.

Yes, man

After I watched the movie, yes man, i had a strong feeling about one notion, that is one should be an open-minded person to explore the true world and to live a unique life that belongs only to oneself.
It is easy for us to say no to the things that we have no confidence in doing it. Yet, little do we know how strong we can be while encountering some difficult situations. I believe that our potential strength is unlimited. One can stretch it's own ability to a surprising level when they have to do something that they are not good at it and not even familiar with in a short, limited time. My strong belief of these notion developed by the experience that took place in this winter vacation. I was assigned to be responsible to design two activities for a winter camp. I haven't done such job like these before, i was so nervous, worrying about not being able to make my activities interesting. The only thing I can do at that time is to do my best and ask for the help of others. At the end, the result turned out well, my activity was one of the favorite activities that people who attended the camp voted to.
What I want to say is that never shut yourself down in any situation. We are actually exposed to many opportunities that can make our life become better. We got to learn to find out these opportunities and don't let them slip away through our fingers.