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Wednesday, May 11, 2005

Victoria-vancouver-Anyang-Shenyang-Kuerle

Finally come back from the trip of Victoria. A small vacation that I was looking forward for a long time has finally finished. A little bit disappointed... Maybe that's because when you expect something, you will always be disappointed.

Don't have much feeling of Victoria. It is more peaceful, quieter and a little bit outdated compared with vancouver.

University of Victoria leaves me the impression that it is the loving home for rabbits, ducks, squirrals, crows and people. Like the many colors of buildings and leaves in canada, here the rabbit also has black , white, brown, even panda colors... When it is lunch time, you can see rabbits and crows are busy around people :P Those jumping rabbits remind me of the poem "雄兔脚朴朔,雌兔眼迷离,双兔傍地走,安能辨我是雄雌".

Love the music from the verteran's Day, country styled music with the couple swing dancing. Very european like, very old style. My body just can not help dancing with it, what missing is a dance parner...

Saw the 12 badge and know the 12 provinces in Canada first time. Each have its own special meaning and design.

Really love the Victoria Museum, bought 3 T-shirts for my brothers and nephew, very lovely animal patterns. This reinforces my feeling of how animal and people live harmoniously here. I will definitely come back and visit it again one day.

Big horse and the flower carriage reminds me of the love ceromony of Kun. Don't know how is she recently, hope she is happy with ming together.

As for the conference, I am not quite inspired. It doesn't belong to a high quality tire. But long long distance always starts from the first step. Although kept saying that they have so many garbage papers, I know clearly that if I want to do good, I need to pay a lot on it. Hard working and perceverence are always the truth in acdemic.

Another thought is that camera makes people lazy to observe things. Should pick up drawing ...

Feeling extremely lonely after I heard the words from Lei on the way back. "Here is not my home. After I leave the city for a while, when I come back, I had the feeling of 陌生 unfamiliar. Not like home , no matter how long you've left, when you come back, everything is still very familiar." I am amazed to hear those words come out of Lei's mouth. But this does strongly touches my feeling. Yes, that's the feeling of root.

Victoria is only a visiting place for 3 days.

Staying in Vancouver for 21 months already, but it's only a place that I study in. A place that I kept exploring and experiencing. although it has some stories, it is still a lonely place.

Shenyang, is the place where I growed a lot, learning how to live independently , learning how to love and care, and dreaming and fufilling the dreams. it's the place marked with my tears and laughters. But it is not my home.

An yang is where I had all my 12 year mandatory education and where I am the pearl in my home family. It is always smelled with the delicious cooking and clean laudry. It is the honey place that I never need to worry about anything. It is where my deepest beloved family lives.
But the city doesn't leave me much memory, I don't even have a tiny accent of it.

Kuerle is the place that gives me the birth. A place where has a lot of sunflowers, starring starring skys, and a never dried river. I have a big family there---big , big family, smelled with toasted lamb and honey mellon; Sounds of Ma Jiang and home accent. It is the special place that forever situated a most important position in my heart. But my direct family is not there.
So, please don't ask where I come from. For a olive tree in my dream----

不要问我从那里来
我的故乡在远方
为什甚流浪
流浪远方流浪
为了天空飞翔的小鸟
为了山间轻流的小溪
为了宽阔的草原
流浪远方流浪
还有还有...
为了梦中的橄榄树,橄榄树
不要问我从那里来
我的故乡在远方
为什麽流浪
为什麽流浪远方
为了我梦中的橄榄树

Monday, May 02, 2005

New Semester

It's my 6th semester here in SFU. Time flies !
I got a hair cut to welcome such a significant day, Hope a good starting point. :)

Just finish a research summary on my module. Decide to get rid of the bad habit of piling things up until the last minute. Things for today should be finished today!

Learning pingpong now, which is quite fun. :)

Karen arrived North Carolina finally. She described in her email:
" Here is really like a suburb. Out of the community that we live, there arefarms, and we can see cows roaming around in the farm right cross theroad. Very very country, no side walks on the street, only drive ways asthere is no people walking. if I sit in the car, all I see is car, treesand grass. No flowers no human. I will try to get to use to it. Here thestores are close on Sunday. the "shopping center" is just one supermarket,few small shops and fast food places, that is it. Hei, hei, I guess I willturn into a really country girl when next time I come back."
Really want to go there and see her.

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