Alone in a strange land – bitter music United Kingdom life _ New Oriental dogwood culture

◎ Text/article excerpted from the Jaffna Dongmei New Oriental English "(May 2009) when I wear high-heeled shoes, the" turtle "title in the new East Campus side energetically, looking around the students that vigorous Smiley, really very happy. But let me happy cause always is very simple: in the morning when I open my eyes, turntables and I like black hair, yellow skin "similar"; canteen there bread, gruel and free pickles; desk with Apple and jujube; opened book Basic is our ancestors left behind square; drop ear the whole is cordial Mandarin; Daily side around the years ago I had the same pursuit of students ... Looking at these simple and beautiful little happy, I couldn't help but think of the days of studying from home alone ... A copy of the Offer without language score that BEC craze swept into my hometown Dalian, down a large pull young blood, nor of my heart. I was a locally famous for gaozhongjiao English words of the President, then I can be considered a local education sector a promising young man. Unfortunately they can't raise Koike of large fish, was unwilling to mediocrity's I'm not willing to show financial subsidies to die wages for life. With one day with the juxtaposition of the business community to become a "masterful lessening" dreams, at the made up his mind to go abroad to catch up on the "capitalist" in this lesson, I will start my own fumbled for schools. In the interest of time, when you want to study languages achievement was too late, and I will try a direct entry, and then waited, but there was no response. Anxiety in my "quick wits": why don't you go online to look for school phone? hard work pays off, I finally found it. Even more luckily, school operator also enthusiastic to make a reservation for a second and head directly call (equivalent to top leaders direct interview). And very smooth, head of communication: listening to me speak English fluently statement after life, academic status and ideal vision, probably at think even leave me throw in the United Kingdom will not have any language barrier, it was decided to issue a special Offer. In this way, I dramatically forward to studying in the United Kingdom. Now, good language basis than those paper exam out of score is much more to come. Products out of delicious and unforgettable "first barrel gold" since ancient times, not five bucket handout talents more, but people overseas, the five bucket m offset is my independence in a strange survival fundamental, a thousand kinds of vision, million, a meal or a good goal to eat. Thus, counting has few savings, I began to plan a look for your work to do to earn pocket money. At the same time, I began to have patience and torment themselves accustomed to eating bread, rice's stomach, to adapt to cold milk, soured salad sauce, sweet Strawberry Jam. .. I didn't expect a long time, but also eat out feelings, commodities out delicious. I'm from the North, like taste relative to that of food, so fish & chips (fried fish and chips) nature became I came out from the library into the objects — the more spread salt, put some vinegar, to recall the domestic pancake fruit or fried liver in Beijing, delicious snacks, I feel very satisfied. Of course, it also made me more aware of the "fittest" is how rich the philosophy of a Word. On a cold winter night, also at the eve of my birthday, recommended by the people, I went to a church were students called "Whampoa Military Academy lesson one special course" — to a restaurant dishes. From the evening until the zero point six, I came to the opening of the United Kingdom, "the first barrel gold" – 35 pounds (then equivalent to 560 Yuan). Zeros of chimes, when the boss pound on my hands, my heart music opened flowers. I put money carefully pocket, dipped into tightly, feel life is so beautiful, in the past several hours of hard work are not counted. The money though, but at least prove that I can support myself, can in the foreign country. Back home, I make money with the sweat from his pocket, and over again, carefully read this strange, can make your own survival of currency. I was toying, if every weekend to wash the dishes, and a month can make a 140 pounds, you can still rent enough; but he switched to another thought: the rent can earn money on holidays set out this part of the cost of living or more than enough to do, people should be enough. I am careful to put the money into your purse, ready to rest, you can just lay in bed and suddenly feel uncomfortable and sat up and put the money into a pillow. After that's still not safe, after the final decision and thought and put the money to the heating of the slit. Put the money, I am finally at ease, with a satisfied smile sleep. Although I am not a young teacher, but also never tried such a high intensity of physical work. Midnight, systemic sore I awoke from his sleep, mournful tears dropping streamed to the ear, wet kerchief. I have some doubt yourself this suffering is not worth it, but when I think about Business School MBA diploma, master of its own in one day, wearing clothing master's hat, received the President personally awarded the diploma of that moment, I again get up courage. I wipe away her tears, get out of bed and felt the 35 pounds, stiffly, then safely asleep ... I am in the United Kingdom's first birthday is spent — was a sore, but to the future with infinite longing. Extension of Christmas jobs abroad, Christmas is equivalent to the Chinese lunar new year. Domestic Chinese new year, children often can be parents of "franchising" does not do the job. But here, Christmas draws near, we left the Professor had six papers, and calls on all the Festival, including a door, or on both difficult and professional Finance course! I really is "a head with two large". However, there are a thousand reluctance, onlyTo think of valuable credits, think of parental expectations, I would not dare is half a point to be lazy. I had been tortured severely "papers", a chance, I heard that another class of students has applied for postponement of the job, on the grounds that Christmas early job, need to go online and search large amounts of data, which can cause eye extreme fatigue. I never imagined that such justification had been ratified. Just too weird! that I can put the first two days as the rest isn't accidentally fell down the stairs of things as extension of homework?, and everyone in the class a, we presented a collective to Department head, and we have been very satisfied with the answer: job extension of two weeks, SSO and papers required end result can be obtained via the group discussion, just a calculation process to write exactly the same. But even so, some group or "fiasco." And we have a special group because it does PPT of Indonesian man, a very careful and cautious and adept at collecting information of the United Kingdom, there is also a female student from fathers that people would be good at count country to have good communication skills, and ultimately our team members through all of the job. Also, I am very surprised that I even got the papers of the highest scores — 80! it was a big surprise. Unexpected experiences and unexpected gain support and encourage me, let me in learning and life's pressures can take to go through a strange way of studying. Alone in a strange land makes non- songwriters have a song called "missing": I'm wandering in strange roads, listening to completely unfamiliar with the original so much courage to let me leave, I do not even the time difference is transferred back ... When applying for school governors, leaving the family home is duty-bound, and when I really left home alone in a strange, only to find the most unbearable but my heart is a lonely. Lift head Moon, bowing-homesick, friends, loved ones, wanted to bread, rice, pickled cabbage stew noodles ... Turn a blind eye to his hometown of brick, in a strange land have become missing object. Newcomers to me on anything to do, the kind of people stranded with a lifetime. However, fortunately, I have encountered in the United Kingdom are relatively straightforward, the local people, it makes me sad mood was mitigated. Whenever I encounter a difficulty, as long as the opening, there will always be people who will help. Remember that I had just moved into a rented house, for fear that their own security, requires the landlord to install a locking bolt. The landlord has intrigued the next day to find someone to install, the evening also calls upon me to confirm that the installed properly, and that a lot of safety recommendations and considerations, I no longer worry about until confirmation before hanging up the phone. The second day I went to the bank account, the Bank asked me to provide the landlord signed contracts to prove my living in the United Kingdom long-term rather than short-term tourism. The contract I certainly have, but did not think because name problem in trouble. Originally, I sign the contract with the landlord when they told him that my last name is Linda Jia, English name, the landlord will naturally in contract to write on the LindaJia this name. In fact, the Chinese English name is just the code only, not normally appear in the document, and the Passport's names have no relationship, so when the Bank staff see passport and housing contract name is the name of two very different, of course, refused to open an account. I can only scan xingergui. Back to school, met in the corridor, Department of (was previously mentioned sent me the man with the special Offer). He told me this late to report the students are very concerned that asked: "Haveyou settled down?" I answered: "Yes." He told me, no matter what difficulties will always be able to find him. I think it is just difficult, it is better to see if he can help, so he put me in banking trouble telling him that he listened after said no problem, let me speak to him to the Office, and then they took me to his similar to CIA-like need to layer the credit card in order to enter the Office, he wrote a letter to the Bank explains the situation. So, I am very smoothly in the Bank opened the account. Study hard, but every time I think of school days experiencing these enthusiastic people, I always feel warm. Lunch cookery show student life is dull side, there are interesting side. Students from countries of various backgrounds are gathered in one place, which inevitably because of cultural differences and encounter some make embarrassing and harmless. My Chinese cookery show is one of them. One Sunday morning, very little cooking of my sudden impulse to show a showgirl's cuisine – the charm of the Chinese food are propagated to all friends of the heart. To this end, I selected a think simpler dishes-hot potato with. Heat oil in a pot, dishes, clapped crackling under snapped and fire alarm sound at the same time, roommates and staggered station on the Chair's book fanatic fan alarm, and I quickly turn fried with just the potatoes under the pot. In order to make food more flavor, food out of the pot before I also especially many put point garlic, very proud to say that day I can be considered extraordinary play cooking. But foreigners on garlic flavor is very sensitive, and that evening they went to the pub get-together, then appeared the following interesting scene, a United Kingdom man said: "Linda, I do like this ..." before he finished, I had to laugh off flowers, proudly asked him: "Really?" The young man said: "Yes!" However, if the right behind him and make me smile solidification, he said: "if you mind Butdo I save it? fortonight." (Would you mind if I came back to eat tonight?) and around another United Kingdom man immediately to his recommendations: brush your teeth after eating. ThisSentence of point wake up dreaming of me: Oh, they do not get used to the smell of garlic that strong, it is the life out culture! talk about life, always makes one long tale: the excitement of the early abroad, I do not know what course of perplex, difficult to learn, there is also a harvest full of happiness. Now want to come, no matter what kind of experience, it is the gift of God to me, I'll personally bittersweet taste. Only struggle too, life is not a white live!