First Experience

I came to work too early. I should have taken up the invitation and headed to Beijing first, or I should have stayed at hometown swallowing hamburgers until I would get sick of it. This place is beyond my imagination. I can read the characters, but I hardly understand what street people speak. Maybe they are talking in dialects or Mandarin with very different accents. It is very often I reply them based on the key words I hear. The streets are exotic. You can see brand cars, bizarre scooters and bicycles on the same road. There are lots of shops along the street in front of the university. What interesting is none of them is familiar to me. International food chains haven't expended their businesses to the inland town. Outside the university most people in the town look like countrymen or countrywomen.

Coffee and Movie

It had been one month since I came home. Next Monday the journey will begin. I understand it is depressed to leave a comfort zone. Previously it was in Raleigh, now it is in my hometown. One the other hand, I totally acknowledge without taking risk, how does one get the premium? Hometown, I don’t really know what it is; I’m just familiar with my home and its neighborhoods where includes a coffee shop, a bookstore, a bakery, a grocery stores, and a McDonald’s in which I visit every week. On this weekend, I’d like to stretch the neighborhoods farther. I'd like to go to  Costco, to see an English movie and have lunch in a Japanese Restaurant. Maybe I can regain a part of my memories left in Raleigh.