止水

Ch'i jen yo i ch'i i ch'ieh erh ch'u yü shih che, ch’i liang jen chu, tse bi yen chiu jou erh fan. Ch’i ch’i wen so yü yin shih che, tse chin fu kuei yeh. Ch’i ch’i gao ch’i ch’ieh yüeh: “Liang jen chu, tse bi yen chiu jou erh fan; wen so yü yin shih che, tse chin fu kuei yeh, erh wei ch’ang yo hsien che lai, wu chiang chien liang jen chi so chi yeh.”

Tzao ch’i, i cong liang jen chi so chi, bien kuo chong wu yü li t’an che. Tsu chi dong kuo fan yüeh, chi chi che,ch’i ch’i yü; pu tsu, yo ku erh chi t’a—tzu ch’i wei yen tsu chih tao yeh.

Ch’i ch’i kuei, kao ch’i ch’ieh, yüeh: “Liang jen che, so yang wang erh chong shen yeh, chin jo tz’u—”yü ch’i ch’ieh hsiang ch’i yü chong t’ing, erh liang jen wei chi chi yeh, i i cong wai lai, chiao ch’i ch’i ch’ieh.

Yu ch ün tzu kuan chi, tze jen chi so i ch’iu fu kuei li t ache, ch’i ch’i ch’ieh pu hsiu yeh, erh pu hsiang ch’i che, chi hsi i.

翻译了一通还是没有总结出Wade-Giles的规律，叫我下周怎么去考试！

I don't know why kids always love me. I don't have any younger brothers or sisters in my family, and I never worked as a babysitter. I'm totally unexperienced. But most of them get to me at the very begining.

Once when I was in junior high school, I slept over in my friend's house. She had a little brother, 5 years old, who likes playing with her very much. But, at the very moment I showed up in front of him, he didn't want his sister any longer. In the few days afterwards, he would call me every other minute-- "Help me get dressed", "Help me brush my teeth", "Play me".... He almost drove me crazy. I didn't know why he liked me so much. But one thind I knew was perhaps I was good with kids. Someone said I had that kind of "quality".

I used to not quite like kids, because they are hard to be satisfied, they don't listen to you, they mess up everything, they.... But later, I realized everybody once was a kid, childhood is a inevitable process of growth. It must be hard for all of us being a kid. So I started loving them and thought I couldn't love them more till one day my special friend told me: you will never know how deep the love can be until your first child is born. I believe in him.

Many people are suprised that I am not a little bit homesick. I myself am suprised. I've suprised myself several times when I arrived in America. First, I didn't suffer jat leg at all thought I didn't have a chance to get some rest on the plane ( I couldn't find a comfortable position to sleep in the chair, once again, I wanted to cut off my arms and legs); then I got used to the food here at once, because nowadays they're also available in China, Pizza Hut, KFC, Mc, Starbucks, Hagen-daze, etc. However, of course, I prefer cooking by myself if I have time.

Anyway, considering the homesickness, I can call home anytime I wish, I can send email and photos to my parents everyday, I can chat with friends online, I can publish my writtings on the Space, I feel so close to my parents, relatives, friends, so--why shall I  become homesick? Sometime I even feel as if I never left China. There's not many differences between living on campus at NJU and here at ASU. The only difference is we speak Chinese at NJU, but now--English. I moved from one city to another, no big deal. Tempe is a city. people live here, just as people do in Nanjing, Suzhou, or Shanghai. The landscape could be different, but the essence of life remains the same. I never view the US as paradise or hell, it's a country, from some perspective,it's more developed than China, but if we take it easy, we will certainly make ourselves home here with a cheerful heart.