August 27
女孩们 以此共勉!
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朋友的女儿考入北京一所大学。朋友自然非常高兴,摆了一桌宴席。请了熟识的人,席间,我们少不了说些祝贺的话。然后,我问他: “现在大学生谈恋爱比较普遍,你有没有和你女儿谈过这个问题? ”
朋友点点头.说: “谈过了。我已经表明我的态度了,不鼓励。也不阻止。 ”
那么我又问:“ 那你打算一个月给你女儿多少的生活费? ”
“还没有最后决定。我打算送她到学校,看她同学的家里都给多少钱,我取平均数。”他说。
几天后,朋友送女儿去北京。到学校一问,和她同宿舍的三位同学当中,一位是贫困生,家时面每月只给200元。一位父亲是老板,每月生活费千元以上。还有一位叫绞绞的,父母也是工薪家庭,每月的家里给600元。班里大多同学家里面也都给这些.亲戚就把女儿的生活费锁定在这个数字上。
一个月后,父亲去银行往女儿的的一卡通里面存钱,先打电话过去问: “600元够不够。”
女儿回答:“够了。”
父亲放心了,嘱咐说:“想买什么就买什么,别亏了自己。也别和人家老板的女儿比,你只要和绞绞保持同等生活质量就行了。”
女儿听了,半天不作声。父亲觉得奇怪,就问:“怎么了?”
女儿犹豫了一下,说:“爸爸,我不知道应该说或是不说。”
父亲:“有什么事情快说,爸爸帮你分析,提建议。”
女儿说:“绞绞和我一样,每月家里面也是给600元。但是她的生活质量比我高。她每天都有零食吃,每周去一次麦当劳,有时候还能去必胜客。”
父亲一算,这样的话,600元根本都不够花。
“她是不是去打工了,你不要去耽误学习。”父亲急忙说。
“没有,她没有去打工,是在谈恋爱。有一次她约会回来对我说。其实她不喜欢那个男生,只是喜欢他替她埋单而已,我们班上也有几个女生也是一样的。她们还嘲笑我,说我傻。可惜了这张脸,如果她们有像我这样漂亮能吸引男生的脸。根本不用向家里要钱。她们会找到愿为她们付费的长期饭票……”
父亲愕然。
放下电话,朋友一分钟都没耽误.给女儿的卡上存了700元钱,又回家发了一个封邮件。
他在邮件上写着:亲爱的女儿,从这个月起,我每月给你700元的生活费。多出来的100元,你可以买零食,去麦当劳,必胜客……记住,任凭时候,都要用自己的钱买单。这才是有质量的生活。还有,如果你喜欢某个男生,开始谈恋爱,请一定要告诉我。我会每月再给你增加100元,作为恋爱经费。请你一定要记住,每次约会,不要忘了带上你的钱包。你要学会并习惯为自己所爱的人买单,这样你才有资格得到一份有质量的爱情
August 25
告别旅途中的种种不快与不安,在烈日的炙烤下,又一次告别可爱的家,一路颠簸来到北京。
即使北京迎接我的是浑浊的空气,阴暗的天空,但是
当我看到“北京界“三个字的一刹那,我立刻从卧铺床上坐起来,睁大眼睛使劲地看着群楼林立的宽广街道;
当车驶入人大西门,明德楼的威武,熙熙攘攘的人群,让我不自觉地开始兴奋;
当我踏入“东风破”宿舍的一瞬间,我闻到了一种“温馨”的香味。
钻进澡堂,用水冲净旅途狼狈;躲进留食,用最爱填饱肚子。
干干净净,舒舒服服的爬上床,开启电脑……是的,这里没有空调的冰镇,只有电风扇疲惫地转动;这里经常还有蚊子的光顾,只能以蚊帐为防,以花露水为治,可是这一切都抹不去我回家的欣喜。因为这里有我的气息,这里是属于我的天地,即使它再破再烂,它也是我大学四年最可依赖的港湾……
August 21
My work for training is going to the end. From the bottom of my heart, I am happy and glad as I can end this done-nothing life. In fact, I like working, like busy, like finding myself useful. Remembering doing the part-time last term, I am fed up with the achievement and devoted myself to the hard work though I must sacrificing much time and energy. Then I found I am flying in my broad sky freely. I enjoy that feeling. However, during this training, I find I am almost useless in the company, I can not quite successfully communicate with the foreigners, can not carry though the English-done job at all.
Of course, I have learnt many things in these 7 days: I have first known how the English put into everyday work and life, not like before only constantly studying English in the books. I have first made so many conversations with foreigners finding them more friendly than I thought especially Ahmet Kar. I have first entered the foreign company to understand how the office runs and what a administration assister does. I have learnt carefulness and responsibility from the employees especially Ms Chen. I have learnt so many business English words from the files of documents etc.
Only more than a day leaving, value ^ value ^ value
Come on, Lena! You have no choice that English will be together with you all your life!
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August 16
In CBI, I admired the ability of the employees, they speak English as smooth as Chinese, they devoted themselves to work ,so carefully ,so responsible,so lovely ^ ^^Of course ,I admire their high salaries. However, they sacrifice too much for it in my mind.
They always follow the big project as proceeding guerrilla warfare, a success war in a place after another success war in another place, moving from here to there constantly. They can't be together with their families, they must work many hours a day, they must be busy for company,they can't live a comfortable life as they would like to.
All day in the English world ,I want to speak Chinese now. 高收入真的是以高压力为代价的。工作上压力暂且不谈,自己必须翻山越岭的兢兢业业工作,离开温暖的家和家人,虽然帐户满满的,心里却空空的。Of course,这只是我的人生观和价值观,在他们很多人眼里,尤其是foreigners,他们热爱自己高节奏的生活,热爱自己旅游似的工作,四海为家,人人为友.
我是一个恋家的小孩,我爱“稳定”,我渴望依靠一个港湾,微风袭来,惬意非凡……这也许就是我从小就不consider foreign company 的原因吧!
August 15
I have never thought that I would work with a foreign company. However, it comes true remissly. Thanks to Dad, thanks to uncle YU, thanks to Ahmet, thanks to Chen, though I am not sure whether I should complaint about their offering me this opportunity. I am in a world where any Chinese word hardly is present and fed up with the strange business English. What I see and what I hear are exactly like what the TV series show.
That is a working day in CBI: at 6:40 the employees take buses (offices) and cars (bosses) to the site offices. The work starts and the busy starts at 7:30am. The leaders have a meeting once they come every morning. Then everyone is busy with computers and piles of documents, shuttling among the employees, dealing with the constant ringing call, receiving and sending the e-mails, signing on the documents etc. At 12:00am.they have fast food for lunch quickly and then not having a break, they go on working until 18:00pm.when the cars and the buses are ready to run on the back way. They can relax by themselves only by 19:00pm.What a full day, a tiring day, a busy day! Of course, they can gain big salaries. No gain, no pay!
I always use “they” above, not “we”, as I am unable to work and live like them now. I did not have the opportunity to be that before, I don’t have the ability to be that today and in the future I would not like to be that, perhaps. During these two days, I found, first time in my life, there is not only people with black hairs, black eyes and yellow skin, also many people with blue eyes and white skin & many people with black skin etc.around me. As we know, here English is the common language. What‘s worse, in my mind, the foreigners speak too quick and smooth, I can’t catch up with them. In fact, what they say is not difficult. But when they speak sentences after sentences without stopping, I am deaf, totally deaf~! Added I don’t realize the employees and I am not familiar with their names, so I can even do nothing except looking at Chen and Lily busy mostly all day. I don’t say so much English as I thought before because everyone is devoted to their own work with no time speaking with me often.
After all, entering CBI is a god-given & hard-won experience. Staying in the offices full of English is much more significative than abandoning myself to watching TV and chatting by QQ. Though working with a foreigner company may not be my choice in my life, I will still treasure this experience to learn English as I can. Moreover, the experience I won’t have aftertime is more valuable as it is the only. Only this time ^^^&