I arrived at home with three fellows early last morning. We went to a restaurant immediately when we got out of the car. Thanks to a fellow from Guoyang( a nearby county),his uncle sent us home on the automobile.
Driking the sa soup for the first time in the past four months,we happily talked about the great taste of the food of hometown which is not seen in Beijing.
As a matter of fact,the meals in the past two days have always been the most delicious I’ve ever had. Maybe because of the deep mood of homesickness, after all it’s the first time I’ve ever been away from home for such a long time with no families around.
Tired of the noisy streets and unpleasant food at cafeteria, I seem to be fond of everything at home. This afternoon, I and Yoghurt (my high school classmate) went to our high school, encountered the two old classmates who’re still now preparing for the 2nd University entrance examination ,and had dinner with them at the dining hall. The ever usual food which was thought to be terrible now became that delicious. I still regard it as a effect of homesickness. Just now,Zhang Haoran was telling me it was hard for him now to have any food at his university’s cafeteria.
Still,as there’re more classmates and old friends are coming back,we’ll have more chances to gather. Without any pressure now, hometown is the paradise for those who’ve been traveling so far that long.
Moments ago I’ve just finished reading all the required passages of the Readings from English Media which is a book of one of our courses. It’s a pity that I didn’t even listen to one episode of the lessons given by Mrs. Zhuang carefully,nor did I read any of the passages devotedly.
All my reviewing this book has been taking me only half a month, anyway maybe even shorter.
January,4th will be the exam day of this course which is also the first day of my final week. Just in two weeks,I’ll finish my final of the first semester at university which seems has faded that rapidly. I’ve written into detail in my Chinese weblog of my summary of 2009. Seperated into two halves by the National Matriculation Test,my 2009 looks a bit tremendous or anyway incredible. Because this year runs across two absolutely different periods of time also two absolutely different worlds. Ever I said that ‘to most of my classmates ,maybe coming to Beijing means coming to another city, but to me,it means coming to a different world’. Having been living in a small county for 18 years,getting used to the life in a big city can be a tough journey,though I’m quite accustomed to everything here after struggling for about 4 months. What’s a bit surprising is that there’re many peopel here doing business or working in the dining halls who come from my hometown or just nearby. The benefit is that the dishes they cook taste familiar.
Decades ago, when the first radios and TVs came to normal Chinese people’s homes,people became curious looking at those strange machines which produce human voices and vivid pictures.They just turned around to the back of the radio or the television to see if there’s somebody behind. To me there’s a metaphor here,that my coming to Communication University of China is just doing this action. I come to behind the television. Because the bulk of those working in the field of media and communication in China mainland graduate from CUC. I came here, and saw how they’re raised also my experience of encountering many famous actors and hosts has got me realized how the television programs are made and who made them.
However, what’s brought to me is not the pride of these encounters,but the responsibility I’m going to take in future. Because ,I know that the public get to know the outside world through media, newspapers or televisions, traditional media or new one. Especially in small places where people barely get connected with the outside world in other ways, televisions could be anyway the only way for them to get in touch of the outside circumstances. So, if those report it without any sense of responsibility, it means a cheat.
It happend to remind me of Tusa’s speech in October. Though anyway he might have a little bit complaint about something or political intention. But it’s true that journalists have the responsibility though it means menace to the personal security at times.
Sticked to mydesk is a piece of paper countering days to go before back home which displays 2 weeks. They’re also the two examination weeks. I don’t know why the desire for going back home has diminished past the previous two weeks,maybe due to the business in reviewing my notes. I’ve no idea. But it’s true for those who’ve been long and far away from home that they understand more about the importance of a family and value it more.
Just as the saying goes, maybe the long march to the distance does not only build up the tiredness of traveling, but also adds some sweetness of home-sickness.
The admissions office enrolled some volunteers that will hold a series of propagandas at local high schools during the winter holiday. And I signed up .
We had a meeting last night of the whole team including every provincial group. Our group – Anhui group has 9 ,but only 6 of us attended because last night was christmas night… Maybe they just had some gatherings. At least ,I met some fellows who’re from the same province. After the meeting four of us had a dinner together and we went to have hot pot.
I have been under consideration of a good plan for our propaganda. In fact, CUC is quite less-known in my town though it’s anyway an awesome university. Most students would not choose CUC as their first choice because they know little about it. That’s a pity. CUC has always been an important strength for the development of China’s media.
I’ve thought up with many plans ,however, today I just realized some of them are not that realistic. The admissions office didn’t not offer us enough materials for propaganda,there’re only 5 colored propaganda brochures per volunteer and the leaflets are very few, too. So it’s the first difficulty for us to copy them as school offers no money for this.
Secondly, if I wanna put on some advertisements on TV or through Radio,it’ll cost a lot of money which’s beyond our expectaton. And I got to know that just moments ago. But I still hope that some friends will help out.
The materials include little content. That’s a shortcoming. So I downloaded some interesting podcasts and video clips of our school activities. I think that’ll just work effectively.
The school song MV has always been a big hit as it includes many famous TV hosts and hostress who’re the graduates from our university. And I’m sure it will be an absolutely important part.
Though there’re difficulties and challenges, maybe it’ll also be the less effective than I thought it would be, I’m still confident and determined to do it well. For the love of our university CUC.
Not knowing why I create this english weblog, I just set up it here.
I’ve ever had some blogs written in english, but never updated regularly which made them look like just rubbish cans.
Well, their looking like rubbish cans may be my fault as I just wanted to post some BIG news there ,for my motivation was to make them like a news site which offers China news. However, soon I realized the personal effort may be just as tiny as an ant’s. So I gave up soon.
It’ll be realistic to write more about personal life or things around me .
Thanks for visiting , my dear visitor.
