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I have been in the States for about one month. Sometimes I still think I am in China, but on the second thought, OH! I am in America, all by myself. Maybe as a newly international student, what I have suffered till now is just “drizzle”, but at least I have got everything started, and enjoyed this sense of loneliness and success.

Fourteen hours of altitude flight, fifteen hours of having classes, seven hours of sleeping, three hours of eating, five hours of reviewing. If all the things can be calculated by time, how many hours will I spend by myself? In the airport alone, in the classroom alone, in the dorm alone, in the restaurant alone, in the library alone. If everything can be blogged by location, how many places will I be there alone? Even if in the 150-student lecture class, at the CSSA party, on the crowded MTD, in the weekend supermarket, the more people, the lonelier and helpless hit I feel. Loneliness is a person’s revelry, and revelry is s group of person’s loneliness.

I feel it is the end of the world once in a while. Every hardness floods to me in one second. The time of one class collide with that of another; there is no more vacancy on the course that I was supposed to register; there is an unknown problem with my bank checking account which will lead to the fail of transferring money from china; I just know the professor is talking, but I do not know what is he or she talking about; in the discussion section, I always fail to catch up others’ topics, and I am too nerves to talk loudly.

It is kind of I have turned this journal into a complaint, but the reason I can put those things in words is just I am gradually adjusted to my study and life here. Maybe there are still kinds of different problems I have to face, but at least, I know that I can handle everything indeed. I do not really care about what I did wrong today. After all, tomorrow is another day.

Hi welcome to my sally garden ~>-<~

Hey everyone! This is Xiaochen, or Christy. I am so glad meeting all of you on Wednesday. There is something you should know about me right off the bat.

I am from a small sea-side city in China -- Dalian. People often label Dalian with "amazing", but to tell you the truth: it has nothing good except the habitable weather and the peaceful sea. The ocean gives me an everlasting optimistic disposition. For me, everything will be better no matter how worse it is at the time and every good will last forever like what is in the fairytale. I like reading a lot. I really want to borrow some novels in the library, but because there are too many libraries on campus and I am too lazy to find the exact one, I have put off my reading plan for a while. I played violin since I was in grade three, but I stopped practicing three years ago. I think I will pick it up when everything get settled down here. And also, I like skiing very much, and I will try snowboarding this winter. My major is Agricultural & Consumer’s Economics. Not like finance in Business College, my major is aimed to help normal people and to work and communicate with people. I think I will have fun with my academic study.

Finally, welcome to my sally garden. Hope everyone will have good days this semester. God bless all of us.