Friday, August 29, 2008

An open letter to Pever --- my way of making friends

Hi,Pever:
I am a Chinese student study in BUAA(Beijing University of Aeronaut and Astronaut,北京航空航天大学). I don't known whether you will receive this e-mail because I find your information from your blogger which you haven't write anything for more than one year. The reason why I write this e-mail to you is that you are interested in China, you learn Chinese, and you are in the Air Force, a field quite familiar to me for the character of my university.
In a word, I'd like to make friend with a person like you. It's really cool to be in the Air Force, seeing the planes taking off and landing. Although I study in BUAA, my major is Software Engineering which has little with military affairs. My sister's family moved to Florida, I miss her very much. My parents want me to study abroad to expand my horizon. My sophomore is just finished, I have only one year to improve my English. There are so many things I should prepare for graduate admission examination such as GRE, TOFEL. But it's so boring to recite words like daguerreotype, deactivate...So I think making friends with Americans maybe could ease the pain somehow. I like to make friends with everybody who has a kind heart and wants to communicate to share thoughts and ideas.
I am a shy person to strangers and very talktive to friends. I like to try different things. This summer vocation, the Beijing Olympic Games was held just near by where I live---BUAA, whose gym held the Olympic weight lifting Games and where the first gold medal of China was born and I watched some of the Games like the basketball game between Iran and Argentina. Although I am not a volunteer for the Beijing Games, I am always having a warm heart to people all around the world. My girlfriend, who is a volunteer for Beijing Games introduced three Korean visitors to me. It's the first time to visit China for all of the three girls who live in Soul. I really think it a pleasure to me to guide these girls around Beijing. I guided them to eat Chinese troditional food, go shopping, and some of famous universties of China like Tsinghua. I can feel very satisfied when looking at their smiling faces.
I lived in a seaport at my youth. When I was a child, I often went to the beach looking at the Pacific Ocean and feeling the moist wind from the sea. I wonder what's the world is like at the other land. Can I make friends with them. So I made a drift bottle,with a message saying" My name is Taoxu, I come from China, can I make friends with you?" I threw it with great efforts and prayed someone could pick it up. When I grow a little older, I know at the other side of the Pacific Ocean is a nation called America. So it's easy to understand why I am so happy to guide the Korean travellers. I think they are just the guest at the other side of the sea. And these days, in order to communicate with them well, I begin to study Korean all by myself. I can pronounce almost all the Korean although I don't know the meaning of the words. However, English is the language I learned from primary school. I have enough confidence to communicate with Americans. I think English is a language easy to begin but hard to conque, and Chinese is just the oppisite case.
Pever, you and I are of the same age, I think you are sunshine through the pictures. If we become friends, how happy I would be when I come to American a year later.
It's quite weird and somehow embarrasing to write this e-mail just like a resume and autobiography. And one thing concerns me is that I am not sure if you'd like to make friends with a guy you even don't know. If my concern is true, please just forget my e-mail that bothers you.
Best wishes!祝你万事如意!


John

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

You're a Chinese,rite? I'd like to make friends with you though I have never been to China. Have you prepared everything for your next year in US?

FlyingRabbit said...

Hey, there. Thanks for your comment. I'd like to make friends with you, too. But you are anonymous, I can't find any spot to contact you. I'm a Chinese and I study and live in Beijing now.

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