Hello, everyone! My name is Terrence Liu, typing this post in Queens, New York. From this journal on, I’m going to share  things about myself and let you experience something you’ve never had before. Feel free to have some music on, it’d be better if you listen to some music when you browsing blogs.

So starting from my name,  I was born with this Asian name, Zijian Liu that my parents gave me hoping me to be a healthy boy that grows strong like trees do. But after I immigrated to United States with my mom many years ago, I suddenly realized that no one could pronounce my name right and the situation becomes extremely awkward when teachers doing attendance in school, they always mispronounced my name. So I decided to give myself an American name so that it could be easier for people to say.

Coming to the United States has totally changed my life and shaped who I am. I still remember the first day I went to school, I didn’t speak a word whole day. I was scared for being in a new environment that was so unfamiliar to me. The teachers back then helped me a lot to get through those adjustments. Since then, I started to assimilate American culture and values, but at the same time, remain the virtues and culture that Chinese people share.

Now as a college student, I’ve come up to a bigger step in my life. I expect to not only receive a decent GPA during my college years, but learn to become better as a person in general. I also hope to find out what I truly love about and to consistently fight for that for my whole life. One thing I’m concerned about for my first semester is that I need to overcome my public-speaking anxiety in the communication course. We have several speeches to make in this semester and this will be a huge challenge for me!  Now I’m looking forward to the second semester because we could actually start to choose courses that we’d like to take.