Academic Enrichment Workshop Experience

Going into the Mason Hall to see Charles Li I thought it was going to be really boring.  Well, it was.  Charles Li seemed to be an interesting guy but I really did not want to be there that day.  I was really bored the whole day and just wanted to get out of school and relax.  So that gave me a bad mindset already.  For the most part I couldn’t even hear what was going on because so many people were talking and I was sitting near the exit.  I did hear some of the answers Charles Li gave to the students’ questions.  He went on about his life and laughed at his own comment.  One thing that he said that opened my eyes was that he enjoyed his life of poverty with his friends back then more than his life now. He said he cherished that life and it was home to the best experiences of his life.  I can see what he meant by that since you don’t know what you have until you lose it.  The same concept applied to Charles Li and he wouldn’t have been there if it weren’t for those experiences.  I respect him for that.  The workshop was an overall enlightening experience for me and i enjoyed seeing Charles Li.