Author Archives: XIUYAN JIANG

The experience of this first semester of my college life left me the only feeling that is really tired. The college life is really different as my high school. There is more reading, writing, and more assignment that I had to done for each class. Every day I need to get up at 7:30, and go home at 4:30.  After that, I need to look after my children, and do house works. Finally, I do my homework around 11:30, when my children go to sleep. Sometimes, I just want to give up everything, because it is really tiring. I just wonder that when I can have enough sleeping time. However, I always tell myself, that is what the life I have been chosen, I cannot be regret, and the only thing I can do is keep forward.   

The experience of this first semester of my college life left me the only feeling that is really tired. The college life is really different as my high school. There is more reading, writing, and more assignment that I had to done for each class. Every day I need to get up at 7:30, and go home at 4:30.  After that, I need to look after my children, and do house works. Finally, I do my homework around 11:30, when my children go to sleep. Sometimes, I just want to give up everything, because it is really tiring. I just wonder that when I can have enough sleeping time. However, I always tell myself, that is what the life I have been chosen, I cannot be regret, and the only thing I can do is keep forward.   

focus2   To understand myself better, to know which kinds of major, or things that are interesting to me. I am planing to be a accounting, so my major I think will be accounting CPA.  to participate in focus 2, I can know, what is the future step for me to achieve my susses.

I migrated from China with my family on May 28^th, 2009. Life has been changed when I moved to America since everything was totally different as in my hometown, and I felt that was most challenging time of my life. This took me a long time to acclimatize the new environment. After one year, everything was getting on the right track, but I felt certainly responsible to myself and my family. At present, I have to take care of my children, and think of their future, and I don’t have that much free time. I need think how to feed my children and my family. I know my mother is exhausted with my children, when I go to school, she need to take care them. I really appreciate about my mother’s sacrifice. In addition, I don’t think that I am good-tempered. I was not that respect to my mother, especially when I was so tired. It is impossible for me to sleep very well at night, and so many things I need to be response, so does my mother. Sometimes, I just felt which way is belong to me? How can I choose my life? Is that right way for me? Do I need to keep in that way? Where is my future? And so on… I know that is the life I have been chosen, there is no way to whip round, and it is useless to regret. In fact, I know that is not so good, but sometimes I just couldn’t control myself. I really felt sorry about that. I don’t want my mother felt unhappy. She sacrifices herself for our family so many years, without any complain. How about me? For now, I did not give back anything to her, except burdens. When I asked her, what do you want? Her answer always is as long as you all fine with everything. Then I will tell her, if one day, she leaves, how can I alive without her. My mother is most important than every person, and everything for me. I love her.

I have been here for almost 4 years. Meanwhile, I became a Baruch’s student for exactly one month which means I have reached my college dream, because I had no chance to attend a college in China. However, college courses are very challenging and different as my high school. As shown in the photos, the professor usually keeps talking and talking, there is a series of note we need to write down and organize by ourselves. In addition, there are bunch of readings and writing assignments that we need to finish in each week. The most anguished thing, I had experienced in, is waiting for a train. There is always a problem causes the train to delay and we need to wait for a train about half hour sometimes. In those photos, you can see many people are waiting for the train. On other hand, the lucky thing is that I have a lovely baby although he took over the most time of me. As a result, I have an extremely busy month as shown in my calendar. In the meantime, I really appreciated about my mother’s sacrifice which helps me to look after my baby when I was going to school.  By the way, 10 February is Chinese New Year. I celebrated with my family, and we had a wonderful dinner together. For the New Year, I hope everyone to be healthy and happy.