In Chinese culture, most people are not good at talking about their feelings. So do I. My parents had told me that all I need to do is studying hard and live a better life than them. Except this, we were barely talk about feelings, emotions, psychological issues. Especially by the time when I was a young boy. Nowadays, Chinese parents are much better than before, they willing to tell their children they love him or her. And the children also will give them words back saying “I love you too”, and maybe their parents will give back a “I love you three”, and then there will be a “I love you four”. I think it was affected by the western culture. And here is the point, I always wanted to tell my parents that I love them, but now I am only able to tell my mom, because my dad past away few years ago. I will never get the chance again to tell him that I love him, so I am telling my mom that I love her a lot more often now.

I am not really a sports man, I don’t like sports. Especially when I was a in essential school, meddle school, high school and college. Pingpong was the only one I would play and what I was kind of good at. But playing pingpong is just for fun and not for building my body or to keep myself fit. Because I have always been thin, I mean kind of skinny. I know that is not good for a young, but parents in china at that time, they hadn’t been caring much about your body building, if you didn’t have health issues, you didn’t get sick, that would be enough. All they had been caring about is your homework, your exam score. So as a young boy I didn’t know what to do to build my body. But since I had graduated from college and have started to work, I’ve began to more conscious about myself. So I learned how to swim, and I’ve began to play badminton, and sometimes will go to the gym. I had been running twice a week for about a year, but then I felt my knees hurt sometimes, I believe it is because of the running, so I stopped doing it. Now, I play badminton twice a week. And plan to go swim once a week when the weather gets warmer.

My father was a physical education teacher when he was young, and had been coaching the volleyball team which my mom had been served for. They met there and fell in love with each other, finally they got married and had two boys me and my younger brother. As you know, China had been a poor country by the time I was born. People were still busy to improve their financial problem, many people even couldn’t get enough food. Even thought my family’s situation was better than that, but still a lot of people thought that education was useless, just a waste of money and the time of earning money. You just need to writing words and can do some math, that would be enough. instead, my father thought of it different way. He believe education is very important, and his children should got educated as much as possible. So I could read a lot of books which was my father bought me when other boys and girls busy with their family issues. And I believe because of my father, I was able to study more knowledge in college. So that I have the opportunity to see the bigger world now. I appreciate it a lot, and will keep the grateful mind with the entire time of my life.