Chinese Spring Festival

Jan.28 is the 2006 Chinese Spring Festival. I watched CCTV-4 for the Spring Festival Evening in the early morning here, which made me feel like that I was at home. I never paid attention on this Evening before, but now I like it, especially when I see Cui Yongyuan there this year. I like this guy, who has strong sense of humor. His previous Talkshow "Tell It As It Is" was very successful and popular in China at that time. That was my favourite TV program. I remembered it was alive every Sunday at 7am. I had to get up early to watch it, but I never missed it. After he stopped running this show because of his healthy, I didn't watch it anymore because it became boring. I was so excited when i saw him on TV that day.

Time flies. This year is my second year in U.S. Last Spring Festival, I was here alone preparing my first mid-term exam. I didn't have time to watch TV for this Evening. I felt so sad at that time because all my friends celebrated this tradtional festival with their family, but I had to study. Well, it is still nice to see the familar face, voice, and enjoy the popular songs, dancings and comic dialogue. This year, two comis dialogues are performed by people from my hometown, although I am not interested in their performance, I still like to see them there, especially their special Wuhan Mandarin.

I know many of my friends are the same as me, studying abroad and can not come back home. They may watch this Evening online, they may have no time to see it or busy for their part-time job, etc. Anyway, wish all my friends happy Spring Festival and when you feel lonely, look at the moon in the sky, because no matter where you are, you will see the same moon with everyone in this world. It is really a new year now! Year of Dog!

Econ Department at UNH

My friends always reminded me to update my blog, now I introduced all the graduate students from my department. Most of them were graduated last December. This picture was taken after last semester's seminar, when everyone was there.

First Row: Minghua, Aichatou, Celeste, Neonardo, Edinaldo, Matt, Tom

Second Row: Nevin, Ayse, Neshe, lovely Yin, Arpita, Edward, Sunil, Ricardo, Mike, Tim Page, Kelly, Andrea

Third Row: Dora, Dr. Collander, Scott, Tim Parker, Steve, David

Those are all the graduate students at UNH. Some of them are my classmates, and others are PH.D students in our department. We had a nice seminar with Professor Collander during the second semester. He is one of the most famous Economists in U.S. We enjoyed his speech at that seminar. His main field of interest is Macroeconomics, which is the field I like too.

Moving out from Babcock

I am finally moving out from Babcock this morning, which is the dormitory in our university. I lived here for one and half year. It is not a perfect place, because the room is so small and we have to share the kitchen and bathroom with other people. But for single person, it is enough. I have my own room and I can do whatever i want there. Moreover, my friends and classmates were all living there, so we can disturb each other and make fun with each other anytime. There were so many memories. I feel so sad when I move out right now. I realize that I am really graduated and will leave this place soon.

I caught a cold and then the fever came. I haven't had fever for nearly two years, and I even forgot how to take care of myself if I had a fever. I tried to use all ways my friends told me to make myself comfortable. I am now slowly recovering, but I still feel weak. My friends here were laughing at me. They said I was mental sick at the end of 2005, after my mental illness recovered, I was physically sick at the beginning of 2006. Now I don't have any illness. Finally, I am healthy. This is my first time suffering illness abroad. Now I survive and tomorrow is another day.

I am back to Durham!

I was finally coming back to Durham, a city of snow. I loved snowing here. I arrived in Boston yesterday afternoon. Boston was so cold, which made me freezing. I jumped from summer to winter. Today was sunny here, and the sky was so clear and nice. Someone made a snowman outside my room, which was huge. I felt so comfortable to be here because I was now becoming a country girl. I didn't like the crowd and noisy in the city, and I enjoyed the peace in countryside. I didn't know anything about fashion now, and I realized I was totally out of fashion after i came back from Los Angeles. My friends in China couldn't get on my blog at all, i didn't know why. What a pity. I really wanted them to share my happiness and sadness. Anyway, I knew there was a piggy somewhere could always get on this blog, which was awesome.

2006 New Year in New Hampshire!

Behind me was Hampton Beach, which was close to my university. Driving 30 minutes from campus, we can enjoy the view of Atlantic Ocean. I loved beach and ocean, enjoying swimming in the early morning in the sea and you would feel that the whole ocean belongs to you, which was really awesome. Unfortunately, it was too cold before the New Year, otherwise I would like to dig into the ocean. My friend Gianna had a romantic story here, so she wanted to take me here and shared her romantic story with her.

Right before the New Year of 2006, my friend Gianna took me to the downtown Portsmouth, which was an old and small town near our university. I loved this town so much, which always gave me a feeling of Europe. It was a town full of romantic. Having a cup of coffee Latee in the morning and enjoying the sun rising was my favorite moment here. The bridge behind me had more than 200 years, which still worked well now.

Celebration of my graduation!

My graduation party was right before Christmas, so we also celebrated our Christmas at the same time. My Greek friend Gianna was dressing traditional Japanese Kimono at that time!


My friends prepared a party to celebrate my graduation from my Master Degree in Economics. They made a small chocolate cake for me, which was really delicious. I ate the whole cake in this plate that day!

Thanksgiving!

Rika and I went to our American friend's Richard's house during Thanksgiving to have a traditional dinner. There was a big turkey behind me. We had salad first, and then turkey, which was really big and nice. After that, it was our favorite food: Pumpkin Pie! I love it!


The boat behind me was the May Flower Boat, which was the one the first British Immigrant used to come to U.S. in 18 Century. It was taken in Plymouth, Massachusetts. I was traveling there during this Thanksgiving!

Trip to North Carolina

The ocean behind me was Atlantic Ocean, the other side of this ocean was Europe. My friend Piggy and her potato were studying there. Maybe one day I could swim across this ocean and go to their animal zoo. I was in Atlantic Beach!

Celeste and I went to the Sarah P. Duke Garden, which would be more beautiful during the summer!

Last winter, I went to North Carolina with my friend Celeste. We went to the famous Duke University and the church behind me was the Chapel Hill in Duke!

Spring Break in Boston!

Last spring break, I went to Boston with my Japanese friend Rika, and she took this picture for me in Boston biggest shopping mall!

My pictures in New York city!

Standing with Status of Liberty!


My trip to New York city with my friend Jing, and Manhattan was behind me! It was summer 2005.

New Year in LA

I stayed in LA for 5 days. The weather here was nice and warm, which was the same as my hometown Wuhan in May. The smells in the street here were similar to the ones in Wuhan, smell of city. I felt familar with the environment here, but I still missed Durham. I loved the snowing there. I will take tomorrow's plane back to Durham, and now I am so excited. People's feeling was strange. Whenever they stayed in one place for a long time, they definitely had special feelings towards that place, no matter how they complained that place before. I complained Durham a lot when I first came to U.S. I disliked its quiet because I got used to the city life before; I disliked its cold and snow because I came from a warm place; I disliked the simple life there because my life was more colorful.

I spent my New Year's Day here with my friend. It was the same as New Year's Day in Wuhan. Young people went out together and stayed outside or in the bar, even it was raining outside. City was decorated and everywhere was crowded. It was totally different with the view in Durham, where people stayed at home with their family members and talked about their lives during the past year. To be exactly, life in Durham was more traditional, and life here was more modern. But maybe I am a tradtional person, I still like the traditional life style. I like the way American families celebrate their Christmas. All the family members came back home and had dinner together, they talked about their lives and news. You could feel the love between family members. They loved their families and families were their whole life.

I create my own blog

I always promise my friends to create my own blogger and put some pictures here, but I am too busy for my economic theories. Now the theory part is ended, the practical part is coming out. My dear friends can see my life in U.S now. They will have no reason to complain about my laziness anymore.

I am now in Los Angeles with my favorite guy Jack Bauer in 24 Hours. I am spending my last winter break here and enjoy the warmth and sunshine here. Getting out from the cold weather for a week and enjoy the warm New Year here. When I got out from Durham, where my university located, it was snowing heavily there. But here is another world although it is still in U.S. The weather is always sunny, and warm. Can you imagine the summer in January? It is LA. It is a city of cars. You can not live here without cars. It is amazing.

Give some comments here no matter English or Chinese. Happy New Year!