http://angeles.sierraclub.org/news/SS_2010-02/farewell.asp

Southern Sierran
Chapter Bids Farewell To Intern Jenifa Chan 
by Maddalena Serra
Conservation Coordinator

A Social Sciences student at Lingnan University in Hong Kong and a W.T. Chan Fellowships Program Student with Lingnan Foundation, Jenifa Chan began her internship with Sierra Club Angeles Chapter five months ago. Her interest in non-profit management and organization brought her to us. During her internship, she observed the workings of the Chapter, attended many meetings, and contributed greatly to the Water Committee�s ongoing project of gathering and evaluating water conservation ordinances in Los Angeles and Orange Counties. Jenifa will return to Hong Kong, where she lives with her family. We look forward to hearing about the non-profit organization she will one day manage.

Hi! My name is Jenifa Chan Cheuk Lai, a sociology graduate of Lingnan University in Hong Kong, China. As our school motto is "Education for Service", I am a current Chan fellow of the W.T. Chan Fellowships Program, support by Lingnan Foundation. It is a 6 month service-oriented Fellowships in the United States and its purpose is to enhance our appreciation of the opportunities for career or volunteer community service, to stimulate new ideas about the theory and practice of service work, and to broaden educational and international understanding. Now I am interning with two organizations in Los Angeles: Sierra Club and the Venice Family Clinic.

Living and working in a foreign country for 6 months will inevitably teach you how to communicate, be patient, work together and reflect on oneself. I learned many things about what can be accomplished when people work together towards a common goal. Like us the nonprofits, we work for the public good. It is astonishing when you work with people who share the same mission as you, like what I learnt about environmental advocacy here. As a Conservation Program Intern at Sierra Club, I work on the Water Conservation Ordinance Research Project, to grade cities in Los Angeles County and Orange County on their water conservation practices. I have also worked on the Recycling Ambassador Program with the Zero Waste Committee. I gained practical experience in service work from my supervisors and colleagues.

Things here in the U.S. – the language, the culture, the food, and the people – are different from Hong Kong. Living in a diverse city like Los Angeles gives us the chance to interact with people from multi- cultural, ethnic, social and economic backgrounds. It is a smaller globe which allows me to meet people from all over the world. At the clinic, I am glad that I can communicate with the Latino patients in their mother tongue, Spanish, in order to know about their lives here in the U.S., which is different from what I learnt about Latin-American culture while I was studying in Mexico. Also, it is interesting to meet a lot of Asians who can speak perfect English, and to visit places such as China Town and Korean Town. These strong communities in Los Angeles let us know how American Chinese, American Korean etc. live in the U.S.

The working culture in the U.S. is the thing I appreciate the most. People believe change is natural and positive, cooperative work as a team, and they are direct and open. I experienced these in different staff meetings, committee meetings, subcommittee meetings, and meetings with other organizations and coalitions. Like the mission of Sierra Club, “to explore, enjoy, and protect the wild places of the earth”, spreads across the country and we all work towards a better planet for people to live. The cohesiveness between people from different organizations, cities, states or even countries work together towards a common goal is the most amazing power in human beings.

Without the support and encouragement from Lingnan Foundation, UCLA Dashew Center and UC-Berkeley Cal Corps, my supervisors and colleagues at Sierra Club and Venice Family Clinic, my host family, and the Lingnan trustees and alumni, I would not have gone through the program. After this journey, obstacles that were thought to be insurmountable become small, and material things become less important. It is amazing how so much can be learned in such a short span of time. I am still overwhelmed with the things I have accomplished and realized.

发现大家都很爱我的乱涂鸦的final presentation，不如把它贴出来，附送超时演讲稿。

Ever since I know I am going to give a no more than 7 minute presentation on my life as a Chan Fellow, I can't help but thinking, what can I say besides what I have been saying, to my dear Fellows and friends, supervisors and colleagues, host family, Lingnan trustees and alumni. How can I better, express my greatest gratitude and appreciation to all of you sitting here smiling to me. How can I present how much this program has enlightened me the significant meanings of relationship, friendship, fellowship, ownership, leadership and citizenship. So I decided to do something a bit different. In the following 6 minutes, you will see some awful drawings by which I try to tell you the small but beautiful things I have noticed, beyond my ability to articulate, that continuously reveal the inherent connections within us on this planet.

They are three words that I didn't know about America.

First is SHARE.

To share means let someone else have something that belongs to you.Internet and Web 2.O give impetus to facilitating sharing tremendously that bring the idea of share to a whole new level. I learned from Americans that share can let meanings flow and thoughts exchange. These two generate communication.
Through communication people see the differences between ones and others. The coming out contrast can provoke the critical questions: Why are they doing that while we are doing this? The seeking of answers leads to self-reflections. By reflecting one can perfecting flaws and exploring potentials.
The answers, nonetheless, sparkle with inspirations. All too often, in the world of social entrepreneurships, the innovative approaches to social problems are inspired by different interdisciplinary understandings and practices. 

Sharing is also the great search engine for the like-minds for which we can see the incredible similarities between us regardless of who we are and where we from. the sharing beliefs and interests bring people work together towards common good.
This brings up my second word: COLLABORATE

I didn't believe in individual power in terms of changing the world. But what I've seen as a Chan Fellow has changed my thoughts. Out of curiosity and under the encouragement from my host mom MK and host sister Brittany, I went to volunteer for Revolution, the annual bike ride fundraiser event for Bay Area Outreach & Recreation Program promoting disability awareness. there were 286 total riders, including my dear friend Mickey and his families and Ben, my supervisor from VIA. Up to date, this year's event has brought in over $233,650. And Ben, raised around 1000 to buy an adaptive bicycle for GETCH, a small English training school for physical disabilities in GZ. It was 101.5° that day, he rode 100 miles for 7.5 hours on a crappy bike without much previous training. I don't know what is going to happen after the appearance of this possibly the first adaptive bicycle in GZ on the busy streets. But I would never, never, underestimate the power of collective, organized actions of individuals as I described above.

Collaborating for something we are striving for happens here everyday. VIA is an organization dedicating to increasing understanding between US and Asia through public service and programs promoting cross-cultural education. This is a scene of VIA SF office the other day. Michael our ED, Kirsten our FD, Ben PD and me SI (SI is for aesthetic consideration to keep 2-letter titles uniform) were sitting together working on a big project, very critical to future development of VIA: folding donation letter envelops. In this working across oceans organization with only 10 people,including me, we need to work on a lot things together to achieve our goals. and it's the support from people who recognize our mission that put our effort into actual changes.  

From there comes my third word, SUPPORT

It's supports I've had that brings me here today, standing and talking to you. 

Before this program, I am already a beloved kid receiving countless support from my cool parents. I was laughing but deeply touched when my Mom said the other day:"I probably won't be able to tell families and friends what you are doing for life for couple of years and I may not be entirely happy with what you want to do, but your father and I will support you as always. " Same as my closest friends despite the fact that they never really know why I went to Tibet, Sichuan and then even jumped on the plan to US. I am also thankful to my teachers in SYSU that always lavishly offer me help and advises. 

Supports continue on the other side of earth. My dear host mom MK shows me how one person can be of great value to one's community by caring about not only oneself. you are home to me .in America. I will run all the way back home after a long day of work and commute because I miss your greeting "how's your work today?" also Meg's enthusiastic barks.

I came here for service-learning in higher education. I'm so lucky to be a student of UC Berkeley, a school greatly values public awareness and service and Cal Corps provides me rich opportunities to pursuit my aspiration. We love you Suzan!

I am so fortunate to work with VIA folks. You are exceptional individuals. You are vivid example of people working for what they believe and have passion for. 

The people I met here, according to all the great dinners and late night serious conversations, I firmly believe that you are my lifelong friends and buddies.

For my dear Fellows, Ping, Doris, Frances, Moni and Julian. you are my Chan Program huge bonus.

Above all, the fundamental support bringing all these into being is Lingnan Foundation. It is Lingnan Trustees, Alumni, Leslie and Hil and great people that designed and operate this program giving me this invaluable opportunity. It is your trusts, your efforts, your love that make me who I am today. 

It's you who keep me running. Now I'm not afraid of being different and I know I'm not alone on the road. At this moment I'm thinking about how to  reciprocate all these blessings through personal actions. My final project about implementing service-learning in higher education in China is my first attempt of passing on your support.

Thank you all for your loving care and generous tolerance of my immaturity. Wish happiness always be with you as what you have brought to me. 

That is all for my presentation today, thank you!

Experience Diversity in Los Angles, U.S.

Being in Los Angeles is just like standing in front of the mirror, I start to know who I am little by little.

Being in United States is just like standing outside of my mind, I gradually feel what my country is.

Not so diverse in China

From the aspects of population and land area, China has sufficient reasons to be more diverse than United States. That's because 1.3 billion populations and the land area which larger than U.S.'s often, means more possibility have more kinds of races, cultures.

 Nevertheless, in fact, it's not. Although China has 55 minority races, and the government tries to conserve the diversity of the race and culture, the Han Race culture which has the dominant population in this country, still dominate the society. Just like United States, China has many conservation areas for the minority, while provides a lot of policy and support for them to develop. Still, due to the influence of economy and modern culture, most of the minority races are not be able to resist the change. Therefore, their clothes, behavior and appearance are almost the same with Han Race.

 Here's some phenomenon that can prove that all the Chinese are quite similar to some extent.

Firstly, we can use the same language: Chinese. Some minority races have their own languages. But in order to communicate, and the compulsory education includes the lesson to teach Chinese, most of the minority races can use Chinese.

Secondly, we can speak the same dialect. We have different kinds of dialects around the country, and on the account of the huge differences between the dialects, we seldom can understand other dialects. But, benefited by the compulsory education, everyone needs to learn the same dialect: Mandarin.

 Thirdly, the majority of the Chinese is Han Race. From ancient China to modern China, though Han race have a period time that governed by the other race, Han race has been the dominant force in this area with a large population and strong culture. Nowadays, 95% of the Chinese is Han Race. And the rest of Chinese often, have some relations with Han Race by marriage. That result in the situation that Chinese looks like the same.

 In conclusion, due to many factors, in China, diversity usually means different personality, not the traditional culture and race.

 Diverse Los Angeles

Although I only have been in Los Angeles for almost 2 months, the diversity of this city still surprises me.

 First of all, many Chinese Americans use the bilingual language fluently. The day I arrive in L.A., in the LAX airport and UCLA, two different people, one is old and the other is young, ask me the same question:"Where are you from?" and after that, talk with me in Mandarin fluently. At the same time, they both speak fluent English. And later, when I met more Chinese Americans, the same situation keeps on happening.

 Secondly, you cannot judge people's identity by their appearance. In China, when you see someone just like yourself, you can talk with them in Chinese. But in U.S, that may be totally different. I have noticed many kinds Asians just like me, but found out that they were Korean, Japanese or Chinese American who can only speak English.

Thirdly, many races have their own strong communities. It's quite surprise to see a large area of Los Angeles full of other language: Korean town with Korean, Japanese Town with Japanese and so on. Once, I have stayed in Alhambra for 4 days. During that time, I don't need to speak English because everybody there speaks Chinese. In addition, I don't need to read English. The Chinese words there often twice or tipple larger than the English words.

Last but not least, it's also surprise to know that the population is so diverse: more than half of that are Ladinos while the Asians have quite a large population. In my mind, American is more like Caucasian. In fact, I am wrong. The Americans can be every single race in the world. The conclusion in my mind is that, Americans means nationality more than other things including race and culture. 

November 12 – 18, 2009

The last week we were busy with the “moving party” at the clinic. We asked help from the volunteers to relocate the offices, since some people will leave very soon. There’s a lot to prepare for a successful event, even so, there’s uncertainty too. What we can do is to define our goals, try our best to plan ahead to meet the desire outcome, and predict the possible problems. That’s why I am always excited about day events like this, it’s challenging.

On Friday night, our colleagues Minh and Vu were so nice to treat us at a Korean Barbeque Restaurant in Korean Town. We ate a lot of beef, drank a lot of Soju and talked about crazy things. (I guess some of us get drunk?) After the dinner, they brought us to the Griffith Observatory. It’s cold up there but the night view of Los Angeles is so beautiful. It also reminds me the night view of Hong Kong, but of course they are different. Buildings in Los Angles are shorter, so they make the view “wider”, and with sparkling freeways and highways. While the skyscrapers in Hong Kong are mostly built on the mountain, therefore it’s not as “tidy” as Los Angeles, but with more layers, and the reflection on Victoria Harbor is very pretty too. Hong Kong, a place that I realize I love her so much more than ever when I am here living in another country…

Back to the Observatory, it’s a very educational. There are exhibitions about astronautics, space, planets etc. I dreamt to be an astronaut when I was a child but now I think it’s too lonely to work in the space, which I don’t think I’d like it. We also went to the planetarium for a show, namely “center of the universe” and it’s about stars and zodiac. But my friend Minh was felt asleep during the show! And I heard his snoring, haha… After that we drove along Hollywood and Sunset, both are bustling streets with clubs and bars. It’s a great day and I promised them if they go to Hong Kong, I will show them around definitely.

On Saturday, I went on hiking at Topanga State Park with the Sierra Club. It’s a very nice day and I met a lot of new friends from different backgrounds but we share the same interest in common: we like hiking. It’s a big group of 18 people. We first drove along the PCH to Topanga Canyon, and the costal view was just gorgeous. The trail is an easy one, and we talked a lot on our way to the peak. At the peak, we saw different parts of LA: LA downtown, Sunset, Santa Monica, Pacific Palisades, Brentwood etc. It’s also funny that I met two guys who went to Inca Trail before! And their suggestions are very helpful. I should go to some altitude training before I set off for Peru…

According to the information provided online, there should be a church which is close to my new homestay, but I can’t find it. Then I went back to the church in Culver City which I used to go every Sundays, even the bus ride takes an hour and a half. After the church Pastor Max brought me to his son piano recital performance. No matter how they play (they are not “professionals”), the parents would clap their hands without a doubt. I really appreciate this opportunity for the kids to perform and gain confidence, it’s encouraging. 

I watched a movie namely “No Impact Man” on Tuesday night. It’s a documentary about how an environmentalist and his family live without impacting the planet. It’s very funny and also inspirational indeed. Sometimes Melnitz shows really good movies, thanks Shideh for your information! =)

 最近收到一位同学的询问,觉得问题很有代表性,也是我当时申请时遇到的一些问题.尽我所能回答一下吧.

1.你觉得要申请成功,最关键在哪里?

我觉得申请成功的关键在于你要比别人更清楚你申请这个项目的目的.这个项目是培养NGO或具有NGO精神的领导者.如果对NGO不感兴趣的话,来到这边实习和生活也许会觉得没有想象中精彩.每天要上班,有时还要去参加有关服务学习的会议.一坐就是八个小时.但对这方面很有兴趣,就会非常享受在这边学习的过程.一旦你了解到自己为什么要申请这个项目,了解到自己对NGO的哪个范畴有兴趣,而不仅仅是为了免费去美国,在填写申请和面试的时候就会很清晰,也很自然会有自己的闪光点.

2.推荐人是找老师吗?还是找实习的单位的老板?找一个推荐人还是找两个好一点呢?

推荐信可以找老师也可以找与你工作过的人吧.我找的是老师.但这个老师要对你有一定了解,特别是课外活动方面的.如果你能找到你做过志愿者组织的领导帮你写推荐信就更好了.总之推荐信与申请表要相得益彰,两份材料合起来体现出你丰富的实践经验和决心.一个人就够了.

3.推荐信要写多少页呢?

我觉得是不要太长,但一定要有POINT. 我的是后来被老师改成一页半,A4,1.5倍行距.

4.去到那边有什么类型的实习岗位可以选择呢?

实习的机构是根据的你的兴趣来分配的.所以这也是为什么我说你要清楚自己的兴趣所在.其实整个申请的过程都会被问到你到底想在什么样的NGO实习.入选之后,在美国会有专业的老师帮我们寻找实习机构,她会跟你沟通哪些是你可以去的,你可以跟她讲哪些是你想做的.只要你对NGO有兴趣,这边有各种类型的机构.所以不用担心找不到你想实习的机构.

5.在准备申请材料的时候,要注意什么呢?

我想要注意的是要认真对待吧.我英语不算好,反复写材料用了两个月.再加上写材料的时候本身就是一个反观自己生活的过程,梳理这些年来自己做了什么,为什么做.总之就是要放自己的经历进去,不要假大空.

6.是两轮面试吗?面试官会问一些什么问题呢?

有两轮面试.第一轮是小组讨论,就一个话题.进了第二轮的就是单独面试.小组讨论的问题每年不一样,我那小组问的是如果你有一笔资金在中国建一个NGO,你会做什么.第二轮的我只对自己的面试有发言权吧.问题都是针对我的材料的.所以自己一定要了解自己的材料,因为第二轮面试是他们想要更多地了解你,看你是否适合这个项目,但究竟什么人适合这个项目是很不明确的.因为选出来的人是完全不一样的同学.也许他们也想要有各种不同的人成为陈氏学者吧.所以只要做自己就好了.

7.在面试之前我要准备一些什么呢?

如果能进入面试就是成功的一大步了!要准备的就是熟悉自己的申请材料,多读读英语让口语流利些.

8.陈氏奖学金一般会选择什么类型的人呢?

8像6回答一样的.真的是完全不同的人.所以我也不知它想要怎样的人.但我可以肯定的一定是自信,知道自己想要什么,对我们社会有责任感的人

November 5 – 11, 2009

It's very nice to have fresh coffee every morning in my new host family. I enjoy my stay here more than I expected. Baked bagels and blueberry yogurts are my favorite breakfast from now on. The bus to UCLA is just right there at the corner, not even with a minute walking distance. And the bus ride only takes 20 minutes to arrive at UCLA terminal. This week seminar's topic is about working culture here in the U.S., introduced by Bob. Although I haven't been working in HK/China at all, I can imagine that it would be very different. The seminar helped us to understand more the cultural difference here in the workplace. I found it's very useful. 

Thais, my housemate, is a 23-year-old Brazilian girl. We get along well as we share a lot of interests in common. Every night we stay in the living room with our laptops, and chat for hours about our lives, our countries, our stay here, and all kind of stuff. We also like detective movies and we watch together sometimes. I have another housemate, Maisey, which I like her a lot too. She is a chocolate labrador retriever, who always jumps to me when I get back from work. She licks me a lot too, my hair and face, which I still need time to cope with that. But she is a very cute and good girl, I am really glad that having her around.

At the Sierra Club, I finally learnt how to score the water ordinance. George taught me about the score sheets and now I started working on that. It's a big step forward to my project. It's harder but it's also more challenging than before. At the clinic, we are very busy all the time. Recently we are busy with the "moving party", the staff rooms need to be rearranged. We are now organizing a one day event to get things done with the help of the volunteers. I hope it will work out fine.

On Saturday we went to China Town for the luncheon with the Lingnan Alumni. We had a lot of Chinese food and presents! I won a can of Loca candies, which is my favorite, and other fellows also won something in the lottery. The alumni treated us so well and we had lots of fun. We also went to UCLA basketball game on Tuesday night and we were so lucky (thanks Jimmie!) that we sit very close to the court. The game was exciting, the cheerleaders are so pretty and talented, and the band was cool too that they played a lot of nice music. 

During my spare time, it's always nice to play piano after the stressful day at work. I haven't played it for years, since I went to college. But now I want to play it everyday, can't explain why though. 

On the other hand, I watched TV sometimes and found that the TV programs here are very violence, bloody, and the victims are usually women, who are being beaten up or even murdered. Just wonder if this is one of the reasons why crime rate is high here.

呢排时不时会收到师弟师妹既email，询问有关陈氏奖学金既申请事项，贴出同大家分享下啦。

Hi Ms Ma,

I am happy to know you are interested in applying for the 2010 W. T. Chan Fellowships Program. Please always feel free to ask any question via email and I'll try to get back to you as soon as possible. For starters, I would recommend you to do these following things first:

1.       Details about the program can be found on these websites:

         Chan Program Application: http://www.iiehongkong.org/wtchan/

          Lingnan Foundation: http://www.lingnanfoundation.org/

2.       List out what you need and what you want to achieve; check that whether this program matches with your academic and career goals as well. Take it as a double-way choice.

3.       List your questions and interests. Try to answer them with your experiences and understandings based on the information you discovered from any resources. I am all ears to that and would like to share with you mine anytime. (Google is an important and useful tool for you to figure out the unknown.)

4.       Think about advantages and disadvantage. For example, if you are applying in your senior year, you will stay in the US for your first half of your graduate year, which means you’re going to miss a lot of good opportunities for job interviews in big companies like P&G, KPMG, PWC, etc. Fellows who encountered the same situation all think it’s worthy to join the Chan program, thought. I could only say it’s a personal choice. Try to think about that. But if you are considering going for a master program, there will not be such conflicts.

5.       A good letter of recommendation is very important. Ask a teacher or friend who knows you very well to write you one.

6.       It would be great if you have participated in some kinds of community services. If not, enrich yourself with more knowledge in that field will help a lot. The interview will emphasize on your previous experiences as well as your personal action plan in the future.

7.      Work on your English.

The application will end in January, but it's always good to be an early bird. Good luck and I am open to more questions.

Best,

Frances

Jenifa's Weekly Reflection Vol. 5

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Retreat at Berkeley/Oakland/San Francisco

It’s a 4-day retreat program from October 23 to 26. Out flight to Oakland would depart at 3pm therefore I left home at 11:30am for the bus rides. I am living in Culver City and it shouldn’t take a long time to go to the airport since they’re quite close. But the airport bus 439 made me insane because I was waiting for it for 45 minutes and it didn’t come at last. I took another bus and finally arrived at 1pm.

Everything seemed familiar because I have been to LA before. After check-in I waited for another 2 hours to get on the plane. I met other fellows but we couldn’t sit together because it’s Southwest. Anyway the pacific coastline and the endless beaches are very pretty when we’re in the air. Ingrid lent me her portable DVD player so I could enjoy Twilight during the flight. But I couldn’t finish it because the flight only took an hour and we arrived at 4:15.

The Oakland airport is pretty nice that you can see the San Francisco Bay out there with lots of trees. We met Suzan, Irene and Doris at the airport and we hugged each other. It’s so warm that we haven’t seen each other for almost half a year. Then we took the Airbart to the station. On our way we saw grasslands, wheat fields, ocean bay, blue sky… what a wonderful picture.

Soon we met Frances and Vic. They took us to the YMCA hostel. After that we went to a Thai food restaurant, we met Moni, Julian and Samantha, the coordinator of UCB fellows. We couldn’t stop sharing our experience with each other. After dinner UCB fellows brought us to UCB and Telegraph for site seeing. And we returned home at mid-night. It’s a very good start for our retreat program, isn’t it?

St. Andrew’s Workday

Vic took us to Tully’s coffee for breakfast. I ordered the egg salad sandwich and caramel bellacino, nice. Then we went to UC Berkeley to meet the students from Circle K. It’s our pleasure to meet and interact with them since we both want to do something for others. The campus of UC Berkeley is like a small national park. We followed the Circle K students to Oakland, a church-based private school. Suzan said we were going to paint something but in fact it’s not. We need to clean up the basement and the old house, and move out boxes from which were very dirty and stinky, because they want to set up a haunted house during Halloween. We worked for the whole day with tiresome but also satisfaction, that we helped the church and the kids there.

It also recalled my memory on the Day of Service. I realized that it’s very important to let the volunteers know about the organization, its goals or mission, why the volunteers are needed, encouragement and appreciation. These are all very important volunteer management skills.

After than I went to Sears with Moni and bought some stuff. For dinner, we went to a restaurant namely Turkish Kitchen and we had lamb and milk. At night we went to Moni’s co-housing, Oakland pier. Frances’ friend Michael was very nice that he toured us around Oakland, including China Town and City Hall. We were so lucky to go inside City Hall at 12 at night, it’s like an adventure! We went back to hostel very late and we went to sleep right away.

Reflection Day

We reflected a lot on our experience here in the following days, including St. Andrew’s Workday and the past two months. The fellows firstly discussed in groups (my partners are Moni and Frances!) and then we shared in turns. The “What/So What/Now What” analysis is a useful way to think about our internships, homestay, American culture, and myself. I enjoy the reflection, it’s relaxing when you stop and think.

We went to San Francisco for lunch at a social enterprise restaurant called “Delancey Street Restaurant”. It provides working opportunities for people who felt down, for them to reborn. Staffs are very nice and smiling all the time. I feel very welcomed and enjoyed my lunch at this friendly restaurant.

The weather was very fine, not too hot not too cold, gentle breeze with a clear blue sky. Ray, Tom, Julian and me had a walk to the Pier 39. We saw tons of sea lions which are noisy and stinky. Later I met my cousin at Union Square and we had dinner together at Fremont. There are more Chinese around here than in LA. On my bart ride to Berkeley I met a Thailand girl and we became friends on facebook. Everyday is a new adventure to me here in the U.S.!

Last day in Bay Area

Another reflection day but it’s about our change – past, now and future. We drew our ideas on a piece of paper with color pencils! It’s always interesting to put our thoughts in other ways. Then we wrote a letter to the trustee and shot the W.T. Chan Fellows 2009 video! We had so much fun throughout the process.

It’s really hard to say goodbye to UCB fellows because I treasure the friendships and that have been established in the program. But one thing for sure is that everyone will have their own unique, adventurous, meaningful experience in the W.T. Chan Fellowships Program. No matter where we are in the future, we will always have the very same connection to celebrate each other’s success, as well as the support of each other’s challenges. Good luck to your precious journey, my friends!

晚上在Mickey爸妈家，也就是他长大的地方过了一夜。他父亲是个兽医。家里有三条狗三只猫一只羊两匹马。乡村大房子。第二天Mickey载我一同去了Revolution。Revolution is a traditional fundraiser. It happens in every last Saturday of September in Trentadue Winery, Sonoma County.风景那个优美啊，豪华轿车一辆接一辆，肯定是来品酒的。

Mickey全家准备参加25mile，我伟大的老板，supervisor Ben 要骑100miles。100 miles=160.9km. 这是人做的事情吗…

                             借张官网图片用。http://www.borp.org/revolution/index.php

                                                                                             酒庄

         key全家 很有型的单车        

I made dozens of phonecalls to Anjali making sure that Ben was still alive. 他骑他那辆小破车骑了7个半小时…7.5hours bikeride in 102F, Ben made it. He is crazy.有这样的老板不知道是不是好事。That's what he looks like after the 7.5 hours and 160KM.

周日和Frances去了Folsom Street Fair. 差点没笑爆。因为我迟到了大半个小时，打电话给Frances, 电话那头传来女高音：“ahhhhh，好核突啊！！！好多中年男人无着衫啊！！！”似乎这个Fair货真价实。

                                                                   someone behind me said: He should go to Broadway.

Below are photos by Frances, I forgot to charge mine…以下都是Frances拍的。

其他就不放上来了，省得被封。也不解释了，各位看官随便往狠处想。而且这类疯狂活动三藩市每周都有，任君选择。

拖下拖下变两个月了… This supposed to be two weeks ago…

疯狂两星期。It has been crazy.

工作=坐车。When work means commute.

VIA在斯坦福大学有一个办公室。这周是关于斯坦福项目未来走向的讨论，还有春假的新项目设计问题，所以一定要到斯坦福的办公室去。我的时间是这样：7：30左右出门，搭上7：49 Berkeley—> Fremont 的BART（轻轨），然后8：30在Union City下去等8：46的DB 巴士，9：20左右到Palo Alto Transit Center，找到那免费的穿梭斯坦福巴士，9：33左右下车，步行到办公室。整整三个小时。问题是，我每次下车都迷路，每次迷路的方向都不一样…

It is fun to work in different places. But I definitely like it better when you don’t have to take 3hour commute to get to the other work site. Thanks to Suzan that she found the way to get down to Stanford by BART+AC Transit, which it’s way cheaper and nicer than CalTrain although there is no time difference. We have been working on the spring program this week, no solid result come out yet ahhhh.

             
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工作当然和学习挂钩。新项目是有关social innovation, social venture, social entrepreneurship。我连对应的中文都不太明白。只能边干边学，现学现卖。这周听了一个有意思的讲座。宏观的视角横向比较不同技术革新策略如何影响硅谷、中国、印度、日本等地的经济发展。

I don’t have that much knowledge about social innovation, social venture, social entrepreneurship, which are the theme of the new program. A lot of to catch up. Ben and I went to a leture on Thursday, very interesting to hear how the professor compares the technology strategies in Sillicon Valley and Asia from a very macro perspective.http://ceas.stanford.edu/events/technology_strategies_in_silicon_valley_and_asia_contrasting_patterns_of_open_innovation/

如果是下班的交通高峰期，三个小时的车程一般都变成四个小时。当坐了四个小时不同的交通工具加上步行之后，很棒很精彩的音乐会也只能使我勉强支撑两个小时。不过,温顿马萨利斯和爵士林肯中心的名声真的不是盖的!!!

Even it’s Wyton Marsalis, I was still dozing off for the whole time when it took me four hours to get back from Stanford. But truely, I love alive Jazz performance.

http://www.calperfs.berkeley.edu/presents/season/2009/jazz/wm_jlco.php#audio

我的美国姐姐星期一飞往危地马拉开始她6个月的异国工作。我好不伤心哪！不过，我还有美国妈妈Mary Kay，未来女婿Mickey和他们的朋友，现在也是我的朋友，Suraj。上周看了Mickey的舞剧，实在是惊呆了。本就知道Mickey身手敏捷，不同于一般的残障人士，但看到他拄着拐杖或是坐在轮椅上仍能表达出如此丰满的肢体语言，我还是非常讶异。这个舞剧是以现代舞来表达关于美籍日裔的身份迷失的主题，很是吸引。虽然最后舞蹈演员的衣服被脱光了…

I’m still SAD that Britt left for Guatemala last Mon. I miss my American sister!!! It makes me better that I can always hang out a lot with MK, Mickey and suraj. Last Sat we went to Mickey’s dance. I was told that the dance was weird and MK laughed the whole show last time she saw the performance. But this time is a dance play about Japanese American identity and I like it very much. It’s amazing to see how capable Mickey is when he dances. The way he expressed the dance on wheelchair or with crutches truly impressed me.

                   http://www.odcdance.org/performance.php?param=18

昨晚去了一个即兴的剧场演出。三个大男人站在台上，观众可以随便说一个词，比如“便便”，然后三个人马上即兴演出一台

以此为关键词的短剧。音乐，灯光都是即兴的。三个人互相之间也不知道对方会爆出什么台词。非常搞笑。其中一位演员是Mickey和Britt的轮椅篮球队教练。

I went to an improve show with Mickey and Suraj last night. One of the three actors is Mickey&Britt’s wheelchair basketball coach. He has been doing improvising since 1988. It was really funny. I kept laughing all the time even though sometimes I didn’t really get the lines. Their facial expressions are sooooo funny!!

http://www.3forall.com/

http://viaprograms.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/w-t-chan-fellow-talks-about-her-internship-at-via/

俺的在VIA blog上写的文章。因为wordpress被封了…所以贴个图证明一下

It was 2009 April. Right before I was going to fill out the application form of 2009 Asia-US Service-Learning Program of VIA, I got the exciting offer of W.T.Chan Fellowships Program. Later in June, as 09 Chan Fellow, I met Ms. Wang Qiushi, a participant from 2008 AUSL program in the 2th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning who talked about her exciting experience in the Bay Area. But it was until I received my internship placement did I realize the close connection between VIA, Chan Fellowships and my passion for service-learning.

I came to California with a simple goal: Learn more about service-learning and bring it back to China. Since former Fellows emphasized to us with good-intention that don't expect too much your work would contribute to your organization as a foreign student, this goal was the only thing I keep in mind. But the email from Ben Strong, the Stanford Program Director also my supervisor, with a draft work plan of my entire internship told me that this was a serious job and I was going to learn a lot. 

The first two weeks didn't seem serious at all. I followed the AUSL Program to visit a wild variety of public service organization in Bay Area, listen to leaders about what and why they do, join miscellaneous volunteer activities, discuss and reflect about everyday experience. The vigor and involvement of participants from Japan, Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong deeply impressed me. I kept wondering, what kind of program can mingle Asian students with different backgrounds and interests together the same time kindle their passion for public service?

The answers revealed themselves as I became part of VIA and VIA. There are several things make AUSL one and only. Service-learning focused, energetic college students, intercultural communication environment, peer leadership from Stanford and Asia Coordinators, and it is in one of the most liberal and civic engaging regions--Bay Area. In fact, you can find these components across VIA programs in various forms.

It is great learning experience to participants and no less for me. Everyday, I'm learning, laughing, getting lost in Stanford or jumping into the huge bean bag in SF office. I can't think of one reason why I don't like my internship in VIA.

Slef-Introduction

My name is 王腾(Tom), 2009 UCLA fellow, an undergraduate in Department of Chinese Language and Literature, SYSU and I am from 重庆(Chongqing). Now, I work in Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles(CHIRLA), which has already hosted 2 Chan Fellows before I came. My hostmum is Doris who has dealt with our Chan Fellow group for 5 years and has a great reputation among us fellow. What's more, newlamp1988@gmail.com is my email address and those who wants get more information about Chan Fellow Program, please feel free to contact me.

Now I would like to share my reflection of last week with you guys here.

Today, I realized how important it is for a person who lives in America to be on time for every event. I know I have a bad manner that is being late for everything consistently. I know neither how I generated it nor how bad it can be here in America, until today Amanda told me that, I should have been on time for everything otherwise she will assume that I didn’t want to talk with her and I didn’t respect her. At that time I feel so embarrassed. I knew it is bad to be late for an appointment before, however, I would still be late for most of my appointments with my friend and they would just smile and joke, “this man is even slower than a tortoise!” And they didn’t care that much. Sometimes they will be late as well, so I will make it again and again without any awareness. Eventually I explained and apologized to Amanda and she accepted. What’s more, I will also apologize to you Shideh, for my often being late.

Eric’s speech on this week's seminar has been very useful and enlightening for not only my final project but my current work in CHIRLA. Two weeks ago I was thinking about changing my internship site, and then Candelyn and my supervisor in CHIRLA found out a solution for me without transferring, which is to outreach some Chinese organizations to participate in our campaign named Reform Immigration for America. As you know, CHIRLA mostly works with Hispanic communities and is one of the leaders in California in terms of organizing the campaign; as a result most of the organizations sign up to the campaign are Hispanic organizations, however, as a colleague said this Tuesday on the staff meeting,“we need to get more people not only Hispanic people but people from different ethnic group.”I was so excited about this idea, but when I start to make a work I got stuck, because I did not know where to start. Candelyn suggested me break the goal down into actions, which was a good idea just like what Eric told us today, but I still couldn’t figure out the actions. Now I know the reason why I got stuck, that is, I thought it was easy, and all I have to do was make a list and go out. However, things are much more than that simple. I need to wait for the responds from the organizations, I need to be the contact person between CHIRLA and these organizations, which means I have to maintain the relationship and build up a database of them, what's more, I have to also be aware of what CHIRLA is going to do and what those organizations can do, and so on. So many details I didn’t allow for, as a result of which every time I contact organizations even myself got confused about what to say and what to do after they say “yea, we are interested in that campaign.” Last week, I attended a meeting on which the Executive Director of CHIRLA gave a speech on the current policy situation and what event CHIRLA is going to initiate in the rest of this year and early next year. That meeting gave me a framework of the short term goal of this organization. What’s more, today Eric told me how to put my idea into action, which clarified how my work should be.

After this, I learned that things always more than simple, especially when they break down into details. It’s so easy for a person to come up with an idea, and say this is their goal, however, it is when they begin go work on this goal that a lot of problems come out, which was my situation. When they begin they often get lost, because so many tasks they have to finish have nothing to do have nothing to do with their goal. For example, when I start to work on the outreach, the only two things I thought about were to make a list and call. But, when I begin to call, even myself got confused about what to do next, where can I find a telephone, how can I make copy of the materials needed, and what’s more, how to report my work to my supervisor. By parity of reasoning, whatever I do and whatever goal I have, I’ve got to specify the goal and work into action, which needs a lot of experience and skill and I can yet handle it given my limited experience. I think this is an important objective of my internship, that is, to practice putting my ideas into reality.

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Where is Ray, Tom, Jasmine and Frances? I am looking forward to your sharing! =)

Last Saturday, I spent the whole day building a house for Habitat for Humanity!

I heard of this program in China and knew that they built houses in Sichuan after the earthquake. It is not until I put myself to do voluntary work for HFH that I realized how great this program is! All the house are built by volunteers and house owers. And people who want to own their house at least need to spend 5 hundred hours helping others build their houses. This is called sweat equity which can be used to pay the down payment of the house. This idea is so neat! It not only makes possible for people who has low-income to own their house but also spread the spirit of volunteerism-help others therefore help yourself (zu ren zi zu in Chinese,ackkkkk. i couldn't type Chinese by this computer). 

I was surprised that when staff of HFH told me actually there are not so many people apply for this program, partly because the houses are built in a "bad" neighborhood. My host mum offered to drive me there on that morning for she think it is not that safe. (She always thinks I am a BIG GIRL!)

But when I finished my labor work that day, I saw the sunset both shining on the community that is under-constructed and another one is finished (people have moved in) where there's a little park and children are riding bike, playing with friends in it. At that moment, my heart was filling with joy and peace. There is wire net between the two communities which will converge to a large one several months later. Then there will be more than 100 people living in it. 100 people who has experienced the spirit of volunteerism is a big deal! It is possible for them to make impact on this neighborhood! When I told this thought to my co-worker, she said I am positive. I know, but I am not the only one.

As my host mum suggested, the best way to know an org is to work for them. Although I just spent one day on voluntary work, I have learned much more about HFH than I spent a week browsing their website. I kept asking them all kinds of questions and listening to their wonderful stories. Such excellent experience inspires me to think of doing more voluntary works in different NPOs. I am working on my resume for "Capture the Dream"now and finding out how poor my written English is.>_< 

INTERN 

Yesterday, during staff meeting, I suddenly realized more than 2 months has passed. I feel like When everything settles down, I am about to leave... It is sad to say that.

I enjoy every minute working here. I know I have said this for many times but I really mean it. Everyone I work with in BAVC has different talents. The most amazing thing of my internship is that it provides me tremendous resources-network, media technologies, media theories, partnership etc which makes everything possible as long as I have determined to do it. If I want to learn something, I can always find the way to start with for the people in BAVC are so nice and ready to help.  BAVC is awesome! I feel so honored to be part of it.

Homestay

I felt the honey moon for me and my host family is just starting. My host parents and host sisters and brother are generous to share their thoughts with me no matter how stupid my question is. I admire my host mum very much for she is one of the bravest and persistent and direct woman I have ever met. She is so dedicated herself to the family and have very strong belief. And my host dad is a man with tremendous dry humor which makes me think he is British! 

Chinese Buffet Night for Host Families and Superviors

Inspired by the previous chan fellows, we decide to make a big dinner for our host families and supervisors for taking good care of us! The Chinese Buffet Night is on this Friday 7:00pm~9:00pm. As far as I know, there are about 30 guests coming! What a big challenge! Hope we will not mess it up~

Other

Look forward to the retreat for both UCLAers and UCBers! 

Jenifa's Weekly Reflection Vol. 2
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Hope you guys like it! :D

叮！本周主题是：自我介绍！！哪人，哪住，学啥，干啥，兴趣爱好理想追求等~

Week1 topic: Self-introduction: everything about yourself!!

Next week should be...????

Vic 崔

多谢崔崔劳心劳力整出这个BLOG!

我姓郭名燕平,是2009届在UC-Berkeley的陈氏学者.刚毕业于中山大学汉语言文学专业,现正住在OALAND(奥克兰).我的寄宿家庭很符合一般人对美国家庭的想像: 白人, 中产阶级, 基督教徒, 爸爸(毕业于伯克利, YAHOO软件工程师),妈妈(家庭护士,有超能力),三个孩子\两女一男(一个大学生,两个高中生),一只很可爱的狗,三只小猫和一只龟. 我实习的机构是湾区影视联盟(Bay Area Video Coalition),我参与的项目有两间办公室,一间在奥克兰,很CASUAL,可以坐在地上吃东西,光着脚走在办公室,可以很大声地放摇滚乐,很大声地唱RAP;一间在旧金山,是总部,非常大和HIGH TECH,比较OFFICE.最近一直都在旧金山上班,非常想念奥克兰办公室的无拘无束!下面是最近写的reflection.

PS:为了崔崔的爷爷,特别加了这段中文.感觉不在中文里面加英文很难表达清楚自己,不配中大中文系学生名号啊>_<.

Today's weather, just as usual, is very San Francisco. On my way to SF office, it is cloudy and a little bit chilly. After ten minutes walk, I sit in front of my desk, looking out of the big window; I saw trees shining in the sun. It has been one month and twenty days since I arrived at U.S.

One week ago, I wrote a letter to my mentor and said I think I have adapted the life here. Then another day, my host mum scolded me for doing yoga in the living room and cooking to make the kitchen smell badly. I felt really embarrassed and upset at that time. There’s a moment I really wanted to pick up my cell phone and call other Chan Fellows. I even dialed the number but finally I hanged up. In the next few hours, I kept telling myself that if you do it wrong, then don’t do it again, it is not a big deal, don’t take it personal... I might say it is not easy at all to say those words to myself which I say to others all the time. When I got off work and back home, I felt I was able to tell it like it’s an ordinary thing happened in anyone’s daily life.  

Basically, I almost experience embarrassments everyday: when I did things dissatisfied my host mum; When I am not able to understand people’s chi-chat; when I say a joke and no one think it's funny; when I have so many thoughts want to share but I couldn't fully express myself or others don't really want to hear them etc. When in Guangzhou, I am a smart student and a good example for my relatives educating their kids~~~ While staying in US, I am dumb and need TEN CALCULATORS to count the things I have done wrong.

The reason why I write these experiences in the beginning is not because I want to complain but I consider them as the things I treasure the most till now. Life here is not a tour but an adventure. It is not just about pleasance but growth. When staying in the completely different culture, we are not just asked to change the language we speak but even the way of thinking. I am trying hard to learn to take initiative, learn to speak out my thoughts directly and learn to enjoy losing face! Now I do feel all the things are on the right track and getting better and better.

About my internship (Bay Area Video Coalition), it is the BEST internship I could ever have! I take part in the Next Gen Programs which empower youth from low-income family through digital technology training. They have two offices, one in Oakland (very casual) and one in San Francisco (very office). Then my job and workplace varies from day to day. Till now, I have done several projects. I create a database of youth festivals and submit students' films to them. Also, I help them interview high school students for different programs and enter students’ information. Most of time, I sit in front of the computer dealing with data but THIS WEEK, I will go to high school with my colleagues to recruit new students! People in my workplace are super cool and nice. My supervisor offer me the video production classes after I told her that I want to hold  video making workshop for marginalized groups when I go back China. And during last three weekends, I took video production and editing classes in BAVC, 8 hours per day! Very intense and very useful! Also, I am thinking about doing my own project that to screen a documentary of migrant workers in China here. Everyone is willing to help me. Still, there are lots of difficulties need to be overcome.  

Inspired by my host parents, I think it is good for me to do some voluntary jobs in other organizations. That will provide me the chance to know more about NPOs in US and the community I am living in. I signed up to Habitant for Humanity and will help them build house in Oakland this Saturday! I am so excited about that!

The longer time I stay here, the more grateful I feel to be a Chan Fellow. Many programs will bring you to U.S. while few of them give you the chance to dive into American culture. This program is so amazing and unique! It combines the campus life and American's daily life perfectly. I went to the lecture in UC-Berkeley and on my way back waiting at the bus stop, I got the chance to talk to the strangers how they think of Obama's health care reform. I do enjoy every minute here.

Things I learn everyday are so overwhelmed. Wish I can grasp the opportunity and make the most of it!

Internship Photos:

I can’t really tell why it’s not perfect insofar. W.T. Chan Fellowships is the best service-learning/cultural exchange program I can ever imagine. Perhaps there is no better way to understand a culture, a society than to live with the people and work with the people and by the same time, you are required to commit yourself to change and grow for 6 months. Calcorp is the best kind of public service organization that ambitious, service-engaged college students wish to get help from. Our coordinator Suzan is brilliant, nice and thoughtful. Big sister Suzan. And best of all, Lingnan Foundation is the one behind all these. The trustees and alumni decided that they want to spend a large amount of money on these 12 young people, in order to help them to have deeper understanding of both US and China, to cultivate a sense of civil responsibility, to grow as an individual. As Dr. Feng, alumnus from Lingnan said, never forget the motto of Lingnan: Education for service.

There are some more reasons that I used the word “perfect”. My host family is perfect: My host mom MK, loves to have exchange students around her house. The reason she prefers W.T. Chan rather than others is Chan fellows stay at least 5 months that let her know more about the person and feel like a family, not just a guest or a tenant. She was born in California and has lived all over United States then came back to Berkeley and settled down. I always so admire her understanding of her city, her involvement of the community. She knows every story behind the local business. She showed me the first Peet’s Coffee and Tea in North Berkeley and tell me which chocolate manufacturer started here then was purchased by Hershey’s. And after her grandparents, parents and she graduated from UC Berkeyly, she feels straight right that her son, Kyler, went to UCLA. To me, MK is like a living guild to Berkeley, Bay Area or even California. Besides, she’s a great mother. You can tell from Brittany and Kyler, excellent daughter and son.

I’m always lucky. Brittany is around when I’m here, at least for a month. This is quite a privilege that even two other former Chan Fellows who stayed here , Vivica and Jasmine didn’t get. She had been busy all the time, even after graduated in June from Cal (ie. UC Berkeley) She is going to Guatemala to work in an NGO for the next 6 months so she is taking a break these days. I bet she is one of the best student leader in the public service. Look at how many awards she has! She has been working and coaching in BORP for 4 years now, where she met her cuties boyfriend Mickey. They are the cuties and nicest young couple I’ve ever met. I told Brit that if one day they broke up, I would be really really sad. We always have interesting and meaningful discussions, on health care in US, on the different lives for disabilities in China and US, on Tibet problem, on which type of boy/girl is hottest, etc.

I left my family in Guangzhou, but I do have an American sister and mom in Berkeley.

My internship is also perfect for me. Although my ‘boss’ Ben said it’s too soon to say. Volunteers In Asia is an non-profit organization established by a freshman Dean in Stanford University dated back in 1950s. They provide short-term and long-term programs to increase the mutural understanding of US and Asia, among university students. My job is to work with Ben Strong, who says he’s a ABHC ( America Born Half Chinese) the director of Asia-US Service-Learning Program. People in VIA are all nice and friendly, and Ben is super nice and easy-going. They are always ready to answer your questions, offer you help or listen to your thoughts. And AUSL is a very cool service-learning program, very expensevice though ( compared to W.T.Chan Fellowships). The first two weeks, my job is to follow the program, i.e. hanging out with a group of college students from Japan/ Mainland China/ Taiwan and visiting many public service organizations and doing volunteer work. It doesn’t sounds completely like a job, right? I’m just lucky that I got to experience two servic-learning programs and all the good things I saw during AUSL can be brought back to China, to start our own service-learning program. This is exactly the point why I want to come here.

However, there are things that far from perfect.

I haven’t learned how to do fund raising. When a service-learning program costs $4,000, no matter how good it is, it basically keeps lots of potential best fit participants out of door. There are a lot more ground stuff.

I am wondering what are there in store for me in the next few months. There should be exhilaration, satisfaction, depression, frustration, confusion all sorts of things. I need to make sure I’m well-equipped, with faith, confidence, modesty, and supports from fellowships.

I doubt myself.

大家好，我是陳卓麗，剛剛畢業於嶺南大學社會科學系。透過陳氏學者獎學金項目，我在落杉磯有兩個截然不同的實習機會，一個是在Venice Family Clinic的義工部門工作，另一個是在Sierra Club Angeles Chapter研究保育項目。逢星期四到UCLA上課。正寄宿於一個印度家庭裡，要嚐嚐咖哩雞嗎？你可以在下面的連結閱讀我第一期的周記，希望你們喜歡！

Jenifa's Weekly Reflection Vol. 1
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My name is Jenifa Chan, a fresh graduate majoring in Sociology at Lingnan University. I have been to Mexico for half a year as an exchange student, thus I can speak a little bit Spanish. During my spare time, I worked as an auxiliary police officer while I was in Hong Kong. In the WT Chan Fellowships Program, I am working in 2 non-profit community-based organizations here in Los Angeles, as a Conservation Program Intern at the Sierra Club and assistant at the Venice Family Clinic, Volunteer Services Department. Go to UCLA once a week for the seminars. Living with an Indian family now in Culver City, with a lot of curry chicken! You can find the attached link for my first volume of weekly reflection! Enjoy! 

Cheers,
Jenifa

P.S. Please feel free to add me at bluesfly@msn.com for MSN or FACEBOOK ;))

叮叮叮！ 我們09W.T. Chan Fellows 的博客正式啟動！

這裡的文章都是各位Fellow在美國加州工作、生活、學習的所見所思的記錄。

This is an informal blog about our experiences in California.

叮叮叮，好文陸續來，敬請期待！

Keep track of us!

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