姓名:杨潇
Full Name:YANG XIAO
出生日期:1994.03.03
Date of birth:1994.03.03
出行时间:2014.07.06—2014.07.25
Date:2014.07.06—2014.07.25
出行地点:美国北伊利诺伊大学
Address:Northern Illinois University
个人简历:不爱跑步,爱电影,不爱学习,爱上网,不爱洗衣,爱睡觉,虽然名字取得是潇洒之意,但我,是凡客。
Resume:Don't love running, love movies, do not love learning, love on the Internet, laundry, love to sleep, although the name is the meaning of natural and unrestrained, but I, a mundane.
北京时间:7月5日
一如平常,父母驱车送我。唯一区别,目的地稍远,北京。
傍晚,抵达酒店,送走父母,吃过晚餐,打开电脑。
“激动吗?”表姐和我聊天。
“额...不太。”
明早,将踏上去往芝加哥的飞机。但我却没多余的心情,甚至忘了,为什么来北京。我不想去吗?不。是有些紧张,甚至恐惧。令自己不敢去想象,我到了美国是什么样的状态。或许,对于其他大多数人来说,这次3周的美国之行只是为了开阔眼界,或者是一次旅行。但我不可以。我是带着疑问来的,带着别人的经历来的。
“明天要早起,早些休息吧。”
关了电脑,躺在床上。我开始矛盾。既急于知道是否真的如他们所说,很难融入国外的生活,外国人排外心理都很严重。又怕如果发现自己并不适应美国的生活该怎么办?我会不会失去自己出国留学的目标?
带着忐忑的心理,踏上了去美国的征程。
芝加哥时间:7月15日
到达迪卡尔布、北伊利诺伊大学大学已一周余,教授们很热情,同学们很友善。
清晨,躺在半干的草地上,天空像是上了色的水墨画,虽只是蓝但层层浪,好像看得久了,就会被卷入其中。太阳从天海中透出光来——虽亮,但不刺眼。好像有一只蘸饱了白色颜料的画笔,甩出滴滴颜料,在天空浮着,小心翼翼的扩散着,好像生怕会被冲散。渐渐的,清晨的微风使天空变得热闹起来,他们打闹着、翻滚着散开来,高的、低的、近的、远的,层层叠叠,每一朵都似曾相识,却又都不尽相同。
忽然想到了我曾问过纪老师的一个问题。
“你在国外念书最大的感受是什么?”
“云会动。”
这种壮观而温柔的景象,似乎让我的心胸也变得博大了。忽然觉得那些我纠结问题或许也不再是问题,只要想,去做。就可以了。
但心头还是有隐隐的不安。
芝加哥时间:7月22日
一个半小时的车程,抵达芝加哥。
一下车,便被只能抬头60度以上才能看见天空的高楼大厦震撼了。兴奋。但看着街上匆匆的行人,高架在公路上的铁道。更多的是一种恐惧,就像《海上钢琴师》中1900说的:“我害怕,不是城市中那些我所看到的高楼大厦,而是那些我看不到的,望不到尽头幢撞楼房和条条公路。”那巨大的城市和渺小的我们形成的强烈的心理反差使我几乎喘不过气来。
随着人群,顺着芝加哥河来到密歇根湖畔,大雁、海鸥飞着,游着,不时落到岸上,同行人一起在行走,真是人与自然和谐相处了。原本心情有些纠结的我也被眼前的景象吸引,与带队的几名美国研究生谈天侃地。
他们原来也都是从意大利,西班牙来的的“外地人”,但是他们都生活的很好。是啊,我之所以会不安,是因为自己的各种文化素质,修养不行。既然我想要来美国学习,生活当让要付出要努力。为实现自己来美国留学的梦想而加油!
July 5th, Beijing
As usual, my parents drive me off. The only difference is that this time the definition is a little bit far, Beijing.
In the evening, I arrived at the hotel, set off my parents, and had dinner.
Then, I opened the computer.
“Excited?” My Cousin chatted with me on the internet.
“Well, not so much.” I replied.
Tomorrow morning, I would take the plane to Chicago. I had no time to feel the excitement, and I even forgot why I came here. Didn’t I want to go? No. That’s my nervousness, even fear. I dare not to imagine what I would be like in America. Maybe, to others, this three-week American trip was only to broaden the eyes, or just a travel. But, it’s not me. I came with questions and others’ experiences.
“Tomorrow needs to get up earlier. Go to bed, now.” My cousin convinced me.
Having closed the computer, lying on the bed, I felt contradictory in my heart. I was eager to know whether or not it was hard to integrate into the life in a foreign country, and the foreigners were exclusive. At the same time, I was anxious about if I could not adapt to the American life, what should I do? If it was, would it make me lose my heart in studying abroad?
With an anxious mood, I started my journey to America.
July 15th, Illinois
I had been in NIU, Dekalb, for more than one week. The professors were very kind, and the students were very friendly.
In the early morning, I lying on the moisture grass, the sky looked like colored Chinese landscape painting. Single blue as it was, it showed layers of waves. If you had looked at it for a long time, you would be engulfed into it. The sunlight squeezed from the skyline, bright but not harsh. The clouds seemed like a great painter had swung his fully dipped brush and dropped drippings of white paint on a blue painting cloth, floating in the sky, spreading carefully, as if being afraid of being swept away. Gradually, the morning breeze made the sky become lively and bustling. They played with each other, rolled away and spread everywhere. Some went very high; some sank down; some went far way; some stayed near. They went layer upon layer, and each of them seemed similar, but not the same.
At that moment, a question I had asked my teacher Mr. Ji came into my mind: “What’s you’re the most impression of studying abroad?”He answered: “The clouds are moving.”
It seemed this splendid and tender scenery had broadened my heart. I suddenly felt those questions that I had always been wondering and anxious about were not the real questions any more, and the answer was if you wanted, then did it. It’s enough. But, I was still upset.
July 22nd, Chicago
From Dekalb to Chicago was a half -hour’s drive. The minute I got off the bus, I was shocked by the skyscrapers rising before my eyes. I was excited. However, looking at the hurried pedestrians and the railways shuttling through the skyscrapers, I became frightened rather than excited, just as 1990 had said in The Legend of 1990’s: “ What I scared was not the skyscrapers in the city that I could see, but those I could not see, the buildings and the roads that stretched out of sight.” The strong psychological contrast between the huge city and the trivial human beings almost made me out of breath. With the crowd, along the Chicago river, we finally got the shore of the Lake Michigan. Gulls flied in the sky, sometimes landed on the shore. People walked and chatted together. And I was attracted by the harmonious scene, and gradually became relaxed and free to chat with a few American graduate students. It finally dawned on me that they were also “foreigners” from Italy and Spain, and they lived very well here. Ah, the reason I was upset and worried was that I was not good enough in culture attainment. Since I wanted to study and live in America, I must spare no efforts to improve myself. Fighting for the dream of studying abroad!