09.04.04

*Family-get-together
It's not unusual for Chinese to get together on Tomb-sweeping Day. I returned home during the holidays to hang out with old friends, sweep my grandmother's tomb and enjoy staying with my family. Americans have Thanksgiving; on this big day, they celebrate and most importantly they show their gratitude. They are grateful for what they have and forgive whoever once hurt them. Somehow I feel Tomb-sweeping Day is kind of like Thanksgiving. On this day, we get together with family, perform traditional rituals in order to show our respect to our ancestors and sometimes we retrospect to the old days which we can chat about with our family.

*Big news: the youngest public offical
These days, finding a job is getting harder than ever, no wonder there are a bunch of people who try so hard to get a position of public service, which assures stable income, social benefits and a better status nowadays. I was really shocked that one of the sophomores in my university passed the basic level exam of public service and she decided to quit her academics for she's already got a 28,000 per month job.
She said she didn't inform her family of the truth that she was going to prepare for the exam and quit her studies. The reason she wanted to pass the exam so early is that she wants to earn money by herself.

To be continued