Nothing that has happened, right or wrong, can be erased. Time, the father of the universe, cannot prevent their existence and rebirth.
Pindare
438 BC, in Thebes.
As mentioned in the previous episode, I was hired by the Hubei Provincial Education Self-funded Study Abroad Center in 2003 because I had gone through the procedures for studying in Denmark. In this episode, I would like to share why I, or a post-80s college student, want to study abroad.
Personally, I was born in 1981 and came to Wuhan in 1999 to study at university. Before coming to Wuhan, my understanding of society and the country was limited to: a rural village in the Jianghan Plain, a state-owned mining enterprise, where I completed my primary school, and Jingmen, a fourth-tier city, Hubei, where I completed my junior high school and high school studies.
I deliberately went to find some old ** from the 8090s and posted them in front of the article, but in fact, it didn't take long, 30 years.
How should I describe the domestic society of 1987-1999?
According to the grand narrative, China's first wave of wealth creation is the transformation of the planned economy into a market economy, a large number of population factors out of the shackles of the plan to go to the sea to do business, with the help of import and export, processing and manufacturing and FMCG and other fields of natural demand to quickly complete the accumulation of wealth. Unfortunately, I did not see or feel the thriving situation after the 92 reform, and the tide of the times may have only poured into Shenzhen, Shanghai, or Wenzhou and other areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
On the contrary, I felt deprived.
Materially fine, more spiritually deprived.
After coming to Wuhan in '99, my university dormitory was in Zhuodaoquan, Wuchang, and my favorite things during my four years of college were the library and the English corner. I don't actually have any great career plans and entrepreneurial plans, I just try my best to follow the beliefs of the collective consensus - to go to university and so on. Like the rest of my classmates. I think the only difference is that I have a hazy feeling that the IELTS score will be useful, and then since I got a score, I will apply to an overseas university to try it, and I haven't worked at that time, based on the purpose of saving money, I applied for a graduate program in Denmark, free tuition, and a living expense of about 100,000 a year, which was also very luxurious at that time. I would like to thank my father, Mr. Lao Huang, a civil servant who went to sea in 92, and you never made me feel short of money before graduating from university. You beat 99% of your fathers over this.
Overseas or overseas universities are among my intentions
Wealthy, thoughtful
Suave and respectable.
I want to go to a more affluent land, both materially and spiritually.
That's what I really think.
In the next episode, I'm going to write about a few students and families I met when I first started working as an education agent, so that I could write some workplace stories. Or if you have anything else you want to know, please leave me a message. I can write it all. I have nothing to hide.