I m studying in the United States, and if I m not careful, I won t be able to finish my studies

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I'm Sisi, a girl from Shanghai.

For the first 20 years of my life, I was required by my parents to study, work, and become a member of the system, but this was not what I wanted.

When I grew up, I felt that my wings were stiff, and I threw away the "iron rice bowl" in the minds of others and chose to resign naked. Subsequently, I bravely escaped from my unhappy marriage and chose to return to freedom.

At the time of making these decisions, I didn't know what my future was, but I never regretted it.

As I stumbled out of the shackles of the world, I heard a voice in my heart – the world is so big, I'm going to go wild. So I crossed the ocean, resumed my studies, and was admitted to the University of California, Berkeley.

I think I am a person who was born for art, and my life has always been inseparable from art, from passive acceptance when I was a child to active learning when I grew up, and I have enjoyed my "artistic life" along the way.

Mature and intellectual me).

I was born in 1991 in Shanghai, which is the most foreign city in the country.

I am the only child in the family, and when I was a child, my parents were busy with work, and I was often alone at home, so I developed an independent, decisive and straightforward character.

My mother was very strict with me. When I was a child, I practiced the piano, and if I didn't practice a piece well, she would beat me violently, and once hit me until my nose bleeded.

My father was a relatively gentle person in the family, but he was always busy with work and spent very little time with me, most often on the way to and from school.

I was with my parents when I was a child).

Like all parents, my parents also did their best to pave the way of my life as much as possible, especially my mother, who made me do everything for the sake of my future, but she never asked me if I liked it or not.

And I happen to be a very rebellious girl. When I was a child, my grades were very poor, not because I couldn't study well, but because my mother always took care of me, and the more she cared about me, the more I didn't want to study.

With my mother's encouragement and my own struggles, I made it all the way to graduating from college. Since I majored in art education at a normal school, after graduation, I once again obeyed my mother's arrangement and went to a public kindergarten in Shanghai.

As soon as I graduated, I picked up an iron rice bowl, and the work was relatively easy, which many people envied, but this was not the life I wanted

The piano is my lifelong companion)

I have been working in kindergarten for three years, living a step-by-step life every day, getting up at half past six in the morning to go to school and returning home at four in the afternoon, but I am not a person who likes to repeat the same work every day.

The last straw that crushed me was my master. When I first arrived at the kindergarten, a master was arranged to take me. She was in her forties at the time. When I saw her, I thought of myself twenty years later, and suddenly I felt that life was too cruel for me.

The boring preschool life makes me feel that life is meaningless, and I am a girl who likes to toss in my bones. The following year, I started a business with a friend in my spare time, and we chose the eyewear industry.

The choice of this industry at that time was very accidental. Once I traveled to South Korea and brought back a lot of beautiful glasses of different styles, and after sending them to my friend Q, many friends asked me to buy them.

My micro-entrepreneurship project: setting up a stall to sell glasses).

Maybe at that time, I knew that I was different from others in art and aesthetics, so I came up with the idea of starting my own art brand, and I got two friends to set up a miniature start-up.

I went to Danyang, Jiangsu Province alone, where there is the largest glasses city in the country, and later learned that there are many glasses styles in Guangzhou, and I went to Guangzhou to find the source of goods.

Although it is hard, it is very fulfilling and happy. After we got the goods back, we used our own science popularization of glasses-related knowledge to sell them at the same time.

At that time, there were special stalls in Shanghai, and everything was sold, so we joined them. Every time I go out of the stall, I sell a lot of glasses, and the income is also very good, and this experience of setting up a stall also paves the way for my later life.

With this entrepreneurial experience, I felt more and more that I was not used to the routine life of kindergarten, and I decided to quit my job.

What I want in my life: Love what I love).

Of course, my parents didn't want me to resign, they felt that a girl couldn't be tossed around, and it would be good to stay in a public institution and have a smooth life. But I've grown up, and they can't be my lord anymore.

The day I handed in my resignation letter, I was so excited that I didn't even think about what I was going to do after I quit, but I knew I was finally out of this life of seeing the end at a glance.

After I resigned, I didn't devote myself to my eyewear career, because I knew that I had expertise in aesthetics and art, and I knew that I had always had an artistic dream in my heart.

About a month after I quit my job, I started working part-time as a part-time teacher at a piano shop in Shanghai.

I'd rather be a part-time piano teacher than an iron job, I don't know if I want to tell my parents in this way that I want to go my own way, but at least I was very fulfilling during my part-time job.

I kept shuttling between various piano shops and training institutions, and at the craziest time, I had to take 60 lessons a week, and at the end of a week, I made 10,000 yuan or 20,000 yuan.

Watch the game with friends).

During my year as a piano teacher, I accumulated the first wealth in my life, and laid a solid material foundation for my later trip to the United States.

I met my ex-husband when I was in college, and we both considered each other to be lifelong partners at that time. Not long after graduating, we got married, and I was 23 years old.

But life after marriage is not what I imagined, the conflict between two people in values is getting more and more serious, sometimes there will be fierce quarrels over one thing, and the relationship will fade after arguing.

This marriage finally came to an end, and my idea is very simple, since two people are only left with quarrels, then don't fight each other anymore.

No woman wants to experience a failed marriage, but if the marriage is unhappy, then don't hesitate to break away decisively.

I didn't think about what the future would hold when I chose to end this marriage, but I knew I had made the right decision.

I'm glad I lived as I liked).

When I freed myself from the shackles of the world, there was a voice in my heart - the world is so big, I want to go wild.

I have traveled to Russia, Japan, South Korea, Turkey, and Southeast Asian countries, and the most impressive ones are Moscow in Russia and Cappadocia in Turkey.

Moscow's metro stations are very old, with a lot of art on display, and each metro station feels like a small museum.

Cappadocia is located in the Anatolian Plateau in central Turkey and is known as "the most moon-like place in the world" due to its unique karst landforms that resemble the surface of the moon.

In addition to the karst landscape, the most desirable thing in Cappadocia is to sit in a hot air balloon and watch the sunrise, which is a wonderful experience.

Wake up at 4 o'clock in the morning, take the bus, eat breakfast, wait in line for liftoff, stand on the hot air balloon in the sky to see what the world looks like, hundreds of hot air balloons around you take off slowly, accompanied by the red sun, will make you feel so wonderful in the world.

Romance for yourself: hot air balloons full of sky).

In the end, I decided to come to the United States because of my mother. When I was a child, my mother traveled a lot to the United States, and she would tell me a lot about the United States, and since then I have longed for the day when I can come to the United States.

Initially, I came to the U.S. on a student visa, thinking that I would go to the U.S. to learn the language first, and then see what would happen later.

When I came to the U.S., I found that there were a lot of things I didn't feel comfortable with. The first is to eat, whether it is from the selection of ingredients, or the way of cooking, it is difficult for foreign Chinese restaurants to compare with domestic ones.

Shopping is also very inconvenient, and my California only has large supermarkets and no convenience stores. If you suddenly think of buying a bottle of water or something small, you can't find a convenience store like this.

Transportation in the United States is also a big problem, the subway is not as developed as in China, and the bus sometimes has to wait 40 minutes to get there, so if you don't have a car, it will be difficult to travel.

I like to be in communion with nature)

For half a year after I arrived in the U.S., I rented a car. Car rental companies in the United States allow a car to be rented for a maximum of 28 days, and I have to change my car almost every month.

My life changed substantially in my second year in the U.S. because I got my green card.

Applying for a green card may be something that many people have been working hard for, and some people have worked in the United States for ten or even decades, but they are still in line.

The reason why I was able to get a green card so quickly at that time had something to do with my religious beliefs, and I have always been a devout ** disciple.

However, the days of applying for a green card were also very hard. I need to study at a language school and work part-time to support myself in the United States.

I worked as a waiter in a restaurant or bubble tea shop, a cashier in a billiard shop, a front desk in a massage parlor, and even a cross-border e-commerce anchor for a while.

When I was an anchor, my experience as a piano teacher and selling glasses in China helped me a lot. Streamers need to explain the product on the one hand, and sell to customers on the other, both of which are my strengths.

Later, I went to a clinic for IVF as a liaison, and my main job was to receive some couples in China who had such needs, and was responsible for their itinerary docking and liaison with doctors.

The success rate of IVF is not high, I have worked in the clinic for more than nine months, and I have only heard that one or two couples have successfully raised their own children, and the rest are basically spent in vain.

After about a year, I got my green card. Then, the pandemic came, and everything stopped.

The first thing I did when I got my green card was to apply to a community college in the United States. Community colleges in the United States have a transfer program, and every year many well-known colleges and universities in the United States recruit some of the best students from community colleges, and this is exactly what I want.

At the beginning of the pandemic, I was taking classes at a community college, and it wasn't long before the U.S. began to quarantine at home. During the two years of the epidemic, I studied hard at home, and finally I was admitted to the University of California, Berkeley, with excellent grades.

In addition to studying hard, I also found time to make some small handmade jewelry that I like and sell them online. I didn't expect that one of the earrings I made would become a hit, popular in the United States, and make me a lot of money.

Because I have loved art since I was a child, my major in college is also art education, and my major at the University of California, Berkeley, is also in the direction of art, majoring in sculpture and art.

Universities in the United States may seem relaxed, but they are actually very volumetric. The colleges and universities here have very high requirements for students, and the students are also very volatile, and what is even more terrifying is that I am competing with a group of students who are just about 18 years old, and the pressure is very high.

The small life of literary youth).

After two years of hard study, I have completed most of the school's courses and will be graduating in May. In the future, I may choose to return to China and use what I have learned to do my part for the development of art in China.

The most rare thing in life is to live the way you want, and 7 years of living in the United States have made me grow a lot.

When I first arrived in the United States, I felt a bit hypocritical, maybe out of self-preservation, I didn't want to expose my shortcomings, but such a state will make the people around me think that you are fake.

Later, I slowly found that I was also very tired. I began to learn to be honest with the people around me, show my true state, and no longer worry that my shortcomings would make the people around me laugh, but won the respect and understanding of others, and shortened the distance between my classmates and friends.

Two years of hard schoolwork were almost over, and during the Christmas holidays, I gave myself a walk-and-go trip – one person and one car across the United States.

My artwork).

I put my body and mind in this vast nature, and I gained a lot by stopping and stopping along the way.

The sunset over Atlanta is so beautiful that it makes people cry; Indiana's spectacular military cemetery, where people pray for world peace; The blue sky of Illinois seems to tell you the dream of a man and nature that will not change for thousands of years; The wind of the wilderness of Laura can blow away all the troubles of this world; The clouds of Salt Lake City are coming towards you in large blooms, making you feel that the world is full of love.

Yes, this is the life I want, this is the dream I am living - happy life, happy life!

The meaning of art is to change people's lives, and one's journey is an art in itself.

I chose to share my travels so that more people could see it and inspire those who have dreams like me.

Bravely choosing the life you want and living the way you want to live, I think that's the biggest meaning of my existence.

Dictation: Siss].

Editor: Walker Gangzi].

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