Well said.

If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence as your friend, experience as your reference, prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry.

------Thomas Edison

I am getting there...

It is the 15th day for my GRE prep, I am still working on the vocabularies, I am heading to the word list 45 tonight, I will have finished the whole vocabulary book for the first time, I am doing it according to Yangpeng's 17 days memory skills, it has been working very good, the only negative part is that I didn't do the review job as good as I was supposed to, but I think I will be okay for there are still a lot of reviewing work coming up.

I spent five and a half hours in the library today, but I only got half of the assignment done of today, I will still need to finish up the rest in a little while. I felt good to study in the library again, it reminded me of my college life and made me feel like I become a college student again. Life is so much easier and simpler to be a student, but it really depends on what you want, as to me, I like reading and studying, to be a college professor will be the sweetest thing for me in the life.

Robert asked me what I wanted to do in this weekend, I guess I will stick to my study, I found my interest there, and I will be dedicated to it. However, I don't want to forget to thank him for all his support, his continuing support will bring me closer to the success.

When I drive back and forth between home and the library everyday, I keep pondering how big difference it is between America and China. The element earth of the U.S. and its small population, including the fact that everything is so far away, make people very hard to walk to the destinations they want to go, even for buying a bottle of water, thus, they need vehicles to help them, so almost all the people have to drive when they get to 16 or 17 years old. While the community transportation is so convenient, people in China could just walk out to the streets and hop to city buses, subways, cabs to go wherever they want to. Of course, China is growing so fast, the number of people who own their cars are getting bigger and bigger. I never drove in China, but I have to in the U.S., which makes me more independent; thinking about how high school kids need to drive on their own to go to school everyday just removes all the hampers I thought I would have in my driving life.

It's getting dark, the beautiful sunset spreads all over the blue sky, leaving all the tranquility and calmness in this little apartment.

July 4th

I literally spent the 4th of July in America, I had heard and known that this was a big day for this country. It is pretty easy to understand, because we have such an important and solemn festival in China, too, which is October 1st.

I've never seen that many people coming out of the house until yesterday, it seemed all the habitants just popped out for this special day, family gathering, friends party, big dinner...It's such a sunshine day, another beautiful southern California day, smiles, soft words from their mouth, and drinks in their hands.

By 8pm, cars got crowded on the road, cops parked by the road to regulate all the traffics, but it looked like the traffic could just get worse, drivers lined up and waited to get in patiently. As it became dark, slowly, I could see people were on chairs in the park, people stood by the streets---they were anticipating the big firework's coming.

It is a big 4th of July in the U.S, as what Robert said to me yesterday afternoon, "Let's go and see the firework, we are still a young and proud country."

Yes it is indeed.