On the first business day I came back to Springfield, MO, USA, as soon as I finished the teaching work in the morning and the talking with Dr. Wenrong Yan in the afternoon, I went to see the first building that I have lived in here 5 years ago. and I wished to see what it looked like now.
Even though I signed a deal contract for 1 years, I lived there just for about 2 months. There was so much wonderful and some frustration memories in it. :-)
However, when I went there, just I looked two big machines were just ordering the place and the house had been pushed down already.
With a little bit pity heart, I found out these photos of mine with my first apartment and I would like to note down something about it:
-- Just in this apartment, I felt the responsible work of College of Business at Missouri State University and the real estate company.
Dr. Meinert carried my luggage at Springfield Airport, drove us to Wal-mart to buy things, sent us to our apartments one by one and also it was him to call the real estate company and on the second day, two workers carried the washing machine and the laundry drier, fixed them in my apartment.
A lady clerk Mrs. drove me to a store to buy color dishes on the weekend, lent her easel to me, fixed the curtain for me. Made me feel so warm in the totally strange place.
-- Just in this apartment, I painted my first painting in USA, and then I completed 45 pictures when I was a student in Missouri State University. You can see one of my paintings on the wall in one of the photos. Right?
-- Just in this apartment, I bought my first music instrument, and I wished to complete my music creation job. But, I did not really do that because there was no any place I live then and latter was soundproof and I had also no time to work on it. However, I had been kept translating Chinese folk songs into English and sang them with the accompanying of the computer.
-- Just with the address of this apartment, I bought my first car in America, opened my first bank car in America and also I passed my first two course -- Project Management and Marketing Management with the marks A and B.
-- Just in this apartment, also I experienced the worst time after being extracted a tooth, suffering the drug allergy -- whole of my boy was covered the hives for whole of the Thanksgiving Vacation; while the Internet did not work at all.
Even though the internet company fixed an antennae specially for my apartment, I had to connect Internet in the school library or wnet to the nearest church, in case, Mr. John David Lawson offered help to me at that time.
At the same time, I faced the third and the most difficult course -- Finance, so that I almost give up my study for my master degree. :-)
After working with the Internet company for 2 weeks, thinking of my study for about 2 week, I decided to give up the deposit of the apartment, to stand the risk that after paying much more rent, still there will no a place to live when the second deal contract was expired and my study was not finished yet.
I must move into a place could connect to Internet, to overcome all of the difficulties and pass the most difficult course.
So, in a snow day, I carried my things into my car, drove 4 times, and moved in to my second apartment by the campus. Started my new adventure in the US... :-)
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Shirley Yiping Zhang
Oct 9, 2013
