我妈妈
我妈妈并不像别人的母亲一样。大家一见到她就能感觉到她与众不同。会给人留下深刻的印象。你跟她见一次面，你就会记住她。
我从照片看到我妈妈年轻的时候，她长得真的很漂亮。她个子不高，身体很苗条，浑圆的 脸， 大大的眼睛，乌黑色的长头发。我很遗憾没继承她雅致的样子（我比较像我爸爸）。现在我妈妈虽然变老了，她体形有一点肥胖，但是她的外貌还是依旧甜美。 她天天锻炼身体，所以她 很健康。虽然她不喜欢施脂粉，但是仍有自然的个人魅力。她真的不橡别的老年人一样，因为她的姿态很生动。 她容易生气，她的心情都表现在脸上的。但是她的性格的优点就是非常的热情，所以她偶尔发脾气也就无所谓了。
我妈妈做事很全神贯注，尤其是让她入迷的东西。我妈妈是美国人，也是戏剧作家，这两个方面对她都有比较大的影响：她不是很害羞的人，习惯说话大声音和指手画脚的说话。听和看她讲话，我有的时候觉得我正在看一出戏。她自己也知道她 有的时候会令人很生气。可是我现在长大的时候，我就学会珍惜这个特点。

我现在天天上汉语课!
口语课的老师很年轻，所以他教课的方式也比较新鲜和吸气。我从现在开始把我口语课里写的文章放在blog上。希望大家也觉得题目和内容会有意思!

Now I've started studying Chinese in my final year of Bachelor - I feel confident enough to put the texts I write in Chinese on my blog.... Wendy please correct my mistakes!

什么是爱情？

这个问题没有完全准确的回答，由于爱情是一种感觉。爱情就是人类最强烈的感觉。
虽然爱情是那么平常的事儿因为每个人生里肯定会碰到真正的爱，

但是一个人感到恋爱的时候，他自己会觉得是生活最特点和难懂的事情。
无所谓是一件钟爱还是晚年爱，爱情没有合理的原因。我们控制不了爱的回，也控制不了爱的走。
对我来说，认真的谈恋爱的要求里也应该有将来的承诺。爱的意思就是相信和扶持，无所谓悲欢离合。有的时候爱不只是最大的幸福 —— 也可能使人痛苦和无望的。可是爱情的好感觉到底值得所有的辛苦啊 !

Dana came to China mid February, and against all hopes and worries on both sides it turned out to be a wonderful experience for both of us. In the beginning, it took Dana a lot of getting used to. Since I've been here for half a year already, speak the language almost fluently and have an affinity to the culture anyway, it was already an interesting viewpoint I was coming from seeing my own mother in such a new situation. As we have always been very close and have always lived in the same world, I tried to overcome this dissorientating new situation by pushing her to integrate herself into the culture in a high speed version of 2 weeks. And she had a shock reaction to all of this: to me having changed so much, to my expectations on her behaviour, and especially to the way people drive here.

A Message in a Bottle from East to West

How different are we really? I've been reading Gao Xingjians (Nobel prize 2004, not that it means too much since the Nobel is way over rated for what it is nowadays) autobiography, and the way he shares his pain with his german lover about the past in their lives that they can never change, yet which conditions them forever. Human suffering is universal and the way we repress it and refuse to deal with it when the time is right, in order to drag it out and all the problems it has creates afterwards.
Amazing is the book I found on democracy in China which I found hidden awayin the library. What is amazing is how democratic ideas have been present in chinese society from the time of the dinasties until 1989. Already the revolutionaries after the Wuxubianfa under Kang Youwei who wrote the five petitions to the emporer late 19th century realised the necessity to start from the bottom and reform in the direction of a democratic state. The Taiping movement at the beginning of the 19th also included progressive ideas of feminism and modernisation.
I hope this post won't get me blocked on the web in China...