As of June 13th, I have officially graduated!! Now I’m a real college student :) Surprisingly, I wasn’t really sad after the ceremony. During the commencement exercise, my eyes teared a bit a little bit. But after it was over, I was running around trying to find my friends and taking pictures with them. I was just glad that high school was over. After classes ended on June 2nd, I kept telling myself that my mind will finalize realize that “this is it” on graduation day. However, that wasn’t the case. Perhaps I will never realize it. Looking back, maybe this is not such a bad thing after all. My adolescent years weren’t the happiest years of my life. Right now, all is know is that I am ready to begin a new chapter in my life. Sometimes I feel like certain things that happened in the last 12 years have kept me in the past. But I want to forget about them and move on. I’m excited for this new beginning. I want to find new hobbies and discovery new talents. Most importantly, I want to learn about myself and find happiness in life.
In a few days, I will be leaving for China. My parents finally agreed to let me go after much discussion. If I don’t go back this year, I don’t know if I’ll get a chance to go back before college graduation. It has been a long time since I left China. I’m not expecting much out of this trip. I simply want to get out of the states for a while and spend some time elsewhere. I realize that the swine flu situation is getting worse as each day passes by. But there’s nothing I can do excepting hoping that nothing would happen to me. I will be extra careful and make this trip a good experience.