After final exam, all the report submissions, my life seemed become too relaxed and lost the direction.

As my original expectation, parties, gatherings and Taiwan trip were processed after the busy stuffs. However, time seemed to run so quick and meaningless recently.

Due to the illness, I stayed at home and just faced to the computer, invariably opened the facebook, then did nothing. Why can a person like me to do these kinds of things?

I should have a lot of plans before leaving Macau to exchange in Illinois. At least, I should find more information about the famous university, or learn the useful software in the leisure period, even practice dancing which is now my keen interest.

However, I just sleep late, read novel, play games, or just check some useless news in the internet. OMG, Steve, please wake up quickly and don't take the illness as your excuse.

Time files, and it's not much time for me to prepare the exchange life and my final year project.

OK, check the ABAQUS tutorial info., read some English material, study structural II myself in the following week!!

End of the final exam does not mean the beginning of summer holiday, as I have a busy schedule for July and August. Here is my tentative timetable for this summer,

It’s hard to find an empty grid in my busy schedule which is filled with Toefl exam, Global College Student Forum, Internship, Civil Camp, Social Dance Class, UM Orientation Camp, ASCE ISG UMCEE Activity Preparation, as well as several friends gathering and revision. Holidays are somehow meaningless for me; I would be much more enjoyable to employ every second in my life.

After the 48 dense Toefl training class, I feel exhausted and helpless for the soon TOEFL exam. To be honest, I am not smart enough to improve my English skill to an acceptable stage within such a short period; instead, I discovered how weak I am and which fields I should emphasis in the future, which is a long-term planning and process. In the last pretest, I got 15 mistakes out of 34 questions in listening section which is always the worst part for me; however, the passing line is maximum 5 mistakes out of 30 problems. Besides, listening seems to dominate the entire TOEFL exam other than reading. Hopeless as I am, I will try all my best in the TOEFL test on 10^th July.

It was my 20-year-old birthday 2 days before. As most of the high school classmates will not be back to Macau until the end of July, I wondered spending the special day alone, or accompanied with TOEFL materials. Fortunately, some HC friends, Echo, Helen Lao, Ivy, Janice, James, Jackon, Megka, Michelle, Polly, Rocky and Vicky held a birthday party for me. Actually, it’s my first time to celebrate my birthday with the college friends. Surprisingly, I received a marvelous tennis racket, which I have never thought about, as well as two champagnes and a lovely birthday card.  Thanks all of you for granting me a wonderful night.

By the way, I have made three wishes before blowing the candles on the birthday cakes. One of them is that all the HC students who are long for the exchange in USA can get through the TOEFL exam eventually. Tough and difficult as it is, I truly hope all of us can have an HC gathering in USA in the next year.

Best wishes to all of you~~

Congratulation to our successful HC Workshop – CAN; however, victory blinds peoples’ eyes, and a lot of secrets have been hidden behind it. Before writing the xanga, I don’t dare to watch the others; because I am going to expose the truth.

Before the last Wednesday, the day of our counterpart—Group A holding the HC workshop “IF”, we were quite confident as we have already prepared the activities and necessary theory for our CAN workshop. However, “IF” workshop surprised most of us as the functions were marvelous and all the participants were very enjoyable during their show. Sport Stacking, tower building, video sharing, even outside activity, the activities were comprehensive and reached the target of the workshop. To be honest, I wish I was one of the group B students at that moment.

With no doubt, our group members did feel the stress after their marvelous performance. Activity redesigning and harder preparation had to be carried out at the last few days. Though originally I was arranged to be a follower in the workshop, I was quite worried about the workshop and tried to devote more besides the ice-breaking task.

On the Thursday night, I’ve prepared my ice-breaking part including the game instructions, speeches and the conclusion. Unexpectedly, the group members just banned my idea and ask me to change another one. Frankly, I was really frustrated because my preparation was treated as rubbish and lack of time blanked my mind. Intense discussion soon became quarrel, the situation I seldom met in the past days. I went back to my seat and faced the screen, with vibrating heart. After that, I could not focus and fresh my mind, and at last I just stepped out the classroom.

Staying against the fence and watching the peaceful view, I started to be clam down and realized their manners just hoped to turn our workshop to be a successful one. It couldn’t be destroyed because of the boring ice-breaking game. Surprisingly, at the same night, an idea sparkling in my mind received a great appreciation from my group member, which was turned the poster design into dream extension and value developing. Smile in their faces gave me a motivation to keep working hard for my team.

As an engineering student, I usually faced the things that have one and the only one answer; it’s not necessary to have much discussion. Though I am the president of my Civil Engineering student association, my leadership style tends to giving order as I seldom received responds. The impulse from the HC workshop preparation really changes my past attitude towards team work.

However, difficulties did not really past after the tense discussion. Before the CAN day, we contacted the participants and reminded them the venue and time. To our surprise, two-third of the registered participants can’t attend the workshop because of projects and other sudden events. Oh my God! All my teammates turned anxious, it’ll be a big waste to prepare so much without enough participants to enjoy the activities. Therefore, all of us showed off our network and contacted as many friends as we can. Eventually, the number of the participants recovered back to 30, a relieving number.

Finally, the workshop run smoothly as expected and had a WHOW effect, not only to the participants, but also to we, the organizers. The cheerful atmosphere and the well cooperation turned the project into the child of all the members. To be honest, receiving the appreciation from Dr. Udani was much more cheerful than getting an A in my other courses. Nothing can be in place of the sense of success and satisfactory, which with no doubt consisted of every sweat and effort in the process.

At last, I would like to give my gratitude to all my dear team members:

Helen: You’ve prepared too much for CAN, organize the activity frame and endure my late participation. Bright smile and optimistic characteristic made everyone enjoy the preparation process.

Vicky: Your effort and passion can be seen by everyone; considering all the activities in detail and expressing the outstanding talent, you’ve turned the originally boring project into a vivid and impressive leadership workshop.

Jackon: I was shocked when I watched all the videos proposed by you. The time you devoted on the CAN has never been wasted, instead, your impressive movies pushed the workshop to a professional stage.

All the facilitators: Thanks to your cooperation and motivation, the activities ran smoothly and the participants enjoyed the whole process of the activity.

All our Group A members: All of your perfect preparation were completely reflected on the workshop and composed the great success of CAN. Without anyone of you, the linkage between the activities would probably be broken and become a flaw on the workshop.

At last, let’s shout aloud of our CAN theme again

C-Creativity        A-Attitude         N-Network

We think we can, so

WE CAN!!!