My spiritual home: E-carp in Tallinn, Cell in London, Toastmaster in Shanghai

At one point, I seemed to have amnesia and had a temporary blackout. At that time, I felt that I should tidy up the places I had walked before. When I was old, I couldn't remember and couldn't walk. I could even look through the places I had walked. The people and things I met were also quite beautiful. However, I have written blogs before, but I didn't insist on it. This time, I made up my mind to find a big platform to record my growth and the beauty of life all the time-------- It has been more than three years and seventy articles since then.

Estonia has always been the happiest and most comfortable time I have had after working. It is also an unforgettable experience for me to broaden my horizons and broaden my horizons. I was born in a small closed village. I have a pastoral life where you farm and I cook. The villagers help each other. When there is no salt, I go to the house next door to ask for some. When I eat, I go to the house next door to get some vegetables. In spring, the cauliflower blossoms are in bloom, look for bees in the cracks in the mud wall to get honey. In summer, I can catch cicadas and catch frogs for the ducks to eat (Using the legs of insects or little frogs as bait, I think it was so cruel now.) At night, I can also watch the sparkling fireflies, lie on the bamboo bed in front of my house to cool off and count the stars to watch the moon, go out and take a rowing boat (later a diesel boat), rowing large wooden barrels in the river to pick water chestnut horns-----------Sugarcane and sweet potatoes buried under the soil can be seen again. Water from fish ponds has been drained and every household distributes fish. Every household kills pigs and chickens. There are also new clothes wearing pockets (the more pockets you carry, the more food you can eat). Going door-to-door to New Year greetings and setting off firecrackers is a joy that city people cannot feel! At that time, my dreams were just to be a waiter in a hotel, a conductor for a car, and a nanny in Shanghai--haha, isn't that funny?

I started attending boarding school at the age of 13 and went back once a week to pick up some vegetables (Generally pickled vegetables, with better conditions and some meat added) Hemi, high school and university all lived together. I was a person who seemed to study hard but didn't like to study. In the end, I was stuck in the line and went to junior college. Three years of college life seemed to be in my memory. I was just eating melon seeds, playing cards, and gossiping, and studying for exams. I graduated in confusion. Fortunately, I came to Shanghai to work on the 35th floor of the tallest industrial building in Xujiahui at that time.(At that time, the rent was paid in U.S. dollars, and the license plate was black. Isn't it obvious to you?) A small foreign company in South Korea Trading Company spent five years in Shanghai. It was a company that had no classmates or friends at the beginning. Other colleagues were all Shanghainese and were older than me. In the 1998 financial crisis, the kind boss guaranteed the bankruptcy of the company to his friends. As the saying goes, the first job after graduation is very important and also indicates your future. Later, it also confirmed my future work history. So far, I have served 13 small foreign companies, including production or trade-oriented companies in China Hong Kong, China Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Estonia, Italy, Switzerland, and the United States. I have lived in as many as 26 places after working. My life is like a roller coaster, and I am like a chameleon constantly adjusting myself to changes in the environment to adapt to changes. Speaking of houses, when I first came to Shanghai to rent a house, I rode bicycles in one community after another on weekends. I asked the doorman, garbage collector, and vegetable seller to inquire about the housing. In order to save lunch money, I bought vegetables at the vegetable market after work and got up early to cook. I learned my Shanghai dialect when I was shopping for vegetables at that time. I was happy and quite satisfied when I first came to Shanghai. After all, I worked in Xujiahui in Shanghai and was a foreign company. At that time, I didn't even dare to even think about a house, but reality was sometimes so cruel. I suddenly received a call from the landlord asking you to move out within a week. There was no negotiation. My first suite was bought under such circumstances. My down payment was for four people in their seventies and eighties and a friend who collected 60,000 yuan and borrowed 40,000 yuan to buy a small apartment for 100,000 yuan. This was 2000. After SARS in 2003, I sold it for 230,000 yuan, paid off the loan, and the rest went abroad. When I returned to Shanghai in 2006, my pockets were empty! Before running the marathon last year, I specially encouraged myself to practice and run downstairs to my original house. I happened to meet a real estate agent to see the house. My original one was already worth 2.6 million yuan.

After I came back, many people asked me if you regretted it? In fact, life is like this. There are losses and gains. Before I went abroad, I lived in my hometown and Shanghai. I was very home-dwelling and had very low self-esteem and had no other interests or entertainment, let alone going out to socialize. Moreover, at that time, I was reluctant to buy books. I didn't like reading, so I had frogs at the bottom of a well and guarded my own acres of land. The first time I went far away was to Beijing for a visa. At that time, I had just sold my house and had money. I was very proud. I spent money like I were a rich man. I could eat and drink whatever I wanted, and it was very cool. Haha, I thought about myself at that time. I specially wanted to watch the Tiananmen Square national flag raising and overslept and missed it. Later, when I went again in 15 years, I realized my childhood dream.

In fact, every time you go to a new place, it is more difficult at first. You have to get familiar with a new environment and new people, especially the differences in language and culture. It was really painful when you first went to Estonia. Their English also had a strong accent, and my pronunciation was not good. Fortunately, it was always a second language communication, coupled with my body relying on guessing and understanding, and finally ending with laughter-sometimes no one actually got the other's point. The most important thing is that people abroad focus on encouragement. No matter how bad you do, they still give you confidence, so that my poor English is enough to leave.

In the first year in Estonia, I mainly shared the room with my classmates in China in order to save on rent. Later, in order to experience more local life, I moved away from sharing the room with local people. I also came into contact with e-carp, a church organization mainly focused on youth education (the founder is Korean and was 88 years old at that time), which gave me more opportunities to meet young local friends and spent an unforgettable happy period!

2005.01.05

Church songs will be sung together before the event, and after each event, everyone will gather together to share the income

2005.05.08

Sometimes we go out and play basketball together

Speaking of Carp, he suddenly missed his grandparents in the other world. People close to him really had a heart-to-heart connection. At that time, I usually stayed awake at night. Suddenly, a figure walked towards me in my sleep, and then I woke up. Looking at the time, it was around 1 o'clock in the morning. Because of the time difference, I felt that something was happening at home. I heard the sound of suona when I called back the next day. Later, I asked my grandfather when he left, which coincided with the time I dreamed of. It turned out that my grandfather said goodbye to me. The next two months were very uncomfortable, and tears would fall uncontrollably. I spent that time in carp, and they gave me a lot of support and companionship. (Recently, I listened to a psychological trauma class given by Professor Xu Kaiwen, a psychology expert at Peking University. It turned out that this wasThe grief of psychological traumaFortunately, she walked out with the company and help of Carp's friends.) Four years later, grandma also left. I hope they are all well and I will be well too!

Grandpa and grandma who love to learn, my grandfather is teacher Huamu, and grandma is an accountant in the transportation department! When I was a child, I didn't like to go to the Huamu Forest Farm where my grandfather worked. My grandparents managed their time very well. I remembered to get up at 7 a.m. to have breakfast, study, eat lunch and take a nap at noon, and then study and watch the news broadcast at night. I am not restrained and I love to study. Now I think about it if I studied hard then, I wouldn't have been as troublesome as I am now. People are like this. At that time, my grandfather asked me to learn flowers and trees from her, otherwise I would have been worth a lot. Hahaha, I was afraid that insects would use medicine. Grandpa also regretted that he had no successor! But fortunately, my father later built a garden of flowers and trees on his own land. Every year, no matter what season I go back to my hometown, I can pick my own flowers to visit my grandparents!

A gentle grandfather and a grumpy grandma. Grandma was from Guizhou. Because she liked poetry, many of which described Jiangnan well, she followed her grandfather to a small village in Jiangnan. She still spoke Guizhou Mandarin until she left.

2005.05.15 Theater Performance: Snow White

Go shopping together and share Estonia's famous snack, almonds

Taking pictures of men wearing kilts on the road

Children's performances at the music festival

Teacher Roger, who went to church with his friend Mari, visited Tartu's house in Tatu. This was the second time he visited it. It was more rewarding to have local people leading him than wandering around myself.

2005.8.10 Roger home in Tartu

train

Kissing Students Fountain

Monument to Barclay de Tolly

Monument to Karl Ernst Von Baer

Monument to Kristjan Jaak Peterson

University of Tartu Museum

First All-Estonian Song Festival Memorial Stone

Monument to Eduard Tubin

Roger is Swiss and speaks German. His wife is Russian and speaks Russian. In their family communication, Roger speaks Russian. His wife answers German. His three children speak a mixture of two languages.

2006.01.01 New Year's Day

This was an Irish couple, the biggest leader at the time.

Design clothes with toilet paper

Received wedding photos of Vatily in 2008, and he has left Estonia to live in Gruzia, Georgia

I just received his email. He is a father of four children. After seven years in Gruzia, he moved to his wife's country, Belarus, to work on a youth education project

The fourth baby born

2006.05.28 London Cell Gathering

I went to London on January 5th, 2006. Christmas was already over, and I also encountered problems at school, and I couldn't go to school. The daily rent was high.(I lived in Homestay in Battersea. The exchange rate was 1:15 for 100 pounds a week. I stayed for two months.) The subway was also very expensive, costing several pounds a time, and the prices varied from district to district. The second landlord was an Italian old lady. She divorced her husband and planned to sell the villa they shared. Therefore, the room had to remain in its original condition and couldn't stay at home during the day. I didn't know anyone. I wandered the streets almost every day for the first three months. London was cold and cold at that time, so museums were my best place to go. Most of the museums in London were free, because I stayed in west London, and there were few Asians. I couldn't find a breakthrough. I was lonely and helpless. When I was in a bad mood, I read an article: Never Give Up, I copied it in my notebook and read it every morning to encourage myself. This method is really good, until one night I dreamed of my grandfather who passed away. My grandfather encouraged me that everything would be okay! The next day, I found a place to work. I was managed by a handsome Taiwanese restaurant. I also met friends from Thailand. Later, I moved in with her. Then I met a Chinese friend who worked there, and I also met Cell who followed her. Experience local life-unfortunately, when I gradually adapted, my visa expired, and I also chose to return to China.

If Estonia lives a comfortable and enjoyable life, and experienced loneliness, helplessness but no pain in the UK, this is also my lowest time. When I encounter difficulties in the future, I will always encourage myself with my experience in the UK-everything will be better!

Because I lived in the West End of London, there were very few Asians and most of them were children. Later, I moved to Fulham and then to Putney to share a room with a group of Thai friends. There, I met a Chinese friend who took me to participate in various cell activities.

This was a big gathering, and cells in various regions took advantage of their skills to attract some visitors to join their extended family

Set up the display table

Each table has its own characteristics and is particularly enthusiastic

This is our Putney cell display table

2006.06.18 PICNIC This is the outing I organized in putney cell,

There is a regular meeting every Friday night. Everyone shares together. Most of this small group are residents living in the Putney area in Southeast Asia. Everyone helps each other together. Before I returned to China, the pastor of the church also gave me an English Bible! It's a pity that I returned to China when I got to know them.

This is a Thai friend I met in the restaurant. We went to Kent to see the Greenwich Observatory. She helped me leave the old Italian lady's villa. Although there were some conflicts and I lost contact afterwards, I am still very grateful to her. Sometimes I think of her and hope everything is well for her.

My friends in London and South Korea made an appointment to go to Cambridge to take pictures together

She was a Christian and often participated in church activities with her at that time. She was surprised when I gave her the rice cooker, because most consumption abroad was AA, and she rarely treated, let alone gave gifts.

Shanghai Tu Si Si Club Toast Master

Toast is a "toast" and Master is a "master". Toastmaster can be interpreted as the 'meeting host'. Founded in 1924 in California, USA, Toastmasters International is a non-profit organization with more than 16,000 member organizations in more than 136 countries around the world. The reason for its establishment is an international organization based on helping others how to speak, listen and think, and cultivating students 'leadership and expression skills.

This is the first club established in Shanghai, Shanghai No. 1 Toastmaster, located at Yunfeng Hotel in Jing 'an, every Monday night from 7:00 to 9:00PM) , at that time, after returning to China, I was working at a financial management training company. The teacher was a well-known financial management teacher in Taiwan. I originally planned to follow my boss in the direction of a trainer, so I went to TM to exercise. Three months later, I left the company and went to work at Party B. I still persisted in going to TM for some time. At that time, I made some good friends, but now I am getting farther and farther away from the trainer, and I am even more afraid to speak. On general occasions, I like to stay silently in the corner and be an listener.

In addition to daily Monday activities, sometimes we also have weekend dinners

2008.05.31 The theme of the conference is: Let's the ball rolling

Conference volunteers

Pakistan's Sasa Dance King and Little Susan have grown up and are future fashion designers---

2008.06.25 Photo taken of the party with Wuxi TM on the night of the Wuxi outing

Wuxi Li Lake

2008.07.28 Club birthday party

The club has a tradition of celebrating the birthdays of the month on Monday night in the last week of each month. This time, it is also celebrating my birthday, so the club also prepared greeting cards!

This is a souvenir left on the card that day! The big signature in the middle is Cheng Long alex pseudonym: Brother Long is the author of 5 best-selling books and the founder of Persistence Planet, helping people with dreams improve their speaking skills-----

Finding that everything is going well, and I am out of date, I have improved, but I am old----Tolstoy

When I look back on my past again, if I read more books, if I accumulate well in the club, if I save more money, if I don't sell the house, if I don't do this thing, if-----------There are no ifs, only results and consequences!

I am very grateful to meet those organizations and those good partners when I was most helpless, helpless and at the lowest point in my life. Their power of positive and hard work also encouraged me to change me. Although I have not made greater progress, I am also on the way to getting better. -----!