Learning by Doing

Now I look back and see how interesting we were, we started this blog for  practicing written Chinese and English. 

2 years a go we were student and language learners and users, and we were more of learners in terms of many subjects, like economy, finance, entrepreneurship...learning could be our mission at that time. Now we are no longer students but professionals working in different areas, which means we are pure users than learners. 

Do we stop learning after leaving school? We are still learning everyday but in different ways. Books and lectures seem to be impossible since we are on hectic schedules, we learn more by doing. Your research on Chinese Internet could be a good example. 

Learn as you need but not you are asked:) Take your time and do what you enjoy.

学习和忘记

好长时间没用中文有写任何东西。
昨天我的同事让我帮他搜搜网上有没有什么关于中国对互联网治理的看法。
找到了好多文章，但是因为这么长时间没有写、说或看，就看得挺慢。
我可能要找一个老师可以帮我努力一点学习中文，但是到现在没有找到在比利时的，和家里没有网络所以不可以用skype等软件。
我再继续找找，今天的博客就到这里！

老师

做老师这份工作根本不容易。

我以前做过72个学生一班的初中老师、小学老师、幼儿园老师、成年人老师和大学家教。我最喜欢做家教或者成年人老师。这不是说教小孩子没有意义，但是我觉得教小孩儿需要大一点的力气和爱心。我最爱的是转达内容的意义，而因为小孩子的想法不一样所以这不是我最喜欢做的。

因为我自己以前做过各种各样的老师所以我也能理解大学老师们的处境。但是很多老师连自己的ppt也不做，只看书作者的ppt来讲课，考试同样从理念和选择填空来看学生们有没有理解课程的内容。看他们一点也没有做，那就会觉得他们非常的懒。有的时候觉得自己可以相处更好的，更有意义的，书外面的例子，但是他们只讲ppt上面的。那可能是因为做老师和转达内容不适合他们？不应该是和任何人。但是我们大学的老师只有知识的基础而没有当老师的基本考试货怎么样。所以没法确保我们大学的老师能否帮助我们更好的学习。

有的老师真的知道他们讲的课的内容，真的能让每一个学生觉得上课有道理。像现在，我上的环保课的老师从世贸来，她给的例子非常适时，也不觉得我们是小小的笨笨的学生。

Teacher, teaching

Let me talk about something irrelevant first. In the my early days, I also did this kind of writing exercise on different topics given by a teacher. Last time I didn't like that it, because I did not know what to write on those topics, because (I felt like?) most teachers do not understand their little young students. They have only rights or wrongs in mind, how do us we romantic& imaginative students get those monsters pleased?

Unfortunately I continuously meet teachers/professors/tutors of that kind. Half a year ago I took a course about strategy, guess how what our exam was like? basically we were asked to memorize all the theories and their corresponding theorists, and the exam questions are all like "what's XX's theory on organizational management? " "How does A affect B according to XX's model of...? "

If the intention of teaching and learning is to bear those that kind of knowledge in mind, is our the tuition we paid pay to school/uni too expensive high?

Maybe I should not scold on my teachers, because most of them have only learnt the knowledge but not how to teach. Such a sad thing.

The teacher I respect most is from my high school. She conducted a politically brain-washing course combined with economics and some basic philosophy, which every Chinese student has to pass (it was funny that although no one believed in that but we still have had to memorize the whole book); Of course I cannot remember what's in the textbook anymore, but my teacher's way of teaching is was just so impressive, the course content could be as dull as you imagine, but she can could just make it alive and vivid bring it to life. Besides, the most important thing is was that she loved her students and never discriminated on against those with low grades,. Not all of us liked this course, but no one hated it, and all of us liked her very much.

My teacher, Ms Ding also told us many things happening outside of the classroom, most of which were real life stories, no blah blah at all.
She treats her students like her friends, not silly people who need to gain knowledge and get a certificate.  She teaches by doing and behaving, if she wants us to be honest, she does not lie to us.
She never forces us, she will always tell us the importance of doing that something, if we don't like it, she will always be there listening to listen to us.

It is hard to find such a teacher nowadays, even harder in a university. They give lectures, they go; Most students want to graduate and get employed, that's all.

Friends

At this life stage during our 20-30twenties/thirties, we are still too young to talk about real friends or old friends.

If you say "this is my old friend and we have known each other since our childhood", then our parents may laugh at us, "hahaha I also got have a couple of old friends and I knew have known them for 50 years..."

How about real friends? It is more difficult to say. How about those who share happiness with you? they could be real friends, but some just show off; and how about those who call you for hanging out to hang out with you each weekend? maybe some of them are just friends you can play (play is usually used only for children.. here, you could say "kill some time"/"spend some time"/"hang") with; as for people who only come to you when they need help or are stuck in trouble, they are of course not real friends..

So far I think real friends are those who you feel comfortable staying being together (staying is more like if you sleep at their house) with(they don't stress you), those who can understand your heart, and those with whom you can tell share your heart with.

There are so many people we come across in each life stage.  We come across so many people in each life stage. (This phrasing is more fluent) We never know the total number of people exist in life,  and only a small number of people become our real friends. Comparinged with the large number, the small group is worth our best treasuring.

I don't  spend much time on hanging out with many people, because I prefer a one-to-one meetup or a small group, in which way you do communication communicate but not laughing and joking. Hmm it does not mean I spend no-time on that, because it still feels good to see some people you seldom meet, it is a good way to make new friends, either getting re-connectioned with old friends, and the most important thing is to have new ideas. (this sentence is a bit fragmented, but I think I see what you mean - maybe you should split it up in separate sentences and explain it better?)

老朋友

什么是一个老朋友？
一个普通朋友什么时候可以成为一个老朋友？

现在在土耳其有一个老朋友来看我。我们是小学时候一年级時候认识的，那时候我五岁她六岁。现在我二十四岁她二十五岁。已经认识十九年了！也上同一个高中的。
我们不是那种一见面就是成为最好的朋友，但是虽然我们没有住在同一个国家，但是我们每年都有见面，她以前到中国、瑞典看我，而现在在土耳其。她就是我的最老的朋友（“她就是我真正的老朋友”。“最老的朋友”是在强调你们认识最久，但是你的意思好像是强调你们关系最铁？）。虽然我们的生活不一样但是我们有同样的一个背景，互相认识对方的所有男朋友（“所有男朋友”：你是认真的吗……感觉你们以前都有过很多男朋友，哈哈哈！）、学校、朋友等等。

除了她，我没有认识这么长时间的好朋友。facebook上当然有很多认识了很长时间的人，但是我不会说他们是老朋友，就会说他们是facebook朋友。经常会讨厌他们写的无聊的东西（呵呵呵，就是的：p）。

那，在瑞典和新加坡见结识（最好用“结识”，你用“见”，80%意味着你以前已经认识了这些人，只是又在新加坡见面）的朋友是否是老朋友？有的只认识了最多两年，但是有的真的会觉得我们会一辈子都继续做朋友，真的有老朋友的感觉。这些人知道很多关于我的故事，而和现在见面认识的人相比，他们就是好朋友。但是两年以后能说吗（但是两年以后，现在是老朋友的人，还会继续扮演老朋友的角色吗）？

可能是因为我老了（你在开玩笑吧，年轻人！）所以我现在更好的能（能更好的）估计谁会成为老朋友？
也许还不知道，只能试一试看以后谁成了老朋友。

Money

Last time one of my most respect person the people I respect most told me: money is not evil. I don't remember the reason that why he said so. It could be something related to the fact that nowadays people are so eager for making to make money without any considerations.

I agree with his viewpoint(one word). Money is an object, it could be whatever anything would be more colloquial in written language depending on its owner. We are money's master/ we are money masters and money could have human nature characteristics.

My sense about money is originally from my parents, I'm also curious as to how it is like (how it is/what it is like) in other cultures.  It might be funny to you that my father says that if you can well spend money well, you will well make money well; however, my mother holds a different view, which is bit opposite to my father's. She thinks that a family should try its best to save money for important things and emergency use, and she does so.  She was critical on of my spending habits when I was a little girl, because I liked to buy some little things that you don't know where you to put them up after buying; though sometimes I think my mother is speaking of herself.....

I get got to understand my mother as while growing up. Like most Chinese parents, they save money for their children's education. My parents are not rich so they have had to plan carefully for the family.  I also realized that my father's words were not encouraging me to spend money, he just wanted me to have a happy childhood.  Thus I always bear in mind that to buy what is in need to buy only what is necessary for so as not to burden my family as long as I have not officially started making money;   when I get a job I'll start to support supporting my parents as well.

Basically I think savings is are necessary for everyone, and it is better to save money yourself for your future life, people should not be forced to be included in the pension system, but taxation can offer help to those who cannot work and support themselves.