My generation has a big difference from the last generation. I will explain my generation.

The first picture is several people sits around the table, maybe they are having lunch, but most of them are playing with their phones. Just like me, I can’t leave the phone when I have a phone. I am chatting on QQ, sending message, writing my blog, or looking at my “Qzone” all the time. Playing with phones is the characteristic of my generation.

The second picture is a plane which is flying to a foreign country. Going abroad becomes culture in China. Almost 70% of students are gone abroad. I am one of the 70% of the students. This is the common phenomenon in my generation.

The third picture is several people are holding money in their hands. I just want to show, in this generation, more and more people pursuit of material when they are really small. In my generation, people get mature much earlier.

The forth picture shows the people in my generation also like to be thin. So do I. The thinner the better. This also becomes a kind of culture now.

The last picture shows fashionable clothes. In my generation, people love fashionable things, many of us pay a lot of attention on their appearances. So do I. Clothes is a very important part in our life, that’s why most of us don’t like wearing uniforms.

What will your life be like in 20 years?

  What will you hope to be doing with your life?

  What will you hope to have done with your life by then?

  What will you need to happen in your life to be happy?


    I never think about this question before, because I am afraid to think about my future, I don’t know what will happened to me when I grow up.

    Maybe I will be a manager and working in a company or a magazine editor. I may have family and live peacefully and happily. I may also have a child, if she is a girl, I will call her Jan, if he is boy, I will call him Steven. I will get up at 7am and prepare the breakfast for my family, and then I will pick my child to school, after that I will go to work. Maybe sometimes I will feel the pressure from the life, but as the time goes by, everything will be ok. My life won’t be too bright, but full of love and joyful.

    I hope to be a fashion designer. Designing clothes or jewelries in my office or discuss with my employees about the fashion trends. Then after us figuring out many creative ideas, I will work on my paper. One day, maybe you will see my clothes or jewelries in the fashion magazine or on the newspaper.

    In my future, I hope to have created my own shops in Shanghai, and I have been famous around city. Well, maybe I hope to have been famous around the world. I also hope to have done great job on my work, no matter I will be magazine editor or fashion designer.

    Making life happy is quit important for me. I will need a lot friends, a nice lover and a nice job. Friends can spend time with me, we can go shopping or hold party. They can make my life colorful. A nice lover can stay with me, we can create our love story and enjoy our daily life. He can make my life meaningful. A nice job can give guaranteed life. It can make me life more stable. If I have a colorful, meaningful, and stable life, I must be very happy.

 Is Mitch happy with his life? How do you know?
How is Mitch's life different from how he wanted his life to be when he was in college?
What does Mitch need now to be happy with his life?

    My personal view is, I don’t think Mitch is happy with his life. In the novel, it shows me that Mitch focus on working everyday when he graduated from the college. His real life has a big difference from his ideal life. He almost does everything on deadline. Although he had a nice girl, the ending is not that good. How could a person feel happy if his life is full of work? In the novel, the author also wrote that Mitch is busy, but most of his time is unsatisfied. This directly shows Mitch is not happy with his life.

    When he is in the college, he hated rich, and he never want to work for money, but actually he doesn’t realize that he is working for money now. He practices music when he was in the college, but when he graduated; he gave up playing it because of work. He used to chase his own frame, when he was in the college, but he wrote about famous athletes chasing theirs when he graduated. He hoped to live in beautiful, inspirational places, but when he graduated, he worked in the same workplace, used the same bank and visited the same barber. His spirit is dying after he graduating. Not only his spirit, but also his dreams are dying. He traded a lot of dreams for a bigger paycheck. All of these show that he became snobbish after he graduated.

    Mitch can’t bind himself anymore. He should create his own environment and relax himself. Spending more time on staying with Morrie and friends. Doing something interesting and to try to enrich your own spirit instead of sitting in front of computer and typing. Don’t full of life with work. Also, Mitch has to find the meaning of life. He has to find a way out to make his life abundant.

Today we went to Ping Yang nursing house and visited the old people in there.

I was little nervous and excited before we went to the nursing house. I thought these old people must have a lot of interesting stories. Maybe the communication will be the biggest problem during interview, because we didn’t have same topic.

The building is not that glorious, but it is comfortable. There are 6 floors. Healthier old people live on the first and second floor. Less health people, for example, they cannot walk by themselves or they broke their legs, they live on the rest of floors. My group visited three old people in a room. One of them is 78, the other is 87 and another is 89. Although they are old, they look health. They made me miss my grandma.

When we walked into the room, we felt a little bit shy, but we didn’t felt it anymore after we talked more. The biggest problem during the interview was the language. Although they spoke Chinese but they spoke Shanghai native language. Most of us couldn’t understand.   One of them has some problem with her ears, so she couldn’t hear our voice clearly. We asked them several questions and knew about them a little bit. Actually I was disappointed about their answers. I thought they will tell us some interesting stories when they were young, but I just knew one of them went to America for twice and that’s it. They told me they didn’t do any special or crazy thing when they were young. They said their life was peaceful. I didn’t feel any passion from them, but I understood them. The environment they lived when they were young was terribly feudal. One of them told me that her husband was chosen by her parents. I was so surprised. They didn’t go to middle school, they found a job instead of going to middle school. Their children were their whole world.

They were born in old China. They love China. I would like to visit them again in next month. I want to know more about them, such as their special experience.

I think we had a successful interview today.