Beautiful face independent life: foreign female students work in Beijing.
According to the national education commission, there are nearly three female students from all over the world. Among them were the daughters of the grandees and the daughters of the rich. However, many of them do not rely on their father's power, nor are they attached to the family, but rely on their own hands to work and read. While appreciating the profound Chinese culture, they also present the fresh and beautiful faces of the exotic women and the independent and tough way of life.
Your love is beyond me.
"Chinese parents are really different from our American parents!" This is the feeling that Linda, an American girl, made after three months as a nanny at professor wang's home.
Linda's father was a powerful American banker. After graduating from a university in the United States, with longing for the Oriental ancient civilization, she came to Beijing, studying in a university for its classical Chinese literature, she put the "eight people of tang and song dynasty prose" as a main research topic. As a result of her hard work, she was very close to professor wang and her relationship with professor wang was very close. One day, she went to wang's house ask questions, talk, know that wang's home in the small jiangsu native nanny to go home, the professor's granddaughter is nobody to look after, just volunteered to the professor said: "in the spare time, I'll give you a nanny! How much you paid for the former nanny and how much you paid me. I'm sure I won't ask for a penny more, and I'm sure I'll do everything I can to get your granddaughter." When Linda finished the last sentence, professor wang's mouth was open - she couldn't believe it. It was from an American female student. And she was the daughter of a great banker! But it must have been too late to find someone else, and with the seriousness of the girl's face, professor wang decided to try Linda first.
Professor wang didn't know that Linda had been on her own since her 18th birthday. On her 18th birthday, her father did not buy his daughter a birthday cake and a birthday card as usual, and he gave his daughter a serious talk. The father said, "you are 18 years old. You are an adult. I can't afford to give you the cost of living, I can't turn you into a parasite. Everything in the future depends on you.
She worked her way through her college years. When she came to Beijing, she insisted on working and studying. She used her spare time to teach classes at private schools, helped foreign cosmetics companies sell products, and helped Chinese companies translate scientific and technological information... A lot of work has been done, really did not ask rich father to spend a cent. This time, she decided to take a job as a nurse. She wanted to make money as a babysitter, and she wanted to take the opportunity to reach out to a real Chinese society, a real Chinese family.
Linda's life as a nanny began to adapt to the life habits of professor wang.
As soon as he arrived at professor wang's house, Linda felt most unaccustomed to three Chinese meals a day. When living with international students, Linda always has to go out for two western meals with us every week. However, the two western meals a week became an extravagant hope. Three meals a day were all Chinese food, and Linda's stomach felt uncomfortable. Two weeks before he arrived at wang's house, she was looking for western food in her dreams. Because she eats Chinese food all day, she eats very little and has no appetite at all. This detail made the careful professor wang see, professor wang asked why she was eating so little, was she not used to Chinese food? She was in a hurry to say something that Chinese girls often say on their lips: "lose weight". She has learned too much from the Chinese idiom, "when in Rome, do as the Romans do". She clenched her teeth for a month. Strangely, her stomach began to get used to Chinese food, and even her appetite increased. She attributes this to the charm of Chinese food.
Another thing that puzzled her was that the Chinese didn't seem to know much about the weekend. Professor wang, apart from his lectures, seemed to be sitting in front of the wide desk forever, reading and writing, very different from the professors in America. The overseas students are not the same as the Chinese students. At the end of the week, the international students are waiting until the next morning to go back to sleep. On the first weekend of the wangs' home, Linda, who had lost the carnival, was lying on her bed and tossing and turning. Counting, even her most annoying math and physics formulas, all the way to use, is unable to sleep. It was not until dawn that she drifted into sleep. It was 3:30 in the afternoon when I woke up. She thought the professor's family would be unhappy, but the family didn't say anything. The professor's wife comforted her by saying, "you slept so well, and the mother took the baby back to her mother's house in the morning." She was touched by the old man's words. The Chinese people's generosity and kindness impressed her deeply. She knew that her job as a nanny was not complete. The power of being moved was huge, and it made Linda more active and active in the life of the Chinese family.
Linda took the babysitter so seriously that the professor's wife became her teacher. She started with housework and learned to cook Chinese food. After more than three months, the young lady has a lot to say about the nanny's life.
"Professor wang's family is good to me, and that's comforting to me. To my bewilderment, Chinese parents are too busy with their children, or too considerate of their children. For example, during the holidays to play in the park, children run, play, and have fun. The parents? Always follow the child, not leave the half step. Remind the child of the danger and tell the child to pay attention. The child had a good time and the parents took the opportunity to have a good rest. But Chinese parents don't worry about that, too. The result can only be that the parents are tired and the children are kept under control, which is not the same as our American parents. The idea of our American parents is that when children have the most fun, it is also when our parents are most comfortable. As to where there is danger, where to pay attention to what, let the children themselves in play to discover, to understand, to experience. It is not good for children to be timid, and it is more important to kill the child's wisdom.
"Chinese parents are blind to the waste of their children. Children don't want to eat or eat food that can be thrown away at will, sometimes the parents help to pour. Children don't wear clothes that they don't want to wear, and parents can easily tolerate their children's mistakes. The meal that can't finish, can put in the refrigerator to eat, why must you throw out? This dress does not love to wear, always have to say a reason! If the reason is not sufficient, why does the parents not make the education to their children? China is not a rich country!
My ideal is on the bicycle.
"Ancient Chinese sculpture is the most exquisite sculpture in the world, and ancient Chinese sculptors should be the best sculptors in the world. But why didn't the great sculptor make a pass? In the teaching materials of the department of sculpture of the academy of fine arts, we discuss the sculpture of the west. Why not teach the students in their own country the sculpture works with national characteristics in Chinese history? I used this long holiday to go to the shaanxi lintong, the magnificent and beautiful terra-cotta warriors and horses, which shocked me. It was the Japanese female student ikeda, who made this comment. The reporter met her in an art salon, the theme of that day was "the comparison between Oriental and western sculpture art". Ikeda miss read her a paper, she sincerely solicit comments from everyone, and let people looked at her in dazu county in sichuan province, datong yungang, henan longmen, shaanxi lintong took hundreds of pictures.
Ikeda was born in Hokkaido, Japan. His father was a fisherman and his mother was a housewife. In her junior year of graduation, a family member who was interested in collecting postcards from various countries visited her home and showed her hundreds of postcards she had brought back from China. It was from these postcards that ikeda knew the ancient Oriental country, which was full of water. More than 20 postcards, with the terracotta warriors and the yungang grottoes, made her even more comfortable. Since then, she has made up her mind to study in China and study Chinese sculpture art.
Ikeda's wish finally came true. She came to China and studied in the sculpture department of an academy of fine arts in Beijing. The cost of studying abroad made her a poor fisherman's father.
From the day when miss ikeda came to Beijing to study, she began to work and study. She herself contacted a joint venture cosmetics company as a product salesman for the company. In addition to the class, she rode the half-old bicycle presented by her Chinese classmates, holding a map of Beijing traffic and running through every corner of Beijing. Neither the "sauna days" in Beijing's high summer nor the harsh winter weather have made her stop working.
A heavy rain gonorrhea, her fever 39 ℃ for several days. She met her mother in a dream. She was so happy! Later I did not know why I woke up, and there was no mother beside me, and her tears flowed freely. The classmate of the same room heard her cry, asked whether she was homesick, stubborn she did not want others to see her vulnerability, said that she had a dream of terrible things.
One winter, she slipped on the ice on a bicycle and scratched her face, arms and legs. The next day, she pedaled the old bicycle and hit the road again. All the students praised her for her perseverance and the spirit of hard work. Her answer is simple and powerful: "my dream is on the bicycle, and I came for my dream. The wheel of this old bicycle will not stop as long as my heart beats vigorously.
Use your parents' money to lose face.
Alice had just arrived at the university as a well-known figure, as she kept making news for herself. First, she paid her tuition by becoming a mannequin.
The girl from Venice, the water city, whose father owns a small winery, relies on a mannequin to earn money to read. Some people don't understand, then ask her straight away, her explanation is: "my father are all his money to be the more money, I'm an adult, adults should feed themselves! If you depend on your parents for money, it will be regarded as worthless, and that is the real disgrace.
The second news is that she fell in love with liu jinyong, a poor student from a poor mountainous area (shangluo, shaanxi) and a student loan from the state. Every Christmas or valentine's day, Alice receives a gift from many of the boys in our school and outside school. There are expensive roses, expensive foreign chocolates, Christmas CARDS with music, or valentine's CARDS. The most touching thing for Alice was a plain figure. The figure in the picture is not someone else, it is Alice herself. When liu jinyong, a student from shaanxi province, handed the sketch to the girl in the class, his face was red to the ears. For more than a year, he worked as a model for Alice and created more than 10 works. In particular, the oil painting "the small mountain village welcomed the foreign guests", won the national college students fine arts competition third prize. Liu with thick accumulation of life, painted caves broad folks, cave heatable adobe sleeping platform on the typical Alice with yellow hair and blue eyes, sitting in the arms of the ocean girl and side, there is a naked, wear a chinese-style chest covering two children, are surrounded by white towel morels folks. The image of this work is vivid and distinct, and is well received by its predecessors. This work in Beijing, Shanghai, wuhan, xi 'an city tour, after a foreign collectors want to buy, did not expect, simple and honest honest Liu Jinyong is not high, politely refused the foreigner offer, and send this picture of the original solemnly to Alice.
Alice's third surprise was to tear down the application for student loan, which liu had just written, and offered to help xiao liu to pay his junior college tuition the next day. The practice of some foreign students told her don't understand, they asked her: "depend on own study abroad is not easy for others to pay again, such a heavy economic burden, you can withstand?" "I don't think it's a problem," Alice said confidently. "I have two more classes every day. A number of students have come to me in the past, hoping that I can help them in class. They have repeatedly said that they will definitely pay me the same fee, which I politely declined. In the future, I will never give up my life as long as I am full of energy.
For some of the students' ideas, the young lady said she couldn't understand. She told me such a thing.
"Some Chinese classmates ask me, as a rich businessman's daughter, when the mannequin does not feel the fall? To be honest, I really don't understand the word 'fall'. Through the patient explanation of Chinese classmates, I understand that it means to "lower my identity". That makes me wonder, my dad has more money. What does that have to do with me? I am engaged in art in a country with noble art, engaged in the work related to my hobby, how can I call down identity? I think xiao liu is good because he is simple, sincere and never asks me about my family. When it comes to the future, he always says, "we don't trust anyone, we rely on our own hands." Through each other's efforts, we can certainly live a happy life. This is the spirit of a man, and I like such a man.
Alice's love and courage were touching, but how did her boyfriend, a Chinese guy who grew up in a backward mountain, feel about it? The reporter also interviewed liu jinyong. Liu said that he stayed up all night that night when Alice paid for his tuition. He felt both excitement and remorse.
He was excited to be a poor student from the depths of the mountain, and had won the love of a foreign girl, and love so deep! But the excitement also contained the insecurity, oneself after all is a five foot tall man! How can you let your lover pay for your tuition! There is another ingredient in this uneasiness: the tuition is paid, but the price is too heavy. The body of his girlfriend, not only let the students look at it again and again, but also let them brushstroke. Although he is also an art, mannequin he does not feel anything, but it is a little awkward for his girlfriend. He said he had decided, since this semester, they work or work-study programs, not only to solve their cost of living, but also help Alice to solve part of the tuition and fees, strive to make her a day earlier down the model.
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美丽面孔 独立生活：外国女留学生在北京打工 据国家教委统计，全国有近3名万来自世界各地的女留学生。她们之中不乏政要的女儿、富商的千金。然而，她们中的很多人既不依靠父亲的权势，也不依附于万贯家资，而是依靠自己的双手，一边打工，一边读书。她们在领略博大精深的中国文化的同时，也把异国女子清新美丽的面孔和独立坚韧的生活方式展现在人们面前。 你们的爱我完全不懂 “中国家长和我们美国家长真的太不一样了！”这是美国姑娘琳达在汪教授家做了3个月的保姆之后发出的感慨。 琳达的父亲是美国一位颇具实力的银行家。从美国的一所大学毕业后，怀着对东方文明古国的神往，她来到了北京，在一所闻名遐尔的大学里攻读中国古典文学，她把“唐宋八大家”散文作为自己的主要研究课题。由于她读书刻苦努力，深得中文系汪教授的赏识，她和汪教授的关系自然也亲近了许多。一天，她去汪教授家请教问题，谈话中，得知汪家的江苏籍小保姆回家了，教授的孙女正没人照看，就自告奋勇地对教授说：“课余时间里，我来给您家当保姆吧！您给以前那位保姆多少工资，也给我开多少工资。我肯定不会多跟您要一分钱，肯定会尽心尽力带好您的孙女。”当琳达把最后一句话说完，汪教授的嘴张得老大——她真不敢相信，这句话出自一个美国女留学生之口。更何况她还是一位大银行家的女儿呀！但当时找别人肯定是来不及的，再加上洋女弟子一脸的认真，汪教授决定先让琳达试试。 汪教授不知道，从18岁生日那天起，琳达就开始自食其力了。琳达18岁生日那一天，父亲没有像往年一样再给女儿买生日蛋糕和生日贺卡，他给女儿的生日礼物是一次严肃的谈话。父亲说：“你已经18岁了，已是成年人了。我不能再提供给你生活的费用，我不能把你培养成寄生虫。今后的一切，全要靠你自己了。” 琳达的大学时代，就是靠她勤工俭学读完的。来到北京后，她仍坚持一边打工一边读书。她利用业余时间去私立学校教过课，帮外国化妆品公司推销过产品，帮助中国企业翻译过科技资料……很多工作都干过了，真的没有向富翁爸爸要过一分钱。这次到汪教授家当保姆，她决定要认认真真干一把。她既想通过当保姆挣到钱，也想借此机会接触到一个真实的中国社会，真实的中国家庭。 琳达的保姆生活，是从适应汪教授家的生活习惯开始的。 刚到汪教授家那阵子，让琳达感到最不习惯的是一天三顿的中国饭菜。和留学生们一起生活时，每个星期琳达总要跟大伙儿一起去外面吃两次西餐。可自打到了汪教授家，每个星期两次西餐便成为了奢望。一天三顿全是中餐，琳达的胃感到很不舒服。刚到汪教授家的前两个星期，她在梦里都在寻找西餐。由于整天吃中餐不习惯，她的食量特别少，一点食欲都没有。这一细节让细心的汪教授看到了，汪教授关切地问她为什么吃这么少，是不是吃不惯中餐？她急中生智地说出了中国女同学经常挂在嘴边的一个托词：“减肥”。她从课本中“入乡随俗”这个中国成语里，体味到了太多的内涵。她咬牙坚持了一个月，奇怪的是她的胃居然开始习惯中国菜，连食量也增加了。她把这归结于中国菜的魅力。 另一个让她感到困惑不解的是，中国人好像不大懂得过周末。汪教授除了讲课外，似乎永远坐在那张宽大的写字台前，没完没了地读呀、写呀，和他们美国的那些教授截然不同。在读的留学生跟本校的中国同学也不相同。每到周末，留学生们终于盼到了释放热情的时候，总要通宵达旦地狂欢，等到第二天早晨，再纷纷回宿舍睡觉。来到汪家的第一个周末，失去了狂欢的琳达躺在床上翻来覆去怎么也睡不着。数数，甚至背她最讨厌的数理化公式，什么方法都用上了，就是无法入睡。直到天快亮的时候，她才迷迷糊糊进入了梦乡。一觉醒来，已是下午3点半了。她原以为教授的家人会不高兴的，可汪家人谁也没说什么。教授的老伴反而安慰起她来：“看你睡得这么香，孩子他妈早晨就把孩子抱回娘家去了。”老人的一席话，令她很感动。中国人的宽厚与善良，给她留下的印象太深刻了。她心里明白，自己做保姆的职责根本没有完成。被感动的力量是巨大的，它使琳达更加积极、主动地适应这个中国家庭的生活。 琳达把这份保姆工作做得异常认真，教授的老伴成了她的老师，她从做家务开始，又学着做中国菜。一晃三个多月过去了，说起这段保姆生活的感受，这位洋小姐感触颇多。 “汪教授一家人对我都很好，这一点让我感到欣慰。令我感到困惑不解的是，中国家长对孩子管得太死，也可以说是对孩子照顾得过于周到。比如说，节假日到公园里去玩，孩子奔跑着，嬉闹着，玩得开心极了。家长呢？总在孩子后面跟着，不离开半步。提醒孩子这儿危险，告诉孩子那儿注意。本来孩子玩得挺开心，家长趁机也能在一边好好休息休息。可中国家长这也不放心，那也要操心，其结果只能是家长白受累，孩子也处处受管束，这一点和我们美国家长不太一样。我们美国家长的观念是：孩子玩得最开心的时候，也是我们家长最放心的时候。至于哪里有危险，哪里该注意些什么，让孩子们自己在玩中去发现，去认识，去体会。对孩子管束过多，容易使孩子胆小，不利于培养孩子的勇敢精神，更重要的是扼杀了孩子的智慧。 “对于孩子的浪费现象，中国的家长们都视而不见。孩子不愿吃或吃不完的饭菜可以随意倒掉，有时候家长还帮着倒。孩子不愿穿的衣服就可以不穿，家长轻而易举地就能容忍孩子的错误。这顿吃不完的饭，可以放在冰箱里下顿吃嘛，为什么非要倒掉不可呢？这件衣服不爱穿，总要说出个理由吧！如果说得理由不充分，家长为什么不因势利导地对孩子进行教育呢？中国还是个不算富裕的国家呀！” 自行车上驮着我的理想 “中国古代的雕塑是世界上最精美的雕塑，中国古代的雕塑家也应该是世界上最优秀的雕塑家。可为什么没有人为这些杰出的雕塑家立传呢？在美术学院雕塑系的教材里，大谈特谈西方的雕塑，为什么不向自己国家的大学生传授中国历史上具有民族特色的雕塑作品呢？我利用这个长假去了一次陕西临潼，兵马俑的恢宏与精美，使我的内心感到震撼。”发出这番感慨的，是日本女留学生池田富子。记者是在一个艺术沙龙里认识她的，那天沙龙的主题是“东西方雕塑艺术之比较”。池田小姐朗读了她的一篇论文，她真诚地向每一个人征求意见，并让大家看了她在四川大足、大同云岗、河南龙门、陕西临潼拍下的几百张照片。 池田出生在日本北海道，父亲是一位渔民，母亲是家庭妇女。在她初三毕业那年，一个爱好收集各国明信片的亲戚来拜访她家，还给她看了自己从中国带回的几百张明信片。正是从这些明信片上，池田认识了这个一衣带水的东方古国。那些印有兵马俑和云岗石窟的20余张明信片，更让她爱不释手。从那时候起，她就下定决心，一定要来中国留学，认真钻研中国的雕塑艺术。 池田的愿望终于实现了，她来到了中国，在京城的一所美术学院雕塑系学习。可留学的费用令她当渔民的父亲感到捉襟见肘。 从池田小姐来北京留学的那天起，她一边打工一边读书的生活就开始了。她自己联系到一家中外合资化妆品企业，担任该公司的产品推销员。除了上课之外，她就骑着中国同学赠送的那辆半旧自行车，手握着一张北京市交通图，跑遍了北京的每一个角落。不论是北京盛夏的“桑拿天”还是冬天对皮肤杀伤力极强的大风沙，都没有让她停下工作的脚步。 一次暴雨把她淋病了，一连几天高烧39℃。她在梦中见到了妈妈，她好高兴呀！后来不知道为什么梦醒了，身边并没有妈妈，她的泪水情不自禁地流了出来。同屋的同学听到了她的哭声，问她是不是想家了，倔强的她不愿别人看到她的脆弱，就说自己梦见了可怕的东西。 一年冬天，她骑自行车在冰上滑倒了，脸、胳膊、腿都蹭破了皮。第二天，她蹬着那辆旧自行车又上路了。同学们都夸她有毅力，有吃苦耐劳的精神。她的回答简单而又铿锵有力：“自行车上驮着我的梦想，我是为寻求梦想而来的。只要我的心脏还能有力地跳动，这辆旧自行车的轮子就不会停下来。” |
艾丽丝刚到这所大学不久就成了知名人物，因为她接连不断为自己“制造”新闻。首先是她靠当人体模特赚钱给自己交学费。
这位来自水城威尼斯的洋妞，父亲开着一家规模不小的酒厂，她却靠当人体模特挣钱供自己读书。有的人对此不理解，便直截了当地去问她，她的解释是：“我爸爸再有钱可那钱都是他的，我已经是成年人了，成年人应该自己养活自己！如果在金钱上再依赖父母，那会被别人看作很没出息，那才是真正的没面子呢！”
第二条新闻是，她居然爱上了一位来自贫困山区（陕西商洛）、靠国家助学贷款读书的穷学生刘进勇。每到圣诞节或情人节，艾丽丝都会收到本校和外校许多男生送来的礼物。有很名贵的玫瑰花，有价格不菲的外国巧克力，有带音乐的圣诞卡或情人卡。而让艾丽丝最动心的是一张普普通通的人物素描画。这画中的人物不是别人，正是艾丽丝本人。当陕西籍的学生刘进勇把这幅素描画递给同班的这位洋妞时，他的脸一直红到了耳根儿。此后的一年多时间里，他以艾丽丝为模特，创作了10余幅作品。特别是油画《小山村迎来了洋客人》，获得了全国大学生美术大赛三等奖。小刘凭着厚实的生活积累，画了窑洞里拉家常的乡亲们，窑洞里典型的土炕上，坐着黄头发蓝眼睛的艾丽丝，在这位洋妞的怀里和身边，有一个光屁股、一个穿肚兜的两个小孩儿，四周都是围白羊肚手巾的乡亲们。这幅作品人物形象生动，个性鲜明，受到了画坛前辈的好评。这幅作品在北京、上海、武汉、西安等城市巡回展出后，有一位外国收藏家要高价收购，没有想到，憨厚老实的刘进勇没有被高价所动，婉言谢绝了这位老外的好意，而把这幅原作郑重地送给了艾丽丝。
艾丽丝做出的第三个令同学们哗然的举动是：撕下了小刘刚刚写好的《助学贷款申请书》，并在第二天主动帮小刘缴上了大三的学费。有的外国留学生对她的做法不理解，他们问她：“依靠自食其力留学已经不容易了，再替别人负担学费，这么重的经济负担，你能承受得住吗？”对于同学们的种种担心，艾丽丝充满信心地说：“我看没什么问题，每天我多当两个课时的人体模特全有了。以前有好些同学找到我，希望我课下帮帮忙，他们一再表示绝对会付给我同等的费用，都被我婉言拒绝了。今后这类的人体写生补课，只要我的精力充沛，我是绝对不会放弃的。”
对于同学们当中的一些观念，这位洋小姐表示无法理解。她告诉我这样一件事。
“有的中国同学问我，作为一个富商的千金小姐，当人体模特不觉得跌份吗？说实在的，‘跌份’这个词我真不懂。经中国同学的耐心解释我明白了，就是‘降低身份’的意思。这就让我感到奇怪，我爸爸的钱再多，那跟我有什么关系呢？我在一个拥有高尚艺术的国度里从事着艺术，从事着与我的爱好有关的工作，怎么能叫降低身份呢？我之所以觉得小刘不错，就是因为他朴实、真诚，从来不过问我的家庭情况。说到将来，他总是表示，我们谁也不靠，我们靠自己的双手。通过彼此的努力，我们一定能过得很幸福。这才是男子汉的气魄，我就喜欢这样的男子汉。”
艾丽丝的爱和勇气令人感动，可是她的男朋友——一个在落后山区长大的中国小伙子对此有什么感想呢？记者也采访了刘进勇。刘进勇说，艾丽丝替他缴上学费的那天晚上，他一夜没睡。他既感到兴奋，又感到自责。
他兴奋的是自己一个来自大山深处的穷学生，竟博得了一位洋妞的爱情，还爱得这么深沉！可兴奋中也包含着不安，自己毕竟是一个五尺高的男子汉呀！怎么能让自己的恋人承担自己的学费呢！这不安中还有另一种成份：自己的学费倒是缴上了，可这代价也过于沉重了。自己女朋友的肌体，不但让同学们一眼又一眼地看，还要让他们一笔又一笔地画。虽说他也是搞艺术的，人体模特他也不觉得有什么，但轮到自己女友的身上，终究是有些别扭。他说他已经决定，从这个学期起，自己就半工半读或者勤工俭学，不但要解决自己的生活费，还要帮艾丽丝解决部分学杂费，力争让她早一天走下模特台。
