Dragon Lady- my nephew's response to my Chinese name

Kevin Staudt 3:59pm Jul 27 http://www.facebook.com/l/CAQEMeFG3AQE7XP7ZyFVFSIXmZqhRlmtIbziNdImEVLqWsg/www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dragon%2520lady Webster's give two definitions for "Dragon Lady." I wonder which one Selia meant. Dragon lady - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary www.merriam-webster.com Definition of dragon lady from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary with audio pronunciations, thes...

Carina's summer job

Hi,Bredget, it’s been a long time; how is your summer vocation? Anything interesting happened? And I have so many want to tell you about my summer vacation.

I am going to be a junior officially in September. This summer vocation I have two jobs. One is an assistant for an English summer camp, I love this job, before this, many people told me that being an assistant in a summer camp was hard and meaningless, it’s all about taking care of children. And before this job, I really just treated it as a job, I thought it’s just seven days and I would not have some feeling about it. But I was wrong. I have to say it is kind of hard, you know the children is energetic and naughty, they keep challenging our patience. But children are always children; you can’t blame them for their energy and naughty. They are pretty, frank and innocent. They made us laugh; they cared for us and comforted us when we were unhappy. Besides, during these days, all the students and teachers lived together, we were like a big family, we ate, slept, study, danced and had fun every day. I like working in team. It’s much more fun than working alone.

 During the seven days, I have learned my first complete dance and done a lot of funny things. We also played some games. Like we put a empty bottle on the ground near the dustbin and waited to see how many people would pass by before the bottle was picked up and thrown into the dustbin, then we shall clap our hands for the people who picked it up. Like we played death, one people in our team went to find a stranger and asked for help, then he take this person to the place we all stayed, when the person were taken there, we all pretended to pass out and see what reactions they would have. It’s very funny. I have some pictures for you, Carrol and Miriam. I feel so lucky to have this job; I spent a happy week and met some kind, funny people. This experience also makes me understand that you will never know something unless you get involved personally.

The other job is a translator for our school, but now I quit. Cause it’s not like it’s supposed to be. We were told it’s translation, that’s why so many people wanted to get this job, regardless it’s low payment. We also went through a very difficult test. But the people who get admitted now are doing something has nothing to do with translation. I feel hurt. I give up other opportunities to get this job, all I think is to do something related to my major, my major is business English, I am eager to find some translate jobs. Now I am going to post a resume online and hope that I could get a job to translate during the vacation and in the spare time when I become a junior.

This is all about my summer vocation.Now I have no job and plan to study for a major test next semester.Do you have something interesting? What is your plan this year?

Have a good day!!!

Carina

Olivia has a new summer job

Dear coffee mother ,

How are you this days ? so long time no hearing you ~~

By the way , I am in Shenzhen now ,and hunt for job , I would like tell you something about my new job ,the job is a part time job about sell the cosmetics using tellphone ,that is to say , I will make a deal with the boss who will sell the cosmetics form our firm ~~I know you know a lot of the marketing ,can you give me some suggestion or some sell skills please ?

I will appreciate that , thank you very much ~~

Have a great day

More love,

Olivia

Selia got her visa

Selia met with representatives from the USA embassy in Beijing, china. She will be coming to the east coast on July 20 and she will be leaving on August 30. We plan to drive from Virginia to Vermont. Any suggestions on what she should see or do?

Selia's posters on illegal marriages

Life is about change.

生命需要改变

1, What is Illegal Marriages?

According to the law, the legal marriage age in China for men is 22, for women is 20. Any people who get married before the legal marriage age, their marriages are called illegal marriages which are not protected by law.

1，什么是不合法婚姻？

根据法律规定，中华人民共和国公民合法婚龄男性为22岁，女性为20岁。未到达法定婚龄的人结婚，其婚姻不受法律保护，为不合法婚姻。

2, Why is illegal marriages a problem?

A, The young are not mature enough to get married and not ready to have babies.

B, The education of parents have such a great influence on their children.

C, What great opportunity you will lose if get married so early?

D, How unprotected the women would be when one of the couple especially their husbands betray the marriages?

2，不合法婚姻有哪些危害？

（1）年轻人发育不够成熟，不能很好地抚养自己的孩子。

（2）父母受教育程度对孩子的成长有很大的影响。

（3）过早结婚，年轻人失误了很多追逐自己人生梦想的机会。

（4）在不合法婚姻中，夫妻当中任何一方尤其是章法背叛婚姻，那么女方的权益将收不到任何的法律保护。

This is the school in our village.

这是我们村的学校。

This is Henan Provincial Library. The parents take their children to the reading class every week.

这是河南省图书馆，这些孩子的父母每周都带他们去阅读室。

Why are these such a difference?

为什么会有这么大的差别呢？

The answer must be: Education.

教育可以改变一切。

（1） Our kids' parents were all the illegal marriages suffers. Our kids parents all quit school when they were 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. Our kids' parents could even not read.

我们的孩子的父母都是不合法婚姻的受害者。我们的孩子的父母都在12,13,14,15,16.岁的时候就辍学了。我们的孩子的父母甚至都不识字。

Those kids' parents got married when they got to the legal marriage age. Those kids' parents went to college. Those kids' parents read books to them.

（2） Our kids parents quit school and went to work in a factory.

我们的孩子的父母早早的辍学外出打工。

Those kids' parents were working so hard to pass the college entrance exam.

那些孩子的父母勤奋苦读备战高考。

 (3) Then our kids were born. And their parents will spend their whole life on the farm.

然后他们就回来就婚生子，然后在农村里种一辈子地。

They went to college and live a completely different life.

而他们考上了大学过着另一种截然不同的生活。

（4）Our life will always be the same, end of adventure.

我们的生活将会从此一成不变。

Their life just started...

他们的生活才刚刚开始······

Whose life do you want to live?

你想过哪一种生活？

It is never too late!

一切都还不晚。

Encourage and support every kid to go to school and continue school.

鼓励并支持每个孩子上学并完成学业。

Regard illegal marriages as a social issue instead of a custom.

不合法婚姻是一种严重的社会问题而不是大家习以为常的风俗。

Start changing now and you know what you really want.

从现在起开始改变，你知道你真正想要的是什么生活。

                 World Academy for the Future of Women

                     世界女性未来发展学院

                             2012年6月3日

Selia's letter of appreciation to everyone who is helping her with her project

Selia is working on a project "Illegal Marriages in China", which focused on the consequences of illegal (young) marraiges in China.  She has taken on this project on her own and it has earned her a potetnial internship with a foundation in Irvine, CA in January 29013.  Below is a letter she recently sent to many of us.

Dear friends,
This letter is to show my sincere thanks to all the supporters of my project and keep you informed of where my project is.
Thanks to the generous donation from Robert Ford and Kathy Palokoff, I got to use part of that money to print 20 nine-page big posters to bring back to the villages when I went back home to apply for a passport last weekend.
I spent two of the five hours I got to stay with my family putting these posters. Attached are some photos and the documentary of my poster. It is the wheat harvesting season, like what it shows in photo 1428, every adult is working like a bee on the farm. So I didn't get any tall men to help me. But I did have five cute kids help me (actually they are my nephews and nieces). We put 20 posters not only in my villages but also in 6 other neighbour villages, especially primary schools.
On my train back home, I was sitting with two college students and a man who is in his fifties. I started the topic about illegal marriages. The two college cannot agree more with what I am doing now. When I asked the man who is in his fifties about his opinion, he thinks what I am doing is very meaningful, But later what he said makes me feel there is long way to go with the illegal marriage project.
He said that sometimes they see the harm of the illegal marriages. But when their children quit school, whey they are 17 or 18, they are very eager to have their son or daughter to get married. If not, other neighbour must think there is something wrong with the son or daughter that no one wants to marry her or him. And they think people should get married first and then start a career.
I realise it is so hard to change the way people think, or to change the idea who was in their mind when they were born.
As now teenagers tend to be more independent and their parents cannot force them do anything now, I am thinking to put more focus on the middle school and high school students. If we could get them educated about the harm of illegal marriages, whether they quit school or nor (definitely we want to encourage them to continue school), they could try to avoid illegal marriages consciously.
I am going to ask for more new academy members to join my project next semester to make the team stronger.
Nine finals for me to come through next two weeks, so I will not put any focus on illegal marriages in the next three weeks to get excellent scores.
Thanks again for all of your support.
With lots of appreciation
Selia
Sweet Selia love everyone who has come to my life!
Selia Wang ( Wang Min 王敏)
Email: sweetselia@yahoo.cn

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