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Continue My Dream-Seeking Journey -- Shirley's 404th Friendly Greeting from Beijing, June 2, 2013

Hi,Dear Friends

How are you? :-)

Once more, I started this letter to you on my airplane.

Instead of living at the hospital as my doctors’ opinions, I came back Chinese National Academy of Arts in Beijing May 31, 2013, to continue my dream-seeking and exploration within my limited time. After all, for completing my book and DVD, then to have a travel in USA, I have been later for 3 months already. I did not want to delay much more time on the sick bed at all.

Then, after I just came back from USA for less about 6 hours, I got my publication with a book and DVD that had been published by Jinan University Press.

Then after I just came back from the US for less than 9 hours, I went to visit the Vice President of Missouri State University – Mr. Brent Dunn, my first American professor Dr. Dave Meinert, who is the associate Dean of College of Business Administration at Missouri State University, my tutor and the best friend – Ms. Ann L Brashers who had helped me most and be called "Angel Guard" of Chinese Students, and the other staff members from the university in an event of alumni of the university.

For knowing that I would no time to prepare any gifts after I come back from my long distance travel, specially, I painted a yellow bird painting for Ms. Ann L Brashers, and I prepared an album of my painting for every guest...

Then, I visited a leader in a Venture Capital Company, had a meeting with one of my formal bosses and colleagues at Securities Times News Paper Office, booked / bought some more of my own books, sent some of them to City of Pikeville, KY, USA, connected with the publishing house, to make sure about the future work. Then I went on my new travel to come back to Beijing...

Then, can you imagine? I reached at the Nan Yuan Airport in Beijing at about 3:00pm, May 31; I rented a new apartment with a bed room, a living room, a kitchen and a washing room by the school at about 5:30pm; I invited the 3 people who had helped me on renting the house and carrying things for me to have a dinner at 7:00pm.

Then, after resting for a short time, I started to complete my assignments that I must hand in on June 2 for getting the qualification to attend the class of painting from natures in Wuyi Mountains in Jiangxi Province – because of the good marketing jobs of the school, except handing in 2 paintings, all students in the Chinese Painting School at Chinese National Academy of Arts need not pay for the classes of painting from the nature (travel, living and eating). For my poor health could not stand the hard life condition in the mountains, I had missed 5 classes of painting from the nature since Sep, 2011 (the result that I went to Yimeng Mountains and Tai Mountains in April, 2011 was that I could not walk for about 45 days), therefore, I wish I can catch the last lesson in my 2 years’ study in CNAA.

However, a bad headache started since the first night I reached in Beijing, anyway, I knew, I could not lie on the bed, relying on the painkillers, I kept going to the classroom, to work on my assignments. The interesting thing was, after I completed the paintings finally before the deadline and handed in them to the office of my tutors, the headache sounded like reduced a lot...

With an easy heart, I will have a long sleep after sending you this letter, then to involve myself into my studying, thinking and exploration since we will have another at least 1.5 month before the Summer Vacation. :- )

The other good news:

-- The registered users of my little web site has met about 11,000.
-- After studying in Sydney, Australia for 12 years, along with my son becoming a permanent resident there, I will be able to stay with him for 3 years each time...

How about you? Do you have anything special to share?

Photon Notes:

No 1: The Vice President of Missouri State University – Mr. Brent Dunn sent me a school T-shirt as a gift from the school to her graduate.
No.2: I sent Ms. Anna L Brashers a painting that I painted for her before I left for USA.
No.3: I sent a copy of my own book and DVD to Dr. Dave Meinert, the associate Dean of College of Business Administration at MSU.
No.4: Dr. Meinert was introducing something about the school at the reception.
No.5- No.6: Mr. Brent Dunn was sending every graduate a gift.
No. 7: I just comepleted my assignements at Chinese National Academy of Arts in Beijing.

Shirley's Art Works 823 & Chinese Xieyi 429-A187 - Shirley's 214th Assignment at Chinese National Academy of Arts -June 2, 2013

Shirley's Art Works 822 & Chinese Xieyi 428-A186 - Shirley's 213rd Assignment at Chinese National Academy of Arts -June 1- 2, 2013

I am just a student on Arts of Painting, Music, English and Management, to work on the web site in my free time. I would really like to do somethings with what I have learned to make this little web site to be an Electronic Bridge of Cross - Culture and Comprehensive Arts Exchange, Chinese Culture and Language Learning & Friendship Making. To help the others while to improve myself.

I would like to appreciate you for your understanding, directions, supports and help.

If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, you are welcome to write to shirley@ebridge.cn or leave your message on Message Board.

Shirley Yiping Zhang
June 2, 2013(American Time)

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