Something

The c-train was late again in today’s morning. When I got to the University station, it’s nearly 10 o’clock. What the hell, I will late for my class. Suddenly, I saw a guy was running to his class. Then I began to run to. I don’t know why I ran at that time. May be I don’t want to late for my class, or I just ran for funny. I hadn’t run for a long time since I came to Calgary. Hopefully Scotte would say Sam is a good student because he run to class~haha. However, I found it’s totally not funny. I felt really terrible when I was running. It’s hard for me to describe say how awful it is. I just ran in a short distance, but I felt like in the middle of a marathon. Before I came to here, I used to play soccer frequently, and I never felt tired after playing one or two hours; but now, I am so weak.

Another interesting thing interesting today is that a guy talked with me about the coming Super Bowl at the bus station. He talked lots about the two teams going to play on this Sunday’s final game. He is the fans of the New England Patriots. Actually, I don’t know much about football. I don’t like football very much because the game intermits very often and it’s a little boring to watch it. I couldn’t find many topics with the football fans, but it seems nothing can stop him talking about football until his bus came. He’s a nice guy, and I just wish I could know more about football and shared my opinion with him.

Disaster

In recent days, when I open some Chinese wed sides, most of their head lines are talking about the heavy storm in China. It is the most terrible weather in the last 10 years. Many provinces have heavy snow and low temperature. Even in my hometown, my grandparents told me that this winter is the coldest winter in last 12 years. The worse thing is that the bad weather comes at the time that millions of migrant workers are going home for the Chinese New Year. The storm destroyed the rail power system. Trains have been paralyzed because of the cripple power line. Almost 8 millions migrant workers have stayed at the Guangzhou provincial train station for over one week. They come from different provinces to work in Guangdong province. Spring Festival is their only chance to bake home and see their families. Some of them hadn’t back home for several years. Now, they all are obstructed by the terrible weather. I can feel how anxious and despondent they are. I used to work in a fabric factory. There are many migrant workers in the factory and I worked with them for three months. This experience totally changed my opinion to migrant workers. Most of them are hard working and very kind. They leave their home town to search better life and they always miss their family. Most of them have the same aim that earn enough money, and then back to their hometown to do some small business or get marry. Their life is tough, but their smiles always emerge in my eyes. I finally understand how optimistic they are because I am now study along in another country and I hardly find any smile like this in my past 5 months. Now, may be one of my friends is staying in the train station and look for the “luck train” to take him back home. Sincerely hope the bad weather will end soon and all of the workers can back home and have a nice new year with their family.