Living Abroad!

Normal soup

Starting to leave from a lovely and memorable homeland, I commenced working as an intern in Henkel, based in Shanghai, for another 6 months. As part of graduation, I have to take only four months of internship, yet due to the policy of Henkel, all interns are supposed to take a six-month basis for their internship.  It was so thrilled to have heard that I was selected to intern here in Shanghai, China that I never ever even think I could have a nice change to get to know here.

Bread with salads

Adventure life began so lonely yet meaningful to learn as to the meaning of struggling life in another country; along the ways which full of obstacles, wishes, helps, supports, and chances, I experienced testy life in various situations with different interests – sour, bitter, sweet, and salty test – that I had to admit it and singled out what was the best and what was not.  Sometimes, we faced something worth for us to challenge and something not useful that we had to not care about; thus, the only thing we could do is to anticipate in advance to gather all supporting information for our better decision-making.

A start began so far in this great nation in Asia, kept chasing me to face something new and learnt from it, and there were a lot of shocking experiences that I have learnt from this meaningful time: I have learnt to live in another country with different cultures, eat different foods I used to eat, which I was not really accustomed to it, meet different people from whom I used to know, and see different views of the city which were even more better than my country.

The most important thing that lets me go through the meaning of life was that being alone was the only thing that I had to tackle with, making me become even more diverged, letting me understand the hardship of my parents, and encouraging me to be even more inspired to live in life. Having fully worked for 8 hours per day and 5 days per week and had to come back home a bit late at night sometimes to cook dinner, I clearly understood the meaning of working life and personal life time. Having had to spend at least 40 minutes or 1 hour for cooking, I always have dinner late at night and have to wash dishes and other cooking materials after eating, so life becomes busier and more productive.

Salad with fried cabbages

With that in mind, I tried to use my time fruitfully as much as I could to make use of it and did something worth for my future development. Once I am here alone, working on different things including cooking and washing dishes after having already had lunch and dinner, I feel how busy I am, but I feel good to it even though it was hard and busy because all of those works remind me about my mum, who always does those things to feed me.  Now I do the same thing as my mother does, understanding how hard she is to get one meal for me. Thanks to those hard and busy situations I know how worth and important time is.   

If you understand the hardship of your parents, who never say no to support you no matter how difficult the situation is and who always give you a never-ever-made-warm smile, you would be likely to understand the hardship of life, the meaning of appreciation, the high value of getting thing done, and the spirit of team.