Well, maybe things are not always so bad. I do have nightmares sometimes, but it doesn't mean life sucks. I don't want to say, finally, yay, my college life is going to over soon, and yet all the hard work seems be paid off in time. One thing I need myself to remember is 'never  give up on my dreams'. I will see...The obstacles and pains are the things that only myself can understand.

Right now, all I want to say is 'Hallelujah!'

Japan is a tidy clean country with polite people, and that's most people know about it nowadays, especially westerners who always compare Japanese with Chinese. Thinking about the good things, for some time I was excited about the brand new life there, and yet thinking twice, I was worried as well--I have to learned another language and I have to understand another culture. That is not easy. Learning English for such a long time, I am not even really gasping the core of it yet, let alone Japanese which I have never touched before. Though I have the confidence to learn Japanese well, yet there is something in the way I can't describe. But now, it seems things have changed! I don't need to go to the sakura plant, and I will just stay where I am. Pros or cons, I am happy with whatever choice I made, since I got this youth and energy which will benefit me in any aspect in my life. Maybe next time I go to see sakura, the feeling would be just purely agreeable melancholy instead of complete familiarity.

Time in SJTU will come to an end soon, and surely the feeling is different from that 3 years ago. After 15th, things are almost done here in school, and there will be some forms that I need to fill and some pics I need to take before I say goodbye to this beautiful place. I feel grateful and peaceful. Though there are still lots of things I wasn't able to do, yet I am satisfied with what I have done, with what I have gained. I learned lots of things and I have grown a lot as well...Right now, I cherish the time here more than any time, because I know what it means when I step outside of this campus. It will not just be a simple step that I took 3 years ago, it will be the time I say goodbye to my student years--a milestone in my life! For sure, I will continue to pursue my dream as always, and yet I do need a break from what I have been dealing with. I will miss this place; I will miss my teacher who helped me through these years; I will miss all the lows and highs here...

Yeah, I know it's not the time to say goodbye right now, but thinking about I am going to hand over my computer to the younger student, I have a little bit of this melancholy...Anyways, I am sure that after several years when I think about the life here, it'll be the sweetest...

PS: The official goodbye letter to SJTU will come soon...

Is it because I am becoming older or is it because time really flies faster than before? Several days home kind of made me homesick when I got back to school. Thinking about my new life and unpredictable future hanging there, I just could not cheer up. There are so many things I didn't do, and there are so many places I haven't been...Maybe starting a new journey doesn't mean the end of my dream, and yet somehow I feel a little bit afraid and anxious. On the road to the unknown, my words for myself are: Good Luck.

Here some pics I took during the winter break in my paradise:

New buildings are built so fast	It's a free park now
The last time I went there was like ten years ago	It's different now
I used to pass here every morning when I went to school...	I brought a jingle bell in there~~
Fish hot-pot is the best in there	The storm took its toll on this year's lantern festival...

I am always a big fan of dumplings, and of course, every year when my family makes dumplings during the Chinese New Year Eve, I always eat as much as I can. This year is no exception. First I had dumplings in a restaurant for lunch, then I had dumplings at home in the middle of the night when the first day of Mouse Year was about to come. I just ate so many that I found my jaws muscles are worn out the next day...

Here are the dumplings(called Zhong Dumplings) I had during noon:

	YUMMY ====>
		Gimme More || || V
	Yay~~ <====
I am not done yet, leaving my belly for the next battle soon...

Thought this unprecedented snow in Shanghai could have been fun, but after I got a hard fall on the road to my lab, I began to change my mind. Then on the way home, when I got delayed at the airport for more than 6 hours, I totally thought this snow in most part in Southern China was utterly a disaster! I didn't enjoy the moment of making a big fat snowman, nor did I benefit anything from this snow. On the contrary, I suffered hunger and exhaustion at the airport, but considering I got back home in the end anyway, I think I was lucky enough.

The icy grass road to my lab	Frozen Campus
Never met this kind of snow in Shanghai	Cold indeed
People were getting crazy at the airport	Delayed but not canceled---I was lucky