This is the third week I have lived around the Silicon Valley area. I had a chance to visit Stanford University, just walking around campus and enjoying California sunshine. The sunshine in California is the one that makes you feel comfortable with a little breeze. It makes me feel really calm and clear in my mind.
Stanford University is big but easy to find whatever building I wanna go with maps all over the campus (or just because I start to have a better sense of direction😏👍). To me, the campus is well organized with full of trees, plants, and flowers. It's hard for me to get lost. Law school is here, right across Law School is the library. I felt a little hungry when I arrived at the library so I purchased a bowl of yogurt. When I was eating, I heard 2 students chatting with each other and I totally couldn't understand the language they were speaking. Although I am not able to speak 7 Languages, I could figure out Chinese Mandarin, Cantonese, English, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Vietnam once they open their mouth starting to talk. But I totally couldn't recognize these 2 students' language. So what?? Sunshine is comfi~~~
A squirrel kept staring at my yogurt and I felt like he could grab it any time, and then one of the students threw his crackers to that squirrel to make sure it wouldn't ruin my snack. Ummm, thank you, the guy speaking the language I couldn't recognize.
While keeping walking around, visiting different academic departments and centers, on the one hand, I feel like it's supposed to be a happy life to be a student here, but maybe they have a lot of pressure with their study and high student loans, on the other hand, I started to miss the University of Michigan (UofM), the one I had been around for 7 years. For the last 2 years, I even lived around downtown Ann Arbor where UofM locates. So right now, when I close my eyes, the campus, the school bus, the University of Michigan Hospital, the restaurants, and the movie theater came into my mind automatically.
But I am wide awake, Stanford is close to me, UofM is far away, just like California is here, Michigan is over there.
When I walked to Memorial Church Stanford University, this caught my attention:
~ For the troubled may you find peace ~ For the despairing may you find hope ~ For the lonely may you find love ~ For the skeptical may you find faith ~ 1941 Frances C. Arrillaga 1995.
The quote here is for all the readers to visit my blog 💗
