Journey to Chinese-Look Back after Half a Year

I have been quite busy for the past months, this is the reason why I had not updated my blog recently, although I kept thinking on doing it. Several days ago, I found that journeytochinese.com would be half a year old by January 27, and I had the idea that I should write something about it. Today in my reading room, I could finally sit down and do it.

Half a year could be a short tiem in one's life, but it could be a long time to those living in this city, where people, whether they are accomplished or not, rich or poor, all try to accelerate their paces in moving on their lives everyday. It is also not a short time for me to accustom to the changes around, to meet new challenges, and to locate where I am.

I have been a stay-home mom or a freelancer since may last year. At first, I had been really enjoying the days of staying-at-home. Send my daughter to kinder garden and get her back everyday, talk, sing and play with her on the way, cook the dinner with my heart-my cooking skills magically improve. It seems that cooking depends on only one thing-whether you try to do it well or you just want to finish it. At the same time, I prepared to establish a website, something about LEARN CHINESE. It is more properly to describe it as an action of “infatuation toward net and language research” rather than a business action.

Later the technical problems prevent me from making the website, and then it came into being my individual blog - www.journeytochinese. Actually, it was supposed to be more than a blog. I did not write much, but I stick one thing- creating original stuffs.

I did not realize clearly that an idea is becoming stronger in my mind when I quitted my job. Now I know it and I am clear that it can not be driven away. That is - I need to work for myself. I do not want to be successful career woman. All my want is very simple, to be a self-content mom who could control her time and find a way to earn herself.

Four months ago, I planed on an english-training program for kids and started to prepare it in the past two months. I went from one market to another, searched and purchased the items that I need, bargained with dealers on saving each kuai, took bus like an unkempt vender around the city with a big black bulging plastic, and posted ads on boards or telegraph poles. All I went through is what I looked down on but I know I have to do it, for I am not the one who cloud splash out with a month's salary in my purse, but the one who should save money on every expanse on the business.

Now the program is launched and it seems not a bad start. All the work that I have been doing seems to be connected to each other and other ways of attached business that I could explore become clear. I know how to go on my next step.

I did not update my blog recently. Some of my Chinese friends were wondering whether I would give it up, for they thought it was a hard and expensive hobby. My answer is definitely NO.  It seems to me an occupational job but I did not get paid from anybody. But I am self-satisfied. Sometimes we work for money, sometimes we work for interests. It is also nice if we can not get both.

I am appreciated to my husband. He feeds our family and gives my daughter and I a content life, and he let me try something I want without worrying about bread and milk. I have a lovely daughter who gives me motivation and inspiration. I am a lucky woman.