happy new year

Happy new year.
this is the first Spring Festivel  i spent in America. We had a big party at pepperdine.
Even though we are so far away from home, but we did have a very Chinese new year here.
Following is the vedio we made for the new year

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjQxOTIxOTEy.html

happy happy new year!!

midterm

How come the Accouting Midterm was so hard this time?~ sighs~~

love Pepperdine

Where did my time go?! I can not believe that we already finished the long weekend.
I had my first Martin Luther King day here. I  went to Altanta to visit Martin Luther King park last year. I was shocked when i saw all his vedios. His life is short, but he really did something amazing. He finished the work God gave him in his short short life. How wonderful it is.
We had one day break for Martin Luther King's day. Everybody was so excited. I do not have any classes on Mondays, so I was very clam :>

I like my session A's schedule. I just have 4 classes and no classes on Monday, Friday and weekend. That schedule give me a lot of time to do what i want to do.

Our club --Graziadio Christian Business Society--had an kick off metting last week. It was great. I am so exicted to see more and more people get together to praise God at Pepperdine.

I Love Pepperdine !!!

frist week of school

Basically, the first of school was good. After a very good Christmas break, I was so happy to go back school.

The only bad thing is that I lost my laptop on campus. That was very frustrating, but I know I have to move on. So I tried to think about that in a positive way. I trust God let everything happens for a reason, because HE cares me and HE cares everything that is important to me. My friend gave me a PC, so that I can do my all my work on it. I appriciate it a lot.

Everything will be OK. I still can see so many blessings in my life. I will strat to find a internship this semester.
My classmate told me that it is really hard for international students who have no work experience to find a job here, but i will still try.

God will take care of me, and I turst that He already prepared everything for me

your work as service to God

Attorneys, farmers, teachers, parents, street sweepers, police officers - all have a calling from God. Not just clergy, but all of us. So said Martin Luther. He called it the priesthood of all believers. While it isn't so because Luther said it, it is an important spiritual truth that many in our time appear to have missed.

            Suppose I were to ask why you work. How would you answer? To make money? To pay the bills? To keep a roof over your head? To earn enough from something you hate so you can someday do what you really want to do? While those responses aren't wicked, they are "stinkers." They are hardly the noblest of answers. And they are the ones typically given by people who suffer burnout.

            Work gives glory to God when it meets three criteria: (1) the task is honorable, (2) it is performed with integrity, and (3) it is done with a sense of one's role as a social creature who loves his neighbor as himself.

            The first norm means that nobody can be a thief or drug trafficker to the glory of God. Behaviors that are unethical cannot give heaven either pleasure or honor. The second criterion says that God is glorified only when you do your duty and make a good-faith effort to fulfill commitments - not just punching the clock, but doing your job as if your employer were Jesus instead of Mean Ole Bob.

            The third standard for working to God's glory may be the hardest to grasp. In my opinion, though, it is the most important element for turning a job into a calling or transforming what you may regard as boring work into something you are able to do "from the heart" and "to the Lord" (cf. Ephesians 6:6-7).

            "How in the world could I sell bolts or washing machines by that yardstick?" somebody demands to know. "It's just too idealistic!" Not really.

            I watched my father sell washing machines, hardware, and building materials that way for years. He never knowingly misrepresented a product, pushed a high-priced item over a loss costly one adequate for a buyer's purpose, or otherwise took advantage of a customer. He would have considered that a betrayal of his duty to love his neighbor, to share God's care for the human race.

            Sales people, physicians, cab drivers - the ones who genuinely care about their clients treat them differently from those who see them as meal tickets. They serve their needs and don't exploit them.

            Perhaps some who think they are unhappy because of a job undesirable to perform are simply doing tasks without a sense of serving God in doing them.

            "Whatever you do or say, do it as a representative of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through him to God the Father" (Colossians 3:17 NLT).

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Tonight is Christmas evening and tomorrow is Christmas!!

I am in Ohio with my friends.This is my first Christmas in America, and I am so excited 

All my classmates are traveling now. They are having a really good time, but I know I am the most lucky one, because I will have a very American Christmas with my American friends. How cool.

My cellphone does not work here, so i can not contact anybody by phone, but STILL

I hope everybody is having a good time and I hope everybody have a merry Christmas.

next week is mid terms week

The Wavnet had some problem last week, so  a lot of people had problem to register classes. Happily, with Jaime Wood and Elizabeth's help, all the people got the classes they need to take registered .

I can not believe that next week is the mid term week. Pepperdine's schedule is tight

everybody has too many projects, too many quiz but not enough time.

but we got a lot of good practice  at the same time.

Today the pastor gave us a great talk at the church. i enjoyed it. The title is " the bigger and better trap"

i wish victoria were there, because what the pastor taught today is exactly she need to know right now.Since she stopped going to church several weeks ago, i bought a DVD of today's service for her, so that she can watch it at home. 

" having a rich relationship with God is worth far more than any of my stuff"

I really hope Victoria can understand this.

I have a exam in Accounting class tomorrow morning, so I have to go back my study. :< 

looking forward the holiday