Blog #1 Yuchen Li Self-Introduction

  My name is Yuchen Li, I was born on 7 a.m. in the morning which is called "Chen" in chinese, otherwise Yu means "Given" so I was given birth to a Li family in the morning.

  I was born in Nanjing, a city 300 kilometers north-west of Shanghai. In the year of 2001, my father bought a apartment in Shanghai, thus our family moved from Nanjing to Shanghai. Shanghai is the most civilized and modern city in China, with a population of 30 million people. Shanghai is too crowed and busy, a friend of mine spent 3.5 hours on commuting everyday which is definitely horrible because he woke up on 5 o'clock in the morning to catch the first bus.

  The idea of study abroad was originated from peer pressure. Nearly all of my school friends went abroad to study, which makes me feel "lonely". One of my best friends go to University of  Leeds which located in Leeds, UK, we chat a lot through internet and exchange our ideas about our future and what will happen when we get our bachelor's and master's degree. He is person with tons of plans and ideas but I do not have even a short-term plan.
  Randomly, he showed me a picture he took during hiking, which is the picture I enclosed. The picture is  SO BEAUTIFUL and BREATHTAKING. I mistook it as a oil painting at the first time and suddenly realized it was not a oil painting but a real scenery photograph. This photograph enhanced my longing of studying abroad, after that I started to prepare for my college enrollment with sufficient documents and financial support.

  I love my country except the polluted air and the bad weather, Chinese people sacrifice their natural resources to GDP and anything related to economics development. I love and respect the nature, it is every human being's responsibility to maintain the nature with its original balance and function, rather than destory the nature world. My dream is to awake people's awareness of protecting the environment through multiple ways and use my knowledge and experience to support it.

After 17 hours total flight, I finally landed on the very land of Columbus, OHIO. I will keep that day, March 19th 2012, as a milestone of my life, which day a young man started to pursue his dream.