| Believe it or not…I am now in the airport in Amsterdam, writing this…I just didn’t feel like writing anything in the past 2 days after the term ends, but now, I REALLY DO. So, let me formally announce that my 2nd term in AC has ended on 23rd May. I can’t believe time flies so quick that my 1st year in AC has already ended. It has been an amazing year in AC with every single one of the firsties and the beloved 2nd years. Let me count what has happened so far…NO! I find it impossible to count what has happened in AC. There’re just too many big events but also tiny bits in AC that are worth counting and to be remembered. AC is just a place that makes me learn so much even to an extent that I have never imagined. AC has changed me a lot, deeply in heart, in my values, judgment, international understanding, life attitude, courage, and friends. Not until I write the yearbooks for the 2ndyears and some of the co-years, I realized they really mean to me a lot! It has really been a very invaluable year. I have gained so much from everyone and everything in AC, which shape a new MARK today, with new visions and horizons so broad. This year, it’s just like a dream. I have done so many incredibly unbelievable stuffs that I have aspired and even those were beyond my imagination. One might not believe what I am saying; one might doubt whether this utopia ever existed…I am confirming you with this precious experience, IT DOES, and this is what UWC(United World Colleges) is about. Under the UWC movement, AC has created an exuberate ambience to inspire every single youth in the college, who come from all over the world. AC is a school more than every definition of SCHOOL that exists in any dictionaries you might find (no matter which language it is). AC is more like a close community to serve the community out there in the entire world. Someone suggests that we should have a UWC diploma, the IB diploma just doesn’t tell enough at all. Let me think…does that have any importance at all? NO. Does that really matter? Why do we have to conform to the society if we have rationality? Being rational is sensibly doing something to fulfill your desire. (TOK?) But one can never be satisfied. Coming to AC is not only a risk but also a gift. It might not be able to be justified at this very moment. Yet, one day, may be 10 years later, 20, 30, 40…someone will understand this is a gift to the entire world. Am I bs-ing? What sort of emotions and feelings would drive me to write this 500-word thingy? (1/8 of my EE, nearly 1/2 of my word lit or EngA2 written task) Emotion is superficial and manifest, but feeling is latent, unchangeable and inside.
“The greatest thing to learn in life is to love and to be loved in return”—Moulin Rouge.
I love you, my co-years. I love you, AC. I love you, my 2nd years. Wish you all the best. Keep making difference bit-by-bit. One day, there will be no boarders between human but a UNITED WORLD.
I’ll write more about how’s the last day later. I’ll be in HK 12 hours later. SEE YOU ALL.
Please listen to “Leaving on a Jet Plane”…then you’ll know.
BTW, I am now in HONG KONG when I post this. Please give me a ring at any time at 9679 8006. I'll see you all soon |
