Thursday 10/25
Two people from the Consulate General of the People's Republic of China in Los Angeles visited San Diego Chinese this noon. They took the train here and arrived at about 11:35am. Together with the counselors, UCSDers (2007 Chinese newcomers; present and past CSSA committee members), SDSU CSSA committee members, visiting scholars from universities at home gathered at UCSD north mesa community room.
Counselor Li's main responsibility is to try every best to protect Chinese's safety in US. His typical workday goes like this: keeping answering the phones for the whole day and dealing with the paper/document work at nights. Counsulate Wang had an overseas educational background in London, and started his work in LA Consulate several weeks ago. He takes charge of the education section. Counselor Li gave a brief talk, making us aware that the Consulate has always been watching carefully about the Chinese in San Diego and is ready to offer any care and necessary help. Mr. Wang also made some notes. They encouraged all us Chinese students and scholars to keep close connection with the LA Consulate, to go through this wildfire event together and have a safe stay in San Diego.
After the counselors' speech, representatives from UCSD, SDSU and visiting scholars updated the status of each organization in turn. With her pathology research background related, He Zhu @ UCSD made very good suggestions about dealing with the possible allergic and other issues when the air quality continues bad. One issue with SDSU is that many Chinese students there are for undergraduate study, who are at younger age than most Chinese students here at UCSD. Besides, people in SDSU live sparsely, which adds some challenges on management and notification. It is very impressive to know that some SDSU Geo students and professors are working voluntarily together to build a website providing web mapping services for San Diego Wildfires 2007, which received nearly 10,000 hits yesterday when it was lunched. Instead of just staying at home and passively waiting for the fire to be controlled, they proactively apply their expertise to benefit all that involved in the wildfire. Mingxing Xu, representing the visiting scholars, said that they will tell their students in China about their experiences in San Diego when they are back to China 4 months later.
For the old 9#ers - Yanhua, Yuzhe, feng and myself, we are surprised to find that Mingxing is among the visiting scholars. He is now a professor in Computer Science Department, Tsinghua University, who was the lecture for Yanhua's signal course and had also worked together with Hui Sun, my J64 classmate during college. I am also glad to meet Domenic again, who is a staff writer with Chinese Daily News (World Journal) and met me last Sep. when Chinese marine visited San Diego. Mr. Yang is the secretory-general for Overseas Chinese in San Diego.
Later, we met several other Chinese people around San Diego. Mr. Liu and his wife are with the San Diego's Hubei'er's Union. In the past 2003 San Diego Wildfire, the fire just passed their home without causing any destroy. This time, they are also very close to the location where the fire started and their home is safe again. Mr. Zhang, introduced by Mr. Yang to us, whose home is located at Rancho Bernaco-the most serious area with most homes destroyed in San Diego wildfire, said that almost all homes around his have been destroyed and his home is ok, which was kindly interpreted as the result of the fact that he had always been very passionate in helping others and doing good.
The LA Consulates left San Diego for LA on about 2:00pm to continue their work there in the afternoon. All the other Chinese local in San Diego, who are from Taiwan, Hongkong or mainland, strongly encourages us Chinese students to get more closely connected with them and ask for help actively in future. We are greatly touched by how they support each other and care for us young Chinese abroad. There is warm and hope everywhere.
Two people from the Consulate General of the People's Republic of China in Los Angeles visited San Diego Chinese this noon. They took the train here and arrived at about 11:35am. Together with the counselors, UCSDers (2007 Chinese newcomers; present and past CSSA committee members), SDSU CSSA committee members, visiting scholars from universities at home gathered at UCSD north mesa community room.
Counselor Li's main responsibility is to try every best to protect Chinese's safety in US. His typical workday goes like this: keeping answering the phones for the whole day and dealing with the paper/document work at nights. Counsulate Wang had an overseas educational background in London, and started his work in LA Consulate several weeks ago. He takes charge of the education section. Counselor Li gave a brief talk, making us aware that the Consulate has always been watching carefully about the Chinese in San Diego and is ready to offer any care and necessary help. Mr. Wang also made some notes. They encouraged all us Chinese students and scholars to keep close connection with the LA Consulate, to go through this wildfire event together and have a safe stay in San Diego.
After the counselors' speech, representatives from UCSD, SDSU and visiting scholars updated the status of each organization in turn. With her pathology research background related, He Zhu @ UCSD made very good suggestions about dealing with the possible allergic and other issues when the air quality continues bad. One issue with SDSU is that many Chinese students there are for undergraduate study, who are at younger age than most Chinese students here at UCSD. Besides, people in SDSU live sparsely, which adds some challenges on management and notification. It is very impressive to know that some SDSU Geo students and professors are working voluntarily together to build a website providing web mapping services for San Diego Wildfires 2007, which received nearly 10,000 hits yesterday when it was lunched. Instead of just staying at home and passively waiting for the fire to be controlled, they proactively apply their expertise to benefit all that involved in the wildfire. Mingxing Xu, representing the visiting scholars, said that they will tell their students in China about their experiences in San Diego when they are back to China 4 months later.
For the old 9#ers - Yanhua, Yuzhe, feng and myself, we are surprised to find that Mingxing is among the visiting scholars. He is now a professor in Computer Science Department, Tsinghua University, who was the lecture for Yanhua's signal course and had also worked together with Hui Sun, my J64 classmate during college. I am also glad to meet Domenic again, who is a staff writer with Chinese Daily News (World Journal) and met me last Sep. when Chinese marine visited San Diego. Mr. Yang is the secretory-general for Overseas Chinese in San Diego.
Later, we met several other Chinese people around San Diego. Mr. Liu and his wife are with the San Diego's Hubei'er's Union. In the past 2003 San Diego Wildfire, the fire just passed their home without causing any destroy. This time, they are also very close to the location where the fire started and their home is safe again. Mr. Zhang, introduced by Mr. Yang to us, whose home is located at Rancho Bernaco-the most serious area with most homes destroyed in San Diego wildfire, said that almost all homes around his have been destroyed and his home is ok, which was kindly interpreted as the result of the fact that he had always been very passionate in helping others and doing good.
The LA Consulates left San Diego for LA on about 2:00pm to continue their work there in the afternoon. All the other Chinese local in San Diego, who are from Taiwan, Hongkong or mainland, strongly encourages us Chinese students to get more closely connected with them and ask for help actively in future. We are greatly touched by how they support each other and care for us young Chinese abroad. There is warm and hope everywhere.
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