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My name is Edith Chan. I am a designer and illustrator based in Seattle, USA. I love dreaming, writing and drawing. Pencils and paint brushes are my magical wands giving my imaginations form. I was born and brought up in Macao, the first and the last European colony in China. Living in Macau gave me the opportunity to explore western and eastern arts. I have spent most of my life in this little city, until 2007 I moved to the United States and started this blog to document my adventure in America. You don’t have to be a Blogger or Google member to leave comments. Please take a moment to let me know you were here. Thank you and have a beautiful day!

I Love Going To School

July 18, 2009

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Above are the stuffs in my backpack when I go to school. Other than books and stationary, I also bring Ginger Candies, which keeps me awake in the morning classes, Hello Kitty water bottle, and Winnie the Pooh mini tablewear, "No, they are not for kids", I need to have something cute to eat with when I eat alone at school, especially on Saturdays.

My long holiday is finally over and I am already back to school. This quarter I take 2 classes, InDesign and Photoshop CS4. Debiruth is the instructor of both of the classes. “I love going to school,” she introduced herself during the first class,” as you can see from my background.” Apparently she does love going to school. If you search her name on the Internet, you will see that she has a very board range of professional backgrounds, such as Technical Education, Sociology, Applied Behavioral, Law, Software Development, and Psychotherapy.

I am impressed by her introduction and her passion for acquiring knowledge. I have always enjoyed going to school but I had doubts that that is the way life should be, because the culture in my home country is very different. In Macau, people see education as an investment. I remember how the parents of my friend convinced her not to go to a university by weighting the prospective income she could make after graduation to the income she could be making right out of high school. In Macau, the average income of high school students is almost the same or even higher than that of undergraduate students. Therefore, many people think that spending money on going to school is not worth it.

Despite the fact that the tuition in Washington State is eight times more expensive than that of Macau, going to school is quite popular in Seattle. In my Graphic Design class, many of my classmates are learning fine arts and different computer programs just for personal enrichment. For instance, my classmate, who sits next to me, retired 2 years ago after working as a Creative Director for over 20 years. She told me that she was taking the design classes because she wanted to know more about how graphic designers work nowadays.

Even though going to school is very tiring and my schedule is especially challenging after starting my internship this quarter, I still love going to school. I really do. In fact, I think that I should design a logo for “I love going to school”.

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  1. StarlightStarbright on July 25, 2009 at 11:57 PM

    Hi! I found your blog randomly and I just wanted to say, I love your backpack items! Very cute!! I start school again in a few weeks but I don't carry cute things in my bag like you do! :)

     
  2. Anonymous on August 2, 2009 at 3:41 AM

    LOVE, it s ur birthday today, i want to wish you the best of everything in the world.

    eli

     
  3. Taeli S. on August 5, 2009 at 2:02 PM

    With those things i'd be super excited about class all the time lol

     
  4. elise on August 5, 2009 at 7:44 PM

    ginger sweets, u can get them in US?
    do u want me to deliver u some??

     
  5. Anonymous on August 6, 2009 at 12:59 AM

    I start school again in a few weeks but I don't carry cute things in my bag like you do!


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