July 31, 2008

Letter from a Chinese student

Below is a letter written to Mai Pearls from another Chinese student who was sponsored last year to continue his studies;

Dear Aunties and Uncles:

How are you? It’s my pleasure to write to you again. Are you well on both health and work fronts? With your help, the financial pressure on my parents have been relieved, so that I can finish my junior school studies. It’s you who give me so much help and provided a solution to my problem of not being able to continue with studies. Being poor had made me look down on myself and even try to give up studying. But you bring me hope; bring me back to school with a full sense of enjoyment. With the study tools given, it has helped me improve in my studies.

From the time I received your help, my grades have improved and I am now more self-confident and believing in my future. In the next one month, I’ll study hard and try to enter the school that I would like to get into.

There’s an old Chinese proverb that says that “If fish is without water, it will die”. I believe that I can conquer all the difficulties I encounter and then taste the sweetness of having overcome these struggles. The road of life is rough and windy that you wouldn’t know unless you tread that path, I believe now that I can handle the difficulties.

Finally, wish you good health and success at work.

Sincerely yours, Tian Lixing
2008.05.13

Posted: July 31, 2008 08:55 AM