Think in English with Adah

This is just a reminder for those who are big fans of McDonald’s or KFC that hanburgers and sandwiches are two different types of food.

The thing that defines what a hamburger is is that there is a fried cake of ground BEEF and other ingredients in the middle of the two or more slices of bread. This is what a hamburger looks like:

A sandwich has the same appearance of a hamburger and its fillings include chicken, pork, fish, shrimps and a lot more except beef. Here is a picture of a chicken sandwich:

Finally here comes the latest shrimp sandwiches from KFC:

Yummy!

We had a really great trip to Dalian last May during the Community Event of our company. Dalian seems to a dreamland for people from over-crowded cities such as Guangzhou, Shanghai and Hong Kong.  Known as a city famous for tourism, Dalian carries a bit romantic and exotic hue:  pointed rooftops in Russian style, roads curving along the coastlines, European villas upon hills and seaside, foreigners walking on the street with bare feet coming from a morning swimming in the sea… Even the Russian pop music on our shuffle bus brought us to this retired lifestyle of Dalian. 

But that is not all the elements that Dalian is made of. Restaurants have titles in Korean and Japanese characters where waiters and waitresses are dressed with the latest hairstyles. You could also discover that the splendid night views of the squares and busy shopping streets are exactly the same as the things that people in any other big cities live up to. All of those remind me we are in a city full of modern moves, just like Guangzhou or Shanghai.  

The sea in Dalian holds the most clean and cool water than any other seas I have ever been to. I could not resist the temptation of stealing a piece of the beautiful scenery home. Although feeling guilty, I picked some stones from the Silver Beach. Even glasses have been polished into a round shape by the blue water of the sea of Dalian.   

It has been nearly a month since the terrible catastrophe happened in Sichuan. It is a relief to know that our country has made great headway with rescuing all injured people and people whose lives are still at risk of floods or mudslides that might be caused by the recently formed lakes. The time had come for us to lament over the passing of the victims during the 3 days of mourning and more practically, the enire nation is exerting all efforts to condole and help the needy people in the disaster area. Most of the rescuer soldiers risked their own lives in order to save people they did not know. But all of us know that we share a same name “Chinese”, which is no longer born by a group of people who wore little caps with long braids but is a name of people with a whole new set of connotations - persistence, openness and nobleness.

Time will pass but in our life we will never forget what happened to us as both Chinese people and as a nation in the past few weeks. Let’s face the pains and deal with them by redoubling our efforts at work in the following weeks, months and years until this moment becomes one of the most touching experiences seared into the deepest memory of our lives.