Studious

When I was a little child, my mother told me an old Chinese saying: “A book holds a house of gold.” I believed what my mother said so I began to read book and try to find gold in books. Though I didn’t find gold in book but reading book became one of my habits in my life. And I become a studious person now.

        As I said above, I like reading book and I am used to read some books in my spare time. I read many books cover many different aspects because I think people should learn as more as possible when they are young because it brings lots of benefits for me. First one is that I can get many basic life skills from reading book. For example, I learned that sun rises from the east and settles in the west, I learned that the structure of trees, directed in the north, grows better and people can distinguish directions by observing trees, I learned lots of things like them according to reading books. I don’t want to be a bookworm like my classmate in my high school, he is a top student in all the subjects in school but he has almost no knowledge about the life, he even doesn’t know sun rises from the east and settles in the west! How horrible it was! The second reason is that people can find the field that they are exactly interested in. Although every student will learn many subjects in their primary school, secondary school and high school, however, when they come to universities they will be very confused because the education in universities is much more specific and multiple, for me, I planned to study in biology field before I came to Westminster College but I had never knew that there are so many different kinds of branches in it. So I chose to read some books and scan some information from Internet to learn about these specific aspects in biology. That helps me a lot to decide which part I am interested in exactly. The last reason is that comprehensive knowledge will make it easier for me to make friends with others. I think people are willing to communicate with people who can talk to them about topics which they are interested in, so rich knowledge can make me more leisurely when I am meeting different people and talking to them. That can help me get more friends.

       Among the books that I have read, I like history books best. I am a Chinese and my country have 5000 thousands years history. So I witness the rise and fall of many dynasties, these stories makes me really excited. Nevertheless, I think the most important part is not these stories but the experiences that I get from history books, my history teacher told me that history is an immeasurable wealth, I agree with him so much. For instance, Confucius’s “The Analects” is the earliest education book and nowadays it is still a necessary book for students to read and study because it contains many theories of ethics, they are affects all people in China from ancient time to now. Another book’s name is “The Art of War”, written by Sun Zi, this book include 36 stratagems of war in ancient time and it’s also popular now because it’s not only a book about wars but also cover the psychology, and it is widely used in business and help many people get success. Therefore, I am fond of reading history books and I become wiser and wiser after learning a lot about the history.

       I’ m a person who likes cooking very much, and I think this hobby is one of the important factors makes me become studious. Maybe it is hard to relate cooking to studious but cooking develop one of my most important qualities——patient. As we known, Chinese food is delicious but the processes of cooking are very complex. It’s hard to learn because people who live in different areas in Chinese have different orders to their food. Some people like spicy food but some people like salty or sweet food so one of my American friends said that she is very confused about how much seasoning she should put into when she is cooking because in Chinese cooking books they only said people should put “some” salt or “some” soy source but never tell people an accurate number. So, if people want to cook delicious food they need to learn for a long time and accumulate rich experiences. According to this process, I failed again and again so I am becoming much more patient than before. That’s why I can read books by myself silently and nothing can bother me at that time.