Four hours driving to Boston.

Four hours driving to Boston

I am getting used to having four hours driving distance and even more.
December 17, I flew 17 hours back to my homeland, Taiwan.
December 28, I flew 17 hours back to New York.
January 8, I flew 4 hours to Orlando. During the trip in Florida, we drove from Orlando to Key West, without saying that we drove for a long time.
January 27, my friend’s in Boston asked me to go to her place.
Due to our more than eleven years of friendship, although i disliked sitting for an extended period of time, I take four hours to Boston.
Long distance travel is the thing I don't need the most. In Taiwan, you could go from northernmost part to southernmost part in around four hours. Therefore, four hours means a lot. Anyway, I spent my last weekend in Boston with my old friend!

This was not the first time I went to visit her in Boston but this is the first time I visited her after she moved to the new place. Her new place is new and looks great.What did I do with my old friend?The fact is that my friend was going to have a small party in her place. She invited her best friends. I am glad that I had been invited. And she planned to cook for the party. Since she did not cook very often she was nervous about cooking. She decided to start cooking at four o’clock because her friend came at six thirty. I must say that she cooked well and I was very impressed.Having dinner with her friends was great. Her friends come from many different places; therefore, the only language we could use was English. I am glad to have the chance to practice English. It is interesting that I feel relaxed while having conversation in English. I am still wondering why?! But I guess the only reasonable reason is because I was drinking.

At night she showed me a letter she kept for a long time. It was interesting that we both kept the letters we wrote to each other. The content now looks childish. But I was really touched when we read the letter together. It will be more meaningful when we read it when we are both forty years old.It feels so great to have an old friend. Old friends are hard to find. We have known each other for quite a long time and we know each others quite well. The feeling of the day we spent together was just like what we had in the past.

Birth order!!

Recently I read a paragraph about birth order, the paragraph was written by Lucille K. Forer. The title is”How Your Birth Order Influences Your Life Adjustment”. It is an interesting article. Just like Western horoscopy and Chinese used twelve animals symbolizing the twelve branches to designate years. They all talk about how personality may be influenced by the month or years when you were born. Some people believe in it, while others holds opposite opinion.

In the paragraph Forer said that the oldest child was more responsible and would be parental. I think this is close to the truth. I am the oldest child in my family and I have one younger brother. I always take care of my brother. If my parents are not at home, I will try to do my best to prepare food for my brother, even though I cannot cook. I still remember once when my parents were not at home. I tried to make a French fries. I put the potato into pot until the oil is boiling. Surprising things happened; The fries turned a black color immediately. This fact shocked me and my brother. Well, I tried again in different way. I put potato in the oil at the beginning and get it off until the oil boil. This time I succeess. I am glad that my brother still have the courage to eat the things I make after he saw my failures and is still alive after eating them.

Forer also mentions that the first child would be the barrier between parents and later children. From my personal experience, my mother always wants me to transmit information to my younger brother because they think he is more likely to listen to me. All in all, I think that Forer’s opinion in first child is close to the truth. After reading this paragraph, I gained a lot of knowledge about birth order and how it influences ones personality. But still, ones background and education is crucial to influence ones personality.