I am Zhang Hao from Zhejiang Province in China. I live in Wenzhou which is a small town. Everyone likes to call Wenzhou is a business city. Since Wenzhou is the first part to trade when China was Reforming and Opening. I have a brother who is younger than me. My parents are merchants. They always told me the importance of the knowledge. So I was born with the passion to knowledge. I like to read Chinese classic books. Since I think I can get the meaning of life by reading those. Also, I like to do sports on weekends. Usually, I like to play basketball with my friends. We can chat the interesting things of school days. I like the feeling of sweating. Taking a shower after sweating can make me feel so refreshing.
I went to the smaller town near Wenzhou for my middle school which is called Ruian. I like this town because of its delicious food called ‘jiang you ya she’ in Chinese which means sauce duck tongue. I ate those for lunch every day in school. In the summer break that I finished my high school, I was always chilling out at home and my mother’s shop was coincidentally short of a cashier. Naturally, I had to take that. In the beginning, I was a bad cashier. Every time hasty customers came to me and said “Can’t you hurry up?” I would impatiently answer, “don’t you see I am trying to hurry? Could you please keep quiet for a while?” Slowly, my irrational answers hurt my mother’s business. I could see the disappointment in my mother’s eyes. I had to stop indulging my bad attitude and impatience. I changed the way I talked from rudely to politely. Every time when customers urged me to hurry up, I would keep calm and just be quicker. Progressively, I can see that they are less and less grumpy, and more and more satisfied. Time went by, and this polite attitude rooted in my soul.
Those are ‘jiang you ya she’. Photo credit: http://food.365jia.cn/dish/show/id/1946
The biggest reason that I choose OSU is Thompson Library. Since, I am a reading lover. And we all know that Thompson Library is one of the biggest libraries in the United States. And I love to read books after class for spending my free time. I like the study atmosphere in Thompson Library. Another reason is Recreation and Physical Activity Center, which is also called RPAC. I am kind of lazy people and I do not want to workout frequently. But the advanced facilities would push me to go to gym for exercise. The sense of belonging makes me feel a sense of home. Since if you shout out ‘OH’, there are a lot of people would answer you ‘IO’. Those are why that I choose OSU for my university.
Photo credit: https://www.osu.edu/O-H-I-O/90488