Yang Ming/Carlos Pueblo
Get to know
Yang Ming on my way to York from Oxford, England.
We met at
the platform while I asked her the right train in Mandarin
she instantly
recognized my Taiwanese accent. She brought two of
her
physician cousins from Nanjing, China to her graduation ceremony
in
Birmingham. She has already worked in her hometown Chengzhou,
Henan at a
travel agency. She was very interested in my knowledge of
Henan and
flipped her i-phone to check a county where was the home
town of my
classmate at high school in Taipei, Ling Chang. She finds
out that
county is in another famous city Handan of Hebei Province.
Handan was
the capital of Chao during the War states era before the
Century for
about 250 years while Ling Chang, under an old name Xu
Chang, was
the capital of Wei Dynasty during the Three Kingdoms Era
about 220,D.C.
Now I know that her hometown is the current provincial
capital of
Henan.
We continued
our conversation on the train for many subjects of her
Interests.
She has a boyfriend of the engineer major who is studying
at the
University of Colorado in Denver, Colorado. I corrected her at
Boulder,
Colorado yet she insisted. Before I wrote this journey, I did
check with
Google and she was right. The CU does have a campus in
Denver
provided Ph.D. programs for engineers. I explained to her about
the pension
systems in the U.S., the welfare program for the poverty,
and the
Obamacare were her interests. I did mention to her that I couldn’t
get any
unemployment benefit under the current unemployment system
because I
was under commission base compensation. She says that she
is also
commission base compensation as well; therefore, I advise her
saving money
for the retirement.
It was very
short conversation on the train and finally, I asked her permission
as my daughter
and she agreed in whole heart. One of the cousins took
photos for
us to remember. She gave me a postcard of an old street scenery
of Luoyang,
also an ancient Capital of several Chinese dynasties. I hope that
she would
read my blog in the future and keep in touch.
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