2008年5月12日，我正坐在执信中心高二15班的课室里昏昏欲睡。哪曾想到，在那一刻有多少人失去了生命。他们中的许多人，都是和我一样正在课堂里的孩子。我难以想象那些幸存者们是如何度过这一年的。。。他们如何度过那些悲痛与绝望，如何忍受那些妻离子散，骨肉分离？我记得在那个初夏，有多少人放下手中的工作和生活奋不顾身奔赴地震灾区参与援助。。。我也记得新闻中那些残忍的画面，那些忍不住失声痛哭的记者。。我还记得连续举办了一个月赈灾义演的香港艺人们。。来到加拿大的这一段时间，见到了许多人许多事。也的确存在这样的人，尽管身上流着炎黄子孙的血却根本不配当中国人。但是。大多数的中国人都包含着一颗赤子之心，热爱我们的祖国和同胞，无论在哪里都为自己是一个中国人而骄傲！依然记得我们温家宝总理的名言：“再大的困难除以十三亿，都会变的渺小，再小的力量乘以十三亿，就会变成爱的海洋！”中国终归是会越来越强大的，我坚信这一点，并且正在为祖国的未来而努力着！在今天这个特殊的日子，表达我对四川灾区同胞们的哀悼和祝福，以及对祖国深深的思念。。。最后写下著名诗人艾青的一句诗：“为什么我总是饱含热泪？因为我对这土地爱得深沉！”

加拿大真不愧是“冰上之国”，从大人到小孩，冰上运动玩得一级棒！不得不佩服啊。。。

早上五点被supervisor叫醒，吃了几片面包和一杯奶就去学校的停车场。上了bus，我们踏上了去Lake Louise的旅程。。

出来Calgary以后先是一大片的平原，全部是麦田，被早晨的太阳照耀着真的很美。又过了一段时间，大概是进入Banff附近以后，周围的景观就变成了雪山，一片一片的，太壮观了。我好想拍照，但车上摇摇晃晃的不清楚，所以没拍。。

终于到了Lake Louise，借了boot，board，helmet以后就迫不及待进滑雪场去了。我的教练是一个可爱的英国女生，把基本的怎么减速，掌握方向都叫我了。期间我摔了两次，不过我还是很快学会的。

然后颇有自信的我就去玩那个最难的山顶滑道去了（我也不知道我当时为什么这么有自信。。==）上去我就后悔了。首先是那个缆车，居然就一个凳子，什么护栏都没有的那种。我这个人本身就恐高，脚上拖着一个重得要死的滑雪板坐在上面，山上风又大一晃一晃的。吓得我要命。。。中间又不知道为什么停了两分钟，我就在凳子上面摇摇晃晃，差不多想跳下去了T-T。。

终于到了山顶，艰难的任务还在后面。。。那个滑道斜得差不多90度了，我旁边的加拿大人一个个“咻”一声就滑下去，扬起一片飞雪，太厉害了。。我看得两眼发直。。。然后到我自己呢。。如果不是我之前控制速度还不错，我可能会直接撞晕在树上。。

然后慢慢掌握了一点，仍然是我以蜗牛般的速度滑着，周围的加拿大人一个个从我旁边呼啸而过，其中不少还是小孩子。。然后他们溅起来的雪飞了我一身T-T我好可怜。。。不过高难度的坡真的很好玩，玩了一次以后我就不想去玩那个中级的坡了。。

总之，我给自己打85分，第一次玩snow boarding，玩得还不错！希望今年冬天能再去玩～哈哈！

照片在此：http://picasaweb.google.com/ziliangz/LakeLouise#

http://picasaweb.google.com/zeaglog/Strathmore#

我就在这附近哦～

Strathmore，AB，Canada

Canada，I'm coming.

带着所有人的祝福和期望，请相信我能实现我的梦想！

人生，未完待续。。。。

其实这些东西不能完整地代表我的这一年，只是以前的一些影像都已经无法寻回。

怎么说呢，这算是2008年底的我。

执信中学，我的高中，令我疲惫却也骄傲的地方，我将要离开这里，去寻找新的人生。

这是某一个周二下午体锻课的阳光。

手机里储存最多的图片，是这样的，

每天的作业内容，有几百张。

已经全部删除了，我和这些，再无任何关联。

银记肠粉店的爸爸妈妈。

也许有很多年，我会想念这样的场景，

热腾腾的鸡蛋肠牛肉肠艇仔粥及第粥，还有爸爸妈妈的样子。

08年的我有很多改变。

不在喜欢把自己弄得怪模怪样，那些嚣张的十五六岁被留在了昨天。

尝试变得成熟和懂事，虽然依旧路途遥远，呵呵。

08年认识了R姐，还有很多很多可爱的东叉饭，与你们在饭否上热烈地谈话让我感到幸福。

Thx you all。

大概是从东叉四辑开始，我会经常弄这样的“作品”出来。

在严肃的学习中寻找乐趣，哈哈。

08圣诞给自己的礼物，我想没有别人我也可以过得很快乐。

所以见到这个的时候，我真的很感动。

Dandy，我见过最有礼貌最温柔的男生，给我送了这样的离别礼物。

在执信最后的时刻能有你这样的同桌，我无比幸福。

原来还有人在关心着我。

于是我想我可以带着这些温暖去追寻我的未来，在2009.

即使在大洋彼岸，也有你们的爱。

那样温暖而宽阔，就像广州冬日的天空。

An Optimistic View of the World


Looking down from the International Space Station, astronaut Dan Tani says he can't help feeling hopeful about the future of the planet. 'I am stunned by the intense colors of the Earth,' he says, 'The intricate patterns and textures, and sheer beauty of our home.'

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I believe in mystery.

I believe in family.

I believe in being who I am.

 I believe in the power of failure.

I believe in normal life is extraordinary.

This I believe.

Astronaut Dan Tani estimates that he has taken some six to seven thousand photographs while circling the Earth. He's the flight engineer on the International Space Station and has taken four space walks on this mission. Tani also found the time to contribute an essay for This I believe. Here's our series curator, independent producer Jay Allison.

Dan Tani has an unusual perspective on the world, to say the least. And he's had that perspective longer than he’s expected. Shuttled delays kept him from returning to the Earth to spend Christmas with his wife and children. He’s been up there for four months now. And it has time to reflect on his personal beliefs. Here’s astronaut, Dan Tani recorded in the space station with his essay for This I believe.

Like many people, I have a job that requires me to take a business trip every now and then. I'm on one right now. As I write this, I'm flying over New Zealand; it looks so beautiful out the window. Unlike most people, however, I'm traveling over 200 miles above the Earth, and I'm going 17,500 miles an hour.

When I look down, I am stunned by the intense colors of the Earth, the intricate patterns and textures, and sheer beauty of our home planet. When I watch the Earth roll by, I realize I believe in optimism.

It would be hard to believe that there is no hope for Earth from up here. The International Space Station is a collaboration of 16 nations — and one of our primary partners was our sworn enemy only a few decades ago. The space station itself is the embodiment of where we can go as a global society.

My own optimism is rooted in two very different ideas: statistical probability and trust.

First, I accept the statistical probability that I am not likely to be killed by a terrorist or contract some horrible disease. It's not that I think that everything will work out OK; it's that I think that everything will probably work out OK.

And second, trust. I learned trust from my mother, and in a way, this essay is for her. Two months ago, while I was up here, she died in an accident and of course I have been unable to return to honor her. I have been thinking about her life, which was not an easy one. She was born into poverty, forcibly relocated during World War II, survived the premature deaths of her husband and a son — and yet, her outlook was so life-affirming. She felt that people were good and well-meaning. Sometimes I felt that she trusted too easily, and I was afraid that that stranger she talked to on the street or the airplane might not be as nice as she thought. But I was almost always proven wrong, and I'm so grateful for her example.

I came to believe, like her, that most people want to live their lives without conflict. They care about the other people in their house, their neighborhood, their country and their planet.

I am an astronaut, and I cannot imagine doing what I'm doing, seeing what I'm seeing, and not being an optimist. We climb aboard extremely complex machines which hurl us into space, and we have to trust that every engineer, every technician and every manager has done their job, and that we have a high statistical probability of success.

And once we are here, we get to look back and see the Earth as a thing of stunning beauty. Of course, I know there are awful things going on down there, that people are in pain, wars are raging, poverty and hunger are taking far too many lives — but from here, I can only see the whole.

I wish that everyone could see the world from my perspective; I believe that more people would be optimistic about our future.

Dan Tani with his essay for This I believe. Tani is scheduled to return to earth and his family in Houston, Texas this week. To see a video of Dan Tani recording his This I believe essay in the space station. Visit NPR. Org. We'll also find instructions for submitting your own essay. Wherever you are. For This I believe. I’m Jay Allison.

Jay Allison is co-editor with Dan Gediman, John Gregory and Viki Merrick of the book, This I believe, The personal philosophies of remarkable men and women.

Support for This I believe. Comes from prudential retirement.

You’re listening two week edition from NPR News.

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以上转自putclub

Dan Tani--美国宇航员，American born Japanese，MIT毕业。

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Tani#Expedition_16 

2009，请全世界人幸福。

你两太过分了。失血。==