Time to say goodbye - Intellectual Take-away

Time flies and the seven-day study tour in Poland is just like a dream. The take way of Krakow is much more than I expected which is a cherish experience to enrich my eyesight. It is not only about taking classes but to get better to know about the culture and the people. To my surprise, Polish people are not as open-minded as most of western countries, and for some traditions, people are even close to Asian values. I believe the history of the country are influential to people. However, the youth generations are energetic and the street culture is popular in Krakwo too. There are numbers of street artists in Krakow, for paintings, music, and graffiti. During our study tour, we visited several business companies including Radio Krakow, Onet, Tygodnik Powszechny, and Krakow Technology Park. The most impressive company to me is Onet, which ranks right after Google and Facebook as the most influential media platform in Poland. The technical software Onet uses to follow customers watching habits are unique and exclusive to Onet. The local students are friendly and really easygoing. They are happy to share their cultures and values and what is more, all of them are modest and polite. This is also what Polish people impress me. This is the race that is respectful with their intellectual minds and hardworking. All the professors are wonderful, especially the teaching assistants. They welcome the study groups so much and take excellent care of us. They are teachers, friends, and they are part of what Polish means to us. The culture is all about people. I am so happy that I took the chance and join in the study tour in Poland, and I want to thank you all professors and my classmates, each of them are awesome!

Schindler's List

It has been a while after our visits of the Schindler’s Factory and the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp. And still, it is so hard to get out of the heavy mood and takes time to look at the issue. It is still hard to swallow that such a nation to experience such hardships. Schindler’s List is a movie full of humanitarianism with the eternal glory of the existence; however, it was time for me to actually feel it when I placed myself in Poland, with enormous mind blowing and soul stirring. The Schindler’s story would be permanently told from generation to generation. If it has to say this is a story about “redemption”, I would take the profound theme as “expiation” instead of “rescue”. Just like what Schindler said, for those who survive, nearly one thousand and two hundreds Jewish, they have to thank themselves as the race who obtains wealth with their intellectual minds and personal values, the belief. The consequences taken by the war would never be one-way. The act of killing and extermination is not only about the body, but the harm to the humanity. For the era of killing, the last thing for people to make a choice would be forgiveness. It is most touching moment when the human nature is glittering even at the most complicated situations. “Hate the sin, not the sinner.” Just like the candle flame at the beginning of the film, the human nature shines with beautiful lights.