到了明天，五個月就過去了

雖然只是在後面當助教，但是還是一個新的里程碑

今天晚上還是有點晃過去了...  但心裡想的是暑假我可以做什麼?

最後決定的期限  出國交換  鄉福  全中門  暑宣

原諒我的不完美  我不是對自己太有自信  而是對自己沒有自信

以致於在我能把握的範圍內  能將一切掌握在自己手裡

那是一首  我也很需要的歌: ) 

Until now, we have read many biographies and reflective diaries.  And we can further divide them with different tone of rhetoric: some are self-promoting like John Smith; some are reflective like Edward Taylor, while some are funny like Benjamin Franklin.  But there is none, I think, so sincere and real and also give the readers a strong realization as Equiano’s.  I’ve heard of slave trade from history classes since like junior high school.  And I also watched movie mentioned slave trade like “Amazing Grace”.  However, it is the first time that I began to realize how bad the slave trade is!!  Like this week when talking about the Declaration of Independence, Mary reminds us how we’ve taken so many things for granted.  It is so important yet we get it without any struggle; just like we are born with it.  However, nothing just exists the way it is today.  Freedom, I think, may be one of them.  It’s quite hard for a college student, born in middle-class family, to imagine how it feels like to be deprived of freedom.  Hardly can I think of myself being ruled by somebody else, being their slave, having no power to have my own decision about what to eat, where to live, who to fall in love, to say nothing of receiving education according to my interest.  But Equiano’s story is like a window open for me to understand, through it many things become more than imagination but real life stories.

Actually, I enjoy this week’s article very much.  Though to be honest (which I found it quite ironically and ashamed of myself a little bit toward this value) the first image emerges in my mind when I think of the nation “American” is still “white people”, I think it is very important to read some literature works written by African-American and the native people like last week.  Wheatley I think can be one of the few representatives of the lucky black slaves who can receive education.  And she, I think, should be given more attention due to her special background—being the first black and also black female writer.  Also, it’s cool to read Occum’s story.  At first it is quite weary to look through all these capital beginning words (but not always though, but most of them).  But I think he is a wonderful man, full of love for education and courage to pursue his own dream.  Every people, regardless of his or her race or social and economic status should have the chance for receiving education for the pursuit of happiness.  I think this is what the Declaration of Independence hold to be self-evident; but still a far-away ideal, waiting to be fight for in our generation.