Today is my first day work in Sino-link Consulting. For your information, I'm working as an intern here, helping with sort of translating stuff. Although I'm expected to graduate from University of International Business and Economics, considered to be quite familiar with issues related to business and trade, to be honest, I'm a little bit nervous and unconfident, after knowing about what Sino-link does as a professional and experienced consulting firm, and also, what it expects us to do. As a Chinese saying goes, you will only regret you've not learnt enough when you are confronted with challenges. However, I believe the minute we feel the pressure, we are endowed at the same time with powers, the powers to do, to learn, and to succeed. There is another saying (while it's a foreign one this time), that is, you'll never know your limit. Hehe, why not let it be my motto? Fighting!I'll try my best!

Next, let me blog about my volunteer work as a protocol assistant during the Olympics. A protocol assistant is not the one you've seen in the streets or at the venues. He or she is to take care of foreign sports ministers during their stays in Beijing. I'm assigned to be the assistant of the sports minister of Cook Islands, which is quite a small country located in the Pacific, with a population of 14000. The sports minister is an old woman in her sixty's. Before I met her, all the images of a tough and bossy woman came to my mind, cuz in my mind, politics, in most cases, is a men's game. And as far as I knew, she would be the only female sports minister present in the Game. However, at the first glimpse at her, I was attracted to her by her warm smile and kind manner. During her stay in Beijing, we went to various games, every time she stepped into a venue or a gymnasium, she would definitely praise the delicacy of the construction. She told me that China had helped her country a lot in their construction work, and at present a sports venue was being built for the the 2009 Pacific Mini Games. So China and Cook islands were old friends! During her stay in Beijing, I took her to the palace museum, the Quanjude restaurant and also showed her around the Beijing city. After she had seen the city and the people, she told me that she felt as if the air was filled with vitality and hospitality. "It's a great game in Beijing," she said, "when I go back home, I will definitely tell my people what I see and feel in Beijing, in China!"