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Walking on the road of 49 countries of five contin
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-pilot Kun


The founder of AIC teenager community.


 


 

A seagull is living in each youngsters heart.


I read about how the seagull was one of the most common bird in the book when I was little. You can see them in every port, pier, bay, around ships and anywhere close to the sea. The existence of a seagull is meaningful to humans exploration toward the afar apart from flying and chase the ocean. Their flying pattern indicates the direction of port and submerged rock, and it also indicates the change of weather. They accompany sailors in silent into the unknown ocean.


For me, a person born and grown up on plain territory, seagull means freedom. It is also the symbol of the courage to chase afar. A seagull like this is hiding in my heart and waiting to fly.


Being a trainee of the unknown experience beside the sea in the south.


College gave me the opportunity to go to a seacoast city. I began the first flight of my life.


Walking across the silent campus or noisy street corner, I can see familiar images. Such as the take-out deliverer whos bike fell over, the dispatcher who gets a contemptuous look, the waiter who breaks dishes, the salesman whos cell phone number is blocked, the private tutor who wear suit and sneakers in the summer, the competitor who is too nervous to look down from the stage. Yes, these are characters I had experienced apart from school and texts.


Lucky for me, being a take-out deliverer made me understand that life is not easy, being a dispatcher made me respect unfamiliar worker, the salary of being a waiter opened my first backpack journey, being a salesman made me understand how to listen, being a tutor trained my expression and logic thinking, the experience of competitions cultivated my calmness and confidence.


Looking back at this flight, I am happy that I wasnt a merit student who went to lessons, got diplomas and prizes, and loved by teachers. Every bitter or fun attempt was like a role-playing game, I got to understand the world which I didnt understand before from different characters and perspectives.


This journey was green and sweet.


 


Being a volunteer who passes on the dream at the foot of a snow mountain in Tibet.


The summer of my senior year, my friends and I started an activity to be teachers in Tibet. We struggled during schedule planning, volunteer recruiting, supply gathering, safety reassuring, sponsor plans, advertising and promoting, and lesson designing. A group of young people with passion stepped on the train toward the west. We traveled from Guangdong where is as high as sea level to the plateau of the northern Tibet which is five thousand kilometers above sea level.       



They hesitated for a long time to give a wrong answer to an easy multiplication question, but their voice was loud when they said thank you, teacherat the end of class. They said good nightto us beside the window, on the playground and even in the bathroom. They listen to you when you talk about the diffusion of odor, the transmission of light, the motion of the universe, the rarity of Tibetan, the profoundness of Chinese and the worldwide usage of English, the relationship between reading and life choice, the gratitude of using social resource, responsibility of creating social value. Whether they understand or not, the listen to everything about the world carefully.


You cant see cooking smoke rising on the wild plateau, and more antelopes were running among the mountains than families living beside the lake. The children there never saw the ocean, so was I when I was little. So I was a volunteer who passed on dreams at the foot of a snow mountain in Tibet, and this became my calling as if it was destiny. Every summer, I help them to leave the snow mountain and go to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen. Let them see the sea and the possibility of life.


This journey was cold and warm.


 

 


Being a couch surfer who exchanges stories in Manhattan, New York.


Later I had the chance to study in America. I walked in Silicon Valley and world-changing companies in San Francisco and knew the possibility of the future. I sat in the classroom of Stanford learning the ways of solving problems. I volunteered for a charity organization and researched how to gather resources and solve social problems. In Seattle, I tasted the original flavor of the first Starbucks. I went to the cemetery of Bruce Lee and listened to his fans from all over the world talking about how he became famous. In Manhattan, New York, I couch surfed in a strangers house to save money.


Learning, walking, thinking in this international cities, meeting people from different part of the world, with different color, background, and perspective and exchanging stories with them is to find similarity in differences or to think the difference in similarity.


This journey was serious and fun.


 

 


Being a temporary worker who harvests grapes on a farm in Australia.


The seagull in my heart couldnt stop, it brought me across Oceania. At a farm in Western Australia, I wore a straw hat, wore work shoes, held scissors in my hands and started my life of traveling while doing jobs to earn the expense. The temporary workers from all over the world were driving on the road on the endless field together when the sun rose. On one side was grapes all over the mountain, on the other side was kangaroos running understand the sunlight. At the end of the road were lighthouses and blue ocean.


Australia has the highest hourly wage in the world. So as long as you are hard working, you can support yourself easily without working overtime. Times after work belongs to the sun and wind at the beach, Of course, there was anxious waiting time for the number of people assigned, exhausted mechanical working time, burning under the sun, and loneliness on the long trip.


This trip was about trying to survive, yet poetic.


Being an anagarika inside the mountain in Nepal.


This seagull does not only love the ocean but also likes to explore high mountains and wonders about the stories deep inside the mountains. After hiking along the ABC route at Nepal, I went to a temple and isolated from the outside world. I started to practice Buddhism which involved not to speak, not to use the cell phone, not to eat meat, not to think improperly, and so on.


I do not believe any religion, but I am curious about other peoples faith. I want to know why people in countries which believe in Buddhism speak and live the way they are. I want to know what kind of power make them follow devoutly. I do not like people telling me the answer; instead, I love to search for the answer.


Meditation is a simple yet hard matter for a restless seagull. The process of meditation was torturing, one had to sit from ten seconds to ten minutes and one hour to ten hours. But this would calm your heart and return to yourself. At first, you would find breathing, consciousness, and emotions. You could reexamine every thought, every expression, every action, and you could understand the variability, persistence, greed, love again at every second that seemed to be still. You can understand what passed us or influenced the world.


This journey was illusional yet real.


 

 


This world is a college that we will never graduate from. What our life will become is based on the life that we have seen.


In my 20s,  I went to a lot of places around the world following the seagull in my heart. I overheard the local villager and village headman talked about how to construct their village when I was staying in the home of a national minority at the Yunnan village. When I was volunteering at the school in Southeast Asia, I thought about what is the best education. I went to Africa and shared Chinese food and Chinese Character with people there. These things may not change anything right away. Every journey formed a new thought and a new self was created in the process.


So this world is a college that we will never graduate from. Every experience is a vivid new teacher who will make me ask questions and find answers in the process. The ocean, the grass, the school, the fishing village, the street market is the most beautiful class of life, and all of them are hidden in the road. If we are lucky enough to see those lives, we will know what kind of life we want to have in the future, and then we can make choices to make our dream come true.



 

 


Connecting with the beautiful life afar while traveling.


You will know the world when you know yourself, and you will change the world when you change yourself.


We can not not to be in awe of nature when we stand on the plateau, stand under the ice mountain, beside the ocean and the crater, because we are so small. We are like a grain of sand in nature. We will encounter many accidents; we may not know where to go next; we will panic, worry, and feel helpless, but we will gradually become abundant, full and hard in the meantime.


That is why I could not keep myself from thing what I can do to be connected to the world when I went to different places such as America, Australia, Maine, and Egypt. I want to help other people to experience while enriching my own experience; I want to change the world while changing myself.


So I founded a community for youth about experiential tourism education. I aim to help Chinese young people to find the beauty of the world and pass on this beauty with a free soul like a seagull and the courage of pursuing afar. We can help other people experience and grow while ourselves can experience and grow on the road.


Being a warm seagull.


When we were kids, adults always asked us who we wanted to become in the future. Our answers usually were a scientist who can benefit humankind and doctors who can help patients, etc.


When we started college, teachers always asked us what we wanted to do after graduation. Our answers were basically the same, such as get an offer from one of the top 500 hundred foreign companies, earn a lot of money and so on.


After we grow older and see a bigger world, our choices of the answer become more various and complicated.


Just like excellent farmland understand the warmth of the rain; paperflower understands the heat of the sun; the baby bird who has not know how to fly know understand the warmth of the nest. I hope to keep the wings warm even when we encounter wind or rain while flying towards the unknown and understood by the sailors who are sailing towards the deep ocean.



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