A story of love

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A story of love

• Prepared by Min Tong
• mintong_at_interchange.ubc.ca
• LIBR 500
• Foundation of Information Technology
• Instructor Dr. S. Stephenson

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Life Love

• Life without love is like a tree without blossoms
  or fruit. ------Kahlil Gibran

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My Birth

• 33 years ago, I came to the world out of the
  love of my mom and dad.

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My Parents

• My Mom and Dad always told me that besides
  love, another thing made the world go round was
  Knowledge.

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My School Years

• East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
  Beijing Language Culture University,
  Beijing, China
• My Love of Knowledge accompanied me through my
  academic years
• B.A. English Language and Literature
• M.A. Linguistics

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My working years

• My love of people and love of languages guided
  me to choose Teacher Translator as my
  professions.

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My New Life

• In 2002, I immigrated to Canada, together with my
  husband, out of our love of freedom.

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Julia -- My Daughter

• The arrival of our daughter, Julia, the fruit
  of the love of my husband and I, made us forget
  the adversity of an immigrant familys life.

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Why SLAIS?

• My love of books
• My love of teaching
• My love of serving others finally landed me at

SLAIS
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Things love to do in my leisure time

• Listening to pop songs
• Enya, Chyi, Norah Jones ..
• Reading
• Novels, Essays, Biographies..
• Playing tennis with my husband
• Playing puzzle with my daughter

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Quotes on Love I love most

• Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength
  loving someone deeply gives you courage. ----
  Lao-Tzu
• If you judge people, you have no time to love
  them. ---- Mother Theresa
• Do all things with love. ----Og Mandino

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End of story? No.

• The story of love will go on and on as my life
  goes on .

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Acknowledgements

• Photo of ECNU (Slide 5) Used by permission of
  the University of East China Normal University
  http//www.ecnu.edu.cn
• Photo of BLCU (Slide 5) Used by permission of
  the Beijing Language and Culture University
  http//www.blcu.edu.cn