You, Me, and Us

by Seri Jang, Yi Su Kang, and Yoo Min Yoon

We went around the school, trying to find someone to interview. Everyone in the corridor was busy, and it was hard to find someone who was not busy for the moment. It was quite hard for us to search for people. After spending about half an hour searching for a person to interview, we went to the security office, and met a woman in a black suit. She seemed a little busy but we really wanted to know about her. So we asked her.

“Sorry, but can we interview you for just 5 minutes?”

“Of course!” She answered very politely with a big smile on her face.

The first question we asked was, “What is your name?”

“Please call me Ms. Sun,” she answered quietly.

We wanted to know her full name, so we repeated the same question. And she answered the same question. We realized that she was shy, but she did not forget to respect us.

“Thank you!” we said, after the interview.

“You’re welcome,” she said with a smile, “It was really enoyable to answer your questions!”

Sun Yun Li (孙云丽) is from Anhui Province, three hours away from Suzhou. She is married, with a son and a daughter. However, because she has a job here in Suzhou, Ms. Sun moved here only with her husband, leaving her children behind. She misses her hometown and her children but only can go there during vacations.

When we asked her about her dream, she immediately answered that she hopes her son and daughter will go to good universities. It is her biggest dream. We could feel that she loves her children so much. And we think it is the same for every mother to love to her children no matter where they are from. And it was sad that she had to leave her hometown just to earn money and give her children a better future.

We asked what she would do if she suddenly got a bunch of money.

“Travel!” she said. “I want to know more about other countries. And I want to build up more experiences by travelling.”

She had a big smile on her face while telling us about her dream. These made us feel that we can have a subject to talk and share about, the ‘Dream’. We hope that someday she and her husband can forget everything that is annoying them and travel around lots of other countries with their children and parents.

We went to the security office for a second time, expecting Ms. Sun to be there, to take a picture of her. But she was not there. So we asked her workmate where she was and when she would return, and she told us that Ms. Sun is not in the office most of the time. After wandering around for a while, we saw her giving out uniforms to the ayi’s. And by that we have realized how she is an important person to SSIS. She did not even realize we were there in front of her. And we asked her carefully.

“Can we take a picture of you?”

“Umm . . . .” She hesitated, her face full of embarrassment. “Can someone please take one instead of me?” And she started asking her workmates.

It was funny. It was new. And it is an honor to know her. We all determined that in whatever positions we are in, we all have the same minds of being a human living our wonderful lives.