在北京大学2008年开学典礼上的发言（Speech at the opening ceremony of Peking University in 2008）.doc

在北京大学2008年开学典礼上的发言（Speech at the opening ceremony of Peking University in 2008） Fellow students and leaders: Good morning, everyone! (applause) I am very glad that President Xu has given me such a high honor to talk about my experience at Beijing university. (applause) It can be said that Beijing University is a place that changed my whole life. It was a place for me to improve myself and make me go from a rural child to the world at last. It is no exaggeration to say that without Peking University, there would be no me today. Peking University left me a series of good memories, probably leaving a series of pain. It is between the good and the bad, in the middle of setbacks, struggles and progress, that you finally find yourself and begin to do something for yourself, for your family, for your society. Student life is very wonderful, there are many good memories. I remember there was a boy in our class who dropped the violin every day in the dormitory of the girls. (laughter) he wanted to attract the attention of the girls, and then the girls threw the water bottles. I still remember myself in order to attract the attention of girls, every winter vacation and summer vacation to help girls carry bags. (laughter, applause) and later I found out that the girl had a boyfriend. (laughter) I asked her why she wanted me to carry the bag, she said, in order to let her boyfriend take a break (laughter, applause). I remember when he first entered university I do not speak Mandarin, when the class first class meeting each other, I stood up and introduced himself, the results of our monitor stood up and said to me: Yu Minhong, you can not speak Japanese? (laughter) I spent a whole year holding the radio and imitating the broadcast of the broadcasting station in the woods of Peking University. But I still cant speak Putonghua well today. Mans progress may be a lifelong thing. At Peking University is the beginning, not the end, of our lives. There are a lot of things that are ver