人生，是條逆流的大河

國內(nèi)有多好?誰出國誰知道。今天Meeloun小編帶你看看一眾中國學子糞發(fā)涂墻的海外真實留學生活。

快遞?不存在的

出了國才發(fā)現(xiàn)，國內(nèi)的才叫快遞;在國外，快是不存在的。

一兩周是常態(tài)，一兩個月你也不要著急，也許只是快遞小哥因為天氣太熱罷工了......

快遞慢一點就算了，重點是在國外的快遞員(送得快的我才叫小哥)，

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從來!!!

不給你打電話!!!

@陸七伍：來了英國之后才知道國內(nèi)快遞多好，來這網(wǎng)購第一件東西等了兩三星期才到貨。隔天送?加錢。周末送?加錢。指定時間送?加錢。有時候家里沒人還會直接丟進鄰居家里。

@撲倒拖延君吶：假期從美回國前一個半月就不敢下單了，下了也收不到?；孛绹叭煳蚁聠翁詫毟籼炀褪盏搅?hellip;...還有就是各種外賣軟件，真的方便得要哭出來。祖國真好啊!

如果你沒有在亞馬遜買過東西，你也許不會了解一個名詞叫做“過度包裝(over-packaging)”。

一個妹子就在twitter上對亞馬遜的包裝進行了實力吐槽：

“不就買了個雞毛撣子嗎??包裝多到我都找不到我媽了。”

來自妹子的推特

@來自天堂的莉莉安：買了個小配件，包裝大到我懷疑人生。在一堆紙皮里翻了20分鐘才找到東西是什么體驗?體驗就是我眼神差點都要找不到了......

支付?銀行?不便捷的

不用提也知道我國人民有多愛支付寶了，出門不用帶錢包，隨時隨地網(wǎng)購，手指輕輕一按就能吃土。

@Ocean：在日本網(wǎng)購是一種怎樣的體驗?我在亞馬遜買了個保溫杯，要先在網(wǎng)上下單然后再給你發(fā)確認郵件，收到郵件后再去便利店付款。所以最后我還是得出門???物流速度就更別提了，方便的話還是去實體店買吧。

@Molly：法國銀行辦銀行卡是不能自己設置密碼的，銀行設置好了，會過幾天寄到你家。當時一直提心吊膽，不記得自己門牌號寫對了沒。果然，第三天鄰居就收到了我的銀行卡密碼。

@QQQL：在法國存錢十分原始。“自動存款機”存款步驟是：插入銀行卡，自己數(shù)好錢，用信封裝好(如圖)，寫上金額，投進存款的小洞口。隔個3天你就會到賬了!!

美好的住宿生活都在電影里

出國前，我以為國外的宿舍都像電影中那般精致、寬敞、溫暖而美好。男女混住，回到寢室還可以和妹子面朝大海，喂馬劈柴。

For most people, graduation is an exciting day - the culmination of years of hard work. My graduation day... was not.

對于大多數(shù)人而言，畢業(yè)那天讓人興奮，多年的苦讀結束了。而我的畢業(yè)日卻不是。

I remember that weekend two years ago. Family and friends had flown in from across the country to watch our class walk across that stage. But like everyone else in my graduating class, I had watched the economy turn from bad to worse my senior year.

我記得兩周前的周末，家人和朋友們從各地飛來，觀看班級列隊走過畢業(yè)舞臺，但是我們畢業(yè)班的每個人都清楚，在大四那年，經(jīng)濟環(huán)境每況愈下。

We graduates had degrees, but very limited prospects. Numerous applications had not panned out and I knew that the next day, when my lease ended, I would no longer have a place to call home.

我們雖然都有學位，但是就業(yè)前途渺茫。許多應屆畢業(yè)生都沒有找到工作，隔天我的租的房子就到期了，我要無家可歸了。

The weeks ahead weren't easy. I gathered up everything I couldn't carry and put it into storage. Then, because I knew my small university town couldn't offer me any opportunities, I packed up my car and drove to Southern California to find work.

之前的幾周也并不順利。我把帶不走的東西都打包起來放在倉庫。大學所在的這座小鎮(zhèn)也不能提供我什么就業(yè)機會。我整理行裝驅(qū)車駛向南卡羅來納州找工作。

But what I thought would take a week dragged into two, and then four, and 100 job applications later, I found myself in the exact same spot as I was before. And the due date to begin paying back my student loans was creeping ever closer.

我想我可能要花上一周時間，但是2周、4周過去了，投了100份簡歷，我發(fā)現(xiàn)自己又回到了原點。而且我還要面臨逐漸臨近的學生貸款還款日。

You know that feeling when you wake up and you are just consumed with dread? Dread about something you can't control - that sense of impending failure that lingers over you as you hope that everything that happened to you thus far was just a bad dream? That feeling became a constant in my life.

你了解那種一醒來就陷入恐懼的感覺么?恐懼到讓你不能自已，要面對一次又一次的失敗，而不僅僅是一個噩夢，這種感覺在你的生命中開始持續(xù)。

Days felt like weeks, weeks like months, and those many months felt like an unending eternity of destitution. And the most frustrating part was no matter how much I tried, I just couldn't seem to make any progress.

一天好像漫長到一周，一周漫長到一個月，那些日子讓人飽受貧困，而且不知道何時才是盡頭。最讓人沮喪的是，不管我多么的努力，都沒有一點改善。

I channeled my frustration into a children's book. Beyond the River was the story of an unlikely hero featuring a little fish who simply refused to give up on his dream.

我把這些情緒寫進了一本兒童書。《大河的彼端》不是講英雄的書，而是將一條小魚在夢想之路上堅持不懈的故事。

And then one day, without any sort of writing degree or contacts in the writing world - just a lot of hard work and perseverance - I was offered a publishing contract for my first book!

一天，不是寫作科班出生的我聯(lián)系了出版社，靠著我的努力和韌勁，我最終出版了我的第一本書!

After that, things slowly began to fall into place. I was offered a second book deal. Then, a few months later, I got an interview with The Walt Disney Company and was hired shortly after.

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那以后，一切開始步入正規(guī)。我又簽約了第二本書。幾個月以后，我收到了來自迪士尼公司的面試，不久后就開始受雇工作。

The moral of this story is... don't give up. Even if things look bleak now, don't give up. Two years ago I was huddled in my car drinking cold soup right out of the can. Things change.

這個故事告訴我們，不要放棄，即使未來渺茫，也不要放棄。2年前我蜷在車子里喝著罐頭里的冷湯。事情會有轉機。

If you work hard, give it time, and don't give up, things will always get better. Often times our dreams lie in wait just a little further upstream... all we need is the courage to push beyond the river.

只要你努力工作，不要放棄，假以時日，事情就會改變。很多時候我們的夢想只需要一些逆流而上的勇氣就能到達大河的彼端。