Sharon

For the first time since I left China for USA, I called Sharon, one of my best girlsfriends in college. I am not good at keeping touch with friends by phone calls, even with my best friends, my call would be totally unexpected. However, it was me who was really pleasantly surprised when she recoganized my voice immediately on the other side of the earth.

I am not any special among other girls just because I like Sharon, --she is the kind of girl any girls enjoy being friend with. Sharon started my memory of college life in a more advanced stage: she knew how to put on makeup and make her eyes look gorgeously and mysteriously blue, she used skincare products that cost 300 dollars, her clothes were mostly targeting sexiness instead of loveliness...

Despite of the fact that Sharon is from one of China's cities of fashion, and has a body shaped fabulously curvy besides all the other skills she owned mentioned above, never did she show the slightest arragoncy in front "country mice" like me. (Thank God for that, because I was so flat-chested, and always dressed in "baby doll" clothes which made me look like a fourteen year old.) She gave us lectures on how to do makeups, and then made us do hands-on practice with her own expensive makeup; she was always willing to shop with us as the fashion consultant and give us ideas of the perfect outfit for an occasion; she even introduced us to the world of "adult jokes", which I still consider the hardest task among all back that time...she took the position of our "dorm monitor" when nobody wanted the tedious job which didn't seem to have any obvious benefit to the one who does it, as she stated, she just wanted to serve others. I think that is exactly what she did.