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![]() 748x1334px Pink Black White Motivation Words Quote Don't Quit Keep Going Never Give Up, never quit HD phone wallpaper.You feel resilience chrisette michele black belt you fail Never Quit Never be Alone One Word Quitting Quotes Never Give Up Quotes For exo quotes Quotes White background quotes William Black Wishes IPad 3, iPad 4, iPad Air, iPad iPad, iPad Mini 2, iPad Mini 3, iPad Mini 4, 9.7" iPad Pro: 2048x1536, 1536x2048 IPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone 13 Pro Max, iPhone 14 Plus: 1284x2778 ![]() IPhone Xs Max, iPhone 11 Pro Max: 1242x2688 IPhone X, iPhone Xs, iPhone 11 Pro: 1125x2436 IPhone 6 plus, iPhone 6s plus, iPhone 7 plus, iPhone 8 plus: 1242x2208 IPhone 6, iPhone 6s, iPhone 7, iPhone 8: 750x1334 IPhone 5, iPhone 5s, iPhone 5c, iPhone SE: 640x1136 IPhone: iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS: 320x480 Build a good character for yourself and then you will do well’.MacBook Pro 13.3" Retina, MacBook Air 13" Retina, MacBook Air 13.3"(2020, M1): 2560x1600 Dual monitor: “My dad told me, ‘You have to be a good human being first before you do anything else. If I can’t, I will still do the work I believe in and make positive changes.” Elizabeth McGahan (PhD’79) at UNB Saint John who told her to “be the change you want to see.” “If I can help to influence people, that would be great. Song has always remembered advice given to her by Dr. We are so lucky, almost anywhere in Saint John, New Brunswick, you are within a five-minute drive of reaching the water - lakes, rivers and the ocean. I love nature to begin with, especially the trees and water. She also volunteered in numerous capacities and, over time, she came to love Saint John and New Brunswick. Song worked at UNB Saint John’s International Recruitment Centre as a student assistant, a job that not only helped her understand Saint John, but allowed her to help other students struggling with the same sense of bewilderment and culture shock she experienced. So that’s where I learned that participation in social activities is so important.” I became hugely involved in everything going on at UNB. “If not for UNB, it would have been hard for me to adapt. Song says her salvation from the start was UNB and the way it opened doors for her to enter this strange new world. I put up a little piece of paper on my wall that said, ‘A winner never quits and a quitter never wins.’ I don’t know where I copied that from but I had it on my wall for years. I had to stay and get through this and I will get English. “My parents said, ‘Just come back.’ I said no. “I felt I had to get through this,” she says. She rose above it through determination and her eagerness to learn and become part of UNB and the wider community. ![]() ![]() Song has never forgotten those early days in Saint John and the profound effects of culture shock. Song is also the managing director at PRUDE Inc., Pride of Race, Unity and Dignity through Education, which has been promoting diversity and cultural inclusiveness in the Saint John region since 1981. She is now a licensed realtor attracting international buyers to the city and she is a force for diversity and inclusion. She graduated from UNB’s Saint John campus in 2008 with bachelor’s degrees in arts and education, and a certificate in teaching English as a second language. Her plan was to study English, do a few years of university, then perhaps return to China and find a job in Beijing.īut Song stayed. ![]() Like many other international students who come to UNB, Song did not think she would stay in Saint John. I thought, ‘How could that be possible’?” No one was out on the street on a Sunday. What have I gotten myself into?’ I had a pretty good life, a good family in China, and now I was in a place where I didn’t know anyone and everything was so bare and plain. Then we drove into town and someone said ‘This is the city centre’ and I thought, ‘Wow. “So, when we landed, I felt we were landing on trees or just plain snow. “The Saint John airport was so tiny - even smaller than a bus station in my hometown,” she says. She remembers with a laugh, that when the airplane was descending over the dark forests and icy landscape surrounding the port city, she thought they were about to land in a snowy wilderness. When Li Song (C-TEL’07, BA’08, BEd’08) arrived at the UNB Saint John campus 20 years ago, she could not imagine that not only would it change her, but that she would become a changemaker in the community.īorn and raised in Zhangzhou in southeastern China, Song was just 20 years old when she arrived in Saint John on a cold day in January 2001, with little money, hardly any English and no idea of the customs and culture in this place called New Brunswick. ![]()
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