24 year old Ji'nan girl has traveled to 37 countries and earned her own travel expenses.
source: life daily
in Kenya, Sun Yifan made biscuits for the children.
in Africa, Sun Yifan posed for a picture with the children of the orphanage. (the picture was provided by the interviewees) on the evening of 6, a report hall in Tin Ka Ping's Academy of Shandong Normal University was crowded, and the 24 year old Ji'nan girl Sun Yifan shared his legendary experience with hundreds of college students from the stage: she started her own foreign travel from 17 to the National University of Singapore with a full scholarship. After four years of study, he used his own money to visit 37 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and North America. In her view, young people's dream should not just stay in the stage of thinking, but dare to take the first step boldly.
/ > reporter Wang Fuxiao Intern Zang Xiaoxia she is a woman in an investment bank who has an uneasy heart, Sun Yifan, a Ji'nan girl who is now in an investment bank, and is now in the UK investment bank. At the age of 15, she began to study in Shandong experimental high school. In the second year, she received a full scholarship and was able to study abroad at National University of Singapore and study applied mathematics. Since then, she has planned to travel abroad and travel around the world.
"all the money I travel is made by myself." Sun Yifan confidently said that although he had a scholarship from the government, he could only pay tuition fees, rent and daily life. To this end, she had done four internships in Ji'nan, Xiamen, Hubei and Singapore during her college holidays. She had sold travel magazines and served a plate in a five star hotel. In addition, she had a piano tutor, a mathematician and other part-time jobs, which had also saved her a lot of travel expenses.
"I don't like famous brands, nor do I pursue luxury goods, which saves a lot of money." Sun Yifan said that she likes to daydream, and has been longing to go out of school to explore different customs and cultures in different parts of the world.
four years of college, she had been to Kenya for a month of volunteer work, snorkeling with the largest fish, whale shark in Philippines, "feeling particularly cool"; in the Sahara desert, in a sleeping bag, to see the bright stars of the sky, with the small fox, in the nunnery in Burma and the monastery in Thailand. 10 days of meditation and meditation. After graduating from university in 2011, Sun Yifan, a minor in economic and technological entrepreneurship management, went to work in an investment bank in the United Kingdom.
80% perfect 20% imperfections in life and even a robber "I like Cheer Chen's" 80% perfect days ", which is like my life, full of luck." Sun Yifan recalled the days he spent during his travels over the years, saying happily.
in her view, life is full of surprises. "Once I was on the way, I met a stranger and handed me a ticket to Lang Lang in the golden hall, and said, 'I just have an extra ticket. Do you want to see? See you.' This kind of surprise happens. " "Of course, and what I said is 20% imperfections, which was an experience in Manila, Philippines." In August of 2011, at 7 o'clock in the evening of the second day in Manila, sun Yifan took the bus back to Youthotel alone. Since it is not clear where the Youthotel should get off, consult the people nearby. "My house is near there, or else I'll take you there." A young man in the same car said to Yifan.
a good Yifan believed him and followed the young people. After more than 20 minutes, I still didn't get to the destination. At the same time, the young man asked her, "is it not afraid of a man to travel?" "I have gone through many countries, and there is no accident." Sun Yifan was full of courage to answer.
two men in black clothes suddenly stopped in front of her on a motorbike, and together with the "lead" young man, grabbed the bags of important items such as passports, and so on. In the process of scramble, the robbers wounded Yifan, her head and nose were bleeding, and robbed the most valuable camera on her body. In retrospect, Yifan said, at that time, I was really afraid. If I encountered that situation again, I would first save my life. The diving activity, which was planned for a few days, was also delayed by the accident.
however, a similar experience did not stop her restless heart. After his work, Sun Yifan has a new goal: he is planning an interval of his own, including riding a motorcycle through Africa, taking a ride on the Silk Road and the Middle East, and shooting a documentary in South America. She wants to explore the world as much as possible and tap her potential.
the third world countries are particularly interested in thinking that travel is also a way to give each time a self introduction to Sun Yifan, "I am a young woman, love music and art, and enjoy public welfare." Among the nearly 40 countries she has visited, the most unforgettable is poverty and backwardness in the three world countries such as Kenya and Zimbabwe. When she traveled in Kenya, Sun Yifan said she had been volunteering for two weeks in the orphanage of Nairobi, capital of the capital, and two weeks, teaching in the school of Marseilles tribe without water and electricity, and the scars of bedbug bites on the shabby bed. At the age of 24, she raised more than 2000 pounds in a cafe in Singapore to build schools for children in Zimbabwe.
at the orphanage in Kenya, sun Yifan gave all the cookies, such as the biscuit that he had taken with him, to the little friend inside. "The eyes of the children after the biscuit made me unforgettable. You really can't imagine the poverty of these countries." In her eyes, travel is also a kind of giving, doing everything you can to help those who should help.
in addition to planning those activities, she also thought that the next goal was to go to Harvard for a master's degree in business administration or international relations. "To travel, to do charity, I might even choose to resign." In his speech that night, Sun Yifan has always expressed the idea that everyone is more or less "daydreaming", and most people feel too troublesome or unrealistic to stop thinking about it. She wants to tell you that any "daydream" is possible in her own experience.