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离开前,请吃空冰箱 Please empty your fridge before  leave

17/4/2014

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Please empty your fridge before  leave

---- For people coming from overseas 




Cooking has never been an important thing for MIaosheng Li until 2009,when she was "abandoned" in London, UK. A place famous for Big Ben, Harry Potter, The Queen, or... boring food....




And ....
Occasionally the sense of loneliness for people coming from overseas.


Just like all foreigners, she has to face all the difficulties on her own. However her enthusiasm for food became a good way for her to deal with the sense of loneliness.  So she promised to herself:





Cannot be careless for food; Cannot waste food and make as big a variety as she can. 

At the beginning, cooking is only because of her cravings.  Can you imagine a Chinese girl living in a foreign country, how difficult it could be,  if there is no home cooked dish in her life? 

So she started to have Beef noodles, lanzhou Pork, home made jelly on her dining table. Gradually, she realized these home cooked dishes can help to relieve her negative feelings.Then gradually it developed into a habits:

Any food she wants  must be cooked by herself. 















Food and the smell of cooking became a significant part in her life in a foreign country. "Have a good meal " became a simple and easy way that she cares for herself. 





After this....

Cooking gradually became a essential  part of her life. The smell of the food from her kitchen arouse her thoughts about the meaning of home.  



She said: when I set the stove to cook it is like the gravity which can make me feel like coming back down to earth. This is the most important meaning of a home for me. In other words, this is the power that can help and support me overcome the countless feelings of sadness, frustration and all the other bad feelings I have experienced or am experiencing  , and enable me to came back to be myself. 

This is  a normal story about an ordinary girl with her five kitchens. Whenever she is going to leave home, she will try all her best to finish the food in her fridge in a prefect way. As food for her means energy, memories, and a greeting for her new day. 













Maybe you are also a lonely person drifting in somewhere of the world. Maybe you also have many gloomy mood which cannot talk with others about. 

This book can make you realise how the food can help you overcome your difficulties. 

If you like cooking, then no matter where you are,

Cooking is everything. 














---以上内容引自新浪微博@李妙生
---翻译:WelcomeHome多语言心理辅助中心
---Cited from Sina Weibo @miaoshengli
---Translated by WelcomeHome Multi Language Support
感觉孤单、痛苦、难过、想家......也许这些是每个在异国他乡的人都不得不经历的。我相信每个人都有自己的方式去应对和解决,正如这本书的作者李妙生一般,下厨成为她找回自己的良方。饱含熟悉的味道和香气的厨房让她又有了回家的感觉。于是,生活的一切都变得美好而不同。

如果你还没有找到自己的良方去应对生活在异国他乡的种种囧态,那就赶快加入我们,让我们成为你的英国之家,你的地心引力。让我们帮助你在熟悉的语言、文化和环境中尽快找回真我,找回家的感觉。
欢迎回家 :)
Feeling lonely, depressed, frustrated, homesick.... Maybe these are the bad things that everyone from overseas will have to experience.  I believe people could have their own way to deal with them. For example, the author Miaosheng Li.  Cooking is her special way to overcome all the difficulties. Her kitchen which is full of familiar smells like home can arouse her feeling that make her feel safe and comfortable, where she can relieve her negative feelings. Then everything in her world became better. 

If you have not found your way to deal with the bad feelings whilst living a foreign country yet, then simply join us. Let us be your second home in the UK, be your gravity, and  help you to feel grounded, find your true self and the homely feeling in a familiar environment, languages and culture background.
Welcome Home:)
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The introduction  of WelcomeHome

16/4/2014

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About me

Hello everyone,I am the founder of WelcomeHome Multi-language Support. My name is Ziwei Wang and I come from Beijing China. I graduated from the University of Edinburgh last year with an MSc degree in Counselling Studies. As my great passion is psychology, I have always dreamt to have a counselling centre to help other people. So I am really happy to say that today I get closer to my dream. 

Aims and Origins

 
The reasons that I have created WelcomeHome are not only to fulfil my dream, but also from my experiences and talking with friends; I realise that as a foreigner in the UK our life, work or studies here are actually really tough and challenging. And I think we have more chance to encounter difficulties, be frustrated, to face pressures and challenges. In other words; we are more likely to be unhappy. However I found there is no specific organisation or group to help us. So, I created WelcomeHome, and I hope it can help many foreign people in the UK to deal with their mental health issues, negative emotions, or any relevant issues. 

And I hope we can provide you with a place where we can cross all the cultural and language barriers, a homely environment which can make you feel warm and supported. Whenever you feel depressed, sad, homesick…it can always be a place for you to go, where you can find a person ready to listen and friends to share problems with. This is the most important thing I think. 
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Our services & Your gain

We have professional counsellors who come from different countries to provide mother tongue counselling services. So you can be truly understood. They will help you find your problems and lead you through them faster and better. Maybe you will not pay much attention to the small problems but a little unhappiness may result in irreparable situation. Only if you pass the negative feelings can you enjoy the new and beautiful world which you need to fight for rather than wait for. You will also be able to enjoy independence and freedom. 

Apart from counselling services, we will also invite experienced people to join our workshops to share their knowledge. I believe you will learn from it. At last, when you join us, you will be surrounded by family members who are just like you and you can support and be supported by each other.

Welcome home 

Finally, I have a long term aim which is I hope WelcomeHome can be an organisation which can represent the foreigners living in the UK, to fight for their rights and obligations. And help our group of people to gain more attention and recognition.

So If you are from overseas and living in the UK then join us, you are very welcome to be a member of our family. Let us work together to overcome all your difficulties and negative feelings and have a positive outlook and enjoy your work, study and life in the UK. 

Remember WelcomeHome. Thanks!
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关于我:

 大家好, 我是Welcomehome Multi-language Support的创始人, 我叫王子薇,来自中国北京。 我是去年年底从爱丁堡大学毕业并取得了counselling studies的硕士学位。由于我一直对心理学有着非常浓厚的兴趣,所以一直以来都在学习相关的专业,并在相关的领域工作。 我一直以来的梦想就是能够建立自己的心理咨询中心来帮助更多的人。今天我很高兴,我又朝着自己的梦想迈进了一步。

由来与使命

当然我建立Welcomehome除了要圆自己多年以来的梦想之外,最主要的原因还是因为这段时间我自己的一些经历,和通过与一些朋友的讨论,我觉得作为一个在英国的外国人, 其实我们的生活,工作和学习是非常的来之不易的,是非常的艰难的。我们实际上有更容易遇到一些困难,一些挫折,会需要承受更多的压力和挑战。也就是说,我们更容易有一些不开心的时候。但是我没有找到一个专门的组织和机构来专门帮助我们这个群体。所以我建立Welcomehome,我希望我们这个组织能够专门帮助在英国的外国人,来处理大家所有的心理健康的问题,或者不开心的问题,或者你遇到的任何的相关的问题。

我希望WelcomeHome能给大家提供一个没有任何语言和文化障碍的一个空间,一个像家一样的环境,一个让你们觉得很温暖,和被支持的感觉。就是当你很难过,很沮丧,很想家的时候,可以让你有个地方可以去,有人可以说,有朋友可以分享。这是我觉得最重要的一点。

我们的支持&你的收获

 我们会提供专业的咨询师,我们的咨询师是来自世界各地。我们会为你提供母语咨询,做到真正地可以理解你,可以帮助你,并指引你看到自己的问题和困扰。也许你觉得这些没有什么,但是每天的闷闷不乐往往会导致一些很严重的后果。所以我们能帮助你看到这些问题,并能够尽快地,更好地走出这种不良适应,走出这种痛苦挣扎的过程。让你更早地进入到这种全新的世界,然后感受到这种新的生活。也许那个时候你就会觉得生活可以很美好,新的世界其实是你自己去争取的。然后你也会变得很享受,很享受这种自由和独立。

当然,除了咨询之外,我们还会请来一些有经验的嘉宾和老师给我们分享他们自己的经验。我觉得大家一定能从中学到你想要的东西。当然,当你加入到我们这个大家庭里的时候,我们的其他的家庭成员都会有和你相同和类似的经历,其实这本身就是一种互相扶持和帮助的过程,会让你觉得被包容,会让你觉得很舒服。


欢迎“回家”

 最后,我还有一个长远的目标我就是希望WelcomeHome可以成为一个真正能站在这种在英国生活的外国人的立场,为我们去争取一些权力和利益。让我们这个群体能够受到更多的关注,更多的重视。

所以,如果你也是一个在英国的外国人,我们非常欢迎你能加入到我们这个大家庭。让我们来一起努力,帮你走出你的困难,你的不开心。让你每天都能有一个好心情。然后能够真正的enjoy,真正的能享受你在英国每一天的工作、学习和生活。


记得,WelcomeHome. 欢迎回家。谢谢!

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After all tomorrow is another day !

6/4/2014

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Are you feeling unhappy? 

Find yourself a comfortable place, maybe with a cup of hot chocolate and some warm sunshine. 


Let all the sadness gone with the tears. 


After all tomorrow is another day !
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