Log #5

           It has been two years in my college life, and I have deeply felt the differences between the senior high school and the college. One of them is that the bond between senior and junior in the college is not as deep as the bond in the senior high school. My senior high school is a very conservative school, which means that my school has many rules and traditions. One of them is the senior and the junior which is so called 學姊學妹制 in Chinese. When we entered the school, the first thing that the senior taught us is that we had to greet to the senior like 學姊好學長好as soon as we saw them. If we didn’t, we may be labeled as an impolite junior who didn’t respect them in the senior’s eyes. At the beginning, it was hard for us to get used to this tradition and we often felt a little shy to greet to the senior who we were not familiar with because we didn’t do it in the junior high school. So, sometimes during the break time, we rather stay at the classroom than going out. Once, the senior in the second grade even came to our class and said that the third grade senior didn’t satisfy our manner and hoped that we could improve. Of course, we did it and felt more and more comfortable to greet to the senior in the hallway. But, as the time went by, we thought that it’s necessary for us to have this tradition because it enhanced the bond between the senior and the junior. Unlike in the junior high school, we had a close relationship with the senior in the senior high school. Moreover, when we encountered some academic problem, we could turn to the senior for help instead of feeling helpless. As a result, when we became the senior, we also taught our junior this tradition and wished this tradition could pass on to future generations.