Pretty soon it will be my 23rd anniversary of coming to Brandon, Canada from China. It was 23 years ago in the middle of June 1991 when I first arrived directly from China. It was a very emotional experience for me torn between almost agony and ecstasy: extremely sad to leave your loved ones behind not knowing when you would meet them again, and extremely happy that I had finally got away from China in those post-Tienanmen massacre years of repression and depression finding myself in Canada with a bright future with a palpitating sense of freedom and opportunity. Just a few days after I arrived, I signed up the summer course at Brandon University and one day when the course started I found myself walking towards this building with a timid heart. Just wonder if anyone have had experience of always associating pieces of music or songs with a certain location you find yourself in simply because those music or songs touched you so deeply while listening to it in that particular place in a special moment of your life even the music by itself bears no association to that place. However, years gone by all of a sudden the music would stream back bringing tears to our eyes with all those memories when one day you find yourself at that particular location again. This morning when I came to the quiet campus of Brandon University to set up my easel painting this view all of a sudden the memory came back ever more fresh and ever more sharpened and sweetened by the melodies of Chopin's first piano concerto , and the second movement of
Saint Saents' 3rd violin concerto.
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