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Ouyang Nana | Trips without family are "wandering"

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Ouyang Nana | Trips without family are "wandering"
Ouyang Nana | Trips without family are "wandering"
Ouyang Nana | Trips without family are "wandering"

The first time I felt parting was at the age of 13, and it was a grand tearful party. She was going to Philadelphia to attend Curtis College, and a large group of people came to see her off. Mom and Dad, sisters and sisters, many relatives and friends, elders with good relationships, with partners who play with her from childhood to adulthood. Many years later, in the words of Ouyang Nana: "Crying is still crying, the first time I left home to study, it was a very important thing, that time it was a little sad." ”

Located in Pennsylvania, Philadelphia is one of the oldest and most historic cities in the United States. The moment the plane lands, most people think of independence halls, cheese and beef sandwiches, cheerful classical music and streets full of life. Buy a bottle of black cherry soda, bite into a little heart-shaped soft bread and hike around the city in one day. If arranged loosely, a day in the historic district and a day in the art district will be more comfortable.

Ouyang Nana | Trips without family are "wandering"

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To Ouyang Nana, the Philadelphia in her memory always seems to be winter. "Because I had summer vacation in the summer, I went home." The average amount of snowfall in Philadelphia is 49 centimeters, a very impressive number. When it snowed, neighbors from different places all came out with shovels. The snow is like a silent rallying cry, connecting people of different countries and races.

"The more sentimental thing for me is that because it snows in the old age, I still have to carry the piano to school, which is not hard, mainly slippery and slippery." This memory of "miserable wind and rain" may also be related to her leaving home at a young age. Leave the former circle of life and friends, come to a strange city, with a very different cultural background, but also pass the language barrier. "In fact, I still panic in my heart, I am young, I am more homesick, but fortunately my mother accompanies me."

Ouyang Nana | Trips without family are "wandering"

Like all accompanying parents, the mother took on the task of caring for her daughter, and in the second year of curtis, her sister came to elementary school, and the family became more lively. "When I was at home before, my mother never cooked, maybe my grandmother was very good at cooking, and my mother learned very quickly." There was a time when she made sandwiches every morning, and she couldn't eat too much in the morning, so she took them in her hand and gave them to the homeless. "Some of the tramps were funny, telling me he didn't want bread, he wanted some wine."

Ouyang Nana | Trips without family are "wandering"

At Curtis College, students remain around 160 all year round. "There's no entertainment, these 100 people are all our classmates." Ouyang Nana has majored in cello from elementary school, but also minored in piano, the school has 25 piano rooms, and Westan grand piano has 72. She has a good keyboard and, of course, most of the time she still practices cello.

"Our school is divided into new buildings and old buildings, and when practicing in the new building, there is a very favorite room, and we often put the piano there." There is a mirror in the room, playing the piano to look at, said it is not a little superstition, always feel that the effect of practicing there is better.

Ouyang Nana | Trips without family are "wandering"

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With the aim of cultivating world-renowned musicians, the college arranges more than 100 performances for students every year. Ouyang Nana plays the piano most of the day, practicing until her fingers are broken and her fingers are blackened according to the fingers of the piano board. By the time she was in her second year, she had injured her left hand. "The doctor said that the left hand muscles were angry with me and might have to rest for a while." The day after seeing the doctor, she finally had time to rest and had afternoon tea leisurely in Philadelphia for the first time.

After filming her first film "Northern Love", she lived a life of "home from all over the world", basically staying in hotels and flying around. After three or four years like this, I sometimes think of Tao Zhe's "Airport at 10:30" and think that it is my life. Never crying again because of parting, as if it had become a natural thing. Good friends are still the ones they knew when they were young, "because they have known each other for too long, they are familiar with your direction and understand what you really want to do." 」 Needless to say. ”

Ouyang Nana | Trips without family are "wandering"

Two years after leaving Curtis for Berkeley in Boston, Ouyang Nana knew what she wanted to do. She had always liked John Mayer, and was influenced by it to learn guitar and bought a signed limited edition piano. Li Ronghao once exclaimed: "I only know that you play the cello, I didn't expect the guitar to play so well!" John Mayer studied at the Berkeley School of Music, and perhaps she wants to follow the path of an idol. A classmate at Curtis later chose to go to Berkeley to study pop music, which brought her great shock.

As she herself said: "I think playing the piano is a lifelong thing, but not the only one." "When she was seventeen, she told herself that life is only once, you don't have to think about your life according to the feelings of others, and life doesn't need to be perfect." What I want is to never be satisfied with myself or limited to myself. ”

Ouyang Nana | Trips without family are "wandering"

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Boston is a very different city, much bustling and bustling, bordering the Atlantic Ocean, and the sea brings food and cold. His friend BoBo came to see him, and the two of them went to eat a lobster, and Bobo realized: "Yes, lobster is a specialty here!" The two want to see the whales, but because the wind and waves cancel the ticket and divert to the beach. Friends have some regrets, but she feels that it is all a life encounter, and the waves splash on her body, but she is happy. I remembered that when I was a child, my sisters used to come here to play, step on the sand, step on the waves, and make a fuss for a day.

Although the pace here is very different from that of work, she rarely goes out. "My house is very close to the school, basically there is half an hour in the middle of the course, I have to go home, I am like this. I didn't get involved in a lot of college activities, of course, but I prefer to stay at home and play with friends. People in our family are still willing to stay at home, maybe I work early, want to spend more time with my family, and like to stay at home. ”

Ouyang Nana | Trips without family are "wandering"

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During the first Spring Festival in Boston, the family was busy making dumplings in the kitchen. She wanted to do everything herself, cutting the meat into large pieces, putting it in a meat filling machine, squeezing out the juice with a garlic press, and making ginger puree. When she was going to make two kinds of meat fillings that day, pork corn and cabbage shrimp skins, chopping cabbage and green onions, she found a kind of "stay-at-home woman" happiness, as if she was busy for a family meal. That day she kept asking: Am I very virtuous? After wrapping three boxes of dumplings, the family went to the elderly friend's house as a guest, and the aunt prepared her favorite brine rice. Uncover the lid of the pot, a pot of marinated meat, a pot of brine cabbage, and spray fragrant.

Ouyang Nana | Trips without family are "wandering"

When she was very young, she flew to Tokyo twice a year because both aunts lived there. "I've known since I was a kid where Tokyo is fun, but I've never eaten much Japanese food, because my aunt opened a Hong Kong-style restaurant in Tokyo, and I was under the impression that the food I ate was char siu buns, yakitori, shrimp dumplings, pineapple buns..." As she wrote in "Twenty Mes": "I love garlic crayfish and rice cakes, I like crispy fried chicken, accompanied by cold and cold fruit tea and milk caps." I like food as much as I like music, food is a beautiful enjoyment of life, even if I have been on the road to weight loss, I have not stopped. ”

Ouyang Nana | Trips without family are "wandering"

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When she grew up, she found the opportunity to travel because of her work, and after visiting Tokyo several times, she obviously had the choice to eat Japanese food freely, but she preferred to stay with her aunt. "Basically I have to accompany them when I go to Tokyo, and my impression of that city is also living with my family, and I don't like to travel alone." If you can choose to go to a place to play now, you may still go to Tokyo. ”

Earlier, her travels were mostly due to music. He has participated in music summer camps in the United States and some European countries, and has been to Amsterdam and Berlin. The teacher was a cello soloist at the Berliner Philharmonic Orchestra and a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts, Wolfhang Boettcher. She made many new friends while taking classes. In her words, it was as if before she was born, the old man of the moon had already drawn a red line for her and the music.

Ouyang Nana | Trips without family are "wandering"

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For a while, she pushed off traveling with her family for the sake of performances, but whenever she traveled, she often played with a big family. The only time they "got rid of" dad, they formed a women's group to travel to Europe. "It was my first time in Europe and I was very impressed." At that time, she was still in elementary school, and she couldn't remember how long she played, only some "very tragic stories, quite rocky things". At that time, my mother booked a hotel on the Internet, the pictures looked good, the room rate was cheap, and I went to find that the difference was more than 108,000 miles. "The room was so small that it couldn't open the door, the suitcase couldn't fit in, and people jumped directly on the bed." The front desk was also not very happy, as if to think: how come so many women with children have come again.

Ouyang Nana | Trips without family are "wandering"

"Our suitcases were heavy thieves, and when we went abroad, we felt like we wanted to take anything, and we left a suitcase at the airport. I didn't look for a driver, I took a taxi every day, or I would take the subway. "At that time, there was also a case of getting on the bus to make up the ticket, they bought a set of tickets, took a night bus, the person who stamped it was wrong, but the language barrier was not clear." My sister speaks a little French, but she's German. Later, the police came, and the sister said that she looked handsome, and Ouyang Nana took a look, "It is indeed quite handsome." Finally the policeman spoke for them, "Saying that we did pay and that we had receipts." ”

Now that she goes out again, she won't bring as many things with her as she did when she was a child. "If I'm just on a business trip, I'll definitely bring a blanket and put it on my pillow, because I sometimes recognize the pillow and the bed." In the past, I also had to bring a Bluetooth stereo and a cello or guitar as appropriate. Now more and more streamlined, mobile phones have replaced MP4s, a pair of headphones are enough to isolate the hustle and bustle, whether in the downtown area or the plane, can isolate a quiet space.

Ouyang Nana | Trips without family are "wandering"

A few years ago, he recorded a program and participated in a hike in the Gongga Snow Mountain. As a hiker, she only brought a yellow coat and half a box of snacks. It was originally planned to go through three days of highland hiking and two nights of alpine camping to reach the Panpan Mountain Pass at an altitude of 4600 meters. The first day is a ten-kilometer journey, to walk to the mountain at an altitude of more than 3600 meters, the whole journey takes 7 hours, at first some people laugh and laugh, and then all of them are silent.

Having experienced climate abrupt changes and altitude sickness along the way, Ouyang Nana is one of the three girls with the most serious high reactions. "I'm not usually a very athletic person, I wanted to try it, but then I found it very difficult." After hiking for three or four days, I couldn't take a bath, and I felt dizzy and wanted to throw up. "It was very cold, the temperature was very low, but the sun was very big, and the breathing felt very stuffy." She asked the tour leader, "Why do you like to hike?" "To see the scenery along the way," said the tour leader.

Ouyang Nana | Trips without family are "wandering"

"For me, my ability is not enough to appreciate the scenery, first survive and then say." Focus on how to get this road done. "After a trip, she prefers the experience of life, how to set up a tent, cook rice with a pneumatic pot, how to get along with everyone, these I think are more valuable." There was a girl in her teammates, and later everyone learned that she had one eye that was almost invisible, and understood why she said" "How important the scenery is now, you will understand later, it will always be in your memory".

After finishing the hike and reaching the finish line, she sped back to the city and back to modern civilization. "At that time, I felt very happy, and today's life is quite relaxed, you can order whatever you want, but when you are in the mountains, a bowl of instant noodles feels precious." Later, she set a new purpose for herself, remembering Tibet, "must choose a good weather", and can see the golden light on Nanga Bawa Peak.

Ouyang Nana | Trips without family are "wandering"
Ouyang Nana | Trips without family are "wandering"
Ouyang Nana | Trips without family are "wandering"

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