My name is Dongmao Li. I’m from China. I came to Macomb last year in the summer. My American friends like to call me Red, my English name, my professors also would like to call me that because my Chinese name is too difficult to pronounce, also they said my red hair make them would like to call me that.

I am a transfer student, and I was a basketball player in my university in China about 5 years ago. After I hurt my knee, I quit my career. Although I cannot play basketball as well as before, playing and watching basketball are still my favorite things to do. I like watching America basketball games like NBA or NCAA, Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan are my favorite players.

As for my free time, I usually stay at home and player video games with my friends, or go to the gym for working out. That makes me feel like my free time always gone so soon.

The United States is the only one country that I have traveled except my home country. I like U.S. very much especially Macomb, because I like the quiet place but I don’t like the big city like Beijing in China. The big cities in China are very crowded and noisy., they make me feel much uncomfortable. Also the environment here in America is much better than in China because China has too much factories, I can find lots of stuffs are made in China here in the US. All in all, I feel very good in America so far.

My goal in the WIU is to graduate from here, get a good GPA. As for my long-term goals, I’ll back to China and try to find a good job. I don’t have some good dreams like to be the great people or do some great things, my dream in the future is just try to be rich and help the poor people out of trouble. That’s why I choose the finance to be my major, I think learning Finance is a good way to know how to manage money. That will be the precondition of how to be a rich man I guess.