As time to March, 2022, it represents the time in CAP program is going to an end. It is the first academic year for me in UBC, I have seen many beautiful views, eat around and play with my friends. Overall, I enjoyed my time in UBC. In my opinion, I think I made an absolute right decision to choose CAP program for the first year. The classes in the program are meaningful, it is also the group I interact with the most. Especially in ASTU, we have read many brilliant works in class. I wouldn’t have such opportunity to do so if I didn’t choose this program. There are three pieces of literature work I liked the most. They are Tangled Memories written by Marita Sturken, The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid and The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui. First off, Marita Sturken’s work impressed me at the first moment. It have used some of the significant historical events in United States between 1960s to 1980s to express her ideas on memory. Take an instance, she said sometimes there’s certain moments that people choose to forget. Like AIDS epidemic. Also for Vietnam war in this sense, civilians are the group we ignored while people built memorial for U.S soldier sacrifaced in the war. She also mentioned that family history is sometimes linked to the broad sense of history. I think The Best We Could do would be a proof of this argument. The next work I remember is Reluctant Fundamentalist (TRF). The author described about the Protagonist Changez’s experience in America and the change after 9-11 happened. It is a fabulous story with author talking about how does Changez recognize himself. American or Pakistani? He had the belonging in America, studied in the college and his work both in America. But when the custom people asked what purpose is Changez entering America for, when Changez explained the custom denied that reason. He is always a foreigner at that situation. The last piece I got a lot of memory of is TBWCD by Thi Bui. It is a graphic memoir narrates from civilian perspective in the Vietnam war. Most of the memories were discovered from author’s parents. It is an obvious example of family history linked to broad sense of history. Also, Vietnam’s history were complicated especially for post WWII era. There were French, Americans and Vietcong all these are forces tried “manipulate” people from civilian perspective. This the main reason why this book is a transgeneration trauma. At the end of Thi Bui’s book, she hoped her son would peacefully grow up and get away with such things. Those three works I mentioned above are the most memorable moments for me in ASTU class. I learned not only about the work itself, but also the method of how to do research, write essays and poetry, most importantly the method of learning and academic integrity. I hope I can bring these things to my future study in UBC and rest of my life. These are most fundamental things for further research studies. I like my first year so much, this is the class I would never forget as I study further and further.