(12/12/2015,Magic Kingdom, Orlando, Florida)
The most fascinating, interesting, inspiring parcel of real estate from my perspective is the Theme Parks and Resorts in Walt Disney World in all over the world, especially in Orlando, Florida.
What makes this Walt Disney World so interesting and impressing to me is the new development idea. It was designed and built differently from the traditional theme park which just have some sets of rides. in design and scheme from Disneyland with its own diverse set of rides. Their also had a plan to build an "Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow". It is a planned community that served a recreation living style.
The development process is also very special and interesting. Because Walt Disney disliked the other property and industry that had sprung up around Disneyland, he wanted control of a much larger area of land for the new project, even the air right of the project area. To avoid the price of land go up, they bought the land in secret.
My Name is Zihuang Li,from China.My friends like to call me Amber because it's much easier than 'Zhihuang'. I have a master degree in Landscape Architecture and now I'm specialize in Land & Property Development. If everything goes well, I hope I can graduate in May 2017.
I like watching movies, cooking and travelling in my spare time. My favorite movie is The Shawshank Redemption. The actor's line, 'Fear can hold you prisoner, Hope can set you free.' inspired me a lot. I like cooking a lot and I think I'm good at cooking Chinese food mostly. I have been most of the province in China and some place in America. There is not a place I like mostly because I like the feeling on the way most.
As my undergraduate degree in Landscape gardening and my master degree in Landscape Architecture, I'm interested in design. However, I believed in MLPD I could have a new scope as a developer to do planning and design.
As I mentioned, I would like to know more about development. This class, in my opinion, could give my some knowledge about things like cash-flow, finance, economy, investment, etc. I also would like to learn how to think and make decisions as a developer, not just as a designer.
My short term career goal is to find a internship this coming summer and could find a full-time job in a development company after graduate. In 5 years I hope I could do well in this area. My long term career goal is to be a successful developer. Now I don't have a goal to have my own development company but maybe I will in the future.
I think there is nothing truly unique about me. If must say something, I will say I practiced Ballet for 8 years in my childhood but I remember little now.
Now only one thing on my Bucket List is to try parachute jumping once. To me this is a big challenge because I have serious acrophobia.
My favorite sites is https://www.youtube.com/. I love YouTube because I could learn everything on it.
(12/12/2015 Disneyland, Florida)
