A Learning Curve

From my experience so far with Chinese English, I guess this may be said “A curve to be learnt” or “A curve to be journeyed”
In the past at university etc I was taught to think of my achievements on a scale using “Peaks and Plateaus” ie : There will be times when you learn earnestly and advance forward (Peaks) and also there will be times when there is stillness, advancement seems to cease and it feels like you are stuck in mud or just treading water (Plateau)...Maybe now I view it more as “Curves and Straights”. Sometimes it feels like a straight road which is being walked (maybe for long periods of time) with seemingly no real advancement, just much the same everyday. In this situation (I think) that the mind may have a tendency to try and throw things up to try and alter your direction, maybe trying to propel you towards a curve in this road, but maybe you are on a straight road and you don't want to alter your direction and you may fight within yourself.
If you do suddenly find yourself negotiating a curve in your road, now it is seemingly pointless to try and look backwards to the past or forwards to the future....you cant see around those bends so why bother predicting what may be around a curve or reliving what you have passed before. Here it seems the wisest thing to do is live in the present moment as this will determine what will lie ahead of you around the bend, becoming your next present moment.
A very wise person that I know in Perth, describes uncomfortable difficulties that we may experience on our journeys as “Growing Pains”, so if we encounter these, YES they may feel uncomfortable for a while, but as with everything in time they will pass and you will learn and grow from the experience.I find this rather comforting.
SO why am I talking about this, because coming to China is one big learning curve and I think that in one way or another, someone can only grow from an experience such as this.