Sunday, October 25, 2009

jurnal4

Today I really want to write a dairy about my dear friend, snow.
Snow is a kind girl with warm smile. She treats everybody’s business as her own thing and always try her best to help others. What is more, the personality I admire her most is that she is really brave and really helpful.
There are two connected dining halls in LAR and Allen, usually we can swipe our I-card in LAR but get into Allen because LAR’s dining hall seldom open. However, one day LAR’s dining hall was opened,after we swiped our cards we were not able to get into Allen’s dining hall. The chief in LAR was really atrocious and yield at us. I was a little bit confused and do not know what to do. Snow was standing there, listened to the chief carefully and than answered him convincingly:”We suppose to go to Allen’s dining hall and I can go to Allen’s dining hall from here everyday. If we can not go to Allen from here, you should stop us in the first place and should put a sign in front the door.” The chief obviously did not realize Snow would say that and was shocked. Luckily, the chief was convinced and we can finally go to the right dining hall. I know if I was there myself I would definetly have vega food that day.(LAR dining hall is for vegetarian)
Here is another thing. I got a cold recently and the limit knowledge made me do not know what drug to eat. I was so sick and called my dear friend snow. She was at graiger with a boy she likes. This a not an easy chance for her and her Mr.right but she said”I will be right there” and came into my sight within 10 minutes. She took me all kinds of medicines she could get and boiled me some hot water. Snow’s parent are both doctors and she herself also really good at it. So I was getting better right after had her drugs. And after I realized I just ruined her date, she just smiled and said”nothing is more important than you my dear friend.” Isn’t it a moving sentence?
Life is moving, I know I gonna meet lots of people in my life and lots of them gonna become just pass-by people, but I am so sure Snow would not be one of them and our friendship would exist forever.

Friday, October 16, 2009

Outline for C&C and C&E

C&C
Thesis statement:
Living on campus or off campus is always a hard decision for freshman to make, so it is necessary for us to make a comparision to see what is the best for us.
Topic sentences:
a.The difference of daily life is always the thing we concern about in the first place.
Detail: on campus: more expensive ; convenient cafeteria ; safer
off campus: cheaper ; cook by oneself -->self independence; could be more dangerous.

b.From the perspective of socializing, living on campus or living off campus makes a lot difference.
Detail: on campus: talking to people all over the world and making more friend; have more chance to
get involved with school groups.
off campus:just communicate with people from the same country or in the same house;
waste lots of time on the way home so have less time to participate activities.

c.Of course for some reason living on or off campus both are good choices.
Detail: Both good for study(library lobby or own room); both a challenge for international
students(living with native american or living as a native american)

C&E
Thesis statement:
It will lead to a very bad result if we eat irregularly.
Supporting TS1:
Short of physiological energy is an obvious kickback.
Supporting details: 1 Lack of enough nutrition for the day
2 Lead to some diseases: Tiredness/ Dizziness/ Gastritis
Supporting TS2:
Though few people ever notice, there will be a psychological effect if we do not eat regularly.
Supporting details: 1 Bad memory due to lack of vitamin
2 Change in mental behavior (stressed out)

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Jornal3

I’ve just had two horrible weeks... I call them horrible because I was really busy. But still, I had a lot of fun these two weeks.
In 2009, Oct. 3rd is a traditional festival of china called the mid-autumn festival. In that day, people in china usually eat moon cakes and appreciate the beautiful full moon. This is the first moon festival I ever have without my parents and the mid-autumn festival should be a big party with all relatives and friends. It is kind of a great news for me that the CSSA(chinese students association) going to hold a big gala to gather all the chinese students to celebrate this festival together. In order to enrich my spare time I signed up to join the audition of the gala. Without any preparation, my friend Vicky and I went to the audition at gallop. Luckily, our beautiful voices(^-^)made the judges really happy so we became part of the show.
The thing happend next was way farer than our imagination. The rehearsal took us almost 4 hours a day. We rarely had time to study and all we can do was sitting on the floor and made the full use every single moment. The mid term was around the corner and we really nervous about our grade. On the one hand, we wanted to make it a great show. On the other hand, we can not get a bad grade in our first mid term. After a long time of consideration, some of the people just quit this group to focus on their study. Vicky and I were confused what should we do. I called my mom and asked her about this whole thing. She was one hundred percent supporting me to prepare for the gala and for the mid term because she thought it was a great opportunity for me to learn about the balance the daily activities and study issues. I thought she was right, I have to challenge myself and then to know what I can do.
Things turned out to be fine. My gala show was a huge success and my mid term was good. And what makes me surprise is that I did not feel any homesick at that period because I had full fill all my time with works.
Though my parents were not around me, I should say this is the best mid-autumn festival that I ever had.