My Favorite Holiday

Like many people in China, I like traditional chinese Spring Festival, Chinese New Year, not only because its a longest holiday but also because its specially symbolic meaning. Chinese New Year starts with the New Moon on the first day of the new year on lunar January 1st and ends on the full moon 15 days later. The 15th day of the new year is called the Lantern Festival, which is celebrated at night with lantern displays and children carrying lanterns in a parade.



On New Year's Eve, all the people sit around the desk and have a big family dinner. There are vegetables, fish, meat, fruits and drink like juice, Coke, Pepsi and some nice wine. Overall, this is a good and delicious dinner. After dinner, we always watch TV New Year progammes, which is the most interesting thing I look foward to at that day.



On the first day of the Spring Festival, most of people get up early and say "happy new year"to each other. For breakfast, people often eat dumplings which symbolize treasure After breakfast, people often make many delicious foods, and children often play cards, computer games and fireworks. On the other days, we visit friends and relatives. The most thing I like for Spring Festival is that I have enough time to visit my friends and my grandmather. I cherish the relationship with others so much that I think Spring Festival offers a best opportunity for me to share my feelings wirh others. In addition, we always have a short-distance travel with our family and some relative. For me, compare to my my parents, I like to stay home and enjoy my sleeping.

In conclusion, the Spring Festival is my favorite holiday. I look faword to it every year; however, this year I will stay in CA, hope every one has a good time at traditional Chinese festival.

The strangest food

When I was a child, I am a very picky eater. I didn't like to eat not only meat like pork, beef, mutton, but also some vegetables such onion, garlic, parsley. My eating habit was changed when I growed up, and I accepted some of food I didn't like before unconsciously. Some experiences I tried new food were never forgot. I can still remember how afraid I was when I first tried to eat shrimp, I could even not dare to pull the shells of shrimp. When my mom put the shrimp which was pulled the shells by her into my mouth, I felt the shrimp was moving in my mouth, the feeling was strange. However, now, shrimp is my favorite food.

When talk about the strangest food, for me, is definite the scallop. The first time I ate it is in my cousin's restaurant, where only services seafood. Actually, I don't like seafood but my families love it. When my father said "we want the medium scallop", I just keep silent because I thought I would not eat it, but in order not to let my parents down, I tried a litter mouth of it, guess what? I threw it up immediately and felt very uncomfortable. From that moment, I decided it was my first and last time to taste scallop. Maybe not because the scallop per se made me disgusting but because it was not well down, anyway, I will no longer try it!

A Scary Experience I had

When I am thinking about this question, the first scary thing come into my mind is the earthquake happened on May 12th, last year in Wen Chuan , China. It was a terrible memory in my heart. Because the earthquake intensity is 7.8 magnitude, very strong, and Wen Chuan is next to our city,even our city have a strong aftershock. That afternoon, my mam and I was in my home, which is in 11th floor of the 16-floor high building. At that moment, we didn't know what happened out side, and we wanted to run away from home but the building shaked so badly that we couldn't even move a step. We didn't know what we should do except feeling very afraid. It stopped after 5 minutes, when we went out, there was a lot of people gathered in a huge square. Every one looked very fear and frightened. Finally, we knew that big sad news is Wen Chuan had a strong earthquake.
The earthquake lasted for several days ,and we spent our about one week to live in our cars at night. These days we heard the sad news every minute because a lot of houses destroyed and people were killed in Wen Chuan. Compare the people living in Wen Chuan, we were the lucky ones. In my view, that was real a scary experience, bless people.

My Dream Job

When I was young, I hoped I would be a teacher one day, but after studied for several years, I found out that teacher needs infinite patience and wide knowledge. These are just what I lack, so I gave up my teacher dream. I came here for my master's degree, in the future, I will choose business or accounting to study. Actually, I don't like business so much, but I want to become a professional accountant one day. In my view, be a accoutant means you have a skill in the future and you don't need to worry about you will behind the times one day and the most important reason is I am interested in math.

However, for the dream job, I want a comfortable, intereting, excited, easy job which is "slide inspectors". What you should do for this job is to play all over the world. Your duty is play the amusement park of the whole world in order to test every splashing water slide and find out if the splashing water slide is a high speed, comfort, safety and quality. In my view, it is a very excited and wonderful job because I can travel and play the world. From the internet, I knew that the 29-year-old man is the slide inspector in the First Choice Company. He has already traveled at least 27,000 miles in the world including Europe, Africa, South America. This year, he will go to Greece, Turkey, Florida, Jamaica and Spain.

I think it's a perfect job and I dream I can play around the world, play global paradise one day...AHA..

The Lady and The Tiger

For the princess, she don’t want the solder she loves die, so she gave somebody a piece of paper before he will choose, in which wrote “look at my eye, if I look at which door for a long time, it will be lion.” The choose date coming, a lot of people around the place, waiting for the sold choose. To princess surprise, when she look at the right door for a long time, but the solder walked straight to the life door.

The solder never mind to die when he think he will choose the door which the lion behind. However, he mind to choose the door which the most beautiful lady behind, because if he chooses this door, he will marry with this lady not the princess. He will make a decision that to choose the lion-door.

The solder died, everyone may think. However, when he opened the door, guess what? In front of his is not the lion, it is his best love-princess. It’s the biggest gift the king gave him, and king and princess all waiting for the answer, if the solder chooses the lady-door, actually, it is a lion. But if he chooses the lion-door, it will be princess…

Impression

This is my first time to come to America, and I came here for only 11 days, everything is new for me now. After spent thirteen hours in plane, I landed in LA, at that moment, I felt very lonely. But luckily, my temporary homestay father and mother are very nice person, and they look after me very well, it makes me feel that I am in my home. However, I must move out their home to apartment or rent a house this Sunday because there is no space for me in a long time. Anyway, I am very happy these days.

When I was in China, we went to eat western food sometimes, for that time, I thought hamburger, sandwich are delicious, but now, maybe these are some different in cook, I don't like eat hamburger especailly cheese, but I like spaghetti very much and other food such as fried-fish, and fried-shrimp. You know, there are all kinds of delicious foods in China, sometimes, I want to eat chinese food very much.

The environment here is suitable for people to live except a little dry, fresh air, green grass, beautiful beach, this is somewhat the same as my county, so I love it.

For the transposition, I thinke it is very inconvenient for people without car, including me. In contrast, China has very convenient traffic and I don't need my parents pick up me everyday, and I can go anywhere by bus, train, plane without waiting long time. Now, after I go to general study, I must conside to buy a car.

Leave from my family, I must learn independent and take care of myself, it will be the most important experience in my life.

Who am I

Hi everyone, my name is Sherry, came from China, and my chinese name is Zhang Dan. I got this Sherry name from my homestay father, he is a very nice person and I consider him as my grandfather.

When I was in my university in China, I never thought to come to America, I waned to stay with my parents and my friends. However, when I got my bachelor degree, I changed my mind because one of my roommates was going to France to continue her master's degree and one of my roommates was going to Australia. Also, my parents wanted me to go to study in America because America has the best education in the world. After long deliberation, I decided to come here. After ALP's study, I will apply accounting in MBA program, or accounting master.

When I was young, I like to read some famous book in the world, and play ping-pong game and badminton, but now, in my spare time, I like to go shopping, watching entertainment in TV and read some news in internet. Most important, I like to travel but never has chance to travel abroad, this is my frist time to go abroad. I'm willing to travel through America in one year and have a trip to Australia in next 3 years.

I want to make friends here as I was in my coutry, I have a lot of friends in China and we often get together and do some interesting things such as teaching the poor children, helping olders, and helping each other. As a ALP student, I think we should help each other and improve our English in order to go to general study earlier.