Before I came to the U.S., I already knew something about the American food because we can see KFC, McDonald's everywhere. Since every kind of food has the similar features, the differences between american food and chinese food are so obvious that can not be ignored.
The top three differences are as followings: the way we cook, the main food, and the sauce. In china we cook the vegetables, but americans always eat the vegetables directly as vegetables salad. In addition, the main foods for us are rice and noodles, with some dishes for every meal. The main foods for americans are hamburgers, salad and pizza. However, for me, i consider these kinds of food as snacks. Furthermore, in amercia we can buy all kinds of sauce already down when we cook our daily food. Even though we have a lot of sauce also, we lacks the big bottle of ketchup, barbecue sauce, and so on.
When i was in china, i liked the burger in KFC and McDonald's, but after i came here i found the burger is different from that of in china. I am nor sure that it is the food reason i got many weights, anyway, i already took some actions such as lowering intake dose of the fast food, eating little fried food and candies. Hope i can be recognized when i come back!
Feb 26, 2010
Feb 19, 2010
Optimistic Attitude
There are a lots of famous quotes encourage people to be optimistic whenever we have bad emotions such as sad, disappointed, frustrated, and so on. In my view, most of people want to keep an optimistic attitude because we can caught the opportunity if have an optimistic attitude. As the quote said "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill", it is obvious that optimistic attitude is beneficial for us.
I started to write down the beautiful sentences from all kinds of readings which can optimistically encourage me when I was in middle school. At that time, when the bad things made me unconfident, I liked to read those sentences agian and agian. However, I stopped to repeat this kind of behavior after I graduated from the univertity. Still, I think that I aready thoroughly understood and took in the positive side of everything, even the worst thing happen.
I consider myself as an optimist because I believe that after rain comes the sunshine. Our life is short, we should grasp every possible opportunity not see the impossible difficulty in every opportunity. Also, there is another sentence I love most which is "I believe I can fly, I can touch the sky"
I started to write down the beautiful sentences from all kinds of readings which can optimistically encourage me when I was in middle school. At that time, when the bad things made me unconfident, I liked to read those sentences agian and agian. However, I stopped to repeat this kind of behavior after I graduated from the univertity. Still, I think that I aready thoroughly understood and took in the positive side of everything, even the worst thing happen.
I consider myself as an optimist because I believe that after rain comes the sunshine. Our life is short, we should grasp every possible opportunity not see the impossible difficulty in every opportunity. Also, there is another sentence I love most which is "I believe I can fly, I can touch the sky"
Feb 12, 2010
My Friend and Me
When people talk about the friends, most of them believe that only if a group of people have major features in common such as the similar perspectives, hobbies, and valuable view, they can become the friends with others. Nevertheless, it is the distinct differences between my best friend Yan and I that make us the best friends. The primary diffenrences between us is in the three areas: communciation ways, hobbies, food.
Communciaton ways perhaps the first difference between us. Yan is adep at communciating with others. Whatever people she meets, she knows or does not know, she can keep talking with them, and make the atmosphere warmly. In contrast, I only have a lots to talk with people who I know, but for the people I first meet, I always in a passive talking ways and even feel shame. Therefore, I always want she to company with me to go all kinds of parties.
A second difference is some hobbies. She really like dancing, whenever she heard music, she can immediately dance without mind people's view. In addition, she likes reading poem, even she always creats her own style poem. Unlike her, I like lisening music, singing songs, and surfering in internet. Therefore, when we have spare time, I listened music while she was dancing. Also I am the first reader of her poem and invite her to watch moives in internet.
Finally, perhaps the most striking difference between us is food. She does not eat pork, beef, checken, and many other meat. However, I eat what she does not like. What strange is that we all like fish so much, and we always go to restaurant together and have much fun in eating!
In conclusion, altough we hava a lots personalities the same as each other, we still have some differences such as communication, hobbies, and food. However, our solid relationship may due to both the similiarities and differences. As the Chinese New Year is coming, I miss her and others so much!!!
Communciaton ways perhaps the first difference between us. Yan is adep at communciating with others. Whatever people she meets, she knows or does not know, she can keep talking with them, and make the atmosphere warmly. In contrast, I only have a lots to talk with people who I know, but for the people I first meet, I always in a passive talking ways and even feel shame. Therefore, I always want she to company with me to go all kinds of parties.
A second difference is some hobbies. She really like dancing, whenever she heard music, she can immediately dance without mind people's view. In addition, she likes reading poem, even she always creats her own style poem. Unlike her, I like lisening music, singing songs, and surfering in internet. Therefore, when we have spare time, I listened music while she was dancing. Also I am the first reader of her poem and invite her to watch moives in internet.
Finally, perhaps the most striking difference between us is food. She does not eat pork, beef, checken, and many other meat. However, I eat what she does not like. What strange is that we all like fish so much, and we always go to restaurant together and have much fun in eating!
In conclusion, altough we hava a lots personalities the same as each other, we still have some differences such as communication, hobbies, and food. However, our solid relationship may due to both the similiarities and differences. As the Chinese New Year is coming, I miss her and others so much!!!
Feb 5, 2010
If I Can Talk to the Animals
I believe that animals have their own language and that a little few people even can understand the language of animals. People always try to talk with animals, for example, people give the cute name to their pets, ask them to eat, to parking, and walk their pets. Another obvious example is the performing animal, no matter what language we used to communicate with them, gesture language or oral language, we do realize that we can talk to animals.
I like small animals such as cats, poppes, birds, and so on. However, I am very scared of the big animals like big dogs. If I can talk to the animals, I would like to ask them a series of questions as following: Do you like to be along with humans beings? What do you always talk with your friends? What does your world like, like humans' or not?
In addition, because I am scared of big animals, if I can talk to the animals, I would like to let them know that I am a kind-hearted people and will never hurt them. If they could understand me, I think we could be the friends and I will not afraid of them any more.
I like small animals such as cats, poppes, birds, and so on. However, I am very scared of the big animals like big dogs. If I can talk to the animals, I would like to ask them a series of questions as following: Do you like to be along with humans beings? What do you always talk with your friends? What does your world like, like humans' or not?
In addition, because I am scared of big animals, if I can talk to the animals, I would like to let them know that I am a kind-hearted people and will never hurt them. If they could understand me, I think we could be the friends and I will not afraid of them any more.
My Favorite Song
One of my hobby is listen to music if i have spare time whenever i feel sad or happy. I love chinese songs as the same as english songs, which i must listen now for practicing my listening skills in the United State. My favorite english song must be "My Heart Will Go On", which is the theme song of the famous classical movie Titanic.
The first time i heard this song is when i was in my first year of high school. At that time, i just thought it was beautiful and a little bit easy for me to following the meaning. It was not become the most important song to me until one of my classmate sang it in our celebration of first semester. Her performance was so wonderful that we were all attracted by not only her voice but also the song. After her finished, all the students followed her involuntarily. That night, we repeated the song for many times. Finally this song became the main song of our class.
Whenever I heard this song, it reminds me of my happy life in high school and many of my classmates at that time. Even though we are become adults now, we always sing this song when we meet again. How wonderful this song is!
The first time i heard this song is when i was in my first year of high school. At that time, i just thought it was beautiful and a little bit easy for me to following the meaning. It was not become the most important song to me until one of my classmate sang it in our celebration of first semester. Her performance was so wonderful that we were all attracted by not only her voice but also the song. After her finished, all the students followed her involuntarily. That night, we repeated the song for many times. Finally this song became the main song of our class.
Whenever I heard this song, it reminds me of my happy life in high school and many of my classmates at that time. Even though we are become adults now, we always sing this song when we meet again. How wonderful this song is!
Feb 2, 2010
Weather
The weather in South California is different from that in my hometown because here there are only summer and fall season, but in my hometown the weather is normal which comprise spring, summer, fall, and winter. For me, I like the pleasant weather, fall and spring, in which seasons the weather is neither cold nor hot.
Currently, the season in my hometow is winter, and sometimes there is heavy snow. I did not see any snow here, so I am a little bit miss the snow in my country. Although the weather in winter is cold, our heater system is good that we have heater everywhere, our home, school, restaurant, shopping mall...However, I prefer the spring here because i do not need to wear the big warm clothing even when I go out.
The reason I like fall is that sometimes i look farword to the continuous fall rain. In that kind of weather, i like to sleep all day because the sky is drak, the outside is a little cold. I can close door, open the heater, turn off my lights, sleep in the bed, and enjoy the movie. So wonderful time for me to relax myself.
Currently, the season in my hometow is winter, and sometimes there is heavy snow. I did not see any snow here, so I am a little bit miss the snow in my country. Although the weather in winter is cold, our heater system is good that we have heater everywhere, our home, school, restaurant, shopping mall...However, I prefer the spring here because i do not need to wear the big warm clothing even when I go out.
The reason I like fall is that sometimes i look farword to the continuous fall rain. In that kind of weather, i like to sleep all day because the sky is drak, the outside is a little cold. I can close door, open the heater, turn off my lights, sleep in the bed, and enjoy the movie. So wonderful time for me to relax myself.
Jan 29, 2010
Old Fear
I believe most of the people do not want to being alone, me either, especially when we departure from our family to a new unknow environment. Even I can consider the fear of being alone as a very challenge, because for me I like the warm and friendly atmosphere when I get together with my family and friends. I felt rather lonely in this strange town at first I came to California, there is nothing familiar to me, totally different language, distinct people, very western food, inconveinent transportation, and so forth. However, I am getting used to being alone with time because I already adapted to the enviroment and I found my ways to overcome this pesky fear.
The most substantial thing for me is that I tried to make new friends who have something in common with me. In our spare time, we talk some fuuny thing or go out side to familiar with the surroundings, inhale fresh air. In addition, I tried to keep a positive attitude toward the fear of being alone. Whenever I live alone, I think it is a perfect time for me to do my own things such as watching movie, listening music, cleaning room and so on. One of my friend told me you must prepare to tolerate the terrible alone time and overcome it as soon as possible. Now six months passed away, and I already familiar with this environment. Being alone is nothing to me now, I can be alone anytime and if I don't like it, I will hang out with my friend.
The most substantial thing for me is that I tried to make new friends who have something in common with me. In our spare time, we talk some fuuny thing or go out side to familiar with the surroundings, inhale fresh air. In addition, I tried to keep a positive attitude toward the fear of being alone. Whenever I live alone, I think it is a perfect time for me to do my own things such as watching movie, listening music, cleaning room and so on. One of my friend told me you must prepare to tolerate the terrible alone time and overcome it as soon as possible. Now six months passed away, and I already familiar with this environment. Being alone is nothing to me now, I can be alone anytime and if I don't like it, I will hang out with my friend.
Jan 26, 2010
New Year's resolution
When i was in University in China, i set kinds of different resolutions every semester, from the study-related resolution like got high score, of course, to life-related resolution like lost weight, and I carried them out well. However, but it seems that I have not had a good luck since i came to the U.S., because of my failure in achieving my goals of last semester such as passing toefl and geting admission from gradute school. Perhaps because I was so unsuitable for the new envrionment, so i took it easy of the whole thing. This semester may be a busy semester for me because I have a lot of goals i want to realize.
The most important thing to me is that pass the toefl. I really need this minimum score for applying for my master's degreee, and I am planning to do my best to get access to the admission for the fall 2010. In order to achieve it, the great effort is needed to put in.
In addition, i chose two openning university classes this semester, and my basic target for these two classes is that i can get at least "B" at the end of this semester, which I can use for offseting my prequisites of master class.
Last but not least, I want to keep fit. I will eat healthy food, do regular exercise, have enough sleep, and make new friends to keep the balance between my study and entertainment.
After noticing every one have many big resolutions fot the new year, hoping we all have good luck!
The most important thing to me is that pass the toefl. I really need this minimum score for applying for my master's degreee, and I am planning to do my best to get access to the admission for the fall 2010. In order to achieve it, the great effort is needed to put in.
In addition, i chose two openning university classes this semester, and my basic target for these two classes is that i can get at least "B" at the end of this semester, which I can use for offseting my prequisites of master class.
Last but not least, I want to keep fit. I will eat healthy food, do regular exercise, have enough sleep, and make new friends to keep the balance between my study and entertainment.
After noticing every one have many big resolutions fot the new year, hoping we all have good luck!
Jan 22, 2010
Introduction
Hello everyone! My name is Sherry, and I came from China. I have a lot of hobbied, such as listening music, wacthing movie, hanging out with my friends, shopping, and do a little sports. I came here for my master's degree in CSUF, but firstly I must pass my TOEFL which is hard for me to get at least 570. Perhaps because last semester I didn't put all my effort to prepare the tough toefl, i will prepare it again this semester, and i decide to try my best this time to achieve my goals.
Now i want to take about one of our classmate, whose name is Sireesha. The funny thing is she taught me several time to pronunce her name, and now i can do it well...She came form Indian
and has a litter brother and her parents in her family.Wehave almost the same hobbies, may be all the girls have some similar hobbies. Sireesha will study computer science as her master's degree in CSUF, so probably we will ran into each other in campus in the future. The interesting aspect I knew from her was that in her country they celebrate some essential God's day instead of Christmas and New Year.
Nice to know all of you in our class, and be happy to spent the whole semester with you guys. I wish every one can achieve your own objective...bless!
Now i want to take about one of our classmate, whose name is Sireesha. The funny thing is she taught me several time to pronunce her name, and now i can do it well...She came form Indian
and has a litter brother and her parents in her family.Wehave almost the same hobbies, may be all the girls have some similar hobbies. Sireesha will study computer science as her master's degree in CSUF, so probably we will ran into each other in campus in the future. The interesting aspect I knew from her was that in her country they celebrate some essential God's day instead of Christmas and New Year.
Nice to know all of you in our class, and be happy to spent the whole semester with you guys. I wish every one can achieve your own objective...bless!
Nov 18, 2009
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.
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.
Nov 5, 2009
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!
Oct 23, 2009
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.
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.
Sep 29, 2009
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..
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..
Sep 18, 2009
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…
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…
Sep 15, 2009
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.
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.
Sep 13, 2009
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.
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