Journal 10: Advice

When I am standing in the crossings, I want to talk to my friends and my family members to seek advice. They also love to do that, so I have been given much advice. Most of them gives me supports when I am wandering , and furthermore some of them gives me much help. However, I am not going to follow all those advice. Everyone has a balance in mind. When they choose the decision, they will judge by themselves fist. When I chose the middle school, my family members all suggested me to choose one school that needed lower score to admit. At that time, I was so eager to enter another high school that I made my decision and finally passed the exam. I also give much advice to my friends. I and my friends become more familiar through changing advice and opinion.

Journal 9: American Food

   When I first time arrived at America 6 months ago, there were two things I could not endure. The first one was American food. The second one is California public transportation. Every day I ate the hamburgers, bread, pizzas, raw vegetable salad. In addition to those, I drunk cola ,juice and coffee. It is difficult for me to find a soup here on the dinner table, compared with soup in my every dinner fare in China. I was crazed about that. At that time , I don't want to hear about "Let's go eat American", and I made a dream that I went to enjoy the Chinese food with my friends. There were SiChuan hotpot and fish hotpot. I was so aborbed in that dish in my dream. With staying longer in California, I was surprised to find many different kinds of food here except traditional American in my mentality. I have visited some specific restaurants, such as "Little sheep hotpot", Sichun Restaurant and Chinese DongBei Restaurant. And now I begin to like pizza and hamburger and salad, but it refers to fruit salad.

Journal 8: Optimistic Quote

   Winston Churchill, the former Prime Minister of the UK and Nobel Prize in literature, said "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." This quote is used to explain how people perceive the same event and situation. One can not simply interpret one's reality, and should see two sides of one thing, and pose a positive attitude to it. Another example of pessimism and optimism is the question "Is the glass half empty or half full?". This philosophical question indicate that a particular situation could be a cause for optimism (half full) or pessimism (half empty). I choose the optimism in many cases in spite of sometimes choice of the pessimism. For instance, it is the optimistm to support me to keep studying English  for so long time. I wish I can pass TOFEL test next time. haha.

Journal 7: Birds of a Feather

It is said that "Birds of a feather flock together". This is just like my friends and me. My intimate friend, Juan. She comes from North of China. We met in the university. After years in the same dormitory, we seem like sisters. We both like badminton. Every Friday after the classes, we will go to the playground or just outside our building, and play badminton. Those were moments full of fun and enjoyment. Every two days, we will go jogging around our dormitory village. We have other same hobbies. We like to watch the romantic TV series and to read books. After reading a book, we discuss together and enjoy the fantastic, comedic, romantic and sad stories. She affect me in my food habit. Before I met her, I rarely ate spicy food, even hate that. I remember I first time go the SiChuan Restaurant, which is famous in spicy dish. I was invited and persuaded by her. With a restless mood, I tasted every dish. Although I feel better about spicy food after the dinner, I still dislike it a little. With having spicy food more and more with her, I gradually love the special and delicious  spicy dishes. She also follow me to taste my hometown dishes and change her life habit.

Journal 6: Dr Dolittle

If human could talk with animals, the world would gain great changes. Can you image that one day when you are walking through the park, a deer say hello to you. When you drop your purse in the ground, a pigeon will remind you. It sounds great. I want to talk with Bela, the dogie. I want to tell her I like her so much and ask her what she can understand me, and what she like to eat best. However, I want to image the scene when the Kingkong can communicate with human. He can get more understanding from human. I hope human can be more friendly to animals, less deforestation and hunt.

Journal 5: Life's Soundtrack

       Just like a movie, our life has a soundtrack. My favorite music for my childhood is famous Chinese song "XiaoCao", which is the first song I learned in my primary school. The song describes the strong life of grass. Every winter, as a result of cold weather, grass disappears from the land. However, without any care, grass itself comes out the earth and regains new life. When I first time I heard it. I cannot really understand the meaning under the earth. I just like its melody. However when I lived alone during a period of high school life, I got the reference. One needs to train himself or herself more durable to difficulties and learn to how to overcome them.

Journal 4: Weather

     Mild change, sunning all the days, seldom raining and little storm is the characteristics of California weather. In summer, it is cool in the morning and evening. I like California even though it is said that California has no weather. One of the main reasons is that I like the mild weather. My hometown is Fujian, southeast of China. Every summer, there are several storms. Sometimes the rain was too flowing that the rain water cover the street, which was accompanied with fallen wood sign. The street is full of mess.I hate the storms. It cost government much money to rebuild the public facilities and keep people at home.