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Week 5 Journal 1 Soccer which is very popular in the world is my favorite sport in my daily life. I enjoy playing soccer no matter in door or outside, especially play with my patter, Joe. Why I love soccer so much? The reason is that soccer can help me to bring much fun and many good friends who like soccer as well. For example, there are lot of my friends who I made in Ping OU. Because of soccer attracting us very much, many people and I became friend. In the beginning of moment when I came OU, I was very shy and I did not know anybody, even Chinese international students. However, I have a lot friends who are my teammates when we play soccer in Ping. Right now, my friends and I play soccer every Tuesday and Friday, no matter what happens. Meanwhile, more and more American students joined us, as we have the same favorite sport. For instance, I have a workmate who are work with me in the same dining hall, Boyd dining hall, this quarter. In the beginning, we know each other, but we seldom talked, but when we knew both of us like soccer, we became very good friends. Sometimes, we even have lunch together. I love soccer.

Journal 2 Apple laptops which are designed perfectly and work in high speed completely attract me a lot. It is to see that college students use Apple computers, and Apple laptops are essential for each students who are studying in university. When I saw students using Apple no matter what kind of Macs, I always desire one, but I do not have enough money to buy one Apple Mac as it is very expensive.Thus, now I am working hard in dining hall every week. I hope I could bu one Apple Mac in the end of this quarter. I'd never like one thing so much before. Attractive Apple always produce wonderful stuff that is significant for science and technology, so there are more and more Apple fans supporting these amazing productions. There is another amazing news, Iphone4 available in white now. I believe it can case anther Apple storm that is focused by people during these weeks.

Journal 3 Do you know what the most popular headphone for college students? Bose, my favorite headphone, attracts a lot of students who love music very much. Meanwhile, it is not very cheap, but still many students want to buy one that can give them professional music. I have a Bose headphone, IE2 audio headphones, which spend me more than $100; however, it's very perfect and it is good at playing music. I bought it last winter, when I worked in Chicago called windy city. As the headphone that I desire is every expensive, I had to work for a long time. Even though I was very tired during my working time, I got much happiness when I bought the headphone that I want.

Journal 4 Some people hold the opinion that parents who are living with their children are the best teachers in the world. Parents have much experiences that are helpful for their children, and they also know their children much better than any others, because they always stay together. "Even though I do not know more knowledge than you, I have already experienced a lot of things that is useful for life. Thus, I am also your teacher in your life, and you'd better listen to me," my mother always told me. As they met many things that are more than what their children experienced, such as troubles confused them, big decision in their life, and so on, they can teach their children who are in the growing age. Furthermore, children will live with their parents before they get married, so their parents know them a lot. For this, parents know what their children need to study, and then can give their children lessons anytime, which are helpful for children. In addition, parents can be the best teachers for their children.

Week 6 Journal 1 Nowadays, food, such as fast food, becomes easy to prepare. Some people think the food prepared in easy ways is bad for people's health. However, as for as I concerned this kind of food improves our live in some ways. Not only does food that is prepared easily help people to save tremendously time, but also cost less money. First, limited time, particularly in America, is very significant in their opinions. For this, substantial fast restaurants, such as KFC and Wendys, which always attract many people, are established in the U.S. The reason why Americans choose these restaurants of which food is prepared easily is that people are very busy everyday, so they do not have enough time to cook food. Second, the food prepared easily is much cheaper. For this, people just need to spend less money for their food. Contrast with some other restaurants, like Applebees, the price for per meal is double times than Wendys'. All in all, this change, food becoming easier to prepare, sometimes improve people's live.

Journal 2 Contrasting gaining knowledge from books, it is much easier and more interesting to study knowledge from experience. Some people hold the opinion that it is essential to gain knowledge from books. As far as I concerned, I prefer to choose gaining knowledge from experience. For example, it is essential to be good at reading, if people want to study knowledge from books. However, it is impossible that ever one is good at reading. For this reason, this way to study knowledge is much easier. Second, experience that brings us knowledge can be very interesting, because a lot fun is our lives. For instance, I could not pronounce 'culture' correctly, even thought I had tried to follow the direction of my English pronunciation book many times. Whereas, after a talking about different culture with an American student, I just got the pronunciation of 'culture'. All in all, it is easy to see gaining knowledge from experience is much interesting.

Journal 3 If I have chance to change one creative thing in my hometown, walking away factories that case much pollution is what I strongly hope. As the fast development of China, industry is established everywhere in China. However, for this, the pollution from there factories can not be avoided. For example, my hometown was much beautiful, but after some pollution industry established in my hometown, it became terrible. Because of these factories, there are more population coming from other places in my hometown, who works for these factories. Thus, the environment can not stand for large population. All in all, I hope these factories which are bad for the environment of my hometown can move away.

Journal 4 TV and movies change millions of lives, such as their live styles, behaviors, and thoughts. Before television was invented, people's live was boring; however, televisions brings a large mount of fun to us. For example, we can receive a large amount information from TV. My live style had change a lot because of television during my high school time. As I should study all the time in my high school, I did not have any chance to receive information. However, TV brought a lot of important information.

Week 7 Journal 1 As far as I concerned, I agree with the statement that television has destroyed communication among friends and family. People who like watch TV always waste a lot of time on TV, and they also become more silent. Meanwhile, it can be a reason why some people become lazy. Most important of all, it takes people a lager amount of time to witch TV. For example, I used to watch TV in high school; thus, to watch TV wast a lot time that belongs my communication with my family. Second, if one always watch TV, he is easy to become silent, because TV gives us information all time. For this, people do not like talking, and it destroyed the communication among friends. What's more, as people usually watch TV, they do not want to go anywhere. Their favourite thing is sating to watch TV. Thus; they do not want to talk with others.

Journal 2 Nowadays some people hold the opinion that living in big cities is much better than living in small towns. As far as I concerned, I believe that small towns should be the best choice for people live. Because of the attractive environment and small population, I prefer to live in small town which attracts me a lot. Less polluted industries are lowed to establish in my hometown; for this reason, the water and the air are clean, and the sky is much blue, contrasting other places near my hometown.

Journal 3 As far as I concernd, I partly agree with the statemet that this is not business with luck when one becomes successful. Hard working is significant if people want to get success; however, luck, such as good opportunities and help from others who you do not know, sometimes plays an important role on one's success. To start with, people must work hard because success bases on their working. It is ture people working hard probably get success, but people sometimes still need some good opportunities and help. For example, my father's business is about clothes. When he started this business, there was a good clothing market. Nevertheless, after he worked hard for a while and he had a knowledge about clothes, the clothing market became bad. For this, we can see luck sometimes is important for success.

Journal 4 In my opinion, it is essential to spend the same amount of money to their students' sports activities as they give to their university libraries. Since I know are good sports activities good for the reputation of universities, but also students' honour. For example, Ohio State University has a reputation of their sports. When people talk about universities' sports activities, they firstly think about OSU, and it becomes more famous. Also, if one university has good sports' activities, their students would love their own school much more, because sports always is popular topic among colleges' students. In one word, spending more capital for universities' sports activities is good for their reputations and students.

Week 8 Journal 1 I bought a Casio watch few week weeks ago. The reason that I decided to buy it is because of this price, size and a new technology. To start with, a Japanese watch is much cheaper than an American watch and it also has good quality. As it is known to all, Japan own advanced technology about watches. Casio is one of famous watches' brands in the world; however it is not as expensive as other watches' brands. Meanwhile, the reason why I chose this watch is there is good quality.

Journal 2 "Do not waste the time", when I heard these words from my adviser, I become much active. "You should help yourself and get out of OP as soon as possible." As I know, there are too many students who do not have aim for their future when they are studying in the university. They always play video games and go to parties. It wastes a lot of time and students need to spend their time learning more knowledge about their majors in the university. For me, I am studying hard everyday, but it is not enough for me. Not only OP should I work hard, but also my academic classes. In fact, student can study much more than they think in the university.

Journal 3 I have already been studying in America for one and half years. Studying abroad are quite different from studying it people's own countries. In the U.S, I can learn how to live and study by myself. As we are more free, so we need to be clear about what we need to study. If students do not study, nobody cares about you, because all of things are yours. On the other hand, most of my Chinese classmates are always feel bored, because they are much free and they do not know what to do. Meanwhile, they can not control themselves. "I sleep during every class, and play computer games every night." One of my classmates told me. Unlike them, I feel meaning and have much power because I accept American style, and know how to control my life.

Journal 4 People now become less happy and satisfied the people in past. There are three main reasons, in terms of more knowledge to study, more working pressure and advanced requirements. Because the world is changing so fast, more and more new knowledge exists. In past, students maybe just need to get undergraduate degrees, but students have to get higher degrees as the development of our society. In addition, it becomes more difficult to work, because there are more and more new technology that are invented. Thus, worker need to spend more time studying the new skills to finish their jobs. What is more, more and more high requirements arise from parents, schools, and companies. Because the world is changing very fast, people need know more than people in the past.

Week 9 Journal 1 The answer of this statement depends on people's own experience and life styles. As far as I am concerned, the best neighbour are accommodating, open, and free. To start with, accommodating neighbour are always welcome. For example, if people have some trouble with their family and no relative lives near they, the accommodating negihbour would give them a favor. Second, it is easy to communicate with open negihours. Open negihours prefer to talk with people, and it is good to build relationships between human beings.

Journal 2 It is too hot today, and we know summer is coming. In fact, Athens' wether is very similar with my hometown's wether. In summer, it is very hot in daytime; however, it becomes cool at night. Thus, I can not feel bad here. I have already been here one and half year, and the food and wether are not problems for me now. I believe I can live here better and better. Even though there are lot of things are different from my hometown's, I love living here.

Journal 3 Some people hold the opinion that people who go outside are more successful and happier than people living in small towns. Different people have different opinions that base on people's won experience and ideas. In my opinion, I agree with this statement that people can have a better future if they go outside, because they can gain more new knowledge and different experience which is good for people's life. First, people who go outside can open their eyes because they have to study many skills which are helpful for their knowledge. Second, as people live out their hometown, they have to be independent and solve everything by themselves.

Journal 4 The last week is coming, and the holiday is coming as well. I finally can have time to get some rest because I am so busy during this whole quarter. Also, there are lot of stuffs to do in my last week, such as the final paper, the final presentation and my Toefl exam. I just fell so complexed because so many things to do. My final presentation is very important because my grade of this quarter depend on the reason of this presentation. Then, it will take more than four hours to finish the Toefl exam. I wish I could get great grade in this quarter.