Xing+Fan

Journal # 1

Today is the first day I came to my class, though my classes have already started for 3 days. Yesterday I made an appointment with Dr. Krzic for my schedule. Last quarter I took the Business class for core skill 1, however I wanted to change my major to other field like math or engineering field. So I talked with Rane how can I change my major. she let me ask my adviser and then decided whether I should change my major. Finally, I decided I preferred biology major. So I talked with director of op wan then I changed to another class.

Journal # 2

I like dinning hall. I had never been interested in American food, because I like spicy food. However, many American food taste a little sweaty and some fast food are not good for my health. So last quarter, I rarely went to dinning hall for eating. I stayed at home and cooked some Chinese traditional food like eggs fry tomatoes or tomato beefs during our break time. We can buy fresh vegetables from Kroger or Wal mart. it is very convenient. However, I found that Nelson dinning hall's food tasted fantasy. I felt amazing why I think it taste better than before. My friend told me that we might ate too much Chinese dishes. I think she is right because I start to feel it is so disgusting.

Journal # 3

It is very interesting. My conversation partner told me that she would go to China during her next summer break. So she wanted learn Chinese from a Chinese tutor. She sent me a message said that could we text message in Chinese? I'd like to, but my cellphone can not type Chinese. I told her. She called me immediately and told me she could teach me how to type Chinese. I felt so ridiculous that a American would teach me how to type Chinese.However she recommended a software to me and told me I could type Chinese after setup this software. and then I aware that she just wanted to teach me how can type Chinese at the cellphone. I misunderstood her meaning. it is very funny.

Journal # 4

Today is a big celebration for my roommate, because it is her double ten day We planed to prepare a big party for her birthday. My friend drove me to a big shopping mall for her present. We spent three hours on our way. when we arrived there, the sky were getting dark. time was so tight. we did not have too much time to choose a excellent gift for her. My friend, she is a party queen and she likes drinking alcohol. So we bought a beautiful suit with a pink color. She would like this dress. and then we drove back home. On our way home, we passed a Chinese supermarket to buy some fresh raw materials for dinner. After we arrived home, it was nine pm. we started cooking and she would come back home after two hours because she went to cinema with her boyfriend. until eleven pm, we started celebration her birthday party.

Journal # 5

This is our second week for this quarter. I think I should made a plan for my new quarter because I want to get out of OP this quarter. There are many Chinese students in Athens and most of them have to take OP class. some students have been studying op classes for more than one year. This is my third quarter. I do not want to continue studying language at op class. it will waste much money and time. However, my TOEFL is not up to get out of op, so I asked my friends who has already left op how can I get out of op. she told me first, I must have a plan, because if you do not have a plan, you can not make sense what is your level now. so a plan is an important thing for our studying.

Journal # 6

I want to schedule a drive license test. My roommate who is from north part of China bought a car. we searched hundreds of information about cars. First, we do not want a expensive car, because we do not have too much money. however, it is very inconvenient if you do not have a car. for example, if we want to go to the Wal-Mart to buy some food, we have to take bus. but we do not live on campus, we live at the carriage hill. it will takes a half hour to go to university. and the bus which can arrive supermarket at behind of the chase bank. and we have to wait about one hour, a bus will coming. so it will takes half day if we just want to buy some food....that is why a car is needed by person who is living in America.

Journal # 7

We finally decided buy a car around five thousands dollars and the miles age is below one million miles. My neighbor introduced a dealer from whom he bought a car. his car is very new but it has a little accident happened before so the price is very cheaper than others. this car is made by Korea. some of my friend told me that did not buy a Korean car because of his quality, we thought for a long time and searched some information about Korean car. it does not have a good reputation last year because of his quality, however, they have already changed his products and made it better than before. so we finally decided to buy a Korean car for our short distances.

Journal # 8

We already own a car, but we do not have a driver license. so we want to take a driver license exam. First my friend took me to a HDL center to pick up a book for rules of driving. I have to memorize all of these rules and then I will take a exam for this rules when I make sure that I can remember all of this rules. before I take a driver rules test, I have to check my eyes. my friend told me that it is very interesting, a person who is a supervisor for test would ask you which light shine and is it on your left or your right. I was so worry about it whether i can pass this check. but she told me that it is a sample test, everyone can pass it.

Journal # 9

I have no idea what is the Earth Day. I infer that is a big celebration for our earth. However, what can we do at that day? Do we need to have a special celebration for it like other holidays. Earth is always related with our living environment. So I think we should protect our earth at that day or thank it. Because we get all of things from earth. For example, we get corps from soils for eating and we get meat from sea by fishing and from animals by hunting. Also, some plants like cotton can provide clothes for us. So should we thank earth for his giving? should we hold a big fest for them?

Journal # 10

every one must sleep everyday. have you ever dreamed about your life or just a stranger whom you met her or him at the day time but you did not know. I think every one should have experienced about dream. we usually relate our dream with our real life. some people hold the opinion that they believe that dreaming can predict what will happen in the future. thousands of movies use such kind of idea to tell a story about real life with dreams. however, actually, dreaming is a kind of performance for our day time life. who is the main actor in your dream, he or she might met with you at the day time.

Journal # 11

China is as a developing country. There are many problems exist in our country such as environment issues, overpopulation and resources shortage. We have been learning all kinds of professional knowledge and new technology that can speed up our development to resolve these problems, which are visible. The problem is that we are facing with a kind of threaten of invisible. That Beijing which is the capital of China is in the high speed developing information age is confronted with serious threaten of the decline in our traditional culture. For example, we have rebuilt our historic building for attracting more visitors from overseas. The young people prefer to celebrate some western holidays such as Thanksgiving Day, Halloween, Christmas Day rather than the Spring Festival or some others, which are our traditional holiday.

Journal # 12

Education is considered as the most important thing for each country. It is related with social development, because we learn from school not only knowledge but also moral. The education system of China has been developing thousands of years; however, it still has some problems. One of the serious problems is that it is hard to relate knowledge which we have learned and a real job. It means that most students who have graduated from college don’t have a right comprehension about this knowledge which they have learned from college. As the result, they won’t figure out these problems which they will meet in work in the future. There are a couple of reasons to explain why our education systems exists this problems.

Journal # 13

Recently, my friend wanted to go back China because her diploma had some thing wrong, so she had to go back China as soon as possible. She could not get her diploma if she could not arrive school for dealing with some paperwork about her degree. it is very emergency and time is so tight. so she had to go to the international students and faulty to ask for her emergency leaving. however, the staff told us, if she would leave here for a short time, she had to ask excuse from her professors. So we went to the professors' office and wanted to give the permit. unfortunately, the director of intensive english program was not in America. so we had to sent email to him and waited for his reply. hope everything will be ok.

Journal # 14

Today, we received the reply from Dr. Krizic who is the director of intensive english program. He is in Saudi now. But he replied our email so quickly. we were so glad about his understanding. then we took this permit to go to the gordy to ask the signature from her instructors. she should have left on this afternoon. but something went run. she could not get her plane ticket on time. it was one o'clock after we finished all of paperwork which she had to prepared. and her airplane would set off at five pm. it would takes almost two hours if we drove to Columbus.time was so tight. finally, we arrived airport at three thirty pm. fortunately, she logged on the gate on time. though we deal with this problem so mess, but we still solved it.

Journal # 15

do you like animals? and what kind of animals is your favorite? for me, tiger is my favorite animal. there are several reasons. first reason is that i was born at the tiger year. it is a kind of Chinese traditional measure for people to calculate which year they belong to. we have 12 animals to present 12 years. and it repeats following the same ranges each years. first year is mouse, second is cow.

Journal # 16

I want to introduce my house to you this time. I live with three people at my house. My house is nearby Ohio University called carriage hill. It locates at the top of a small hill. Only half an hour you can arrive downtown on foot. My house has two bedrooms which have a big room and a small room, one kitchen, one living room, and a bathroom. I live at the big room sharing with my roommate who is also taking OPIE. In my room, there are two beds and tables. One of the beds set under the window, and another bed is located opposite wall. We share a closet together which we usually hang on our coats inside. Opposite the closet is our bookshelf which has our academics’ books and some novels. Let me introduce our living room to you. This is a large space where we play video game and watch TV. A TV set is hung on the wall, and a Wii connects with it. In the front of the TV, there is a sofa with red color. We live here together and enjoy our life.

Journal # 17

This time I want to describe our community. It is a quiet community and friendly. Our neighbor is also a Chinese. They are all students at Ohio University. On the bottom of the hill, several restaurants on the both side of the street such as McDonald, pizza hut, and other fast food restaurants. If you want to go to the bank to deal with your financial matters, a chase bank locates at the opposite of the McDonald. Next to McDonald is a patrol station. Like I have mentioned, our community calls carriage hill, and there still has other communities nearby our apartment. One of them is Summit whose environment is better than ours, because they provide shuttle each 20 minutes taking people from their apartment to university. They also have a small gym for exercise and a swimming pool.

Journal # 18

Terry Noble said that parents spoil our generation and we are not ready to take on our responsibilities as an adult. He insists this opinion, for so many children have a special position in their families especially in China. They are treated indulgently; however, I cannot jump on board with his opinion. There are three reasons for which I think generation Y has abilities for taking on our responsibilities, because most parents have never spoiled them when they were children, generation Y is independent, and they have already taken on our responsibilities.

Journal # 19

Nowadays, the computer is closely related with our daily life, it is mainly being used at three aspects. First of all, people usually deal with business affairs by using computers. Secondly, they use computer for entertainment. Lastly, the computer is being used a lot on the college.Primarily, I want to focus on the business area, because it is becoming indispensable to our daily business affairs. The coming of the information age, people usually use computer to make contract with others, because it is clearer and specification than handwriting. On the other hand, company manages their employees by information system such as salary system, personal documents system, and some announcements.

Journal # 20

People said girls prefer to choose pink color,I agree with this statement because most my female friends prefer tint colors than others, especially pink color. On the contrary, males prefer to choose deep color. However, all of them like blue, because it makes them peaceful and calm down. The result of this study can be believed, because it has provided very hard evidence. Moreover, the article mentioned that the professor’s speculation of females’ preference the pink color looks like a novel idea for me. Why do females have a preference on the pink color? From my point of view, females are more sensibility than males. Some colors like the red color represent love, because it has the same color this our heart. This color always arouses their emotions. But the pink color is more moderate than the red color visually, so most females prefer to choose the pink color which is slimier with the red color as their favorite color.

Journal # 21

Rabbits are small fluffy animals. Generally, they have long ears, either pointing up or downwards, and four legs with five claws on each front foot and four longer claws on their large flat back feet. Rabbits have large eyes on the side of their heads, either brown or red. They have prominent front teeth. Many rabbits are called a "dewlap" blow their chin and down over their chests. These resemble double chins and are in fact just fat stores. Rabbits and hares are often confused. The hare is larger and heavier than the rabbit and has longer ears. The hare has longer hind legs and larger hind feet. It can out jump any rabbit and does not tire as quickly. Many hares turn white in the winter. Rabbits keep the same color coat year-round. The main wild rabbit is in North America. It grows from 14 to 18 inches and weighs from 2 to 3 pounds. They are brown with tan sides and white under parts.

Journal # 22

Ohio university is one of the largest universities in the US. You can meet many students who are from different countries because it provides a great program for international school. On the other hand, we own the excellent library on our campus. The library calls Alden library which includes thousands of books, and it also contains many other services such as media center, conference rooms, and others. People can use computers to deal with some paperwork and they can also hold some research meeting. Also, there are another important reason why I choose Ohio University. The reason is that it built at 1804, and it already owns such a long history. That means many students graduated from here and it trained hundreds of excellent instructors.

Journal # 23

As deserts are spreading over the world, and people notice the trees are more and more important for us. Planting trees now is not only an activity just in the Arbor Day. It becomes an urgency for human being, so planting trees is the basic thing to provide a green and healthy environment. It is valuable in avoiding noises, sandstorms and deserts.I remember my own experience of planting a tree when I was in primary school. Arbor Day is in 13 March in China, so teachers organize us to plant trees in that day. The scene was very clear in my mind. I had never plant a tree before, so I felt a little nervous and excited. I took the little tree which was prepared by organizers to a peace of ground and checked the soil. First of all ,I had to dig a hole, but that was not an easy job and took a lot of my energy. Then I added a little water to the hole, because it was said that too much water may drown the tree. After all the preparation, I put my tree into the hole and filled the hole. I watered it once again. I stood there to admire my work for a while and left hoping my little tree will grow into a big green tree one day.

Journal # 24

Pandas are gift for China, and China is an only country where have pandas. You can also call it bear-cat. Panda is treated as China’s national treasure. SiChuan province is pandas’ hometown. Pandas look so cut, and the color of them is black-and-white. You can see its black ears in its white face. Black eyes are panda’s major character. Bamboo is their main food, so you can always find pandas embrace in bamboo. Eating food, pandas do it in their most time, but sometimes pandas do some exercise, they tumbling around. There is a big problem which scientists worry about is panda will be extinct because there are a few of bamboo in the world and this is an only food pandas like eating. Chinese government is thinking about how to protect them. This is our responsibility.

Journal # 25 In many counties, a lot of people are overweight. I suggest improving physical education program in schools. It’s can help people to know the important of health. I support offering herlthier meals in schools, and we should stop eating fast food. We need to eat some fruits and some vegetables instead of meat.I am opposed to eat some meat at dinner. I go along with do some exercises everyday. Doing exercise is help for our health, such as running, swimming, bicycling and so on. It can help us lose a lot of calories. In sum, health is very important for us. If we want to have a healthy body, we should eat some fruits and some vegetables and do some exercises.and

Journal # 27

In 1990s, people bought clothes, shoes, bags and so on in the stores. There are two kinds of stores, one is large stores such as market and mall, the other is small stores. Today, through the developed internet, shopping online is very popular for people. Now people face two different ways to shop, and there are similarities and differences in these two ways. Shopping online or in stores is similar in some ways. Both of these two ways have the same products and brands, so you can buy everything you want to buy. For example, if I want to buy a shirt which is the brand of A&F in the store, also I can find it online. People usually focus on the quality of products.

Journal # 28

Each people have own way of learning, and I think I am a visual learner. Because it is easy to understand, I always take notes in class. In class, I should look at maps, pictures and blackboard to understand the content of a lesson. When I communicate with other people, I need to watch the speaker’s facial expressions and body language, for I can know the speaker’s mean. I like studying by myself in a quiet room. For example, before the text, I should study in a quiet room and see information in my mind when I try to remember things quickly. In conclusion, visual learning style is the best way for me.

Journal # 29

I have experience with problem in communication. In my university which called Shen Yang Agriculture University in China, I had dinners with my roommate. When it was time to dinner, I asked her what she would like to eat. She had no idea, and she said everything is ok. Let me made decision. I came up with some food, but she did not want to eat. I asked again, she still said everything is ok. This situation often had one result in the end is that we spent about 30 minutes, but we still had no idea what we should eat. In my opinion, sometime, we need directness to save time. If people did not say their thinking directly, other people may did not understand what they mean. It will produce some mistakes, and may affect relationship between two friends.

Journal # 30

Can you imagine a guy who is 70 years old are still doing sports? Of course, but what can he do? Yoga? Maybe he can make it if he has a good sense of balance and his body is flexible enough. Taiji? By no means can he do it if he can clear his mind and play it as slowly as possible. In fact, there are a huge amount of people doing the same sport like the elder, from kids to old men. That’s running, my favorite sports.why I love running, actually, it’s a little bit silly to me. I run because I can. To some extent, that is what mostly people think. I used to be a couch potato, life ,you know, is merely a noun for me. I’m not interested in anything and everything seems dull, running, however, brings me a new life. I change my lifestyle, I’ve turn it into a verb, resulting from the fact that im always keep moving. With no more equipments, just a pair of running shoes, you can do it anywhere, anytime.

Journal # 31

how to cook fish. First you have to get a fish.if you don not know how to fish, you can always buy one in the market.before you do anything with it, you have better wash the fish thoroughly, and then kill it with a knife.. usually we cut the fish open right along its stomach and take out its guts before cooking it,but well, if you have different interest of the fish, you dont have to do this.Then cook it.there maybe hundred of ways to cook a fish, which i am afraid that is too much for my knowledge to cover.anyway, i like boiled fishes.they tastes delicous. in case you have no idea about boiling.to boil is to put what you want to boil, along with water, into a container, a pan or something.the amount of water is decided by the amount of things you want to boil, which is fish in this case.after all these things are set up nicely, light up a fire beneath the container.

Journal # 32

In the memory of my mine,a competition of prelection is the most rewarding experience in my life. Self-confidence is by on means the important character for everyone.But I lost them before the competition.In china,the only level estimating students is marks.Holding a low marks in math and physics I receives no warm welcome from teachers and classmates. However,literature is my favorate courses I spent too much time to literature to have enough time to study any other course.So I haven`t earn respect from people around.I cost further time to literature in liberaries. After endless waitness,chance coming .last year my university hold a competition of prelection. And I attended. After preliminary ,quality-final and final contest.I win the campion cup.All of my classmates come around with me. And self-confidence come back to my body. A proverb says," a tree has been recognized by its fruit."I think is correct,especially in China.