Finally, it is the last journal of this semester, which means an end of a period of time and a beginning of a new one. I feel a little sad and of cause, a little homesick. Fortunately, I can go back home this winter break, which really excites me a lot.
Looking back on the days that passed, I have to ask myself: what have I done, what achievements that I e gotten and what improvements that I have obtained. Well, after answering all these questions myself, I feel very relieved. I can say that I didn’t spend the last four months in America in vain and I have already achieved a lot. I have a lot of friends including Chinese and Americans, my speaking English has improved a lot as well as the listening and writing, I overcome the loneliness of the first semester and do a good job in my academic studying. I am now used to the life here. The most important thing is that I have already found my goal of my life and am trying my best to realize it. Although it’s hard and will take a long time definitely, I will never give up.
Yesterday’s storm was horrible. Unfortunately, I have to walk in the street for some reason. The wind was like the sharp knives and blew into my face which hurt me a lot. I wished I had owed a car so that I don’t need to walk anymore. So I made up my mind that I was going to buy a car as soon as possible next semester. That counts one of my short goals. The first thing to realize this is to get a local drive license. I have already gone to the ISSS to pick the “rules of the road”, which is used for preparing for the theory test. And luckily, I got a job in PAR next semester, which means I can get a social security number after working for one week. Oh, gee, that is fast and awesome because one can’t apply for a drive license until you have the social security number. I feel so happy about that and I can imagine that I am driving a car when the heavy storm is covering the whole campus. How fantastic it is and since I have a drive license in China, I don’t need to start to learn how to drive. I can’t help eulogizing how excellent life is. Hope that I can have a wonderful time next semester.
After all, this is a journal for the ESL class. I want to say goodbye to Joy, who I think is a truly wonderful teacher and I really love her. She is the best teacher of all the teachers that have taught me here. Sincerely, I feel so sad that she may not teach us next semester. Hope that she can be always happy.
Goodbye, this semester.
Hello, next semester!!!
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Sunday, November 29, 2009
During this thanksgiving break, I had the chance to see the most famous city of the entire world--- New York City. I was so enjoyable about this trip and I can say that this city made me not want to leave.
First, I want to talk about the buildings, especially in Manhattan. I love the skyscrapers there. Compare to NYC, I feel that buildings in this small town, where I currently stay is so damn low. Here, I have never seen a building over 20 layers and I can easily see the top of the buildings. While in Manhattan, things are so different, even if you look up very high, you can still not see the top of the building in many times because they are so high. Funny story, I was going to see the Empire State Building at one night when I was there. When I finally got there, I was told that I can’t see anything at the top of this skyscraper as a result that the top of the building has already stretched into the cloud and nothing can be seen inside the cloud. I looked up to the Empire State Building on the road and wanted to see how the top looks like, but I failed because the top were inside the cloud. The only thing that I saw that night was the vague light of the top. There are a lot of other buildings in Manhattan like the Empire State Building. Though not that much tall, you still can’t easily look up and see the top of the building. Standing among those tall buildings, I felt that even in the day time it’s still dark because those buildings are so high that they block the sunlight. Under this circumstance, people usually have two different feelings. One is that just walk and never trying to see the sunlight, the other is going to the top of those buildings and enjoys the sunlight. Definitely, I will choose the latter one. Deep in my heart, I have the thoughts of conquering all of these building and standing on the top to see all the things beneath me. Everything has to look up to see me, which is exactly I want. Suddenly, I have the feeling not want to stay here anymore. Is it just a temporary feeling or always the desire deep in my heart? Let’s wait and see. Hope I can figure it out soon.
Second, I want to talk about food. Foods in NYC rock, especially the Chinese food. How can I say? Let me put it in this way. Living in NYC, you just feel like being in China. There is a district called flushing where gathering almost all the Chinese. Fortunately, I ate a lot Chinese foods where I can’t eat in the Chinese restaurant here in UIUC. I felt like the exact flavor like home and food there cover the whole parts of food in different areas in China. It really made me not want to go back here, I have to say this. Also there are a lot of restaurants which cover the whole delicious foods all over the world. More fortunately, I ate at a Japanese food restaurant which is a buffet and most important is that Japanese food is my favorite foreign food. I enjoyed the meal and was so full. But, I was still happy and just felt like being in my hometown and having Japanese food.
In conclusion, NYC rocks. Actually, I think I am about to considering something about transferring.
First, I want to talk about the buildings, especially in Manhattan. I love the skyscrapers there. Compare to NYC, I feel that buildings in this small town, where I currently stay is so damn low. Here, I have never seen a building over 20 layers and I can easily see the top of the buildings. While in Manhattan, things are so different, even if you look up very high, you can still not see the top of the building in many times because they are so high. Funny story, I was going to see the Empire State Building at one night when I was there. When I finally got there, I was told that I can’t see anything at the top of this skyscraper as a result that the top of the building has already stretched into the cloud and nothing can be seen inside the cloud. I looked up to the Empire State Building on the road and wanted to see how the top looks like, but I failed because the top were inside the cloud. The only thing that I saw that night was the vague light of the top. There are a lot of other buildings in Manhattan like the Empire State Building. Though not that much tall, you still can’t easily look up and see the top of the building. Standing among those tall buildings, I felt that even in the day time it’s still dark because those buildings are so high that they block the sunlight. Under this circumstance, people usually have two different feelings. One is that just walk and never trying to see the sunlight, the other is going to the top of those buildings and enjoys the sunlight. Definitely, I will choose the latter one. Deep in my heart, I have the thoughts of conquering all of these building and standing on the top to see all the things beneath me. Everything has to look up to see me, which is exactly I want. Suddenly, I have the feeling not want to stay here anymore. Is it just a temporary feeling or always the desire deep in my heart? Let’s wait and see. Hope I can figure it out soon.
Second, I want to talk about food. Foods in NYC rock, especially the Chinese food. How can I say? Let me put it in this way. Living in NYC, you just feel like being in China. There is a district called flushing where gathering almost all the Chinese. Fortunately, I ate a lot Chinese foods where I can’t eat in the Chinese restaurant here in UIUC. I felt like the exact flavor like home and food there cover the whole parts of food in different areas in China. It really made me not want to go back here, I have to say this. Also there are a lot of restaurants which cover the whole delicious foods all over the world. More fortunately, I ate at a Japanese food restaurant which is a buffet and most important is that Japanese food is my favorite foreign food. I enjoyed the meal and was so full. But, I was still happy and just felt like being in my hometown and having Japanese food.
In conclusion, NYC rocks. Actually, I think I am about to considering something about transferring.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
outline for the research paper
Outline
Topic: the adoption for the homosexual couples
Thesis statement: However, in my point of view, the adoption for the homosexual couples should be legally banned because this could give the adopted children a variety of side effects.
Introductory paragraph:
With the development of our society, the sexual orientation of people has changed tremendously to a new level. More people are likely tending to be homosexual. As a result of this, the homosexual marriage is getting more popular nowadays. Here comes that issue: whether the adoption of these kinds of couple should be legalized. Still, the society is now struggling on this issue and yet there hasn’t been any unequivocal law to legalize this type of adoption. However, in my point of view, the adoption for the homosexual couples should be legally banned because this could give the adopted children a variety of side effects.
Subtitle 1:
Relatively short marriage of the homosexual couples
Subtitle 2:
Promiscuous Lifestyle
Homosexual couples usually have promiscuous lifestyle based on their sexual orientation, which is harmful to the adopted children.
Subtitles 3:
Child abuse is sometimes carried out by the homosexual couples.
Subtitle 4:
Homosexual couples usually have mental illness
Subtitle 5:
The homosexual couples sometimes make the sexual confusion of their adopted children.
Subtitle 6:
Mother/Father Roles.
Adopted children deserve the love for the both father and mother. Since they are adopted by the homosexual couples, it’s impossible for them to get the mother-and-father love.
Topic: the adoption for the homosexual couples
Thesis statement: However, in my point of view, the adoption for the homosexual couples should be legally banned because this could give the adopted children a variety of side effects.
Introductory paragraph:
With the development of our society, the sexual orientation of people has changed tremendously to a new level. More people are likely tending to be homosexual. As a result of this, the homosexual marriage is getting more popular nowadays. Here comes that issue: whether the adoption of these kinds of couple should be legalized. Still, the society is now struggling on this issue and yet there hasn’t been any unequivocal law to legalize this type of adoption. However, in my point of view, the adoption for the homosexual couples should be legally banned because this could give the adopted children a variety of side effects.
Subtitle 1:
Relatively short marriage of the homosexual couples
Subtitle 2:
Promiscuous Lifestyle
Homosexual couples usually have promiscuous lifestyle based on their sexual orientation, which is harmful to the adopted children.
Subtitles 3:
Child abuse is sometimes carried out by the homosexual couples.
Subtitle 4:
Homosexual couples usually have mental illness
Subtitle 5:
The homosexual couples sometimes make the sexual confusion of their adopted children.
Subtitle 6:
Mother/Father Roles.
Adopted children deserve the love for the both father and mother. Since they are adopted by the homosexual couples, it’s impossible for them to get the mother-and-father love.
Conclusion part:
All these reasons as the duration of the homosexual couple’s marriage last too short, sexual confusion and sexual permissiveness, the lack of a both-father-and-mother love, the child abuse, promiscuous lifestyle, and some metal disease are definitely going to give the adopted children a lot side effects. An adopted child deserves the same everything as other children. Therefore, I strongly claim that the adoption for the homosexual couples should be legally banned.
NOTE:
Supporting details are too much and will be shown completely in the final version of the research paper.
Friday, November 6, 2009
research log
topic: the adoption for the homosexual couples
theis statement: However, in my point of view, the adoption for the homosexual couples should be legally banned because this could give the adopted children a variety of side effects.
theis statement: However, in my point of view, the adoption for the homosexual couples should be legally banned because this could give the adopted children a variety of side effects.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
THIRD JOURNAL
This journal is a memorial and also a stimulation for me.
Cherish what you have.
It was on 26, September, 2007, a piece of sad and startling news was told—my best friend’s father died of cancer at the age of 45. The God took away the life of a nice person without mercy. My sorry for his death was immeasurable. However, from the last stage of his life, I learned to be resolute and cherish time, from which I greatly benefited.
Tracing back to the Chinese New Year in 2007, when tens of thousands of households lighted up lights for family reunions, my best friend’s father was suffering form the torment of illness by himself, receiving the judgment of the Death. As a tough man, he decided to bear all the hardship on his own. He cheated his own daughter that he sickened with normal tumors because he was not willing to take away the joy of her life and wanted her to live happily forever. From his consideration, I came to realize that the greatness of a father’s love did not require the polish of redundant words and things. Meanwhile, I learned how should a true man lived his life; that was never letting beloved ones shade tears.
However, no truth could be concealed like papers could not wrap up fire. His daughter finally learned the truth. On day in March, my best friend and I went to hospital together to visit her ill father. I was astonished as soon as I got in the hospital room because the atmosphere of the room was warm. Fruits brought by other visitors were orderly arranged on bedside cupboard. A cactus on windowsill faced the sunlight and grew well. It was the exact symbol of vitality. Her father greeted us with ardor and spent strenuous effort to get up from the bed to talk to us, to look at us with a smile. Although the torment of illness had made him wan, sallow and emaciated, the way he talked, his facial expressions and behaviors did not reveal any clues to the fact that his life would come to the end soon. I thought that was what a truly tough man would behave. He taught us to cherish life and time and not to regret at the last moment of life. He said that people could feel sorrow but not have regret in their lives. Our conversation lasted for a long time, which greatly benefited me. His plain words were rich in the true significance and philosophy of life.
Eventually, I saw my best friend’s father off at his last journey of life. He lay in the cold coffin and left us forever. Whenever meeting with setbacks in life, I would think of his toughness at his extremity of his life. When I dawdled, I would remember his words—we were not eligible to waste the short life and precious time. His great image would surely exist in my mind because his teaching would be firmly stamped into my heart.
Cherish what you have.
It was on 26, September, 2007, a piece of sad and startling news was told—my best friend’s father died of cancer at the age of 45. The God took away the life of a nice person without mercy. My sorry for his death was immeasurable. However, from the last stage of his life, I learned to be resolute and cherish time, from which I greatly benefited.
Tracing back to the Chinese New Year in 2007, when tens of thousands of households lighted up lights for family reunions, my best friend’s father was suffering form the torment of illness by himself, receiving the judgment of the Death. As a tough man, he decided to bear all the hardship on his own. He cheated his own daughter that he sickened with normal tumors because he was not willing to take away the joy of her life and wanted her to live happily forever. From his consideration, I came to realize that the greatness of a father’s love did not require the polish of redundant words and things. Meanwhile, I learned how should a true man lived his life; that was never letting beloved ones shade tears.
However, no truth could be concealed like papers could not wrap up fire. His daughter finally learned the truth. On day in March, my best friend and I went to hospital together to visit her ill father. I was astonished as soon as I got in the hospital room because the atmosphere of the room was warm. Fruits brought by other visitors were orderly arranged on bedside cupboard. A cactus on windowsill faced the sunlight and grew well. It was the exact symbol of vitality. Her father greeted us with ardor and spent strenuous effort to get up from the bed to talk to us, to look at us with a smile. Although the torment of illness had made him wan, sallow and emaciated, the way he talked, his facial expressions and behaviors did not reveal any clues to the fact that his life would come to the end soon. I thought that was what a truly tough man would behave. He taught us to cherish life and time and not to regret at the last moment of life. He said that people could feel sorrow but not have regret in their lives. Our conversation lasted for a long time, which greatly benefited me. His plain words were rich in the true significance and philosophy of life.
Eventually, I saw my best friend’s father off at his last journey of life. He lay in the cold coffin and left us forever. Whenever meeting with setbacks in life, I would think of his toughness at his extremity of his life. When I dawdled, I would remember his words—we were not eligible to waste the short life and precious time. His great image would surely exist in my mind because his teaching would be firmly stamped into my heart.
Saturday, October 17, 2009
outline for c&e
The outline of cause and effect essay
Topic: population growth
Type: one cause and several effects
Thesis statement: the population growth has caused a series of serious problems.
Topic sentence 1: the population growth has caused issues to the environment.
Supporting details:
1. More pollution produced by people are discharged to the environment
2. To meet the residences of more people, more land will be used to built buildings instead of landscaping, which is bad to the environment
3. More people need more resources which are very limited in the earth. Our larger demand to the nature will definitely broke the order of nature which really does harm to the environment.
Topic sentence 2: the growth of population also affects the economy.
Supporting details:
1. More population will result in the situation that supply falls short of demand which has a potential of becoming into inflation.
2. The government will spend more expenditure to satisfy the residents’ basic living demands instead of put money in capital goods.
Topic sentence 3: the growth of population is a factor that leads the problems of our society
Supporting details:
1. More population leading the society tends to be a unstable one.
2. More population causes more unemployment
3. More population causes poverty.
Topic: population growth
Type: one cause and several effects
Thesis statement: the population growth has caused a series of serious problems.
Topic sentence 1: the population growth has caused issues to the environment.
Supporting details:
1. More pollution produced by people are discharged to the environment
2. To meet the residences of more people, more land will be used to built buildings instead of landscaping, which is bad to the environment
3. More people need more resources which are very limited in the earth. Our larger demand to the nature will definitely broke the order of nature which really does harm to the environment.
Topic sentence 2: the growth of population also affects the economy.
Supporting details:
1. More population will result in the situation that supply falls short of demand which has a potential of becoming into inflation.
2. The government will spend more expenditure to satisfy the residents’ basic living demands instead of put money in capital goods.
Topic sentence 3: the growth of population is a factor that leads the problems of our society
Supporting details:
1. More population leading the society tends to be a unstable one.
2. More population causes more unemployment
3. More population causes poverty.
ouline for c&c
Thesis statement: the terrain of US and China shows many similarities and differences.
Type: Block Organization
Similarities:
1. Both of the countries are near the ocean.
2. There are two parts outside the mainland in both countries
3. Both of the countries have some peninsular.
4. Both of the countries are full of many kinds of terrains. (Highlands, plain)
Differences:
1. The distribution of the main mountains
2. US: both sides are near the ocean China: only the east side is near the ocean
3. The shape of main rivers ( US : vertical China: horizontal )
4. The distribution of different types of terrains.
5. The distribution of the main fresh water lakes of the two countries.
Type: Block Organization
Similarities:
1. Both of the countries are near the ocean.
2. There are two parts outside the mainland in both countries
3. Both of the countries have some peninsular.
4. Both of the countries are full of many kinds of terrains. (Highlands, plain)
Differences:
1. The distribution of the main mountains
2. US: both sides are near the ocean China: only the east side is near the ocean
3. The shape of main rivers ( US : vertical China: horizontal )
4. The distribution of different types of terrains.
5. The distribution of the main fresh water lakes of the two countries.
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