Last journal

well, here comes the last journal...Joy asked us to write about what we learned this semester. Ok, now let's begin.

The first is ...I make lots of new friends! I put it first because I think it is the most important. Friends are always the most important.

We have been learning writing academic paper for almost an entire semester. we learned what thesis statement and topic sentence are and how to write them. We learned the structure of an essay. Also, we studied about citation, which is really important and can avoid plagiarism. We discussed about the way of using commas and run-ons and conjunctions, on which I made lots of mistakes.

We also studied about how to make a good presentation.

Well, I predicted that this journal would be short and now it come true. Hah...Congratulations to Joy! UCLA is a really really nice school and I wish I could study there...hah It will be a pity not see you in campus and say "hi" to you next semester. I will miss you...I promise.

Then...Brooke...I don't know how to comfort you. I know everything we said will not help you to get out of the hardness, but I still want to tell you that I feel sorry. I know you are strong in your heart and I hope you will get better soon. Your bad will not want to see you unhappy right?

All in all, I feel lucky to meet you guys this semester. The time spent with you will become a really happy memory that I will never forget.

Journal6...

How time flies!
It has already been april. I just can hardly imagine that most of this semester has passed. I can still remember how I felt upset at the beginning of this semester. I missed home, old friends and food. Fortunately, everything went well in these three months even though homework and exams sometimes freaked me out. This weekend I kind of enjoyed myself. I did not do much work. This may be the last relaxing weekend before the final exam. Three five-pages paper are in the corner and I really have to start them next week.

I have been playing Final Fantasy Xiii for a really long time. It is an amazing game can be played both on playstation3 and xbox. The story is really attractive and what the best part is, the quantity of the game image is great!! The characters are designed as exactly like real people! I am so fascinated by this game....Therefore...I got to finish it quickly 'cause I do not want it to effect my final grade...hahah I have already put too much time in it!><

I am also playing another game(OMG...why I like playing video games sooo much...), called "Little big planet". It is sooooooo cute! This game can be played by four players which is a great game for friends. It is kind of an adventure game, a little bit like Mario Bro. but cuter. The adventurer is a brown wool doll and it looks soooooo cute!!( I thought I am saying it again...) While your are doing adventures, you may find stickers, decorations and different objects. Then, you can change clothes, hairstyles and accessories for the doll. I just made my doll into a corpse bride! Hah!

Tomorrow is Monday...again...Even though I do not want to face it...I have to. What makes me happy is the summer break is coming less than a month. My birthday will be the day I land in Beijing. I can't wait to be home.

Journal5

First, I want to say that the title of my last article should be"journal4". Ok...I must had been sooooo stressful to make that mistake.

Spring break is coming to its end. Now I am lying on the bed in a hotel near Michigan Avenue of Chicago. I am typing, of course. My boyfriend is sitting next to me and carefully assembling his newly bought toys. With nothing to do in this windy and chilly day, I start to remember...OMG! I still have homework due! Therefore, I begin to write this journal.

We left Champaign on friday night. Next morning, we took a plane to San Jose(we knew the pronunciation of this word from the airplane, it should be "san hosei" something like that...before that we always called it "san joss"). Why not fly directly to San Francisco? The first reason was the price was soooo high and the second reason was the times were all not good. All the flight flied to San Francisco directly arrived at near midnight. After arriving at San Jose, we took a train to San Francisco. By the way, I really liked San Jose, it was beautiful and warm and it was really quiet and peaceful. It was also the capital of silicon valley. What a wonderful city! Well well well...even this city was cute, we were still heading San Francisco.

San Francisco was also a cute city with great sunshine. The first night we went to Chinatown. However, the food disappointed us. Almost all the food in the restaurants were made for American people. The food was not that traditional and original. Next day, we went to Japantown. It was bigger than Chinatown and have fewer people. It was good and the ramen was great! We also found a nice japanese restaurant near our hotel which was on the market street. It had the best ramen in the city! We ate there twice hah!~XD

Pier 39 was a wonderful place in San Francisco. The seafood there were fresh and delicious! I strongly recommend the clam chowder. You can find this in nearly every restaurant in San Francisco...but the clam chowder near the seaside restaurants are the best. Hah!~~

It seemed that all my trip was full of eating....Almost...hah

Something upset also happened. My boyfriend and I both got bad cold during the vacation. It was really sad because both of us had not enough strength to travel for a long time. What was worse, we lost our camera!!! We only put the photos of first day into our laptop. Which means that we lost our sweet photos for the rest of the days!! OMG....that was sad...

Now I am in Chicago and I am leaving tomorrow. I was really tired these days so I am kind of want to go back...but I just want to go back to school without having classes, homework and exams. Hah...

Okay. That's it for today. See you then!~

Journal3

After a long time of thinking, I still cannot decide what to write for the journal. I really do not want to write a movie review again even though I have a strong feeling that I could possibly write again. Therefore, I decide to start writing something happened in my life these days, writing something small.

Next week I am going to have three midterms...Math231,Ealc275 and Econ 102. The one I afraid most is ealc...it's about masterpieces in east asian literature. I thought it would be easy before I started to take this class and I turned this class into an honors class to get honors credit for my James Scholar. However, as time passed by, I found out that this class is not that easy as I imagined. At first, it was about some Chinese literature and Philosophy like Confucious and Tang poems. But now, we are learning about Japanese Literature like the Tale of Genji and the Tale of Heike...They are totally confusing. The names are long and difficult to remember. Some of the names even look the same! The relationships in the novels are complicated and really freak me out...I am reading the course packet and books this weekend...I hope I can survive from the midterm...

How about talking about something happy? The spring break is coming!!! My plan is first going to San Francisco for about five days and then going back to Chicago for three days. I choose San Francisco because I really really want to go to somewhere warm, somewhere with sunshine and beach. Champaign is toooo cold...I have heard that the Chinatown in San Francisco is really nice and I just cannot wait to eat Asian food there! I miss Chinese food...

Okay...I really need to go back the review for the midterms next week...I hate midterms but I have to take them...Everybody feels the same I guess. Hah! Good luck with me><...And good luck to everyone~

Comparison and Contrast

Thesis statement:
Cats and dogs have distinctive personalities.

Topic1:
Dogs are active and cats are more passive.
Supporting details:
We can compare dogs and cats to human beings. Dogs are the type of people that always talk a lot and always out-going. But cats are the kind of people that always be quiet and do not like talking much. Dogs are quite easy-going and when guests come to their homes, they will be first checking the guests to see if they will attack the familiy. After their masters express them that the guests are friendly, they will be greeting the guests as their owners. But you never wish your cats can do this. No matter who comes, they would only focus on their own business and always ignore even their owners.

Topic2
Dogs are loyal to their masters but cats are more selfish.
Supporting details:
For example, dogs listen to every order their masters say. But cats do not even see anyone as their masters. They are their own masters. Dogs may do some silly trying to please their masters when masters feel upset.However, cats will never even do this. They only please themselves while probably making the house a mess. When intruders come to the house at night, dogs will scare them away but cats will first jump, proof up their fur and find a place to hide themselves.

Topic3
Dogs like to be accompanied while cats like living alone.
Supporting details:
Dogs may feel abandoned when their masters leave them. However, cats like to stay alone even you want to be with them and hold them.Dogs live in groups and can easily accept a new comer into the group.However, cats live alone most of the time. In wild cats do form groups,but it depends on whether there is enough food to hunt. And cats rarely accept new comer to enter into their territory.

The clocks

First of all, both of the two objects are bended clocks with hands pointing to six sharp. Also, the two clocks show the same meaning that the time is flowing away like liquid. There are also differences between the two clocks. The left one is a statue but the right one is a clock painted on a picture. The left clock is hanged on a tree while the right clock is put on a cube. On the other hand, the left one is melting like ice but the right clock is being broken into pieces.

Dear John (Another movie review)

“Dear John”, is a movie I just watched last night. I remembered I wanted to watch it on the day it first released, but I failed. It was hard to find a seat in the cinema. Now, three weeks have passed. This romantic film finally came to my mind. Therefore, I crabbed a bag of popcorn and enjoyed this wonderful love story with my boyfriend.
The start was like every romantic story. One summer, on the beach, the bag of Savannah fell into the sea and John jumped into the water and got it back to her. They quickly fell in love with each other. However, as the summer went to the end, they had to face the separation. Savannah, a college girl who was studying to be a doctor, needed to go back to school. John, a soldier, who only got two weeks off per year, had to be back to the army and serve the country. In the days they were separated, they wrote to each other regularly. Due to John’s dangerous deployment, their first reunion only lasted for one day. Then John got back to the army. After not hearing from Savannah for two months, he received a letter from her and it said that she was engaged and wanted to broke up with John. John was nearly devastated emotionally and he burned all the letters Savannah wrote him. John got injured in a battle but he chose to extend after cured.
Suddenly, one day he was brought a news that his father with autistic was about to die of illness. He went back to home and told his father all he wanted to say and expressed his deep love to his father. While driving through a country road, John accidently met Savannah, who was already married. He knew that her husband was Tim, a friend of them and was paralyzed due to a cancer. Tim had been in love with Savannah since she was in college. However, Savannah and Tim were suffering from a tough life because they did have enough money to cure Tim’s cancer.
John was sad. He could not believe that their life happened to be like this. He sold all the coins his father collected and donated the money to Tim, anonymously. Finally, Tim’s cancer was cured. Then, John went back to the army, where he considered he belonged to.
I am always a sentimental person. I cried many times while watching this movie. Not only the love between Savannah and John touched me, but also the love between John and his lonely, autistic father made me cry. Love, sometimes is not about always being together. It is also a kind of love that you leave the one love and let her to live a happy life. That’s what John did. His dangerous job could not bring Savannah a concrete home. So, he just left and let her to marry someone that could bring her happiness and a warm home.