Go Shopping

I was going to SOHO on Satursday and wanted to buy ourwears, hats ,scarves and gloves because I am afraid of cold weather. I heard many people said the weather now is not cold enough and it is cool. However, I do not think so. The sound of blowing thruogh the leaves near my house was a horrible voice. In addition, I found that the leaves was starting to leave the tree. When all of the tree become bald, I think the winter is rally coming. Shopping in the SOHO where was a shopping paradise was great. I saw many pretty clothes of famous brands, but I had no courage to buy them because of the expensive price. I just bought a hat at last. If I were a rich woman, I will buy anything without a doubt. My friend, Polly, and I even went to the kids' store to shop. She chose a kid jeans which fitted her and was good looking. We walked whole day and tired. We went to eat dinner together in China town to comfort our hungry stomachs and took a rest. Even though we were tired, we enjoyed it.

A Food Party

I had an interesting party this Friday morningc, and each classmate prepared one characteristic food of his country for this party. The professor prepared Russian food that tasted vey good. Some of my classmates brought drinks and others provided for us with delicious food. I had thought which food was parpared easily and stood for my country's food on Thuredsday. Finally, I dicided to bring some sushi because doing sushin was easy to me. Although sushi is a kind of Japanese food, the flavor is Taiwanese. Thus, I got up early at eight o'clock in Friday morning and prepared anything I need. While cookong rice which took half an hour, I parepared something else, such as egg, tuna, meat, cucumber and so on. And then, I put egg, cucumber and tuna in the rice and wrap the dried laver outside the rice. Making sushi was not really hard, yet I took two hours to do it. There are all kinds of food on the table. For example, one of Asian classmates prepared my favorite food, Chinese Pie with green onion and dumplings. My teacher brought the Russian salad and Russian cookies. All of the food were delicious. We were eating, talking, listening Russian music which was brought by my teacher and taking some picrtures. All of us had a lot of fun during this class.

A Dinner Meeting

Tonight I join a dinner meeting of Project A.I.M which is a international mentoring program. I eat dinner with all of the montors, the metees and Rosa, who is the Assistant Director of Leadership Development & Multicultural Affairs Department of Student Life. In order to know each mentee and talk to us, Rosa hold a dinner meeting to us. The food that is much better than those in cafiteria of school is excellent and delicious . There are mush potato, vegatble, roasted chicken, apple pie, pumpkin pie and soft drink on the desk. After dinner, we have a small meeting because Rosa wants to understand how we have felt in this group for six weeks. If we have any problems or questions aboout our mentors or this group, Rosa will be willing to help us. In fact, most of our mentors are friendly and kind, like our friends, so we have no big problems with them. Moreover, Rosa tell her story and share her experience to us. She give us a thought that what attitude the international students shoud take. I remember one sentence she said," the more difficult you have, the more chaces you are used to this enviornment." She not only encourages us, but also give us confindence to speak out. Thus, I have a great time tonight and I thanks for Rosa, my mentors and the Project A.I.M.

My Midterm Week

Last week is a midterm week. In fact, most of the classes I take this semester dealy one week. So, this week is really my midterm week. One of the midterm of my classes is even dealy to next week. It takes almost three weeks to take some tests. Although I am tired, I think it is just a start because I still have a final trem which is waiting for me in the end of this semester. The midterm is a standard or a signal to students. For one thing, I have a half semester. For another, I know which class I do not understand completely after the midterm. So, I have to pay more attention to the class or talk to the professor to find the solution. Due to the fact that I hate the test, I hope the midterm will end as soon as possbible. In addtion, I am planning one day visiting the Metropolitan Mesum of Art which is the hottest place after the test. While the winter comes, the best way to avoid feeling cold is that to do indoor activities, such as watching movies, seeing the muscials, going to the mesum, etc.. By the way, I will carry out my plans after the midterm. Now, I have to face the music to prepare the test.

Running

I like watch the sport game and I also enjoy doing some exercise, such as running, tennis, badminton, volleyball etc.. I have not exercised for almost two monthes and I am eager to stretch my body. So, I decide to run outside around my house. The weather today is not bad which has sunshine and wind. I wear my red hat,red clothes and red sport pants. I run on the sidewalk and see the adorable house on the both side of the road. Each house has its own characteristic and most of the house have beautiful frontcourt where plant nice flowers or neat grass. For example, the exterior of some houses are like the Mediterranean style and others are like British castles. In addition, the Halloween is coming, I see some families start to decorate their house with many pumpkins to welcome childre. Running is not boring at all. Although the wind is cold, my body is hot and sweat. When the winter comes, I am supposed to go the gym with a variety of equipment in the school. After running, it is a great time to take a hot shower and drink orange juice. Thus, Doing some exercise has lots of advantage. I not only burn my calories, but also strengthen my body.

Enjoy The Sunshine

The weather of New York is chageable in one day. I think it is like a girl because sometime it has a heavy rain with lighting and thunder, and somtimes it is a sunshine day. Now, October, I feel a little clod little by little. It is hard for me to image how cold it will be in New York. There is no sonw in my homecounty and the temperature is nerver below 32 degree Fahrenheit. So, I am afraid of the winter coming. However, I am looking forward to the winter.
This Tuesday, the weather is pretty good. The Sun shine bright and warm. My writing teacher gives a good suggestion to go to the writing class outside. It is cool that sitting on the grass to learn. I enjoy not only the class, but also the sunshine. I can hear the flying voice of a plan and see may people walking by in class, but it is not a big deal at all. After class, I take some time to dry my bottom of my pants because there is a little wet. Despite this, I still have lots of fun.

The Moon

When I walked on the home way after washing all of my dirty clothes on Friday evening, I saw a big circle moon hanging on the East sky. Suddenly I found out that Friday is the Mid-Autumn festival which was one of three important festivals in my home county which each member in the family got together. Sometimes I had BBQ celebration and I had to taste the traditional food, moon cake. The circle moon usually represented round and united. There were lots of legends about the moon in my county. This festival was much more different than before. It was my first time no parent around me to celebrate the Mid-Autumn festival. However, I was not alone. I had roommates and classmates to accompany me here. I was surprised that I was also able to eat the traditional food, moon cakes, which were bought by one of my roommate from China town. I did not wait for eating them because I smelt the flavor of the home county. The moon cake decreased my serious homesick. Tonight I had a leisure time eating delicious moon cakes and seeing the round moon on the black sky.

My Fair Lady

I see a greatest musical film called My Fair Lady in my speaking class. I have remembered that my first time to see that musical was six years ago. This movie The plot summary is that the main actor is an English Linguistics Professor who teaches the actress who is a poor and uneducated flower girl how to pronounce and speak properly. The actor even describes the voice of the actress is like animal sound. How terrible it's. The actress did not pronounce correctly and did not speak clearly because of her heavy Cockney accent. And then she practices day and night and finally overcome this problem to become a fair lady. One famous sentnce in the plot says, "the rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain." This sentence are composed of one ayllable words and the vowel is much similiar. It is a good sentence to practice pronouncing. Thus, I know why my English teacher recommend this movie to me. I find that the main actress in the moive is Audery Hepburn who is my ideal model forever. She is really beautiful and elegant. I think this characteristic is suitale for her very well. After watching this movie, I highly recommend it and want to buy the DVD of My Fair Lady.

The Statue of Liberty

When listening to the national song of America, which things do you think about? For me, I think about the Statue of Liberty which is one of the most famous view spots in New York. It also can stand for the symbol of the United States of the America. When I decided to study abroad in New York few months ago, I made a decision in my mind that I must went to see the Statue of Liberty at least once in my life. Fortunately, I have a good chance to go there and just spend $5 for one day trip.
I take a ferry form New York Harbor to Statue of Liberty excitedly. The weather is good enough to be able to see the Manhattan skyline on the ferry. I see The Empire State Building and others I do not know the name. The views are spectacular and amazing. Although I often go to the Manhattan, I seldom see the whole Manhattan view. While arriving to the Statue of Liberty, I can not believe my eyes that the Statue of Liberty is virtually in front of me. However, I feel a little disappointed that I do not climb up the pedestal observatory to see the insider’s of the Statue of Liberty because I have no adequate time. So, this short trip induces me to go there again.

Cafe Lalo

I believe that everyone know the movie, You’ve Got Mail, and do not forget the restaurant, Café Lalo, in which the actor and the actress met in the plot. My cousin, Martina, who have completed her master degree in England this year visited me on last weekend before going home. She wanted to go to the only one coffee shop that see in the movie called You’ve Got Mail because that movie is one of her most favorite movies. Martina and I found out the address of the coffee shop and planned to drink a cup of coffee in it to feel the romantic atmosphere. We pretended that we are the actress with a book and a red rose which are like in the film and waited for the actor. Ha! Ha! We were in the daydream.

In addition, I recommended the cake in the coffee shop are delicious. I did not love eating the cake very much because I disliked too much sugar in the dessert. Honestly speaking, I accepted the flavor of the cake in the coffee shop, Café Lalo. I think It was a wonderful dessert restaurant for me.