Saturday, November 29, 2008

Essay 6 Thanksgiving Break

As I know, thanksgiving is one of American traditional festivals. It’s a break for everyone to get together with family. So on these days, most students go back home and be together with their families. However, in China, we don’t have it so this is my first experience to have Thanksgiving break. Since I can’t go back home with 5 days I hang out with my friends most of time. As yesterday, I went to Kansas city with my friends and I had a wonderful time. We went shopping and had meal in a nice restaurant. We arrived at shopping mall in the morning around 10 am. When I got there I was shocked because there were so many people which I didn’t expect. And many items were on sale. As a girl, I love shopping and I went shopping as long as I was free when I was in China. But since I am in Maryville, I didn’t go shopping that often because it’s not that convenient without a car. Therefore, I was very excited and kept shopping for 5 hours without any rest. After shopping, we were starving, so we decided to eat something. But there were so many nice restaurants in Kansas city that we had argument about which one we were going to. A friend recommended us Thai food. As most of us had never tasted Thai food then we went to a Thai restaurant and had meal there. Some Thai food look like Chinese food but the taste were very different. The food I ordered was simbal chicken which had special sauce in it but was very nice and delicious. We all had a wonderful meal. Even I can’t go back home or be with my family,I still have a nice break with my friends that is great.

Friday, November 21, 2008

Essay 5 My Hometwon Cont. Pictures
























































Essay 5 My Hometown

There is a very beautiful metropolis located in Northeast China. It is also the capital of Liaoning province in northeast China. It is famous for its heavy industry and used to be the industrial basis of China before. It’s also an important commercial center and transportation of China’s northeast region. I’m very proud of telling you guys that this wonderful city is my hometown-Shenyang and I’d like to introduce my hometown briefly to everybody. First, Shenyang is a very big and lively city with gay night life. At there, tall buildings are everywhere so most people live in tall buildings. And streets are very busy during day time. Even at nights, the city is still very beautiful. It is sprinkled with countless lights everywhere. You would think that it would be quiet at nights, but it’s not true. At there, a lot of shopping malls and restaurants are 24-hour opening so you can go shopping and eating whenever you want which is very convenient. Next, my hometown is a very pleasure and nice place to stay. Because it’s location, there has no any disaster like earthquake, flooding, hurricane etc. Thereby, it used to be the sub-capital for ancient emperors and empresses. And then, Shenyang is an old and historical city so many monuments are remained there. As every Chinese knows, the second Forbidden City is located in Shenyang. Even it is not as big as the one in Beijing its grandiosity still attracts countless visitors every year. Besides Forbidden City, many other relics are well-known all over the world. Like Xinle Remains, Sheli Tower, Zhang Mansion. Last, the food there are awesome and you may taste every kind of Chinese food in Shenyang. In my hometown, there are a number of restaurants and you can get all Chinese Quisines there. The food like dumpling, hot pot, Chinese BBQ, those are my favorite. Not only this, If you are brave enough, you may try some special and strange food like worms, snakes, animal livers and so on. As a metropolis, Shenyang is growing and developing day by day and being known by more and more foreigners. The people there are very friendly and pleasure to welcome all foreigners from everywhere. I’m so proud that I have such an awesome hometown.

Friday, November 14, 2008

Essay 4 The Greatest Journey

When I see this title, the first thought jumped into my head is my first journey to Europe this summer. To me, it is one of the most beautiful memories which I will not forget ever and never. I had thought about traveling to Europe for long before but I didn’t have any chance. But since I have studied in America, I get much more free time than I was in China. So I asked myself, since I have four months long vacation in summer, then why not making my dream come true. Then I made my plan for summer which was going to Europe for two months. Thereby, I decided to travel to several countries in Europe which are Italia, France, Belgium and Holland. I had a lot of great memory and interesting stories in those countries.


I go to Venice firstly for about two weeks and the most impressed thing is boats. As everyone knows, Venice is famous for water and it is called “ the city on water. ” Even I knew it before but I was still shocked when I got there. Because you can see water everywhere. Thereby, the vehicle there is boat. There are two types of boats, one is water bus which look like public bus on land. This type of boats are very common so you can see them everywhere and the ticket for one person is not that expensive, it’s around 20 euro for three days. The other is tourist boat which typically for tourists but the ticket for it is very expensive. Durning daytime, it coasts around 100 euro for one person. Even it’s expensive I still took it because it would be a special experience which I might not have anymore.


My second destination is Paris and its architecture impressed me a lot. Paris is known as the most romantic city in this world, but its architecture is also famous. The building there is very typical and unique. You can feel the ancient culture of Paris everywhere becaause of its building. When I was walking on the street, I always could see various statues standing on the top or enchasing in the interior surface of the walls.


In Belgium, drinking has become the culture of people there . No doubt, one of the most famous things of Belgium is its beer and alcohol. Even I don't like alcohol I tasted a lot because it’s the symbol of Belgium. Walking on the stree, you can see bars everywhere which for people to drink something as well as chatting with friends. I think, drinking is an enjoyable and relaxing thing for people there.


The last place I traveled is Holland which looks more like a garden full of flowers. Actually, Holland is my favourite country because everyone knows that flowers are everywhere. So when I got there, I proved it by myself. Many different kinds of flowers are blooming on the sides of the streets, hanging beside the tops of road lights. At there, every family grows flowers and shows out on the platforms.


I did have the greatest journey in my life this summer and I saw a large number of things for real which I only saw on TV before. To me, it is a very beautiful memory and I will keep it forever.

Friday, November 7, 2008

Essay 3 Facebook

Nowaways, people tend to communicate with others on the Internet. I think the most popular with students is facebook. Thousands upon thousands students are using facebook to communicate with their friends and families. And the number is increasing day by day. According to me, facebook is not only the bridge between my friends and me but also a personal space for me to share everything with my friends. I communicate with most of my friends on facebook. Everyday the first thing I do after classes is checking my facebook to see thoes messages my friends left. Since I’m so far away from them, the most convenient way for us is talking on the facebook. We would talk about our conditions and everything happened. Facebook makes me not get far away from my friends. I also share my life with my friends like posting photoes and stories of me on facebook. On my facebook, there are many photoes and stories which record my life. I’d like to share them with my friends. I share happiness and also sadness with them. Also I like sharing my friends’ too. Facebook offers us a convenient place to communicate with friends so I appreciate. And I believe that the relationships between my friends and me will keep going well forever due to facebook!