Zi+Yang

Jun 13th 2011 I read an ariticle about influences of tobacco today. Some movies exert bad influences on teenage behaviors. According to Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly “Children who had no movie restrictions, 35 percent had tried smoking and 46 percent had tried alcohol.” (2/25/2002 Vol.14 Issue 8, p8, 1/6p), However, Children who had movie restrictions only about 10 percent had ever tried smoking and alcohol. These statistics strongly demonstrate that movies really effect teens a lot on certain degree.

Jun 14th, 2011 To celebra te one of my friends' birthday, she used her flex to buy an ice cream cake for us. It is a little bit sad to celebrate a birthday abroad, especially for 18-year-old. In Chinese culture, 18 means you have grown up and become a real adult. So it is always an impressive day for us. And I hope today could become a wonderful day in my friend’s memory with our accompaniment.

Jun 15th 2011 Today is the first of our long weekend. I don't want to do anything about homework, but, apparently, I have to deal with this boring daily writing journal. I would like to go Columbus for a delicious meal of Chinese style this weekend if possible. Of course, I have to prepare for the millions of quizes in the coming week.

Jun 16th 2011 Lots of stuff are due on today. Obviously, today is a really busy day. I begin missing the days I spent in Vancouver this winter break before I come back to Athens. During that period the weather and view in Vancouver were so impressive. I went skiing there. A lot of great sushi restaurants locate in the downtown of Vancouver. The beautiful sight of UBC's campus is awesome.

**Jun 20th 2011**
The snow is really big outside today. But I have to have my management course this afternoon. Because of the free ice skating today, my roommate and I was planning to go ice skating after my management course this night. However, apparently, it is not a fitting weather to go outside this night. And also because of this sudden heavy snow, I have to cancel my trip to Columbus this weekend. However, Athens in snow looks more gorgeous than ever before in my mind.

The score of my first music course quiz is available on today. It was really impressive that I got full points correct for this quiz. The weather of these days is so cold that I cannot stay outside even for 20 minutes long. In addition, the weather ruined my plan of going swimming again. However, as weekend begins, I plan to go ice skating. Because bird arena will close for recreational skating in February which will be coming soon.
 * Jun 21th 2011**

I got a test this Thursday. In order to prepare it I didn’t go to dining hall frequently for having meals this week. So I have to buy lots of snacks by flex. What a mess week it is! I think I’d better change my schedule from now on.
 * Jun 22th 2011**

My roommate have tried her new eye-liner which she bought yesterday. It looks so great. Nowadays, It is a common phenomenon that College girls make up themselves regularly. that can be understood easily for me. Because make-up can make someone look not only cute but also lively. In addition, girls will have more confidence to do everything.
 * Jun 23th 2011**

Jun 27th 2011 I am going to go swimming after I finish this writing journal later. Since this quarter begins I haven't been to swimming pool. That is one of the reasons why my weight have been rising rapidly recently; therefore, I decide to reschedule my spare time for the rest of this quarter. Because I think I need more sports to control my weight. Talk about sports. It is so necessary to human beings that people should do some exercise every single day to keep a good health, especially for university students.

Jun 28th As we all know that China and America have totally different cultures that might cause the different conversation customs. As a Chinese studying in US, I’ve noticed that Americans are good at chatting no matter what situations they are in. They could chat with waiters when having dinners in restaurants. Sometimes they would like to talk with some guys they didn’t even know in public. However, usually, Chinese don’t feel like conversing with unfamiliar people, especially in public. In addition, the conversation styles are also different between Chinese and Americans. For example, Chinese would like to ask friends Have you eaten instead of How are you. From this point we could interpret that Chinese have different conversation styles with Americans.

Jun 29th One of my friends send me a message to confirm our meeting on thurday. We are going to have dinner tagether next thurday in Campus Garden, my friend is an local person, I decide to have some delicious Chinese with her. Hope we will have a great dinner together then.

Jun 30th I have made a presentation about the increasing price of oil in managment course this thurday. Thought oil's rise have not yet cause the inflation in US theseday, It is more a threat to economic growth than it is a sign of inflation. So it is still an obstacle of economic recovery.

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 We have just celebrated our Chinese new year these days. It was so exciting althought we still have classes these days. Instead of stay with my parents I spend this spring festival this year. =====

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 I was doing my management information system homework just now. the homework which due by this weekend is a little bit difficult for me. The instructor taught us to do a site which is use to sell our own apps. The site include navigation bar which shows different pages visitors can click on. We can buy each others apps after visit others' site. Although the assignment is a little bit complicated, it is so interesting. =====

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 Saturday again. There is a great celebration for Chinese new year which is also called Spring Festival in this afternoon. this celebration was held by cssa which is an association consisting of Chinese students at Ohio University. This was really an awesome celebration, especially for international students like us. =====

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 Today is th deadline of submitting my management information system's homework. I have almost spent the whole day in library to figure out how to complete it. Finally, after I finished it in the end, I cannot submit it on line. This really drive me nut. So I have to go to the helping center ask for help. =====