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Jan 10 Hobby I especially have fun with painting. It can help me express my feelings. Because of the long time winter break, it is hard to adapt the stressful study at the beginning of new quarter. So I use my spare time to paint. It is the best way to express my emotions, different emotions would let me paint different things. It can help me unwind, take my mind off the stressful study and spice up my life; and it is also can cultivate my temperament. After painting, I can more concentrate on my study.
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Jan 11 My journal is about how to study for a test. For a student, it is really approcah to our daily life. There are some brief points about this topic. Fist of all, we need go to class everday and listen carefull for the points that teacher talked. Seconly, we need have a good notes to help us understand well about the course. And also reading book carefully and highlight some important points. Last but not the least, we need review all the important points before the exam.

Jan 12 The rate of advanced scinence and technology is incredible fast. Communication technology is making great changes in the ways we live and have turned our world into a "Globle Village". The world is becoming smaller and smaller. There are some hi-tech products help us to communicate, such as computers and telephones. Modern technology shorten the distance from time and space. We can communicate with others from every concern of the world. Communitation technology has made the world a better place to live.

Jan 13 Yesterday, I saw a film which is called "Life As We Know It". It is a comedy. According to this movie, it is describe that a man and a woman take care of a child which is not their baby. It has lots of fun during this movie. Finally, they found that they are family. That makes me think about life is full of changes. The most inportant is love in our life. Maybe it is really difficult to definite the meaninf of love, but we can feel that everyday.

Are there any movies influences your life? Generally, movies are the amusements which appear in daily life. On the one hand, watching movies can help people unwind, take their minds off the stressful study or work and spice up their life. On the other hand, movies teach the philosophy of life, learn different cultures and history, and look for some special experience you can’t experience in real-life. Movies are popular all over the world. Watching movies is the best way to express emotions, because different movies involve different moods.
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Jan. 18 The Chinese Spring Festivial will coming soon. So I want write something about this holiday in China. This year the date of Spring Festivial will on Feb.2. we celebrate Spring Festival to welcome a new year. Unlike Christmas which lasts 7 days, Spring Festival is as long as 15 days, from the 1st day of lunar calendar to the 15th. Secondly, The most ex citing night must be the eve. There is a big family reunion all family members, sit around the same table, eating, drinking and chit-chatting. Without sleeping that night, we stay up by Spring Festival gala. “Eve” is also called ChuXi: Chu in English means to drive away; Xi is a horrible creature which comes to our world once a year to destroy our homes. Last, we deliver our best wishes to everyone at the very beginning of a year. The elders seal the money into red envelopes and hand them out to the kids to symbolize they are growing one year older safely and peacefully.

Jan. 19 When Americans meet each other on the street, they will say something like that, “How are you?” or “what’s up?”. That can show their friendly and polite. After the conversation, they will say “Have a nice day.” Compared with Americans, Chinese don’t make a conversation like that. Another behavior of Americans is that how to use “excuse me”. In china, our books just told us, “When you ask someone questions, you should use excuse me”. But now, I know more about how to use this word. For example, there is a joke tells us about an old lady in the airport. After she sneezes, she expects others say something to her. But Chinese don’t know. So this old lady continues to sneeze, but nothing happened. She feels disappointed. When someone sneezes, you should say “God bless you” in American culture. But most Chinese don’t know, so they don’t say anything. That left a bad impression to foreigners.

Jan. 21 I have strong affection of reading. The writer’s name is LUOLUO and the book’s name is Finally We Are No One. The story is talk about the friendship. I think that growing up is a cruel thing. We should give up a lot of things in the past, but our hearts and memories will not change. People in life are like on the bus, some people train with you just halfway or less. You may find that most people have changed during this train at final destination. But there are still some people make a deep impression to you. There are many kinds of friends that we have. But the numbers of real friends are really small in your life. To a person, few real friends are enough. I think the definition of real friends is that even we are not in same city, maybe different country; we were still care about our friends. Week 3 Jan, 26  When I am reading some English materials. I feel uncomfortable. I think there are three reason. At first, I meet a lot of vocubulary I have never seen them. They are too long to understand based on context. When I meet those words, my pronuncicrtion will be strange and inaccurate. The second reason is tone that it is difficult for some people who have different from language system. When speaking English loudly, Americans may feel weird and don't understand what you are talking about. Under these cirunmstences, I am helpless with embarrassment. And the third one is speed. I spend a lot of time to read a professional paper that American may doa in thirty minutes. Jan, 27 Considering writing the TOEFL composition, I feel nauseous. Not only do I have to come up with some good idea in five minutes, but also I need pay more attention to grammar mistakes. I will get some sample mistakes on grammar when just following my train of thought. In general, if there is a computer with me when I am writing in English. I will care less about vacubulary problems and grammar mistakes. Because I can check them by dictionary, and it is easy to find examples that show me how to use this words correctly. Under these situation, I am happy to write down my opinion. I believe I love to write in English when I can use English like Chinese I do. Jan 29 Initially, the Sumerians’ inventions and innovation are remarkable contributions. Many of the things we are still use today. There are some inventions that the Sumerians accomplished, such as wheels and writing. One of the most important notable inventions, which still use today, is wheels. It is easy for them to transport some heavy things. As time goes by, they improve the wheels. Another important invention is writing. They use pictures to writing and they try to make them standardization. However, they can’t recognize some pictures and words after some centuries. The writing system became developed when the cuneiform appears. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Jan 30 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Animals should release and live carefree life as human companions. Intentional imprisonment of those animals is against their nature. All caged animals are eager to return to steep mountains, winding rivers, and dense forests. If you stepped into a zoo, the small cages all full of your eyes. Zoos are taking animals out of their natural habitat. Because animals have lost most of their natural habitat, they are on the precipice of extinction. Although their living and eating conditions in zoos are better than the nature, animals are belongs to the wild, not imprison in zoos. Even animals are under the best environment in zoos, they still need do natural things, like running, flying, climbing, looking for foods and choosing a partner. Feb 2 Unlike Christmas which last 7 days, Spring Festival is as long as 15 days, from 1st day of lunar calender to the 15th. The most exciting night must be the eve. There is a big family reunion all family members sit around the same table, eating, drinking and chit-chatting. Without sleeping that night, we stay up by Spring Festival gala. Then we deliver our best wishes to everyone at the beginning of a year. The elders seal the money into red envelopes and hand them out to the kids to symbolize they are growing one year older safely and peacefully.

Feb 3 Xi'an is my hometown, which is located in the central part of China, the capital city of Shaanxi province. Over 2000 years, Xi'an was the capital for 13 dynasties, and these dynasties have left us with rich legacy, such as Big Boose Pagoda, ancient city wall. Xi'an was one of the first stops of Buddism preched in China. As you may find, Famen Temple is the only temple in mainland China to have the true relics of Sakyamuni. Besides, Xi'an is a munufacturing city, mainlu due to the well- developed education here.

Feb 4 Today, I went to Kroger to buy some flowers. When I take it home, I think it can helo me unwind, take my mind off from the stressful study and spice up my life. It can even broaden my horizon, enrich my knowledge and cultivate my temperament, when flowers are in full blossom. They are very showy and fragrance is intoxicating.

Feb 5 Different peop;e value different aspects of a good teacher. Being inspiring is the most important quality of good teacher. Good teachers should be those that bring hopes to their students. They encourage and motivate their students to think theri own act on their own abd take adventures. As a result, they should bring out the best in their students.