JOURNAL#13

I have been here for around 2 months and I am still trying to figure out the way of living here. We have met each other for more than seven years. Time flies , we are going to experience another stage of our life which is totally different from being a student and maybe it is more difficult.I hope you can do the thing you like to do and don't be overwhelmed by the reality. I miss the time that we stay and hang out together and the things we have been

through. I feel ease to stay with you guys and just like one of you had ever said the relationship between us is like the string and kite. Even though we are not usually to contact each other at all, we still attach to each other. I know it's hard to meet the person who is similar to yourself and I am glad to meet you guys. cheer up!!!

JOURNAL#12

The movie Cinderella Man is the one which impressed me the most recently. The class required us to read the book and to watch the movie. And the background of story takes place in New York and New Jersey during the Great Depression, a time that people experienced the worst economic hardship in U.S. history. James J. Braddock (Russell Crowe) was a light heavyweight boxer who was forced to retired from the ring after breaking his hand in his last fight. And the whole story described how he fought for himself and his family. He gave the hope to those people were suffered from the Great depression. I was able to understand the whole movie completely due to the preview of the book. For me, I think the story is touching when it describes the interaction between him and his family.

JOURNAL#11

After taking the eight weeks of composition, I had found out that the basic ideas of writing a paragraph. At first, I was a little bit confused about the concepts from the text book because I ha never learned the composition in this way. By these following weeks, I got to know what element should a parapragh possess which may include the sapce order and enough details to describe the subject. However, I think my grammer is still not stroung enough and sometimes I will still confuse about the tense. Moreover, I can't come up with any idea to support my paragraph in the topic that I am not interested in or the field I am not familiar with. So, I should try to work on this part.

JOURNAL#10

Last weekend, one of my roommates held a pot luck party to invite her friends and coworkers to our home to have dinner together. And it was my first time to hear this word pot luck which means a gathering of people where each person is expected to bring a dish of food to be shared among the group. At the time that I received the invitation from my roommate, I started to wonder what kind of dish I can bring to this party. Apparently, I am not at cooking at all. Therefore, I decided to bring the salad to the pot luck party and went to the supermarket to get the lettuce and some different kinds of dressing. The party started at around 8 clock and people just came in succession and we just to grab some food and drink to enjoy the Saturday's night. I am glad to meet these new friends and also able to practice English with the native speakers.