Journal #28

Nowadays, clothes are not only for covering people's body, but also decorating people's appearance. Clothes can tell others about your personality and taste even emotion. When we see some people at the first time, we have the first impression and judgment from them. And, the judgment usually comes from clothes which he or she wears. When I take a walk in campus, I can see a lot of different kinds of clothe style. Although I don’t know them, I already have some judgment from their clothes.

Usually, we have some stereotype about clothes. For example, when we see some body who wear colorful clothes, we think they must be outgoing and easily getting along. So, we think that making friend with these kinds of people is easy and won’t be refused. Furthermore, people who wear colorful clothes usually look like more confident then other clothe style.

Sometimes, we can see people who wear the same style clothes, and then we can distinguish that they belong to which group or come from which country. For example, when we see people who wear loose clothes and paint, or lopsided cap, we can know they are really interested in hip pop culture and belong to hip pop group. On the other hand, if you see people who wear kimono, you can be sure that they come form Japan. Therefore, you can get much information form clothes.

Obviously, clothes can tell a lot of information about people. Clothes also can reflect people’s thinking and personality. Next time, when you meet some body, you can just use clothes to judge them, and then you can prove your opinion.

Journal #26

Mushrooms Chicken Soup



Mushrooms chicken soup is one of my favorite soup. In Taiwan, we usually eat this soup to improve our immunity and warm our body in winter. If somebody gets sick, family usually make this soup for the patient to supply the nutrition which lose during sick. This soup is very simple and you don't need to take a lot of time to cook. Mushrooms chicken soup is healthy and delicious.

Recipe:
1. some dry mushrooms
2. chicken
3. salt
4. a few piece of ginger

Method:
1. put dry mushrooms in cool water to be soft.
2. Put chicken in hot water until the chicken is done.
3. Put mushrooms, chicken, ginger, and water in the pot and cook 40 to 60 minutes by mid fire.

Journal #24

When I was the freshman at university, I was living in dormitory. One day my senior told me a so scare story which was happened in the opposite room of mine. It was a saturday night and heavy raining day. My senior whose name is John stayed in his room alone, because all his roommates went home. However, one of his roommate whose name is David suddenly came back. Whole his body was wet and on his face was a little bit blooding. David told my senior that he just was collided by a motocycle, but he is all right. And he just came back to take some books. After taking some books, and then David said good bye to my senior and went home. Tomorrow, my senior heared that David was dead on the yesterday because of motocycle accidnet. However, there was no any books at the accident place. And my senior checked Davis's bookshelf. The book was still on there.!! After that, no body live that room and is blocked forever~

Journal #20

"Watching TV is not a waste of time"

We are living in a rush society. Everyday, people are busy their job, study, and life. We don't have enough time to relax or release stress. One of the best way to relax is watching TV. Although some people say watching TV is a waste of time, when you feel exhausted, no-brained activity is best way to make you to relax. Therefore, watching TV is a good way to make your brain to take a rest.


First, there are a lot of channels which you can choose. You don't need to worry about watching will waste your time. you can watch educational channels which are like Discovery and National Geography. These kinds of programs can improve your knowledge and expand your interest to different fields. And also, you can watch News. I think watching News is very important everyday, because you can know what happen in the world and get the latest imformation on TV. Therefore, watching TV is helpful to people.

Second, when you watch TV with your family, you can have the same topic to discuss with your family. It is a good way to improve relationship of family. And it's maybe the only time that you can get together with your family, because everybody is so busy to their business. For example, I like to watch TV with my family. At that time, we can discuss the program, and talk about our interesting thing in taht day.

In conclusion, according to those reasons, watching TV is not a waste of time. You can get knowledge and imformaiton from TV. And also you can have chance to get together with your family.

Journal #19

Halloween means nothing to my culture. But in Taiwan, we have one month to respect the ghost during July to August. And we call that "the door of ghost is opened" in this period. In this month, all of ghost come to human's world and some temples are colsed. Therefore, we will put some food and alcohol on the table. It means we respect them and make them feel full. Furthermore, in this period, parents always warn their children don't go to beach to swim or go to trip. Because the ghost woud like to catch some people. I think in every country people have different ways to express their feeling to ghost. Despite believing or not, we should respect different culture.

Journal #17

If I could visit any place in the World,I would like to go to North pole. Because in North pole the geography, biology and weather are total different from our living enviroment. First, I wanna see glacier. Because I always see the glacier which made many amazing geography of earth on TV. Glaciers must have great power and be gorgeous. And also I want to experience to stand, run, and lie on the glaciers. I think it's will be funny. Second, there are some special animal in North pole like penguin, polar bear...Although I can see them in zoo, seeing them in North pole must be shaked to me and I want to know how they can live in this kind of cruel enviroment. Final, the weather in North pole must be pretty cold. I want to experience the weather which is coldest in the world. Furthermore, I heared that I can see the galaxy on the sky in the North pole. I really want to see this amazing view. This is why if I could visit any place in the world, I would like to go to North pole.

Journal #15

Recently, I am thinking about the language problem of international students. I have some friends who come from different countries. Sometimes, we get together to eat meal or drink, but some friends like to talk in their native language. I thnk it's a kind of impolite, because others can't understand what you are talking about. And also I don't like to say "ha~please speak English. I think we should know to respec other friends who come from different countries. I know to speak native language is comfortable and can express your meaning correctly. But our goal is learning English when we come to America. Sometimes I really got angry about this. Am I too narrow mind?