Candlelight Dinner--An Old Irish Man and Several Chinese Kids' Story

I didn't know how to express my pleasant and appreciation when saw the scene: in Dan's "Old Irish Course", he prepared a table of beautiful dinner with candle light. It was amazing! How much he value our friendship and how he likes us! Looking at the candle at the middle of the table, I couldn't say a word. I need learn how to express emotion, I think. When each dish is ready, he raised his goblet and said, "To my mom." Kevin, Holly, Lerry and I stood up and cheered with Dan. "Thank you, Dan!"

The main dish was rump roast and gravy, of which cooking guidance written by Dan and has even been published in a cooking book. It was his mom's favorite. I can feel the emotion of missing a person, deep and soul. It covers a person's heart that bleeds day and night. I haven't seen Mom for more than a year. This night I was moved, cried in heart.

During the dinner, Dan told some stories and explained his life philosophy. His mom let him make ten boxes and put his troubles into the boxes, sit on them and laugh. What a funny story! That shaped his sense of humor. When his daughters grew up and about to leave home, he told them, "The most important job you should do is, be happy," he interpreted, "'be happy' doesn't mean 'have fun'. Have a lot of fun but do nothing valuable would be boring. Nobody like that kind of life. To be happy, is to know what you want to do in life, have goals, go for them, and accomplish them. Enjoy the process and accept the result." I've had a very important lesson tonight. An old Irish man's life philosophy is like the traditional Irish music.

We listened to more music and watched the slideshow of pictures taken on the sailing day. We laughed, talked, memorized details of that trip, and thanked God giving us these opportunities to get together and have good times.

I really appreciate it. On November 11, we will have some work in the Job Affair. I wish I am helpful for Dan. Trouble makers like it. Ha ha!!!

Review--"A Very Long Engagement"

“A very long engagement” is one of the most moving movies I have ever watched. It tells a story about a young lady who gathers information from returning soldiers in order to figure out what on earth her fiancé was alive or dead. People think it is a love story, but for me, it is more like a suspense and consequence movie. Do you know why? Because the whole story is like a mystery that leads audience guess and infer the characters’ destiny. As the story happened during the World War I, people suffered from terrible wars and wished to live in peace. Love was luxury for them; it guides today’s people review peace and love in contemporary life.

Audrey Tautou performs Mathilde, a pretty lady who has engaged with Manech, performed by Caspard Ulliel. Manech and other four Frenchmen are sent to frontline to battle against Germen. The war finally ends and the survival soldiers return home. They bring bad message to Mathilde, tell her that Manech has already dead and burned. But she doesn’t believe it. She insists to search for information from all possible sources no matter how hard and dangerous the searching is. She gives herself hope, but each time she fails to get a satisfied result. The lighting divides the film into two themes: one is bright and harmony light that emphasizes the beauty of peace and love; the other light character is dark and cold, which shows audience a cruel and ugly war. Two styles of scenes are completely different from each other and highlight the theme. In addition, scenes change through reality and memory, which lead audiences seek for clues together with the female character. So this film is presents in a consequence way. It attracts people to continue watching it, but it is hard to understand some specific details.

“A Very Long Engagement” is a drama; it has influenced many people and lead people think about the relationship between families and wars. It is a creative film because it contrast loving and killing in through a lady’s life seeking for her fiancé. This is Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s second famous movie following the movie named The Fabulous Destiny of Amelie Poulain. Love can encourage people to do what they believe is right. Mathilde’s love goes on and on, which remands me the most famous movie “Titanic”. No matter how much time goes, how the world changes, true love lasts for a life time.

http://www.fandango.com/averylongengagement_85866/movieoverview

Introspection

She is my classmate in economics class. The first day we study toghter, I found her very good at analysing and gets involved all the time. I think that expains why she was one of the two selected studying abroad students in PUC. She plans to study from 6:00p.m. to midnight in Star Bucks. I make up my mind to have a trade-off--go to Star Bucks and study with her instead of going to the Chinese Food party and have fun with friends.

Even I made this desicion, she pointed out that I am not like a crazy studying student. Yes, she is so clever that needles my weakness. It feels cool because she helped me to face to my weakness. I was shocked. A student like me who stops on the enderstanding level isn't a really good student. Whole A grade could only be a daytime dream if I don't refuse those external noises such as parties and trips.

I'm typing in SUL now, thinking about my future, regreting that I have wasted amount of time. I'm Not Positive Enough,She Is Right! I must change my situation!

Wellcome to my Purdue Space~My friends~

http://student.calumet.purdue.edu/~wang113/

Reflect on the ENGL 396 CALL class

This semester I have learnt some basic skills of using dream waver and movie maker. The last project, my favorite place slide show is my favorite. Because it's much more complex than the other ones. It concludes both visual project and sound. Also I need to match them at the best second. Moreover, this kind of media tool is really useful for me because I am looking forward to make something interesting via movie maker.
This semester, in English 396 CALL class I started my account on face book and blogger. They gave me a lot of happiness~ I love the feelings that reading comments written by friends. I also like to give some comments to others.
One day, in the library I saw a book by accident. The book teaches people how to use dream waver. I was surprised that dream waver has so many inner useful aspects that I had never known about. I think what I have learnt from this class is far less than I really need to know about in the future. As a result, I decide to make some project by myself, just do something interesting.

For the final project, my partner Jim and I will make a project which topic is transportation. We will introduce the evolution of transportation as a history progress. It will be an interesting journey to learn and pay attention to transportation.
I am going to make a project about diary after this semester. An electronic diary book, better than the one in the movie Princess Diary. That's a plan by now. I will accomplish it in summer. Good luck, Doris!

Transportation~~

My partner and I chose transportation as our topic. As we know, transportation concludes many branches which evolute year by year. It is not a difficult topic, however, it is not easy to chose a perfect way to name them by categories. For example, we thought of time lines, electronic lines, evolution lines, and distance lines.
Finally, after discussing, we decided to make them to different categories, on the land, in the water, and in the sky. So the problem is solved. The next step was much easier and the progress goes quickly.
It is my first time to make a project like this. There may be some other problems in the following days, but I am prepared to face to difficulties. Just do it!

My Favorite Place--Metropolitan Museum of Art

My favorite place is Metropolitan Museum of Art. It is located to the east of the Central Park in New York City. The museum is the best one I have ever visited in my life. It was so marvelous and graceful, like a princess who is going to become a queen. My tour to the museum was on January 2, 2009. My friends and I spent all day in the building and enjoyed it all the time. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world’s biggest galleries.

The art works are displayed all around. When stand in the hall, I feel I am covered by art, from the roof to the floor, from my head to my toes.
Some of the departments are dark because the museum tries to build the most likely atmosphere. For example, the time I went there was in winter, and there was a huge Christmas tree on the first floor. I remember that the lights on the tree were not the same with simple Christmas trees. They were bow shaped. I really enjoyed staying under the tree.
I like this museum because it has many my favorite painter, Monet’s works, include Water Lilies, The Path, and so on. With great passion, I visited the greatest artists’ works and was shocked by the marvelous paints.
Great art works have magic to attract people. I remember that day when I saw this painting, I couldn’t help to stop there and I lost myself in the painting. That was amazing experience.
I almost lost myself in the modern art display hall. I have to say that I don’t really understand all the works and the deep meaning of the projects. How extraordinary, I had that chance to spend my whole day with the greatest art works in the museum. That is a place I will never forget! Whenever I think of that place, my heart flies to enjoy the atmosphere again.

That Place

That is a place where I can leave masses away because I put my heart in what I am supposed to do. That is a place where I can hide myself and stay closer with plants.
There are so many students in this school, every day I see the crowds go through the paths. Sometimes I have a sense of fulfill, while some times I feel tired.
I tried to find some place to relax and calm down to do something I really enjoy. Some people like the library and I also enjoy the separated desks. but I prefer the feelings that stay closer with plants, in other words, the nature. So I choose the first floor, the student lounge.
The place I like is the only one that Chinese students don't visit often. When set myself to a place filled with strangers, I am more concentrated with what I should focus on.

Live in Real World

Just now I watched a movie named Battlestar Galactica which tells a story about people and wars in space. I was tired after watching that movie for two reasons: one is the buffer was even disaster and the other is that the visual was complex. In fact, it is a good movie and was on the first place of website HULU.COM. any way I don't really enjoy this kind of movie that tells about ridiculous wars out of the earth. Some people think the fiction may take place someday, but who knows? At the end of the movie, the main characters returned to the earth and began regular life with their partners. I love the part that they expressed real emotion on the clear grassland. Compare with the fierce war, peace life is more valuable and enjoyable.
I smelled the carnations on my windowsill, tell myself that value the life here in this small and peace town in the United States. What do people desire to own is always the things they have not got yet. Just take it easy, you will feel better, so do I.

Fly, Fly, Fly A Kite

Kites have become my friends since I was a child. I remember the melody of a song, where are the kites in the sky? Where are we once upon a time? They all disappeared.

One afternoon I saw someone flying a kite on campus. That day the weather was warm and the wind was strong, and the bright sun shines to bring me happy mood. But I had a feeling of lose when I saw someone flying a kite. I didn't know why was that.

Every spring, there are a lot of people fly kites at the bank of the river in my hometown. When I was in high school, I really enjoyed to fly a kite with friends there. The wind and clouds created a natural painting which exists in other to highlight the kite, the colorful kite, and my life in high school. Today everything is different. I love my life here in PUC, but nostalgia is like a piece of cloud that always can be seen when I look up to the kite. Anyway, I've lost my childhood. In some cases, kites comfort me a lot.

And a song flies with the kite: fly fly fly a kite

Have Special Dinner With Friends

The first day I spent in Boston was unforgetable. My friends and I had a wonderful time having special dinner.
When the plane was landing, I felt the wind was very strong because I saw a wing of the plane shocking. The sky was grey and there were clouds hunging in the sky, not low or high. I could see the sea and beach and several islands down the land. As the airport locates on an island, the waves were seen while the plane was landing.
At the gate of parking lot, I hugged my friend, Jessie. We hadn't seen each other for a year. Then she said we would go somewhere to have dinner. Finally, after settling my bullage, Jessie and her roomate, Jiang, introduced me to a 'luxury' place to have dinner. At last the destination was their cafeteria! It was interesting to have dinner in a cafeteria in the university my friends go to because I could always find something different with the cafeteria in my university.
We ate a lot. That was the whole story. What I can remember is that we had difficulty to go back home...

The Most Beartiful Place I Have Been to

The most beautiful place I have ever been to is Hangzhou West Lake which is in east China. I can never forget the scenery there because it is so beautiful. There is a hundreds of years Chinese says, "There is a heaven up the sky; there is a West Lake down the earth."

West Lake of Hangzhou is the ideal place to live. The lake, the mountains, the bamboo paths, and the Chinese triditional gardens are perfect mixed and the whole environment is a wonderland. To live there near the lake is like living in a beautiful picture.

The climate of Hangzhou is good for people's health. This is a reason that since antient times, there were a lot of people have settled there. They created colorful culture and built beautiful houses gardens, and towers. Some of the buildings still exist today. The poems and articles related to the great interests are my favorite. I can't translate them into English because the rythem and sound may change, that destries the nature and beauty of the poems.

I have been to Hangzhou for only one time. It was in the summer of 2003. I really miss there. I miss the feelings that I sitting in a boat flowing in the center of the lake; I miss the feelings that I enjoying the wind under the green willows; I miss the feelings that I walking on the dam that my favorite poets and artists had walked on hundreds of years ago...

Hangzhou West Lake is the most beautiful place I have ever been to. The memory of that journey never ever changed. In future I will visit there again.

The Gym Surprised Me

What happened to the Gym? My lock of the cupboard in the dressing room was missing and nothing was left in the cupboard. This afternoon my friend told me about the weird accident which really surprised me.
I've never encountered something like this. Maybe there are some rules about limited time of storing. But i've never saw the rules. Maybe the staff opened my cupboards forcibly, with a reason that I have left my stuff there since a week ago. Maybe they have to clear the cupboards every other week. Maybe the people who unlocked my lock by mistake. Maybe I did something against the rule of the gym...

But there is no excuse to open student' cupboard forcibly. There was nothing but a pair of shoes in my cupborad. Although no valuable stuff was there, my trust was on my lock. As a result, my lock is missing now. It really surprised me .
A staff left my friend a voice mail that didn't explain anything about that. What we can do is to go there tomorrow to find out what happened on earth.

Will my career be perfect? My own way.

I think the person who has the most important influence on me is myself.

When I was in elemenetary school, I acted as a teacher in front of kids who were younger than me. The feeling, knowing everything that they don't know was perfect.

When I was in middle school, I wanted to be writer who publish a lot of poems and novels and have millions of readers. But finally I found it hard to realize. There is a say,'suffering makes writers'.

I've known a lot since high school. At that time I seriouly thought about my careers and found that my careers should be related to the society, economics, and arts. My parents agree with me and response me. So I came to the US to get advanced education. To be a good economist is not easy; a master's degree is necessary. Also working experience is important.

In the future the working competition will be like fire due to the economics problems. So I just have to prepare to face to the difficulties in the future. Although I know it won't be an relaxing job like painting, I choose it and believe in myselfe, never lose the way...

Will my career be perfect?

Nobody knows how many difficulties they may encounter in their work some years later. Just keep fightinig, keep dreaminig, and keep trying... You will never know until you try!

What an embarrassing thing!

Once upon a time, there was a girl who had glasses on every day when she was in high school. She hated her glasses because they didn't look nice. One day she got a pair of contact lenses and practiced to put on and take off them for a long time. then she found that the glasses frames were pretty cool and were on sale. So she bought a few glasses frames and put them on while have contact lenses on. Wow, what a pretty lady with cool glasses!

It was me, the story is not end. My classmates thought I was wearing glasses with beautiful frames, actually not, they were only frames. But the secret was not sopposed to exist for a long time. The big moment came----I strached my skin around my eye with my finger though the frame of the glasses. Oh my godness... What did you do? Can you do that again? My classmates were laughing at me and asked a lot of ridiculous questions about my glasses. My face flashed like a red apple at the moment.

The following days, some classmates who were not nearsightedness wore glasses frames and simulated my behavior. It was so embarrassing!!!

Rehearsals

The Chinese New Year is coming but I have no feelings about it. The reason isn't that I am now living in the U.S. It should be something else. I don't know. Maybe I have a better tense of celebrating the New Years' Day on January 1st. Anyway, the traditional festival is coming and parents are in China.
What a good news---- there will be a New Year's Eve Entertainment on January 31 at PUC, on which I will have some shows to put on. I prefer performing on the stage than sitting and watching.

What I am going to perform is a secret...ahaa haha...I really enjoy joining the groups to have something to do because I can't stand spending a quiet and boring afternoon just having something to eat and then go home. To join is to enjoy, that's my motto.

To tell the truth, I don't think any of the performance that I have known on the entertainment will be perfect due to the limited practicing time and limited professional skills. So I've no idea about the audience' reaction. Whatever, I will also have a rehearsal tomorrow and will do my best to accomplish it.

The instrument players were cool today. And I must say... the song was awesome, so were the people...

It's so cold

I don't know when the weather will be better... Oh my field trips... OH my beautiful snowy mornings!