I have been here in campus for 1 month already. Actually, the weather is not as great as Beijing, even though the air pollution is much more less than Beijing. The weather here can change too fast that I cannot even imagine. I always find out that it rains heavily outside after class and I did not bring my umbrella with me. After two times being like a drenched chicken, I always remember to take the umbrella with me. BUT this is not enough! Once the wind was so strong that my umbrella was broken by the wind, and once again, I was like a drenched chicken. In the following days, the weather become so cold that I did not even want to get out of my quilt in the morning. Then I decided to buy a coat to fight with the weather. Unfortunately, the weather is becoming warmer than before when at the day when my jack arrived! I do not know what I can do with the weather because it is so weird!! But the landscape is so beautiful that I took photos every days. I do not know what it will look like when it begin to snow. But I believe that it will become more beautiful than what I see now. Here are some of my picture and I hope you guys enjoy it!!! I took those picture with my phone, I believe that if I have a single lens reflex camera, the picture will be better. However, I do not have money to get one. I will keep posting my picture on this blog and I hope you guys can follow me in my Instagram where I put most of my picture on. My user name is wan_ttt and also, you can follow my facebook or twitter, but I don’t use them often.

writing

From my memories, my earliest memory of writing was about writing diaries and excerpt exercises. When I was 6, my Chinese teacher gave me assignments to write diaries on each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday; and do excerpt exercises on each Tuesday, and Thursday. At that time, I didn’t have any skills to write so I just wrote down what happened every days from morning to night. I had my first writing course in grade 3. My teacher taught me to write in three part: introduction part, body part, and conclusion part. My teacher told me that I should not write my argument or my main point in the first paragraph, because I should leave some clue to let readers to discover. In China, we don’t write down our main point directly, we always give our main point in the conclusion. But when studying writing in English, I must always give out the main point in the introduction part. American people like to go directly to the main point, but in China, we like to conclude our topic in the last paragraph. In China, readers like to discover the main thesis on their own, that give them the interests to keep reading. But writing in English is totally different, I do not get after people knows the main statement, why they keep reading. In my point of view, to read is to discover the main idea that the writer want to express. I think it is interested to find out the main thesis by myself. I think the hardest part for me while writing in English is to change my Chinese writing style to English writing style. I always want to write my mainly point of view at last. Now I have to get used to English writing style. Also, sometimes it is hard to understand the slang in writing.