Thanskgiving weekend

Hello Everyone!
I forgot again to write in the blog! I apologize.
I want to tell you about my thanksgiving weekend. I did a lot of fun stuff. Turkey was good and I like the food I ate and tried. I went bike ride on Chinkoteque island on Saturday. The weather was gorgeous and I had so much fun. I went there with my landlord Bryant. I could ride a regular bike, I ride a tricycle and he has a big car Suburban and we can carry my bike in it. So it was fun Saturday. Bike ride in Pockomoke forest and Chinkoteque. So beautiful

I Like Ham

Last week , I went to my host family--Sharon's house to have Thanksgiving Dinner.I smelled a fantastic scent the moment I stepped into their house!That was the ham! I had ham before when I was in China,but they were not real ham since they had some flour mixed in the meat! But this time I had the genuine ham in my life(and the first turkey,too)!The ham were so good that I ate at least 8 slices I think!And I noticed that they just cut the meat off the ham ,leaving the big bone of the ham alone.I thought they would just throw the bone away but Sharon told me that they will use the bone to cook some bean soup!That was so smart ,I could imagine how delicious the soup would be! Actually ,at that moment,I was wishing I would be there when they cook the soup !

wonderful thanksgiving experience

     I had been excited going to my friend Caleb's home since he invited me to his home on thanksgiving. He is from Hagerstown which is four hours driving from Salisbury. On Tuesday, I went to his home with his sister who has been studying in salisbury university for three years, her name is Rachel. Unfortunately, when we drove the truck on the way to her home, the rain was too heavy to see the road clearly, she drove her Ford truck as slow as she can on the highway. Even though the rain was heavy, it did not influence our excited mood. she was excited about staying with her family, I was excited about being with American family. We talked about many things on the way back to home. I taught her Chinese culture, and she taught me American culture. It was a long trip, but both of us did not fell bored. It took us approximately 5 hours to get to her home. Caleb and his friend were waiting for us to have lunch together when I arrived his home. we went to China buffet, the taste of the food in this cafeteria is pretty much as the same with the China buffet in salisbury which is down the salisbury university, the only thing different is the scale, the China buffet in Hagerstown is much bigger than the buffet in Salisbury. The weather was very nice on wednesday, Caleb wanted to get his haircut in Hagerstown mall, so I went to the mall with him. I looked around in the mall, I found my favorite cloth brand which is called "the north face". I went through the shop, and one jacket took my fancy. I tried it and it fitted me like a burly man, so I bought it without check the price, I thought it would be worth it. I was very happy buying the jacket. After finished shopping in the mall, we went to his grandmother's house which was 20 minutes far away from his home. I was scared by a huge dog when I came there, I had never seen such a big dog before. It was over 200 pounds. At first, I was so afraid of the giant dog that I did not want to see any dogs any more, and the dog always tied to keep near to me, so I kept the space with the dog as far as I could, I felt uncomfortable. I could not conquer my fear until my friend told me that the dog was very friendly and had never attacked people before. Finally, I could get well along with the huge dog, I took picture with it, the dog wagged its tail when he saw me, we hugged and played with each other. Thursday was Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving in United States is partly a religious festival, and partly a gala day. Family members get together to have meal, they always have turkey for their Thanksgiving meal. I think Thanksgiving is one of the best festival to improve the relationship between family members. Normally American people like to shoot guns after the Thanksgiving meal, so we did all the American people like to do. we went to a farm which was behind Caleb's grandma's house. This was my first time to shoot real guns, his father taught me how to hold the gun and how to shoot the gun, then we shot the gun, they were very surprised that I could shoot all the targets. We spent a lot of time on shooting all kinds of gun these days. One thing I would like to emphasize here was that I went to hunting on saturday, this saturday was the first day for hunting in the hunting season in maryland, it would be last about 6 weeks. We got up very early on saturday and went to hunting. Eventually, Caleb shot a deer, we were very excited and proud of him but his grandma. She was mad at Caleb because he shot a deer without horn, it meant he shot a baby deer. He could not shoot a baby deer. Obviously, I had a lot of fun in my friend's home. I am very happy having the chance to stay with American family for six days. It would be precious treasure in my American life.

Happy Thanksgiving !!

Hello dear all. First of all, I want to say Happy Thanksgiving all my friends, I know I'm too late to say that, however I wish everyone had a good time with Thanksgiving as I got it. During this holiday we did a lot of thing and the popular thing we went to NY city, it was so adorable city but unfortunately it was so crowded of people. We went to the famous Arabic restaurant, oooh! that was so so so delicious, from a long time ago I hoped to visit NY city just to go to eat at this restaurant, now I got my desire :D . We met many many Arabic people, really at a while I felt I'm In Saudi Arabia not in NY city cause a lot of Arabic store which are close from each other, and we took some pictures. In the next day we went shopping we bought some clothes, and the other days we spent with our favorite friends.

Niagara Falls!

Last year in September I went with some friends to see Niagara Falls. Wonderful place with unforgettable views....
People can purchase a pass ticket for only 30$ for few places. One of the most exiting thing we did was when we take a boat. The boat was going close to the place where the water is falling. Its incredible experience. Everybody were happy and everybody were screaming.
In the night from 9pm till 11:30pm we watch the Niagara Falls illumination.
I think this is one of the places in the world which is truly memorable. My opinion is everybody who have opportunity have to go and see this wonder of the nature.

Terrible Black Friday

In Thursday night, my father’s friends took us to outlets which are near the New York City. There were a lot people in the outlets, so it’s very difficult to enter the outlets. Luckily, product’s discounts were very good, and I saw that most of products are 50% off in the outlets. Even though it was very cold outside, we should wait for unless 30mins before we entered stores because of too much people. I finally got a bad cold in the morning on Black Friday and felt really disgusting. When I came back to hotel, I found that three pairs of jeans which I bought for my friends are wrong size, the more terrible stuff was that I lost their receipt.

Black Friday Has Just Passed and Here Comes The Cyber Monday

Last week, I went to the outlet for the black friday sale. At first, i was just interested in how American people get crazy about black friday and the annual Macy's Thanksgiving day parade. However, when I was at the mall in person watching people waiting in the line to get the store ealier, I was amazed and influenced. Though it was middle of the night, I still felt like it was the daytime and I didn't go back to the hotel until 4:30 in the morning of that Friday. I also got the chance to take photos with the bare male model at A&F. Unfortunately I didn't go to New York City, otherwise I could see the 101 "lifeguard" of A&F and Hollister. Haha...

In a few minutes, it will be the cyber Monday. Guess those sellers really want all the money from their customers pocket!

Schooled Night

  Two weeks ago, Dr.Bond took us to Salisbury Middle School and we had a great night with those kids.It was a new place to me, so I should find  the classroom where I can take the activity.But I got a more suitable job,photographer.I was asked to take photos of every activity that was being held in different classrooms. I saw a girl putting a boy in the cabinet, and locked it. That was a bad idea. Suddenly, I realized that they were doing a role play to tell us to fight against bully. We had those activities:Organic Farming, Making Lava Lamps, Tie dye shirts, Music Hall of Fame and so on. Many kids show great interest in these activities. If they attended a activity, they would get a small star. And I took pictures of all the activities.

Thanks giving holiday

I have do nothing during the Thanksgiving holiday.Not to mention the shopping,or turkey. I just sleep ,surf on the internet, and eat. The only entertainment of these days was play cards with my friends. I want to go home for the Spring Festival. All my roommates went home, I felt very boring. However, I was happy that there is only less than one month before I go home.

Shopping Season

As we all know the Friday after Thanks giving called "Black Friday".It is the begining of the shopping season. It is quite different from China. We seldom have this big discounts. But most of the brands are in a acceptable price so people don't need to wait in a particular time. this is the first year I came to US and the first time experienced "Black Friday". I went with my friends for shopping at Washington DC. we saw many people wait in their tents in front of the Bestbuy. the same as Macy's. people are crazy atthat time. But this year these retailers didn't give much discounts. I was looking for some presents for my friends and relatives. when I saw those low price things I can't control myself so I spent a lot of money. After that I was finding that I am a poor guy and I still want too buy more products. When I talk this to my friends, they said they have the same situations. As many brands have very different prices between US and China, we all can't stop from purchasing them. If that one day they are in the same prices , I won't be such a crazy shopper.

Thanksgiving Day

This Thanksgiving Day I went to my roomate's family to celebrate this holiday. On Tuesday ,he drove his car to his father's house which located in Baltimore. His father was very nice people . He invited me to Buffet and took me to his brother's house to celebrated Thanksgiving Day. His brother's house was located in Pittsburgh in the country. The view was really beautiful . I can see a lot of mountains and trees. What's more , their house was near a racecourse. It's really wonderful to live here. In the night , we started our Thanksgiving dinner. Before dinner, they prayed for the food. I think it's tradition . The dinner was really nice , It had turkey , potatoes and some pies. Everything was nice . I think my first Thanksgiving Day was really good and it gave me deep impression.

ThanksGiving and BlackFriday

Hello, every one. I think this is the first Thanks Giving day of  ELI student, which let us feel very exicited. Me and ZhouLi went to my friend Amanda's  house and celebrate Thanks Giving with her family. There were a lot of delicious food in the Thanks giving dinner. Turkey was a very tradional food for Thanks Giving. Her father also cooked turkey for me. It tasted very good. Before the dinner we talked bout some tradition about Thanks Giving. In the past I don't know what Thanks Giving is, I regard it as a special time for believers to thank God. But now I know it not only for believers, but also it is a time for family members to get together and share delicious food and bless for each other. Before the dinner, I took a vidio of how does they pray. Every people fired a candle, then say some beatific words. Then we selected food by ourselves around the food table one by one. Then we started to eat. We talked and loughed, it seemed that severe than I thought. And the atmosphere was the same as Chinese new year. I was so happy to celebrate Thanks Giving with my American friend.
After the dinner, Amanda drived me back to UP, then I started my BlackFridays plan. Me, ZhangPeng Chen Zijun and L.V. Our four took Zhangpeng's friend's car to the Waltmart, There were so many people there and we were almost swallowed by the large number of people. Then we go to the Bestbuy, and there was a lone line to wait for 12 o'clock. We wait in the line in a very cold weather about 2 hours. Finally we entered the shop and choised our favorite. Then we walk to the Mall, the lights were so bright there, people all looked very exicted. We selected things in shops one by one. The things were so cheap, and I got a lot of  cheap clothes. We didn't leave until 7 a.m in the morning.
What an unforgettable ThanksGiving and BlackFriday! I will remeber it forever.

Bestbuy, Black Friday~~

After shocked by the video of crowds on Black Friday on Dr. Cooper's class, I always expected to see this moment which is being like the discount time in China. But actually it was not that spectacular this BlackFriday, at least not Salisbury.

On Thursday morning, I studied the ads of Walmart and Bestbuy, finding no extremely wonderful thing I would love to cross the multitude to grab. So my friends and I decided to hang around Walmart at 10 and Bestbuy at midnight.

Walmart was so clever inviting people to shop for daily necessities which kept regular price while waiting for countdown. But I actually only planed to buy milk and snacks, so it's not so hard to pay at the counter and went straight to Bestbuy oppositely. When parking the car, I did see the guy standing on the first bringing a camp with him, ready to go and buy all electrical equipments for lifetime. After involved in cold winter night for 2 hours, we finally got our turn in and...you know what? No crowed people! No empty goods shelf! How disappointed! I even prepared to be squeezed like a sponge or pushed down by some huge guys. Some salesmen absolutely had nothing to do but smiling at me saying: It's cold outside ha? So while picking up my favorite, I was curious what would be like if China had a "Black Sunday"? Maybe it's better to be on line one month before that and build a shifting house there for life~~Lukily, we don't have that!!

The Biggest Bubble I Have Ever Seen

Last weekend,again,we went to the NYC.This time the weather is so nice that we totally forgot the snow and the wind last time.Instead of going shopping crazily on Time Square,we went to the Central Park since the weather was so good! There were all kinds of leaves on the ground the moment we stepped into the park! Some is as yellow as gold,some is as red as fire and others are still green,amazing! As we walked on,there were many street artists performing their best to earn money.There was a band of three guys playing the flute and guitars, two girls singing a duo, one guy roller skating and many portraitists! But the one that interested me most is the bubble blowing,there were many kids blowing the biggest bubbles I've ever seen.They didn't use the regular bubble-blower,actually,they were using two big sticks,on which there were rope tied to it and the rope formed a triangle.The huge bubbles came into being as they waved the sticks gently . The bubbles were so big that many passer-bys stopped to take photos and cheer for the kids!Bravo!

It's fantastic to have such a big park in the center of the NYC! The people in NYC are so busy and all their concerns are matters of fact. The park is indeed a pure land for some tired people to finally find a place to think for a while quietly!

The huge screens on Time Square

Once I was told that the enterprises who can post the commercials on Time Squares large screens are the top 50 Tycoons around the world. But when I actually standed under the those huge screens, what I found were the trailers of movies, some sexy posters, and advertisements for electrical equipments. Among them, I saw logo of The Xinhua News Agency which made me excited. This press agency is the largest and also a formal news media in China. It's funny to see its ad among those lovely Disney characters and pretty women: not serious, but attractive enough!

I Love NewYork, But I Hate Walking

This weekend for me was actually busy and unforgettable because we had went to a lot of tourist interests in NYC for travelling. On the first day of our short trip, we went to the stature of liberty, to our regret, we can't land in the island to see the front face of this renowned stature because the limited time and strong wind outside. Then our group went to the time square together, with enough curiosity and imagination, four of my friends went to the Madame Tussauds. It was really terrific. As everybody knows very well, we do have a same museum in Shanghai, China. Inside the museum, we can see a lot of famous movie stars and singers and other super stars. They are pretty much the same with the real person such as the expressions and height. The most interesting thing we got was taking funny pictures with the models. On the second day, we just went around and visited the 911 Memorial, China Town and the Wall St. You can imagine how tired were we. So this was why I said that I love NYC but I hate walking all the time. Honestly speaking, I hadn't regained consciousness until Today. I need more time to rest! For the coming Thanksgiving day, I expect the wonderful thanksgiving dinner with my American friends. YEAH, last but not least, Black FRIDAY, I am COMING!!!!

Raven's TV Trip

This Friday, I went to the Raven's TV in Baltimore with the National Broadcasting Society. First, I need to say thank you to Dr. Cooper for letting me take a day-off.

We left Salisbury for Baltimore at about 10am, and arrived at Raven's TV at about 2 o'clock. When we parked our car at Raven's TV, we were amazed by its construction. Since Raven's TV is the outlet for the football team Baltimore Raven's, the TV station is also the gathering point for the players and coaches. While we were waiting for the vice producer to take over us, two players on the football team passed by. I am not very familiar with the football team, but I could tell their fame by looking at people around me. They were so excited.

We visited the first floor of the TV station, which is where the studios mainly are.

Where there is a city, there is a China town

We went to New York at this weekend, and spent all our weekend there. Compare with last trip to New York, it was more wonderful this time. We lived in New Jersey and took the mtro-train to New York everyday. It won't cost much time but save a lot of money. The first day we saw the status of liberty, 9.11 memorial, Time square and many famous brands of clothing. Today we just visit some place in soho and my favorite China town.

As we all know Salisbury is a small villige which has very limited goods and it doesn't has Chinese things so China town was our best choice to buy those Chinese things. After we do the grocery shop in Jin Men food store, we noticed that there was a long distence for us to went back to the metro-train station. Then we decide to take a taxi, but we don't know how to make a taxi driver notice us. Forturnately, a Pakistain driver drove us there. What he said really impressed me was that we wouldn't miss our families very much as there almost every city has a China town. That was right , as China has its large population we can meet Chinese people almost everywhere around the world. The globlization helps people to get the goods they need very frequently. Chinese people are supposed to learn English in a very young age, so they can easily adaapt to this society. Chinese things are good and in a very low price, many people want buy them. All these reasons helps to build a China town in many cities and provides a chance to see something realited to our nation.

My expectations about NewYork City

  Last week I forgot to post my blog, I have nothing new to tell. I have to say that I  have been counting the days since I came here. In my eyes, I don't think American's life have lots of fun. They just like holding parties all the time.  I miss Chinese food a lot, before the trip to NewYork, I was thinking about buying real Chinese food in China Town. I was also considering the cloth , shoes and bags. That's all the new staff.

We are in our city we have no marker on Thanksgiving Holiday. I do not know what I will do in this holiday. I expect I will go to Baltimore to visit my friends.. If you know any nice place to go to it this weekend told me.. Thank you and wish you a happy holiday.

My New 3D Game

You know I have got my 3DS for two months, but I don't have any 3D games. On 

Saturday, I went to Walmart with my friend, and I found this 3D game named Super Mario 3Dland. When I got my 3DS, I plan to some Mario games because Mario games are my favorite games. I still remembered that when I was a middle school student, I can spend all day on my GBA to play Mario games. Even though it cost me 40 bucks, I thought I would never regret to buy this game, and I would lend my 3DS to my friends to share my happiness.

A terrible week, ever

  How terrible this week was! I have decide to change a room since I found that my roommates were very quite. we did not have too many communications. I am an outgoing boy, I would like to live with some outgoing roommates. On one hand, It will be a efficient way to improve my English skills. On the other hand, It is better to know American culture and life.  I talked to the RA who is a resident assistant to ask for changing a room, he told me he would help me to change my room after a week, and he would send an email to me to tell me the result. But I haven't received any email about changing rooms from him so far. So I wanted to move out from seagull square, I went to the housing department which is down the seagull square, I talked to the person who is in charge of seagull square, I asked her if I could move out from seagull square the next semester. she said the contract of seagull square was 12 months, and I could not break the contract. However, It was possible to ask someone to take my lease. I hope I could find someone to take my lease soon.

It's too late to realize...

With the time pass to the end of this semester, lots of school work I left this semester due to my lazy habit needing to be finish. I feel so nervous about everything, hopefully, there is a big break the next week, I will do 3presentation and a lot of paper work at that time.....so thanksgiving...sarcastic...it will turn to be a very enjoyable Thanksgiving day......get along with homework may be a good way to improve ability.... I also hesitate about the next semester's classes...I want to study illustration...but unfortunately...this class is not in the schedule of next spring 2012...I think I will chose painting III instead... I don't know how can I do ...what should I do....GRE... recommendation letter...I didn't do everything .....what a FU**ing stupid girl!!! like that song....It's too late to realize....It's too late to apologize....cry... :(

How I miss snow

Hello guys!

Hope everything is well with you. I want to tell you how I miss snow. As you know I am from Siberia, Russia. And we usually have snow in the middle of September. I am happy about beautiful weather here but I realize that I miss snow. My father told me how much snow they already have. I said that here it snowed very rarely. I don't like cold but I would like to see snow soon. So if it will be colder and snowing you will know whom to blame (me).

Liza

Life is beautiful!!!

Let me tell you why!

First, this Monday one of mine class mates and I were walking from the university to the bus station; it was between 8:00 and 8:30pm. We had to cross the street before the gas station which is next to the hospital, but there was a car and it was dark and the car driver didn't see us. He didn't see that we want to cross the street and we couldn't see his face because it was dark. So we were on 1/4 of the street when the car start to move. Thanks to our reflexes, we saw that the car is moving and we step back. It takes a second and one of us (I was close to the car, but I react faster than my friend) probably will be in a hospital now. After we screamed the guy stop in front of us (I guess he notice that he almost kill us) and say: “sorry”. We didn't do anything. We had to hurry to not miss the bus.

What an experience!

Second, this week I get my student visa. I apply for this visa in September and I was waiting till this week. I had approval. I am so happy. If I had been denied for my visa, I was suppose to go home not late than 15 days. I was lucky I guess.

What I nice week :)

I am still alive, healthy and legal!

Life is so good!

The Sushi Buffet

This Tuesday , I went to the Sushi Buffet with my friends Wu Rui and Zhang Xiaoyu..We arrived at this buffet at 11:00 am,they still haven't opened so we sat down and remembered the words.This restaurant was not very big and played English songs . After ten minutes later, waiter told us we can ate first so we began to take foods. They provided a lot of kinds of sushi. some of this looked like very exquisite. This sushi tasted good but the fish cut really thin.My friends didn't like sushi.They only ate one plate then they felt full. I ate two plates of sushi. It's really easy to feel full because nearly all of this are rice. All in all. This sushi buffet is a good restaurant .If you want to try some different foods, it's a good choice.

My first time playing tennis

I went to play tennis with two of my friends today and it was the most embarrass moment in my life. It's my first time playing tennis, I really don't know how to play tennis. My friend taught me how to serve and receive the ball, but I kept missing the ball. At first I thought tennis is easy, but I realize it's not easy at all, it requires a lot of strength and I don't have any of that. It seems that I can never hit the ball over the net, and I kept missing the ball, so I have to go pick up a lot of those balls. I'm so tired just by running back and forth picking up balls. I almost gave up, but my friends encourage me to give it another chance, so I tried and after 2 hours later, I finally learned how to serve the ball. I was so excited, but the downfall is that I could never hit the ball back, but I'm thinking of practicing more often now, so I hope I could improve. This was a great experience for me.

Cook American food

This weeked, my partner asked me to go to her apartment. She cooked American food. She cooked beef hamburger and fry eggs with potatos. They tasted very good. After meal, she played guitar for me, it's sounded very good. And I promised her to cook Chinese food for her next time. In addition, I went to Wal-mart with my friends and we found a good market HOKL'S. There were different kinds of clothes there, most of them were on sale.

A busy Weekend ever!

Hello all, how are you doing ? ohh, it was so tried weekend and busy days, but at the same time it was adorable weekend with the best friends. most of rest of my friends who are living in Baltimore they came to Salisbury and they spent 2 days here it was a good time with them. We went to small park that is close of University park and we made chicken grill and shrimp it was very delicious, after that we played some games and drunk some beers, also we had a lot of fun with our american roommates, really it was crazy days with them. The next day we went to the mall and we bought some clothes, as you know the weather is going to be freezing, I love it. after all these events just I remembered my homework and my presentation for Monday ohh that's killed me because right now I'm so tired but I'm gonna do it :( .. Have a good night guys.

A busy week

This is a really busy week.I prepare for my Philippines visa,I am not a citizen of the USA,so I need more required documents to get the visa.I have gotten some help from Dr.Copper and Dr.Song, and now I have to waite for my I-20 and I-94 form, I also should get a bank statement next week.I need to study hard daily, either.So I have a lot of things to do each day.

A Beautiful Mind

This weekend I watched the movie " A Beautiful Mind".It is not a perfect movie for learning English since the characters speak too fast and there are lots of mathematical terms in the movie.

It is a film based on the life of John Nash who is known for his great talent on math at a very young age.He went to Princeton after winning the Conergie Prize . There he wrote the great essay of Governing Dynamics, which leaded him to the M.I.T.But later he was troubled by the paranoid schizophrenia .It turned out that his prodigal roommate Charles ,the Big Brother Parcher and the little girl Marcee were all the imagination of Nash, not to mention the code-deciphering work.Nash fought against the schizophrenia for the next 25 years thanks to his wife,Alicia,who filled Nash'life with love and never gave up for his odd behavior.Finally, Nash won the Nobel prize in 1994 for his theory.At the end of the movie,it is quite ironic that Nobel Prize agent came to Nash before the award presentation to find if Nash was clear-headed enough to behave normally .

In a nutshell,it is indeed a encouraging movie though I was confused between the reality and Nash's reverie at the first time.

My last weed (Eid)

Last week I had a lot of fun. Because it was rejoicing in my country. We went to Washington to celebrate with loved ones and friends. There was a lot of joy and happiness.

Eid ( Holiday of Hajj )

Last week was Holiday of Hajj, I went to Washington with my friends to attend the celebration at the Embassy, ​​was a beautiful ceremony, we met with a friends, was a day of fun do not be like the feast between the parents, relatives, but it was good.

Being volunteer of a Chinese performance

   I have been interested in being a volunteer for a Chinese performance  since Dt. Song mentioned that a chinese group would need volunteer to help with them. They need translators, models, and helpers. I would like to be a translator or a model, even though my english is not good enough and my stature is not perfect. It will be my first meaningful experience in united states, and I look forward to helping them.

Missing my mom a lot

Today is my birthday in Chinese date, and I have been United States for 4 months. I still clearly remember the first day that I came to here with my parents and say 'goodbye' to them. I nearly cried, because it's the first time that my dad, mom and I all live different cities, and it's so difficult for my mom to meet my father and me. Friday night, my mom and I chated online, and she told me that I can buy something just as her present for me. Her words reminded me that it would be the first time that I celebrate my birthday and she isn't around me. It's so sick at heart for me. Maybe while we are growing, our parents are away from us step by step. Maybe I thought too much, and I just hope that my mom can take care of herself well.

Bonjour,les états-unis

Hello everyone, how was your last week? I hope you guys really had a good week as me. This week life can never be wonderful. I do have a lot of stories to share with you.

First of all, it was about the day of 9th. NOV. I am so happy to say it was my birthday. Here what I want to mention was the big surprise I got on that day night--- A tatsty chocolate cake from my friends. You can't imagine how exalted I was at that very moment. Thousands and hundreds of thanks for you, my dear friends, hope you will be happy forever.

Secondly, I am happy with two presents I have got from my partners, they are candles, chocolates, an astrology book and a necklace with seagull. Sounds good, uhu？Haha, I do think so. In addition, the most exciting thing was one of my partner brought me to the bar for celebrating my birthday. Over there we met another two friends of her and we chatted with each other and enjoyed an awesome American birthday meal together.

Last but not least, life was sort of different on weekend especially on Sunday, our roomate Casey offered us a pretty thanksgiving feast in advance because she will be home during the true thanksgiving holidays. The dishes we enjoyed today were the traditional American foods-- the turkey as everyone knoews very well. It was the first time we tried the native turkey not the model we have seen in our English textbook. Everything new for me before now all become real. I would love to try everything new for me if I have enough opportunites. That is it! Hope everyone have a nice week again~! :)