Monday, October 20, 2008

420W Journal #2

Fortunately, this weekend, I escaped from my homestay life, a noisy, mussy and restricted life. First,because of the three dogs that the family feeded. They gnar every day when there are some foot passengers passing near the house or their masters leaving of room. Last week, the hosts of the homestay went back to their hometown, the littile dogs kept gnaring till to the midnight. By the other hand, these dogs are not accustomed keep the good habits of hygiene. So you shoud becarefull about where you step on. therefore, this family has a bad neighborship.

Except for the troubles of dogs, the biggest problem is the complex relationship between we and the host. Not only the different backgrounds of culture, but also the personalities caused many clashes. First of all, They think homestay is a family business, so what they think the most important staff is reduce the cost. So we can't wash underweares in the bathroomfor for breakage of the floor , we can't take bathe exceed 10 munites for gas, and we also can't use internet whenever as we like forpower. We can't touch fridge for much food, and also we can't eat food with them even the bread were separated. Second, they really like complaim, they were harping on the small things while we were taking food. The most serious problem is their suspicion. Sometimes they paid attention of your behavior and words such as listeningthe voice from our room, standing out of the bathroom for waiting to check if we wash the socks when we were taking shower. So many following thing made us crazy.

Althrough many homestaies are kind, some families still exist many problems. As a kind of ways to deal with the problems for international students living, homestay has became more and more popular in west countries. So we need some criterion not just for the students but also for the homestaies. And the students need a institutionto complain to solve the troubles. After all, balance comes from two sides.

Friday, October 10, 2008

420W Journal #1

Basicly, writing is divided to two aspects: informal essaies and research papers.Informal essaies are the bridges of the soul and life; Research papers are the channels for expressing the thinkings of special people to achieve the effective communication effection. For me, both of them are interesting and importante.

Informal essaies include many types, such as poem, essay, story. All of them are the writters' feelings. These kinds of feelings are different with research writings. Most of them are just free thinkings, which are happy, sad, angry or others reflection of the soul. those words are the mirrors of the life. Recently, I has been readingsome English novels. Form inside of the sentences, you could reed the love, the puzzle, the disappointment and the hope.

By contrast of the informal essay, research paper is very rigorous. It requestes logic thought, right words, correct syntax and the other rules. When you prepared for working at a research paper, you should read a lot and find your own opinions. And then, choose the style to write. During writting time, even each paragraph you should pay much attention aboutthe main ideas, the support reasons, the facts you used, the ways of clarifying. The reason for it is this kind of writtingis symbols for the evidences of science. it has some responsibilities for the hunman and society.

I think I could do very good jobs in writting in Chinese. But it is not easy for me to use English to do it. So learning English writting is very necessary to me. Through this language, I could learn more about skiils to control the English, at the same time, i found a different style to think. It quitely interesting for me.

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

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Welcome to my English blog. This blog is a space for communicating with my friends who are interested in Academic writing. I'd like to share my life with you. Welcome to here.