# 70

# 70

     Yeah me! The last blog!! At the beginning of this quarter, I really can’t imagine that I can do the blog in English every day! It’s really glad to see the number of the blogs increased continuously. When the number increased to 70, it means that this course is going to end.

     Eng 110 is relatively tough for us international students. It’s totally different from EDU 107 or 108. The requirements are more restrict and the amounts of assignment are greater. I think the Eng 110 course is pretty useful. It improved my writing skilled dramatically. Such as the blog every day, at the beginning, it’s really an annoying homework since I always need to spend a lot of time to write down at least 250 words. However, till now, the rate to finish a blog is much faster than the rate two months ago. The blog also impel me to concentrate on thinking.

     The other thing we did a lot in this class is peer reviewing, from choosing the most appropriate opening paragraph to writing the Commonplace memo. It’s also a helpful way to improve our writing skills since reading other’s essay can broaden our mind and break the mental set. We can discover different views and aspects based on the same thing.

     The last thing I want mention is the writing center. It’s also a great gain from ENG 110. At first, I didn’t expect to get a lot of help from the writing center since the purpose I go there is for the extra credit. However, after I went there for the first time, I am really satisfied with their high-qualified tutoring.

     Time to say goodbye to the blog~~~

# 69

# 69

     I lived in China for more than 18 years; during this long period of time, I always accepted a lot of Chinese tradition customs and culture. We celebrate several ancient festivals and obey the old regulations.

     When I came to America last year, the new environment and culture has a lot of different from what I have experienced for 18 years. I have to say that American people are more friendly and easygoing than Chinese people in some way. For instance, in china, no one would say something like “bless you” when people around he or she makes a sneeze. American people would say these two words under any situation such as in the dorm or classes to people who make a sneeze they may even don’t recognize. This is totally different from Chinese people. Moreover, when people meet with each other at the corridor, they will definitely greeting with each other passionately. If they are not in a hurry, they may stop and chat for a while. However, this rarely happened in China, I just know two neighbors out of 8 families who live the same floor with me. We even don’t talk to each other when we are waiting for the elevator.

     Another matter makes me think American people are warmhearted is the host family. The first people I met in America is Rachel, she picked me up from the airport and provide me the place to live when the dorm hadn’t opened yet. Rachel is really a nice person, when I lived with her; she really took good care of me. She also invited me several times after I move to the dorm.

# 68

# 68

     To be honest, I am really timid; there are a lot of things that scare me. I’m so afraid of insects and horror movies. Once I heard about a ghostly-story, I can’t sleep well for a month.

      However, something scares me the most is snake. When I see its long dapple skin and crawl on the ground, I feel scared. And when I saw its big eyes and long tongue, I can’t help closing my eyes. There is a old saying in China that once bite by a snake, you will be afraid of shy for ten years. See how snake are terrifying?

      The degree I scared of snake is so deep that some of my friends can’t even understand that. There are two pages of photographs about snake in our junior high school’s biology textbook. Once I saw these two pages, I closed the book immediately, when I think I became calm enough, I took out a scissors, some glue and some paper. Yep, I covered those pictures by stick the paper on it. It I don’t do this, I think I won’t open this book again.

      There is a crazier thing about snake. Once I travelled to Hangzhou, also a big city in China My dad’s friend invited us to have a dinner, and there is a course which is make by snake. At first I didn’t realize it, when I bite it, my dad reminded me that was a snake, I spit out the food in no time and rushed to the restroom. I couldn’t eat any more food on that dinner. Horrible experience.

# 67

# 67

     The earthquake occurred in Japan yesterday has no wonder became the most momentous news these days. The scene of ten meters high wave attacked the shore is really shocked and awful. Although I don’t connect it to doomsday of world in 2012, I still concern it a lot.

     Frequent occurrence of natural disaster really makes me worried. It’s for sure that after every cataclysm, a lot of people will lose their life or home. When I saw those victims has no place to live and have to face the pain of losing their family through the TV, I really feel sympathize. I still remember the earthquake in Yunnan Province, China in 2008. The severe earthquake caused negative consequence. Many building collapsed; as a result, many people were crushed or surrounded. The natural calamities not only rob people’s regular life and anima, but also affected the world in many other aspects. These disasters will cause big damage to the countries’ economy. The government must spend a lot of funds to restore the disaster area, victims should be set up well, the ruined building should be cleaned and rebuild the social infrastructure. And the stock market will also get damage. For example, just several hours after the earthquake happened in Japan, the stock decreased dramatically. Moreover, the natural damages will also cause the turbulence in society. Since many people can’t bear such attack, they may lose the hope of their lives and become insane. Their unusual will bring a lot of trouble to the society.

     Natural disasters can’t be stopped by human being and it can really bring a lot of serious result. So it really concerns me a lot.

# 66

     To be frankly, sometimes it’s difficult to discuss about myself since I don’t know where to begin. As a result, I started to find who I am by constellation commentary from junior high school and I’m so believe in it.

     I was born in early June, so I’m a Gemini. I love this constellation!!!

     In a lot of website or magazine which talk about constellation, it always mentions that Gemini has the highest average IQ. I think it is too arrogant to introduce oneself intelligent. However, I think I’m quiet creative and active. When I participate in a team to accomplish an event, I can totally plough and blend into the group very soon.

     I am an ambivalent person; it is exactly what the zodiac article said. Many people describe like that there two person live in Gemini’s heart; they always have opposite ideas and argue with each other. I think it’s a vivid expression. I always feel it’s hard to make a choice between two items. When I go shopping, it will take me large amount of time to decide which one I should take it with me and which one I should give up. Sometimes, I hate this personality because it makes me indecisive.

     However, like the magazine reported, Gemini is outgoing and chatty. This description is also very suitable for me. I really like chatting to people, either face to face, or through the Internet. I prefer to hanging out with my friends at weekend instead of staying at dorm all day long.

     All in all, I’m a typical Gemini.

#65

#65

     Talking about a different time period, the first thing I thought is traversing to the ancient period. It’s such a popular topic among us teenagers. There are a lot of time traversing novels which are really attracting, there is even a TV show about a girl’s life after she traversing to the Qing dynasty which is 300 hundred years ago. The beautiful stories in TV show and numerous novels make a lot of teenage girls dream about having a traverse someday, of course, including me.

     If I was born in ancient period, I want be strong female. Because of the serious gender crimination, women in ancient times has power, what they can do were just depend on their husbands or fathers. This aspect really made me feel uncomfortable and unfair and eager to change it. To be a leader, I think it’s necessary to learn Kung Fu. In old times, who was good at Chinese Kung Fu must be a respectable person. It seems like owns high skills of Kung Fu is a requirement for being a powerful person. As a result, if I born in ancient time, I will try my best to learn Kung Fu, it can not only protect myself, but also help others.

     I don’t like to be a daughter in a rich and powerful family, although I may feel satisfied at materially aspects. But it’s for sure that I wouldn’t have any freedom. The life in the society which lack of high technology must be very interesting.

# 64 mistake

Like Miley Cyrus’s song Nobody’s Perfect said, everybody makes mistakes, everybody has those days. I really have made countless mistakes since I was a child. From break the glasses to make wrong decision, mistakes never being apart from me.

The biggest mistake I have ever made is I didn’t listen to my mom’s advice so I lost 2 cell phones within half a month. It may be normal if someone’s phone was stolen and it’s not all owners’ faults since it’s a common society phenomenon. However, being stolen twice in such short times is really unforgivable. I always like to put the cell phone in my pocket. And when I am wearing long coats, I can’t feel the items in the pocket. As a result, the first phone was stolen when I was waiting at the roadside to across the road. I was extremely upset because I just used this it for about 2 months and I really liked it. I set all the responsibility to that thief; I think it’s his entire fault. Why he was so mean to stole my cell phone?! I didn’t think any wrong about myself. My mom told me that I shouldn’t put my stuff somewhere I can’t feel; however, I ignored her totally.

     Two weeks later, I lost my phone again just at the opposite way of the same road where I lost my origin phone. For this time, I just realized I’m so wrong. I should listen to what my mom said. I was so regret to put my phone to the long shirt and didn’t check it on time. This is one of the most painful experience in my life.

#63 Best Friend

I have several BFF, one of them is Joy. Joy is my classmate in junior high school; she is a transfer student and come to our school in the 8^th grade. We began to know each other at the cafeteria since we were sitting the same table. Joy is a lovely girl; her skin is a little bit of dark so she has a nick name called “Little Dark”.

After we graduated from the junior high school, we were enrolled in different high school; however, we still keep in touch frequently, we met each other about once a month, every time we meet, we can’t stop our talking; we share our trouble and happiness. Stay with Joy is really comfortable.

Actually, I have 3 BFF in junior high school, all four of us are very close to each other, however, and both Joy and I choose to study to USA so we contacted more. Since she is in Pennsylvania, we can’t meet each other easily, so we change to Skype. I really treasure the time when I skype to Joy since we are both busy and it’s not easy for us to have enough time sit in front of the desk, looking each other from the webcam.

This winter break, I am moved since Joy spent 10 day staying with me from Pennsylvania. Once we are skyping, I just mention that I will stay in campus about half a month and have nothing to do, 4 days later; Joy told me that she had booked the flight ticket. Since both of us aren’t stay in very big city, the way she came is so complex. She had to take a train first, and then take a flight which also has a transfer. Thanks to her, the first Christmas and New Year Eve that I was not stay with my parents was not lonely.

#62 place

b     I have travelled to a lot of place both in China and several other countries. Every place has its own distinguish feature that attracts me a lot,; however, if someone ask me which place is my favorite, I will choose Shanghai, my hometown without any hesitation.

     I lived in Shanghai for almost 18 years, and I really this metropolitan, this is the place accompanied with my growth. Shanghai is developing in such a rapidly pace in these 20 years. I still remember the environment when I was just a primary school student. I lived in a apartment which is allocated by father’s company, that is a lot of kids in that building; since our parents knew each other, we were also very familiar with each other and we even studied in the same primary school near our home. The life at that time was worriless.

     Times fleet, soon I become a junior high school student, and we moved our house to a high-level building which is near to my high school. The life is changing dramatically. There are more and more tall building in those year. Originally the highest building in Shanghai is Oriental Pearl Tower, but then is the Jinmao Building, and now is the Shanghai World International Financial Center, which is the third highest building in the World. Fortunately, I can see all this three building thorough my home’s window, it’s really exciting to see more and more brand new high-rise building appeared.

     I love this fast developing city, although the life in Shanghai is in quick pace, but also high quality. People there are passionate and creative. Now I’m missing this beautiful city, and I am looking forward to see its improvement in this one year.

# 61 Three Stories

     Admittedly, it’s easy to think about several real stories about myself, but really difficult to figure out even one lie. Maybe I can’t be a good liar. All right, the following are my three stories; let’s see if you can find out the fake one.

     I’m really an edacious person; one of my drawers is full of snacks. The expenses on food take the biggest part of my living expense. When I am doing my homework, or watching a movie I really can’t help myself stop eating snacks. What’s the craziest thing I’ve done with my friend is the first time we had dinner at North Common. Since it’s the first time, we are both so curious about all the new things around us that we picked up a lot of foods. We took the staple food three times, then the fruit and vegetable, and cakes last. We ate more than 10 plates together, and can’t turn the dishes back by one time.

     I choose finance as my major since I thought I can’t do well in engineering such as physics. In my high school, my worst subject is physics. I just can’t understand that damn electronic, magnitude, energy issues well. My exam scores are always lower than the class average. It’s so awful, I usually ask myself why I can’t do this well but cannot find the reason.

     My friends also say I am quite like study since every time they come to my dorm, they always see me sitting in front of the desk with a math or economics book on the table. Actually, they don’t find the truth, when I am doing homework; I can’t focus on it for a long while. For instance, once I was writing an essay, every time I wrote several sentences, I can’t keep moving on, and then I watch the big bang theory. At last, I use 4 hours to finish a 3-pages essay.

    Can you find out which one is fake?

# 60 word gelivable

     Today I’m going to blog about a special word, it’s an English word, but few Americans know the meaning while almost every Chinese know it. “Gelivable” Hah hah, how many of you understand the meaning?

     Google the word “gelivable”, we can see that “gelivable” means something is cool, or cooperative. And “ungeliable ” means just the opposite. Actually, this world is created by Chinese, and is an English alphabet of a Chinese word which is “geili” in form of pingyin. Separate this word, the first part “gei” means give or to be given, and the last part “li” means power or force. So the word “geili” means “be capable of”. For instance, if you earn 30 credit a quarter and get the GPA of 4.0 in total, you will be extremely “geili”.

     This world appeared in China since last year, and widespread across the whole country in shortly several months, it’s seems like everyone use the “geili” instead of “cool”, “wonderful” and “awesome”. And the word is really depicted the plot vividly.

     But how it comes to the word “gelivable”? According to my memory, this word is appeared in early this year on RenRen, which is the Chinese Facebook. According to yahoo, “some people, with nothing better to do, take the chance to translate it into English. Since “geili” sounds like “geli” with the “e” reduced to schwa, they invented the word “geli”. And Chinese does not have part of speech, they created “gelivable” the adjective, and “gelivability” the noun.

     Is it interesting to hear a English word created by Chinese people?

# 59 Major

# 59

     Admittedly, at first I choose the business as major since it looks like I have no other optimal choice. I’m not so good at engineering courses such as chemical industry and electronic engineering. And when I apply the OSU for business major, I’m not satisfied with my situation because I know that there are so many Chinese students choose this major too, and this means there will be enormous competition. But when I’m reading Mankiw’s Principles of Economics last summer, I felt that I’m kind of interesting in it, I began to eager what I would learn from Fisher. After attending the BA survey course and focus more on the business issues, I set my sights on business and finance. And last month, I’m so excited and surprised to receive the email which announced me that I’ve been accepted from Fisher and get into the finance major. I’m quite surprised because when I fulfill the application form last quarter, I chose the application date on June 1^st, but the enroll admission come so quickly. I’m a little unhappy since although I’ve enrolled in the Fisher college, I can’t learn the specialized courses since I haven’t finished the basic course and I had to pay more 500 dollars tuition from next quarter.

     I choose finance as my major instead of other popular major such as accounting and marketing since finance has a broader range, and expand to more areas. Finance plays a significant role in not only a single company, but also the whole society.

     Choosing this major also means I must withstand overwhelming pressure and competition, but I will try my best to rank on the top.

#57 Dream

The life is meaningless if one person don’t have a dream. The hope is essential propulsion for people to keep on moving forward. I have a lot of dreams, and I always think that make wishes can make my dreams come true. One of my friend told me an interesting legend that if I saw a plane, use hands to frame it and make wishes at the same time; when I counted for 100 planes, my wishes will come true. Although I think it’s so ridiculous when I first heard that, but I still had a try.

Back to the topic, I have had a lot of dreams. When I was young, I always had some impractical dreams like having super power. But when I grow up, my dreams have become more realistic. Actually, now my dream is really simple, it may not count as a dream, but the expectation of my future life. A happy and meaningful life is what I want. First, I want to have a wonderful and harmonious family since it’s the basic of having a complete life. I really hope all my family members have good health. All of the family included kids, lover and parents live together. Having dinner with family is the sweetest thing, I can really feel the warm of the home when we talk about our daily life to each other, and taste the food made by parents. Moreover, having a having a good job is also what I hope and I know that if I want to make this dream come true, I really need to intensify the effort.

# 56 Memo

Title: Who’s who in domestic violence?

Date: 03/01/2011

Subject: Individual Memo

Decision: Revise and Resubmit

Dear Author:

It’s grateful to you to submit this article to commonplace. Your argument in this paper is that men nowadays are also suffered from domestic violence, both mentally and physically; however, people always don’t notice that. And you did a great job to change reader’s mind that not only women can be the victims from domestic violence. In my opinion, your article is quiet timely, compelling and relevant.

According to your article, I can find that the topic is timely since the MTV shows also choose to use these themes. Television is a good standard to measure whether a topic is whether opportune. Only topic which is popular enough can be showed on TV.

And I think the article is relevant due to these two examples of MTV shows. Both two examples describe how the men were also got hurt from their wife or girlfriends specifically. From these two examples, it’s quite easy for readers to feel that men can also be the victims from domestic violence. For insurance, according to the article, “Amber would scream at Gary, chock him, punch him and call him horrible names.”(Para 4) Those words are really relevant.

I think the article is relatively compelling since many couples nowadays do have such problem that men are treated unfairly. But I think you should use more contents to show the connection between the topic and readers.

It looks like some of your sentences have the problem of grammatical issues and comprehension issues. It seems like you didn’t use a lot of commas to separate the sentences when you are using clauses. And several long sentences like 2.4 is little bit of hard to understand.

At last, thank you again to have interest in commonplace and submit a good article. And I think if you do some revision, the article will be more perfect. Wish you good luck.

Sincerely,

Fan Yang