Journal#8

I like a park which is in my hometown. I often go there with my family or by myself. It is a wonderful park and a public place for people. From the gate of this park, you can see many trees, flowers and artificial hills around the park. It looks so colorful. In the middle of the park, there is a wide square. There are many families coming here, and some elders also do some exercises in this square. They enjoy their lives at that time. A big fountain is located on the right side of the park. In the summer, there are many childer that play here and having a lively time. When I was young, my parents often brought me here to play with other childer. In the corner of the park, there is a peaceful place which belongs to myself. It is so quiet, and when I feel tired and sad, I will fo there and think about something that happened to me. Nobody can disturb me at that place. It is my secret pace, and I can also see the whole view of this park. I can see the children which are so happy when they play with each other, and the families share the time which they can get together to have fun. On their faces, they have natural smilings which are so sweet, and I can also enjoy their happiness. That is why I like this park so much.

Journal#7

Every people has their own memorable events in their school life. Some events can make them change their life and some ones were very interesting. As to me, school life is my most memorable period in my life, and the most impressed event is the military traning in the high school. In our country, the militaty training is the first thing which must do in the high school. This is the most important training for a high school student. It gives students an independent life. Students need to train some physical exercies. I remembered that my high school training is my first time to leave my family for two weeks. At the beginning, I was very excited, because I could live with our classmates. But when we arrived the destination, we were shocked by the environment. This place was far away from the city and surrounding around the mountain. It is a suburb which I never went there before. We should live in a dorm for eight people and many people use only one restrooom. It was time to have a lunch, we walked into a big room and there were many tables on which had food and ten people sat around one table. There were not our favorate food and we had no choice to eat what we wanted to eat. At that time, I just wanted to go back to my home. After the meal, we had some physical exercies which were very terrible exercises in my life. The first exercise was standing like a military outside for one hour, and we were not allowed moving. The weather was too hot in that day. It was a hard time for a high school student. Finished one day training, I was cried out. I felt very tired. But I had no choice, I should go on the training. We did these kinds of exerciese everyday like an army.After the two weeks training, our skin were all got black. But through the hardest training, we knew we had the ability to do some hard things, if we persisted in the end.

Journal#6

The 2008 Olympic Games will be hold in China. I memorized that in July 31st, the day of our application was passed by Committee of Olympic Games, every Chinese people were excited. I remembered that in that day, the TV program showed the process of the application and everyone waited the consequence. Everyone was very nervous, but at the time after school, I was very tired and fell asleep. My father watched the TV. When I fell asleep deeply, abruptly, I heard the scream from the TV. I opened my eyes and asked my father what happened. My father answered me that we weresuccessful. The Olympic Games would be hold in China. At that time, I was very happy. I saw the leaders embraced together from TV, and everyone clapped their hands. Some of them shed tears. I heard the voice of the fire crackers outside. Everyone celebrated this great moment. This was the historical time. Every Chinese people remembered it and were proud of our country. It could give us the impression in all of our lives. It is also good for our country’s economy and makes foreigners know our culture. China can stand the world’s stage. I was very proud of our country, and I hope the Olympic Games can be held successfully in China.

Journal#5

I remembered that when I studied in my university everyday we would have a presentation in English. One of my friend told a fairy tale about the Three Little Pigs. It made me memorize my childhood. This story is about three pigs. Long long ago, there were three pigs. One day their parents told them that you had grown up, and you had abilities to do something by you own. So their mother wanted them to build their own houses by themselves. These three pigs were very excited. The oldest pig built up his own house with straw , and he finished the house fast. So he went to bed and had a rest. The younger pig saw his brother finished quickly, and he got into a bother. Under this situation, he thought a simple idea which is built his house with some sticks, and he ended his house soon and fell asleep. At this time, the youngest pig also built his house carefully. He wanted to build up a stable house, so he used the bricks. He has not finished until his brothers woke up. One day a wolf came to the straw house. He was very hungry. He biew down the straw house. The oldest pig was very afraid and he run to the younger pig's house. And the wolf came to the stick house, he also blew down the house with the sticks want to eat them. So these two pigs went to the youngest house. Because this house was so stable, the wolf could not blow down it, and he was very angry. He saw a chimney and wanted to climb it into the house. The youngest pig was very clever. He have prepared the hot water under the chimney. when the wolf climbed into the chimney, he fell down into the hot water and died. tThrough this event, the youngest pig's brothers were very ashamed. They learned their youngest brother to build their houses carefully. This story made me remember my childhood. My parents always told this story for me and taught me to do everything carefully.

Journal#4

I have been America for four monthes, and studied in Cal State Fullerton. This is my first time to come here. I remebered that when I left the airplane, I saw everyone speake English and felt that I am unfamilar with everything here. I have arrived a strange environment. I sat in my uncle's car and felt the wind is warm, the street is clean and there are so many cars in the freeway and made a traffic jam. Everything is fresh for me. After I arrived at Monterey Park where my uncle's house is here. I saw there are a lot of Chinese writton on the street, supermarkets, resturants and everywhere. I asked my uncle why. He answered me that this is a city which has more people live than other places, like a Chinese town. I have many curiocities for America. It is different than my country. The street is so quiet in the everning and the people are so friendly. Five days latter, I came to Cal State Fullerton's AlP office with my uncle and my uncle's friend who can speak English fluently and ask something about the courese and where I should live. When I listened what the teacher said, I felt very sad, because I could not understand what did she say. The teacher talked fast. I couldn't follow her. At that time, I knowed that I need to study English harder. With my uncle's friend help, I paid the fees and found a house to live, but the house is far away from the school. I should walk 15 munites and then take the bus to school. In the ALP classes, I learned more knowledge. I familared with the accent of American English. The classes are very interesting, and the teachers always gave our interesting attractive activities make us enjoy these classes. These are stories of these four monthes for living America. It is a different experience for my life.

Journal#3

Yesterday was the Chineses New Year. My family members were being together except me, because I am in America. This was the first year I could not celebrate it with my family. I was alone. I cooked by myself and ate too much food by myself. I felt very sad. When I called my parents, I cried. I could not control my emotion at that time. Now I have been America for four monthes. I studied everyday. I hope I can finish my education as soon as possible and then go back to China to be together with my family. I miss them very much. I wish my family members can have a good health in this year. This is the most inportant thing. Happy new year!

Jounal#2

English has four aspecs for learners to study. It invovles listening, speaking, reading and writing to learn. Listening and speaking are the basic to communicate with foriengers. Reading is the foundation whether you can comprahensive an article or not, and writing is the most significant skill to evaluate your English level. A good reader is a good writer. All of these aspects need learners master a lot of vocabulary words and cerrect grammar. Each of them is very important, and they have a relationship toeach other. Learners can not seperate these four ways to learn.

As a Writer Journal #1

When people start to write something, the first important thing is to get some good ideas,

and through these ideas to write an outline. Every students know these things, but these are

not easier way to use in the timedwriting.For me the difficult thing to write is that how to get

these ideas. Some topics approach to my real life, and maybe I can get ideas quickly,but some

times there are far away from my life. For example, a topic which is about whether the space

researches are neccessary or not is difficult to me to get ideas,because I do not know anything

about the sapce reseaches for me. Even if I can not get ideas, how can I write an outline. So,

sometimes students think that writing an outline waste the time. We should write something

that we can wrtie firstly and through this process we can get some points as quick as we can.

That is why we do not want to write an outline before we write.

I'd like to write something which are near our lifvs. It has an exact and specific thing to write.

For instant, the topics which are around TVs, advertising, computes, poullution and so on are

familar by us, and do not like doing a research.

I think one thing we can do for writing a good essay or something else is to read something

as much as we can. The first thing when we read is to find out how the authors write and how

the simple ideas they get. Therefore, we can concentrate these experience and practice more in

our own way. We can obtain a good effect incredibly. I also believe that more we practice, better

we can do in the future.

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My name is Ellen Teng.
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