Feb 16, 2008

Midterm Summary

Eventually, We finished midterm!
Let's review it.
First is writting.
The topic was posted on Blackboard at 12 o'clock, three hours before exam.
Therefore we had 3 hours to do prewritting, and collect information.
Before exam we were informated that we just need write outline and final draft.
Even we only this two item.
I spent 2 hours on writting, an out line and a 400-word essay.
For me, writting is still a shortage.
The following test is Reading.
There is only 1 article on the paper, and it is about bio-tech.
The reading is not too bad.
But the last question about compound word and compound adjective.
I think we can use all the woed from the article,
But in fact it seems we can only use words from first part!
Damn it!
I always careless!
The last exam day, we had two exam.
Speaking & Listening
My toefl speaking is only 15 in 30!
I don't know wether I did a good job this time.
The last test listening is a surprise!
I can understand the lecture.
If all the question is multi-choice, I am confident to find the correct one.
However, it is not.
I cannot write all the detail down when taking notes!
And the last part numbers is confusing~~
Above all, my midterm is not woderful, but it is also not too bad.
OK.
It is already past perfect tense for me, just forget it!
Let's look forward!
The coming reading week!
Enjoy the excellent relaxing break, and study hard as usual after we get enough rest!

Feb 3, 2008

The coming Festival



Spring Festival is coming !


The most important festival for chinese is coming!


To celebrate this festival, I, Nick, Kevin and Kevin's friend had a big dinner. Each of us cook one to two dishes. I made curry potato chicken. Nick made year cake, and sour sweet beef, Kevin and his friend made dumplings, seafood fry noodle and a soup. We enjoyed the big dinner. Kevin's friend is a canadian who has lived in Taiwan Province for about two years. He can speak a little simple Chinese such as "Happy New Year", "Hello" etc.




During the dinner, we talked about the heavy snow in north China. China now is suffering a heavy snow and cold weather. North China normally only have less than one week colder than -4, but now, it has kept below zero for half month. One of the main railway, JingGuang railway was broken down. This is the pictuere of the square of Guangzhou railway station。