Personal Addition: Final exam on English

I'm so excited to get a 62 percentage on  my provincial exam on English, I wasn't actually expecting my marks go over 60%, it's indeed a suiprise for me and it also helps me to go into university directly, but in here I still have to thank Ms. Mclauchlan for giving me so much help, I could never do such a great job without her help.

5 pages in my note's book

This is the five second project, what I try to describe is a ultraman beating a monster, and returning to space.

    This brain are full of strange thoughts, I couldn't even remember where does this visual from, but it's one of my favorite hand-drawing, though. Actually, I kind of enjoy all of my own create hand- drawing.

This is my digital footprint, also, this is one of my most pride composition in hand-drawing, I couldn't imagine someday, somehow I'm able to draw things like this, I'm so proud of myself.






                                                                         

This is my offcially fist page of note's book, which I think has a constructive meaning for me, as a beginner of writing.

This my first reading reflecting, it helps me to build a base of writing afterwards, it has different meaning than other pages for me.

Personal Addition: Driver license

This is my first step to get a driver license in M.B, filling out this form and I will be offcially rolling into MPI system, I'm so excited to step out this step because that means I'm a grown man and I can handle things like this.

Final Thoughts

Well time really goes so fast, we're almost in the end of this year, we've done many assignments and project, let's talk about it.

My favorite assignment through this whole semester is the TBL project, which is the final project, not because it's a meaningful project, but actually it inspires my intelligence of drawing.

My least favorite project is The Blackout Poetry, the reason I dislike it is it requires a lot of creative thoughts which I'm kind of lack of, besides, a low marks on it is also the reason I don't really like it.

Friday Reading, it's a very reasonable and useful time, for me, I hadn't read many books until we have that reading period, but after this semester I have two more books done reading, this is a great progress for me. it helps students to read more, think more, do more. 

Connecting to Friday Reading, a Monday Reflecting is a part of reading, it sublimates the understanding in our minds and make our thoughts logical and clear, so I think it's the most useful part in this course.

The Writer's Note, it's definitely worth than a few bucks because it brings up the habit and the ability to write are more than money can measure, we can write anywhere anytime, catch the moment of inspire. This is another useful aspect in this course, I think.

Blogging, I have my first blogger in this class, I must say it is very bringing me a different feeling of Internet, I used to play video games on computer, but with this blog, they have been abandoned by me because I found out that viewing some blogs is a interesting thing to do.

Same as blog, this is also the first Twitter account I've ever had, it introduces me a method to socializing in a way, and I have been tweeting my life and funny things on it all the time, more importantly, it's brought me into a different level in English.

The integration of technologies in this course are really helpful for students who wishes to improve their ability in writing because this course inspires students to think, to create by giving some hints and strategies. Mixed with internet technics add some fun into this course makes this course would be boring, anyway, I think this is an awesome course to take.

I've been many roles in this course, as a reader, I think I really need to intensify my vocabulary in order to be a fast reader, in the meanwhile, my reading also has some positive parts that I'm always able to find the point of a paragraph. As a writer, I think my imagination still need to improve because I write things ordinary, which probably makes my writing lack of attractive, but on the another part, I think I can write texts very clear and logical, maybe it's because I have a math brain than literary brain. As a thinker, I found out that since my first language isn't English, my thoughts are always slower than others, but the good news is I'm improving. As a creator, I mentioned that I'm not a good creator but I believe it's getting better while the English taking root in my mind time by time. In other words, I have many aspects need to be improved somehow, and I will work hard for it, I will do it.

Ms. McLauchlan, she is a very funny, conscientious teacher, sometime she is strict but it's all for students benefits, besides, she is pretty, I want to say thank you to Ms. McLauchlan.

advice for future CW students are: Make sure you have a note book because it really helps. Put more efforts into project or assignments than other, you will get a high marks. Use Friday Reading class and Monday Reflecting time well, do not waste it because it's really important not matter look it from which angle. 

Alright, this is all I want to say, also the thoughts I have for this class. Good luck to future CW students and again, thank you Ms. McLauchlan!

Personal Addition: Final Exam is eliminated!

This picture was taken on last Thursday right after I finished the English Final Exam while I'm sitting on the bench and waiting for the bus. Honestly, Final Exam is the only thing I was worried, not math, not physics, nothing else because getting an awesome marks on English could make my way to go into the university easier and more comfortable, in order to avoid the English intensive training, as an international student, we would have to get 75% averaging over 2 English courses, and I'm working on it. Anyway, it's relaxing time for me since that day and hope I can enjoy the last few days in High School!

Personal Addition: Nice day today, 6-10

I took this picture on the way home after school today, I'm not accustomed to take pictures while I'm walking but this scene really attracted me to do so, the leaves are getting golden and the sunshine makes them more harsh, what a beautiful day!

Personal Addition: Weekend

 It's been a long weekend(because I skipped Friday), and me and my friends gathered together making some Chinese food, we've got fishes, roast ribs and chicken wings. it might not look so good but actually it was awesome, trust me, you would love it if you had it!

Personal Addition: Vivid Impulse

One thing I'm not sure we write about often, if at all, is impulse. The impulse to hurt people, or ourselves.

Now, not sure if "impulse" is the right word to describe this or not, but hallucination feels...somehow wrong. Visions seem wrong.
Though probably any of these could be appropriate, and perhaps we are just denying them because of the connotations they bring to mind.

The other night we were laying in bed with James and he was asleep, we had just closed the device we use to play a game most of us enjoy playing (Jewels Star) and lay in bed unable to sleep...and a strange...impulse...okay, fine...vision (it just seems crazy that way :-/)...appeared in our head.
It was unpleasant, and made us ill, and we knew it was our worst (Brooke) fucking with us, like she does other times. Our arms became heavy with rejection of what we were seeing.

She wanted us to go to the kitchen and get the 10" chef's knife that we use for cooking...and she showed us what she wanted us to do with it. It wasn't so much violent, as gentle thrusting...that didn't make it any more comfortable to watch, and feel, and...experience. It wasn't shown in a blood-lust or glorifying way. It just was.

We won't say more.

She only did it to make us scared. We know Brooke doesn't like James, but she doesn't like us either. She used to want us to jump in front of buses back before we moved back to the United States and walked to work everyday.
Now, these days, she wants us to drive our vehicle into the side of semi-trucks on the interstate, and to stick our hands in moving blades, and other things that make it a struggle, sometimes, to prevent. It's not self-harm. we don't see it that way. But it's...disturbing. It's not everyday, thankfully. It's not even every week, but she always makes sure we don't forget she's around.

We know how to be smart about it. We tell James when these things happen, maybe not right away, but in a timely fashion that works with our schedules.

He does not fear us, or her, and is likely happy that we disclose these things rather than harbor them and let them destroy us mentally. It can't be easy to hear the wom[e]n you love tell you that "she" had visions, had impulses, to stab you in your sleep last night.

We've never understood her anger towards us, or other people, or why she would want us to hurt so much. Sometimes it's hard to try to understand each other, and when we try it just makes us want to curl on the floor and cry...and there's only so much of that we want to do in our life. But the thing we can do it recognize it, deal with it, and move past it and remember we are all responsible for each other and that was the deal.

We're really not as crazy as this particular blog entry may make us seem. At least we don't think so.
You can ask anyone who has met us.
We're not everybody's cup of tea, but thankfully some people like it strong.

Bucket list "100 things I want to do before I die"

 

 

Personal Addition: Cute dog

I had been staying at my friend's house for a few day, and this is his cute dog, he is eating something(I don't know what exactly it was), I'm not familiar with judging the breed of dogs, but anyway isn't he so cute? I want to have my own one in the future.

Personal Addition: NBA finals

The NBA Finals have started, San Antonio Spurs against Miami Heat. It's been exciting and drastic these days. Report interview, Press Conference have made this series full of serious and nervous, but personally, I support Spurs to get the finals trophy because I don't like Lebron James's betray that year, besides I don't enjoy how physical he plays. But anyway, this is surely going to be great series for all basketball fans, enjoy it!

Personal Addition: Finished book

This book Snitch, has been read entirely by me, this is offcially my first finished reading book, in fact, this is what this CW course has brought to me, I'm so excited!

Author's Note

Well, time goes so fast! Still remember the start of this semester when I held my schedule wondering what exactly Creative Writing is. In the past four months, I’ve been inspired to creative my own personal additions and reading reflections and so on. I finally get familiar with the concept of creative, which in my opinion is to discover and explore, then sort through it as an organised thought. Anyway, this course is coming to the end and I appreciate all the knowledge, all the strategies I was taught. I wish time could stay at this moment forever.
 The new project which is the The Buried Life asks us to make a list of “100 things I want to do before I die”. Everyone has dreams but under this reality, most of them are barely can come true and this project is basically designed for people, ask them to list their dreams and put their effort into completing it. I have to say this is really an awesome project because it remains me how fast the life goes and we must make it count. Speaking of the contents in this list, actually, I don’t think they are really can be done such as “go to The North Pole”, but this list can still inspire me to keep chasing higher goals, so no matter if I can complete this list, at least I have something to strive for tomorrow, that makes my life meaningful and that’s enough. Besides, I decided to use my blog as a platform of my list since I’m not familiar with how to edit a video. Again, we’re fighting for our future and our dreams.

Personal Addition: The Great Wall

This photo was taken when I climbed The Great Wall, I think it's the most appropriate word the describe it because you are not actually walking or running on it, the feelings you have when you visit it is tired, I spent half day trying to get the end of The Great Wall but unfortunately I failed. I'd like to give it another shot if I had a chance in the future

Personal Addition: Missing winter

I miss winter so much although it was that frozen freaking cold but I still miss the feeling doing skiing and skating, it was fun and I couldn't wait for the next winter.

Personal Addition: Fancy car

I saw this fanc car on my way home today, isn't this design fantastic?  I think this kind of shape of car, which is streamlined is really cool and it makes a car look this a racing car even it's not, so enjoy it.

Personal Addition: Rocks meet ankles.

I had recently found this picture and I really really love the way it's worded and I figured I should share it with you all.

Personal addition: My hometown

This is my hometown, Weihai. A city located in the east north of China, with the natural of being a bay because it's surrounded by ocean, this is the main road by the ocean, temperature in here is warm all year long and the environment is beautiful, there is not much pollution, anyway, this city is named" the most comfortable city for people to live" by the National Unites in 1997.

Now What?

Well, there are so many things on this list that I may not get a chance to complete them, but as for now, the closest thing appearing a chance in my life is to keep my two 40S English courses averaging over 75%, because this is the way to go into the university directly without any wasting of time on English intensive training for me (probably one year since some of the faculties only have one entry day each year), as well as all of the international students. To accomplish it, on one hand, as what I am doing now, I’m trying to bring my marks up with the effort I have put in this big final project that honestly I have never done so much on any other assignments or projects ‘cause I do realize how meaningful this project is. On the other hand, I also have English 40SC in the afternoon class with also Ms. Mclauchlan and I am having the provincial exam these days. Hopefully, I will do well. So basically this is the blueprint of how am I attacking one of the item from the list. 

Personal Addition: Watermelon

Summer has arrived, my favorite fruit is getting grown- watermelon. I bought a watermelon and ate it entirely as I'm watching NBA finals, so enjoy it! 

Personal Addition: Annoyance in My Everyday Life

When I look at this title, I ask myself what is the annoyance in my everyday life? Maybe, is there not enough money for me to spend? Are there not enough beautiful clothes for me to wear? Is there not enough free time for me to enjoy myself? Thinking it over again and again, I feel that the biggest annoyance in my daily life is that I don’t know what I want in my life on earth. Perhaps to some extent I do not know myself clearly. In my opinion, there are at least three troubles I care about most at present.

Firstly , what kind of boy I really want to have as my boyfriend? It sounds a bit strange, but it annoys me sometimes. Should he be tall and handsome? Should he be rich and bright to satisfy my vanity or just an ordinary person but who loves me deeply? The one I like or the one who likes me? Should who loves whom more? Should I refuse him in the campus because we are still young, and can not decide the city we will live in yet. If we can’t find jobs in the same city, what will happen then?

Secondly , It is shameful that i still don’t know the purpose of my study and what my study aims at. What’s more, I did not make it. Do I study just for obtaining the diploma in order to find a better job? Or learning much more knowledge of the theory? Maybe I am a bit tired of learning; occasionally I will feel confused and disappointed. I wonder whether I am wasting my time and making no progress. I dislike this feeling at all.


Thirdly, what kind of job I really hope for in future?. I had various colorful dreams when I was a child. With the time passing by, I seem to lose all of my dreams, even I can not remember clearly some of them, or I do not have the passion to make them come true . What is the most awful thing that I am still uncertain about what type of job will fit me according to my character and quality.

Maybe you will say I am a poor guy, because I have been an adult and can not catch the meaning of life yet, even I do not know what I need indeed. However, as the saying goes, “Knowing how to be the owner, but not the salve, of my own life is actually a kind of knowledge”. Therefore,I believe that I will know the key to all of above doubts one day!

Personal Addition: Love and Learning

Towards love and learning, college teachers and students hold controversial views.

The majority of college teachers, especially elder teachers, argue that students should give up love and concentrate on learning. They say that campus love is time-and-energy-consuming and tears students away from their main task. If a student ever falls in love, he/she will undoubtedly neglect his/her studies and gradually lag behind his /her classmates. A few teachers, therefore, suggest that the university authorities restore the traditional regulation against love during students' school years.

On the contrary, students hold that it is natural for young people to fall in love on the campus because they meet every day and their everyday meeting produces romantic passion towards each other. They insist that the campus is not the Gardan of Eden and love is not the Forbidden Tree. They take for example some of their friends who, falling in love, are studying harder and have made greater progress to please their boy/girlfriends.

In my opinion, both views are lop-sided.If a student does not give himself/herself away in love but takes it as a drive, love produces positive effect. But if he/she indulges himself/herself too deeply in love, then he/she will be a devoted lover but a frustrated learner.

Personal Addition: Wonderful Day

Today, when I got home, I noticed there was an envelope on my desk, honestly I never expected it would come so suddenly, that was my acceptance from U of M, Direct Entry to Engineering. I got so excited because being an engineer is always my dream since I was a child, I told myself that's my hobby my dream and future.

But when this day is really coming, I can't even sit tightly as well as my heart. 

Even more, I've been rewarded $1400 as entrance scholarship, omg, I'm so excited!

But still, I have another thing to worry about that my two 40S English courses have to be averaging over 75% or I will have to go to the English language center to take a intensive English training which I never wanted to go. So, from now on, from this last project "The Buried Life", I'm going to put double effort on this than usual. 

100 things I want to do before I die

100 things I want to do before I die

1.   Go camping.
2.   Witness an eclipse
3.   Learn how to skateboard
4.   Dive in the ocean
5.   Meet Kobe Bryant
6.   Go to Staples and watch a Lakers game
7.   Speak English well
8.   Learn to say “Hello” in 50 languages
9.   Learn to play one of instrument.
10.  Make a donation to charity
11.  Save a life
12.  Go to The North Pole
13.  Plant a tree
14.  Get to know my neighbors
15.  Be someone’s mentor
16.  Write a novel
17.  Experience weightlessness
18.  Sleep under stars
19.  Find a job I love
20.  Grow a garden
21.  Go up in a hot-air balloon
22.  Attend a crazy rock concert
23.  Run a Marathon
24.  Travel Europe
25.  Fall in love
26.  Reach 100 items on this list (which is in process)
27.  Collect at least 10 kinds of currency
28.  Donate blood
29.  Visit a castle
30.  Shower in waterfall
31.  Get a university degree
32.  Have a child
33.  Create my own computer game
34.  Create my own web site
35.  Be an extra in a film
36.  Help my parents to get a wonderful life
37.  Ride a camel into the desert
38.  Be a member of the audience in a TV show
39.  Spend a whole day reading a great novel
40.  Spend a whole day eating junk food without guilty
41.  Visit the Holy Wood
42.  Get a driver license
43.  Feed a cute dog
44.  Give my mother a dozen red roses and say “I love you”
45.  Swim with a dolphin
46.  Write a song
47.  Be absolute confident for myself
48.  Meet my classmates in Senior High
49.  Learn how to cook
50.  Visit The White House
51.  Adopt a baby
52.  Become a vegetarian(nearly impossible)
53.  Take a picture with a panda
54.  Send a message in a bottle and float it in ocean
55.  Go to space(Absolute impossible)
56.  Learn a magic trick
57.  Race a racing car
58.  Get two 40S English courses averaging over 75%
59.  Become a millionaire
60.  Climb to the top of a mountain
61.  Have a pen pal
62.  Learn how to dance
63.  Eat one of the best restaurant in the world
64.  Apologize to any one I might have wronged
65.  Fly first class
66.  Shoot a gun
67.  Ride a horse
68.  Give my grandma and grandpa a great surprise that I will be successful
69.  Watch a full moon
70.  Walk on the Great wall
71.  Get really drunk
72.  Experience a destructive storm
73.  Give a speech in public
74.  Be a great father
75.  Have my own business and be a boss

                             To be continued...

Personal Addition: My reflection on a professor’s death.

The news of a doctorate supervisor in Renmin University who committed suicide by jumping off a high-rise shocked me, an event that makes people reflect on China’s educational system and those teaching staff’s life and working situation. It is widely said that teachers and other working staff in China’s universities are in the pinch, they not only working under piles of teaching burdens, but also urged to hone their academic competence by reading voluminously and time and now called on to publish their researches in great academic magazines.  A saying of “publish or perish” that mockingly tells about pressure, under which many foreign universities’ faculty is working, is now quoted by many Chinese teachers.

It seems that all these are the faults with the educational systems, but is it the case only with teachers in China? If we shift our focus to other fields, we may as well be saddened by the plights or even be astounded by the unbearable conditions lived through by many professionals. Stressful work and quickening tempo of life is the feature of modern life and society. Those of easy life and pleasant environment have been estranged from us, already something available only in reminiscences of humans.

Difficulties are there, confronting us; therefore we should face them squarely. There is no escape that can help free us from the dungeon. We need teeth and will to counter everything that is running against us. God will forgive us if we fail in our trying and endeavor, but will not forgive us if we retreat before challenges. God will confer us rewards if we are sparing no efforts, but will not spare us penalties if we back away.

Therefore, we need a good mentality and take the job as the source of our happiness. The work we are doing seems drudgery to many a people, but at least it can serve a moderate purpose: filling our time. At least, people do not have to think about what should be done to dawdle away time. But the function of time-filler of a work is not a full story of the work. It should be the one from which a great pleasure can be derived. But how can we wring the happiness from the drabness of our work. First of all, we should love our work and realize that stress is the driving force that can beef us up to challenges. We need a certain amount of stress and intensity in our work and life to keep us on the run. It is like a chess playing. The tougher the game is, the greater joy the player will get.
 

Any extreme act to shun stress is, in my eyes, an act of coward. Death is the end of one’s life, but will cause unending agony of his family and relatives. It is irresponsible and thus despicable.

Life is invaluable and cannot be recovered if it is lost. Please value our life and do our bits for society. Believe that any life has its due role and is justified in surviving this world.

Personal Addition: Generation Gap

Nowadays，the problem of generation gap becomes more and more serious. Based on the survey by our school, the poor relationship between parents and their children is very common. Are these problems caused by the busy parents? Or, do the harsh family rules affect their relationship?

Firstly, in most of the families in the US, both of the parents have to go out for work in order to earn more money to proveide better environment for their lovely children. Unfortunately, this causes the rare communication between them and their children, since these parents always take rest during leisure time. These parents and children cannot know deeply about each other, then friction is easy to appear. Therefore, a wid e generation gap comes into being.

Secondly, parents who ask their children to be absolute obedient to them is also one of the grave causes of generation gap between them. Therefore, these children are not willing to communicate with their parents and most of these parents are not active to talk with their children. Thus, misunderstanding between them often occurs.
To solve these problems, the busy parents should sacrifice their spare time to communicate with their children actively so as to improve their relationship. At the same time, they can also observe their children’s behavior in order to understand their children’ personality and reduce the quarrel betweeen them.

Besides that, the parents should try to give up their absolute power in family to give a better image to their children since it can make their children feel free to chat with their parents. Then it is easy for the parents to approach their lovely children. Therefore, a close and harmonious relationship between parents and children appears.

In conclusion, to have a close relationship between parents and children, the parents should devote their leisure time to talking with their children and observing their childern’s personality and give their children the approaching images. If so, this terrible phenomenon, generation gap, cannot occur any more.

Twitter Fiction

                    Waiting For You in Memory

1.      She, a university student in a small town, she is simple inside of her and also cute and pretty.
2.      He, same university as her, he is handsome, and he likes playing football and video games.
3.      One day, somehow, by the destiny, they happened to meet; everything is going up after then, dramatically.
4.      “I have been paying attention to you for a long time” he said, “So have I”. This is where and how it started.
5.      “Why do you keep giving me your cold shoulders?” she said, “Nothing”. This is the painful end.
6.      Love is a matter of destiny, you have your football, your games and me, but I only have you.
7.      I looked you walking by aside of me; I felt my heart beats in that moment.
8.      On the main road in our school, I just happened to meet you there, without any portent, it was coming.
9.      Since then, there will always be a girl pretending reading but actually waiting for you on that road.
10.  Heard that you like video games, so I tried every possible way to reach just for borrowing a game.
11.  Finally, we became best friends, friends with no secret; friends can share everything.
12.  And then… Your kiss was sweet like candy.
13.  Your cute face really makes me smile. I like the smell on you, is it mint? I’m getting obsessed with it.
14.  Will you get mad because of those my little tricks?
15.  Time is always passing so fast when I’m with you that I can’t even catch it.
16.  A bloom-fade period needs 18 days, how long does love stay and take? 18 days? 18 months? 18 years? Would it be entire life?
17.  You still love your football, your games, and I’m getting used to wait for you every time you’re late for our dates

18.  But you, can always find an excuse for your late, makes me accept it even though reluctantly.
19.  Even if we’re together, you will still be playing your games and leave me alone.
20.  You seem that haven’t hugged me like before for a long time, I miss the feeling that you hold my back, tightly.
21.  And never send me a rose again since the last time, I still remember you holding a rose, wearing a white shirt, when you really got hold of my heart.

22.  The life I wanted is very simple, at least not complicated.
23.  But I never realized that hard it would be, it seems there are so many difficulties confront us, or me.
24.  Life goes like water, never comes back, so does love, the bell you sent me is still tinkling, but you….

25.  Those winkles in your hands, I just couldn't figure out what tale it says.