Let's be stronger

As Liu mentioned in his article, he was a mature adult, so college students were too young for him to talk with. Moreover, according to his description, professors were either arrogant or rude; thus, he was also not interested in communicating with them. In addition, because of his confined English skill, he felt more comfortable when he was talking with other Chinese. I thought another reason why he needed to be with Chinese was of less or more his personality. His mind and action was kind of childish because he just kept complaining about his suck life in America without a positive emotion. In a word, he was a weak man (no offence).
Remembering the first day I came to UD, I met my first roommate, a Japanese girl, who is such a nice and nice girl. Even though she was an exchange student who has just stayed in America for four months, we became best friend and still keep in touch until now. I also met many international students and native speakers who are really friendly to me and taught me a lot. However, I have also encountered some awkward experiences. One day, when I was walking on the street, a car drove by and somebody just yelled at me, something like: F***!! Go back to China!! That moment extremely pissed me off.
In my opinion, we always feel lonely when we study or live abroad because we are far away from our country, far away from our hometown, far away from everything that once we were familiar with. Therefore, even if we meet strangers who come from the same country, the feeling of nostalgia will narrow the distance between each other.
1. Animated: (adj.) full of interest and energy;
2. Preeminent: (adj.) more important or better than others;
3. Complacent: (adj.) feeling so satisfied with your own abilities or situation that you feel you do not need to try any harder.

Nonverbal communication--assignment 3

During this summer holiday, I went back to China for my vocation. One day, I hanged out with my best friend JY. When I was talking about my life in America, she suddenly pointed out that I added too many body gestures, and she made fun of the distance between her and me because I stood too far away from her which seems that she got swine flu. Then, I realized that I changed a lot in nonverbal communication after I have stayed in American for four months. There are plenty differences in gestures, eye contact, and body space between China and America due to diverse traditional culture, but now I am used to using American style. In China, when people communicate to each other, we always prefer just talking without so plenty vivid gestures. On the contrary, Americans love expressing emotional feelings directly by active body language. Moreover, Chinese will try to close to the person we talk to, which shows friendliness and intimacy. Nevertheless, Americans will choose at distance with other people for the reason that they believe it’s a polite to respect each other’s privacy. However, no matter Chinese or American, eye contact plays an indispensable role in a conversation. All of us believe that eye contact is one of essential respectful action that shows interest and trust.

A tough girl’s short story---Assignment 2 Option 3

Remembering the first time I met O, I was chatting with my roommate M in the dorm. At that time, our classes had already started for one week, but there were still two empty beds in my dorm, so M and I supposed that they wouldn’t come to school. Suddenly, our door was opened violently and bumped against the wall fiercely: O show up. She is our new roommate. After a short but not friendly explanation, she ran out of the room in hurry and left M and I there who was still shocked by her sudden appearance. (When we became friends, she said she had to buy a lot of new staffs for new classes, so she left.) In my first impression, O is a rude, arrogant with too much self-confident girl; however, when we lived together and got chances to know each other well, she is such a kind, considerate and independent “old woman”（her nickname）. Because of her independence, she always gave people a tough feeling, but she took care of me a lot during the time that I studied in my last school. Every time, when I made mistakes, she is my backup to fix them. It’s impossible for me to forget the surprise birthday that she and M spent whole week to prepare. Even though now I am studying in United State and she is in China, she still always encourages me.

Indeed, Thank you so much, my dear friend.

Language Gap

After reading the short essay, Mother Tongue, I had some ideas of the differences habit of using language by comparing with my parents’. There are two reasons causing the differences. First of all, in China, we have our common language and different areas’ unique language, so my generation learns the common language in school. However, my parents prefer my hometown tongue. I usually couldn’t understand perfectly when they kept using my hometown language. As Amy mentioned in the essay, my mom sometimes pushed me to talk with salesman for the reason that she didn’t feel comfortable and influence to use common language. Another reason is the age gap between my parents and I which makes our language differ from each other. For example, when my mother sometimes talked with me, she used a few words that I never used. Moreover, people always formal language in formal situation, such as giving a speech, in class, or talking to someone who is much older. On the contrary, when we chat with friends or family, the language we use is in less formal ones. Language is a ID tag which shows who you are and what you experienced. It is a wonderful thing we have mother tongue because that is the family feeling.

This is Micky~~

All of my friends call me Micky because I always draw Mickey Mouse to cheer myself up when I am in blue mood. As a lot of people said, 20 is the fanciest period age in our life, so now I am a 20-year-old girl who seems never lack of energy. Shanghai is my hometown which is one of most flourish cities in China. Scrooge, the richest duck in Disney world, is my career model. He has a square building where he keeps his money in, and he always swims in the coin pool which is my wildest dream!! During my leisure time, I love roller skating, playing guitar, watching movies and TV show and hanging out with my friends. Unlike other families in China just have one child because of the Chinese policy, I have a brother who is six years younger than me. However, people usually think he is older than me because he looks more mature, which makes him feel upset because he couldn’t get girlfriend. My mother is a normal and interesting woman, and she keeps speaking about my life, study, the same as other mothers. My father is serious man who taught me a lot. This is Micky and her long personal information.