What a wonderful party

On March 30, 2007, all the students and staff of the Leap program stayed together and enjoyed a pizza party. There was a great environment in this party, and I met many new friends of other classes there. We sat together and communicated freely while we ate pizza as our lunch. In our conversation, we chose our topic freely, including the social attitude of the same sex marriage; the possibility of finding a professional job in this city; teeth clean; and studying in the Leap program. Occasionally, the classroom was filled with loudly laugh emerged from each group.

It is a wonderful party, and it inspired my memory of other parties I attended in china. Chinese always like to provide luxury service for their guests in the luxury hotels, and there are lots of luxury foods and wine in nearly every party. The reason of this phenomenon is that Chinese want to show their ardor, which is really a drawback of Chinese traditional culture. Especially, there are still many Chinese who are suffering hungry. Moreover, I always felt tired after these parties. Compared with parties in china, this pizza party is my favorite. It was simple and economical, and you can communicate freely in a friendly environment.

the coming spring

Recently, the whether becomes warm. Lying on the lawn, I can even smell odor of the coming spring. It’s wanderful, we can say goodby to the chilly winter and enjoy the great spring.

when I was a child, I lived in Chendu, a very beautiful city in the southwest of China. In my childhood, in this season, I always went out and enjoyed the panaroma view, the fresh air, and sunshine in the countryside. In addition, in every spring, there were some great flower fairs in several public garderns in Chendu, where many citizens showed their beautiful flowers and shared happy together. for the citizens in Chendu, Spring means hope and happy.

In our Chinese traditional culture, all the four seasons have their own special meanings. Spring means hope; summer means prosperity; fall means harvest; and winter means preparing for the coming year. among all the four seasons, my favorite is spring. the reason that I love spring is just because I need hope in my life, otherwise, my life is unimaginable.

By the way, I will go back after leap program and spend spring and summer in Beijing. It's a wonderful news because that I have been here lonely for 9 months and I really miss my friends and relatives in China.

I was lost on campus again

Today, I went to the tri lab individually. Unfortunatly, I was lost on the way to the tri lab. It’s incredible that I was lost again on campus. I have finished 2 projects of campus planning in my homeland and am familiar with the planning of the campus in china. However, I was lost on campus for 3 times. After I got to the tri lab, I began to think through it. Why was I always lost on campus? Finally, I got the answer. The reason is that there is a great difference in the planning ideas between in china and here. In china, architects always emphasize the visual feeling in the space design, which lead to a series of legible spaces which can be easily orientate. Here, the architects focus on creating the comfortable spaces for the students. Students can enjoy the sunshine and the fresh air in these spaces. That is the reason why I was lost for 3 times on campus. I am disappointed for my mistakes, on the other hand, I am very happy that I got some interesting knowledge from my mistakes.

after the Spring Festival

Almost all of my Chinese classmates complained that they are missing the Spring Festival in china, and the colorful activities in the Chinese Spring Festival, including the lion dance, dragon playing, Paohanchuan, firecrackers, cake, Dumplings, sumptuous meals and mutual blessings. Actually, we lost much happiness here forever, because we lost the context and environment in our country. Recently, I have been thinking about this topic. How can we do here to give our life more colourful activities in the Spring Festival? Or, how can we enjoy the life here? Maybe, all of our Chinese here should think through this topic. Although we couldn’t copy the custom in china, we could steal some useful Western wisdom and put them into our life. It’s a good idea to live harmoniously with the local residences and study from them. The life will go ahead and we need moderate the way of life frequently according to the environment. I think that is the essential part of our Chinese traditional culture.

In the next year, I hope I can get a totally new Spring Festival here.

the mid-term test

Or, my god. Finally, the horrible mid-term test is over. The nightmare is end, and I can have a good sleep now. Generally, I hate this test and I hate myself in this test. I made a variety of stupid mistakes in this test. Moreover, I lost the insightful feeling in my former test. Anyway, I have been out of the university for a long time, which makes me forget lots of gifts.

On the other hand, I really love this test. It's really a great test, and it is so challenging that need your hard work and gift to get pass. It inspires my desire for survival. Similar to a gamble, you couldn’t know the result till the end. And the possibility of survival is 50 percent. However, I like gamble and the feeling in the casino. Sometimes, the life is a gamble. Who can know the result of his life.

In addition, this test depicts some drawbacks of my English, which is really a good thing for me. I get some useful knowledge and experience from this test. This test will pilot me to get a better preparation for the final test. I am so lucky that I still have enough time to moderate the way in which I study English till the final test.

I am dying, but I am sure that I could survive with confident smile and successful results.

I begin to love the Leap program now.

the Chinese lantern Festival

Today is a very important date for all the Chinese. It’s Chinese lantern Festival in Chinese lunar calendar, which has been lasting about 2000 years since its beginning in the Han dynasty. It is generally thought that the lantern Festival is Chinese Carnival and Valentine’s Day in the ancient chinese society. On this night, people enjoy the beautiful night with their families and friends, and celebrate the coming of the spring. There are lots of custom and activities on this festival, including eating glutinous rice balls, Guessing lantern riddles, Enjoying floral lights, Fabulous traditional, and lion dance. This festival is so popular that, Recently, people also call it the little Spring Festival, compared with the formal Spring Festival. In china, people always treat it as the end of the Spring Festival, they will begin to work after this day. Unfortunately, my application of the faculty of the Environmental design is delayed by the long the Spring Festival.

the seats

Recently, I noticed the seats in the campus, and found some interesting differences of the seats between here and in Chinese university.

First of all, you can find a comfort seat anywhere in this campus, such as the corridor, the lounge, the cafeteria, the garden, and you can sit or lie on these seats. However, In Chinese university, it’s hard to find an empty seat outside the classrooms. In my former university, a very famous university in china, the dean of university made a decision to get rid of all the seats around a lake in the campus to prevent young lovers siting around the lake, because he thought this phenomenon spoil the university’s prestige. Or, my god. Sounds incredible, however, it’s truth.

In addition, in Chinese campus, you can find lots of words, such as “somebody visited here again”, however, I found few words on the seats.
Moreover, Chinese seats aren’t comfortable to sit, however, there are lots of styles of seats in the campus, some of which are really comfortable for the students to sit, or, even lie.

In a word, the seats represents the different educational opinions in these two countries.