writing Blog 9

After I came to Canada, I found there are many differences between people in Prince George and people in Beijing. One such thing is about traffic. Beijing is one the biggest cities in the world, and it has a big terrible traffic problem even if there is a convenient website of subway under the ground. People feel crowd when they live in Beijing. They have to take a lot time to go to work and school. When you want to go out, you have to consider whether today is a good day to hanging out or you have to go out very early, in case you will meet traffic jam. We waste a lot of time on the road. By contrast, there aren’t any subways in Prince George because it is a small city, but the traffic in here is better than in Beijing. It would not take us much time to go out. Another difference between the two is eating habits. People in Beijing eat Chinese food every day, though there are lots of kinds of different foods such as western-style food, fast food and confection, but people who live in Prince George seem to eat fast food every day. When I live in my first home-stay, my home-stay mom give me sandwich as lunch every day and she does not like cook some healthy food. Finally, people in both cities have different attitudes for nature. As I see there are lots of forests around Prince George. It has mountains, rivers and lakes, so Prince George’s people are very close to nature so that they love nature and they are kind and friendly. However, it cannot happen in Beijing. There are a few of gardens and parks in Beijing except of those very famous parks, so the government in Beijing even doesn’t allow the citizen to walk on the grass. In sum, people in both cities have a lot of differences that are caused by discrepant culture, environment and government. By the way, I am happy to live here to study.

writing blog 8

International students have been becoming a big group in Canada’s universities or colleges. They come from different areas in the world such as Asia, Africa, and Europe. They arrived at Canada, are studying in here, and try to work in here in the future as well. So, whether they should be allowed to work has been becoming a more important question. In my opinion, I think they should be allowed to work while they are studying. I have three reasons to explain.

First, International students can reinforce their knowledge by practising in society. For example, international students who are studying engineering often go to worksite to practise for their technical skills which are taught in class. They can gain a lot of experiences via working outside, and they may also meet some difficulty that cannot be met in class. The experience can help students work in their future firms, and the obstacle can help them be better to overcome the difficulty.

Second, international students can reduce their tuition fees by doing part-time jobs. I know international students’ tuition fees are 3 times more than local students, so there is a greater demand in jobs for international students. They can work in their spare time and earn money to support their studying while accumulate extra experiences by working hard. That can also reduce the burden of international students’ parents. Because of too much money, their parents have to work hard to afford their children studying aboard. For the students, they obviously don’t want their parents working too hard, so they really need jobs to decrease their parents’ burden.

Third, international students can be orient to their new Canada’s life through working in here. Working outside is quick to orient a new place than staying at home. Through working in Canada, international students can realize the life of local people what they do every day, what they think of daily life, and how different between cultures. They can easily fit into Canadian society and get help to study well in school, because at that time they will not foreigners before. As a result, international students can interact with local students well. They do their team works together and make communications with each other. These all can help students fit into Canada’s life.

Overall, I think international students should work as a part-time job.

writing blog 7

I miss my hometown so much. I think my hometown is the most beautiful place in the world. There are many views to visit. My hometown is Yulin in the north of China. Yulin is a plateau. There are many views show you and make you feel that it is spectacular. When you stand on the top of mountain, everything is small. It gives you different feelings. When you want to go to a place to pure your heart, it is a good choice. There are no so many trees like Canada, but it still is a beautiful city. You must know of The Great Wall, the first station of The Great Wall in my hometown. Even it is old, I am proud of it! In addition, my hometown has a long history and special culture. They are all traditional Chinese culture, such as Yangko and Paper-cut. Yangko is a popular rural folk dance and it is our custom what is dancing that in some important festival. There are a lot of people can dance it and they are really good at it. Some foreigners would love to take pictures of it when people are dancing it. Paper-cut is one of our customs. You can cut everything you want to cut by paper. You can cut people, animals, and Chinese words. When people get married, they always cut some Chinese words which stand for happy. It is very interesting. Finally, my hometown has many sources, like coal and gas. It is a rich source city. Most of cities rely on my hometown’s source. There is the richest station of gas in China. Even Yulin is not a big city, it is crowed. Many Chinese people live there roughly 300000. Now it is a modern city and it developed very well. It is worth you to visit there. I love my hometown.

listening blog 6

I watched a movie named Enchanted.  I chose this movie because I like the hero in this movie. At the beginning of this movie, it talked about a fairy story. A girl has an amazing voice. The girl was fall in love with a prince. However, the prince’s step- mother did not want the prince with this girl because she would lose power in this kingdom. After they get married, the prince would be the king. The step-mother is a witch. She let the girl went to the real world. She came to the real world and cheated by bad people, but a nice man took care of her at his house. He found this girl is not like from real world. She is nice to everyone; even she can talk to animals. Finally, they were fall in love with each other. The girl found he is her true love and live together happily forever. Do you know what I learned from this movie? It is not people find their true love, but it is that be nice to treat everyone, others will be nice to you. Be a kind person, you will be happy. To have a positive attitude is so important. This is my last listening blog. I think it was interesting to tell others what you learned from a movie. Also, it is a really good way to improve my English.

Writing blog 6

Everyone has his own favorite famous people or athletes. If you ask me which athlete is I want to meet most, it must be Lining. He is my idol. Do you know why I like him so much? I have three reasons to tell you.
            First of all, Lining has gained many medals, and he was represented of our nation attended a lot of matches, including Olympic Games. He has sleight skills and dainty poses of physical jerks and gained so many medals, so he was called the prince of physical jerks. A person can earn so many honors; he must be paid more efforts and more hardships. So does Lining. No one can pay anything but gained.
            In addition, Lining also has a big success in business. When he finished his career of physical jerk, he was contributed to developing national brand and created himself brand of sport--Lining. Seldom people do not know the brand in China, a lot of teenagers love the brand. Gradually the brand is driven into the international market even NBA. In business circle, Lining has a high position and is respected by others.
            Finally, Lining does not only success in business, but also in family and bear oneself. He has a huge filial piety for his parents, and he paid more attention to his family. He is regarded as a good son, a good husband, a good father. He always helped others who are homeless or diseased. He cared for his family meticulous in the realms as material and sprite. Because of him, he also fired the frame of Olympic Games in 29th Olympic game. It is a how big honor.
            He is such excellent person has a great success in every single aspect. How could not I inspire him? All of above, I like Lining very much, and he is the athlete who I most want to meet.

Listening blog 5

I watched a movie named 《Gulliver's Travels》. The main actor is Jack black. He is a mailman in this movie. His career does not successful. He loves a girl is a good editor. In order to show himself to this girl who is he loved, he does something bad. Actually, he cannot write anything so he copies an article from a famous writer's. This girl does not know he copies that and she gives him a secret task to travel a place and write a travel article to her. He goes to this place, but his ship is broken by the sea wave. He comes to a mystical island and a country has hundreds of small people. He starts his amazing travel in this country which is filled with small people. Also, he helps the small state to fight with another small country and protect the princess in this small state. He builds a theater and teaches them act many movies which we have in our life, such as Titanic and Avatar. Gradually, he becomes a hero here. That girl finds Gulliver is plagiarizing and comes to look for him. They are fall in love here. They let those two small states become friendly and peaceful. Finally, they come back their world. Gulliver knows that it does not matter how big you are, the strongest thing is human's heart. I learned that a normal human can be a hero or a successful person after working hard from this movie. I learned some new worlds, such as pun, general. Pun means humorous use of words that sound the same or have two meanings. General means the army officer of very high rank..

listening blog 4

I watched a movie named Salt. This movie’s protagonist is Angelina Jolie. In this movie, her part is a spy work for the CIA and her name is Salt. At the beginning of the movie, she works for the CIA. However, CIA workers guess and accuse her is a spy and work for Russia secret agency. She knows that she has to escape because whatever she says, they do not believe her. She runs to Russia. She was an orphan and raise by the leader of the secret agency in Russia. She was trained when she was a little girl. She is an excellent spy. She has a task and goes back to America to the president. I think the president dead, actually not. Her old boss is a bad guy to break the security of America and steal the information from America and work for CIA. This man tried to send a guided missile to other counties. Salt stops him. Finally, she helps American president and keeps all important information and saves many people‘s lives.