11. Two different Educations (Just treat this as the 11 blog)

     There are a lot of differences between America and China. Include all of them, one of the most important things that related to international student is the education. First of all is the amount of education resource. I think the most important part is the process and focus of the education. In my own country, because of the short of education resource we have a heated competition before university. We have a pretty hard time when we enter high school. During this 6 years our pressure are increasing quickly because if you can not get higher scores than others you can not enter your imaginary school. But this condition totally changed after we enter the university. We get out of the pressure of competition and have no goals for the future just feel the happiness of the freedom and enjoy a lot of fun that we haven't tried before. OIn the contrary, American students will play more than us when they study in high school and just learn the ability to study. They use all these abilities to learn better when they enter college so that they can do a better job in college study. The second thing is the focus. In my own opinion, Chinese education takes learning knowledge as much as possible in a very important position. Even some of them can not help the students to build a better  career future. On the other hand, learning skills and habbit is what American education takes much care about. In a conlusion, their are a lot of differernces between the education in these two countries. I can not decide which is better. But I choose American education now, I should to make myself focus on it and be used to this education condition.

9. Problem

     This week was really a hard work because it contains a lot of quiz and midterm which drive me crazy. 

Especially thursday, I have two midterms, one quiz and even a lot of homework to do. It is just this time I found the problem I still have.  I used to believe that I have over come all the problem I face last semester and can be guy who can handle the study here. But at this special time with this little test I figured out I still have a lot of things need to improve. The most important thing is that I find I still not work hard enough which lead to the forget of some important knowledge. When I started to review the class, a lot of knowledge that I didn't know very well. This made me very confused and anxious. This emotion became a big barrier for my preparing for the test and made me can not concentrate on the text book. When we reach review part, there still exist a big problem. When I review each course I found I do not have enough time to cover all the parts. Because a lot of tests focus in a little time. I did not have a good schedule for it. That leave me this hard condition. Another interesting I hadn't thought before is I am too confident for myself. So I didn't aware about how hard it was to face with so much things get together. But when the day came, I finally find I can not handle all this. So in a conclusion, I  still not study hard enough. But the good thing is that I know these disadvantages. So I will set my steps on deal with them and wish I will perform better next month.

8. Is it a good choice for mother to take care of their child at home and give up the job?

      According the essay it shows a lot of researching data to persuade us a truth that mother who does not do any job and only take care of her child at home will make their child safer. Just believe the result is totally right and we will conquer with a hard problem: is it really necessary for a woman give up her job and only to keep their child a little healthier?
     I understand the lady who choose to look after their child at home because every woman is built to be the guard of their baby. They will put all their love on the child whether they are smart or stupid. And health is the most important thing for a people's whole life, especially when he(or she) is young. But in my own opinion, this may not be a wise choice. First I think it is very obvious that children are naive creatures.  They are interested about everything and want to try them. On contrary, they do not have the ability to figure out whether it is dangerous for them and protect themselves. So even their mother stay at home and protect them, they still have a big chance to get in danger by their curiosity. Second, Although the research data shows that child whose mother works out will have twice chances as much as other child to be injured. But we should figure out whether it worths their mother to sacrifice so much to protect this percent of chance. Also the chance the getting twice more than before but it is not a large amount at all. If the mother spend these time on work they can earn a salary to make their family a better life condition. A little injure is temporary but a stable economic condition need a long time work. And a better finance is even more important than a little injury. Third, if you can earn more money you can use part of it to hire someone to take care of the child. If you do like this, you can leave the complicated problem of build the child, earn much more money and have a good social status which makes you proud of.
    So above the reason above I highly suggests laddies not only be a housewife and to find some other ideas to keep their child healthy. Even I can find out a possible method, those women who love their child so much will also construct much more better ideas to both be successful at work and have their child laugh everyday.

7. True Friends

     Until now I really not understand whether I have a true friend. But I have some opinion about a true friends.
     First of all, a good friend should be someone who can can give you a hand when you are in trouble and feel upset. Because true friend should be responsible and willing to see their friends happy and get an improvement. They may not share all the happiness together but they will put others unhappiness in mind.
     Second we reach the share feeling part. Continue what I said before, true friend should be some one when you are unhappy you can share your feeling with him or her. They will be someone who you totally trust and think you can get help from. Think about that having a friend who you can tell everything to them. what a fortune it is.
     At last a true friend is a long time relationship which means that even you leave from each other from a long time you still have connection with each other. every time you face with anything they can treat you as what I wrote before.
     I wish I can build this kind of relationship with some one in the future. And hope everyone can have this kind of friend in their lives.

6. U of M Life

This is the second semester I study here. I think I have made some improvement.  First the most important aim that I have reached is to become familiar with the life . I think this is very hard for every international students who study here. The reason why it is very different from study abroad to study in our own country is that is  totally a different society with a lot of barrier waiting for us. When we facing a lot of difficulties from communication with others, making schedule for our normal lives and so on, we learn a lot and become stronger and stronger. In my opinion, learning in these area is also a good improvement for us.
Secondly, I think I have a improvement in my study. What I mean is not how high the score I get. But how can study effectively and have a right attitude towards study. I didn't work hard in the first semester and got a bad grade in a class. This failure made me upset for a period of time. But after that I started to think why I  didn't do will in that class and finally find out the reason. This become my motivation to change my bad habit in study. Until now I have some new look. But it is not good enough. I told myself do not give up this time. Hope with this motivation I will have a better performance in this semester. I also has a lot to say. But these are the two most important parts. I just hope to break though myself and make a progress in the last three months.

5. A Great party for our Chinese student

     February 2 is our Chinese New Year everybody in my hometown will get together to celebrate this wonderful traditional holiday. On the contrary, students like me who study abroad are still work hard on study. That's why we feel a little upset during these days. But some of my friends had a good idea that we have a party together in the evening at Friday night to celebrate the holiday by ourselves. I totally agreed with this idea and took part in it.
     Because dumpling is the most traditional food for us when we celebrate this festival, we determined to make it by ourselves to make a feeling of at home. First with made the all the materials like meat, vegetables, and the covers of it ready to use. Then girls sat together to make the dumplings. It is not an easy work to do. What's more, because the girls didn't learn it before. So a lot of dumplings with different shapes  come out. It was so funny because you can never thought dumplings would look like that. But it didn't influence the taste. Everyone think the taste is really good. I made two dishes when they deal with those funny dumplings. Both of them are highly praised by my friends and made me very happy.
    After dinner, we decided to play some games together to make the night more meaningful. So we the "killer" games and cards games. Everyone seemed so energetic and happy that night so we keep on playing until next morning.
    This is really a good party for all of us. It is the first time that we celebrate this traditional festival here. Also we made all them by ourselves which shows our growing up. In the future we will do much more and I think we can do all these things better and better

4. Chinese New Year

     Chinese new year  is the most important traditional holiday we have in China. It has a lot of meaning for Chinese people like harmony,  happy and so on. In the day before new family member get together have talk about the experience in the year before. Adults will make dumplings and a lot of delicious food. In the Evening family members sit together and enjoy the food. While sharing our feeling, we also has a large program shows on TV in the evening from 8:00 pm to 2:00 am which to entertain our people and celebrate the new year. In the morning. we will visit old friends and have small talk with them.