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Thursday, January 31, 2008

I let my husband applied TAMU.

This is the last day of the first month. I kept accomplishing the first step of my new year resolution. In this month, I got some progress. However, I don't think this was enough for me in a month. I need do harder in the next few months.

In fact, I am missing my families very much because Chinese New Year is coming. So I couldn't focus on English. I really acted an abnormal way these days. Sometime the cold weather really made me crazy. Jin is really a nice man. No matter how I acted, he was capable of handling me. Although I made him distracted, he also could manage his work without complaining after calming me down. Actually, I just really want to leave here. I couldn't stand here more days I think. Although I don't want to leave my friends, I want him try to get an offer from a warmer place. He followed my advice and applied TAMU . TAMU is close to my brother. If we could go there, I think that would be better than we are here..... ????? Okay, I am not quite sure about it, but I believe my six sense. At lease, it will be good for our future. I hope he will make it.


Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Cold!!!!!!!!!!!

It was very cold yesterday. The temperature felt like -43C. I really scared of this cold weather. I just stayed at home and did yoga to make myself get better. How can I avoid getting cold in such a cold weather? I still can't bear this weather, and I even do not want to stay here for one more day. It always make me feel sick. :-(
Yesterday morning, I had a conversation with my mom. From her, I knew that China had a heavy snow storm Jan 1. except south of Shandong Province. (My home town is in south of Shandong Province. I miss my family and the normal weather.) It rarely had a snowfall all over the country before. This may attract many researchers to discuss this infrequent weather. I'm actually curious too. I wonder how it happened this winter in China. :-)

Monday, January 28, 2008

Poor little creature.

Hongchun found a rabbit when he went back from work. The rabbit was hurt, its one eye was bleeding. Probably, it was hurt by a car. Poor little rabbit!! It might feel painful, feared and cold because it was shivering when Hongchun found it. It is a wild creature, we had no idea how to handle it. Therefore, we just gave it some carrots to eat and left it in the hallway for a while. Because we are not allowed to keep an animal in apartments. Afterward, Hongchun knocked at a door at the first floor to ask them how to handle it; then they called the animal control center for help. After that, when we went downstairs and checked on it, it had already gone. Probably, some people took it away and would treat its injury. I guess so. :-) I will pray for that poor little rabbit.

Monday update

I didn't do much exercise last weekend because I had other things to do. However, I went to dance yesterday afternoon. Before dancing, I walked 20 minutes on the treadmill at a fast speed, and I rode 20 minutes on the stationary bike. ...It was good for me to do that. Although, I felt all my body achy this morning, it was much better than the first time I went to work out. I thought that it was just like it worked well for me to do exercise. As my friends know that, I am skinny, I need to eat more to gain more weight. I think that is a really good way for me to get a good appetite. Therefore, if the weather is good, I'm going to work out more frequently.
This morning, Anna made a phone call to everyone of our class because she couldn't get to school today. Her son was sick. Therefore, we didn't have class today. In this season, the weather changes much and frequently. We really need to pay more attention to it. Don't get yourself in trouble. I always wear more clothes than others, sometimes, people make fun of me. Nevertheless, I don't care. Because I know what I need. However, I felt like I was getting a cold. After coming back from K-mart, I felt uncomfortable. In fact, this feeling started last night, but it's worse today. Probably, I wore less than before yesterday. While driving back from
Wellness Center, the temperature was lower than when I left apartment. Right now, I think I need to take some medicine and have a rest.Hopefully, I will be better soon. I dislike the bad weather here! I probably will miss the Yoga class as well this week. :-(
(My friends, please take care of yourselves!)

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

I missed the Yoga class.

I was supposed to go to Wellness Center to join in the Yoga class tonight, but I couldn't find the room. Because I went there a little late, so I didn't know where they were doing Yoga.
It was very interesting. I walked around and around and tried to find the room, but there was no room, except for the dancing room. The dancing room was off light, so I didn't think that was the room they took for Yoga. However, actually, that was. I missed the Yoga class but I walked 40 minutes on the treadmill. While walking, I read an article about polar bears. When I was going to leave, I met Becky and kathryn. They just finished the Yoga class. Form them, I knew that they felt relax while doing Yoga. I am really looking forward to joining them, probably next time. :-)

Monday, January 21, 2008

Zip Code

I went to KOHL'S to go shopping with my classmate today. When I checked out, the checker asked me that "may I have your zip code?" I felt confused and, suddenly, stuck there, "Zip code? I couldn't remember the zip code, wait for a minute, I will call my husband." In fact, I knew zip code, but I suddenly forgot it. While I was calling my husband, my classmate came and asked me, "What's up?" "They need my zip code, but I can't remember." While saying that, I felt my face was burning. My classmate helped me and told him the zip code.
As a matter of fact, I rarely used the zip code, so I couldn't remember it clearly. However, at that moment, I felt very embarrassed because I found that everyone waiting in line was staring at me. It was just like I was acting. Anyway, I didn't make a big mistake this time. :-p Although, I felt uncomfortable for this scene, I learned that some stores might need your zip code when you are using your master card. (I don't know whether Visa cards have the same issue, because I haven't met this kind of thing when I use it ever since.)

Sunday, January 20, 2008

Spring is colder than Winter.

The temperature remains cold these days. It's about -18C~-28C. Ha ha, sorry I forgot the winter here might be six months. It's still winter. Really, I do not want to endure the cold weather any more. I am looking forward to seeing the sunlight of Spring. :-p
Update:
As I said yesterday, I went to Wellness Center to work out today. I went there at 3:00pm. I first walked 20minutes on the treadmill, and then danced 2hours. I wasn't there at 6:00pm because I really tired for doing so much exercise. In addition, I knew there would be another person to go with Jimmie, so I wouldn't go there at 6:00pm. I had a rest and watched a movie--Balls of Fury (2007).

Boring town

The temperature remains cold these days. It's too cold for people to go outside. I really want to change a warmer place to leave. Sometimes I even thought about going back China to skip the winter would be so good. However we don't have much money for me to go and come back so often. Since this, I need to stay inside and try to find something fun to kill time. It's sort of boring in winter. There is no good view, no color, no anything except white snow on roads. I am picturing lying on the beach in Hawaii, and also with a drink at my side---that would be very comfortable and fun. :-) Never mind, I am day dreaming now. :-p I wonder when could we move away from this cold boring small town. I hope that day won't be too long.

Saturday, January 19, 2008

Random update

I couldn't sleep well before. However, I found that I could sleep well after working out last weekend. That made me feel good. So I decided to go to workout again with Jimmie this weekend. Although I got my thigh hurt last Sunday, I wanted to continue working out because it could make me stronger. I walked 40 minutes on the treadmill at a low walking pace today and then I rode 15minutes on a stationary bicycle at level 3. After that, I danced 1 hour with JJ . Oh, I forgot to mention that the reason I dance again is we are going to perform, so probably I need more practice to prepare for the performance. Although I felt tired, when I thought about the advantage of working out, I felt happy and satisfied. In addition, I will meet JJ and Yingxin there at 3:00pm, and I'll meet Jimmie at 6:00pm tomorrow afternoon if I still can do more exercise. First dance with JJ and Yingxin and second walk on treadmill or ride on stationary bicycle with Jimmie. It's kind of a lot exercise to do tomorrow. :-)

I want to mention that my car is kind of better now. After maintained by the repair shop last week, the temperature gauge shows a normal engine temperature and the pointer rises slower to the "H"(hot mark)
than before. Actually, I am not quite sure about it. Hopefully it would keep in good condition in the future.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

My car has a problem.

I knew that the older car might have more problems. I considered that buying a used car was like a bet. If lucky, I would win. I never won in a bet before, I just thought I could win this time. However, I was wrong. The car wasn't as good as I thought. I was so innocent that how I believed that an old car could have a good condition. Although I knew I was wrong, I didn't have a chance to change the reality. From the repair shop, I knew a bad news about my car. The head gasket is leaking. So I have two choices---one choice is installing new head gasket, but it will cost us over a thousand dolors; the other choice is checking coolant frequently. That's not good for us. We don't have much time to check coolant every time before driving. Furthermore, we even don't know how far the car can run by one tank coolant. I had searched about the price of the head gasket. It's not that expensive. It's about one hundred and fifty. I'm still confused now. Why did they tell us that it probably cost so much? I need to find out tomorrow in another repair station. Hopefully, my car would be fine. I don't want to be in trouble while driving.

Monday, January 14, 2008

My car's battery is dead today.

It's so cold today. I couldn't start my car today. It's weird. It ran good last night. Why couldn't it start? I tried twice to start it, and I also found someone to help me to jump it, but it didn't work as well. Probably, the battery is dead. I am not quite sure about my battery. The weather in Grand Forks is too cold. It was -17F this morning, it's -10F now. Therefore, it is possible. The car didn't have this problem before, so I am not sure how it happens this time. In order to avoid it will happen again, I had searched some reasons from a website, I think that it would also help people to avoid causing this problem in future.

There are a number of reasons why batteries can weaken and fail. A few common ones include:

  • Leaving headlights, interior lights, flashers, and the radio on when the car isn't running.
  • Using the air conditioner when the car is not running.
  • Not starting a car for long periods of time (e.g., while it's in storage).
  • Lack of battery maintenance (e.g., not keeping terminals clean).
  • Failure of the diode bridge or voltage regulator in the alternator; the alternator charges the battery when the car is running.
  • Low air temperature, which causes batteries to freeze.

  • I feel sad for my car's problem. I hope that it would be solved tomorrow. I will try to jump it again tomorrow. Tomorrow will be warmer than today.

    Sunday, January 13, 2008

    I Started Doing Exercise Again.

    Yesterday, I went to Wellness Center to dance with my friends. Because I hadn't done exercise for a long time, my body wasn't as lithe as before. It was hard for me to finish one complete motion. This made me reminded the first time I learned dance. At that time, I was a little girl and in primary school. Although my tutor was very strict to me at the beginning, she was a nice woman. Her great passion for dancing always influenced on me. I became to like dance. I tried my best to dance, but my parents didn't want me to dance after a year training. They were worried about me a lot, because I got hurt frequently. That made my parents changed their minds to let me develop my interests. However, I had a great time during that time period. I never complain about that because I know my parents always care bout me.
    I joined a gym team without my parents' agreement when I was in college. As we all know, doing exercise can make people healthy, so my parents weren't against my decision. They felt happy for me this time. They knew I wasn't a little girl any more, furthermore, they knew I could manage it well.
    After graduation from college, I stopped doing exercise. Therefore, when I started to do exercise, I felt my whole body hurt a lot, just like old people. I even couldn't get up this morning. Probably, I am getting older. I think I need more exercise in future---otherwise, I could be getting older faster. :-)
    We are going to Wellness Center to practice dancing tonight. Hopefully, the pain will be eased off.

    Friday, January 11, 2008

    Not All Beautiful Things Could Be Owned

    It's getting colder. I couldn't stand cold weather, however, I need to get ready for it. North Dakota's spring is colder than winter, because strong wind always comes more frequently with snow in spring.

    Snow is quite pretty.While it’s snowing, I always like standing against windows and appreciating the scenery. But I didn’t do that during the first big snowfall this winter.

    I went out to help my husband to get some snowflakes for his experiment. His experiment needed some snowflakes in different shapes. We took two pieces of slice with some liquid medicine to get snowflakes. It was so cold to stand in snow and wind for almost one hour. Although it was cold, I enjoyed that time so much.

    While I was standing outside, the snow was falling on my down coat; I could see every snowflake in a clear shape. That was amazing. I felt that snow was made by magic. I loved it so much, but I couldn’t catch it by hand. When I tried to get it, it immediately melted. From this scene, I figured out that not all beautiful things could be owned. Maybe letting them stay where they belong to should be a better way to appreciate such wonderful things. Finally we did get some snowflakes for his experiment. But I couldn’t get one for my own.

    Thursday, January 10, 2008

    My swimming experience

    Today, when I went out with my friends, we talked about our interests. Most of them like swimming and know it well, except me. :-p While talking about their swimming skills, I remembered mine. That's pretty funny, I think. :-)
    Swimming is very easy for everyone who knows how to swim, but it's not that easy for me. Actually, I wasn't aware that swimming is a so useful skill until I fell into a river. Because of this horrible experience, I decided to learn swimming. I started from the basic skills, such as holding on breath in the water, kicking legs, grabbing the water and changing breath. But after a long time practicing, I was still afraid of swimming without a swimming board around me. I only could do it with a swimming board because I was scared of water. In addition, I found that probably I was doing a wrong way. While I was kicking, I felt confused. Basically, people went forward while they were kicking. But while I was acting an opposite motion, backward rather than forward. That was weird. I tried many times, but I still moved backward. So I asked the lifeguard for help. After watching my motions, she felt it was funny too. After watching my second motion, she found my problem and told me the correct way. Then I tried and indeed moved forward. Gradually, after a lot of practice, I could swim without a swimming board. Although I am not familiar with it, I'm not scared of water any more. I know that I need more practice in the future, if I want to be familiar with it.:-)

    After creating this blog, I wrote on it everyday except for yesterday. Couple days ago, I wrote a TOEFL essay. I know my written English is not good enough to write an excellent article, but I still tried my best to write. Hopefully, I could improve my level soon by my best friend, Jimmie's help. She helped me to correct my TOEFL essay yesterday, and She gave me some good suggestions and taught me a lot. That's very helpful to me.
    I tried my best to remember those, and then I corrected my essay. During I was correcting it, the computer was annoying me. It didn't work well as usual. I had corrected my essay three times but none of them was saved on the computer. So I had to do this work again this morning. Finally, I accomplished it. I felt that I still had a long way to achieve my goal. But I am sure I can do it.
    My plan to increase my vocabulary is in progress. It is going to be continued in the future.

    Tuesday, January 8, 2008

    Advances

    Advances in transportation and communication like the airplane and the telephone have changed the way that nations interact with each other in a global society. Choose another technological innovation that you think is important. Give specific reasons for your choice.(TOEFL WRITING TOPIC)
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    Advances in diagnostics have changed fast and much during these years.
    I am not sure what I am going to write. I haven't got my viewpoint yet. I will save it for later.

    Monday, January 7, 2008

    Is money the most important thing for you?

    Some people believe that it's very important to make large amounts of money, while others are satisfied to earn a comfortable living. Analyze each viewpoint and take a stand. Give specific reasons for your position. (TOEFL ESSAY)
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    On the one hand, money is important for our life. People can't live well without money. They need money to pay for clothes, food, living things, education, travel and so on. If people do not have money, they can't buy any thing. They probably don't have clothes to wear; they can't buy food to eat; they don't even have a place to live. There still are many poor people who don't have much money for those basic living things in the world. For them, money is the most important things for their lives. If they can have money, they could change their lives---they can pay for living things and education. Basically, we can say that a certain amount of money is necessary to buy necessary things and to subsist in life, but if a person has more money, their life can be more comfortable. Nevertheless, money cannot buy everything; such as family, real friends, love, time, happiness, health and so on. People are alive to earn money so that they can live , not only for money. Although money is a necessity, it's not the only thing in our lives. In my opinion, people who believe that making large amounts of money is very important may not have time to enjoy their lives with their families and real friends. Some of them are just like machines that make money.
    On the other hand, being satisfied to earn a comfortable living is also important, but it's not the necessary. Of course, a comfortable living is the life that everyone wants. However, when you have that kind of life, you may not like it.
    In my opinion, money is not the most important thing in our lives. It's a necessity.
    We live for life not only for money. Being satisfied to earn a comfortable living is also important, but it's not necessary to do so. The most important thing for me is to live a happy life with my family while earning money.

    I once read a story from a magazine about a rich man. He was poor when he was young, but he had time to stay with his family and play with his children at that time. Because he loved his family very much, he decided to do his best to earn money and wanted to make his family a comfortable living. He was very busy earning money for many years. Finally, he did it and became rich. Although he loved his wife and his children, he didn't have time to spend with them, because he needed to manage his business everyday. An unexpected thing happened---- the relationship with his family and his real friends became strained. This made him unhappy. He began to think back about the time he spent earning money. During those years, he felt that he was pretending to be another person. He didn't even know which one was the"real" him anymore. When he went back home, he felt uncomfortable. His wife and his children were not like before---they started wasting money and ignoring him, just like he always ignored them before. His wife had an affair, and his children didn't study as hard as before. As he said at the end, " I would rather live a poor and happy life than live a life like this."
    Making money is important so that we can live comfortably, but it's more important to be able to spend time with family while doing so.


    :-)

    Sunday, January 6, 2008

    Cleaning car

    It was a nice day. I never thought that there would be a such warm day in winter in Grand Forks. It was 38F and no wind. Actually, it wasn't real warm. But in Grand Forks, we rarely met such a nice day in winter before. So We decided to clean the inside of our car today. I thought it would be an easy job to clean it by ourselves. So I didn't want to spend $30 to wash our car in store. I just wanted to save money. But at the beginning, I was aware of that it wasn't an easy job. The car was kinda dirty. There were some sands and ice in the car. It wasn't that easy to clean as I thought, but we tried our best. We brushed the car floor mat, cleaned the seats and washed outside. After nearly an hour, the car looked better than early. But we had already been exhausted after doing so much work. In fact, it was easy to think, but it was hard to accomplish. No wonder, it's expensive to wash the car in a store. It was really a difficult work. Finally, we did it and saved $30. I felt happy.

    Saturday, January 5, 2008

    The last weekend of New Year's holidays

    For UND students, this is the last weekend of New Year's holidays. My husband is a student in UND. His friends in their research group wanted to go to Gilly's to celebrate the beginning of new semester. But my husband doesn't like noisy place. So we decided to go to mall and T·J Max for shopping with a few Chinese friends instead. We went out around 1:00 pm. No one could know how much energy girls would have. :-) Unbelievable, We didn't finish shopping until 7:50pm without rest. we went to every store and tried our best to find something that we might need., and we enjoyed ourselves very much. But my husband couldn't stand walking so long time, especially doing such a boring thing. So he just wanted to sit there and wait for us. He even almost fell into sleep while waiting for us on the bench. Finally, we finished our shopping and came back. We, girls, did have much fun today, nevertheless, my husband felt nothing except for starving. He he……Sorry honey, I won't let you come with us to go window-shopping again. :-p

    Friday, January 4, 2008

    It was a normal day. I went to school as usual, and I also had a nice day with classmates and teacher.

    Today, I read an article about "Responsibility of paying for N.D. child immunizations shifts" .Insurance providers begin sharing vaccination costs with parents, guardians for many children. The manner in which the child's immunizations are paid for in North Dakota has changed, now that the state no longer provides vaccines free of charge for insured children. The reason: the average cost to immunize a child from birth to age 18 in 1999 was $186, according to the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials had risen to an average of $1,137 in 2006. "There are more vaccines, and it's more expensive," Swanson, nursing and nutrition supervisor said. And there's been no change to federal funding to recoup these costs.Of course, the federal government's Vaccines For Children program still will provide vaccinations without cost of children on medical assistance, or who have no health insurance or insurance that does not cover vaccines.American Indians and native Alaskans also are covered.
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    It's too expensive to see a doctor in US, so that's not a good news for poor people. Although their children can get the immunization, they also need pay donation. In fact, that's a different form to pay money for vaccines. No one likes this change, but who can help to cancel this change? So far, I don't think anyone can do.

    Thursday, January 3, 2008

    About Chinese New Year

    Suddenly, I remembered Anna asked me about Chinese New Year yesterday. I searched it from google.
    Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival, or the lunar New Year is the most important of traditional Chinese holidays. This Festival begins on the first day of the first lunar month in the Chinese calendar and ends on the 15th; this day is called the Lantern Festival. The Chinese lunar calendar determines Chinese New Year dates.
    Chinese New Year falls on different dates each year, a date between January 21 and February 20.This year it falls on February 7th.
    The Chinese lunar Calendar names each of the twelve years after an animal. A legend said that the lord Buddha elected 12 animals to be celestial being to record dates.
    He announced that the people born in each animal's year would have some of that animal's personality. A complete cycle takes 60 years and is made up of five cycles of 12 years each. By the Chinese calendar, 2008 is the Year of the Rat. Those born in rat years tend to be leaders, pioneers and conquerors. They are charming, passionate, charismatic, practical and hardworking.
    At Chinese New Year celebrations people wear red clothes, decorate with poems on red paper, and give children "lucky money" in red envelopes.The fireworks that shower the festivities rooted in a similar ancient custom.People in China usually lit bamboo stalks on Chinese New Year's Eve before, believing that the cracking and the flame would frighten evil spirits.But it's not allowed to do in several big cities now.In China, the New Year is a time of family reunion.Family members get together at parents' homes for visiting and dinner on New Year's Eve. Just like Christmas in US.

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    I just read my friend's blog. I like her eco-friendly new year's resolution. That's a good idea. We only have one earth. If we ignore this part and keep wasting and destroying, the environment would be damaged more. We need to do something to protect our earth, such as using biodegradable products, recycling, using renewable energy, etc... But on the flip side, biodegradable products are more expensive than the normal using things, if we keep using biodegradable products, we may don't have much money to buy other things. That's a pretty complicated issue. What do you think about it?

    Wednesday, January 2, 2008

    New semester started from today.

    Currently, I'm a student in English Language Learning (ELL) class. I have enrolled this class since the fall of 2007. And now I'm ready for the new semester. Today was the first day of the new semester. I felt kinda excited today. I got up early in the morning, however, I went to class a little late, around 9 o'clock. When I got there, the beginners were studying with our teacher Ms. Anna Picklo. She is a nice person, and she teaches us a lot. For everyone in this class, she helped us a lot in the past year. I deeply appreciate. Our whole group always work together from 10:00 to 11:30 every class with grammars, listening, reading, discussion, etc... Today, we discussed about what had happened on several special days, such as Dec 25, Dec 31 and Jan 1st. Each of us made a wonderful speech. I learned a lot from them, but I couldn't write down everything. I just wanted to write something down about my days.

    On Dec 25, my husband and I went to a friend Jeff's parents' house for dinner. We had a great night on Christmas. There were 4 Chinese people, including two of us. That was our first Christmas to be celebrated with American people in US. We were curious to know everything about that. After dinner, we discussed the different cultures from different countries. And we also talked about what had happened in the past years. Jeff's parents told us about their hunting things.They shot down a 700 pounds buffalo only with 3 bullets a couple months ago. And they had twins grandchildren, one girl and one boy. That was a great thing. In China, one couple can only have one child because of the population policy. Therefore, if the couple can have twins, especially one girl and one boy, that's a great thing for their family. I am not sure for the other American people, but our friend's family are happy for having the twins. We did have a great time with their family on Christmas night.

    Later, on Dec 31, we went to our friend Tiffany's apartment to celebrate the upcoming New Year. Surprisingly, her birthday was on Jan 1, therefore, we also celebrated her birthday after midnight. At that night, we played several games, Poker, Udo and Take Your Pick. I learned many new words from Take Your Pick. (http://lds.about.com/od/productreviews/gr/take_your_pick.htm)


    We went back to our apartment around 2:00 am. I slept in until 11:00 am. I cooked 4 courses for lunch on New Year's Day. After lunch, my husband went to his office for working, and I studied English in the afternoon. I just knew this blog from my friend, Jimmie,then I determined to create a blog and made my New Year's resolution. I decided to write on my blogger in English every day in future. I'm going to use this blogger as a stepping-stone for improving my written English.

    Above-mentioned were my special days during the holidays.
    We discussed thisin our class today. The other part was learning Easy English News. I learned a few words from it. It was a good beginning for the semester. In addition, Anna took some cookies for us today. Because of those cookies, I learned a new word too. Those cookies' topping contained a flavor. I liked that taste, but I didn't know the name of that flavor until today. It's peppermint. :-)

    Tuesday, January 1, 2008

    New Year

    Today is the first day of the new year. I always think about my life a lot. In order to accompany with my husband, I came to US last Thanksgiving. Although I felt I didn't live my own life all the time, actually, I did. Well, I just didn't find my place in a new country during the past year. I spent too much time to think about that I shouldn't be like this. In fact, I need a goal. I couldn't work because of my VISA limitation. I can't go to a university because my English isn't good enough to pass TOEFL and GRE right now. I still need more time to increase my vocabulary and improve my English level. Hopefully, I can have rosy prospects in future. In America, many women don't work after they have babies; but in China, most of women still work even though they need to take care of their children. That's the different cultures. So I usually think about things in Chinese way, and furthermore, I have my individual way of thinking. I can't stand staying at home and doing nothing. I like busy. So my first goal is memorizing TOEFL vocabulary.

    I don't like study Medicine in English, honestly. But it's my major, I need to continue studying it. It's really hard for me because of my poor English. Well, whatever, I need to do it in the coming year. I'm going to learn one of medicine subjects, pediatrics. I like this subject.

    I missed the last fall camping activity last year because I was sick. I don't want to miss it this year. So I want to go camping this year and appreciate from experience. That will be awesome. I will have a lot of fun.

    I am going to do more excise this year. And I also need to practice my swimming skills. I fell into a river when I went kayaking with my friends the last year. At that time, I didn't know how to swim. Although we did have much fun, I scared them so much. So I started to learn swimming from that time. I know how to swim but I am not skilled in it. Therefore, I need more practice and try to be familiar with it.

    I have more things to do this year, not only these. I will try to accomplish them all. What about your resolutions? Do you have any plan for this new year?

    Wish everyone in the world lucky and happy new year!