Be safe.

Hurricane Ike was downgraded to a tropical storm before it hit Brazos county. College Station is safe now. As Aaron said that we just got a bunch of rain and a bit of wind during Ike destroying Galveston.(Thank you for your word!) I am really really glad that we are not living on the coast; in the meantime, i feel so sorry for those people who lost their homes. Natural disaster is not easy to avoid, but when you have a chance to evacuate from the dangerous location, you can avoid the disaster. Actually, the government did a good job to help people avoid the Hurricane Ike. However, many people didn't believe what the governor said. They just wanted to stay with their houses without a reason. Nevertheless, they called for help at last. I think this is a good lesson for them to learn. For me, be safe is more important than any other reason.

Waiting for Hurricane Ike

It's getting cloudy, but not very windy now. The road outside is quiet. There are only a few cars on the way to somewhere. Maybe they are on the way home from work; maybe they are from South Texas... It seems most of people are staying at home, waiting for the upcoming hurricane Ike. According to the forecast, it won't be here until Saturday. Hopefully, it won't very strong when it comes here.

Getting ready to face hurricane

In order to get ready to face the hurricane, we prepared every necessary thing as the others who are living in Brazos county did last night. I guess you will never see people adding gas and getting grocery at the same time, if you never undergo an upcoming hurricane. We went to the grocery store as well last night. It was so crowd in HEB. The funny thing was that the bread, bottle water, canned food, and crackers sections were almost empty. We bought a lot of canned food in case no electricity. When we were on the way back from HEB, the traffic line was about three blocks long. I never saw that before.

When I woke up this morning, I thought it should be raining. However, I was wrong. It's still sunny now. If the hurricane wouldn't come, it should be a nice day. Let's see what will happen later.

Schools closed Friday

All schools will be closed Friday in Brazos county because of Hurricane Ike. As a precautionary measure as Hurricane Ike nears the Texas coast and tropical storm winds and heavy rain are projected to reach the Bryan-College Station area, President of A&M, Elsa Murano, announced Thursday. It is said that the hurricane has changed the direction, it is coming toward College Station now. I am a little bit worried about it. Hurricane is a disaster. Where it comes by; there are damages. I hope that it won't pass the area that people live around.:(
Due to weather conditions in next couple days, we need to prepare plenty of food and water for surviving today. However what should we do from tomorrow to Saturday? Maybe the electricity will be shut down for safety. I am not sure yet. Let's see what will happen in next a few days. Hopefully College Station is a safe place. God bless us, god bless all people!

Mid-Autumn Day

Mid-Autumn Day is almost here. We are counting this day by the Lunar calendar, so it doesn't always fall on the same day. This year, it falls on September 14.

This is an important day for Chinese people. People respect this day because it is the family reunion time. All families like to spend this happy night together. Usually, the family will have a big dinner first. After dinner, they will taste moon cakes and appreciate the bright moon. It maybe just a simple day, but it means much to a family. People are busy doing their own work every day, less and less people have time to spend with their parents. Therefore this day is more important to parents. We all know that most of the parents want their children to be around, however, it can't happen to every family ……

My new class

I have enrolled the ESL class, and my class just started today. There are many classes, which are also teaching English in College Station. Most of them are teaching Bible combined with English, not the pure English teaching program. Only Barbara Bush Parent Center has the pure English classes. However, due to the space of the school, they need to control the number of each class. They have four classes, and for each class they can only arrange thirty students in. So that means not every person can enroll the class. As i knew that there were one hundred and eighty people registered, but only one hundred and twenty enrolled those classes. I am so happy that i am in the class now.

Today is the first day of my class. I have already met my new classmates and my new teacher.
The name of my new teacher is Kristie . She is a great teacher. Before the class started, she introduced herself first, and then we introduced ourselves as well. Can you believe that? In my class, people are from thirteen different countries. So this year, i probably will learn many different cultures from those different counties. That would be so much fun. When class started, we discussed about some pictures which were prepared by Kristie. From those pictures, we extended to our goals. That actually was a very interesting way to open our minds and find out our own goals. I like the way that Kristie teaches. Hope i can learn much from her and the other students.

We have been in College Station for almost a month. In this month, i have met many people from many countries. They are seemingly nice. Actually, i don't know exactly how they are. I still need time to know them well.
It is said that here doesn't have much fun place to have fun. He he, i haven't known much yet. We will figure out it later.
People here are friendly, but i don't think they belong to nice people. Maybe that is because we are new here, and we are new to them. That's not a big deal, we will be nice to them anyway.
The weather here is hot and a little bit humid, but i like it. At least, i can wear skirt in this summer. Does it sound weird to you? He he, this is me, like to stay at a warm place.

To my surprise, Labor Day was not a holiday for the schools in College Station. Maybe you will feel a little confused about why i knew that. :-) Because I made an appointment for today's oral interview on Labor Day morning. My interview went well today. The tester just asked me a few simple questions. They just wanted to know which class we should enroll, and arrange people into different classes. In addition, they need control the number of the students because they don't have much room for too many students. The tester said that only one hundred and twenty people could enroll the school; the others would be on the waiting list. As the minister said that there are one hundred and eight people have registered already. So i am not sure if i can get in or not. I still need to wait for the result. The result will be posted on this Saturday morning. Hopefully, i can get in the class.