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I am a little bit lazy recently. I had been feeling sleepy for a few days. Somehow I just didn't want to do things. :-P ~~~~~~

There were couple things happened in the past few days. First, we went to India Center for dinner last Thursday because there were free foods for people. In fact, they were supposed to have a BBQ at University Park. However, the bad weather made them changed the location.
The weather was so bad last week, especially last Friday and Saturday. It was snowed on Friday late night until Saturday early morning. No matter how bad the weather was, Atmospheric Department's banquet was on time last Friday at Holiday Inn. I attended it with Jin. (He is graduating in the following July. )After this banquet, there was a after-party at Jimmie and Aaron's house. Even though we left a little earlier, we had a great time. I guess it should be the last snowfall in Spring because it's already the end of April. I am ready for the warm weather. :-)

Know myself clearly from the test.

I took an exam today. Our exams have four different levels: E(easy), M(median), D(difficult), A(advanced). We were tested when we enrolled ELL class. According to the score of those tests, I took A test in Reading and D test in Language this time. I found the reading test somewhat difficult for me because of the vocabulary. During the test, i could totally understand the meaning of all those articles, but sometimes i was stuck over some words. Actually, those words seemed familiar, but i couldn't get another words to replace them as the same meaning. While choosing the answer, i was a little bit confused. It seemed like i didn't learn those words at all. This exam indeed made me see more clearly about my problems in studies. And i am well aware of that review is very necessary to keep all that i have learned in mind. And also I need to put them in use more often. Nevertheless, some words are not used in oral English. Anyhow, i need to find a way to keep them in my mind. I need to work harder!!!

Gardening class

The weather is getting good and it's time for planting. Yesterday I had a gardening class. In the class, all of the materials were prepared by the teachers, including seeds, specific soil and flowerpots. Before planting, a professional gardening teacher taught us some knowledge of planting and taking care of vegetable. I was aware of that different seeds had different rules to be sowed. Watering is not that easy as i thought before. About how to keep soil moist really have a knack. I didn't know if i could do it well, but i would like to have a try. :-) I chose green bean and tomato seeds. Following the teacher's advise, I took two flowerpots, one I put three tomato seeds; the other one I put six green bean seeds. Due to the differences of different plants, we need to sow different seeds in different deep. Tomato seeds needed to be sowed in about two or three centimeters deep; green bean seeds needed a little deeper---about five centimeters. When them grow up bigger enough, they need to be transplant in a bigger flowerpot or in a garden. Our teachers want to see how those plants will grow later. Maybe i can find my classmate to take care of them for me, and later she can let those teachers and classmates to see how them grow. In addition, i can't stay here long enough to see them produce fruits. For now, I just put them near the window, so they can get some fresh air. And i also had watered them for a few times these days. I hope those seeds could grow up very well and produce fruits. :-)

Avatar the last airbender

These days, I am kind of attracted by an animated cartoon. This animated cartoon was produced by America, but the story was from East countries. It mentioned four important elements of the world: Water, Earth, Fire and Air. These four elements can keep the world in balance.
Background:
In a lost age, the world is divided into four nations: Water Tribes, Earth Kingdom, Fire Nation, and Air Nomads. Within each nation, there is a remarkable order of men and women called the "benders" who can learn to harness their inborn talent and manipulate their native element. Bending is a powerful form combining martial art and elemental magic.
In each generation, only one bender is solely capable of controlling all four elements. That bender is the Avatar. The Avatar is the spirit of the world manifests in human form. When the Avatar dies, it reincarnates into the next nation in the cycle. Starting with the mastery of his or her native element, the Avatar learns to bend all four elements. Throughout the ages, the countless incarnations of the Avatar have served to keep the four nations in harmony.

This story is more like Chinese mythology. The leading characters' name are Aang-the avatar, Katara and Sokka---sister and brother from the Water Tribes. The four nations were living in peace before the Fire nation started attacking. Only the avatar could master the four elements of the world and only he could stop the Fire nations' attack. But when the world needed the Avatar the most, he disappeared. After a hundred years, Katara and Sokka discovered Aang in a huge ice hill, and then they helped Aang to find a way to stop the Fire nation's attack...

Random update

On April 10th, we went to Sioux Center to watch the Curling competition. It was supposed to be China vs Canada, but it wasn't. There were eight teams in four competitions: DEN vs SCO, SWE vs CZE, CAN vs USA, AUS vs NOR . China wasn't in these competitions. I felt a little boring while watching them playing at the beginning. However, i felt much better at the end. :-) Actually, i don't really like to watch Curling, I just wanted to see China team playing.


On April 11th, we went to a party which was held for Becky at Jimmie's house. Becky just finished her defense, and she is going to graduate and start her new job in California. In order to celebrate this, we got together and played together. After dinner, we drank, danced and played games. We all had a great time at that night.

I like Applebee's food.

Becky just finished her defense yesterday afternoon. For celebrating this, Becky invited us to Applebee's to have dinner. This was the first time for me to have dinner at Applebee's. From the menu, I found that the food there was at reasonable price and looked great. I ordered Fiesta Lime chicken---grilled chicken drizzled with zesty lime sauce, topped with Mexi-ranch and Jack-cheddar sauces, and served with crisp tortilla strips, seasoned rice, and pico de gallo. Jin ordered Buffalo chicken wings and Mini Baco cheeseburgers. There was 10 Chicken wings and four mini burgers. Those were a lot for him, even for both of us they were enough. The most important thing was that we liked the food there. Those food was really tasty. :-) I guess I will go there again sometime, maybe some special time~~~~:-) By the way, after Becky's graduation, Jin will be the next one in couple months. I hope that Jin can pass the defense successfully.

A weird topic in our class.

My class was useful. I learned much knowledge from this class. But today's topic in our class was kind of weird. We talked about our choice to life or to die. When people need to live on life support, do you know how that feels? Do you think he or she would like to live like this? I don't think I would like to live in this way. If i need to survive in this condition, i prefer die to live. But if that is not me, whoever is that patient, i don't want him or her to choose die. I always think there might be a chance to come back to life. It sounds weird to talk about this. :-) Whatever...... some people have to face this kind of thing in life. Sometimes there is a miracle happened, people come back to live. However, most of time there isn't. Life is so fragile, i just want to die in peace and quickly if i were dying. :-)

The Right to Die vs. The Right to Life

With unprecedented advances in medical technology, a debate has developed over whether or not a person on life support has the right to die. On one side of the debate are those who say that withdrawing a feeding tube or turning off a respirator gives doctors the power to take another's life. On the other side is the view that fundamentally personal decisions about whether to continue living in an irreversible coma should be left to an individual or a family. This debate over euthanasia, the act of ending the life of an individual suffering from a terminal even political. As we advance toward the future, these ethics will involve the lives, deaths, and destinies of more and more people.
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The debate over euthanasia will only become more complex as medical technology continues to grow and improve. There are those who contend that it will soon become just part of medical treatment, while others believe that its potential power for eliminating people will prevent it from becoming a solution for human suffering. Most people hope neither they nor their family members will ever have to confront this issue.

Practice makes perfect.

I was supposed to finish my study plan this weekend, however i didn't. I only finished half of it. I need to finish it later. When i just came to US, i didn't have courage to talk to people. Because i was afraid of making mistakes. I didn't want people laugh at me. To my surprise, every one tried to help me and never laughed at me. After a few months, i was not scared of talking, instead of it, i tried to talk to others. But i found another problem about myself. Sometimes when i was ready to talk to people, the words in my mind couldn't come out my mouth clearly. I am a little confused about this. These days, I found a good method to practice---reading loudly for one hour everyday. So far, it works well. In addition, i learn twenty new words everyday to increase my vocabulary. And it works well too. Although i always forget some of them, i still can remember some. This method is good for me. I am going to keep practicing. :-)

Presidential candidates visited Grand Forks.

Do you believe this?We waited almost eight hours to hear the speeches from presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton at Alures Center.
My classmates who didn't go there asked me how was the speeches. Actually, I didn't want to give them my comments, however I needed to say something.
Barack Obama's speech was full of encouragement. However I didn't really understand his speech well. I am kind of more like his speech than Hillary's. Hillary Clinton's speech was indeed contained a great plan for solving people's problems, but this plan was too hard to be come true i guess. She really wanted to solve people's problem. she wanted to take back all of the factories from China and other countries to provide more jobs for American people. However i don't think this plan can come true, even Americans can't believe this. If America could take back those factories, there would be more jobs for American people, but the price of all products must go way up. Therefore, American people need to suffer spending more money on high price goods. This isn't the way that people expect to live, i guess. :-) In fact, i don't care about who will be the next president. The only thing i care about is the next president can do good things to help all American people and can show people a better America. If there were no war, i think that would be a positive way to solve the economic problem. I believe that a good president should always think about people's life. :-)

Tickets to Texas was booked.

Jin just booked the tickets to Texas yesterday. We are going to fly there on August 5 afternoon. For preparing moving away, we have already got rid of our furniture which was bought brand new. In another word, our apartment is almost empty, except some necessary but old furniture. Every time i look at the living room, i feel empty and kind of sad. We are going to leave here, and we can't play with my friends any more. I will miss my friends very much. Even now sometimes when i think about the going to leave thing, i feel empty. Although we know that every feast has to be ended when time is up, i can't help thinking about that. Can I be lucky as now? I am not quite sure about this. However, i have a few nice friends here----that's for sure. I am so happy to have these nice friends and i will be glad to tell my future friends that i am lucky to make so many friends in U.S. Hopefully, i can always be lucky. :-)