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Blog Assignment#4 From 2 Years in the Melting Pot

Part one:
It is an common scene here to see a couple of international students hunging out with the peers from their own country. As I see, it is reasonable for some alien students to be fond of being with the friends who come from the same culture, but it is not a appropriate choice to dodge the difficulties rather than solve it.
Culture shock do exist to an international student. We have different culture, different language and different thought with American people, I think that's why Liu finaly choose to stay with other Chinese, the same reason as why majority of us make the same choise. Undeniable, people here are really friendly to us, that makes me haven't had the same feeling of loneliness as Liu had, they are always ready to help and always have a smile on the face. But I totally understand him, it is not enjoyable when we cannot join the group of people who are talking gleefully just because we cannot understand all of what they are talking about or don't know how to express our idea properly. But being with Chinese people, even if they are stangers we can always have something to say as we have the same culture and can use a language we are proficient when walking with each other. I also aware that I'm not good at remember names and faces, so sometimes it makes me feel embarrassed when someone greet me with my name on the street but I totally forget anything about him/her and can just reply them with a "Hi" without trying to continue any conversation.
I do want to make friends with the Americans here, I'm trying although I know it is hard. We flyed for about 20 hours oversea to study in another country for the reason that we want to experience another culture,so it is important to us to overcome the difficulties rather than trying to escape reality by staying with people who we are familiar about.

Blog Assignment#3 Nonberbal Communication

In terms of nonverbal communication, differences do exist between China and USA in the social life.

For instance, people in America are friendlt enough to greet someone in the street even though they do not know each other, this phenomena really left a deep impression on me when I just came to USA. American take eye contact as an important thing when talking with other people to show respect. However, people in China tend to be shy when communicating with each other, they use less facial expression to show their feeling so we can never see people greet with some strangers in the street in China and some Chinese may avoid eye contacting even when talking with thier own fellows which can be taken as an unconfident action.What's more, it seems common here for teenagers to hug with a heterosexual friend, but in China, people often keep a certain space with each other, they would not greet a friend like this unlss with their best friends.

However, as I see, there are more common grounds than differences between these two cultures. For example, a smiling face will always show friensliness and happy feelings, and the gesture "V" always means victory both in America and China. American people seems to be mroe outgoing, some gestures such as a short piece of dance can also show their happy mood.

By now there are some gesture of which I still cannot understand the meaning, but I will try my best to figure it out as the nonverbal communication is just the most important way for people to show their feelings during sommunication.

Writing Assignment 2# Option 3

It is true as the writer says in the essay “The First Four Minutes” that people always judge a person with thier first impression.So the first 4 minutes do important to us to form a long-term friendship with someone else.But,exception do exist.
The first time I met Wenbo Yuan is in the music room of our school, she was playing piano unskillfully at that time and I can't catch a friendly feeling from her eyes.She just sitting there speaking loudly with her friends, I thought she is an over extroversion person and even felt it unfortunate when I got to know that we were streamed into the same class.However, dramatically she became one of my best friends at last.
As time goes by, I gradually found that she is such a thoughtful person that she always trying her best to think on her friends' position.Compared with me, she is more lively, that makes everyone around her feels happy all the time. Some of my classmates don't like her as she speaks a lot, but as my point of view, as least she is brave enough to show her own emotions easily to us.It's better than the people who hide their feelings and don't let go the truth.
We come through the most tense time for students in the preparation for college entrance examination together and we are still friends now.The memory with her is what I'll treasure for a life-long time.
First impression is important to us, but it is not the most important thing as we all konw that a
long task proves a man.

Respond to 'Mother Tongue'

'Languages' differ from each other in different kinds of situations and differences do exist according to the language between generation to generation.

One may use formal expression to show respect in the public place and tend to behave himself before an amount of people.This is just a common sense as it would become weird if people use slang or some other informal expressions in a formal occasion.Unlike the language we used to speaking at home, the language spoken in other situation would be after thought and modified.The expressions we used to communicate with famiy members and peers seems to be classified in free-style.we use informal words and be on regardless of grammar errors.

In terms of the difference in language speaking between our parents and us, I think the most obvious one is that we use more slang or interjection to show our mood.In other words, we are more emotional contrasted with our parents.But we all use informal expressions when talking to each other in our daily life because that is a way to show a true life, to show the real sensation in our hearts.

In conclusion, the differences between 'languages' in our daily life do exist.What we need to do is just to speak properly in different situation.

Self Introduction

Hey guys,hope you all had a nice weekend and enjoyed your Labor Day Holiday. I'm Yuanni Cui from China, you can call me Sydney as it is my English name.

This is the first time that I have been study abroad on my own. It seems that most of the matters I met were unfamiliar to me .But I'm a person of great will ,so I believe I have the courage to face the difficulties which will come forth in the future.

I love making friends and I'm fascinated about all kinds of music, especially the pop music. My favourite band is Linkin Park their songs make me forget the unpleasant things in the daily life.I've learned to play flute and Pipa(a Chinese traditional instrument) for several years.

I'm a little lazy. U can see from that I seems to be the last one who is trying to publish this article in our class, but at least it is within the deadline.

U will get to konw me as we will spend a lot of time studying together. Finally, as the subject of this blog says :WELCOME TO MY LIFE~~!