After Midterm~~~

I have got results of my mid-term exams. If I am optimistic, I will say that I am lucky. At least I passed all my exams...If I am negative, I probably say sadly that my marks are so low that I just can pass the exams....Whatever, mid-term has past, and I heart Scott talked about final exams taday. My god, can you believe the final exams are coming????It is ture. Maybe we won't worried about it in this week. But in next two weeks, it is really necessary to think about the final exams. We just have 13 weeks in this term, and now half of our term has gone...T T I know what i should do in the left half- term. Studying hard! Even though I can not improve a lot in six weeks, I can be better than the last half -term. I hope that marks in the following essay will be higher and higher, even just 1 point higher, that is a kind of progress. Constant dropping wears away a stone. Hopefully, in this way, I can really improve my English....

Screwed up!!

I wAnT a PeT......

I visited my friend Maria today. This was my first time see her "daughter"-Miaomiao. She is a short-hair cat. Cute and active I liked her so much and played with her all the time. Maria said "angrily"---You are not visit me Joy! you come here for my cat......That was sure~~~I have heart Maria waffled on for a long time about how cute and smart her cat is. Since she showed her cat'pictures for us proudly, I could not wait to see her dear baby. Maria was right. she has a good cat. She let me desire a pet badly....

I like animals. Whatever dogs, cats, rats. birds, or worms...I like every life which let me feel active...I did condider about having a pet. But for many subjective,objective,important,little reasons. I did not buy any pet. I had have 4 chicklings, one rabbit and two dogs in my childrenhood. But I lost each of them sadly. If you want to hear the stories about how I lost my each pet. I will tell one day long with one gallon tears....Now, I totaly understand that take care of a pet need responsbilities and a lot of patient. Once people decide to get a pet, they choose a partner in their life. A pet is one of many things in your life. But you are everything for her/his life.

Maybe I will have a pet in the furture. Anyway, I will love my pet and give her/his all the love I can give.....

And...

I really want to know who attend Sandi' s class on Friday...I think just few people came. Hopefully that was not hurt her feeling. We are still good students now! Sandi, we love u, sorry I was too lazy to attend your class on Friday...I hope you had a good weekend, see u tomorrow....

ThankSgiving Day with My dear Family! * ^-^ *

Even Thanksgiving has already passed almost one week, I still want to write something to memorize a wonderful time I spent with my Canadian family. ^-^

Ken' family used to be my homestay when I been here in first 4 months. I love kind, patient Ken and his wift Lita. And I love their baby girl - Catherine so so so much! They helped me a lot and gave me a lot. As a international student who live far away from homeland, I felt the warmth of family living with them. In the short 4 months, I have already become a member of this family. We enjoyed dinner together, talking about something interesting after super, sitting at floor and playing poker with a lot of fun. Ken helped me on my homework everynight. brought me to see horsejumping. I love Catherine, I helped Lita looking after her after school, played with her and bathed her before go to bed. At that time, she was just a 7-month-old baby. And I seemed as if I was her big sister... ...All of those memory is so sweet and warm... ...

At Thanksgiving day, I visited Ken'family agina. I haven't been here for about two months, so I missed them so much. they gave warmest greet and offered me very good food. And I really enjoy the turkey, I ate a lot! Of course, I brought some food that I cooked by myself- ribs and a kind of chinese salad. Therefore, the Thanksing dinner became a Canadian-Chinese dinner. That was really good. After dinner, we talked a lot about my study and current life. Ken said my English improved very much. I was so happy to hear that~~~: P Baby seemed forget me, at first she even did not look at me, but after a little while, we played together happily with her toys. Baby is 2years old now, she can just say few words. That wa funny that she call me,

herdad allthepeople " mom" . Even I did not finish my dinner, she came and said "mom" while pulling me to play with her....Oh I love her so deeply! Thanks god gave us such a good time stay together. I hope I can see them again soon....

Happy Birthday to Me*^-^*

Don' tell me how fast the time is, because now I absolutly feel how rapidly the time gose. I can not believe that I have already 20 years old now!!!! Starting my elementary school, playing in park with my little dog, studying hard in middle school, making the first boyfriend,enjoying new life in the first year in Calgary, Celebriating my 19th birthday...all these things seemed just happened in last week... I enjoyed my life in the past 20 years so much. Everyone and everthing were been stored in my sweet memory. Anyway, I have to say "goodbye" to my age start with "1" . From now, I will work hard, hard ,hard ,and hard. And enjoy my life

Happy birthday to me. I promise I will make my future life beautiful...

AtTendInG LeCtURe~~

I attended a lecture last week. In the lecture, the professor, Peter Slezak, dealt with the topic-World Regional Geography. At the beginning of class, He reviewed two basic frameworks for studying geography with students. The two basic frameworks were systematic approach and regional approach. He spent about twenty minutes on reviewing and gave lots of specific examples for these two frameworks. He reminded students this part will in midterm exam. Then, he gave definition of a Region and talked about common regional concepts with students. He guided students to consider the difference between the physical factors shaping Realms and the regions and cultural factors shaping realms and regions. The professor gave definitions and some specific examples about the two factors. Immediately after, He also talked about the Characteristics of Underdevelopment and development. He also introduced the Chief Obstacles to Development with specific examples. During this class, he showed students the geography knowledge in different countries. He discussed the General Characteristics of Europe, the Physical Geography of Peninsula of Asia, the historical geography of Mesopotamia and Egypt and the general characteristics of Russia
The professor was very humorous. His words always let his student laugh. His humor let his students studied actively in this class. He lectured to students clearly and effectively. There were about 150 students in this class, I found that most of the students in this class paid attention to the professor and they took notes very seriously. The learning atmosphere was perfect. I sat closed to professor. I found he liked look at students’ eyes and tried to attract everyone in his class by eye contact. He liked to ask questions about the knowledge which is beyond books. Students thought hard as if these questions were hard to answer. However, the professor was patient and guided them to think step by step until students got the answer. I could see that his students respect him very much. They followed their professor seriously and answered his question actively. Even though class was over, some students remained in classroom asked questions draw round the professor.
I felt very confident when I attend lecture in this term. I interest in geography very much. Before I attend this class, I thought it is must very interesting for me. Actually, I found this lecture was not as easy as I thought. However, I really enjoyed it. I did my best to follow the professor and I found take notes was so hard that I had to write at a gallop. But I felt happy because I could understand most of it by the notes. The profession was rich in geography knowledge. He has enough teaching experience and he knew how to let student pay attention to him. In this class, I could feel the learning process by professor’s excellent lecture. This was a really good experience. It will be a memorable class in my life.