Turkey

When people mentions about American food, turkey comes up first. Thanks Giving is one of the biggest celebrations in American culture. After I came here, Thanks Giving approached soon. Therefore I have a chance to taste the traditional American style turkey.

My aunt has prepared the turkey for several days. She brought it from a supermarket, and cleaned it. Then she also injected it for adding flavors. When it finished, really looks good and taste good.

My American friend told me, now they prefer to say,"Happy Turkey Day" than " Happy Thanks Giving." The reason is that "Thanks Giving" sounds more religion while "Turkey Day" sounds normal.

I enjoy turkey and Turkey Day here. There are also many other American food. I like to try different food. It's like an adventure for me. Thus I'll try my best to taste all the American food later.

Tomorrow is another day!

Though I do not know who said this quote, I like it! When I am sad or disappointed or upset or blue,etc. I keep telling myself," Candy, tomorrow is another day!"

During our life time, there can be so many sad things. You even do not know what will happen next second. Therefore, why not just let it go and wait for tomorrow. I believe every bad thing will leave, sun will raise tomorrow. My world will be bright again by tomorrow drawn though maybe now it is extremely dark. I always try to forget the negative things and keeping remind myself some positive things. It can help me feel better when I am in a bad mood or terrible situation. I like smile and sweet food, because they make me feel happy all the time.

Every time when I go through some tough situation, I will tell myself, "Tomorrow is another day, everything will be OK, trust yourself, tomorrow is another day!"

Journal 7 My Dear Friend

I am an easy-going person, so I have a lot of close friends. Some of them we have know each other for almost 20 years. We share our life together, and enjoy staying with each others. It seems there is no secrets between us.

One of my best friends is named Rainbow. She is a cute girl and very smart. We are classmates in college and lived in the same dormitory. It is so kind of her for cleaning our dorm frequently. Pink is her favorite color, and then it also became my favorite color under her influence. When we were in collage, we had many spare time; therefore, we usually went shopping together at that time. We two both like discovering delicious food; thus, we almost found out every places which offers fantastic food. We have the same taste and style, so others like to call us twins. But we always call each other "Honey". ^ ^

The third year of our college, there was something terrible happened to her. I really don't want to mention this, because at that time Rainbow went over a extremely hard time. I think, as a friend, I have done everything that I can do for her. I still remember that we had a long conversation after her went through that. She said, "Candy, you are one of the most important person during my lifetime, you are more like my family rather than a friend, I need you stay by me, always!" Than I replied, "Rainbow, whenever you need me, I'll always be there."

When she heard my plan about coming here, she is the first person who was crying. I felt em brassed and shamed, because I have promised her I would always be prepared to help her. I didn't keep my words and came here. It is far from our country and hard foe me to help her even I want to. I felt sorry to her.

Now is the Chinese New Year. and I miss her a lot!

Happy Lunar New Year and best wishes!

（VIVI & SIREESHA）

JOURNAL 4 WEATHER

NanJing is my hometown, which is the capital city of JiangSu province. In Nanjing, you can experience the obvious four seasons.

In spring, the weather is not very warm at the very beginning. It is still cold until April. After that, the weather can become hot very quickly. People in Nanjing always complain the short spring, because you don't have enough time to enjoy the beauty of spring, then summer cannot wait coming.

Summer is the most terrible season in Nanjing. It can be extremely hot in summer. If you walk outside just for a short while in summer, you will keep sweating. What's worse, in summer the rain is also can be seen frequently. It can keeping raining for more than 2 weeks without any short stops.Summer usually last for more than 4 mouth.

Fall is the best season. The air is fresh and there is not much rain in fall. The sky is blue and bright.

In winter, it's cold and wet. I really hate the winter in my hometown. This is one of the reasons why I decide to come here. I enjoy the sunshine here.

(Sue)

JOURNAL 3 OLD FEAR

I used to be a brave girl, more like a boy. During my childhood, I used to stay with boys and enjoy many boys' activities.

When I was in elementary school, I kept a snake as my pet. One day, I brought my snake to school and showed it to my classmates. They were really scared and told our teacher. As a result, the teacher asked my parents to come to school. As a punishment, my parents never allow me to keep any pets since that time.

It seems that, the punishment from my parents was the only thing I feared during my childhood.

(Sue)

Journal 6 Communicate with my Bear

Don't be afraid when you are going through my title. I am not keeping a bear as my pet. Bear is my dog's name. He is a smart dog, he can tell your emotion from your appearance; therefore, he can make proper reaction to draw your attention.

If one day, I can talk to Bear, I want to ask him a lot of questions. Where are you from? Who do you like best in this house? What is your favorite color? Which dishes do you like best? Chicken of steak?

I cannot imagine if he can talk to me, how much time I'll spend communicating with him. One day, several days or everyday, I don't know. Bear is so cute. Everyday, when I have meal, he stands near me, and stare at me, seems like he is hungry and wants something to eat. When I come back home, he runs to the front door immediately, making some noise and jumping, seems like he is saying hello to me. When I sit in sofa and watch TV, he stays close and jump onto the sofa, then stay in my arms.

Bear is crazy for food, whenever you eat ,whatever you eat, you can find him staying next to you and looking at you. If you ignore him, he'll try his best to get your attention, like scratch you on your legs, make some noise or keep running around you. He won't stop until he get some food from you.

I hope one day in the future I can talk to Bear, I love this dog!!

(VIVI AND LIEN)

Journal 5 If we ever meet again

If we ever meet again is the song I am listening frequently these days. The reason is very simple. One day, when I went shopping with my husband, we heard the song in a store.(I won't tell you the brand of this store,because I don't wanna advertise for the brand.haha^ ^)I thought the rhythm and melody are good, and easy to remember. Then I found the singer is called Timbaland, and the MTV is well created.I like his changeable expressions, especially his eyebrows~~ and the plot is interesting with a special beginning. I like this song, hope you enjoy it.

( Quynh and BomiSon)