Shin Kong Mitsukoshi department store

The weather was very cool tonight. Squirrel, Chzeeie, Nicole and I decided to go around in Tainan city, but we did not have any ideal spot to go. After discussing for few minutes, we went shopping at Shin Kong Mitsukoshi department store. It was on sale from Nov 30 to Dec 25. The department store offered 20% off of most merchandise or even offered 30% to 50% off of some last and some current season products. Squirrel and I wanted to buy very cheap car coat. All the stands were crowded when we got there. We could not easily pick some coats that we like because there were so many people were crazy for picking their products. That was a very exciting and terrible scene to me. We spent about two hours for picking coats but we did not buy any merchandise in the end.

In bad mood

One day I was in bad mood. I had a quarrel with my boyfriend over some trivial matters. I wanted to relax and did not think too much. I went to a place of historic in Tainan by myself. The place was Yan-ping beach. I spent almost two hours at there for watching a sunset. When I was watching a spectacular sunset, I suddenly realized that I was very tiny in this world and I was touched deeply for the view. I stood there and thought for a while, I felt inspired to learn that a person’s happiness is not because of how much you want but is how much you have and how less you do not haggle over. Therefore, I thought that people had a quarrel with their friends over some trivial matters was not worthwhile. The important thing is I should learn how to get along with not only my boyfriend but all my friends. After watching the beautiful then I went back school, I talked to my boyfriend about my thoughts. We communicated for a long time. Finally we made up.

I strained a muscle

Our public drinking water machine was broken last Friday. Water was dripping down from it, so the floor was covered with water. There was nobody could repair it until the next Monday that plumber will go to work. A few days later, the floor was become very dirty because everyone walked there without stopping or walking other side, but just going straight down. Besides, the wet floor was very dangerous if someone did not know that might slip down. I once walked there without stopping and almost slipping down. Therefore, I had no choice but to borrow a mop from the dormitory assistant in order to clean it by myself. After mopping the floor, I strained a muscle in my back last night. I felt very bad.

The oral class

I had three oral classes in the morning. My oral teacher, Chad, who taught us some in common use prepositions today. He thought that a lot of people used prepositions in the wrong way. For example, my left arrives “on Taipei late in night”—actually it should use “in Taipei late at night”. It was a typical mistake that many Taiwanese made. They did not understand how to use the prepositions “in, on, at” correctly and neither do I. I thought that not only writing but also speaking in an essay or a dialogue with the right prepositions was difficult to me. I was confused by the prepositions because they sometimes looked similar usage.

Yan-ping Street

The weather was very sunny and warm on Monday. I stood in front of the window, and looked the blue sky. I suddenly had an idea about going to Yan-ping with my good friends including Chezzie, Nicole, Jamie, Squirrel. To relax ourselves because of the great pressure we got in the midterm last week. Therefore, we wanted to watch a spectacular sunset at the Yan-ping beach. Before we arrived at there, the sun was almost sinking in the west little by little until we could not see it. When we got there, we changed our mind and decided to go around Yan-ping Street because the dark night. We ate some famous snacks such as Steamed dumplings, Anping Bean Jelly and Ox's tongue cake. And ox's tongue cake was the traditional cracker with the shape of ox tongue. Besides, we spent two hours visiting the place. After going back the dormitory, every one was very tired but had a wonderful time.

Chezzie's birthday present

Chezzie is one of my good friends and classmates. She is a very nice and aggressive girl. She was born on November 16 in 1986 so we decided to do some special things for her. Nicole, Jamie, Squirrel and I went to some sports shops in Tainan city for buying her birthday present without telling her. When we chose the Converse shoes for her, we also chose one pair of different brands shoes for each of us, and then we all had one pair of new shoes. We went shopping and choosing the present for almost four hours. After buying things we need and wanted, we felt very tired but we had a lot of fun in that. We wish she would like the present that we chose.

The PE Class

I had a physical education course in my freshman year. In that class the PE teacher introduced every student to the archery. I was very interested in that because I never played the bow and arrows before. PE teacher taught us how to use the bow and arrows correctly. He also gave some tips for us. He said "if you use it in the wrong way, you maybe hurt your arm and fingers". Before playing it, I thought it may very easy to me, but in actual fact it was very difficult to me. When I tried to bend the bow and held an arrow, the bow was a little heavy and its bowstring was so tight that I could not bend easily. Moreover, I tried many times to practice it and I did follow the tips and skills that teacher told me. But I always missed a loyal heart of the board. I thought that playing a good archery should spend a lot of time on it.

The funeral

I attended my cousin funeral last Friday. Before he was cremated, there were many ceremonies had to do. For example, on Thursday night, there were three exorcists spent almost three hours intoning a lot of Taoist scripture for him. We believed that scripture could make his soul become better because he died of cancer with extremely painful on his body and mentality. All family, relatives and cousins held a wake, where the body of the deceased was displayed in its casket. The funeral began at 5:15 am in Friday morning. My cousin's close friends and classmates expressed their condolences for him. Everyone was very sad and sorry for him. I saw many people that their eyes with a lot of tears. They thought that he was a twenty-one-year young man but passed away soon. After cremating, his sister held the ashes and everybody also went to the columbarium. His ashes were placed into a niche in an Ashes Wall. The funeral ended at 13:15 pm.

Readind Presentation

Tomorrow I will do a presentation with my group in reading class. Our topic was “got milk?”advertisement that we should introduce it. The teacher asked us to explain the main idea and some important vocabularies, collocations and phrases. For example, the word “to start” it meant that at the beginning, or as the first of several things. It could connect the preposition, with, together. I gave a simple sentence, for instance, the class starts with some gentle stretching exercises.

Our “got milk?”main idea was that there are many advantages of drinking milk. Many people think that drinking milk is good for health. Besides, we spent almost two weeks to find some background and information to prepare this. We rehearsed the presentation again and again; therefore, we wish that we could have a good presentation tomorrow.

My notebook computer broke down

Squirrel and I were studying hard in order to prepare the midterm exam. We studied in my room. After studying for a while, she told me that she felt a little hungry and thirsty. She wanted to brew some chocolate milk. When she brewed it up and ready to drink, the bad thing was happened. She spilt accidentally the hot chocolate milk on my notebook computer. We not only wiped quickly the keyboard with tissue and cloth but used the hair dryers to blow it. But my computer still could not type any word and broke down soon. Thus we took it to the ASUS agency on Qing-nian road. The ASUS attendant told us that engineer had to spend three days to fix my computer. That meant that I had no computer to use until three days later.