worrying

Time goes very fast, I am leaving for Kingston. I will begin my majoy on Jan. 10th. But I am worried about my English level because I still cannot communicate with native people very very fluently, and I still have some words or phrases that I don't understand in each time I speak with other Canadians. And my listening is still cannot be good enough to handle every conversation so far.

Living In North Bay

Life in North Bay is really different from China. I used to speak Chinese with everyone, but now I have to speak English to communicate with other people, even though my English is not very good. Dealing with everything by myself, make me feel tired, but I need to get used to it. I didn’t need to do the housework when I was in China, but now I’ve got to learn how to cook, and I have to do the dishes. As well, I have to worry about buying food. In China I can hang out with my friends when I feel down or unhappy, but now I have to face every frustration by myself. Things are so different from China that I almost need to learn everything .

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Me

       People are different in this world. There are some people who are lazy and some people who work hard. There are some people who like sports and some people who hate sports. What kind of person am I? There are many aspects I can talk about myself.

       I am a motivated person. I am doing everything in order to be the best. When I learn English, I correct my pronunciation until I am satisfied. Because I want to be the best Chinese English speaker, I practice more to be sure I can be the best one in the class. I am a person who studies hard. I review knowledge that teachers teach us after class. I spend break time learning something I don’t know. After all, I am an ambitious guy.

       I am a person who knows gratitude. I appreciate Chinese government because it gives me a good life and gives me chance to be better. I appreciate my parents since they brought me to this world, raising me so hard and offered me chance to study abroad so that I can widen my mind. I appreciate my friends for accompanying me whenever there were good times or bad times in my life. I know gratitude, so I appreciate those who have ever helped me.

       I like traveling because I can experience different life and learn more things. I have been to Canton, and it is crowded and noisy; however, there are many delicious food. I like eating delicious food, so that is a good place for me to go because I can eat almost every kind of food in Canton. I have also been to Hong Kong before. It can be described as busy and beautiful. In Hong Kong, people seem very hectic because they do their work all day long and do everything quickly. And it is a good place for to live because I like busy life. I want to have a lot of work to do because I can get a lot of knowledge from working. And it is a very beautiful place where you can see wonderful buildings everywhere. I have learned many things by traveling, and I will travel more places in the future because it is a good way to improve myself.

       A person has many habits and characters. It is hard to describe myself in such a short essay. So I just choose some aspects to talk about myself.

Leaving

  Time goes fast, I have almost finished this semester in Canadore, and I am leaving for st.lawrence college at the end of this year. Next semester, I will study Business Administration Marketing directly, I don't need to take ESL at St.lawrence. I have made many friends this term, and I am so happy that I we have had some many wonderful moments. I appreciate my teachers because they have helped me so much. I always get a kick out of having fun in classes. I will miss you guys while I am in other place.

Canadian Roommates

  Can you imagine two sports conditioning guys running around your house making ridiculous noises? Or, teaching two Canadians how to speak Chinese? I can because I have been living with two Canadian students, one is called Cody another is called David, for about 3 months. And they are really funny guys.

      I still revember the second day after they moved in they taught me “wasabi”. That day, when they saw me in the morning, they said “wasabi”. And I was confused. I said “what are talking about? Are you asking me for wasabi? Are you eating Japanese food?” Then they explained that wasabi means what’up, and it comes from noisy orange, a video on the Internet. After that, when we meet each other we always wasabi.

      Revember one day when I was talking with Cody, and I pronounced ‘pain’ uncorrect. Then Cody wanted to correct my wrong pronounciation. He said ‘pain’, and I said ‘pen’. “no” he said “it is pain, not pen”. “ pan” I said. “It is pain, not pan. Fucking Chinese speaking English” he said angrily. And then I had practiced several times before I got it. Then, later on that day, he told me to teach him how to say no in Chinese. Then I said “bushi”. “bosh” he repeated. “ It is bushi, not bosh” I said. “yes bosh”, he said. “hey, bushi and bosh are totally different.” “ bosh, right?” he said. “bushi, fucking Canadian speaking Chinese.” Then we were both laughing.

      Two weeks ago, while I was doing homework, David came into my bedroom with a pale face. And he looks bad. I thougt he was sick, but he said he was hungry, and he hadn’t eaten anything for two days. I asked him why he hadn’t eaten. He said, “ I want to know how long can put up with starving, but now I have not strength to cook anything, so can you give some breads.”

      They are so out of the ordinary. They are restless everyday. They are really funny. They are my canadian roommates David and Cody.