Journal 9

It is hard to define "American food" like hamburger, hot dog, fried chicken, and cheese. In my mind, American food is the fast food, because when I live in here, I can find there are McDonalds, Burger King ,KFC, or other fast food store in everywhere. most of the people look like so strong in the U.S. Meat, bread, cheese, no vegetables sounds like American diet with fried and a soda. However, I sure do love them, everything is very fresh. Sometimes I eat fast food once or twice per week and do not care calorie though I make sense clearly which is a little bit unhealthy. Compare with Chinese diet, it is unsimiliar to American diet. There are vegetables, meat, egg, and rice in the daily. A lot of people worry about their size and weight. In my opinion, just children and teenagers like to eat fast food, and some business men do have no time to cook by yourselves. Overall, I want to say people should keep healthy everyday, it is difficult to do, because of several delicious hamburger, like me.

Journal 8

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."Winston Churchill said. This is a quote that I like it. in my mind, a person focus on the good rather than the bad in life. If people are full of the negative ideas, they will appeal negativity in their life. Generally, I think I am the optimist. For instance, when I took the first two driver tests in Pomona, I failed again and again. Though I was a little dismal, I thought I did a serious mistake and I still did not drive. Moreover, I should practice driving more. So I was happy to keep learning it, when I took the third times, I pass it. I want to say we should maintain a positive life and be alert to our thoughts and attitudes. Do not always focus on the problems, our focus should change to solve them.

Journal 7

people alway say birds of a feather, similar people stay together. In my opinion, it is ture in my real life. being in a class, working with someone can get to know each other in some situations. It is easy to do this. However, I might focus on whether we have the same interests, character, hobby, and information or not. These elements are important for me to get a friend. For instance, my best friend--Jessie, we like the same style of clothes and love to shop together, one time I went to San Francisco, and she stayed in LA. We went to shop in the different places and different time, but when I came back to LA, I was so surprised we got the same clothes. I thought we were mutual. Meanwhile, Compare with other friends, whatever some situations, it is difficult to have the same perspective. Therefore, "birds of a feather" is a rule that will never go out of style.

Journal 6

When I was a child, I always believed animals can talk just like fairy tales. And the world will be more interesting and excited if animals can talk with human. They can tell us what they like and unlike, make friends with individuals, and do something that can not be fulfilled by human such as researching in tiny cave. Meanwhile, I would like to ask panda why they so like eating bamboo, ask koala whether they will feel tired when sleeping for a whole day.

Journal 5

If you ask me which song is my favorite one, I will definitely to say that is "Tianheihei" which is sang by Stefanie Sun. The song with tranquil piano melody tells a problem, met by each of us that is confusion of growth. When we face with the world of adult with misunderstanding and lie, simple belief of childhood has been questioned. However, like what is said from lyrics, "we should be brave to move ahead even in the rain".

Journal 4-weather

In Qingdao, there are four seasons in every year. The highest temperature is 26 degrees in the summer. Qingdao in spring and fall are too long. Unlike many places just are over the winter into summer soon and over the summer soon into the winter. In my opinion, I love fall season, because it is cool and rainy, then the falling leaf spiralled to the ground. I also like LA's weather,
only the sunshine is so strong, it is easy to sunburn to everyone's skin, and I can not see snow in this place. In my hometown, it has snowfall in the winter. After snowfall, it looks like a beautiful picture.

Journal 3-Old Fears

I was so afraid that I took the airplane to encounter airflow. In my opinion, it always dangerous when I got this situation. Sometimes, though I understood clearly it was a little airflow, it was still difficult to accept. As long as it had airflow, I grasped my hands of some stuff such as magzine, newspaper, and pillows. I was nervous and worried if it had not a few airflow, and I called mum whisper. However, my husband told me, "you should face your fears, you just scare yourself." Maybe I would overcome the airflow in the future but now I still can not do it.