This afternoon we had the second speaking presentation. This time was about interview. There were several topics we can choose and I choose the term “censorship”.
I have interviewed my homestay mother, Annette, but haven’t interview any other internetational students. Actually, I just interviewed myself as the second person. I didn’t prepare it very long. I just felt there was nothing to prepare.
A month ago, on Aug 23, 2007, I left China from Beijing Internetional Airport. And since the difference of timezone, we arrived at Winnipeg on Aug 23, 2007 again. From that time to now, I’ve spent a whole month here.
I, with my parents, drove to Beijing on Aug 22. We lived in Beijing Guangxi Hotel. A friend of my father received us. In the afternoon, I washed myself and had a rest. At night, father’s friend invited us to a restaurant for supper. I tried Maotai there.
Since we will be very busy during the weekdays, we four celebrated the mid-autumn day tonight. We have bought some materials yesterday and we had the “hot pot” tonight.
In the afternoon, Forrest, Garson and me went to Kelin’s house. In the early, we three boys played soccer on a large grass field near Kelin’s house. About 4:00, we went back and had a short rest. Then we cooked the hot pot. And we take some photos before we had them.
A few days later, we will have Chinese Traditional Festival, Mid-Autumn Day. In that day, Chinese family get together. And we four friends from China planned to have supper together to celebrate it. At the begining, we decided to have supper in a Chinese restruant. Later someone said he wanted have hot pot, so then we decided to have it in family. It will much cheaper to cook ourselves.
After class yesterday, we four went to a Chinese “supermarket” named Wen-Kai. It’s a tiny market for selling Chinese food and some Japanese and Korean stuff. We bought some meterial for hot pot and the mooncakes. They costed us about 80 dollars.
This afternoon, we had a long speaking class. During the class, my instruction Linda let us to discuss some problems in groups. There are 12 students in my class, and we were seprated into 3 groups. In my group, I was the leader that keep the discuss going.
I did what a leader should do. I read the question to the group members and ask their idea. In one turn, it a girl’s turn. For showing polite, I always looked at the person who are talking about his or her idea. But when I looked at that girl, I felt I wanted to smile suddenly. And then a smile came to my face.
This afternoon, I attended the second resume workshop class. And this class is the first academic class I attended in Canada. I’m learning in English Language Centre now and I have classes about English writing, reading, listening and speaking everyday. Though they are helpful, they are a little boring. The reason, I think, is language is a kind of most fundational class. You will feel boring when you learning them, especially you have known it not too little before.
经过将近两天的思考与一天的时间，终于成功的在主机上安装了Movable Type。新的blog域名为http://ferrisliu.com/。建立这个blog，主要是想在一个独立的地方写一些英文的东西。
Welcome to my new blog powered by Movable Type. This is the first post on my blog and was created for me automatically when I finished the installation process. But that is ok, because I will soon be creating posts of my own!
其实这是前几天的事情了。当时我正在拼命整理照相机里的照片，而且从这里Flickr的上传工具Flickr Uploder在这里居然可以正常使用了（我在出国前试过一次，无法授权帐号），而且还非常好用，于是我就一直上传。传一部分整理一部分，后来发现普通帐号只能建立3个set，便忍痛放弃了几个。看着Flickr Uploder里面说我使用了这个月上传空间的31%，心想什么时候把这个数字变成100%，看看是什么样子。
这两天开学了，可把我累坏了。
我们正式可开学是九月四日开始的。那天我们九点钟到达了教室。第一天实在是没什么意思，语言中心的几位人物讲了话，简单介绍了一下内容，然后就是大家乘坐校车在温尼伯的Downtown和ChinaTown参观。这些地方我们其实已经去过了，因此觉得特没意思。由于车速比较慢，我在车上睡了一阵子。