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Three writing lectures, one about brainstorming, another about format, the other about reviewing.Then, a four-page paper about anything we want.Obviously two weeks' living on campus probably can't bear a unique paper, which is closely related to our life here and our findings. I'm guessing why such a paper is designed. Anyway, it accelarate my understanding of my major and career.

Looking back to the past two and a half weeks, I've had so many exciting first-time experiences, like adapting myself to a foreign environment, keeping a long-term healthy diet and life style, having a look at real local life as a student, some tours, some excursions, and continuous discoveries. Thanks a lot.
We are leaving Richmond in two days, I guess the days in New York and Washington will be quite different....

Thanks to him so much, he gave us another amazing experience this afternoon.

Walking on the road, I can see more and bigger dogs with their masters. The appliances and food for pets occupies a larger area in supermarkets. And the way Americans see their pets is more human.

I avoid dogs. That's true. But to your surprise I love them.
Because of the major, we conduct many experiments on animals, like mice, rabbits, cats, dogs, monkeys. Some of the experiments are really cruel, and the experimental conditions sometimes are not so humanitarian, cause decreasing the spending on experimental animals increases the spending on the other part of researches.
What would you feel if you take care of them, play with them, eat with them, even sleep with them, while you cut them, kill them? I feel split.

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To be honest, I don't like it as much as many other girls do. Mainly because the experiences of shopping I have in Shanghai. Actually I hardly do any shopping outside Shanghai.
We do have most of fist-line bands in big shopping centers. And all the amusement needs you may have can be satisfied in a very closed area, so it's convenience is also not the problem. The key is: I have no so much time to remember the locality of different brands in different shops in different shopping centers.
I can see several guiding board in every shopping center in Richmond, and some also have maps. I like it.

In the past one week, we continually met with some Chinese professors, businessmen, and students, besides the three Chinese lecturers.

There are some similarity between we Chinese when we are abroad and the students coming from other districts of China when they are in Shanghai. And the interns or the directors may share some similar feelings with Shanghainese, cause we both deal with so many people of different origins. Now I began to get the sense of both being a stranger and being a host.

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Generally, if a Chinese student's listening and reading ability scores 80, his/her speaking ability scores 20 to 30. I'm a typical example.

Sometimes I try to express my wonderful feelings or unique opinions or ask challenging questions, only to find I leave much space for the listeners to imagine. Upset

I enjoy the time we spend on the rocks, the time we sitting around the tables chatting. But if my spoken English is excellent, I can do more than what I did.

I can still remember the passing hours every time I ate with my Germany friend, and the various topics. Thanks to her excellent command of Chinese.
I guess if there is no longer language obstacles, the world maybe much smaller for me, for I'm always ready to enjoy the differences between people of remote origins