http://blog.vcu.edu/baox/ en Copyright 2007 Fri, 03 Aug 2007 00:51:31 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 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.... http://blog.vcu.edu/baox/2007/08/paper.html http://blog.vcu.edu/baox/2007/08/paper.html Fri, 03 Aug 2007 00:51:31 +0000 Thanks to him so much, he gave us another amazing experience this afternoon. http://blog.vcu.edu/baox/2007/07/dan.html http://blog.vcu.edu/baox/2007/07/dan.html Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:43:13 +0000 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. ...... http://blog.vcu.edu/baox/2007/07/the_dogs_in_cassies_parents.html http://blog.vcu.edu/baox/2007/07/the_dogs_in_cassies_parents.html Tue, 31 Jul 2007 01:07:24 +0000 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. http://blog.vcu.edu/baox/2007/07/home_visit_thanks_to_cassie.html http://blog.vcu.edu/baox/2007/07/home_visit_thanks_to_cassie.html Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:10:46 +0000 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. ...... http://blog.vcu.edu/baox/2007/07/being_a_strangerbeing_a_local.html http://blog.vcu.edu/baox/2007/07/being_a_strangerbeing_a_local.html Mon, 30 Jul 2007 23:30:03 +0000 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 http://blog.vcu.edu/baox/2007/07/if_my_spoken_english_is_excell.html http://blog.vcu.edu/baox/2007/07/if_my_spoken_english_is_excell.html Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:37:55 +0000 I haven't seen the attendance sheet for three days, and I noticed that there are more and more unoccupied seats in the classroom. What's up http://blog.vcu.edu/baox/2007/07/whats_up.html http://blog.vcu.edu/baox/2007/07/whats_up.html Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:29:17 +0000 A place you can't miss, but can't visit again. http://blog.vcu.edu/baox/2007/07/williamsburg.html http://blog.vcu.edu/baox/2007/07/williamsburg.html Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:44:54 +0000 $400 for one night. $200 for one person. Though not that expensive in the logic of U.S.dollars. When I was sitting on the chair, watching the sea and having my cheap breakfast, a friend said,"That's the combination of poverty and affluence." "Where is the affluence?" I asked," The sea belong to everyone in the world, no matter poverty or affluence." I said. Listening to the voice of the sea, I'm really in a complex mood. Somebody asked me "Is there any difference between the American sea and the Chinese sea?" "Obviously the sea is the same, but the beach is quite different" Guess the most wonderful time we spent on the beach. It's not surfing, not watching the sun set or dawn, not lying down on the sands, not playing the volleyball, not all these we can do on our homeland. But listening to the two guys singing country songs accompanied by guitars. We four just stood by the shop window, looking at the two handsome big boys across the fluid pedestrians, enjoying their voices, and thinking over the passed one week and passed twenty years for... I don't know for how long.we were a little drunk I'm sorry. It's satirized that many things so common to the Americans should be so precious to us, isn't it? Anyway, I enjoy it, ignoring the irrelevancies. http://blog.vcu.edu/baox/2007/07/va_beach_wow.html http://blog.vcu.edu/baox/2007/07/va_beach_wow.html Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:19:19 +0000 It's simply the right place for amusement, excitement and venting! But I can't understand why there should be such strict security inspection at the entrance. http://blog.vcu.edu/baox/2007/07/busch_gardens.html http://blog.vcu.edu/baox/2007/07/busch_gardens.html Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:01:43 +0000 Frankly speaking, I just can't understand why they like them so much, especially after I went there with them last night. But the IMAX is nice. Some differences between Chinese and American kept popping out these days, sometimes just differences of details. I'm quite interested in them. The differences I find out in my point of view and the process of truly understand them are surely more valuable I think. http://blog.vcu.edu/baox/2007/07/harry_potter_the_mcdonald_besi.html http://blog.vcu.edu/baox/2007/07/harry_potter_the_mcdonald_besi.html Fri, 20 Jul 2007 17:20:51 +0000 I have attended five lectures given by four professors so far. They 're all very kind, especially Dr.Ryan Smith and Dr.Tim Thurber. I begin to feel accustomed to the class. In fact they're quite similar to the lecturers we take part in when we're in Shanghai, though I don't think it's the best form of learning or studying. I find most classrooms in the building is much smaller. Maybe they're for daily classes. I guess there may be more effective discussions and talking there, which I valued more. But anyway, it's suitable for us, since we so many students with quite different academic background need cramming into one classroom. Indeed I don't care. http://blog.vcu.edu/baox/2007/07/the_lecutres.html http://blog.vcu.edu/baox/2007/07/the_lecutres.html Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:26:27 +0000 I like Dan. Yes, I like him very much like so many else do. Julie told us we may ask Dan to help us to use google better. I was so happy that just keep shaking my friend and laughing! Julie also told something about the basketball players. Actually I was once teased by them and was somewhat scared. I was glad that they're going. Now I know the use of our blog. We may write something we are uncertain about and we will get helpful feedbacks. That's great. http://blog.vcu.edu/baox/2007/07/mr_dream.html http://blog.vcu.edu/baox/2007/07/mr_dream.html Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:06:22 +0000 They are lovely. They sometimes remind of a teacher of English, who is really an exciting man and a Germany friend, whose Chinese is perfect. I can only say that the world is so fantastic, the English is so important, and the way to express yourself is the key to the world. http://blog.vcu.edu/baox/2007/07/the_past_four_days2.html http://blog.vcu.edu/baox/2007/07/the_past_four_days2.html Thu, 19 Jul 2007 01:17:36 +0000 It's the first time for me to leave my beloved parent for so long, to go abroad, to land on the U.S., which has always been stimulating me, though might not be the real stimulant. I still remember the very excitement when I was in primary school just for a one-day excursion to the near suburbs, while this time, my calmness astonished myself. Maybe I have forever lost that kind of pure mood. I've got so many realistic concerns, like how to travel abroad by plane myself, how to adapt myself to the new weather, to the superior material equipments, to the people of different originals, and to really understand the different culture. In a word, to prepare myself for the probable longer overseas life. I believe that the mood can always be shared. Nevertheless, the travel itself is so appealing, including the unsatisfactory. It's just a travel of experience and experience is never limited to those satisfactory. http://blog.vcu.edu/baox/2007/07/the_past_four_days1.html http://blog.vcu.edu/baox/2007/07/the_past_four_days1.html Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:27:48 +0000