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SNS

It suddenly occur to me that everyday there are three web I will definitely log into: gmail, windows live space and facebook. Their respective function is gaining information from the outside world, presenting myself or express feeling and performing socialize network service.

It is clearly that people tends to connect each other electronically more than ever since the invention of the pc computer and the innovation of the internet. With the access to the internet, we have transformed a lot of our need computerized. Writing diary becomes blog; mail becomes email; connecting become virtual community online, which makes our life indispensable from turning to the virtual world time to time to check out what is going on in our real life, ironically, but sadly I cannot tell if it will do good to us.

We young generation can barely survive a human life without our laptop.
The technology developed really enhances the quality of human being’s life a lot and make us the most powerful throughout the history.
But if we need to chat online in two separate rooms next to each other, what will the future go?
if we need the SNS to handle every party and gathering, wat will the future be?

Urged by my roomies, I finally signed up on the Facebook yesterday. The moment I logged onto the network, I was amazed by the page presented on the screen, which is barely the same as a web site I used a lot back in China, a community network for college students in China. What else, I found that things is more than that interesting.

Facebook xiaonei
Youtube tudou
Ebay taobao
QQ msn

The left column is the internet product from America, while the right column is the product perform the same function in China. Chinese’s imitate ability is quite stunning, uhr.:)

if we have to elect a most boring time during our stay in Amrican, the answer is definitely the afternoon in the charlottesviile downtown.

the moment we got off the bus, we were all wondering what should we do next sleepy. informed the next 2 and half hours was arranged to hang around in the "downtown", we were like "oh my god, this cannot be serious!". the shock woke us thoroughly.

then, in the next 2.5 hours we wandered meaninglessly from one end of the street, which the stores were sited along, to the other end. once in a while, we steped in some good-looking stores or featued-theme stores only to find out that the price was also "good-looking". we have bring our lunch to in case lunch will not be served. the stores here are barely robbers, charging unbelievably for cheap things we have in China. shall we eating or shopping? the shopping and cuisines back in shanghai can be far more better than here!

originally, we were really looking forward to the trip to charlottesville, where the University of Virginia is located, the content of which at lease will benefit us in the aspect of broadening our view. we got up early and neglected the fatigue of days of lectures and excursions and found what we gained is not that worthwhile.

i am not sure whether i am at a low tide, a stage should be encountered during the culture adaption, start to criticize everything. no offensive to all the faculty and interns, who have made great efforts during the programme. it just the sense that the aganda can be schaduled more perfect become stronger and stronger these days.

we really appreciate what interns and the directors have done for us.
but at the writing board in the end of the street, we wrote "we miss Shanghai".

yesterday we went to monticello and charlottesville downtown. due to shortage of the time, we had barely no preparatio about the interest attraction we were going to. until the moment we got off the shuttle, we were aware of the fact that this is a place as Mao's house he used to live in.

the house is marvelous although the design sometimes hard to get. the architecture itself looks spacious while inside the building is comparatively small. maybe the feeling has something to do with the fact that chinese architecture tends to be magnificent, gorgeous, and broad in scale. however, the preservation of the house was impressive. no touh signs everywhere, causious everywhere, no offensive, to visitors from a country like China, they looks like making a fuss over a trifle, a 200-hundred-years-old building really cannot mention in the same breath with cities of 5000-years history.

what left a deep impression is the barrier beside the main house where Thoms Jefferson's whole big family lived in. the barrior is where a lot of slaves working in, with astonishing large-size cellars for wine and beer, which reflected the funny contradiction of the fact the man librate the whole nation owned a great number of slaves.

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on our way to POE museum, i told Eric that i was almost drained at the blog staff. and he advised me not to take t too formal. so i think it's time for casual. >_<

the most embarass thing happened today is that i fell asleep for couple of minutes during the session this afternoon. i felt awful while i am exhausted. tomorrow i will take a starbuck with me entering the classroom

we went to maymount today !!!!!:) fabulous! i love it. thank to Brian. n_n

and today the meeting wth stephenie is so pleasant. she recommended us to go to a mexican restaurant and the quantity of the food is sooooooooo large. i have to share a great portion with emily, depart of that, the taste is good.

yesterday i used oven to bake some potatoes. things went quite well. so i wll go to buy some beef tomorrow, try to cook some meat in the oven, hopefully it will success:)
roomies, we are having beef tomorrow~,~
i promise they will be just as good as what we have cooked before.