our first hot pot~~

Actually, today is a festival in my country, it is called the festival of lanterns. Whenever this specail day comes, it is common to eat rice glue ball. It is a kind of sweet food, some people like it, but not for me^-^.
Instead eating rice glue ball, Fan and me chose to celebrate the holiday by having a fantastic dinner: hot pot. It is in China town.
When we got there, just a sweet couple was there. So we chose a seat close to the food( we both a little lazy...haha). We found that there are many kinds of food, seafood, vegetables, noodles etc. What attracted me was that there was a note said that: wasting food, 10 dollars/person. So that means we should be careful and sure about how much we can handle. The beef there is really good, and also some seafood like shrimp, squid. We enjoyed our dinner so much, even though the one in my hometown tastes much better than here. But you see, I'm just a kind of person easily to get satisfied. And this is alsi the first chaffy dish I have since I came here. I think it is also why I feel good about it. But to be honest, I really miss the food in my hometown, you cannot imagine how fantastic it tastes.
Anyway, I had a great meal and night, I appreciate about it!!

somebody should take responsibility for our listening test

Our mid-term tests have already finished, and reading week starts. But I am not happy as I thought before. My listening test was not good.
Because someone's cell phone kept ringing for a long time during our test, I couldn't hear what the tape said, so I missed a lot important information. I don't know whether it had affected all the students in our class, but for me, I felt terrible about that. We just had one chance to listen to the tape, no second time.
I think somebody should take the responsibility for this. We all know that it was our mid-term test, not a qiuz, so why this kind of thing happened, and just happened in our listening test?!I was angry about it. It is not fair for us.
What made me mad was that, ok, you made a mistake, affected our important test, so at least after the test,you should say sorry to the class. Even though this won't change anything, you should have an attitude to your mistake. But, she just seemed like nothing had happened, and it was none of her business. So did she feel ashamed of what she did to class?!
Actually I don't know how to say about it. I think if she feels a little little litte ashamed to our classmates, she should at least say sorry to us.

~~Dream~~

Mentioning dreams, I think all of us will have sth to say about it. It is obvious that dreams play an important part in our daily life and it can affect our life sometimes.
When I was still a child, I used to wake up during nightmares. I still remember a horrible nightmare I have experienced.
The dream is about my friend and I. It was a dark night, my friend and I walked home after playing in the hill for almost one day. When we walked in the path beside the hill, I just felt that someone was following us, and actually there was. But my friend did not notice that. So I told her in her ear : someone was following us, don't turn your head back, keep walking. In order to make sure whether he is following us, I just speed up, unfortunately, he speed up also. So I realized that it was not good. I said to my friend: Let's run!!!! When we ran, the man started to run also. during that way, I saw a store and a man in it.When we arrived home safely, I was almost out of my breath. The next, when I read the newpaper, I was shocked by one article that the man we saw last night in the stored died.At that moment, the only thing I could feel was terror. What was worse, when I was on the bus to school, a man suddenly came to me and said some words beside my ear: do you remember me? Then I woke up.
Still now, whenever I thought about it , I can feel the terror in my heart. Really a horrible dream!!!

**explorer**

I know that my editing is a little late^-^, because I focused on my group presentation during the weekend, I could not spare any time on this.
Actually, I don't have enongh knowledge about explorers, so just write what I can think of now.
When I was a little child, I really respected explorers and thought they are the smartest people in the world. Most of people want to be explorers because it is a good chance to show our intelligence. I wanted to be a great explorer because of the exitement it brings. I lived with my grandparents and made a lot of friends there at that time. Most of us liked doing something filled with risk and danger. For example, there was a path in the mountain near our home, but we felt bored of repeating this way all the time. So we decided to explore some other ways. During the exploring, to be honest, it was a hard time. But nobody gave up, which made us feel comfortable. When the new fantastic way appeared in front us, the only thing we could feel is satisfaction. We steped into the new path and began our "trip" with happiness. Perhaps it is not an exat exploring, however, we got a lot from the process.
Anyway, we should have this kind of spirit in our life, even though not all the people can become explorers, we can still explore our own space of life.

editing: yes?no?

About editing in our blogs, it's ok for me~~
Sometimes, we need to write down a few words in order to remind ourselves that something happened before. I did not used to write blog when I was in China, I'm a lazy girl :). But here I think we really should have our blogs to remember the good experience here.
I feel great whenever I receive some wonderful comments in my blog, even though this communication is a little slow, but it still works for me(*^_^*).
But, what I cannot agree a lot is that I think the topic in the blog should be more flexible and interesting, so that our friends can enjoy their reading and feel our words. And also, it is better for us to choose the topics we feel comfortable to write. It can be a movie, a fantastic game, and also some other things related to our daily life. Because blog is a place where people can get relaxed, but not a kind of homework. Our friends can know some details about our life through reading the blog. Sometimes, the topic given is a little bit formal,which makes me feel like it is a homework, but not for MY blog. If we can choose the topic we like, it is easier for us to write our real feeling, and for our friends, it can also be easier for them to finish their reading without falling asleep in the middle.
So what I want to say is that keeping editing blogs is really good, but what about topics?

--my impression of EAP--

These days I am always thinking about my first four months in Calgary, this lovey, clean city. Even now, I still feel that it is like a dream. Sometimes, I couldn't believe that I'm here, a totally different place far away from my hometown. (Perhaps I'm still in a dream now~~)

I can remember that when I first arrived here, I was like a lonely bird, no families, no friends, no experience. Fortunately, I attended ESL program on last September. To be honest, I should say that it was a fantastic course for getting fun, but not an ideal course for learning English. We had extra activities every Friday, which attracted me a lot, such as Banff trip, hockey game, museum visiting. It was a good opportunity to make a lot friends coming from different parts of the world. But now most of my ESL friends have gone back to their hometown, so I really missed them.

Then after a short-time rest during the Christmas, our EAP program came. The first thing I should do is to prepare for the placement test in the first week. Though the ESL program was not a perfect place to learn academic English, anyway, I still got benefit from it, especially in writing. So just in my opinion, I thought I did my best in the test. After finishing the test, I thought perhaps I would be in level 2, however, when the result came out, I found my name in the sheet of EAP 3. To tell the truth, it was really a big surprise to me. I hadn't thought about it before, but I felt so excited because that means I can go back to my hometown after this semester and stay there for couple of months---jaja~~, actually that was what I wanted most.

The next week, the course started. It is totally different from ESL. It is more formal and more strict, and also a lot of homework to hand out during this short 3 months. In another word, it is out of my expectation. I can completely feel the fast pace of this course. Sometimes, I felt so tired, but whenever thinking about the trip back to my country after 3 months, I became energetic again.

So, anyway, wish everybody( of course including myself) can pass this semester. We all FIGHTING!!!!!

~~ielts test:-(

Last Saturday, I took my ielts test. It was not a good day for me: snow, strong wind, low tempreture, hoho........should I say " I'm a lucky dog?" *--*

In the morning, I struggled and struggled, I said I'm lucky, so I was not late for the test(*^__^*) , and that was the only thing I should celebrate about.
I could not believe that we were not allowed to enter the test room wearing electronic watch, hat and also our jackets. OH, MY GOD!!! It was so strict. During the test, it's OK, like a dream, and time passed quikly.

It was not finished yet, I had a interview test in 2:40 in the afternoon, so the problem came---- how can I spend these almost 3 hours?It was snowing heavily outside, I didn't want to become a snow-women after this long lunch break. So I decided to waste this 3 hours in Mcdonald's. It was really a long time that I can't imagine how time passed .Anyway, it came to my interview after a century's waiting. I think ( just in my opinion...o(∩_∩)o.....jaja~~) it was a fantastic conversation, I was relaxed, so I did my best.

Then I thought: hoho~~~I can go home, NOW!!! However, maybe that was not the right time to think about it, because it seemed that the god didn't want me to go home quikly, perhaps he just wanted me to experience more about the terrible winter in Calgary. So I kept waiting for my bus for almost 1 hour, but unfortunately no bus came. This time I totally became a pretty snow-woman. Finally, I gave up waiting for No.9 bus, instead, I chose C-Train. Even though it took
longer time, I thought I would die if I still kept waiting for the bus.

Fortunately, I got home safely. When I opened the door, I just shouted to my roommate"Hello, our snowman came back!!!" And then we bursted to a laughter. So the only thing I can think about in this moment is getting a car, but now I just have a toy car in my house......