I have gone to Scozzi Pizza for lunch over 200 times. I still remember the first day I went to scozzi. It is a day in September, 2007. I it was the first day I came to Newman school. It is a sunny day. Everything was new to me and attracted me. I lived in a home-stay and I had two housemates who have already studied in Newman for half a year. So, they knew a lot about the school like where I can have my lunch.
As a new student to the school, I had my entrance test and a tour to the entire school. Time past really fast when you are keeping understand or remember everything around you. Just like this, the sun rose to the top of my head and it was to eat my first lunch in Newman School! At first, I though that the school might have a place to order some food as what I had seen on the TV in China. However, later I found out that the school not only does not sell any food but also dose not have a place with tables for eating.
Fortunately, I had two housemates with. They told that they will help my find a place to eat my lunch. Therefore, I just simply followed them. I even did not know where I was when I was walking. After walking for about 5 minutes, we arrive at a busy street where later I knew that is the famous New Bury Street. Then we stepped down a stair and went into a restaurant. I still simply ordered what they ordered which were two slices of “special pizza” and one bottle of ice tea. Even I tried hard to remember what kind of pizza which I ordered, but nothing comes to my mind, but I am sure that the pizza tasted really delicious at that time. The way American people eat pizza also attracted me. I used fox and knife to eat pizza when was in a Chinese restaurant. People here just used their hands. People also like to eat food outside the restaurant near the street which Chinese people rarely do like this. After us finishing the pizza, we need to throw the paper plates into the trash can by ourselves. This job is always done by the waiter in China. Everything is new to me and quiet different from that in China.
Since the first time I went to Scozzi, about two years have past. Approximately, I have been there over 200 times. The pizza in Scozzi no longer attracts me. It becomes a simple food which has no difference form the food I ate in China for lunch.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Compare and Contrust Outline
Geography between Europe and North America
Point-by-point organization
Thesis Statement: We are living in a global environment which every thing is partly difference and partly similar between each other.
Topic sentence: The economy in North America and Europe is similar on its global view and different on its background
Supporting details:
1. Both economy are deeply and thoroughly interact within the global economy.
2. the import and export policy and Europe economy is a composition of many small countries which differ from the form of North America
Topic sentence: The culture in North America and Europe is similar on the origin and different on its modern time development.
Supporting details:
1. As we all know America is an immigration country which was originally found by European emigration.
2. After the independence of the North America in the modern history these two area had become more and more different on its accent, habit and belief.
Topic sentence: The environment in North America and Europe is similar on the pollution of the industrial development and different on their action towards protecting environment.
Supporting details:
1. Both areas experienced the war time and share the same environmental issues which commonly appear in the developing countries.
2. However, the actions for changing and protecting current environment are different form which Europe is more active and North America is the opposite.
Conclusion: As we step into the twenty-first century, we all live in a world which globalization is inevitable.
Cause and Effect Outline
Thesis Statement: Go to bed late at night leads to the failure of the course.
Topic Sentence:
College students usually get up late and skip their breakfast.
Supporting details:
1. Students go to bars and get drunk there, and they joking and playing games late in the night
2. Students have too much homework and study late in the night
Topic Sentence:
Without eating anything students will have a very weary behavior and inefficient class.
Supporting details:
1.As scientists saying, although brain is only a small part of our body, it consumes a large amount of body energy.
2. Students’ bodies are not able to provide enough energy due to the empty stomach.
Topic Sentence:
Missing the important information in the class make us poor effort
Supporting details:
1. Students could not learn the important knowledge in the class.
2. Students will feel really sleepy and could not concentrate to the lecture.
Topic Sentence:
Poor effort and low grade lead to the fail of the course.
Supporting details:
1. Students can not review before the exam form their in-class notes.
2. Can not do well in the homework or exams because of poor knowledge.
Topic Sentence:
College students usually get up late and skip their breakfast.
Supporting details:
1. Students go to bars and get drunk there, and they joking and playing games late in the night
2. Students have too much homework and study late in the night
Topic Sentence:
Without eating anything students will have a very weary behavior and inefficient class.
Supporting details:
1.As scientists saying, although brain is only a small part of our body, it consumes a large amount of body energy.
2. Students’ bodies are not able to provide enough energy due to the empty stomach.
Topic Sentence:
Missing the important information in the class make us poor effort
Supporting details:
1. Students could not learn the important knowledge in the class.
2. Students will feel really sleepy and could not concentrate to the lecture.
Topic Sentence:
Poor effort and low grade lead to the fail of the course.
Supporting details:
1. Students can not review before the exam form their in-class notes.
2. Can not do well in the homework or exams because of poor knowledge.
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Never Regret
In our lives, we have to make a decision before we do anything; we make all kinds of decisions. It can be as small as whether move a little bit or as big as whom do you want to marry. However, sometimes we can not predict what will happen and the result caused by our decision. But let us think carefully before we make a decision and never regret after we make the decision.
The thing happened when I was in second grade in primary school about 8 year old. On my mother’s birthday party, my mother’s sister gave my mother a violin toy as present. After the party, I kept playing with that violin toy all the time and never let it go out of my sight. Then mother asked me if I want to play the real violin. As curious and naive, I immediately agreed, and I dreamed that one day I could stand on the stage as other violinists. Since then, I started my music life. My mother found a violin teacher and I had class at his home once a week. At first, everything was fantastic. He taught me how to hold the violin and the bow in the right position, how to read and write the stave and I did not have too much homework to do.
However, as the order of the nature, the deeper I learned, the harder it was. The practice of a single piece becomes really boring. As a child, I had no difference with others who long for playing. I began to be sick of playing violin and my violin dream no longer exists at all. What was worse, when I did not well play a homework piece, my teacher would use his bow to hit my leg as punishment. At that age, I did not know that a teacher should not use any body injury ways as a punishment. But it was a kind of Chinese traditional way of punishment. I had this kind of class for about one year. Finally, one day, during the class, after the punishment of not doing any homework, I broke down. I broke my bow with the greatest anger I had ever experienced. I made this decision. I gave up.
I just simply felt so happy that I did not need to practice violin any more. I was too young to consider more deep as later I did. After many years, I was about fifteen years old when I was in 8th grade. Our school staged a New Year celebration. There was one show that a student playing a beautiful, gorgeous and fantastic violin piece. Maybe he was not that professional, but in my eyes, he was and he aroused not only my childhood memory with the violin but also my feeling, the feeling about regret. I did not tell my mother anything about it and there was no need. Deeply in my heart, I knew that there was something which I would never get the second chance to do.
I gave up practicing violin. No matter whose fault was. I was the person who made the decision. I understood how important was making a decision and I made a decision that I would never regret of any decisions and I thought carefully before I made this decision.
The thing happened when I was in second grade in primary school about 8 year old. On my mother’s birthday party, my mother’s sister gave my mother a violin toy as present. After the party, I kept playing with that violin toy all the time and never let it go out of my sight. Then mother asked me if I want to play the real violin. As curious and naive, I immediately agreed, and I dreamed that one day I could stand on the stage as other violinists. Since then, I started my music life. My mother found a violin teacher and I had class at his home once a week. At first, everything was fantastic. He taught me how to hold the violin and the bow in the right position, how to read and write the stave and I did not have too much homework to do.
However, as the order of the nature, the deeper I learned, the harder it was. The practice of a single piece becomes really boring. As a child, I had no difference with others who long for playing. I began to be sick of playing violin and my violin dream no longer exists at all. What was worse, when I did not well play a homework piece, my teacher would use his bow to hit my leg as punishment. At that age, I did not know that a teacher should not use any body injury ways as a punishment. But it was a kind of Chinese traditional way of punishment. I had this kind of class for about one year. Finally, one day, during the class, after the punishment of not doing any homework, I broke down. I broke my bow with the greatest anger I had ever experienced. I made this decision. I gave up.
I just simply felt so happy that I did not need to practice violin any more. I was too young to consider more deep as later I did. After many years, I was about fifteen years old when I was in 8th grade. Our school staged a New Year celebration. There was one show that a student playing a beautiful, gorgeous and fantastic violin piece. Maybe he was not that professional, but in my eyes, he was and he aroused not only my childhood memory with the violin but also my feeling, the feeling about regret. I did not tell my mother anything about it and there was no need. Deeply in my heart, I knew that there was something which I would never get the second chance to do.
I gave up practicing violin. No matter whose fault was. I was the person who made the decision. I understood how important was making a decision and I made a decision that I would never regret of any decisions and I thought carefully before I made this decision.
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