Grace的進修雜記:)

Today is " black Friday", but I have a good news!
I will live on campus and I have to set myself some clearly defined goals.
The next step for me is to be a Teaching Assistant. (In fact, I don't want to use all of my money to pay for studying. Or ask my family to pay for me, and that's the reason for me to be a TA.)

Last term I got a surprise Award from my Oral Teacher, and last week I got this E-mail.
( My OS: It looks like that I get a surprise award. One comment from my friend: Yeah, you are doing good. Congrats!)

One of my final exam has to write 2 paragraphs about a person, place, or issue that I care about, and I have to follow those following rules:
The first paragraph should introduce my topic, the second paragraph should give details or opinion.
It has to use the following constructions correctly: (All requirements make me crazy.)

No classes - University closed yesterday.
People made a plan to have a short trip on Independence Day, but I only waited for shoot off fireworks in the night.
The fireworks is a nocturnal sight to me.

This is a 3D movie, which is made by Disney, and I saw this movie last weekend. When I had one week break, I went to see the movie.
Although I am not a little girl any more, I still enjoy seeing Disney movie with a lot of children in the theater.
Some kids were very happy to wear the 3D glasses. They questioned why those pictures can be so close to their face.

In the begining, I want to say thanks to my instructors. ~ Give you the beautiful flower to say TKS!
When I observed those classes (no matter in winter term or spring term), I didn't always focus on what the professors taught, but they gave me big picture of those classes.
It is a useful project or skill from my Understanding and Note-Taking class & Oral Communication Class.

Mango Fruit has different taste, and my favorite one is this!

雖然印象中台灣芒果的產季是六月到九月，但五月就吃的到用未熟成的青芒果作成的情人果了，不過人在海外又住學校宿舍，實在沒辦法依照食譜製作會讓人唾液無限分泌的情人果，還好我那愛心空投物資內有來自屏東枋山名產～芒果乾！上面的保存期限標示六個月，不過這幾包我應該不會吃那麼久，最多三個月我應該就吃完了。

The member of AAA can get discount of buying ticket~ one for US$16. If you don't have AAA card, then one ticket for Adult will cost you US$20.

There are 2 different building of this museum. They also have some classes for children.

I want to save some time for studying, and rice-cooker helps me a lot.
As you see the carrot and rice with some butter = my meal. It only took me less than 30 minutes.

The Internet not only makes everyday life different, but also has some advantages or disadvantages. The benefit is that people can explore the world by using a computer. In the past, the way for them to take a look of other countries was journey to other cities or read a guidebook. Nowadays, they can see pictures to virtually visit other countries around the world. Also, it was hard to buy products made in foreign countries 50 years ago. Thus, the Internet influences globalization in three ways, these are technology, business and information display.

First of all, internet technology makes communication easier than 50 years ago. Therefore, people can get information easier in this world. The Internet gives people a chance to work together. For example, several companies have their branches in foreign countries, via those technologies they can not only pass news, but also to build the database by using new technology. If readers want to find information, they would go to the website instead of visiting the library. An interesting idea from “The Internet and Globalization” Zunairah (2008) states,” The Internet technology is globally integrating and amalgamating the people of the world.” In other words, technology connects people from all over the world. Internet technology brings people closer together.

The outside lecture – Applied Optics is offered in Physics Department and it makes me open my mind. I found that is much more different from the classes in the language center. As I noticed, not only the subject is difficult, but also the types of students are different including the range of students’ age or the number of students.
First of all, this class is opening by discussing their assignment, but most of my classes in the language center would start from calling our names to make sure attendants. As a result, the way to warm up the class is more fun to me. Because it can refresh students’ mind, it may recall some memories from the last class.
Next, they don’t put their textbooks on the desk, but in the class in the language center we should bring our textbooks with us all the time.

When a pot is hot (or warm), it is time to put butter in the middle of the pot, and then start to cut those potato into stripes while waiting for the butter to be melted. About 2 minutes later, potato can be put into the pot, at this time must be very patient~ one side of those potato will become golden brown. Keep cutting onion into stripes, and then mix onion with those potato. Some people would like to put some sausage with their potato, and they can start to cut sausage into small piece while waiting for potato changing color. The key point is to keep sausage on the top, and be patient.

It tastes good with some tomato sauce.

If you want to prepare for GRE, then you need to spend time practicing those questions!

Try to remember those vocabularies when you read an article.

Outline from my teacher:
a) Explain two positive improvements in your writing that you made this term and how the class helped you make those improvements
b) Explain two areas of your writing where you still need to improve

Are you teaching them how to fish? or Do you go fishing for them?
As an Asian student, maybe the teaching style is very different from their countries.
何種教學方式比較優～就像在十字路口要搭車，看你要去哪就搭哪個方向的車！