Long Island

Long Island is my favourate place in the U.S. I visited there the second day I came to this country. A couple who are my parents' friends invited us to their house. It was a nice and attractive place. In that city, every house has a large backyard which is 2-5 acres. The environment there is very nice as well. A beautiful beach is right besides their house and even a part of natural forest is in that neighborhood.

I went there with my parents last Sunday. We wanted to buy a new car from a LEXUS dealer there. Our current car is a Honda 2004 Accord which I don't like that much. Acctually, I prefer SAV to Sadens. There was a 2005 Lexus RX330 SAV which we all like. Then we reach the agreement to byu it and trade in our old one. Even though I didn't like our current car, I kind of felt sad when we sold it. The new car will not be available until this Thursday. I am very looking forward to drive it.

Appointment

I saw my advisor this Friday and talked about my courses in summer. It turned out to only 12 credits in summer semesters. But it is fine, I can still get more than a month to enjoy my summer vacation. My advisor suggested an advanced Theology class for me in fall, but I refused without thought. I am really sick of it. Then he told me that I have to take 9 Theology credits before my graduation. Oh my God, what am I gonna do? Even though I don't believe in God and Jesus, at least I respect the Christians and Catholics. However I am not sure that I can still be cool with them after the religion drives me crazy.

In that afternoon, I finally have the opportunity for playing pool again after 3 months. It was in a bar of Orlando downtown the last time I played it. I used to learn playing pool from my father when I was only 8. I can still remember there was a wonderful pool table in our Czech house. And I practised everyday after school. After I went back to China, I only got several chances to play it, and most of my friends did not play it well. But some of my friends here play really good. Finally I get some friends who have the same hobby with me.

Little Things

My sleep did bother me a lot. I had more than 9 hours sleep everyday lately. Although I didn't feel exhausted at all before I went ot bed, I just could not wake up on time. Due to this, I decided to make a alarm clock myself. I had 3 clocks before, but all of them were broke by myself when it was alarming. I admit that I have a bad temper when my fast sleep was suddenly interrupted by something. Therefore, none of the 3 clocks can survive for more than a month.

But this time, I dicide to make my laptop to be my alarm clock. It is too expensive so I don't dare to treat it the way that I treat to my former clock. I usually keep my computer on day and night to download movies and PC games. So I can make a schedule task on my computer to turn on my music player program when I want to be waked up. And it worked this morning. I was waked up by my favorate music and I can even change the music everyday. I think I can have a good start everyday from now on.

It is cool, isn't it?

Experience in Hospital

It was really a terrible, horrible week. A respectable old man just past away, my mon received a little operation on her leg, and what is worst, my father was cut by the edge of radiator when he fell down on the floor. There was a long wound on his hand and the blood was welling severely.

We immediately went to NY hospital Queens which is very close to our house. It took a long time before my father got treated because they have to fill up many forms. This is my first time in American hospital and I remember things never happend like this in China. They don't treat the patient at once instead they fill up some stupid forms at first.

After that, we had a friendly jewish doctor. Even though his accent made his word very difficult to be understood, he was really warmhearted. He was very skillful and tied the wound up very gently.

Besides, I have a lot of assignment to be done this weekend. What a dreadful week.

The next four days

More than half part of the spring break have past, and I found that I have a lot of work, including a 5-pages paper, a 400-words message, a handout of the workshop and an essay, to do in the next four days. My break is over now.

Because of the snow yesterday, we cancelled our skiing plan in NJ. I don't like driving in snow and a lot of people don't trust my driving skill in snow. So I just stayed at home and watch TV for a whole day. It really really sucks, and it is totally a waste of time.

I just got only one of my six midterm grades. It is a "A" of my Philosophy grade. Fortunately, my whole weekend which was spent on working on my paper was not waste. This is the first "A" in my American university experience, and it feels good.

I have to register my summer classes after this break. All of my Chinese friends decide to return China instead of studying in summer. I want to go back as well and I admire them so much. But I want to graduate earlier and I hope to transfer to NYU before graduation. Therefore, I have to study in summer semester alone and go back to China in winter.

"As long as you want to obtain more , you have to sacrifice more." that was what my grandpa told me before.

Photos in D.C

A Visit of Washington D.C

Finally, I have time to play in the lovely spring break. I planed to have a visit to D.C in spring break two weeks ago, and I made it this week. After a 5 hours trip in bus, I arrived in D.C at 1 PM this Monday. It is totally different from NYC. No rushing crowd in the street, no skyscrapers, no dirty metro stations, D.C is a more civilized city in my impression. As the capital of the U.S, D.C is not very cosmopolitan but polite. Walking in the street of D.C, you will get a peaceful feeling. All the buildings there are stately and clean like old British gentlemen, all the metro stations are the same-looking, neat and ordered. Everybody stay on the right side when they are on the escalator, so the people who are in a rush can pass them easily.

There is a wide plaza between Congress Building and Washington Monument. The plaza is surrounded by many museums such as Natural History and Space Air. All of them are free to visitors. Due to the terrible windy weather, I just visited only 2 of them, and both of which are interesting.

In the second day, I went to White House and Union Station. I have to say that White House is not very attractive, maybe that is because I am not interested in polity or Bush. Union Station is a great place and it remind me of Grand Central where I just visited weeks ago. Both of them are great stations and have a long history. I kind of think that Union Station is a little more elegant than Grand Central, although I like them equally.