Thankful things of this year ~ Journal # 27

Thanksgiving Day is one of the most important day in America.
People are happy and exciting to enjoy their turkey and their time at that day.
To some of region students maybe that is not a big day to them, especially me.
But I still have some thankful things I want to thank in this year, my parents, my friends, and my ALP teachers.
Thanks my parents, my parents give me a chance to go to America for study, they pay all of the costs including tuition, bills, and incidental. And I know working is hard that my parents have to work harder to pay my costs. So I want to thanks them do these for me.
Thanks my friends, in America, friends is kind of important to me, cause it is different to get help without any relatives here and I do not have car here too. So my friends help me a lot not just take me to buy food they also invite me and take me to go out have fun. If I my friends were not help me that I will be alone and can go to anywhere.
Thanks my ALP teachers, study in America Language Program is useful to me to improve my English. Because all my teachers do their best to teach us can learn and know more English stuffs. So thanks them try to teach hard and push us to use English better.
Although I do have delicious turkey dinner at this year's Thanksgiving Day, but I still have good lobster lunch with my friend in Boston. And the most eventful thing is how I appreciate about my parents, friends, and teachers.

The fish dish of Chinese ~ Journal # 26

Why Chinese cook fish and eat fish

Fish is a greater delicacy than meat and poultry in Chinese food. The cooking of fish is also a more delicate matter.

The charm of Chinese seafood is the way in which vegetables are combined with it to make more of the fish itself. Each is independent of the other, yet each depends on the other for the excellence of the dish. While westerners rarely, if ever, cook fish and vegetables together, the Chinese, for the most part, do just that. There are almost as many ways of cooking fish as there are ways of cooking. Fish is even eaten raw, for which salmon and cod are good.
Fish from the sea is much used along the coastal provinces of China but fresh-water fish plays a much greater part in Chinese cooking than in the west. The Chinese ways of cooking probably make it so. Restaurants and even households often buy live fish and keep them swimming in tanks until needed for use. For celebrations and parties the Chinese serve fish whole.

A headless, tailless fish is considered incomplete and unaesthetic. There is a practical reason for leaving the fish intact: fewer juice escape during the cooking process. Of sea fish, bluefish, whitefish, flounder, cod, salmon, bass, and fresh sardine can make good Chinese dishes. Shad and mullet are partly sea and partly river fish. Shad is a great delicacy in China. Of fresh-water fish, carp and buffalo carp are the most important in Chinese fish dishes.

How to cook fish

There are two ways of cooking fish plain in China, steaming and simmering which are both a good choice from a nutritional point of view because unlike frying, they do not increase the fat content. It does not matter you can just taste one flavor in one fish, you can choose any seasoning and put it into you plate when you cook.

• Steaming Fish

1. Put the fish placed in a plate with seasoning and very small amount of water.


2. Put the dish placed on a rack in a wok with boiling water.


3. To use the aluminum steamers if you are concerned that boiling water in the wok will remove your hard-earned seasoning.

• Simmering Fish-Shad, bass, pike, and mullet and plaice are suitable for clear-simmering.

1. Put the fish together with the small amount of liquid seasoning directly into the pot.


2. Bring to boiling over high heat and reduce heat to simmer as soon as boiling starts.


3. Never let boiling continue hard or it will ruin the fish.

The Night Visitor ~ Journal # 24

A man living with his parents called David. They living in a bad house with not so nice neighborhood. The house was so bad that need to be repair, also the windows and doors are can not locked properly. David talk to his mom he can not sleep well at every night, because he always hears some "scratching" noises in his bedroom. His mom thought that was some animals to make these noises like rats or cats, but his mom check his room and find no any animals in his room. One day at the sleep time, he hears the "scratching" noises again, but this time he decided to ignore it and fell asleep.
He does not know how long he had been asleep when he sat up his bed, then crying out and using his hands to flying his back. He had been bitten in his middle part of his back while he sleep. He feels weird so that he decided to tells his dad. His dad check David's back and find out the spot did not look like a bit. So they went back to David's bedroom and inspected David's bed. They found a hole through the fitted sheet and some of the mattress stuffing. They though that was the spring come through the bed, so that David's dad flipped dowe to check the box spring.
What he found was a long knife stuck in the mattress, and pointing upwards. He also found some mud under the bed. The imprint exact like a person. So they checking outside of the window immediately then found some fresh footpoint away from David's bedroom. Someone had slipped into David's from the window which was unlucked and the person was lain under the bed. The "scratching" noises was the person using the long knife to dig the box spring and mattress to kill him.