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.

The Fire ~ Journal # 22

Fire, the important natural element, which can light everything, using on cook, or something else. It gives human a lot of benefits, but it also has disadvantage to human.
While I see the news on TV which is talking about the ubiquitous fire in south California.
Everything looks so terrible and scary, houses and trees was gone, only remained some black ,broken remnants. The sky was be tinged by blue, dark, or yellow.
As I know recently, it was already 2 people dead on it.
So the negative part of fire is it can kills people and burns anything.
If I find a fire that is toward, I will feel it should not be toward anymore, yet it will burning anywhere more and more then become a big urgent problem.
So I will try my best to extinguish the fire before it get growing and diffusing.
The worse problem, the fire of south California,can be contrnl right now.
Fortunate that no too many people died in the fire, so now everybody knows we have to be careful when we want to use fire.

The Management Of Using Time~ Journal # 21

Know how to use time very effectively is very important to master,and learn how to use time and let it become one part of you skill when you are still a college student or university student.

Here are several techniques can more easy to manage your time, use watch, use notebook, or make a good friend.

First, watch is one of useful creature in this world. The function of Watch is remind the time.

One of the method to manage your time is use watch, while you use watch you would not forget about what time it is right now, that you will not miss some important meeting, date, or appointment.

Second, have a mini-notebook is helpful to your schedule, it is not necessary big or heavy.

Carry a notebook is very complex or not useful to some of students, but they do not know maybe use a mini-notebook is a good technique to manage your schedule. Write note or memo on your notebook and bringing it with you everyday. That you will follow your schedule easily.

Third, make a good friend who you most like to hang-out and to believe.

Friend is somebody who can stay beside you while your family is not stay beside you. Especially make a good friend is can remind you to do something which is important or urgent. Find a friend you are very trust about him or her, and hang-out with him or her often. Even you forget you plan or things, he or she can tells you very quickly.

So, those techniques what I am talk about are very effectively to control your time. Also remember those techniques can easy help you how to manage your time. Do not waste your time easily, because time is money.

My favorite Holiday ~ Journal # 20

My favorite holiday is Chinese New Year.
Chinese New Year is the most important gala in Taiwan.
In that period,we always do some traditional things and do some interesting pastime.
At the first day of Chinese New Year, every member of our big family will comes back to my grandmother's house.
And we can meet relative who we don't meet often.
Then we we will have a dinner together and talk about what they have done at last year.
But the most exciting moment is when adults give children red envelopes.
Because we don't know in the red envelope will how much money in there.
After got red envelopes, my cousins will suggest how about do some thing fun.
Next, we will gambling use our money from our red envelopes.
I am enjoyful my Chinese New Year in every year.
Also I am happy about I can see our big family can get together at that period.
So the Chinese New Year is my favorite holiday!

The Halloween ~ Journal # 19

The Halloween to me doesn't have any meaning before when I still live in Taiwan.
But live in America, the Halloween is kind of a speacil event to me.
The Halloween is the one of the most speacil holiday in U.S.A.
A lot of people will wear costume at that day.
They are always cute, scare, or funny when they wear costume.
To children, the Halloween is a fun day, because they can have fun from ask candies.
You can image how lovely when they stand infront of you and say "trick or treat?!"
To teenager, the Halloween is a carzy day, because they can go to a lot of Halloween party.
And drank a lot of soda or alcohol and make more friends.
So the Halloween doesn't mysterious anymore to everyone.
I hope I can have some thing fun at this Halloween.