Al Gore and his film

This Thursday and Friday, we watched a film called " An Inconvenient Truth". Actually, it is a popular film. In 2006, Al Gore starred in the Academy Award-winniung documentary film, An Inconvenient Truth, which discussed global warming and the environment. Of course, the film won the 2007 Academy Award for Documentary Feature. It is certain that Al Gore won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Wow, so lucky!! I believe that all of us learn a lot of information about global warming and environment according to watching this film. In the film, he answered 5 "w" questions and one " how" question. Actually, discussing an academic topic is boring, however, Al Gore talked about this topic lively. He was funny. I believe that all audiences, who were watching the film, were fully absorbed in the film. The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. So everyone has the responsibility for protecting our environment. You can imagine, how can we live if the environmental system is destroyed?

After watching the film, I searched much information about Al Gore on the Internet. Al Gore was the forty-fifth Vice President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. He is not only a politican but also an environmental activist. In the past, he focused on his political career. Now, his job is promoting environmental awareness. However, somebody asked him if or not he will participate as a candidate in the 2008 presidental election. He did not answer this question, so the possibility is not rejected.

I think, environmental crisis, which was put forward by Al Gore, will be paid great attention to by people in the world. If everyone makes a voluntary action to protect environment, the threat of environmental crisis would be alleviated.

My Friday

So sad, so sad!! This Friday, I was absent from school because I got sick. This was my first time I have been absent since I studied English in EAP. This Thursday, I helped one of my workmates work because she went to Vancouver. I am such a nice person. Since I need to work on Thursday, I finished my Annotated Bibliography on Wednesday evening. After school, I really do not want to go to work, but I promised her that I would help her work. Therefore, I still went there. Unfortunately, there was a concert near our store ( By the way, I work in Jugo Juice of student centre). So we were so busy that night. I worked for 6 hours. When I got home, it was almost 11 o'clock. Actually, I never worked over 5 hours. It was challenge for me. You know, concert usually makes a big noise. When I made juice, I need to have a big voice to call customers in order that they can hear me to pick up juice. I really felt tired. As soon as I got home, I went to bed. In the morning, my aunt woke me up. After I got up, I felt headache, and I got a sore throat. I told my aunt, my aunt let me take some medicine. Then I go back to my bed. Later, my aunt came to my bedroom, she said:" You must gave your teacher a call or send an e-mail to your teacher if you cannot go to school." It was very hard for me to get up again. However, I still got up and sent e-mails to Scott and Sandi. After that, I went back to my bed. I kept sleeping until 12 o'clock. I felt a little bit better. I checked my e-mail. Even though I lost much information about knowledge that day, I still learned a little bit from Scott's email reply. In my email, I said:"Can I ask for sick leave?" You guys know what I mean, however, "sick leave" refers to major illnesses that take weeks to recover from. If someone needs one day off, that person cannot say "ask for sick leave". I should thank Scott to tell me that. I believe that I will not have the same mistake next time.

I got a good rest on Friday and Saturday, I really feel better now. Thank goodness!!!

Halloween Day

Halloween was in the school.
Wednesday was Halloween Day. Since I have been here, it was my first Halloween Day in Canada. This Monday and Tuesday, Sandi told us a lot of information about Halloween including the history of Halloween, Jack-O-Latern, Trick-or-Treating and so on. This Wednesday, in the class, Scott got some Halloween games for studying and gave us Halloween oranges. Wow, it was awesome!!! Now, I like this word "awesome" which is usually spoken by Scott. Now, I like to say this word to somebody who does good job. Sounds good~~~~Right? In the listening/speaking class, Sandi brought many costume, candies and chips, as well as a big pumpkim. Sandi wore a pretty costume, like a pumpkim. Some students tried on the costume. Wow. it is funny. Some students told us the horrrible stories. Also, Lisbeth gave each of us a bag of candies. It tastes yummy!!!

Halloween was in my house.
Actually, my uncle bought costume including hats and clothes. Before that night, we had a good plan. My uncle and aunt stayed at home for handing out candies, and my big cousin, small cousin and I went Trick-or-Treating. My big cousin even told me that she wanted to dress herself as a witch. However, what a pity. I had to work. So I can not join them. Actually, after school, I really did not want to go to work. But I promised my boss that I would go to work that night. So sad!!! After work, I got home at almost 12 o'clock. They had slept. I saw tons of candies on the table. That must be their harvest, I thought. Good job. I picked out some of them and ate. Yummmy, yummy. I ate such sweet candies that I can not sleep that night. So sad!!

Even though I did not enjoy the first Halloween Day, I ate the sweet candies, I felt so sweet in my heart. Next Halloween Day, I will enjoy it. Hope that everyone has Happy Halloween Day~~~~ every year.

Sad for pop reading quiz and second major essay

Yesterday, we had pop reading quiz. Unfortunately, I had seen the back of the last page until the last two minutes. I had no time to finish that, which made me so sad. My goodness. It reminds me that I should check how many pages first, then do it in the exams.

So sad, I just got 78% about my second major essay. I tried my best to do it, but I did not get above 86%. Actually, I really do not want to exam effective writing after I go to university. From the beginning of this semester, I always focus on my writing, I wish I could improve my writing above 86%. On the writing class of Thursday, I looked some essays from my classmates who got higher marks and who got lower marks. I found that somebody who got higher marks ususally had perfect organizaiton and grammar. For me, I wrote too much information which made organizaiton unclear. Hence, when I wrote my essay on mid-term examination, I focused on organzation which made readers easier to catch information. Guys, writing is really important for your university. In the university, you guys should hand in many homework, like lab report, if you guys write perfectly, it is easier for professors to understand. Maybe you can get higher marks. In EAP programme, it is a good chance for us to improve our writing because it is the basis of our reports of univesity. If we do not get higher marks, we should really pay attention to writing. The most important thing is that we should find the reason why we can not get our satisfactory marks. Next essay, we can correct our errors so as to improve it. Good for us.

From today, we have mid-term examination, good luck to everybody.

Mad

Mad, mad, mad~~~~~~~ everything makes me mad. These day, I am mad. On Monday, there was something wrong with my computer because I cannot print anything. So I had to save my homework----Speaking Journal in my USB, then transfered it to my uncle's computer, and printed it. Until now, I have not yet had time for repairing it. Secondly, these days, I am trying to register my courses, but I cannot register my math course 249. On Tuesday morning, I went to Admission Office to check the reason, they told me that I did not get 70% for math in high school. At that time, it drove me mad. Actually, I do not understand how they evaluated my grades, why is it so low? I do not believe that. Mad. On Wednesday afternoon, I went to math science for getting some solvable methods. That guy told me that nobody can evaluate the grades again and change it, so I must attend a diagnostic test and pass it, then I could take that course. So sad. Actually, I attended the math course 249 when I did my first attending the lecture, I found that it was not difficult, it is even easier for me. Thirdly, I do not know when I can transfer into business because the requirements in business are so high, I am afaid of that. Mad. I really want to study accounting in business. So mad. Actually, now, the most important thing for me is that I should study harder in English because English plays the most important role in taking professional courses, we can say that English is the basis of understanding professional courses.

Mad. I told my parents these stuff, they told me that nobody can predict what happen in the future, I must work hard on everything now. When this semester starts, I am always absorbed in my English study. However, this week, I really did not want to go over my study because of bad mood. This weekend, I will readjust my mood for my study.

Thanksgiving day & Heritage Park

Today is Thanksgiving Day. Since I have been Canada, this is the first Thanksgiving Day I celebrate. When I was in China, I had heard the famous traditional festival---Thanksgiving Day. And I have known that Canada celebrates Thanksgiving Day on the second Monday in October, but the United States celebrates the holiday on the fourth Thursday of November. So we have a three-day weekend, and we do not have too much homework. How happy it is!!! We can enjoy the long weekend. In the morning, my aunt said we should have some activities on the special day. So my big cousin suggested to go to Heritage Park where it has many antiques. Hence, we five ( my uncle, aunt, and my two cousines and I) went to the Heritage Park in the afernoon.

Actually, Heritage Park is like a peaceful village, no noise, and it has big lawns, beautiful sea. When seeing these stuff, everyone could feel comfortable. We saw many antiques such as ship, train, and houses, we even saw chickens and geese which were playing happily. well, we took two horses drawn wagon-ride. Wow, the two white horses look so strong. The driver, Bob told us that they have been Calgary for 15 years from England, such a long time. I thought they should miss their hometown very much, like me. Even if I have been Calgary for 9 months, I always miss my family members, my friends, food and everything in my hometown. I all the way think that animals have strong emotions as humans. Anyway, it took us about 20 minutes on enjoying two horses drawn wagon-ride, as well as enjoying the "village" scenes. Then we took the old train. This kind of old train I saw in the movie. Today, I saw a real one and took it. How exciting!! You guys could see the picture on the top of my this blog. It is not very too long, but so heavy. When working, we can see the smog coming out from the train. When I saw the train, I felt that I came back many many years ago, hahahahaha. After that, we took the SS Moyie ship, it is not very big, it just has two floors. Upon boarding, my big cousin and I went directly to the second floor because we standed higher, we could see further. I felt that the sky and the sea was connected together. Wow, wow, I could not believe. Such a good day, we were close to the nature.

Actually, Thanksgiving meals feature turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes and pumpkim pie, but we do not have enough time to prepare them, what a pity. So, before coming home, we just bought turkey from Superstore. I wish that I could have a real Thanksgiving Day next year, like the Thanksgiving Day in the movie. Cheer~~~~

Calaway Park

Usually,when September comes, the leaves turn more and more yellow, then they drop to the ground, finally trees become bald men. It predicts that winter will come. I believe that everyone in Canada likes summer in which we can have a lot of fun, such as camping, picnic, travel, and so on. During this summer holiday, I went to Baff with my uncle, aunt, and my two cousines, and we went outside for barbecue and picnic. How happy it is. I believe many people have a lot of activities in summer holiday. However, as September came, we did not go anywhere because of bad weather. The lucky thing was that the weather was fine today because it had a lot of sunshine. Maybe people have not a chance to enjoy sunshine any more until next summer. So many people treasure the good weather to go outside for fun including us. As a result, my uncle decided to take us to Calaway Park, but my aunt could not go there because she had to work. What a pity!!!!

Actually, Calaway Park is an amusement park. And the park features a variety of rides. This was my first time to go to Calaway Park when I have been Calgary. So I tried every ride in the park except for childish rides. What fun!! Both my big cousin and I like thrill, we tries thrill rides first. When we reached the areas of thrill rides, we heard the screaming here and there from people who were riding thrill rides. My favorite thrill ride was Roller Coaster which did not make us scared, on the contrary, it made us excited. So we rode it twice. My uncle said that we were two crazy girls. My another favorite was Boat Ride which made us become us dripping from head to legs. How exciting it is!! There were many rides which cannot be called English names by me, I can just call the Chinese names. So I had to ask my big cousine, I cannot remember most of names, I can just remember some names which are easier to remember, such as Biplane, Storm ride and Chaos. But it does not matter, geting a lot of fun is the most important, isn't it?

Next summer, I want to Calaway Park again. Yahoo!!!!