What is Happiness

Happiness means different things to different people. For example, some people believe that if they have lots of money, they will be happy. They believe that if they are wealthy, they will be able to do anything they want, which means happiness. On the other hand, some people believe that holding a high position in the government is happiness. In this way, you have not only money, but also many other things which can't be bought by money.
However, other people believe that having lots of money is not happiness nor is holding a high position in the government. These people value their beliefs, or their intelligence, or their health. They think these can make them happy.
For me, happiness is closely tied to my studies, my family and my friends. When I do well in my study, when all the members in my family live in harmony, sharing good and sad times, and when my friends live in well, I am happy. Although the definition of happiness depends on each individual ,my "wealth" of happiness is in my studies,my family and my friends.

A beautiful town-----Fenghuang

Now I ‘ll talk about a beautiful town---Fenghuang. Fenghuang translate into phoenix in English, which represent perfection in chica, so it is a very nice name. The sight and people of the town are so good as the name.
Fenghuang, an old and small town, is located in the west of my hometown----Hunan province. It has several hundred years’ history and it still keeps its original character. The live of the town is very natural and plain and the people in the town are very friendly and warm-hearted. There isn’t big city’s noise and fright. When you live there, you will feel very comfortable and leisure.
The town is embraced by a bi mountain and a river flows along it. There are green trees and clear water, so the whole town is full of poetry and art. Every day a lot of artist come here to draw the nature. The river nurture the Fenghuang people. They wash clothes in the river and in summer they swim in the river. All the buildings of the town are located in both of the river and they are kept the old style. These buildings have more than 100 years’ history. They are made of wood and brick and most of them are called Diaojiao Building because they are built along the river and part of the building is over the river. Because all the people of the town live in both sides of the river, the main vehicle is boat. They go from one side to the other side by boat. When they are boating, they usually sing songs and say “hello” to the people they meet in the river. So when you go there, you can sit in a boat and travel long the river. You can enjoy the beautiful sight of the mountain along the river when you are listening to local people’s graceful songs which are very particular and different from pop songs we sing. The street of the town is made of stone and is very narrow. When you walk along the street, you will feel you return to the old times.
There are three races in the small town, including Tujia, Miao, Han. The population of the town is mostly Tujia and Miao which are minorities. They have particular and traditional customs. Everyone in the town likes singing songs. when you are there, you will hear songs in everywhere at any time. These songs are different from the pop songs and are made by themselves, but they are very graceful. when you listen, you will like it, they usually sing songs between mountains or between river and it mostly happens between one man and one woman. Usually, one in the one side of the mountain or river sings toward the other in the other side of the mountain or river, and the other answers the song. They use the songs to make friends and transmit emotion. Every April 8th, June 6th,
the young men and young women from different places of the town go to one place to sing songs. If one man has feeling to one woman, he will sing song to the woman, if the woman friendly answers the sing, it means she also has feeling to the man and she will make a date with the man in the songs. Their clothes are distinctive, especially embroiders, headband, ribbon, waistband.
Their local products are: bacon, ginger sugar, green tea, samshu. Their food is acid and spicy and I like this kind food very much.
Fenghuang is such a magic and interesting place and every year, millions travelers from different places go there to enjoy the beautiful sight and its original customs. It is regretfully, I haven’t gone there, I’ll have a trip there when I go back to China.

A Surprise Test

After 9 days’ spring break, we returned to regular study. This Monday, I came across a big surprise in economics class. When I got to the classroom, I saw an unknown teacher standing in the front of the classroom and just several students in the classroom, I thought the last class hadn’t been over, so I decided to wait for a minute out of the classroom. However, after a while nobody came out from the classroom and other students came into the classroom. I was very strange and also came into the classroom. It was so surprise that the teacher was giving out paper and the girl who has been sitting beside me from the beginning of this term sat there. I immediately thought of that on Saturday evening when I was checking my emails, there were several emails in which some classmates asked about if there would be a test on economic class on Monday. Because I didn’t hear the teacher said we would have a test on Monday, I didn’t pay attention to it and also didn’t review the notebook and textbook. So I immediately put down my bag and went to take a paper from the teacher. When I got the paper, I immediately had a glance at the paper. After glancing my heart fell down because I couldn’t remember the knowledge about these questions after such a long break. There were three questions and I just could do two questions and was not sure that the answer was right. In the test many students said they hadn’t known there would be a test on Monday and were very angry why had the teacher not told us and also were very strange why the teacher didn’t came to the class. The professor of the economics is really not very responsible that he has just taught us several diagrams from the beginning of the term to now and he has a very heavy accent, even native students couldn’t understood what he says. Even unfortunately he said there would be three tests this term and every test would cover one of three. I did so bad in this test and I am very worried it would affect my total grade.

A Food Show

Today is Thursday and the Spring Break is going to be over. I planed to go to Washington D.C with my friend on Wendesday,but it was very cold and snowed, so we didn't go there. These days I just stayed at home except weekend and Tuesday. On Tuesday the boss of the restaurant that I do part-time job on weekends asked me and my friend to join a international restaurant show which was hold in Mahanttan. His reastaurant had several stalls to show their foods which are mainly Chinese food, such as sui-mai, pork bun, custard bun,vegetable bun, lotus dumpling, pork dumpling, shrimp dumpling,spring roll, and so on. These food were made by hand and were very delicious.
The show was began at 10:00, but we had to prepare the food, so we set out at 7:30 am and I got up 7:00 am, it was so early for me. It took us for us about one and half hour to drive there. When we got there, we immediately washed steam box , cooker, pan, put food on the table, steam buns and sui-mai, fry dumplings and rolls. when everything is prepared, the customer were coming. We friendly asked them to try our food and introduce our food. After they tried, they all said our food were very delicious and many of them left their contact information which means they may order our food in future.
The show was very great and there were a lot of kinds food from different places. There were cookie, ice cream, dessert , break, cake, candy, drink, wine, noodle, rice, and so on. You could try any food and some company sent present to you. Because there were 4 employees working for the boss, the boss permit two of us to go to other stalls to try food every time. The kinds of the food were so many that I didn't know what to taste. There were many food that I hadn't tasted, so when I saw I tried. Every time we returned with a lot of food in hand and enjoy them slowly. I especially liked one kind of ice cream which I hadn't taste and was very delicious. After I ate up, I went to have another one the next time.That day I had a lot of food and was very full.
The show ended at 4:00 pm. we put away all things and drove home. Although I was a little tired, I felt very happy because I tasted a lot of delicious food and practise my English.

A Busy Week

This week is so busy!! Firstly we had midterm in this week , so I had to prepare for it. I had the business law exam on Monday. Before the exam, I asked the professor about the form of the exam and she said it just included 50 choices. When I heard these, I felt very relaxed, because I am afraid to do question that need to write a lot. I reviewed all the notes in home on Saturday and Sunday, so I do very smoothly in the exam. On Friday I had a exam of philosophy which is very difficult for me. It is very abstract and I can’t understand it very much. Even though I can understand the words of the professor, I can’t write down all the notes. I just had a little notes and I was very afraid to it. I also didn’t know how to prepare for it. I just reviewed the notes that I had and went to take the exam on Friday. It included four questions for us to answer. When I saw the question, I was confused. I wrote down whatever in my mind and I thought it was very terrible.
Secondly, I was looking for an apartment to move in. I was living in a house with a Chinese family. I felt it was not very free to live in other’s house and I wanted to live in an apartment with friends. So I went to the website to look for the apartment last Sunday I found one which is located in 71 AV,163 ST. It includes 3 bedrooms, 1 living room, 2 bathrooms, 1 kitchen and the environment is very good, so I decided to rent it with my friends Pan and Sheng. We called the landlord to asked about the price of the apartment and made an appointment with him to look at it on Monday. On Monday morning we went to look at it and all thought it was good, so we agreed to rent it and gave the deposit to the landlord .Because there isn’t any furniture in the house, so we had to buy some. On Wednesday we went to Flushing to buy furniture .we booked two beds, one TV table, one coffee table ,one sofa and one desk and they will be delivered to the house on Sunday. Everything was done and we will move into the house next week. I am very exited that I will have a comfort room and live with friends. We can invite friends to our house to have parties after we move into it. Welcome all of you to our house!