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Academic Writing Reflection

How time flies! Today is the last class for the program. My writing ability has improved in the past month. The first assignment is quite simple than the last one. After training in class and out class, I prefer to use more vocabulary to describe my thoughts. And I love padlet! It’s a good website that I can keep diary on it. Never mind the grammatical and vocabulary, just need to express my real feelings. I think I will use this website to further study. I always feel afraid to write in English, but I’ve changed now. It’s fun to write in English! After training, I can write more things in my padlet. Also, the feedback from Jill is also inspired me! I totally agree what you said in the feedback. I will revise my paper and make it better. I think it is hard to say I have improved in some specific errors in my writing. But I think it has changed. I think power writing #3 best. Because when I write it, I feel that I am very happiness. My parents always hold my back. In future, I will better use the sources Jill provided. I think they are very useful for me to learn English. In conclusion, I hope this is a new starting point for me to learn English. Maybe one day, I’ll become a better English speaker and writer.

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How do you think people communicated before the telephone and internet were invented ?

There are a lot of ways for people who lives in the past to communicate. Usually, the telephone and internet is used to communicate for people stay in long distance. However, people in the past would rather stayed at home than went far way from home. In community, they can talk with each other face to face. It’s not far for them to talk. Second, they could communicate by mail. The mailman has been appeared for a long time. People can write down what they want to say to another person, then pay for the mail fee. It maybe need a few months to receive that. Last, people can communicate by

pigeons. After practicing, the pigeon can act as a mailman.

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Would you rather live in the past or the future?

Neither of them. I would like to live in present. As an ancient Chinese poem says “The past’s mistake can not be corrected, but the future can be pursued.” The only way to pursue the future is live in present. As many religion says “Time dose not exist”. What we have is now. The past were consist of many past present time, and the future will be consist a lot of present time. So what I need to do is live in present, enjoy every moment of my life, and appreciate. If I have a good time now, I’ll have a prosperous future, I think. There is a book named “ The power of now ”, wrote by Eckhart Tolle, had great impact on me. In this book, he told us how important is now. So, what I have is now, I would live in present, not in present or in the future.

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My weekend

In this weekend, I went to Dallas with my friends. Dallas is more huge than Austin. The road is more wider than Austin, I think. And the most interesting thing is we went to some places to have Chinese food. I miss Chinese food very much! I were so excited to have Chinese food in here! We had Chinese-style barbecue in Friday night. The food there is really fresh and delicious. In Saturday evening, we had hotpot. Usually, we would have hotpot during the Spring Festival with our friends and family. There are a lot of food, such as konjac knot, tofu, beef, lettuce and duck-blood. It’s happiness for me to have Chinese food here. We came back in Sunday.

I have a lot of fun this weekend!

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Do you think your generation generation will “change the world ”? why or why not?

In my opinion, our generation will “change the world ”? Actually, every generation changes the world in a different way. In our generation, I think we will be more focus on the mental health than the elder. And we will make the world as a more democratic and open-mind. We will give up some old thought which is not suitable for the people now. Such as we will hold less gender stereotypes than before. And most of us will encourage a person to do what they really want to do instead of social pressure. Maybe, there will be a more healthy job environments in the future, too.

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What are you most thankful for?

I appreciate my parent best. They always support me to do anything I want . In China,a lot of parents would intervene Children’s choices in terms of their majors, or which university should they attend.However, when I graduated from high school, I decided to study history as my major, and they just said “Do what you really want to do, we will have your back.” I appreciate them very much.Without their support, I would not be such happiness person.

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My weekend

It's the first week that I lived in Austin. And I have a fantastic weekend. Under the school’s organization, I went to Houston with other classmates. We went there at 7am. It’s early, because we have 3 hours trip to get there. After breakfast, we departed for NASA Johnson Space Center, and arrived at about 10am. Then, we began to explore NASA Johnson Space Center. It’s amazing. There are lots of showrooms displays astronaut’s outfit and structure of the rocket. And I also have a tram tour to explore rocket park with my friends. There is a huge rocket in the park, also I saw the longhorn in the park. 3 hours later, we went back to the bus ,and have lunch. In the afternoon, We went to The Houston Museum of Natural Science. It’s also amazing! We saw the dinosaur fossil, and other species fossil. In addition, we saw the KING TUT'S TOMB! About 9pm, we arrived at kingsolving. The next day, I went to San Marcos Premium Outlet with my roommates, and bought a tote bag with a good price! Though I felt tired, It still a great weekend!

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What is a dream you’ve had that you want to live in forever?

My dream is to become a teacher. When I was a kid, I always play house with my friends. And I always acted as a teacher and my friends acted as students. It seems that I was born for becoming a teacher. Luckily, I successfully be admitted into a normal university in china and graduated. Maybe I will become a ture teacher one day, I love it.

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Write about an item you have that isn't expensive but means a lot to you?

I think the item is my AirPods. I love music.When I walk alone, I can

play music and enjoy them.Sometimes it’s a happy song, it makes me feel better. Sometimes it’s a quiet song, it makes me feel calm down.Anyway, I love both styles of songs.And my favorite singer is Lijian, his songs make me mild. So, when I feel kind of nervous, I will listen to his music.