Sunday, July 11, 2010

Getting Lost

We have been in Melbourne for a week. For these days we have been to some places, such as, China Town, Parliament, Ferderation Square, St Paul Cathedral, Melbourne Central Station, South Gate, Bar along the South Bank, Casino, Victoria Market, Puffing Billy and Yarra Valley Wineries. We travelled a lot within the last week. And we got lost for several times. On the first day to school, everything seems all right. The hostess told us to take the No 64 tram to school and to get off at Stop 8. We were quite alert that day and counted the numbers of the tram stops. After we got off at Stop 8, we asked a nice guy to show us the way, and he asked us to follow him, because he also was studying in REW. We acrosses the street, the Building 36 was there. We were quite lucky that day. however, the next day, I was quite neverous when we were about to reach REW, I loooked out of the window of the tram, and found the sign with number 8. We got off immediately. Then we were puzzled after crossing the street, for we couldn't find the building. We had to walked on and on for about minutes. At last Building 36 was on our left. We found we got off at Stop 11, three stops earlier. Another day, we decided to take the train instead of tram. On the first day after arriving at the homestay family, we went out to find out the tram station and the train station. It seems we were quite sure where the train station was. So after leaving the casino, we walked along the bank of Yarra River and walked across the bridge, we found the train station. So we took the train back home. After getting out of the train station at Gardenvale, we were confident that knew the way back home. But after several blocks we were wild because we found everything was new to us, the surroundings, the streets' names. We wanted to ask someone the way, but no one surrounded us. Then we walked down and up again and again, then we calmed down, and decided to walked on. Thank God, we found our house finally. Now we are familiar with the areas, we will not get lost again in these areas.
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The Different Ways of LIving

The First Day THis is the first time I step out of China. I imagined the beauty, flourishing scene in Australia. After arriveing here, I found something different from what I imagined. Although I know people usully live in suburbs, I don't know all of them live in big houses, which in China are called villas, in which the very rich people live. What impressed me most is that Australians have so strong environmental consciousness that they save water and electricity. They take the shower in four minutes, which makes it impossible for me to finish it within such short time, though I usually take short time to have a shower. My homestay family wash dishes every three or four days in dish washer. But I think dish washer may consume a lot of water, and keeping dirty dishes for several days is not a good idea. And they wash clothes once a week on Saturday. In winter it is Ok, because we don't change clothes every day, but in summer, there is just no way in Guangzhou，because it is so hot outside that you sweat a lot, so we wash almost every day. About diet, it is also quite different. In China, we usually have big lunch, but here they have a light lunch and big dinner. According to Chinese medicine, lunch is very important, we should have enough nutrition, including rice, vergetables, meat, soup and fruit. So a sandwich and an apple or an orange is not enough for us, then I usually go to the fast food restaurant or a the supermarket to get something more to eat. So we have quite different ways of living. As the Chinese proverb says, "A guest must do what his host does", we should adjust ourselves to the Australian way of living.

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Italian food made by my hostess

Italian food made by my hostess
Yammy dinner