Wednesday, July 14, 2010

RMIT Library

Last week, we had a tour around the RMIT campus, and visited the library. In the library we showed our student cards and found that we could not borrow books because the library didn't have any information about us. Then Tina went the library to solve the problem. On Monday I went to the library again, where one of the librarians put the barcode on my student card and input my information into the library's computer system. At last I could borrow books. It was really comfortable to go around the library, to use the computer there to sesearch the acdemic articles, and to find the books on lingustics and language teaching. Today's afternoon, I really wanted to go to the library, but I wasn't feeling very well. I felt dizzy, tired, and very sleepy, yawned, yawned, yawned. So I came back home to have a sleep. I plan to go to the library tomorrow afternoon to find some books on classroom games and activities. I hope I can be lucky enough to have this kinds of books.
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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