Impact on my life and others

I think I had made a positive difference in my girlfriend’s life. She is Chinese but knows very little about the true Chinese lifestyle and society. I tell her many things about China’s society such as the work condition, how we treat things, our government, food and tradition. Many of the things I have told her was things that she had never thought of. Now she knows how to get along with Chinese people better and why I think differently from her. In my American life I think the most important person is my girlfriend Mia, she gives lot of help to me. Also, she changes my life, when I came to American I was level B and I don’t understand everything. So, I don’t want to study and improve. Sometimes, I was regret came to American. When I want to give up, I met Mia. She encouraged and helped me. She taught me English, and she took me to contact American life. Sometimes, she took me to meet her friends. I must use English so my English was being better.      

Writing Conference

I had one writing conference with my teacher which is Giovanna Alessio. At that conference, my teacher told me that I have good knowledge about how to write an essay but some of my support sentences were repeated over and over again. Some of her advice is that make sure my subject agrees with my verb which is if I use her, then I have to use is instead of are. Also she told me don’t change verb tense in the middle of the sentence. So, if I am writing an sentence in the past tense I cannot use any present tense verb in that sentence because it will be confusing the time I am talking about. I have improved my ability of typing by typing all my essays’ outline at home and my essay in class every Thursday. I also like typing in words I don’t know in class into a Microsoft word to remember them. I have been reading newspaper outside of class to improve my ability of reading. I read the CNN news and the online news about cars in English.

some stereotypes about American people

The first week when I came to America, I found some American was noisy at night. I thought they have a party. I was very angry about those things. I don’t know why they are noisy. Before I come America my dad told me American is quiet and nice, but someone change my opinion. After that, my friends told me this is normal because it was Friday. American love to have a party in Friday. So, right now I can understand why they are noisy. This is the American life style. I think it is very different between China and American. Also, one time I was walking in the school at night, someone drove a car and he sticks his middle finger and say "fuck you boy" to me. I don’t know why and I don’t know this person. I was thinking is this is American conversation style? Maybe this guy just want to be funny, but I think this is a bad thing. Good news is this thing happen just one time. Finally, I want to say most American is friendly and nice. They help me when I needed help.

Plagiarism

Plagiarism is a big problem. It will affect both people’s study and job. To begin with, plagiarism is using other people’s idea or word as their own writing, such as copy a sentence from a book, an article as well as friends’ article. Then, the result of plagiarism is serious. When people cheat other peoples’ idea for a long time, they will be more and more lazy. When they want to do something, they will not use their own brain to think about the idea. They just want to cheat ideas from other people. For interlink, from my knowledge, when a student is found plagiarizing other people’s article, the first thing is having a conversation with doctor Teague. Also, if it is the student’s first time, the student may get a warning for plagiarism. However, if the student is found more than two or three times of plagiarism, they will repeat the level. If they have a academic warning from school that can affect their future job. When they want to find a job, the leader of company will look at his/her record. When leader find out a academic warning in his/her record, the leader may not hire him/her.

Cultural

When I first arrived in America, first arrived at Greensboro, I felt most all of the building were not very high, this was a surprised thing, because in China almost all of the cities had many high buildings and used different way to make some buildings between China and America. Then I find some buildings used woods to make. But in China we never used woods to make buildings, so I felt surprised about this thing. I think different way to make buildings stand for different meaning. I never changed impression about building, may be another city had some high buildings more than Greensboro, but they were still use different ways to built. I think if all of the countries use same way to make buildings. It is plodding. In my opinion, the wood building could reduce the wind attack. Because Greensboro is a city near the sea and  there are lots of wind attack. so the wood buildings in Greensboro. I learned someting from buildings which is different culture even use different ways to make buildings.   

3 Goals

First, I want to improve my ability of typing. By doing this, I will practice more on typing my essays. I will write more papers and then type it online into my documents.

Second, I want to widen my vocabulary. I will remember more vocabularies and then practice using them into my real life. It will be hard but I can improve my vocabulary by do more reading such as newspapers and novels.

Third, I want to raise my ability of reading. I will read more newspapers and novels to improve my reading. Reading is the first step of learning English. If I do more reading then I can improve my English like others.

About myself

Hi everyone, my name is Wayne. I came from China. I have been U.S for 7 months to go to Interlink. I am so excited that I can study in the U.S. My favorite food is chinese food which is dumpling. I like to make new friends. I love sport, and sometime I like to play soccer. My family member includes my father, mother and two young sisters. I like pet. I have a Cocker Spaniel. It name is Naughty, and it is so cute. This is my introduction. If this term, I got repeat then I might have to leave America and return to my native country, but I am a hardworking student and I trust in myself that I will not get repeat.