Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Ole Miss I'm going to miss you..!!
Experiences at Ole Miss
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Movie
I guess every high school have similar situation as like movie. In my high school still that situation, there have many kind of people be together as group. For more popular should be Basketball team, cheerleaders, sport player or everyrich people with good appearance. And many people envy them or wants join them as firend. That's kind of manner in most hight school.
That mean there have a lot group or the people form different countries. But there still be at same pleace. There are multic culture.
Mean girl!!!!
In my country,Our high school students almost wear uniformes ,and also seldom to complete what you wear or bags. Because every one is same each other ,so we don't focus in the appearance. The important things in Taiwan is gaining good scores in school and join some contests to win some prize.
In this movie talk many about different cultures. For example, Cady had lived long time in Africa. So the students like to talk with this different things between America and Africa.
This movie also set the presonality in those mean girls,they are difficult to accept any different with their life .So they would do some wrong things to other people.
But ,anyway I like this movie to remind me sincere person is better than hypocritical one.
By Vanessa
Mean Girls. By Julia Vera
- Movie synopsis
It all began when Cady Heron has to go to school because her parents wanted her to have a good education. She lives in South Africa and she studied at home during her elementary education, and now she has to study in a big high school. Her first day was disastrous, but her second day she made some friends. Two of them were "normal people", and the other were the "plastic girls". They were really friendly at the begining, but when she realized that they were very mean and only thought in their bodies and popularity. They didn´t have anything in their brains.
Her first friends hated the plastic group, so they made a plan to destroy them.
In the movie you can undersatnd the superficiality, how important itis to be popular, to be skinny, to be pretty, and not the really important things.
Then Candy pretends to be a "plastic woman" but in the process she transformed into it. She manages to ruin the life of Regina (the queen bee), and Regina gets public a book of rumors of herself, but Cady has to take the responsibilities of the book. It talks bad about everybody.
After all that, Cady went back to her normal attitude, she apologized with all the high school ans learned the lesson. At the end, the group of plastic woman separated and each one did positive activities.
2) High School stereotypes.
the High School stereotypes are: you are popular if you are plastic, friendly, a cheerleader or play in a sports team. If you are a cheerleader you have to be blonde and stupid. If you are not popular you are less than the other students. If you´re intelligent you´re a nerd and people can treat you badly. The popular people are the best, you have to admire them, follow their ideas, and they have the power in the school.
The movie represents almost the real life og high school students. In USA you´re really popular if you are a cheerleader or play any sport, and the popular people "are like the best things". But in real life, the popular people aren´t worshiped , and they don´t have so much power over everyone.
In my culture it is not the same, because we don´t have cheerleaders or schools teams, but the popular people are the friendliest and usually they can annoy everyone or be stupid and still be friends of people. Also we don´t treat badly the nerd teenagers, and they don´t have to be unpopular.
3) What does Mean Girls have to say about communication betwemm different cultures?
Mean Girls demonstrated that High School Americans are very multicultural. You can see people from South Africa or China , and there isn´t any racism among them.
Movie Mean Girls: Maria Jose
Mean Girls is a movie that talk about a girl who went out of her country Africa, she went to live to USA, there she saw some differents things of her culture, she was sorprysed to see how the people can be so differents and they never mix each other, she didn't liked it, but when she knew the popular girls, she thoght that the only way to be more well known could be to be friends ot taht plastic girls, so she begun to hang out with them, so started to like the guy that was boyfriend of the most popular girl, she was so pretty and she only wanted to be the most beatifull girl in all the school, she had an obsession to be thinner, so she asked at Katy how she can become thiner, Katy told her to eat some cereal loafs, and she started to eat that, so she believed in her, and then she started to get fat
Well later Regina only wanted to take revange on Katy... so she started to write papers with secrets of all the people of the school, and every body thought that Katy was the guilty, the end is that she felt sorry with everybody to make things like that she wanted to be popular, and the end could be really bad. But she did some things that make the people feel better, and she was feeling better too..!!!
2. In this movie we can see diferents stereotypes of people.. some of them are the nerds, the popular girls, homosexuals and lesbians, fat people, wanna be, etc..... each one has somethin in common, and they are together with their stereotype of person.
3. The comunication between the differnets cultures is almost nothing, anybody likes to mix with others kinds of race or etnic people... tath is really bad, because all are humans, and the most important is to respect at the others, and the most interesting thing is to trouble and know different people, everyone has something new the show at the others.
Movie Synopsis.. Nathaly
GYROS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Guros is an Greek food.
It is chopped meat inside the bread (which called "pita" )
with french fries and what else you want like tomato, onions, or other vegetables and a souse named tzatziki...! it's yogurt with oil cucumber, some garlic and other herbs.
In Greece this is very famous and everyone who visit Greece eat this...!
This is really my Favorite snack!
Jahan, sterotypes
Yeh in my country is also most of the girl are mean. but they usually not spending their time in shoping. they dont drive. so the so situation is not pave the ground to be mean with each other. like in hier is love marriage but in my culture is mostly arranged marriage. so most of the girl dosent have boy friend. if they have, that is hide from other and they happy when they text to each other. so this stupid it is better not having a girlfriend.
Movie and stereotypes.....by Jesus Delgado
this movie is about a new girl in the high school. she came from Africa and she has never studied in a school just at home. In the high school exist diferent kind of people like the cheerleader in the movie and they are mean, and the new girl with her friends have a plan for the cheerleaders make ridiculous but after the new girl become in a friend of the cheerleader and bcome a bad person and after of time and many situation the new girls make the ridiculous in the school.
2.High school stereotypes
In the Unitaed States high schools have different stereotypes for the people exist the popular people(cheerleaders, sportsman(, the normal people and the nerd people.
This is mean and incorrect because everyone have the right to be whatever they want and the high school is a very important time in the life for that this is bad and mean.
In Venezuela and in my culture this is different, we accept the people and dont divide the people in diferents kinds all the people is the same and can be what ever they want.
3.
The "mean girls" are bad and for they are very difficult to accept the new people specially the people of other countries.
My Favorite SNACK!!!
The shape is like a little ball.
It is like a cake which is not sweet at all but has octopus inside, with some sauce and mayonaize and sprinkled seaweed.
Alot of people say in America that they like squid but not octopus. I don't know why but it is really good!!
If you have the chance to try it, you REALLY should^^
Thats all~
Chihiro.T
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Natalie-Taiwan Food
I'm going to introduce the food, steamed dumpling, from Taiwan.
The steamed dumplings is mixture of ground meat (pork) and leeks or cabbages.
You don't need to add any seasoning just need to boil it!
It's very delicious.
By the way, the steamed dumplings are good with soybean sauce which I like it with.
Many people believe that the steamed dumplings can bring good luck, so we will eat steamed dumplings in Chinese New Year.
Somebody will put a small note and write a slang or good sentance in the steamed dumplings.
In Chinese New Year some people will put one dollar in only one steamed dumpling, if you eat that one you were very lucky this year.
Maria Jose: ...Ceviche...!!!
Ecuadorian Food ! Llapingachos ..
You know..? Korean Snack foods!!?_ Kelvin
Actually some of my friend from other countries who like chicken..? They like koeran chicken.. no they loved it :) You see..? actually We have a lot of restaurant for only chicken.. :) The thing usually we eat is fried or fried and with hot (many kind of hot..) or sweet or soi sauce... :)
You need to try it.. :) Ah.. The thing I wanna show you is this..
It is chicken without borns and there are many kind of chicken usually fried chickens :) like with sauce that I mentioned on upper paragraphs.. :)
Nowadays It is really popular in korea :)
and the thing top of chicken is spring onion :) usually on it, there is sweet sauce ... :) it makes taste better :)
Hey.. If you see it :) and If you think it is delicious..? and you wanna try it? then :)
Welcome to Korea especially :)Daegu :) !! haha' '
Gomtang! - by. Soo
Braised food -->From Taiwan
Jahangir said Qabuli Palaw
Arepas. By Julia Vera
The arepa is a typical food of South America, and in my country everybody eats arepas. You can eat arepas for breakfast, lunch or dinner. You can find them in restaurants, but they are better from the street.
The recipe constists of "white corn meal" flour, salt, and water. We cook them fried or grilled and, you can eat it with the filling of your choice. Normaly we use butter or mayonnaise, cheese, all kinds of meets, eggs, chicken, and any other food that you can imagine. Also we eat it with "parakeet". It is a mix of eggs, tomatoes and other vegetables.
Pineapple Cake by Shen
The Korean food I'll introduce is...by Paul
Kimbab is one of the most delicious foods that I like. Kimbab is a snack food, and matched up with Tui-gim which Susan introduced, or Thuk-bok-ki which you can see in textbook.
Kim means laver(laver is.... you can google it and find what it is) and Bab means rice in Korean.
In kimbab, laver and rice surround several ingredients like pickled white radish, ham, spinach, eggs, and crab meat.
You can make it easily, so it is cheap and national-wide. There are so many snack food restaurants called "heaven of Kimbab", even in front of my apartment, too.
If you come to Korea, how about trying Kimbab with other korean snack foods? Byebye.
I like snack food ! _ Susan
When you try duk bok gi, you should try with Tui gim in South Korea.
This is fried of many things. Some vegetables, sweet potato, chili, squid, fish cake, etc.
You can buy it from one of the many food stands that line the streets with duk bok gi.
When eat this, many korean people eat this with duk bok go sauce and this is very delicious.
All of korean people like this. Because this is very delicious and inexpensive and
can buy easily anywhere.
Traditional food of Venezuela..by Jesus Delgado
Thursday, July 15, 2010
My family by Shen
Oh my Family _ Kelvin
And like other families, I had a lot of quarrels between me and my sister when we were young like 10-16.
My father is really good talented on drawing and making new things and my sister inherit his gifts. so she is good at making something with hands and thinking new things.
My mother is quite differen with my father, she is more quiet, considerate and good at math. but she is not good at hand_skills.
I'm closer to my mother.
Usually nowadays my family is really peaceful, really quiet and no quarrel. b/c my father works in other local area, and my sister gradueate Universitiy soon so she is studying for the test to become a teacher in High or middle school as a counselor ( she's major is psychology).
It is my family , there are more things but I can't put those in the words. :)
thank you .
Maria Jose: My beatiful Family
Well I dont have a big inmediate family, but I have a really big extended family with both of my parent's family, My father has 7 brothers and my cousins are 18 with me and my sister we are 20, with 8 grandchildren in total.
For the side of my Mom, well she has 7 brothers and we are 18 cousins and 9 grandchildren.
Huuuge family... !! Haaa.. I almost forget my Brother In Low.. Alex.. he is a really good guy.
Now I only have one grandmother of the side of my Mom, cause all of my other grandparents have died.
That's something of my great family..!! : )
My family
So we can't have many time to communicate with other members.But I am a social member. I am always arranging some little activities to let my whole family members. This solution can let us not only spend a little time,but maintain our relationship. For example,I would buy some desert for eat at night,and it is a chance let whole members can sit to eat and chat. My father sometimes would bring us to climb mountain or swimming.
Anyway,we all love each other and be each others' harbor.
^-^---by Vanessa
My family. By Julia Vera
Although there are few in my immediate family, my extended family is huge.
I don´t know why, but my grandparents, and my great grandparents loved to have children, so they had 10 sons. In that time, It was the normal thing to do.
So for each couple(mother and father) I have 9 uncles/aunts and another 3 step-uncles/aunts. I have met the majority of them, however I don´t know who my step-uncles/aunts are.
Also my parents are the youngest of their siblings, so I have almost one hundred or more cousins. I just know about one fourth of my cousins, and those are the second or third generation.
Some day soon I would like to meet the rest of my family as well.
My family ... Nathaly
I am going to talk about My Family
My family is small. I have two siblings an older brother and a younger sister, They are my immediate family . My brother is 22 years old and my sister 10 in the next days She is 11 years old. Instead my extended family is big I have 3 aunts and 3 uncles but i don't se their a lot
The siblings of my father are in Spain. The last year i saw my cousin...
My father and my brother like to play soccer.. They play soccer once a week. My sister and my mother generally go to the cinema on weekend. They love to watch movies in special the Comedy Movies... On sundays in my home we make BBQ is really fun ...
I have been one half month and i miss my family !! I spend my free time with my brother sometimes go to the cinema and go out with our friends... Sometimes, i miss the things used to do with my brother.. but i love being here too
I love my family...
about my family - by. Soo
My father likes sports, especially Golf and Tennis. He also likes to play game called Baduk. It uses white and black rounded stones which is simliar to Chess game. My mother likes cooking and she is really good at cooking. I love her cook, and I think her food is the most delicious food I've ever eaten.
My older sister is 28 years old and she will get married next year. I think I'm gonna cry on her wedding. My older brother is 25 years old and he's really good at game. He likes to play computer game with me and he always win. He is really funny.
We get lots of time with each other although we are living seperately.(My mom, sister and brother live together and my dad & me live together.) I love my family, and they also love me!
Natalie-My Family
My grandparent lives in Yilam with my uncle familes.
My grandfather has gone to heaven so my grandmother moved to Kaohsiung with another uncle.
My father is working in China and he comes back to Taiwan every month.
He is a very kind father because he never scolded me when I did something wrong.
My mother is working in Japan.
She doesn't come back to Taiwan several years so sometimes I go to Japan during my vocation.
Because my parents are not in Taiwan, I live with my aunt families that is including my uncle, aunt and cousins.
They so nice to me.
My uncle and aunt just like my parents and my cousins like my brothers.
I love my family and I hope they are always happy and healthy.
My family is....by Paul
My family consist of father, mother and me. we live in apartment.
my grandparents live in a house and it takes about an hour to get to my grandparents' house by bus.
father is very generous and not strict about me. but, when I make a mistake or something, he gives me a scolding that you should be careful about your behavior.
He regularly works out and likes to do jogging or hiking. Sometimes I follow him, do some exercise, and breathe fresh air from forest.
mother is very generous,too. she always tries to understand and protect me. I am so grateful about that. actually, she's not good at cooking. but, I am already used to eating my mother's dishes. So, I like to eat my mom's dishes and I miss it.
I have been here, Ole miss for about 2 weeks. I miss my parents and grandparents and I hope they are living a healthy, happy life. byebye.
Monday, July 12, 2010
Mykonos! A Greek Attraction... :) by Vivian
Mykonos has a cosmopolitan lifestyle, a wild nightlife (for straight and gay people too!), historical treasures and natural beauties that no other place in Greece has... And all these together make the perfect destination to anyone who wants to experience the greek lifestyle and many more... :)
We are waiting for you! WELCOME TO GREECE! :D
Vivian Sotiriou
My experience _ Susan (minhee, park)
my friend and i had preparing to go outside.
at that time, ringed the bell, many people in stewart hall are started to ran outside !
my friend and i thought, ' What happen ?'
when we walk through the hall way, we saw smoke from kitchen area.
we were very suprised, and then ran outside.
I think this is very exciting and dangerous experience.
My exxxxciting experience
---by Vanessa
Jahnagir Said.. My exciting experince India
We got so hungry, so we went to the Indian restaurant to eat lunch, and they braught us one portion of food, with one ruti(extremly small bread). When we start to eating food, the food had so much pepper that I cant tell you. We asked if there was any other food that it should have no peppper. They said now actually, indian people used alot of pepper in their food. So we ate that food with 23 ruti and I dont know with how many glasses of water, that indian peple eat that food with one or two ruti. We had alot of fun with eating this food, and we ate all of it then we got back to our dorm.
Exciting thing i have ever done by shen
Jesus Delgado...A exciting experience
an exciting experience I've had - by.Soo
Natalie-My exciting experience!
I went to Japan many times because my mother is working there.
I prefer to go to Japan in the winter because I can see the snow.
First time I saw the snow I am very exciting!I think it is so cool!
Because I didn't see the snow in Taiwan, I lay on the snow and roll.
My mother said I looked like a polar bear, but I don't care. I think it is cute. :D
I made a snow man and took a picture with him.
Though he was not very handsome, I liked him because he was my baby.
HAHA :D
Maria Jose: That was really exciting experience
Exciting Thing I have ever done b4 _ Kelvin
I don't know if you guys like amusement park or not, I like it. I love to feel that thrill!!
Have you ever tried this before? I don't know how it goes by in your country, in Korea, we call this 'Gyro Drop' that is dropped from the highest position to the ground as we can't feel gravity. But the park which I went has just 164 fts high Gyro Drop, so it was a little unsatisfied.. but it was okay.
I went there this year maybe during MAY with my friends, the city is Kyeong joo, korea. and It was pretty good for me :)
HEY! IS THERE ANY BODY WHO LIKE THIS ?
My exciting experience. By Julia Vera
I went the last year, but still I remeber the place with hapinnes.
After that, we travel one day, but we saw in the way this rock with the form of a virgin. (The virgin is the white thing.)
This picture is in "Jaspe".
In La Gran Sabana there are a special kind of mountains called Tepuy.