Thought patterns between man's and women's Today we talk about the thought patterns between men's and women's. I remember one famous book which name is <Men are from Mars, and Women are from Venus>. Even if I never read it before, I can guess the author wanted to explain the huge difference in their thought patterns. Firstly, men always start conversations from viewpoints, but the women will start from stores, usually are long stories. Men should have enough patience to listen to all these stories, and will never give your comments in a rush, let alone disrupt their talk. Then, the purposes of men's conversations are to find solutions to solve their existing problems, but women just need listeners. In the most of time, women made decisions already before they discussed with you. Honestly, it's not easy to describe this complex topic in a simple way. What we talk about are totally based on personal experience. <Thanks for any revision>

Thunder and Lighting Shanghai was extremely hot during July, which had 24 days over 38 degree Celsius totally. It broke the record in recent 140 years, which could go back to Qing Dynasty. The hot weather caused several people dead, most of them were elders. As an ordinary resident, I didn't feel uncomfortable very much because there has air conditioning everywhere, such as home, office, transportation and shopping mall. It may be the reason why cities are becoming hotter and hotter. Today is the first day of August. It rained so heavily in the afternoon, with thunder and lighting. The whole sky was covered by the dark cloud, which turned day into night suddenly. Strong wind tried to bend down all trees, flowers and grasses in the garden. Heavy raindrop beat on the roofs and windows, made quite loud noise. The rain was so heavy that many roads were drowned in a short time. After the rain stopped, many people went outside to enjoy the cool and fresh air. It may be a good beginning of a more joyful summer. <Please help me to revise it, thanks a lot>

Going abroad In today's English course which I've just finished, I discussed the topic about "going abroad" with my English teacher. I've never been in a foreign country for a long period of time, except the short term sightseeings and business trips. The first country I visited was Japan around 10 years before. Our general manager arranged us to live in a suburb region, which would take us 1 hour from hotel to the office. The purpose that my boss explained was to let us to experience the life of a normal citizen in Tokyo. It's quite a good idea, I thought. The subway was a must transport for us to be token everyday. Honestly, I really admired the good social order of local people, which made the public environment quite efficient. Now, it becomes my habit. If I stayed in a foreign country, I would try to eat in a local restaurant, take the public transportation, talk with residents. It'll let me understand more about this country. <Please help me to revise it, thanks a lot>

Superstition Superstition is a strange word for me which I never heard it before. After my Philippine teacher in italki explained it with several samples, I began to know it's a quite interesting topic to discuss. Everybody must know many stories or tales about superstitions from his parents or other elders when he was a child. Some of them I think there have no any truth or logic in their background. I clearly remember that my grandfather warned me against opening an umbrella in a room, otherwise I will never grow taller in the future. I tired it and nothing happened, of course. Some other superstitions may have some truth in them. For example, a person, even an emperor, was not suggested to sleep in a big bedroom in ancient times. Otherwise, he or her would lose vigour and easy to fall ill. I think the true reason is the big room cannot easy to keep warm at night. If anybody get a cold, it will be serious disease at that time. <Please help me to revise the article, thanks a lot>

today's topic is about "housing" I spent lots of time to discuss the topic about "housing" with my English teacher, a beautiful American lady comes from Florida, in last Wednesday's class. The view points about real-estate in China and America are totally different. Young couple in China must have own apartment or house before they get married, even they only have 70 years usage right instead of complete proprietorship. Actually, the real-estate is so expensive that young people cannot offered it by themselves at their age. Thus, their parents, four old people, must bear the down payment which is at least 30% of total fee usually. Afterwards, the bank debt combines the fortune between parents and child more closely. On the contrast, American young people will be more independent. They'll purchase apartment or house by themselves even it'll take them a long time after they have a family. Similarly, their parents will take care of themselves without their kids's help. For example, my teacher's father and grandfather live in two states in America, and my teacher works in China. Eventually, it's hard to say which lifestyle is better, especially the health system and traditional culture are totally different, but we know more about life with each other. <Please help to revise the article, thanks a lot>

Today's topic Today's topic we talked about was related to "terror". Frankly to say, it's a complex theme for an English beginner like me. I tried to explain some reasons which I regarded as the causes of "terror", for example, religion, poverty, nationality, etc. Furthermore, I introduced some samples of horrible attacks happened recently. Peace and safety are the basic requirements of human being. People who lived in an environment which is full of murder, robbery and hostility, will lose the confidence of his motherland. <Please help me to revise the article, thanks.>