My tour in Hongkong-Day 1 My tour in Hongkong-Day 1 I went to Hongkong last month. It was my first time there. The city impressed me not only with those shining skyscrapers, jade-like green and clean seawater in Victoria Harbor as a world-knowing prosperous commercial cosmopolitan, but also its people and the way they are living there. It was 5pm when my fight arrived at the airport which locates in a suburban island more than 80km from the downtown. The terminal building is not as large as the one where I leave from----Pudong Airport in Shanghai, so not as new as it. But the ground staff seemed more polite and they speak English to guide the flood of tourists to Check out. Meanwhile, the language on the airport signs on the wall is traditional Chinese characters rather than simplified ones. Thanks to the furious language training in the university, I took no effort to recognize them as a TCSOL major. Everything went well before I pass the immigration counter. I noticed the front people hold their passports and disembarkation cards in hand in advance, and so I did. Some people went through the automatic fare gate without a pause and the others are not. I thought I would be the quick one since I prepared myself with papers in hand. It was my turn. I put my card on the sensing part of the machine but the door didn’t open as expected. I felt weird and turned to the officer sitting nearby the turnstile and he said something I can barely hear. Before I blurted my question, I heard the guy raised his voice: “Baby?” I bet I blushed scarlet when I was sure what he was talking. I responded him with a loudly “no” before the door opened and leave there with a quicken pace. I had to admit that I felt being offended at the first time, and this feeling of shame got even greater when I heard the girl behind me explaining the same reason to her waiting mother. She was much younger than me and in her early twenties with a very slim waist. I realized it was not me who was getting used to a English-speaking city couldn’t caught the office’s words but the officer himself murmured as he knew it was not a proper question and it him who wanted to end the embarrassment conversation as soon as possible. Yes, we were differentiated.

I am a Chinese teacher, but looking forward a Chinese-English language partner

The Meaning of Adversity The theme of second unit of our Chinese textbook for this semester is "confronting the adversity", and there is a acticle named "One Prospers in Worries and Hardships, and Perishes in Ease and Comfort" written in classical Chinese by Mencius, a philosopher who lived in over 2000 years ago, was regarded as the second sage after the Confucius in Chinese traditional culture. I learned this very article many years ago and still can recite it without thinking. In this article, Mencius began with several famous examples sharing a common plot that a humble person was promoted as a person of power from a unpromising environment, for instance, a shepherd named Bailixi was appointed as a prime minister of Qin State in the slave market. After that ,Mencius concluded that a person destined to make great achievement must suffer great pains both physically and mentally before he succeed, and the adversity is unavoiable.That is, it is the adversity those people had gone through that helped them to fulfill those formidable task by stimulating their spirit, toughening their nature and enhancing their ability.

The Meaning of Adversity The theme of second unit of our Chinese textbook for this semester is "confronting the adversity", and there is a acticle named "One Prospers in Worries and Hardships, and Perishes in Ease and Comfort" written in classical Chinese by Mencius, a philosopher who lived in over 2000 years ago, was regarded as the second sage after the Confucius in Chinese traditional culture. I learned this very article many years ago and still can recite it without thinking. In this article, Mencius began with several famous examples sharing a common plot that a humble person was promoted as a person of power from a unpromising environment, for instance, a shepherd named Bailixi was appointed as a prime minister of Qin State in the slave market. After that ,Mencius concluded that a person destined to make great achievement must suffer great pains both physically and mentally before he succeed, and the adversity is unavoiable.That is, it is the adversity those people had went through that helped them to fulfill those formidable task by stimulating their spirit, toughening their nature and enhancing their ability.

My impressive teacher Ms Yang was my teacher who taught me Integrate English in the university.She was a elegant middle-aged woman with a fluent, authentic English since she got her master diploma in a American University. Attending her class was a kind of enjoyment because she could always explained these complicated English sentences in the textbook by replacing them with much easier ones. Besides, what she impressed me was her opinoin on how to learn English,"You should take English as your lover, you true love",she said loudily in the class, "to imagine that you can not live without him even for one day, so you need to meet him in the class everyday,miss him after class everyday, and remember him for a while to make sure you do not forget him. Never betray your love, and never betray English."

My unforgettable travelling experience I headed towards the Mount Emei the third day alone after arriving at Chengdu. 到成都后的第三天，我朝着峨眉山进发了。 As one of the Four Scared Buddhist Mountains of China, Mount Emei sits at the western of the Sichuan Basin, about two-hour-drive far from Chengdu. 峨眉山作为中国的四大佛教名山之一，位于四川盆地的西部，距离成都大约两小时的车程。 My travelling plan was upset unexpectly when I got off the bus picked me at the Emeishan City Rainway station, since I was pushed by the bus driver to get on before I had figured out where was the real terminal of the bus . 我在峨眉山车站坐的公交，还没弄清楚公交车的终点站到底是哪里，司机就赶着我们上车。（所以）从车上下来的时候，我的旅游计划被打乱了。 I was left with my luggage by the bus on the hillside rather than the foot of Mount Emei where my booked hotel was located, not knowing where I should go. 公交车司机把我和我的行李箱扔在了峨眉山的半山腰，我不知道该去哪，因为我订的酒店在山脚下。 What’s worse, it ‘s getting dark as well as raining. I had to drag my heavy luggage to get myself a small hotel room before I was totally wet. I checked in a small family-run hotel in haste without noticing my cell phone had been soaked. 更糟的是，天开始变黑，又开始下起了雨。我不得不拖着我笨重的旅行箱，在自己被完全淋湿之前，找到一个小旅馆住下。我匆忙之中住进了一家家庭经营的小旅馆，没注意到手机已经被浸湿了。

My traveling experience It was my first time I have been to Sichuan Province for travelling in this summer holiday. When I told my cousin my decision who was studying there for his master degree in the Southwest Jiaotong University, he replied me with a warm welcome and said he could be my tour guide. As soon as he replied me, I booked my train ticket on the Internet, and packed my luggage in the same time. The bullet train I took leaved Shanghai Railway Station at 8:00 in the morning and arrived at Chengdudong Station more than ten hours later. However, it was a really long journey, without being boring in that all the five passagers in my campartment shared the same destination ——the Chengdudong terminal station,which gave us a topic to talk with each other.It didn't take a long time before we got acquainted to each other.(to be continued)

My Major When I was a senior high school student, I was very good at my mother tongue Chinese and English.Maybe I am a girl ,according to the other in my country, are believed has an innate advangtage on studying social science. In fact, I did hate math for I seldom be the best student in the math class those days ,which really hurt my confidence.However, after become a teacher myself, I realize it was not all my fault.Anyway, I decided not to continue my study with math when I chose my university major after the examing for the enrollment. Teaching Chinese as A Second Langauge to Foreigners seemed like a good choice for me , so I chose it as my major.