I Want GROUP DISCUSSION Back

There used to be, two years or so ago, group discussion on italki, where strangers or new learners could meet and started coversation. It was beneficial for long-term friendship building and it also cultivated good atmosphere for practicing foreign languages. There were several groups, devided by languages, like English, German, Russian...

 

However, italki cancelled it. I don't know why and I need a reason.

 

I really miss it.

A Song This morning I didn't feel happy because my e-mails ---- yes, two e-mails to the same person ---- did not get reply. Then I talked to a friend here, he sent me a song which was made by himself. I enjoy the good guitar and melody! What he expressed was bad feelings. How fitted into my mood at that time! And I really like it! Soon, the more I listened, the more I smiled, because when I listen to a totally strange language I will think interesting and funny. Anyway, thanks to this song, it made me feel much more better!! Thank you @Francisco ~ I'm sending the 3rd e-mail now. Maybe I'm silly.... But I really don't want to give up! So will it be responded this time?! I hope so!!!

= =... Why why why? What I ask is just a simple question! Why not reply email to me ?! I AM VERY ANGRY!

I lost my wallet... When I was writing the essay, my roomate asked me to check out my wallet. That was when I knew I had lost it. -_-lll I am careless all the time! I have lost my schoolcards for 4 times! It needs 25 RMB to re-make a new card. That is, in total, 100 RMB I wasted on these stupid cards. ~~~~>o<~~~~ After I have lost something, I will be particularly vigilant. But just in a few days, I forget the pain and act casually again. Do my things leave me because I don't take a good care of them? Do I piss them off? Crying!!! Back to the point. In order to keep my fifth schoolcard "forever", I bought a card-sized wallet. I gave it a warm home! :D It was safely stay in it, and I would not lose it unconsciously. Then I found it convenient to be used as a real wallet, not just a "cover". However, I lost it again. My carelessness will kill me someday. =_=lll Luckily it was picked up by a good person and she broadcasted on Weibo (a famous social website in China) and my roomate saw the information. Now I am waiting for the person's reply. All in all I feel happy that I can always meet good people. ; p 这个世界上好人还是很多的，哈哈哈~~~

Something about correcting essays I am interested in correcting the English essay here. I myself can learn a lot from that. I found that many Chinese like correcting Chinese essays. I am not criticizing that. In fact, I also liked to correct foreigners' Chinese essays at first because it was so interesting to see how foreigners use my mother language. Soon I discovered that those essays always got many corrections, while English essays remained unknown, including my own essays. Thus I decided to correct English essays written by non-English speaker as long as I can. Not only can I help others but get big progress by doing so because my major in university is business English. It is not a easy way. Most of the time when I correct the essays, I can tell the mistakes by my English intuition, but I do not know how to make them right or not sure if my corrections are right. I need to study hard. There is another thing. I am learnning German right now. It is a difficult language to learn but I do like it. I have learned a lot this semester. However it is not systematical. I have to practice more. I hope I can chat with German-speakers using what I had learned in the near future.

I had a tragic day (2) Haha, I have to introduce the another background. It is about where I am from. My hometown is Fuzhou, a beautiful and peaceful coastal city, which is the capital city of Fujian Province southeast China. Grown up in the coastal city, I like seafood very much. Getting off from the part-time job, I wanted to reward myself for working hard. :D Thus I decided to cook the noodles by myself. I bought a bunch of spinich, two eggs and oyster. I did not just buy for one meal. It is about 2-3 meals. ( Of course I must cook the oyster at one time. I do not have freezer. :) ) When I was back to dormitory, I found that because of carelessness, my eggs were broken. :( So I have to cook them all. Suddenly, an idea came into my mind: why not fry the egg with oyster? It is famous in my hometown. Although my small pot is only suitable for water cooking. But I still wanted to have a try. I poured much oil to the pot in order to made it not sticky when frying. I even prepared a bottle for keep the extra oil when I finished. But I failed. What made it worse was the oyster. I did not have dough to cover them. As a result, the water from them flowed into the oil !!! OMG! Then, not only the bottle was useless, but also my noodles had to face the disaster!! I don't know what I was thinking about. I don't wash the greasy pot. I just pour more water into it. It is true that the vegetable can digest the oil and make themselves more tasty, so I put a lot into the pot. The result seemed good at the very beginning, and I enjoyed my noodles and congratulated myself not messed it up. But as the noodles getting cool, it became oily more. (It is cold now, things get cool easily...) ~~~~(>_<)~~~~ At that time I just felt like eating a pot noodles with a cup of oil !!! I was too hungry to think about that, but when I got full, I think it was disgusting!! I am afraid that I will getting fat in weeks for drinking so much oil!! ( Most Chinese girl think they are fat, but what I am really worried.) If I say I am a good cook, do you believe it? Oh, come on! It is the problem of the pot, not mine. If you don't believe me, I will show the dishes I cook when I home. The cooking tools is not available here.

I had a tragic day (1) First of all, I think it is necessary to introduce some backgrounds. I study in Xiamen, the coastal city where the annual marathon is hold in Xiamen International Conference and Exhibition Center. The Center is both the beginning and ending of the marathon. And during the event, there is a traffic restriction in certain roads. The university I study is outside of the Xiamen island, but the Center is in the island. I was going to take a part-time job there as a ritual girl. The event began at 8:00am. Thus, the restriction is around 7:00am. I got up at 4:20am to get preparation and at 5:20am waited by the road for the driver who had made the appointment with me. (The driver was going to take all outland-girls inland.) Unfortunately, he did not show up until it was 6:00am!! I felt angry because he got up late and wasted my time! But the driver is humorous. I could not be angry with him owing to his funny tone and words. I thougt it was all over now. But a phone call came: the driver forgot the last girl and left her out island! So we turned back to pick her up. The girl was very angry that she sweared home. Again, the driver used his humor amused her. It was all right then. But the time was really getting limited!! Only 15 minutes left before the traffic restriction!! Finally, the driver did a thing right. Though he could not sent us to the Center before 7:00am, his remarkable speech skill and funny tone even persuaded the police!! As a result, we did not have to running to the Center as many others did. Unfortunately, it was still late. When we got there, it was 7:20am. We had to hurried up as not to mess the opening ceremony up... I hate the driver!! (╰_╯)# But at the same time I love his humor! The picture below is the overlook of the Center.( In the middle, white and wide building. )

Does anyone know him? His name is Matt and he likes Monkey King very much. He disappeared suddenly a few weeks ago. We had good chats. He was an interesting person and we developed a good friendship. We had another good chat just the night he disappeared later. He unfriended me on Skype and his file on italki was blank, too. Then the same problem happened to another net friend of mine. He disappeared a few days ago... Does anyone know Matt? Does anyone know what happened? Or you faced the same problem?? The photo below is Matt's profile on italki.