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  Chengdu, unshamefully speaking, is the most beautiful city I’ve ever been to. HahHah“ Actually, I haven’t been to any other cities except C.D. and Xi’an. But I’m not saying Xi’an isn’t wonderful. It is. However, comparisonlly speaking, I’m just used to the inviroment in my hometown.  Well, I guess it may apply to everyone that hometown ought to be the most comfortable place to live in.

  When you go to C.D., the first and most likely place to be recommended is the Tianfu Square, The Abundence Square in English.

  Not before long had the square reopened to the public after a long period  of decoration and reconstruction. The newly built square in significantly amazing, both in the appearance and the intentional meanings of every unit in the complex.

It is extraordinarily terrific at night.

  On the whole, the it is square and the main body clearly outlines a figure of Taiji.

  The general planning and design is operated by the world famous architect Pei LeohMing.

  This is the sculpt of flying dragon.

 It represents the inviolable diginity of our nation. Actually there are two sculps like this locating east and west on the square respectively.

   Around the squre, there stand 12 pillars, recording some significant historic sayings on them.

  The totem of the sungod bird is also applied.

There are quite a lot to say about the amazing new square. In addition, C.D. has been awarded one of the best tourist cities in China. And I think the city deserves it.

  All right, let’s call it a day.

  Although I know it’s no use to just spititually recall the cates, I just can’t help. Having been to Xi’an for over two years, I still cannot adjust myself to the food here. So just be patient and share with me my favors.

  See?

   This is verrrrrrrrrrrrrry delicious, at least, in my opinion. Chinese call it Liangfen. Well the English version should be “agar-ager jelly”. Cute name, right?

  If you go to Chengdu, this one should never be missed, ‘cuz it’s reeeeally very famous and popular in Sichuan. Sometimes, people may queue to buy this from restaurant.

You may have heard of it. It’s name is a little bit confusing— fu qi fei pian in Chinese, but I’d like to translate it as ox’s tongue and tripe in chilli sauce.

HoHo`~ This is one of my favorate little snacks. It’s called dan hong gao in Chinese. If there is some kind of translation, I haven’t heared any, it may be “egg backed pudding”.

It is available in many places. There are many roadside peddlery selling this snack food. And it’s very cheap too.

   Chengdu, as the capital city of Sichuan province and key junction of the transportation in the mid-west China, has a collection of foods from all over the country.  

    
   Szechwan food has a stereotype of being hot and spicy. Emmmmm, mostly right, but not the whole story. There are, actually, some bland dishes in 
Szechwan food  .

 But the most famous is , yep, you got it! Hot pot~~~!

It’s almost world wide know typical Szechwan food, with uncountable spices boiling in the pot and oil with chili floating on the surface. My heaven, send me back now~! I can’t help mouthwatering~!

   Hotpot cannot be called snacks, but the following is a everyone-knows snack in
Chengdu. I don’ t know the exact translation of the it. Anyway, direct translation should be the dumpling of the Zhong family.

Every time I go to Chunxi Pedestrian Road for shopping, I will have my lunch there. And there are many other snacks and pastries in that restaurant, too. 

   The boiled dumpling in the brand of Long is another famous snack. It’s kind of bland flavor snack, but you can also have a bowl of them with chili and pepper.

  OK. I must stop here now. Can you here? My stomach is protesting~! I have to go and have my supper, though I know it will never be things above so long as I’m still on this campus…….

  The climate in my hometown is mild and very suitable for inhabitation. It has the typical subtropical monsoon climate., with early-coming spring, hot summer, cool autumn and mild winter. 

  An obvious case you may observe in CD(Chengdu) city is the misty weather occurring frequently. However, the sunlight is not very sufficient in the entire Sichuan basin. There is an interesting proverb says “ the dog in Sichuan province would bark at the sun”, vividly describing the climate feature in my hometown. 

  Another characteristic of the CD city is her damp air in it all year around. Consequently, it may feel hotter than it really is in summer; gloomy and colder in winter. The features of its climate have great influence on the food and drink in Sichuan. The damp weather and lack of sunshine make residents favor hot pepper and high-proof white wine so as to keep them from being afflicted with rheumatism.

    It’s about to be two months since I left my hometown for Xi’an this semester. Though a junior student I am now, I still miss my mother town now and then. Well, some brief introduction about the amazing city for you:

    Chengdu is the capital city ofSichuan province.  It locates in the middle west of China and in the center of the Chengdu plain. Although her location is not as predominant as cities like Beijing and Shanghai, she is actually a swiftly developing and modern central city in China.

    Besides her financial, communicational and technological significance, her charming can also be date back to 4000 years ago. It had been the capital city of the Period of Three Kingdoms, the Five Dynasties and the Northern Song dynasty.

    The names of my hometown are various and interesting. During the Period of Three Kingdom, it was the capital city of Shu, from which its most wildly known name was derived. Meanwhile, the king of the country liked cotton rose (mu fu rong in Chinese) very much and planted numerous cotton rose trees in his territory. That’s why Chengdu is also called Rong Cheng. Another name of her is called Jin Cheng. Jin, in English, is brocade. As a centre producing brocade, it was named Jin Cheng for its beautiful textile.

   On Oct 15, I had my ears pierced on each side. Different from other girls, I was not so excited.

   Instead, I was wondering whether it’s necessary for me to bear that kind of pain. Funnily, I hesitated for a long time in the piercer’s shop, making her rather frustrated in the end.  Seeing she had lost temper, I fled away like a rabbit, despite the already finished disinfection. Hah~~ See? I was a deserter when facing the ear-piercing. 

   But the next day, itching to know how does it feel to have ears pierced, I went to another piercer’s, accompanied with a classmate this time. However, I was all the same upset. Dawdling for over 20 minutes, I finally got the piercing done. And this time the piercer was extremely patient. He comforted me not to worry and waited without any unpleasantness. I think that is also one reason for me not to have any more excuses to escape. 

   To tell you the truth, I’m not so pleased of these ear-piercing. If there’s any thing, I think I miss my naturally born, healthy and wholesome ears very much.

    Yesterday, I attended the dancing club as usual. Woww… It’s really exciting! Cuz’ every body is doing much better than before. When we did the moves together, the feeling is just like we are professional dancing team! Hah!~ I really enjoy this game! This is much more exciting than have classes. And today we still have one class this afternoon.. I am expecting it~!

    Being engaged in several activities, I nearly strained myself out. However, today’s gonna be the last but one day for me to go through. For God’s sake, please, let the hours go quickly.  

    I really don’t want to go on with that tutorial any more. Because everyday I have to arrange one hour for that fresh man to have free talk. Though I have told him thousands of times to prepare some topics before him come, it never works. OK. Then every free talk, I give up. The consequence comes to that I’m struggling to keep on talking and engage him into conversation. Gosh, what the hell am I doing? Through out the procedure, I’m just torturing myself! What’s worse, he would sometimes ask me “what am I going to say?” 

     Alas, enough is enough! I just wanna to break the hell out of this situation. And tomorrow is my liberation day. Maybe I should hold a party to celebrate the end of my penalty. But, anyway, I won’t show any unpleasantness in front of him, ‘cus that will surely hurt him. That’s what I will never do.

  The Flea is written by the famous English poet—John Donne. The metaphysical poet was born in a Roman Catholic family. His poems are amazingly dramatic and romantic.

  The Flea is a typical metaphysical poem in John Donne’s works. Through out the poem a metaphor is magically applied by using the flea as a symbol of the love between the poet and his lover. 

  Actually, the poet is planning a proposal to the girl. Fearing to be refused, he smartly uses a tactic. Before he talks his heart out, it seems he is focusing on a flea that bites both he and the girl. He persuades the girl not to kill the flea, for there mixes they two’s blood inside the flea. If she kills the flea, she is kind of committing suicide. Of course, the girl doesn’t listen to him and kills the flea cruelly and suddenly. Then the poet takes the opportunity and says: wherein could this flea guilty be, except in that drop which it sucked from thee? In this sentence, the writer expresses not only his disappointment that the flea was killed, but also that he values the girl more than himself. It doesn’t matter for the flea to bite him, but it is guilty for sucking his lover. But the poet says the flea is not so guilty as to be killed, because yet thou triumph’st and sy’st that thou find’st not thy self not me the weaker now.

  Further more, the poet points out that just as the girl’s killing the flea has done no harm to her health, her yielding to him will not do any harm to her fame neither. “Tis true; then learn how false fears bel; Just so much honor, when you yield’st to me. Will waste as this flea’s death took life from thee.” My personal understanding of these lines is that the poet is persuading the girl to put away all the hindrance and accept his love. Where does the hindrance come? Look back to the former lines: This flea is you and I, and this our marriage bed and marriage temple is; Though parents grudge, and you, we are met and cloistered in… It’s clear that the girl’s parents object their love strongly and the girl is not likely to accept the poet’s love. She thinks to yield to the poor and pedantic man is to bring shame on her fame. We can also find a counterpart metaphor to her point of view. That should be the worry that killing the flea can mean killing three lives. But actually the poet smartly proves that the flea’s death cannot take the girl’s life at all. Then the sequitur comes to the worry is totally meaningless. That is to say the it won’t do any harm to the girl’s fame neither if she accept his love.

  John Donne is a really a great poet. Moreover, I respect him as a intelligent logic expert, because I see the unusual and smart way he uses to persuade. Only great minds have that kind of innovation.

    From September 30^th, I have been given the task to help a freshman to prepare for an oral English interview. Twists were went through before the student’s mother find me to give her son some tutorial. All in all, it’s my sheer luck to be recommended to take up this part time job.

    It’s really not a easy job as I thought, although I only have to work for 2 weeks and there are 4 days left now. But I must admit that I’m nearly worn out now.

    In the first few days, my enthusiasm was overwhelmingly strong. And I decided to work to the full, which means I always work for some extra hours to help him doing oral practice. But soon, I found myself in trouble with unfinished assignments and unwashed clothes. Lots of my spare time was taken up~!

     Moreover, the interview is going to be a very formal one that will decide whether the he can go to Singapore to study or not. But his oral English is, to be honest, bad enough to diminish all my passion for teaching. I try to encourage him as much and frequent as possible to make him confident. At those very moments I immediately touched a feeling that I’ve never experienced—it’s not easy to be a teacher. Really, every when you are talking, you should think twice to make yourself clear and easy enough to be understood. Even when you are disappointed you should praise your students at the first place, and then point out his mistakes. That’s actually being a torture to me, for I’m always a person like to speak straight forward.

    He is a shy boy, not very eloquent. When I introduce him some manners interview, it seems hard for him to be natural, not to mention eye contact and body language.

    Soon the 2 weeks will pass. I’m happy and also worried. Actually, I don’t care so much about the reward now. The most I am concerned about is whether he can pass the interview smoothly or not. It seems that being a teacher really means responsibility, though I cannot say I’m a teacher. But the feeling is so vivid—nothing is easy! That’s true and I’m checking it out now.