New schedule and summer plan

We started the new schedule yesterday, and it was my first time to be in Ilana's grammar class. I know we need to give the new schedule some more time to see how it works, but I have some my own opinion. First, there is no doubt that Ilana is very good at English, especially at grammar. Second, she was serious in the class, which showed she quite cared about her job. However, is she good at teaching or teaching English? I felt she was not as enthusastic as Scott, and I think she not felt happy teaching English and just took teaching EAP3 as a job. I know English is her second language, and she is good at it. That may be why she liked to show how good her English is. When Jen asked her questions, probably Jen said not clearly and she always said "what" instead of "sorry" or "pardon me". Oh, man. A good teacher is tring to help his or her students, not telling them that they are looser. Gotta be patient, I felt like she just did what she gotta do, and that's it. All of above is my own opinion.
Anyway, life goes on. I have thought about my summer plan already! That's quite exciting to think about it. we will finish EAP 3 program in April 12th, I guess. Well, anyway, I never remmeber the date. We will have a very long break, about more than 4 months. Is that amazing you could almost do whatever you want. For me, I still need to work on my English, and I try to make it better in order to survive my Bachelor degree studying. I am thinking about taking some spring cources such Math, Chemistry, etc. Perhaps, I just sleep for a month. for the next month, I wanna turn in full-time and try to get more hours from where I am working right now. You know why, because I want to go back to China. Oh, yep, to achieve that goal, hOhO, I need to make some money. I miss the food in China so much, and I miss my friends so much. At the time I am in China, I probably go to Thailand. it sounds good. take care guys.

Wow! workig.

Hi, guys, wat's up? I have not blogged for 3 weeks because I am lazy. Yes, I know it. Anyway, I just realized I needed to catch up blogging. First of all, congratulations to all the EAP3 students who survived the mid-term exams. I can't believed only half of this semester to go, and I can't wait finishing this semester. Also, I want to thanks EAP3 teachers who demonstrated valuable and useful lessons.
This week we finished chapter 7, working. I learned some very useful grammar, reported speech, embedded questions, statements, etc. reported speech can be used in essays when I want to use other people's speeches instead of quoting. Embedded questions can be implied in conversations in university level, and it makes speeches more polite. I learned about how to deal with job interviews in Listening/Speaking lessons. I think Listening/Speaking lessons for this week are more practical than before, and it is very valuable and helpful for us to find jobs in Canada in the future because we can understand some Canadian culture about job interview and have knowledge about how to prepare job interview. To avoid cultural misunderstanding, we can have more chance to succeed in job interview and working. For Reading class, I just don't want to take about it....... about 45 students class size, if I were the teacher, I would have not clue abut how to teach.

I want to talk about work. since I came to Canada, I have asked myself why I am here many times. Personally, I want to learn English because it is extremely dam important now. Well, the second reason is I like traveling, I need to know English for communication. The main reason I came here is having abilities to find a good job. The universities in North American have very high quality of education system, and they have very good reputation in the world. There are more opportunities in Canada and United States than in China. However, I still have no idea what I want to learn. First of all, I had one and half year university experience in China, and my major was computer science. I pretty much like it but it really takes time and energy to write application programs, websites, etc. Therefore, I probably not choose it again. Anyway, I like math, biology, chemistry, physics which are logical to me. if you like those stuff, what can you do? to be a engineer. Yes, I really want to try engineering, and Calgary is a engineering city, especially civil and chemistry engineering. Engineers can make a lot of money(honestly, money is one of my concerns). Business, I kind of like it, but not too much. well, my parents like me to take business, international business. since China has been the biggest market in the world, many and many companies have required people who know Chinese. If you can know Chinese and English in proficiency level, you will be really hot plus your business degree. Chinese is the biggest population language, and English is the most widely used language. Well, it is really really hard not to be hot if you know both languages. Well, before doing those, I still need to pass EAP3, and I can really think about what I like to do in the rest of my life during the semester. Hopeful, I can have a little clue.

Holy Cow! Mid Term is coming

It is getting busy! OK, first of all, I have book project due is next week, but I forgot which day(I'll check schedule). I just finished my book, The Great Expectation. I love the story and the emotions.
I may read that book again because the story is so long and I spent too much time on it(not really, but I stopped reading for a week somehow). I'm gonna write a summary about that very emotional story.
After book project, I got research project. You know what? the worse is I have never done it before, and I need to use APA format to do it. Basically, I will learn what the heck APA format is, and then I find some articles or books about language learning, daring and danger, and Mind. Read three articles or books about them, and write three entries of summary. THE DUE IS FEB 11th.
After research project due, I have a presentation with my partners in-class. I think it will be a lot of fun. I think this is the only fun we can have in Murray's class. However, my mid-term exams are coming up right after presentation. Is that a joke? I'm going cazy.
Anyway, forget about school stuff. I went to a party in Brentview Baptist Church which is very close to Brentwood station. The party is held by Focus Club which has many international students. Tonight, we celebrated Chinese new year, and we had many performances which are from different countries(China, Japanese, Canada). The first one was Chinese song singing, and song's name is Rain Forest(S.H.E). It was pretty good actually. I liked it. The second one was Japanese song singing, the singer is my friend, Naodo. He is taking international relationship at the U of C. He has not played guitar for two or three years. He was playing guitar and singing, and his voice was wonderful to me. I liked that Japanese song, Cool. I really enjoyed the party.
By the way, who wants to come to party again with me, please contact me.

It is Harder Than I Thought

I finished two weeks of EAP 3, and I felt it is harder than I thought. Seriously, I think Writing course is the hardest course in EAP 3. At the beginning of this semester, my goal of Writing course is to get B+ in order to skip effective writing test. After two weeks, I realized that can be really very very hard to achieve because writing exams can be very hard if you do not work hard. Today, I had a grammar quiz, and it seemed like very easy. However, it only worths 1.6%, Does it really make sense? Anyway, my writing teacher is very enthuzastic and crazy, and he could give you super surprise every day. Like today, he just gave us an hour in-class writing test or something, and the title was "Is English a difficult language to learn", of course, yes, it is. Holy shoot, that just made me wake up. You know, after a winter break, I need to pick up vocabulary, essay brainstorming and organization. Seriously, at that time I had no idea about how to wrote an essay, but when I asked myself what I learned from last semester. Then, I knew how to wrote an essay, well, basically.
I just got my listening quiz and reading quiz yesterday, and listening quiz was pretty good, but reading quiz was just fine! My reading teacher is as crazy as my writing teacher, may be crazier. He can make the quality of reading quiz like mid-term exam if he wants, like the quiz I got yesterday. I was quite worried about it. Reading quiz can be isolated from reading textbook because my reading teacher is going to lose his mind. Vocabulary from the quiz were not from the textbook. What a crazy thing! Anyway, what can we do? learn as much as we can, and do homework almost every day. I hope everyone doing in the rest of this semester.

First blog of my new semester

Hi everyone!
Today is the fourth day of winter 20008 semester. I was exited about starting this semester because I would have wonderful teachers in EAP 3. Scott, I think he is the craziest teacher I've ever met. Scott is super crazy, and he is always enthusiastic in the class. I like his speech because it is very funny and interesting. Scott is a energy guy, he can make the class interesting. I like him. I have another teacher, Murray. He is a new teacher in EAP 3, but Murray is much seriouser than Scott. Anyway, he is still very funny guy, and I think his mind is crazy too but different from Scott super crazy. I am not sure Scott and Murray both are good teachers because I have known them for just four days. I think they must be good, otherwise they cannot get job in EAP program and won't teach level 3-final level. Finally, good luck for eveyone in EAP 3.
I want to pass EAP 3. I'll make it happen.

I finished my last final exam yesterday, I felt tired, really very tired.

After I finished the Reading final exam, I felt it was not that easy, actually, it was harder than I thought. The passage was easy to understand, but the questions were not that easy to answer. The first question was to summarize the main idea of that passage, and I think is was not difficult to answer, even write it on you own word. right guys? I think the main idea should be the education of girls is the surest way to reduce poverty(this is original text!). The second section is seeking the basises. Wow, that section took me like more than half an hour. It was crazy when you are looking the basis, and i really not sure the third one. Men have an interest ..... on the British education system. The third section is summarizing the first five paragraphs. I think not too hard, but write the summary in one sentence for each paragraph. The fourth section was the easiest one in Reading final exam if you go through you textbook couple times.The last section you need to reading the passage carefully, or you may fall in tricks. Anyway, good luck everyone.