I recently went to Xi’an, the home of the Terracotta Warriors. Xi’an has been an important city throughout Chinese history. The first Emperor Qin Shi Huang Di unified China in 221 BC. Xi’an was the capital of the newly unifed land under the rule of the Qin Dynasty. Imperial China then lasted until the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1912. In fact, ( Read more... )

we bought FISHIES! our room has transformed into a world of plants and animals. probably shouldn't mention the fact that our fishes death rate is one per day (because yesterday 2 died). anyways, they bring me happiness. they are so cheap, if they all die, i can buy more, right?

Did you know that baby cockroaches are REALLY small? In fact, they almost look like ants. I would know...since they are living in my bathroom. It's ok. In fact, it doesn't even bother me. I've been in such a good mood lately that I might not even be bothered if there was a rat in my bathroom ( Read more... )

We got to the Beijing train stations with tickets to Tianshui, Gansu in our hands. Gansu is in Northwestern China, in the middle part of the Silk Road between Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous region and Shanxi Province. We didn’t know much about where we were going, but we did know that we had an 18 hour train ride ahead of us…in the hard seat section ( Read more... )

经过在中国的紧张学习和生活，我认为这段留学的经历对我有非常大的影响。其实有的时候我会面临很多学习上的压力。可是我知道我应该尽我最大的努力好好学习天天向上。我觉得 ACC的经历让我大开眼界。现在我的生活很充实，根本不用担心会出现寂寞无聊的问题。以前因为我的生活很轻松，所以如果我有时间我常常胡思乱想担心一些没有必要担心的问题，现在我不再考虑这些问题，取而代之的是把我所有的经历都用在我的学习上。其实我自己觉得紧张和学习有必然的关系，如此一来，学生可以会更努力学习，反之学生总是看起来有一点无精打采。我也不是一个例外。我来北京的目的是争取让我的中文达到一个很高的水平。我来北京以前不知道怎么达到这个目的。来北京以后，我的中文水平有了很大的提高，原因在于我每天努力的学习。想起这件事情，我就会禁不住手舞足蹈 ( Read more... )

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I met with my new host family this weekend. I still feel like im cheating on my old host family...and i think its impossible for any other family to have such a large impression on me since i lived with the first family for 9 months ( Read more... )

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so lets see here. wow. i talked to my mom last night and i accidentally used chinese to respond! haha! i dont know if it is like this for other countries, but in china, i feel that everyone i know who has a chinese name and speaks chinese has this alter-chinese ego. In america I am sara...in China i am Liu Xi. Liu is completely different from ( Read more... )