Thesis

By putting a lot of efforts included confidence, determination and perseverance，my improvement of writing skills is obvious.

    An important factor of the improvement is confidence. You will never give up your aim after you have self-confidence. Everything becomes easier after you gain your confidence.
“We have a 500 words short blog post today."
"Oh my god, what? 500 words is short? How can in get those 500 words from? That is too long for me,  "
"Is this writing teacher crazy or something? She assign us 500 words again! My study hall will be all used for it. "
"Let's see today's homework...500 words...Oh I hate it."
" I have a presentation due tomorrow, and what is next? 500 words blog post,ok."
"Aha, except Math i only have a 500 words blog post. What a lovely day!"
That's the transformation of my banner in this year. With the persist of finish

Confidence: to reach 500 words
Determination: how hard the works are,I must finish it strong.
Perseverance: 30 days challenge

bone chiller

                      How did she revive?How??

The show “Bone Chiller!” was very exciting to watch, except, why Lucretia did not die! How did she revive? Did I miss it?

The beginning was not that successful. I mean myself but not the show. I messed up the time so I went there late. I registered for a ticket on Thursday with Gordon, but we had different sports. It was 7:07 when I arrived there. The show have begun so I could not cross the stage. I stood beside the door until the half, and I failed to follow when they talked about the drawing on the wall. My sight could not rotate!

In the previous class, we talked about the decoding, but when I saw the guide paper I was totally shocked. I gave up immediately with my excellent self-knowledge. When they decoded it at the last part of the show, my reaction was like “Wait,what? OK, fine you solved that, although I become more confused.” I could even find out one logical thing from the text passwords. The best setting of the show I think will be the time of born. When the player talked about Halloween, I came not idea about the winter time. I was so surprised when they said out these secret. I could only admire the author’s wisdom deeply. The plot of the show was quite tight I think, so followed the show from the half to the end(From the beginning I was keep thinking about my legged soreness).

The best player of the show I will give to Grace Greene, although his right suspender had some problem. I guess he led the joyful atmosphere through the first half until the servant died. The second half of the show went back to suspense and horrible, except Dilyara. When Andrew and Grace tried to carry her “body”, even the player could not control themselves and laughed. By the way, the umbrella with a knife on it scared me a lot! When I was focusing on the communication of the left side of the stage, I did not see the knife went out. Suddenly when I turned my head , my heart bumped out. I guessed I have sharp phobia, because that umbrella kept scaring me until it was pulled back. 

The suspects were surprising. My first guess of the killer was Connie, the daughter, because she did not say anything during the decoding process. Then I thought Lucretia was the killer, because she found out something different. I doubted about the lawyer once because she stayed beside the bar table for too long, but I did not even think about the police man was fake. 

The show,“Bone Chiller!”, had the best plot of the year. Comparing with “Galileo” and “Spelling Bee”, I would rather to see this kind of show. It is always fun to watch a crux play than a comedy.

My plan

1 4 5 8 11
1.general information and the aim
4. Start to think about changes
5. Innovating but failed
8. Dissatisfied to dinning hall food
11.memory of the past and the common situation now
What I want to do is combining these moment together, to make a consistent process. From the beginning I was full of energy. Then I reached a high point of my challenge which is blog 4. Next my challenge met some problems in blog 5. The challenge got harder and harder so it let me become dissatisfied.I started to write some blog like in 8 At the last, I accepted the dinner hall food, but I started to think of the breakfast I did not cherish back home.

This may be the last breakfast

“What should I do? It is only 7:30 in the morning!” “How about going to dining hall to have breakfast?” “Emmm, I never went for it. How is it?” “It tastes quite good.” I said with a smile on my face.

Persist is never easy. I can not believe it has been one month since we watched the movie, Julie and Julia. One month, had just passed in a second. In my memory, we seemed just finished the movie last week. Although during the process I felt the challenge is too long, it was just a short period when I look back. 30 days were not that long, but it brought me a lot of achievements. This morning I slept only until 7:00. One cause of getting up early was the weather, but the other was the challenge. I felt like I forget to do something this whole day, because I did not go to breakfast. Are breakfast necessary to me now? I guess not. At the beginning, even to the last part of the challenge, I don’t believe one month can change one’s habit, but now I realize it is a truth. I did not feel it because I was in it. Looking back from the end, I see the effect.

At the beginning, I was full of energy. I expecting to do it at the beginning(Although I felt tired right after the first post). I was looking forward to have a great breakfast month in the dining hall. I thought the challenge will be a little bit hard for be, but never like that tough when I follow it. I picked eating breakfast not only for eating breakfast, but having a good habit. When I saw someone sitting in the dining hall and eating breakfast, I always thought about how could they get up. Now I understand that, getting up is a kind of tough sport which need a lot of willpower. I mentioned about my storage of sleeping at the beginning, and it was full charged at the beginning of the challenge. Although I said I hate getting up in the second blog, I was still full of vitality. I ate cereal for several days at the beginning of the challenge, because I did not have enough appetite the first several days. Cereal will never make people be tired of, but it can not count as a healthy breakfast. The next several days, I started about my scrambled eggs life.

In the middle part, I was insisting with my willpower and scrambled eggs. I changed my menu of breakfast into the food they cooked every morning. The first week after I made that decision, I felt fine about the food, but question came right after. After I finished my scrambled eggs in my plate one day, I decided to blame on scrambled eggs for some days. Then this poor dishes appeared in my blog more often than any other things. It first appeared in blog4, and ended its stories in “99 ways to cook eggs”,the erupting of my feeling about eggs. After I wrote “99 ways to cook eggs”, I tried to avoid to eat eggs in the morning. I started to feel tough to get up. Every morning I got up in a unwilling situation because the breakfast was not attractive any more. I tried to find some beautiful scenes in the morning to write, but I failed. Getting became harder and harder.

In the last part, I almost gave up my challenge. My charge of sleeping had totally ran out at the last part of the challenge. I was afraid of I could not get up the next morning every day. Every morning I stayed on the bed for a while, judging about sleeping or going for breakfast. The aim of having good habit had been thrown out away long time ago, and the only thing left in my mind was getting up for breakfast. The challenge was simplified as eating breakfast. Several times I nearly gave up my challenge, but finally, I finished it, at that Friday morning, with scrambled eggs and cereal, partners who campaigned with me through the challenge.

These 30 days was tough, but I know that I learned a lot from it. Although I will not go for breakfast for the next whole month, I won’t forget the challenge with pain and gain; I won’t forget those scrambled eggs I ate. These thirty days were so special that I may remember forever. I did not realize the my change during the challenge, but I found that, I noticed the importance of time because of the challenge. Every second is very important.

Ice-cream!

A Feast with Ice Crean

The summer came right after the winter passed. Spring did not show herself except that damn pollen! I almost died with it! When the summer comes, people always have some special things to do again: turning on air condition, go swimming and certainly, eating ice-cream! These a a famous ice-cream company called Ben and Jerry’s. “With a $5 correspondence course in ice cream-making from Penn State and  a $12,000 investment ($4,000 of it borrowed), Ben and Jerry open their first  ice cream scoop shop in a renovated gas station in Burlington, Vermont.”(benjerry.com) Ben and Jerry is a company with 45 years of history. In the next few days, Cheshire Academy students are going to have a chance to learn more about this company. Its shop have opened all around America. Its Chairman of the Independent Board of Directors, Jeff Furman ‘61, will come to Cheshire Academy to join the 221st Commencement Address.(cheshireacademy.org) It is surprised to see a number mark after see the name of Jeff Furman. That means he graduated from Cheshire Academy. To a successful business man who graduated from Cheshire Academy, the leader of school showed a lot of interest for inviting him to give a speech. “‘Jeff’s dedication to corporate social responsibility is part of why I asked him to speak at commencement,’ said John D. Nozell, Cheshire Academy’s head of school. ‘I have always valued the notion that doing well and doing good are not mutually exclusive.’”(myrecordjournal.com) Mr. Nozell are looking forward to a speech that given by Jeff Furman, so as the students. Jeff Furman’s thinking and business process should be studied by those students who want to learn how to do business. It is a free chance to learn about how the community look like. Jeff Furman is the first person who plan for Ben & Jerry, and successfully get a bank loan. He advised Ben and Jerry to work with a New York pizza shop as their first step. He was the only innovator of the company and gave out a lot of business ideas, such as Partner shop and scoop shops. He did not work for benefits but the development of the company.(benandjerrysfoundation.org) He is an creative person who has his own special ideas about business. His innovative thinking ways pushed the company Ben and Jerry walked in the right way of becoming successful. We can say that if Ben and Jerry do not have Jeff as their best friends on business, the company will never become successful as now. It is hard to be at the top place in the world, but Jeff Furman’s idea of business helped the company a lot. It is always good to have ice-cream in the summer time, and I hope Jeff Furman can bring us this cool feeling in the summer, from both physically and mentally.

Work Cited

“Our History” BEN & JERRY'S ICE CREAM N.p.,n.d. Web. 06 May 2015.

http://www.benjerry.com/about-us

"Meet the Staff and Trustees." Ben & Jerry's Foundation. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 May 2015.

http://benandjerrysfoundation.org/who-we-are.html

"News Detail | Cheshire Academy." News Detail | Cheshire Academy. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 May 2015.

http://www.cheshireacademy.org/page/News-Detail?pk=973582&fromId=206150

"Ben & Jerry's Official to Give Commencement for Cheshire Academy."MyRecordJournal.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 May 2015.

http://www.myrecordjournal.com/news/latestnews/7199843-129/ben-jerrys-official-to-give-commencement-for-cheshire-academy.html

The summer came right after the winter passed. Spring did not show herself except that damn pollen! I almost died with it! When the summer comes, people always have some special things to do again: turning on air condition, go swimming and certainly, eating ice-cream! These a a famous ice-cream company called Ben and Jerry’s,and its Chairman of the Independent Board of Directors, Jeff Furman ‘61, will come to Cheshire Academy to join the 221st Commencement Address.(cheshireacademy.org)

Work Cited

“Our History” BEN & JERRY'S ICE CREAM N.p.,n.d. Web. 06 May 2015.

http://www.benjerry.com/about-us

"Meet the Staff and Trustees." Ben & Jerry's Foundation. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 May 2015.

http://benandjerrysfoundation.org/who-we-are.html

"News Detail | Cheshire Academy." News Detail | Cheshire Academy. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 May 2015.

http://www.cheshireacademy.org/page/News-Detail?pk=973582&fromId=206150

"Ben & Jerry's Official to Give Commencement for Cheshire Academy."MyRecordJournal.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 May 2015.

http://www.myrecordjournal.com/news/latestnews/7199843-129/ben-jerrys-official-to-give-commencement-for-cheshire-academy.html

blog11

Those were normal mornings I miss

My phone shocks on my desk. “All right... I must get up...It’s six o’clock now.” With my body shocking, I walk to bathroom after I find my slippers. My mom always gets up before I do, because she needs to prepare breakfast for my father and me. Toothpaste and wet towel are already prepared in the bathroom and I have been accustomed to it. “Mom, what is for breakfast today?” “Fried dumplings and boiled eggs.” Fried dumplings are always delicious,especially fried dumplings with Chinese cabbages and pork as stuffing. And how should I eat boiled eggs today? With “hot pickle mustard tuber” or sauce oil? Both of them are so gooood! I can wait to eat them, so I rush back to my room and start to dress up.

My phone shocks on my desk. “Oh I hate get up...” I refused to get up although I am made up by my phone. “Mom, what we eat for breakfast today?” I ask with expecting. “Vegetable topping soup noodles(I translate by myself, because the name that kind of noodles will not appear in the dictionary absolutely). I bought it back 10 minutes ago.” Before she ends her talking, I am already brushing my teeth in the bathroom. “ I will eat all the noodles!Even the soup!” I must be satisfied when I walk out the door I think. Tasty breakfast forces me to get up, or I am attracted by the tasty breakfast. Whatever, I just got up for breakfast. 

It is Saturday morning, I wake up at 8:00 a.m. Although school life is very tired, I still wake up quite early. I don’t get up for NBA match on TV, I get up for steamed stuffed buns. My mom told me she would go to buy them this morning. A box of milk and steamed stuffed buns will be fantastic for the morning! “These are vegetable stuffing, these are meat stuffing and these are three... My mom stops talking after she sees half of a bun in my mouth. Whenever it is weekday or weekend, breakfast was so attractive.

My iPad rings beside my bed. “What time is it now? Oh, it’s 7:00 o’clock I think, I can keep sleeping for a while even I should go breakfast. Let me set an alarm at 7:30..” “I hate get up in the morning! What are we going to eat for breakfast? Fine, let’s just stop imagining. It must me scrambled eggs and potatoes. How about set an alarm at 7:40? If brushing teeth and washing face will take 5 minutes, dressing up will cost 5 minutes and walking to class will cost 5 minutes will cost 5 minutes... OK I can sleep until 7:45.”

That is how my life looks like now, I missed my 

past life in China!

This 30 day challenge is completely different from my assignment before. I haven't have a assignment that last for one month and I have to do everyday. The final exam will be fine because we used one month time to finish it, so we have the truth experience to write with. It is always good to write about the true feeling and experience in the essay. The choice of three post is very suitable for us either. Sometimes we have nothing write about but there must be some shining point in these several blog post. From the beginning to the end, we can see the change of ourselves. What happened during these 30 days? Did anything become different than before? Are all the aim finished at last? These are all questions we must consider about. From the process of the final essay, we can see the growth of ourselves. When we look back after we finish the challenge, we must have something to say. I learnt something from the challenge. I hope everyone can say that after they finish their challenge. Everything we do in the 30 day challenge are worthy, if we learn something from it.

Blog10

A story of getting up
It's easy to open my eyes but hard to move my body all the time. Finally, spring is coming.   I hate the weather! I need to wake up in the most sleepy season, spring. I hope the summer can more sooner, then I have a reason to get up earlier: to have a cold shower. My spring allergy is getting worse, so it harder for me to go sleep. Why people must sleep when they don't want to sleep, but get up when they don't want to get up?
The challenge is coming to the end. At the beginning of the challenge, I dreamed about the challenge can change my habit. I might have a standard time table every day: Get up early, go to breakfast and go to class with full energy. Now I understand, that was a dream that I can not finish ever, unless in high school.
I changed my mind at last! The day right after the challenge, I will sleep until my bed repel me away, which will never happen. Someone says that sleeping is kind of wasting time, but for me, my life relies on it.
Lots of stories talk about some famous people slept only 4hours a day. How could they work when they didn't have enough sleep? Every time when I wake up in the morning, I consider about the meaning of getting up. "If I do not have challenge after these days, will I get up for
Breakfast any more?" It is very sad to get the answer no. Although I do not feel anything wrong with sleeping longer, I still feel disappointed about giving up right after the challenge. Is 30 days the longest time I can bear? I decided to choose this challenge not by one sudden idea, but thinking for several days. I chose it because I think I can finish it, so when I give up after the challenge is finished, does that mean I over looked myself? On the other hand, I already had this thought of giving up, so I failed at this challenge?
From the first blog post, I mentioned that my aim was not going to breakfast, but forming a good habit. Well, I completely failed. These days breakfast did not leave me some deep memory, but these days' pain will stay in my memory for ever. Every day i suffered from getting up oh my god. This Saturday I slept from 9:00p.m. until 10:00a. m. next morning, to fill my deletion of sleeping. My mood changed easily these days, and I looked so fickle. This situation last for all day long. I know that the straight cause is it is nearly the end of my junior year and the weather is getting so hot, but I still want to blame on getting up early.
As I said at the beginning, the challenge is getting harder and harder when the time keeps going. This is the 10th blog post of our challenge, and I feel nothing to write with now.

Original:

CA is a college-preparatory school that challenges its students.

Quotation:

By pushing its students getting prepared for their college, CA is a "college-preparatory school" .(cheshireacademy.org).

Paraphrase:CA is a high school that help and push their students; the aim of CA is  giving students assistance to get to college.(cheshireacademy.org）

Cheshire Academy Mission

Founded in 1794, Cheshire Academy is a college-preparatory school that challenges its students, who come from all over the world and enroll in grades 8 through PG, to maximize their potential for academic achievement, to discover and hone their unique talents outside the classroom, to become culturally sensitive and internationally minded, and to develop the critical thinking skills, confidence and character that enable them to succeed in college and as citizens of a global societ

Cheshire Academy is a private high school(preparation for college). The student from lots of place of the world come to the school and finish a complete academic achievement( grades 8 through PG). (Cheshire academy homepage)

blog9

How much salt should we put?

“Ouch! I put too much salt into the meal!” “Wait a second, maybe i forgot to put salt into the meal.” Do these things often happen in the kitchen of dining hall? I guess all Chinese people will say our dining hall is subject to changing salt. Today’s scrambled eggs is usual taste.

I guess most of the restaurants have black pepper and salt on their table, but I have never seen people add all the salt by themselves. The clearest memory in my mind was miso soup last year. That was a dinner, and I wanted to eat some rice in soup. Like usual, I added some miso soup, steamed rice and chopped green onion inside the bowl. Everything changed suddenly after I ate the rice in the bowl. I rushed towards the drinking machine and rapidly drank two cups of apple juice. It was just the rice, but I didn’t have courage to taste the soup. I was afraid i would become a dry sponge, as the correct in the chemical experiment, extracted all the water out. As a contradiction, our famous star scrambled eggs seems like never have salt inside. They are always pure and harmony without any taste, so you must add sauce ,pepper or salt inside. Pepper and salt are the saviors of our meal.

In Chinese food, salt are looked as one of the most important role in the cooking process. How much salt you add straightly affect the taste of the dish taste.

There is a Chinese story talks about salt. A man thinks everything is tasteless, and wants to find some delicious food. One day when he is eating a meal in his friend’s home, he says the dishes are tasteless. After hear it, the host adds some salt inside, suddenly it becomes tasty and delicious. The man starts to think: “After the dishes adding the salt, it become delicious.Why I just eat salt? Will it be more tasty?” Then he runs back home and starts to eat salt, but it tastes bitter and awful.

Our last dining chief does the thing like the man. He thinks Chinese food must have salt and ginger. In fact, our dining food is improving these days. If let me compare dinning hall’s food with Dragon Buffet, I will choose dining food. (It is because I ate too much Dragon Buffet, but it can also prove that dining hall food become able to eat.) If I can choose to eat breakfast at 9:00 a.m. I will go. So, challenge until now is not eat breakfast, but came back to get up. In the next days’ challenge, the main point is going to be getting up, but not talking about eating dining hall food any more. I must tell that this week was pretty good. I had a lot of sleeping, and well prepared for next week.