Steven – My Community: A Small City

I live in an apartment near the fourth ring road. There are many shops under our building. My mother always buy some cookies at one of their shops.

If you go across the street, you can see a huge shopping mall.  It is humongous!  There are hundreds of shops in this mall including three big shops, a big sports club, a theatre and a supermaket.  On the fifth floor of this building, there are many different restaurants, you can eat Chinese food, Japanese food, Korean food and some western food.  And the Chinese food restaurants are the most popular, so you can eat many different Chinese meals.  In another word, you can eat the food from everywhere in China! I think it’s really fantastic! I love the mall very much.

In addition, there are also some schools, and the elementary school attached to Renmin University of China is one of the best schools all over Beijing.

What’s more, there are many lawns near our community.  In summer, old pepole and children are often playing on the lawns.  My parents and I always go there to take a walk after supper.

In a word, it is really a good community.

The place I live.This is a garden in front of my house. It says, “No pets. No sliding. No riding.” Just for people has a safe place to take a walk.

Steven – Pollution in Beijing: We’re Fighting It!

Now that the 29th Olympic games is coming, Chinese people are preparing for the games. Every who people lives in Beijing wants a fantastic game. So it is important for Beijing to have blue skies, green grass and beautiful flowers.

But the pollution problem is still the biggest problem in Beijing. So less pollution must happen! The government has been working on the pollution problem since 2001.   But there are more than 20,000,000 cars in Beijing and they are making the air so polluted. We had a very big company for steel-making, that’s SOUGANG GROUP. And discharged lots of bad gaes, such as carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide. But now there is no SOUGANG factories in the Beijing city proper. That’s one of our achievement in pollution problem.

Steven – Finding out that Kelen also owns a GIANT HUNTER 2.0 Bike

During our last meeting when we talked about our blogs, I found out that Kelen was very interested in my bike -  I own a GIANT HUNTER 2.0.   So she was riding my bike after the meeting and you can see her doing that in the picture.

At last, she told me she also has a  GAINT HUNTER 2.0 bike!  I was shocked because I could not believe she liked riding bicycle as fast as possible like me!

This kind of bike is usually for boys, but Kelen has one!   I felt so shocked. I asked what the reason made her like the Giant Hunter 2.0 and she said because it was expensive…… Oops. Sorry Kelen!   That was her answer.

Now I really like biking and am good at it too.  I have never been scared on the road. Sometimes I will scare others if  I ride too fast.  That is why I own the GIANT HUNTER 2.0 because it can change speeds easily.

Bikes are easily stolen in Beijing, in particular  good and expensive bikes like mine.  Every time I double lock my bike and check if it is even a safe place to lock my bike.  It is my favorite pet. I do not want it to get lost. I would be unhappy if it were stolen one day.

Steven – My Favorite Restaurant is an Italian one in Beijing!

As a gourmand, I have been to most of restaurants around our community, and Pasta House(意粉屋) is on the top of my list.

I find lots of restaurants are the same, but when I walk into the Pasta House, I have a totally different experiences.

In Pasta House, there are beautiful pictures and cartoons of specialty food on all of the walls. In addition, there are some comfortable chairs. I like the seats farthest from window. If I sit there, it is quiet and I feel relaxed.   Now, many people enjoy reading books or having a little meeting in the cafe. Maybe it’s a interesting hobby.

And I didn’t know anything about Italian food before. But when I went to Pasta House, I realized that I loved Italian food.  I always eat too much to walk.  I don’t know what Chinese people think about Italian foods. I just usually eat with my mother.  I feel really good when I eat in the restaurant. I sometimes come here with my friends, or sometimes myself.
In conclusion, I love this restaurant. （Here is a picture of my favorite food, I found from internet. I forgot to take my camera that time. ((

Now there are a lot of western restaurants in Beijing.  Such as Mexican food, German food, French restautants, Korean restaurants.   Pizza and fast foods is the most popular in Beijing. You can see so many buffet dinner restaurants and cafes in Beijing.  But I like Italian ones because I like how cheese tastes.

Steven – An Interview with My Best Friend on how to Chose a Friend

I interviewed classmate Zhang Weiyao about making girlfriends.  Please listen to the audio recording of the interview here.

Zhang——–Hello, My name is Zhang Weiyao. I don’t have any English name）

Steven——-OH,NO. I know you told me your English name was Superman. HAHA………

Steven ——–Do you have some hobbies?

Zhang——–Hobbies? I have been summed up. First, we are in the high school. So studying is the most important thing.  That is my most favorite hobby. Second hobby, basketball.  Basketball is my favorite sport game! And I also like music and making friends.

Steven ——–Can you tell me about making friends? I mean do you want to make a girlfriend or boyfriend?

Zhang ——–I would like to say no matter boy friends or girl friends, they all play an important part in your life.

Steven ——-The kind of friends who can cooperate with you should be the a good friend for you to be with. But if you want to share your feelings, your happiness or your sadness, a girlfriend should be a good choice. Right now I do not have girlfriend. I have no idea about that matter now.

Zhang ——-I see. It seems that you got really good opinions about friendship. Thanks.

(Chinese Version)

Steven ——-他虽然不承认，但我知道，他有一个英文名字叫superman.

Steven ——–那你有什么爱好吗？

z——–爱好，我曾经总结过，高中现在应该的事情，一是学习，这是第一大爱好，也是最重要的。第二是打篮球，第三是交友，第四是音乐。

Steven ———你能仔细说一下，交友是grilfriend or boyfriend? 还是普通的，特别要好的，一生中的永恒的那种朋友？

z———-包括boy and girl friends.我觉得朋友，不管是男的还是女的，都是你人生中的极其重要的成分。

Steven ———–我的意思是，你是准备交女朋友呢？还是交一些志同道合的，十分能谈得来的那种朋友？

z———–志同道合的朋友，对于我的事业发展应该的比较有好处的，但是如果让我的情感变得更加丰富，应该交女朋友，但到目前为止还没有谈过恋爱，所以，应该是志同道合的朋友吧！

Steven ———–哦，看来我们的张伟尧同学还是说得很深刻。

Steven – A common daily life of a Chinese senior school student

“Ring, ring.” The alarm clock is ringing. I open my eyes and look at my watch.

Oh! 5:30 AM already! I must get up right now. The first thing I should do is go to kitchen and cook myself breakfast. It will be easy and simple. I usually fry an egg and crab some pieces of bread and have a glass of hot milk or soybean milk. Soybean milk is one of the most my favorite milk I like in China. Many Chinese like to drink it with some other Chinese snacks. Such as the steam bread and dried dough or small pieces of cakes.

At 6 o’clock AM, I will read English or Chinese loudly. Sometimes I need to recite some famous Chinese poems or English articles. Because I think no matter what kind of languages you will learn, it is a kind of input or output process. That means we should spend some time on it.

At 6:45 AM, I should go to school, sometimes I will go to school by bus. However most of time, I will go to school by bicycle. In China, drivers should be older than 18 years old. Now I am in high school, I can not go to school by cars.

We should arrive school at 7:20 AM. It is our school rule. If you are late, you will be punished badly by teacher. If you were late often, your parents will be invited to see the teacher. And the teacher will talk to your parents seriously.

Classes begin at 7:40AM. We have 5 classes in the morning until 12:10PM before lunch. 30 minutes lunch time and 20 minutes rest time later, we will begin our afternoon classes. We will be done at 5:20PM. But we can not go back home at 5:20PM.

We will HAVE AN EXAM AFTER CLASS!!! It is so crazy.

I will be back home at 6:30pm. That means I can have supper soon. After 30 minutes of supper, we will have to do my homework. We have tons of homework everyday.

I will go to bed at midnight, usually at 12 pm. This is one day of mine, a common senior school student in China. Most of my classmate have the same lifestyle as me everyday. What is your dailylife in USA there my friend?

I’m Steven – I love badminton and I need more sleep

I live in Beijing —the capital of China.
And now I’m a student, I study in a senior middle school.

I think I’m funny and easy going, so I have many friends at school.
I like sports and the most interesting things I like to do is playing badminton.

Not only does it exercise my body, but it also exercises my mind.
(Not it gives me a physical exercise, but also the process of playing need me to think how to win.)

It’s really interesting

And I hope I have more time to sleep!
(I don’t have enough time to sleep.) ___ We have too much homework.(Math is too hard.)

I have parents who loved me very much.
They do their best create a perfect environment for me in study and life.

I hope you can know many things about China and Beijing from this blog!