my favorite movie genre!

I like the movies The Shawshank Redemption and The Nuovo cinema Paradiso, both of their movie genres contains drama. The website IMDB has already gave the definition of drama as:"should contain numerous consecutive scenes of characters portrayed to effect a serious narrative throughout the title. This can be exaggerated upon to produce melodrama. Please submit any such keywords. Subjective." (IMDB,10/08/2007, www.imdb.com/Guides/genres) In the movie Nuovo cinema Paradiso, the main character is the Toto, it shows the entire life of Toto. When he was young, he was a very smart boy who lived in a small town in Italy, he liked everything about movies. the projector of the cinema of paradiso ( the only small cinema in this town), Alfredo is the best friend of Toto, he taught everything he knew to Toto, not only about movies, but also about love, life and many other things. He also disrupted Toto's love when he was young, and forced him to go to Roman to work. finally, Toto became the most famous movie director in Italy, and he also own a valuable memory with this old man. In the Shawshank Redemption, the main character Andy was a banker when he was young, but he was misarrested by the police and put into the prison. this movie shows his convict career, and shows the friendship between him and Red, who also is a prisoner. He used his knowledge to help people to get fun, to found out the evidence of the crime of gaolers, and finally got out of the prison. I like the words he said:"Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free." This movie shows Andy's strong ability to get out of the fear, and to find out the freedom and happy. In conclusion, I like drama because it shows everything about a person's life, with many dimensions, and this kind of movie can impresses me really a lot!

Fun in Chicago

Yesterday, I and my Chinese friends and Alicia went to some places in Chicago together. First, we have been to the Art Institute of Chicago. We saw a lot of oil painting at there, included Van Gogh's "the bedroom" and many other expressionism painting. Otherwise, we also watched a lot of Chinese antiques there. After that, we went to the Chinatown by taking subway. That was the worst subway I had ever seen, there was very dirty and dangerous. But, when we had been to Chinatown and ate traditional Chinese food, we get over the stress. That's the most delicious Chinese food I had already ate in America, and all of us felt so excited when we ate. Also, I and Alicia discussed the customs of eating between China and America. After that, we went to the Michigan Ave and bought some coasts there. In the end of the day, we went to a old pizza restaurant, which is strongly advised by Alicia, and we ate the traditional Chicago food, a thick piece of cheese pizza, and felt so satisfied.

Top fun in iowa

yesterday(Friday) night, i played badminton in the field house, i met a lot of new friends and got a lot of fun. Some of them played almost the same level as me, but some of them used to have some professional training, they played so great!~for my classmates who wanted to play badminton for a long time, wish you could come at Mon, Wed, Fri, Sat night, usually 7:00 to midnight. It's not only a good way to play badminton, but also was a method to practise English!

compare and contrast something about Beijing and Iowa City

I used to live in Beijing, the capital city of China, but now I am living in the Iowa City, which is much smaller than Beijing. This change makes me feel uncomfortable in the beginning, but now, it seems not really bad. Firstly, Iowa City is absolutely small, with low population, but Beijing is not, Beijing has twenty millions people, and everywhere in the city seems much lively than Iowa City. But one thing that for people is the same in both cites is that both of Iowa City and Beijing contains many people who come from all over the world. Secondly, both of Iowa City and Beijing have Chinese Food restaurants, but the Chinese food that provide by Beijing restaurants is much better than that of Iowa City. Even though, the Chinese restaurants in Iowa City provide the so called Chinese food, it is really hard to detect whether it is the Chinese food. Thirdly, English are popular in both cities, but in Beijing people do not have as good language environment as that of Iowa City, So, although we can study English in Beijing, Iowa City is a much better place to practise English as well. That's some of the differences and similarities between Beijing and Iowa City.

500 miles

this is the song i like most when i come into America, it is a wonderful piece of melody that let me feel just likes staying at my home...

If you miss the train l'm on

You will know that l am gone

You can hear the whistle blow

A hundred miles

A hundred miles ,a hundred miles

A hundred miles ,a hundred miles

You can hear the whistle blow

A hundred miles

Lord l'm one

Lord,l'm two

Lord l'm three

Lord l'm four

Lord l'm five hundred miles

Away from home

Away from home

Away from home

Away from home

Lord l'm five hundred miles

Away from home

Not a shirt on my back

Not a penny to my name

Lord l can't go back home this way

lf you miss the train l'm on

You will know that l am gone

You can hear the whistle blow

A hundred miles

the Godfather pizza

I and my roomates went to the Godfather pizza to have dinner, this was the most intereting thing for me during the last weekend. The godfather pizza was a very nice restaurant, it had a lot of kinds of pizza, and you could hear lots of contry music when you had dinner here. For us, the most interesting thing was that we did not know which kind of pizza is the most delicious one at that time, and we saw a big picture in the middle of the menu, and it seemed good because it was a combination of two kinds of pizza. So, we choose it by our curiosity. Indeed, we choose a pizza with both combo and all meat. Acturally, we did not know what combo really means at that time. When we waited at the table, we got a fried bread and tomato sauce, and after that, we got a sweet bread, which contained a lot of sugar. After we finished eating those things, a really big pizza just came into my sight, and I did not know how to describe the huge shape it was, the only thought for me was:' oh my god~!!' We tried to eat as much as we can, but finally, we still needed to bring a lot of pieces back, but it was really delicious, and when I felt so hungary during the writing class, I would remember the Godfather's pizza.

my introduction!

My name is marc, i come from beijing, china. This is my first time that visit America and study at here, it is a really wonderful experience for me. The iowa city is that kind of city i expected before i come to America, because i know it is a quite small and quite peaceful city, and i think it is the best place to student who need to study at here. For me, to know the teachers and classmates in the IIEP is a agreeable thing during my study in America. Now, I will introduce some of my hobbits to all of you. I would like to play piano, draw picture(sketching), read book, play badminton(the most interest thing for me), and play basketball. I wish that i have a chance to find some one has the same hobbit as me, and have some fun when play play those kind of sports. I also wish that everybody is likely to see my blog and add your comment, and tell me more about your hobbits (not just be classmates in class). lol~~