Working on my essay

I have a really good process on my food essay revision. The biggest problem I have is my tense problem. In my essay, there are lots of place that I used the wrong tense for wrong time. Such as the place I need to use present tense I used past tense. This make my essay become very awkward and not smooth. To make my writing become better, I first start with reread my work again. The reason why I did this is because I want to know where I got wrong and need to improve. Then I take some notes on each paragraph, the notes are about what tense should I use for. I can know what I need to change by reading my notes and I won’t forget what should I do before. However, the tense problem is just one of the problem I have in my writing. Second thing I am going to work on is the descriptive language. In my writing, there are several place that the language I used are weak and boring. Using more descriptive language can help my essay become more interesting and vivid. I tried to not using some weak word like big, long, red...those kind of simple and weak word. Instead of those word, I use some word like unpredictable, unbelievable, movable...etc. This will definitely help my writing become more interesting and will let the reader willing to continued to read. These two are the main problems that I am working on right now, but there are still many detial that I can make my essay become even better than now.

Best Snake in the world

Taiwan is become one of the country that most people willing or travel to, because the foods in Taiwan are very good and make people unforgettable. I did agree on this point because those foods are just incredibly good. One of the most unforgettable food for me is the braised pork rice, this could be the representative of Taiwan. It is called lo-ba-bung in the Taiwanese language. The way how it make is to let the round pork marinated and boiled in soy sauce, then served it on top of steamed rice. Braised pork rice is an affective dish for me since I was small, and I would like to let you know how good the taste is.

Braised pork rice have a really strong smell, not a bad smell but a good one. Imagine what kind of smell you expect when you cook the pork with the soy sauce for a long time. It must be something smells good and will make you become very hungry so you just want to eat it as fast as you can. The smell is very strong that you can even smell it when you stand outside at the door of dinning hall but the food is inside the dinning hall kitchen. 

Beside the smell of the braised pork rice, I need to say the color of it is also very attractive. You will never know how great it looks like until you actually see one. The color of the pork are already mixed with the soy sauce, which mean the pork color transform from pink meat color into brown color. This is because usually when people cook they will boiled food with water, but in this case we use soy sauce instead of water. After time, the soy sauce will soak into the meat. Then you will see the pork will not longer be pink but brown, this is why the braised pork rice will be that successful.

After telling the smell and the color of the braised pork rice, I think it is time for the taste of it. When you eat this snake, I suggest to eat only with the pork first, then eat the pork with the rice. Trust me, it will blow your mind after you eat like the way I teach you because it is so good. When you only eat the pork part, you can feel how great that pork can fit that well with soy sauce. You might think it will be very salty but it is actually not to salty and also a little bit sweet. This make people will not tired of this taste and also mixed it with rice can make the rice won’t be no taste and become more delicious. When you eat the pork with the rice, it is like they are playing a symphony in your mouth, such beautiful and incredible.

For me the braised pork rice is not only a food, it could be part of my memories about my grandma. I remember when I was small, because my parents were always busy so that my grandma will take care of me when they were not at home. My grandma always make braised pork rice when I was hungry, and I think she made the best braised pork rice in the world. However, life is unpredictable, one day my grandma just pass away. I was cried very hard because I know she put a lot of time on take care of me, but I never say thank you to her. Even now I still regret about that I was being mean to her because I think she was so annoying. Now I know that I was wrong but it can’t change anything back, so everytime when I eat the brasied pork rice I will think of my grandma and know I should be a good son that no need my parents to worry about me. 

Braised pork rice is mean a lot on me and I will never forget my grandma, but that is not the point. The point is having a real Taiwaness braised pork rice is something I think every people in the world should have. If you haven’t try one, come to Taiwan immediately and have one. Otherwise I will say you just lose the change to know what is the heaven looks like.

New Year resolution

1. Play less video game

2. Get a good score on SAT/TOEFL

3. Travel to some countries that I never been before

4. Make more friends 

5. Learn some music instruments that I never play before

One of the most important resolution is get a good score on SAT/TOEFL. I'm a junior right now and next year will be the year that decide which college I will go in the future. My parents hope I can get into a college that better than my brothers did. To achieve this goal, it required a good score of SAT/TOEFL. If I have a good score on those test, I will able to choose any college or university that I want. This mean I can make my parents happy by what they expect me to done, and they can stop worry about me. This is why get a good score on SAT/TOEFL is very important for me this year.

Chrismas holiday

The Christmas holiday is coming.

I can't wait to go skiing.

All of my family are waiting. 

Waiting for my brother who is still sleeping.

I believe this vacation will be interesting.

Plan for winter break

Two more days then it will be winter break, I can’t wait for it anymore because this vacation I am going back to Taiwan.

As an international student, going back home is not an easy thing to do. We didn’t like other day students or those people who live in United State can go back their home whenever they want. For us we need to sit on a little seat for 14 hours, think about that, almost half day you will be ask to sit in that small seat with no internet and no place for you to exercise. It might sound very crazy for most of the people, but for the international students this is the only way for us to go back home.

Lots of things I can do when I go back to Taiwan. First thing I’m going to do is eat a lot of foods, because in the United State there only have one Chinese resterant near by Cheshire Academy. If I want to eat Chinese food we can only order from that resterant, but later on we start to get tired on the food at that resterant. However, if I am in Taiwan. I can try any types of Chinese food I want as long I bring enough money with me. Maybe today’s special is spicy Sichuan food, and tomorrow I can have a tradition Taiwan food...etc.

Beside the food, one point that I’m excited about is my friends. When I go back they probably still need to go to school, but I can ask them out during weekend. Friends could be the second most important relationship beside family. During this winter break, I can go visit those friends that already long time no see. I would also like to visit some of my teachers. Every teacher for me are important, because of what they teach me so I would able to come to United State study. I might want to bring some gifts to my teacher, maybe a small model of the “The statue of Liberty” will be nice!

Last but not least, my family. They are the closest people I have in this world. Especially my parents, because they work very hard so that they will able to pay my tuition. As we can know a tuition for an international student is very expensive. It is like 2 to 3 times a normal American student did. This is why I can’t wait to see them, also my brothers. This trip I probably can’t see the oldest brother but I do can see the second one. When I was small he teach me a lot of things that I might face in the future. Such as how to select a college, or what should I do if my credit card happen something...etc.

These probably will be what am I going to do over the winter break. Each plan for me are important and necessary.(Especially the food one!) At here I hope every people can have a safe trip when they back home and enjoy your vacation!

BLACK FRIDAY DISCOUNT

I had done lots of things over the thanksgiving break, one of my favorite things was shopping. As we can know, during the thanksgiving break there are lots of discounts with almost every type of product, such as electricity, clothes, shoes...etc. This mean I can buy a lot of products with very low price, especially on Black Friday. I am not sure what happen on black Friday or where did it came from, but one thing I know about is on that day almost every store will have a huge discount on their product. That day I believe will be a glory day for my wallet.

The day before Black Friday, me and my friends were discuses about the plan for the shopping road, like where should we go first, then we should go there...etc. We were live at a hotel that near to Time Square so it was very convenient for us to shop. After we done for the road, we decide to go bed early because we want to get up at 5:00 in the morning so there won’t be a lot of people in the store.

Finally, the day we waiting had come. Both of us got up on time and ready to go to the first store. It was very chill that day, I remember the temperature was something like - 8 degrees Celsius. Although the whether was very bad, we still walk to the store because nothing can stop us. When we got to the store, I told my friend “WOW! I thought there will be a lot of people over here, but seems like everyone is still sleeping.” He agree with me because there really only have few people were like us who wake up that early to shop. However, that doesn't matter because this mean we can buy things with very low price and no need to wait in line.

I will say Black Friday was the highlight for my thanksgiving break, because there were too many good stuff I want and all of them were in very low price. On that day we first went to Macy’s which was the biggest one in the United State. Then we went to other store that near around Macy’s, such as Zara, Uniqlo, H&M...etc. I did bought a lot of stuff at each story, and everything I bought none of them was over 100 dollars. I remember the biggest discount I got was a trench coat from Zara. The original price for that coat was about 180 dollars, and it have 50% off so it only cost me 90 dollars. Could you imagine that, 90 dollars for that coat was gone. That was incredible huge discount you can got, my parents was also surprise with that huge discount. I think this is maybe why my parents always ask me to bring stuff back from here.

The Black Friday was one of my highlight for my thanksgiving break, and I really enjoy in it. I hope that one day not only United State, every countries can have this kind of day so that people can know what is it feel to have a BLACK FRIDAY DISCOUNT!

Summaries about Mark Kurlansky

The way he wrote his blog is very interesting because I notice that at the beginning of every blog post he use a question to start it. It might be a random question or a question that he have for people. After he ask the question, he will answer the question and tell the reader his opinion about this question. The interesting part is after he answer the question, there will be another question came out from that answer. He will continue the cycle until the end, and he won't tell you the answer about last question. He might leave the answer or unfinished statement for reader to think about. I think this is very interesting and useful technique for people to end their writing. This is what I found form Mark Kurlansky writing.