The early bird gets the worm

The early bird gets the worm. It means doing something before other people do. It is an old sentence in China. When we were students, if we prepare the new lessons before teacher teach, we will understand the class very well. If we prepare for the exam early, we will have a good grade. Also, in business if the productor product things earlier than othe products, they will earn more money than other companies.

I think doing something before other people do will make people's life easier and successful.

Dream.....

I have a lot of dreams....Travel! Money!Handsome boyfriend! Delicious food! Now I want to talk about my travel dream~ Do u know Provence? A city in south France.... It's famous of Lavender! This kind of flower is my favorite! I wish one day I can visit Provence and I want to live there forever..... There is an old story talk about Lavender.

Long time ago, there is a small town in the south France. There is a beautiful girl live in the town. This girl is looking for her truth love. One day, a handsome gentlman come to this samll town and quickly for in love with the beautiful girl. This man ask the girl to go with him. The beautiful girl was very happy. When she back home, her friends suggest her use lavender to see if he is a good person. (Lavender has magic power, it can make the ponish the bad people.) At the second day, this girl bring some lavender, and though them to the man. At that time, the man change his face. He is the devil, and he run away. The girl was very sad. She still have to wait for her true love. After that, the meaning of lavender becomes 'wait for love'.

Also, I upload some pictures. I love Provence!!!!!!

My favorite holiday

There are a lot of holidays in America. But in China, the traditional holiday is Spring Festival. Spring Fesival is my favorite holiday. ^.^ On that day, families all get together and celebrate the new year! There are some rules to celebrate Spring Festival. The most important food is dumpling.Also people eat fish at that day. Because in Chinese fish means people will get good luck in the new year. And the reson why I like Spring Festival is children can get money from old person. The old person give money to children is a traditional things in China.

On that day night, people will go outside to play fireworks. People play this because of a old story. The story said a long time ago, there is a dangerous animal called 'Nian', this animal will come out to eat people at Spring festival eve. People found out that the fireworks can make 'Nian' afraid and back to the forest. So this become a traditional thing. It is jollification on that day.

Welcome to China to celebrate the new year.

I was in front of a Chinese resturant. The first day I came to Iowa City, I was ate at this resturant. The resturant 's name is 'Szechwan Village'. The food there is really delicious and tradition. This resturant also have Japanese and Thai food. I recommend everyone to try this resturant.


Macy and I was sit in front of the Pentacrast. We were waiting for the Coridge Bus. It was summer at that time. The weather was very nice, the grass were green. And there are so many trees in campus. I like the summer sence here very much.

I was standing on the bridge. This bridge is lead Hancher to Burge. It was autumn at that time. The wind was warm and soft. It was very nice at that time.

Do you know what I was doing? Cut the pumpking. ^_^ It was my first time to cut a pumpking, it was really fun. Halloween is a crazy and happy day. I love Halloween. Hope we can have Halloween in China.

Fall in Iowa City

The weather turns quickly in Iowa City. Recently, the temperature turns down, and I realize it is turns to winter. The trees in Iowa City start to trun yellow and red, that's really beautiful. Sometimes you can see one tree truns another color and other trees are still green. That will makes me feel I was in a dream, a beautiful dream. And at that moment, there is just me in the world, nobody else. I like that feeling.

But the wind in Iowa City is so strong. I hate the wind. It will make my hair mess and my eyes uncomfortable. Also, it is very cold when the wind is blowing. Like today, I can't open my eyes when I was walking. My hair was flying in the sky then come in front of my face, I can't see anything. If the wind is not so strong in Iowa City. I like the weather here.

A Important Thing Learn From My Mom

Child can learn a lot of things from their parents. Parents are the most important people in their life, also parents are the most important teachers in people's whole life. I have learned many things from my mother. I thought my mother was the most greatful people in the world. I love her so much. She teaches me a lot of things. When I was young, she teaches me english, she teaches me how to swim, how to play badmiton,how to communicate with people and so many things. The most important thing what I learn from my mom is to be brave.

When you see the word 'brave', maybe you will think you're brave enough. Acutally, everyone is not brave enough. Brave is not only saving world or people like a hero, but also to be yourself. Be brave is not a easy thing. When your friends talk to you about thier opinion, maybe you are afraid to tell them your opinion. When teacher ask questions in the class, maybe you know the answer but you are afraid to raise your hand. In many normal situation, people were afraid to show themselves. My mom is an idol to me. She also looks confident, she also brave to say and to do what she want. And she also successful.

If you don't show your mind to people, how can they know you, how can they understand you, how can you be succesful? This is a very important class that my mom teaches me.

Live in Iowa City

Since I came to Iowa City, everything in my life was changed. I have to speak English everyday, I have to face many thing everyday, I was stress everyday. This is a new life to me, everything to me is new! I feel really uncomfortable at first. I was black hair, different dress style, different language and different culture. Everything to me was just different.

I think in this new place, make some friends is the best way to fit in. So I decided to meet some friends. But I was really nervous about that. Because you don't know how is the person like, is she friendly or difficult to talk. I told myself to be relax, don't nervous. But it doesn't work, I still feel nervous. Then I told myself if you want to fit in here, you have to make friends. Friends is very important in a person's life. So I go. When I stand in front of the door, I start to nervous again. I'm afraid if she can't understand me. Just at that time, she open the door. Then we start to talk. That's really nice. She is very friendly and she can understand me very well. I was so happy about that. She is the first friend I make in America.

After this event, I feel confidence. Even though sometimes I can't understand what they were talking about, and they can't understand me. But I was trying so hard. And everything in my life seem very nice now.

I like all kinds of movies. My favorite actor is Nicolas Cage and Anny Hathaway. They are very good actor.I watched 'Becoming Jane' recently, it was act by Anny Hathaway. This story talked about the famous English writer Jane Austin's life. It's a romantic movie. Even the story is not all true, but it makes me cry. Actually, I don't like to watch the romantic movie. Because I hate to see the sad ending. I can be effect by the movie for a long time. If the movie was a bad ending, the two people who loved each other didn't get together. I will feel really sad, and cry. This feeling will keep me unhappy at least 2 days. when I watched a movie, I feel myself was the person in the movie. Even 'Becoming Jane' makes me cry, but this is a really good movie. You can learn a lot of traditional and beautiful sentence in this movie. Every thing in this movie is just perfect. I recommend everyone to watch this movie.

One day in Chicago

I went to Chicago yesterday! How can I describe Chicago? Chicago is a big city in America. But it was different from my thought. I thought Chicago will look like New York! When I went there, it was really different from New York. But there was one thing that looks the same: there are a lot of tall buildings.

Macy, Carol and I got out of the bus at Navy Pier. And we walked around the Navy Pier. I could see Lake Michigan and some boats. The wind was quite strong, my hair was flying. And I couldn't see the road!!! So we decided to go into the Navy Pier! There was an exhibit on the first floor. The exhibit showed a lot of beautiful glass. Then we went to eat the famous hot dog in Chicago. It tasted delicious. After we ate our lunch, we asked someone how to go to Michigan Avenue from Nave Pier. She told us there was a free bus across the road. We were so happy to hear free.

When we got Michigan Avenue, we started to go inside every shop and get out with nothing. We were poor, so we decided to window shop. We walked the whole day and got back to the Art Institute for dinner. First, we wanted to go to a Chinese restaurant, but the restaurant wasn't open until 5:30. We didn't have enough time, so we went to another restaurant to eat Thai food. It was delicious and not expensive.

It was a short day for Chicago. There still are a lot of places I want to go. But the time was not enough. I still want to go to the Field Museum to see the Mummies, the Art Institute to see the paintings and Chinatown to eat food and sing. Maybe I will go to Chicago on Thanksgiving Day. Whatever, yesterday was a nice day.

The weather in Beijing and Iowa City

The weather in Beijing and Iowa City are similar because of the wind and temperature. In Beijing, the wind is strong. Specially in Autumn and Winter. When I came to Iowa, I think the wind is more stronger than in Beijing. Sometimes I feel like I'm a kite, I almost fly in the sky. But the wind is clean in Iowa City. In Beijing, the sand will come with the wind together, the sky will turn gray. That makes my feel really bad. The next similar thing is the temperature. The temperature change very fast here, it can be really cold in the morning and night, also it can be really hot in the noon. In Beijing, the temperature will change often, but not as fast as Iowa. I think people will easy get sick in Iowa. Sometimes I was thinking about how can I survive in Winter at Iowa City. Hope I will not get sick. The wind and the temperature make the weather really similar between Beijing and Iowa city.

Last Weekend

This weekend happened a lot of things. Friday night I invited many friends who live in Parklawn to eat dinner on Saturday. When I got up on Saturday morning, I went to buy some foods. Then I came back home, started to prepare the foods for dinner. Time past fast. It's 6'o clock. Everyone is coming. We had a nice dinner.

After dinner, someone suggested us to play bullshit. It's a really fun game. I think this game needs luck. If u are lucky, u may win. Anyway, is a nice weekend.

PS: It's Monday again.... Study hard!!!

My name is Yun Yang. Everyone calls me Diana. I came from China. I'm a girl. I like reading, listening music and watching movies. My favourite movie actor is Nicolas Cage. I love his movies very much. He's new movie 'National Treasure II' is going to show at the end of December. I'm looking toward it.

I'm studying at the University of Iowa now. I live in Parklawn, one of the residence halls. I have a lot of fun here. I met many people, make many new friends. The people here are very nice.

Last Saturday there was a football game at the University of Iowa. Everyone wears yellow T-shirt on the street. Everyone looks exciting. I think I will buy a football ticket next time. To realize the American culture.