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Exciting Experience - Dragon boat race

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One of exciting experiences was when I came to the United States on the first day. This was in January 2005, and came with my wife. It was so excited for many reasons. First, I haven’t taken an airplane to aboard. Second, when the air plane took off from my hometown airport, I thought I can see my parents soon, I haven’t seen them over four years. We met at the San Francisco international airport and it was extremely exciting moment. Third, I can immigrant to one of the richest country in the world; it was a very exciting dream.

the most confusing experiences were when I came to the United States on the first day too. It was so confused for many reasons. First, when I arrived in San Francisco, it was the same day and at the morning, it means I eared a day. Second, I had to use my confusing English everywhere, the officers also said English too. I was confused? Did they speak English? Third, I came to the biggest Chinatown in the United States; the crowd streets and apartment; it was confused from my dream.

AN EXCITING AND BORING MOMENT

The moment most exciting in my life was when my friends and I went to six flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo two years ago. We spent all day there. It was very exciting for me I was excited about it. We play all the games that were there. Like roller coaster many others games that were there. Oh and I saw the dolphins too. I really had fun that day and also I could see my favorite Spanish actor he is very handsome I guess. Also we eat a lot of food! My friends and I were very happy to be there we enjoy everything I hope I could have another day like that.

My boring moment was when I went to see a movie with my sister. It was really boring I almost fall as sleep because the movie was for children. Of course my sister was very exciting about it, but for me the hours were very long. I was dying to be home and also in that time I didn’t understand English well so it was completely boring and confusing well I hope not to have another day like that.

exciting experience by Janie

One of my exciting experiences is that I got my visa and came to the United States. When I and my husband got married, my husband applied for me to come to America. After two years waiting, I got my visa. I felt very excited around those days. Although I had a lot of things to do before I left China, I still didn’t feel tired. I can’t wait to come to America. You know what, because in that time, lots of people wanted to come to America. They felt once you come to an America and you will have a better life, to me, it is.

Exciting and Interesting - Alfred Tsang

One of my most exciting experience was when I went to San Francisco. This was in July, 1999. I have never gone to U.S.A. before. When I arrived in San Francisco, I was really bored. I couldn't find a good job because my English is not perfect. So I returned to school to study English to improve my English immediately. I am very interested in studying at school. English is really interesting. English grammar sometimes isn't to follow the rules.

Spring Break -by stella

Spring Break

I was so busy during the Spring Break. Because my mother- in- law stayed in the hospital. She got a breathing problem when she on the way to church on last Tuesday. Somebody called 911 for her. The Ambulance came right away, and took her to hospital. Luckily, she was saved by the doctor. But the first two days she was still not out of the woods. My families were in and out of the hospital, and helped her to transfer to another hospital to do some tests. She was stable and checked out of hospital already. But the doctor could not find the main reason yet. They said it maybe heart disease causes it. My families and I keep in watching my mother-in-law. I couldn’t enjoy the Spring Break, and there’s a little bit spoiled of my Spring Break.

Exciting and Boring - Li Li Chang

I had really exciting about my first time tripped to another country when I was a young lady. My friend and I took a trip to Hawaii. I’ve never been Hawaii before. I’ve never left from my country. I was extremely excited. We went sightseeing to many famous places, but the special thing was scuba diving at Hanauma Bay. That’s wonderful and exciting experience. I saw very beautiful kinds of tropical fish when I was snorkeling. There were a lot of fish around me and they came to eat food out of from my hand.

I hate staying at home by myself and nobody with me. This is really boring. Five years ago, I was jumping out from armchair and broke my ankle. The doctor used gypsum to treat it. He gave me prescription that I couldn’t walk on floor about two months, so I took vacation about ten days. First, on the first day I enjoyed in nobody disturb me. Then, on the second day, we had order food from restaurant. And next, I saw my house a little dirty and couldn’t to clean it make me unhappy. I like cooking for my family. I couldn’t do anything and nobody with me. My husband needs to work. My daughter must to go to school. I was really bored. I didn’t like to watch soap opera. It was pretty boring. So, I won’t take long vacation with any anybody.

An Exciting Time by Henry

My exciting time was I was in Hong Kong. My friends held a birthday party in a Chinese
restaurant. It happened on my trip last month. we ate chicken, meats, and fish. We were
talking about things since I was moving to the U.S.A. We were talking about our future. We
shared our thoughts. What jobs we would applied. We were singing the birthday song and ate
cake.

My boring time was I was getting no job to do. I stayed at home doing nothing. Everything
was so boring. At that time I had very few friends. Then I was moving to the states. I was so lucky. I had time to learn Engish in City Collage. I met friends in school.











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what interesting and boring Wend Ma

We-my husband and I ,have great times to play with our kids. We have two daughters, one is 10 years old, anther one is 3 years old , all of them have very nice laughing on their faces in the most times. My husband and I love them in full life. We are really interested that play with them after supper every evening. We ride bike, roll skate, play sock ball, basket-ball in ball park, plan flower and grass at front yard. our daughters are excited to stay with us. every thing what interesting they question a lot, some questions we can't answer immediately, so we have another things to do ,find out the answers. this is why we are always busy.
But, sometimes we are bored when they were riding roll skate .I am scare that ride roll skate, I watch them and "la-la" only when they are riding. so this is the only one thing which is boring .

An Exciting Experience and a Time I felt confused - Amanda Fung

One of my most exciting experiences was when my two sons had their first time in a dragon boat race. They are in different schools and different teams. It was my first experience of watching a dragon boat race at Lake Merced. I felt very excited. On that day, there were many participants from other schools and their families. My sons had many different races. When the race started, it was extremely loud. All the people were very excited. They were shouting and yelling. I stayed until all the races ended. I remembered it was a sunny and windy day but I forgot to use sunscreen. At the end of the day, I got a tan. Finally, they got some medals. They were very happy and they got more experience during the race. I recalled in my student life when I was young; I never had a chance to join these kinds of activities in my school. My sons are very lucky. They are not only learning knowledge from books, they are also learning how to cooperate and communicate with each other. It was a very good experience for them. This weekend, they will have a big race at Lake Merced again. I hope they will enjoy the day.






I had never forgot when my older sister and I were in San Francisco for the first time, we got lost in downtown. One day, my mother, two sisters, and I walked to downtown from my younger sister's house. We were very happy to shop around in the mall until 5:00pm. My mother and younger sister needed to go home early to prepare the dinner. My older sister and I remembered the buildings which was used walked back home. When the traffic light turned to green, we wanted to cross the road. Suddenly, a car made a turn. We felt confused about it because it never happened in my country. We must keep our eyes open. We continued shopping until 6:30pm. The sky was a little bit dark. We decided to walk back home. Unfortunately, we passed the buildings and continued to walk down the street. When we walked and walked, I had never seen the street's name before. It was very strange. We were confused how to go back home. We felt very nervous. We didn't remember the home phone number. Our English was limited. The sky was getting darker and darker. This was very confusing. What should we do? We tried to remember how to go back home, but we couldn't. Some building were similar. It made us confused. At that moment, we saw a police officer and he also can speak chinese. He asked us the address where we wanted to go. We were shocked! We didn't know the exact address. We only knew my younger sister's house was on Powell Street. The police officer asked us what was the cross street. We were shocked again! Oh my goodness! We were confused again. We only knew China Town. We said if we can go to China Town, then we should know how to walk home. Finally, the police officer asked us follow Broadway Street, which will bring us to China Town. At the end, we finally returned home at 7:30pm and copied the address and phone number, in case we get lost again.

Two Experiences

For this post, you will write at least 2 paragraphs and upload at least 2 pictures.

You can read mine below as an example.

1. Review the questions on page 108 in your textbook. We made brainstormed and made notes in class. You chose two experiences to write about.

2. Type your Name and Type of Experiences for the Title

• Paragraph 1: Either an Exciting or Interesting Experience.
• Paragraph 2: Either a time you were Bored or Confused.

3. Be clear and specific. Use details. Check your grammar (especially adjective use)!

4. Read at least 3 other students' posting and comment.

An Exciting Experience and a Time I felt Bored -- Denise

One of my most exciting experiences was when I went on my honeymoon. This was in August 2000 and my husband and I had just gotten married. Two days after our wedding we flew to Bali for a three-week honeymoon. I was excited for so many reasons. First, it was extremely exciting to be married. It was my first time to call someone "my husband," and of course we were spoiled everywhere we went for being newlyweds. Second, I was very excited to visit Bali. I had never been there before, and we had a great vacation. Some of my best memories are hiking a volcano, eating delicious food, and relaxing in our luxurious hotel. I hope I can have another exciting vacation with my husband someday soon! By the way, that is a recent picture of my husband and I -- not from our honeymoon.

I love my two sons, but the one time I was really bored recently was at my older son's baseball game. He is only six years old and the team is not very good. It is just important that they have fun, which they do, but it takes a long time for the kids to play a game. Mostly they just stand around and not many of them can hit the ball. The funny thing is that the kids are somewhat bored too. They hate standing around in the field waiting for their turn, and they think it's boring unless they are running around home plate. Baseball is not my favorite sport in general, so it's pretty hard for me to be interested. Maybe when my son is older and the kids play better it won't be so boring to watch!

Spring Break - Li Li Chang

I was been busy during Spring Break. I have an on call job. I work at a hotel. When people have long vacation that means I’ll busy to work. This Spring Break no surprised also. I worked whole week. I like went to work. I enjoyed go to work to made money. I am satisfied with my life. I could go to school to study and go to work. Both of are equal to me. I am a good student I believe. When I was day off or left from my company. I did my homework at night time. I won’t lose my teacher give us homework even I was tired very much. I tried to finish everything as well as I can. My daughter is a nice girl. She helps me a lot. She stayed at home by herself. She never complain about my job let her lonely. We encourage each other. One day I was day off from company. My daughter and I took a walk to Golden Gate Park and eat out. We had relax and to found more fun.

I'm Edward. We had a happy Spring Break. We are organize a picnic party at Crissy Field. We joint our old class mate together to meet there and they brought different kind of food and drink . I cooked the delicious chicken curry

Spring Break

During the spring break i went to my uncle's house and we had a lunch. We celebrated easter we still have the custom of our country and also i went to the casino it was fun i play a lot of games around there. I had a lot of fun i didn't win, but i had fun and also i went to look for a job a filled out many applications. I was very busy all week. I didn't feel the week it went so fast!

Spring Break

During Spring break I did a lot of things with my kids.We went to library borrowed some books,let my kids to reading. Every day, we spend a lot time go to park to play, each time we went to a different park and played ball ,flied a flying dish, flied a kite... we did many things, we really enjoyed .Yesterday, I drove my car, picked up my family went to my cursin's house, we had a big super to celebrated Easter day.

spring break

During the spring break I did a lot of things, I was looking for a new an apartment and some jobs interview.

First of all, I went around with my neighbor in chinatown to looked for a single room, there is a sign at the stockton ave, there is a room in the five floor, there is no elevator ,and public bathroom and kitchen are mess and dirt. And the rental is $450 for one person, also the rental limit is at least one year, so I quit it. The second one is stockton ave too, the room is next to the kitchen which is very terrible and the bathroom is awesome that the flies and mosquitos flying around it. And $650 for a month, but can move out before one month notice adventure. I quite it too because I can't stand the kitchen and bathroom. Then I choose go to the agent, they show me two place , one is single room and public kitchen and bathroom, there is clean, but a little expensive, $600 for a month. Another one is a studio, there are new, just remodel, I like it , but too expensive, $800 or more for a month. So I still cosidering, still looking.

I had three interview in the spring break, first one is a Indian restaurant at columbus ave, work from 10am to 10 pm. It is too late for me, so I quite. Second one is a Janpense restaurant at Ocean, I must take K cart about half hours from downtown to there, when I had the interview I ask for part time, but I think they need a full time, so after interview, they didn't call me. So I had to find the third one also at columbus ave and pacific ave.. It is a Hunan restaurant, although they really don't have an open position right now, but they asked me tried for few hours in Saturday night, and wait for they call.

Spring Break -- Denise

I did a lot of things with my kids during Spring Break and we had a great time! We went to the SF Zoo, the Aquarium of the Bay, and the Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland. At the zoo our favorite thing to see was the grizzly bears. They were playing in the water and play-fighting with each other! We also loved seeing the jellyfish at the Aquarium -- they are so beautiful even though they are deadly. However, the best part of Spring Break was celebrating Easter this past weekend. My kids love dyeing eggs, going on the neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt and having fun with our whole family. We went to my friend Vanessa's house to dye eggs with her kids. The kids made a big mess but had lots of fun. Then we went to our neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt -- those are the pictures above. There were so many kids everywhere and it was a bright and sunny day. Finally we went to Easter brunch on Sunday with our whole family and had a great day. I had a wonderful Spring Break, and was a little disappointed to come back to school today, but I'm happy to see all my students again.

Spring Break - Amanda

I was busy when spring break started. On the first day, I woke up early because I went to visit my son's college, which he will be attending. My brother drove about one and half hours to Sacramento to join an open house at UC Davis. There was a free parking lot but we wasted about 30 minutes to find it. My sister told me before it was very hot, but when we arrived there, it was very windy and cold. It was not my expectation. We followed a volunteer to visit around the school. She told us about how good the school was and her experience. The tour lasted about 2 hours. After that, we followed another volunteer to visit a dorm. There were many rooms and the room was smaller than expected. I recalled my school life when I was young. I hope I can continue my school life in the future. We finished at 2:30. After the tour, we went to shopping in an outlet until the shops closed. We were busy for the whole day.
The second day, I woke up early again. My classmates and I went to picnic in Crissy Field. I prepared some food in the morning, and met them at 11:00. This was my first time there. When one of my classmates and I took a bus to Golden Gate Bridge and transfered to bus #29 which took us to Crissy Field Center. We waited for a long time, so we gave up. We decided to walk over there instead. Unfortunately, we got lost. We walked more than an hour to get there. We felt very tired. Finally, we met each other and shared different kinds of food. We took some pictures and enjoyed the sunny day. I had a wonderful and funny day.

During the spring break, I relaxed at home and also did outdoor activities. It would be a pretty good break for me.

Spring Break Homework

Where are you and what are you doing?

Post a picture of you and what you are doing during Spring Break. Be specific and tell details about your week. Check here to read what Denise and your classmates are doing and write a comment.

I got a great interview on last Friday. I am a participant. Every different subject I like very much because different subject help me a lot. My English is not perfect. I like practice to get my English better and no mistake. I practiced at home. I could answer questions very well. Even though, I practiced a lot during the interview I got some mistake with pronunciation. I knew this is for practice but I am also got little nervous.

Bay the way, I think these questions are easy for me. I had already had real job interview before I got this job interview practice. I have this experience and I know how to answer questions make it perfect. Also, I know how to fill in the applicant form. You teach us how to make resume perfect. Nobody wants to get mistake on the resume and how to shows our strengths. That is great.