Dairy Fist Draft

Rujian, Zhou

11/30/2015

English II

Mrs. Guarino

Dairies

Inter:

I had a dream when I was small, I wanted to go out of country and see the world. I got used to views in my hometown, there were always the same, same people, same building and same life. And this morning October 29th, my dream came true, I arrived at JFK airport in New York and  I was ready to begin my studying in America.

I was so excited when I got off the plane, I was going to enter a new world that I never know before. I felt I was exploring a new world. Then, I saw the securities in the airport, they were people who different from people in my city. They spoke English, they had brown eyes, blue eyes, and golden hair. As well as guide sign in the airport, all of the words are in English. I was clearly realized that I was not in China, but America.

America was a whole new world for me, I could not wait to start my first year in my school. My journey had started!

Sep 1st

Dear Diary:

Today was my first day at school, I was so excited that I could not sleep last night. I did not know what will happen in the school year, but I was sure that I would have a great time at this school.

At the morning, I went to the administration building, as called “The Castle”  to check in with teachers. The administration building is a big, European structure made by gray stone and has four turrets on it. I had never seen a building like this in China, I realized I was in a different country again. Then, all the students and teachers attended the opening ceremony of the school year. All of us went to a church, which was a classic Catholic church with polychrome stained glass window, as well as people who song Hymn in the center. With the Hymn and the sunshiny from the stained glass, I felt the church was the most holy place in the world.

It was a great start for the school, I believed that this year would have a lot of good things happen.

Sep 2nd:

Dear Diary:

Today was the end of the orientation session. I had learnt a lot about my school. I knew about my schedule, the location of classrooms and other things that I needed to prepare for the school. It was very helpful for me, an international student to have orientation. It helped me know what I should do and how was the school like.

At the afternoon, all the student were in the assembly hall for the final orientation session. At the middle of the session, a asian looking girl who wore a pale blue silk made dress went into the hall with a sound of opening door. She had beautiful long black hair, and big brown eyes. She looked like a Chinese, I was curious about her and more importantly, I felt at ease to see someone liked me in the school. Because she looked so pretty in her silk dress, all of the students in the hall was looking at her. Then, the girl’s face burned with embarrassment, she must be very shy.

Beside this surprise, the orientation session went on good. The school was going to officially start, there were still many things I needed to do.

Sep 7th:

Dear Diary:

This was the end of my first week at my American school. It was a tough week, I had so many troubles in the school.

Firstly, I could not understand what my teacher saying at class. They always speak too fast for me to translate words in my head. Because of my poor English, I could not speak a lot to my classmate, and sometime I could not understand what they were talking about either. It was the worst time for me, I felt helpless. I did not know what I should do in the school, and I wondered that my decision to come here is right or not.

The only thing I could do was keep practicing my English, because all the causes of troubles were related to my poor English. I had to spend more time than other on studying and used all my rest time to read my English book.

Sep 30th:

Dear Diary:

After a month’s studying, my English had improved. Even though there were still many problems with my grammar and speaking, I was glad that my hard work had reply.

One of the things had helped me was my English class. I was so happy about there was English class in the school. In this way, I had more times to learn English and get help from my English teacher. Also, I was more and more familiar with the environment, the lifestyle of living in America. I still remember I had heavy jet lag at the first few days I came here. My life got a little easier than I just came.

I was very glad about my improvement in English. And I wanted to improve more, then I could speak more at the class and makes friends with my classmates.

Oct 1st:

Dear Diary:

October 1st is the National Day of China. I remembered my old school always had a big celebration at the National Day each year.

I thought about the National Day at last year, my old school setted up a sports game. Each classes made their own uniforms for students, and we wore the uniform during the sports game. I thought about one of friend at my class named Owen. He was a tall, handsome boy who love playing tennis. In the sports game, he signed up for the tennis game. I went to support him as well as some of my classmates. We were very excited, every time he got a point we shout together, and we wave our uniforms to him. He won the game at last, I ran to him and hug him.

It had been a month since I came to America, and now I was thinking about all the things happened in China. I missed my country very much.

Oct 9th:

Dear Diary:

I had one new friends today. Her name is Ellen, she is also a freshman. She is tall and had a beautiful blue eyes with golden hair.

I met Ellen in our Biology class, we were assigned into one group to do an experiment. Before I saying anything, she introduced herself with a big smile “Hi, I am Ellen. You look like my roommate Sookan, both you and her has such a beautiful black hair” I was shocked by this frank greeting. Then, we talked to each other after school. She invited me come with her and some of her friends to have some drinks. Ellen is a very outgoing girl and she has a lot of friends. She treats every people she meets with smile, and she is friendly to all of us.

I was very happy to know Ellen. It is very nice to have her as a friend.

Oct 10th:

Dear Diary:

Today, I went to the post office and got a letter from my mother.

At the first sentence of the letter, my mother wrote “I miss you.” When I read that, I felt my heart was bleeding. I missed my mother, and all my family members very much. I could not find a word to describe how much I missed them. So when I read about this sentence, all the feeling that I hided deep in my heart came out. I could not control myself from crying. It felt like I was away from my family for decades, at that moment I thought I would give up anything if I could come home.

My mother wrote about her and other people lives in China. She wrote that they were all right and all I need to do was studying. She did not want my to worry about anything at home. After I finish the letter, I saved it very carefull in a box and placed it under my bed. The letter became my little treasure.

Oct 21st:

Dear Diary:

I was so happy today, there was a big project in my world literature class and I got full score in this project.

My teacher - Professor Bennett asked us to write an essay about our understanding of literature. Because it was my first big assignment which worth a lot of points, I was very nervous about it. I went to ask help from Professor Bennett at the first day’s afternoon. I was worried about that I wasn’t a native English speaker, and I am still learning English, how could I write an essay? Then Professor Bennett told me about all the main points and importances in an essay that I should pay attention. He was very patient and answered all my questions. At the end, he listed all those things on a paper and gave it to me. And I found it was already evening.

I was moved by Professor Bennett, and I did all the things to the best in my essay. Today, when I got the result, I knew I earned it and I could not did it without Professor Bennett’s help.

Oct 31th:

Dear Diary:

It has been 2 months since I came to America. My life at the first month was full of struggle, but now it got much better.

My English has improved a lot. I gained confidence by the essay at Professor Bennett’s class. Then I felt more comfortable about talking with other people. I could understand my teachers’ speaking at class. I was glad about my improvement in English. At the other hand, Ellen and I became closer and closer, we always talked about Kyle who was her boy friend. Moreover, Ellen introduced Sookan to me. Sookan is also a very good girl, but she is always busy and we could not meet her.

This was a wonderful month.