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May 07

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Yes I’ll let you know for sure and thank you for all you are a very very good teacher see you in a week bye.

ashort:

I am glad to hear that you have a roommate and that you know that there are counseling services on campus if needed.  If you or anyone you know on campus is going through a really difficult time, please contact one of the teachers, including me so that we can find the appropriate help.  We certainly don’t want another tragedy to happen again.

adja:

Yes, I get along with my roommate and some people who are in my floor. My mommy told me to talk to them and she put me in the dorm because for her I wasn’t ready to take apartment alone in a new city. I like our dorm but I was never confronted to the suicide before. I used to see the girl who commit suicide in my floor but I didn’t imagine that she had a problem so it was a little bit confusing because she had a boyfriend and friend. People said that she had depression. Also, in my floor everybody have a roommate but she was the one who was alone. Actually, it’s hard to talk with someone who you don’t know too much and I don’t know why it’s so complicated here. The communication is the only problem but I think VCU should support enough students because some are not strong and after this my mommy told me to go to see the counseling and my friend from Mali go there too because as a International Student we need it and I might go to see.

Thank you Audrey 

ashort:

It sounds like you have good communication with your roommate.  You are lucky and also a decent communicator yourself, I imagine.  I am sorry to hear about the student in your dorm who committed suicide.  Do you feel like the university is providing enough support to the students?  Do you know that there are free counseling services in the Student Commons if you or someone you know needs help or someone to talk to?

 Yesterday I spoke with my roommate about the topic that I choose in the classroom. It was about what are some important qualities of a good roommate? I had two roommates before her and we all got along together too. My roommate and I speak a lot and we do things sometimes together, she is very.

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Hello Audrey how are you? I hope you enjoy your break with your family

sorry to reply late I was trying to get some rest and thank you for your wish have a good day :)

Adja

ashort:

It sounds like you had an interesting day.  I hope you have many more in the future!

Today was a special day for me because I did a few activities and it was very different from the other days. First, I went with my friend at the Tattoo store to do mine because I wanted to do it since I was young. When I went there I had a conversation with the man who had to do it about the kind…

Apr 30

Weekly Speaking Reflection HW

Today was a special day for me because I did a few activities and it was very different from the other days. First, I went with my friend at the Tattoo store to do mine because I wanted to do it since I was young. When I went there I had a conversation with the man who had to do it about the kind of tattoo I want. I wanted to do my name in Chinese but he told that he couldn’t do it because he doesn’t want to mess up the name because there are too many letters in Chinese so he recommended me to find someone who can write correctly in Chinese but I couldn’t wait or come back. I wanted to do something new and it was to do Tattoo so I had with me a paper with LOVE in it and it was in Chinese, then he decided to do it but before all of this, he gave me a paper to fill out because I had to be over eighteen. As long we were going he gave me some advices and to take it cool but he was also trying to know me to make me feel good and I asked him some questions about his tattoo too because he have so many. He told me that he can live without them and this is a part of him like his passion at all. It’s hurted me a lot when he was doing it but it just took ten minutes and at the end I felt good and was so happy to have it.

After I had a short conversation with my floor mate when they were going at the library. It was about their classrooms and about their exams. It was short but also, i learned a little bit about their major. 

Finally, I was with Choi, Hee Won and their friend in a front of Shafer when we met a Lady with her dog called Lilly ( who is very nice as a dog), we asked her some questions about Lilly. She told us that Lilly is four years old, seven pounds and like to eat. Lilly is not her dog but she likes to take care of her and spend time with her. The lady used to be at VCU but she is off now and she told us that she will be back soon. She asked us of course some questions but we asked her mostly about the dog :)

For example, Lilly like to eat green beans but she likes all kind of food even if it’s cake. It’s an adorable dog who don’t bark but who is mostly interested by food and to have affection. I asked the lady if she can come tomorrow and then she said that she will be here tomorrow afternoon and I was so happy because I can spend time with Lilly and feed her too.

In addition, I had a good day, I learn a lot of things and it was interesting at all.

Apr 28

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Yes, I get along with my roommate and some people who are in my floor. My mommy told me to talk to them and she put me in the dorm because for her I wasn’t ready to take apartment alone in a new city. I like our dorm but I was never confronted to the suicide before. I used to see the girl who commit suicide in my floor but I didn’t imagine that she had a problem so it was a little bit confusing because she had a boyfriend and friend. People said that she had depression. Also, in my floor everybody have a roommate but she was the one who was alone. Actually, it’s hard to talk with someone who you don’t know too much and I don’t know why it’s so complicated here. The communication is the only problem but I think VCU should support enough students because some are not strong and after this my mommy told me to go to see the counseling and my friend from Mali go there too because as a International Student we need it and I might go to see.

Thank you Audrey 

ashort:

It sounds like you have good communication with your roommate.  You are lucky and also a decent communicator yourself, I imagine.  I am sorry to hear about the student in your dorm who committed suicide.  Do you feel like the university is providing enough support to the students?  Do you know that there are free counseling services in the Student Commons if you or someone you know needs help or someone to talk to?

 Yesterday I spoke with my roommate about the topic that I choose in the classroom. It was about what are some important qualities of a good roommate? I had two roommates before her and we all got along together too. My roommate and I speak a lot and we do things sometimes together, she is very.

Apr 27

Weekly news HW

Don’t Believe ‘The Back-Up Plan’:Take It From One Who Knows, J.Lo

Inseminated:to introduce or inject semen into the reproductive tract of a female.

Miscarriage:failure of a plan 

Fender-bender:a collision between motor vehicles that produces minor damage

Squinting :to look with the eyes partly closed, as in bright sunlight.

Peeing:informal terms for urination

Glossy:Having a smooth, shiny, lustrous surface ex: glossy satin.

Questions

1.Do you think that the insemination is a right thing to do?

2.Does the insemination will cause be a problem for some children later?

3.Should they ban it or not?

http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2010/04/the_backup_plan_through_the_ey.html

Apr 22

Weekly Speaking Reflection HW

Yesterday I spoke with my roommate about the topic that I choose in the classroom. It was about what are some important qualities of a good roommate? I had two roommates before her and we all got along together too. My roommate and I speak a lot and we do things sometimes together, she is very nice and very busy because her major is Biology and mine is full time in English so we don’t have a lot of to see or spend time together as her, we have always class in the morning and in the afternoon but we go out sometimes in the weekend or we watch movies together at two to four in the morning. She is very kind with me and I’m going to miss her at the end of the semester. My roommate and I agreed that it’s not easy to share a room because our room is little so there’s no kitchen or common room and all my floor mate and us have to share the same bathroom so this is the big problem so we were complaining about that but my room is big comparing to another’s room and I have a view from Richmond so we have always some people in our room, then I can say that I’m lucky. We talked about the important thing and it was that to communicate, to understand each other and we help each other too per example last Monday, I couldn’t sleep in my room because our floor mate commit a suicide so I was scared and I went to sleep in my ex-roommate’s room so she decided to call my roommate to come and it was two thirty a.m at this time and she asked me why I didn’t call her, I just said that because I didn’t want to disturb her and then she slept in our room. To share the room with someone is not easy but if you try to understand the person with who you live and communicate each other it will be easier, so for someone like me who are alone here I prefer to have a roommate because I won’t think a lot of my hometown.

Apr 21

Weekly news HW

Teen Texting Soars; Will Social Skills Suffer?

Vocabulary:

1. Monitoring: the act of observing something (and sometimes keeping a record of it)

2. Backfire: a fire started to check an advancing fire by clearing an area 

3. Whereabouts: about where; in, at, or near what location

4. Lounge:To move or act in a lazy, relaxed wa

5. Widespread: widely(to a great degree) circulated or diffused

6. Awkward: causing inconvenience

7. Wheedle: influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering

Definition from :wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

Questions

1.Will texting cause our teens social skills to suffer? 

2.What people should do about the problem?

3. What are causing teenager to be addictive to text message?

Apr 19

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Oh Maybe in another time, sometimes he goes there but not that much and in this summer he is going to stay here like me to take some summer classes but maybe at the end of the summer I’ll go in NY because I went there just in the winter not in the summer but I’m not sure about it because Im more interested to go in Texas. 

ashort:

Perhaps you can go up to New York when he is up there and he can show you some interesting places.

Tonight I went to the Cabell Library with my friend C.J to study. He is from New York and he is a Senior at VCU but he has two major: one is English and the other one is Political Science. It’s good to know that he is studying English because I’m learning it and then I was wondering why he decided…

Apr 17

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And you shouldn’t be shy to dance for real and I didn’t know know that you haven’t party in your hometown Whoooa !!What is the name?

Today, when I went to the dining centre, I saw my friends are talking with her friend, my friend has been here about 2 years, and her frind is a native American, they are talking about the music, so I went there to join them. She said a lot of Americans like to listen to rock. She said she likes…

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Nice topic I really like it ;)

Today, when I went to the dining centre, I saw my friends are talking with her friend, my friend has been here about 2 years, and her frind is a native American, they are talking about the music, so I went there to join them. She said a lot of Americans like to listen to rock. She said she likes…