It has been one week sense the campus life began and I learnt a lot of things. And I’ve found some comparisons and contrasts between students here and in China.
First, let me talk about the dormitory life. Because of the large population, dorms in China universities are usually for 4-8 students. But here, we have smaller rooms but larger spaces. Most of the universities in China don’t want students to have electric equipments in dorms, but here we have almost all of them. There’re also some similarities, for example, we also have RAs in my home university and we get along with each other very well. And we always go tripping and have picnic outdoors as well.
Diets between these two cultures have more differences. We don’t have so many cafes in a campus, without saying the cafe in the library. In the dining halls, we choose what to eat and pay for each of them. Not like here, we don’t have cafeterias. Foods here differ a lot from those in China, most of them contain huge amount of calories, they make people fat, but Americans like sports, don’t they? The way people eat vegetables here is a little strange, they eat uncooked vegetables directly. We always cook them so they will taste better, but nowadays more and more people especially women use the American way to eat fruits and vegetables because it can save most of the nutrition in them.
About the campus life, we also have variety of clubs along with lots of school events. It’s a kind of inconvenient to get to the shops off campus. Luckily, we have all kinds of shops in campus, so it’s easy of us to get things we need. However, I find that in America, cars are as general as bicycles in China, so they can drive to anywhere they want. The professors are kind, and the students are friendly, like those in my home university. Even the architectural pattern is similar to ours.
This is only the first week of my campus life. I hope in the next two years I can adapt my self to the life here, make more friends and learn more.
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Hey Auir!
ReplyDeleteI have not known that also Chinese universities have a campus life similar the American one.
It would be interesting to learn something more about the Chinese campus life. Maybe you can tell us more about your campus life in your next post.
However, I absolutely agree with you that the food contains a high amount of sugar and fat. We would also cook the broccoli and cauliflower before giving them into the salad, mentioning this only as an example. In Austria you would never get hamburgers and french fries for breakfast.
Anyway, that is our second week here in America, as you also mentioned in your post, and I think we are getting used to that cultural differences.
p.s. It would be nice if you could change the language into English so that we all know which button we should push to submit the comments!
ReplyDeleteThank you,
Domenica
Good job, Teddy
ReplyDeleteThank you for reading. It seems that I can't change the language, sorry, but if you can guess...
ReplyDeleteThanks for your commends!!! I will pay attention on that. Next time, I will try to use Office Word and correct those mistakes.
ReplyDeleteAnd I agree with you about food here.It's really easy for us to get fat. Also, there are many kinds of clubs here and let us show our own talent. Have fun in Eau Claire and come true your dream!
Now, as an American, I think raw vegetables taste great!!! I would have never thought that would be something someone else would consider strange! Always good to learn something new no matter what culture you are from, right?
ReplyDeleteYou got the language changed to English! Good job!!
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