十一月 21 2010
Homecoming Week and My Chinese Dishes
Last week was homecoming week. Among all the spirit days, I liked character day the most. Everyone dresses up as a character or puts on a mask. I guess this is how Americans make life fun. You can’t expect there to be a party everyday but you can make the most out of everyday life. Just by some cool ideas, going to school can be something to look forward to too. Of course I went to the homecoming dance, it was a blast and I had a chance to see all my classmates and friends go crazy and silly dance.
My host mom and dad( Ms.Mary and Mr.Eddie) went on there second honey moon for a week so I stayed with another host family that week. They have two exchange students too, and we get along well. It is nice to share cultures from three different lands with each other and share feelings of the more or less homesickness. It was a 3 day weekend, so John(host dad) made the best out of it. He brought us to Atlanta’s CNN museum, 1996 Olympic Park, Atlanta Aquarium, and the Coke museum! My favourite was the coke museum, there was 170 kinds of coke products from all over the world for us to taste and try! I tasted all of them.
There happened to be chicken and garlic and tomatoes that night, so I made some 『three cup chicken』 for Larul and Jayson to try. They enjoyed it and devoured it. Next, I fried tomatoes and eggs, for John and Jayson. Jayson is from Beijing, where they like things stronger, so when I was making it, he kept on asking me to add more salt! He said they way we cook it is different too, because my eggs ended up fluffy, but I think this is just due to my personal way of cooking. To him, whatever I say or how I cook represents the whole southern Chinese population.
This was a really good experience to have a chance to spend time with another family and other exchange students. Other than learning that Northern Chinese like their food saltier and Europeans are very passionate(the other host brother is from Spain), I also learnt that no matter where we’re from, we all need to treat on another with respect and show care as if we were true bred siblings.
Pictures:1. Character day!
2.Homecoming dance!
3.at 96 Olympic memorial park
4.fried tomatoes and eggs!
5.3 cup chicken!
