I hate abandoning my online diaries, but there are too many people who told me that they can't read this...

So, I am moving....

I will try to keep the new one simple, so y'all can read~

For those who has long complaining that you can't subscribe me:

this is my new site,

http://www.xanga.com/kariscares

still under construction~

I went to Jacque's home for thanksgiving. They are all nice and sweet people! I am so full now...

aw.... and I did gain some weight today~

I had a great time in Jeshica's apartment tonight!

I am really thankful to get to know her and Maki for sure~

all of us hold hands together and shared about the thankful things we had this year before the thanksgiving dinner, and we had a lot of fun~

this is my very first thanksgiving here..and...

this is my life in America~

we had a talk over different cultutres and festivals...

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the questions people would ask when you first met a person here is:

1)How are you?

2)Where are you from?

3)What is your major?

4) Do you live on campus?

OK, so there are a lot of people started asking me,

"why people from Hong Kong would never say that they are from China?"

"Is Hong Kong a country?"

or, they will ask me a lot of questions about China that I don't know...

I finally figured out that it is a cool way to explain like that~

"Hong Kong is technically not a separate country as it is under the sovereignty of China, however, it has a special political and economic system, it’s own Olympic team, currency and stamps. Our cultures are different. I would not deny that I am a Chinese, Hong Kong does belong to China, but I would still say that I am from Hong Kong and Hong Kong is different from China."

I am proud to be a Chinese and I am proud to be a Hong Kongers. However, they are two different identities to me~

hm...suddenly, I really wanna show my ignorance.....

anybody knew that the word, TYPHOON is actually from Cantonese "Big wind"?

plus Tiphon "violent storm, whirlwind, tornado" is recorded from 1555, from Gk. typhon "whirlwind," and  tufan, a word in Arabic, Persian and Hindi meaning "big cyclonic storm

wow! words can be really invented like that?

Will we really find the word HAE in the future?

I immediately recalled the passage from the Bible how the process changed in a second from monolingual to different languages....

um...I really like my Linguistics class...

Yay! I did have a lot of fun last night! We all played the reverse hide and seek, apples to apples and the coloring! Can you imagine a whole bunch of college girls playing all the kids' games?

well, who cares as far as we had a good time~

Wow! Andy's house is really big! We could even play volley ball and basket ball INSIDE the house!

When we left, we all got "compacted" in Amanda's car, which was hilarious!