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My name is Hanyan, many friends of mine said my name sounds Korean although I’m not, I’m 100% Chinese: I was born in China, grew up in China, and I moved with my family to this country about five years ago. I have an English name, Layla, this word means night in Persian. The name comes from a song that also named Layla, this song is considered “one of rock music’s definitive love songs” and yes, rock is my favorite type of music. I barely talk to people I don’t know because I’m a little bit shy, but immediately after I make friend with someone, I start to become so talkative that nothing can stop me. I think it is because I only make friends with people share the same interest with me, and the only thing I like to talk about is things of my interest.

Since I came here without knowing the language, and I prefer stay home rather than going out but not be able to communicate with others, I have to find something to do when I stay home all alone. Therefore, for the past five years, music and manga has become my most interest. I just can’t stop admire people who can sing, compose and draw beautiful pictures, because I can’t. Music has no language boundary, that’s why I think it is beautiful. I can not to understand the meaning of the lyric, but still enjoy the melody. For a person like me who was putted down by the language barrier so many times, music can be a rescuer. The reason why I love manga is very simple: I feel it is easier to read books with pictures explaining what is happening than read books that have so many words cram together on the same page, which makes me feel dizzy. There is an interesting fact about manga: once you start to read one, you will want to read another, and this is so true for me.

After two to three years of life in the U.S, I became more use to the lifestyle and language here, so I have more friends and go out more often. That is when I fall in love with photography. Wherever I go, I carry my camera with me, it help me capture the beauty of the things I seen, also help me to explore more beauty in my life. I start to love this city. New York, it is not only convenient but also beautiful. Another thing I love about photography is I can share things I seen, I love with my friends

I used so many words to talk about my interest, hope it did not boring you. Because as I said to the beginning, I love to talk about things of my interest, and since you are all considered my friends, I just can’t stop talking. I believe I will have more things to share with you during the rest of this year.

（I took those pictures in the city, if you view your world carefully, everyhing can be beautiful）

Hi, everyone.  This is JiaLi. English name is Teresa.  I have been in New York with my parents  around 4 years. I studied in High School for Dual Language and Asian Studies for my past 4 years.  I am hard-working and I like to learn new things. I have learn instruments such like guitar and harmonica. But I am barely play those now. I will play them if I have time. I like sport. But I don’t exercise regularly. Indeed, I like playing tennis with my friends. We used to play in tennis court until 9 o’clock at night. It was good.

Even though I am 4 years immigrant, I make friends in in this new place. I really appreciate every of my friends. They make my life become more meaningful. Obviously, friend is important to me. I cant laugh out loud if I don’t have friends who cheer me up. They give my energy. Every time I feel stressful, they just solve my problem and comfort me. Recently, I have some problems with one of my dear friends. I made her unhappy and upset. I know it takes time to reduce the pain that I cause to her. I hope that our relationship wont change until forever.  I am so afraid  of friends would leave me alone. If they don’t care me, I can’t work normally in my life. I like friends gathering around. the power of friendship can defend every obstacles in my life. I love my friends.

Since I need to go to school on Monday through Thursday and work on Friday and Saturday, I like to stay at home on Sunday and work on what I need to do from classes. I enjoy spend time at home by myself. I like to keep myself rich inside which make myself to  learn new things everyday.  I don’t like to be a foolish person who waste time on doing nothing.  So I stay at home to study and sometimes use my computer for entertainment. What about you? Do you enjoy your weekend?

All my friends like me as an easy-going person, and I like myself as a friendly girl. I think only be nice to others, then you will get the same respect from others. But I failed to treat my mother just like the way I treat my friends, when I was still young and immature. I do not know if most girls seem their mothers like big enemys for a while, I did though. Because my mother used to stopped me to hang out with my friends and grounded me, I really hated her being arbitrary. Then I became impatient and inimical to her. We barely talked to each other for a long time. I do not remember how we became good again, but I remember how she takes care of me untiringly all these years. I finally understand why she was so nervous about hanging out with my friends. She was afraid of a teenage girl to do something stupid, then she used her stupid way to peotect her little girl. Now I have grown up, I totally understand my mother, and I know she is the most important person to me. Sometimes I feel guilt when I lose patience to her. But she never gets mad at me, I just wanna say I love you mom.

My mother was very happy when I told her about Baruch is my choice of college. The reasons why I chose Baruch are because Baruch is an outstanding business school in New York and it is located in Mahanttan. I am going to major in Accounting, so Baruch is definitely right school to attend. And I love Mahanttan, especially shopping in Mahanttan. Shopping makes me happy, although I do not have a regular job to make money, I still shopping a lot. However college life is so busy that I do not have extra time to shop. Everyday I have homework to do, read a lot as well. I have to work hard since English is my second language and all my courses require very good English, otherwise I will not have a good GPA in the end of the year. To me personally a good GPA is above 3.0. I hope I can make it.

Recently I feel stressed out, because it is the Mid-term time. I have an Anthropology test this coming Wednesday, so much reading have to be reviewed. I wish I have another brain to study. And good luck to myself, to my classmates also.

        Hello, everybody, my name is Mindy.I have been here for more than two years. In 2008, we moved to Florida which was our original plan. I went to high school for three months and there were only three Chinese people (of course including me) in the school. It sounds wired but it’s true. Then, my parents decided to move to New York so I come with them.
        In my new high school, I make lots of friends. Friends always make me happy. There once a saying: if you are happy, then share with your friends, the happiness will booms as twice as before; if you are sad, still share with your friends, then your sadness will just left half of it. In this way, I like to help others to solve problems. I feel so powerful because of that. Maybe that is one of the easy ways to make friends. Besides that, as an immigrant, I really know it is so hard to get used into such a new environment with poor English. It is much better if someone give you a hand in time. I still remembered my first school-day in Florida. There was a guy who helped me a lot so that I didn’t feel lonely and upset at that moment. Until now, I feel so happy about helping people. That’s what I learn from my friends and I will continually do it. And now, I’m in college, I surely need somebody’s help.

         One thing I think I am afraid of is blood, I mean great amount of my blood. Every-time I have blood test, I feel dizzy and want to throw out. So I never have a blood drive even though I really want to. One day, I told my friend I wannna donate my blood, and she was liked: oh, no, don’t go! If you donate 200 cc bloods, then they have to give back 600 cc to you.” Although it is a joke, it might be true.

           And i think i am a pretty easy-going and optimistic girl. And this can be reflected from my drawing.I always use the bright color. I think u like drawing. The reason I use” I think” is I never draw in China. However, I draw sometimes. Here is my some works. It is not really good because I have never learned it.     

  As you all know that Ling Ling is my name, and in Chinese it means (the animal) “dear”. However, I also have an English name, Dorcas, which I keep it to myself. The name, Dorcas comes from the Bible and in Hebrew it also means “dear”. Growing up in a single-parent family, I learned to be independent, mature, responsible, caring and hardworking at a relatively young age. I am proud to have these characteristics. However, I am also not outgoing, shy and unsociable which I tried hard to improve. I like to get thing done on-time, it makes me happy. I am a serious person and I hate to be fooled around. The person who is very important to me is my mom; I could never imagine living a life without her. I am empowered to manage the money I earned and to do the housework after I get home. One shameful thing I would always remember is when I was in first grade I was so interested in my grandfather’s razor that I used it on my eyebrow and shaved half of it. I feel so ashamed to go to school with a different eyebrow. One of the motto I like is “Do unto Others as You Would Have Them Do unto You” This keep me award of the ways I treat others.

 Well, after experiencing the first two months of college. I am only disappointed with some of my professors and the rest are just fine. The biggest challenge I encounter is staying focus through classes like music, US History, and even math which I often wander during class. I enjoy the break time, but it seems to get shorter. I love the school for having access to computer everywhere at anytime. I am always worried about the first test grade I am getting in each class. For instance, I have an anthropology test this Wednesday. Since this is the only test of that class and worth 50% of the final grade, it makes me more worried about the test. I am afraid of failing; I want to pass every class with a satisfying grade. My plan for the future is to graduate with a 3.5 and have a job which I feel comfortable working and with a decent pay.

This is the character I choose to represent me. Yes, she is Cinderella. Only the difference between Cinderella and I is that I have a loving mother. However, I also have to do all the housework like she does.

Hi Everyone,
Congrats on completing the first mandatory blog! I know you must be working hard on your monologue presentations and I am excited about what you are going to present.

I would like to point out a few things. If you look at pg 40 in you planner, you will notice that there are a list of resources available to you and I encourage you to take advantage of them especially if you are ESL students and would need help to improve your written and spoken English.

Please remember that you have a homework assignment due on Monday as well. So for next class be prepared to hand in the homework, present your monologues and have posted your second blog. The second blog is mainly about expressing yourself in a creative way so feel free to add videos, music, pictures or anything else you thing will enhance your blog. (Remember the 2nd blog is a typed version of your monologue). Feel free to contact us if you need any assistance. Have fun with your blog!

See you on Monday
Johnella

Hey everyone. For those of you who dont know me my name is Ariel Basalely. When i think about who I am, I think I’m an advisor to my close friends. Im usually the person who my close guy friends can come up to me for advice with whatever they want whether its relationships, how to manage their time, what they should choose. Everything always differs. Another way in which i can describe who I am is a role model to my two year old nephew. He always copies what I do and I’m the closest uncle he has to his age, and I hope i can be a good enough influence on him

There are a few things in which I feel concerned about for my first year at Baruch. One is maintaining a good average. Its been a lot tougher for me with all the assigned reading and all the papers that I’ve been doing for ENG 2100. Its extremely overwhelming for me and it is the cause of my lack of sleep if you all want to know the truth. My next concern is probably that I wont enjoy the classes I’m taking at all. Thank god this quarter I have at least one class in which I have a somewhat interest in but otherwise I find my courses to be extremely boring. My third concern is that from my classes that aren’t lectures, I hope to give a good vibe to the teachers who will know my name throughout the semester, otherwise I will be paranoid for the whole year

For sure, my high school experience will be completely different from my Baruch experience. The reason for this is that my whole entire school contained only 400-450 students meanwhile there are about 1800 freshmen in Baruch. It was good to know that every face was familiar to me throughout high school, but I always enjoy meeting new people as I already have. Otherwise, I came from a Jewish school that had a required dress code and different hours than Baruch College has. The fact that I can go to school wearing whatever I want and the fact that my breaks are longer make Baruch extremely different for me

Baruch is for sure going to change me. The reason for this is because I will be more motivated to study knowing that college counts a lot in terms of everything. It very likely may be that my occupation in life can result from an internship or job offer that I got from Baruch. It will also change me knowing that I have a lot to see and experience as I go to college.

a) I am introvert. I don’t like to associate with people. I barely make phone calls to my friends and never chat online. Usually I would refuse to go to party where there are a lot of strangers. I am more mature than people in my age. It’s easier for me to make friends with people who are older than I am. I am very independent and impatient. I like to do thing by my own so I don’t have to about other’s opinion. I love to find short cut so I can get thing done quickly.

b) The top concern about my freshman year at Baruch College is grade. I am aiming for a 3.2 for the first semester. But I have no cue if I can make it because college grading policy is different from high school grading policy. In high school even you are not a great test taker but you can still earn a high grade by participant in class and do homework, in college most percentage of your grade is based on your test grades. The second concern is time management. I am not a very organize person. So sometimes I would leave things out. I have to learn to be more cautious to keep track of the time. The third concern is making friends. I hope to find a lifelong best friend during my college years. I want to share everything with her.

 c) I think College experience is different from my high school experience. College is about you doing the right thing and making the right decision for there’s no one to push you and spoon-feed you.

d) The first year of college will make me feel more comfortable and open to share my ideas to people from different culture. Part of the reason I chose Baruch rather than Queens College (which is 5 minutes away from my house) is I want to experience life in the Manhattan and interact with a more diverse group.

Five years ago, I had never thought about that I would migrant to another country and have a new life which is totally different from what I had before.  Same as most immigrant kids I was struggling with the new language which it is most difficult problem I had faced. Before, I used to be a quiet person in the school who did not like to be involves to the group.  However, when I came to the U.S, things changed a lot.  The high school teachers more encourage student to participate rather than the exam grades.  It is very different from the education system in china.  I am just a normal teenager which no much different from the other people around my age.  I would do the same things that teenagers will like to do such as computer and basketball.  Nothing thing special about me, if I must to tell at least one thing that represent myself, I will say l like to laugh.  It makes feel better and brings you an optimistic view to this world.

Time fleet, I realized that I am not a high school student anymore.     To me, the college life should be more interest and exciting.  Not like high school which teachers always force you to study.  As the college student we should be more independent and learn to be responsible. It is the process that we grow up as an adult and not act like a kid anymore.  For me, I do have some worries about my freshman year at Baruch.  The first one is the grade.  It is most important stuff which I want to keep my GPA high.  I think every freshman will have same concern as me.  The lower GPA in this year will affect all four years grade, so I need to try my best to solve this problem.  The second one is the social network. Because of Baruch is a cuny college which is more convenience, but without the campus life the chance of making new friends will be low. People are rushing to go home or work that is why hard to make a really friend.  The last one is the major, which I haven’t decided it yet, but I think I will find it out later in this year.

I think the first year of college will bring me a different experience compare as before.  I think I will more dutiful and independent because I am the only one can help myself or push myself.  However, it is a great chance to meet different kind of people from different place of the world.  I think I will learn a lot from this year.



There are sixty-eight hundred million people in the world, but how many people can really understand me? The answer is not a lot. But there must be a person who knows me very much, this person is me. I have my own thinking about myself which is really different from other people who know me. Now I am 18, attending college and it becomes the turning point in my life.

People said human have two sides, bad side and good side, however I think people also have ”inside” and “outside”. That’s why it’s hard to understand each other. My outside, I am really polite to people, I open door for people, say thank you if they give me space to walk and say sorry so many times even just block the way for one second. Because I think being polite is the basic respect to the people. And I am working so hard when I was in the school or working place. I can help everyone in the school if they need me, and I can stand whole day without blame anyone in my working place. However, these things are not working to my family and in my house. I feel tired and lazy to do extra works in the house. So I do not want to do anything at home and rarely help my mom to clean the house. But I still respect her and only just help her a little bit. Inside me, I really want to be a good person that always helps people.

In my freshman year at Baruch College, I think all my classes are very boring because I always have to read a lot of books. But I made some friends and we have fun together sometimes. College is so much different from High School, it more work to do, more reading, and more responsible. I have to do all the homework, reading and responsible for all my work. The Professors don’t really care about us, they just need your work and give you grade. So it is my responsible to do all my work. So the first year at Baruch College will change myself become more responsible to do all my work. Because before I was very lazy to do my work since in high School the teacher always gives excuse to us.