During National Day’s Celebration I had a getaway to join a magnificent wedding from annoying odds and ends. After one relaxed day I hosted an outdoor English activity to practice my English. When I enjoyed these events, I also met some annoying things, some of them let me know what shall I do in the future.

Before I started to go the trip to Xuzhou city, I decide to record every beneficial picture. The first picture I shot that describes an indicator board of a park with a wrong English expression on it. I think that is a Chglish(Chinese style English). So I put my index finger in the middle position of lips and I don’t want to tell this to the server of the park. Then I recorded the others showed at the public places that maybe Chglish(some maybe not).

In this park, Qinhu Wetland Park, I feel pure and real nature. A group of ducks are playing on the lake, some look like trying to pursue their ideal mates (Should the scene happen on autumn?). Several red-crowned cranes are taking a break in the forest. Some ponds are full of lotus leaves, I even can’t see the water between their gaps. And then I sat on the front board of a little boat listening to a village woman singing country songs and watching sun falling slowly. An night we got a wonderful hotel to sleep. That’s facilities even made me feel I live in the palace (But it is the only one which provided comfortable service during the full trip.). It’s daily necessities we can’t exhaust them even when we back, and they serves for free. The purpose of this getaway is to participate in a wedding. But we misses the most important scene, the groom brings his staffs to welcome his bride. Oh! What’s a depressing thing! And the village head invited everyone to have a feast at night. We all, my mother, father, uncle, was shocked by amount of dishes. And we were instilled by alcohol because of rare rules of toasting in the country. Happiness became a nightmare…

Oct.7th, I hosted an English activity on schedule. We played “三国杀” with our foreign guests. I try my best to teach them. But I immediately found my English level isn’t enough good to teach them. After a moment I began nervous and anxious because I couldn’t express what I want to say! How to translate Chinese idiom? They’re followed with Chinese ancient stories. The background knowledge needs many vocabularies to say. But now I grasps some limited words that can’t make a complete sentence. So the result became worse and worse when the foreign guests invited us to visit their home. I can’t remember what I said at that time. I’m sure most of communication goes with gesture… I don’t know about western polite manners. When I said “I want to kill you” to my French friends during playing a game, I was really sure he was shocked by my words! One thing is certain that is I need studying harder!

Practice needs study, I’m worried that study needs practice? But how do our foreign friends think?