[ 夢土上 ]

Snow...It's snowing......
It's so quiet, and so beautiful...
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It's the first snow in my life :)

It’s 5 days Thanksgiving vocation. Almost all American students left last night. It’s vocation that for family and a lot of food…ha…poor turkeys. The campus is so quiet as summer when I arrived New Paltz. I love it. The weather is cold now. The highest temperature is 0°C, and the lowest is -3°C, ha, it’s the coldest time in my life. I’m really looking forward to see snow. Come on…Snow…Should I do praying dancing for snow?
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It’s a really vocation for me. I took a new TOEFL test last Friday. Yes, that’s the new one, with speaking test. Finally, I can take a rest, listen some music, do some painting and…you know, relax. The new TOFEL test was more interesting than CBT test, but the 4-hour test still exhausted me. I think I can get high grade in listening and maybe writing, but I have no idea about speaking. It was the first time for me. Reading was difficult...I think I don’t have enough vocabulary, and my speed of reading is still too slow. Hopefully I can pass the minimum required score 550…anyway, I’ll get my grade two weeks later.
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I’ll go to Boston again from 25th to 27th with a Japanese girl and a Korean girl. It’s the third time for me to go to Boston. I like this city, but also I really want to experience how it’s felt like that traveling in winter, and in snow, just like a poor traveler :) Three of us are from different countries, speak different languages. It must have a lot of fun.
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I did four little painting last night. I’ll show you later. I love painting. Ha…

Aaaaahhhh...It's already 12 o'clock!!
It's enough tonight.
I don't want to see any vocabulary card before I go to sleep!
Actually, It's time to sleep!
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I'm hungry.
I'm going to cook some noodles...

The weather today was so good, so I brough my camera with me to after the morning class. As you can see...I took a lot photos while I was walking around the campus and walking on the street. These photos are not pretty good, I know. However this is the place that I am staying now. A little and friendly town in Hudson Valley.
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051107-a mess of New Paltz stuff

Yesterday, my Japanese friend broke up with her boyfriend who is still in Japan. You know, another long distance relationship…She is a lively, optimistic and friendly girl, but she is really depressed now. Sigh...we drank a lot of beer last night...a lot!
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The weather is cold now. In mid night, the temperature could be 0°C, and I think it might start snowing on next rainy day. The color of leaves are changing…green, yellow, orange and red. If the weather is good, we can see the hillside of Mohonk Mountain with so many colors. The scenery is impressive. In campus, squirrels and chipmunks are very busy. They can’t stop eating, collecting food and fighting. There are so many squirrels here, more than birds, I think. Besides, Canadian geese are leaving. They are flying away a group by a group. The pond on campus used to be full of hundreds of geese last few weeks. I hate that. It was so terrible because "hundreds of geese" means that there would be "thousands of shit" around the pond. Yeah~~
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How about the pretty girl? Ha…I really like her, and, I guess…she has noticed that. Then…I think…she doesn’t LIKE me. If I tell her that I like her, she might say: Hum…A-Ting, you are a good boy, but actually, I ...…/@@/ I think everyone is familiar with this kind of conversation. Ha Ha. Anyway, who knows? Now, I am enjoying the vague relation between us (maybe…only myself = =.)
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The mid-term-exams were finished. I got very good grades in these tests. However, my TOEFL test will take place on 11/18. Yes, it’s close, and I am nervous now.

The Gadabout Traveling Film Festival
I attended a traveling film festival last night, in a little soccer course near the campus with two guys...my friend Keigo, a Kyoto boy who was a drummer in Japan, and my roommate Fil, a rock music guitarist. There were 6 bands played music until 9, then more than 20 creative films were showed as a roll. This festival was founded by one of the guitarists in those bands, and he is my roommate Fil's friend.
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It was really a small activity. In this community soccer course, there were only two tables with their CDs and T-shirts, one household stand lamp as a spotlight, 4 old speakers, and a piece of canvas hanging on the frame of a soccer goal as a screen. However, the music was good, and films were amazing!! Awesome!!! It is too difficult to tell you how great they were, but I think most of films in this “gadabout” film festival were even more interesting than those films in some official festivals in Taipei. In these three months, these rock music musicians are going to travel through more than 10 states in America by their old trucks. They will play their music, show their films, and make friends with people all around this country! Wow! So cool! I want to go with them > <
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It is about 10°C in late night now. The temperature was going down again in these two days. Last night, I sat behind a boy and a girl. They sat on their quilt and hugged each other when the cold wind blowing through the soccer course. I can’t help watching them…so enviable!! Meow~~

Wanted!!
Could anybody take a beautiful and detailed moon cake picture for me?
I am really really missing moon cakes~~
If you have one, please sent to my email box:
strwang@yahoo.com.tw
Thanx > <...
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The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming. I've been seeing some moon cake ads on the Internet. They really make me homesick. There are also some cake companies in NYC, which have delivery service. However~~the prices are so expensive~~~ Including delivery fee, I might have to pay more than $30 dollars to get 10 little salty egg moon cakes. Hooh~~~Moooon caaaake > ___ <
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I went to an art history lecture class to be an auditor this Monday evening. The name of the class is INTRO VISUAL ART. The class takes three hours in a cold and dark lecture classroom. I have to say, it is definite a boring class and the English is also very hard for me. Fortunately I have taken some art history class in university, so I can somewhat understand what the professor was talking about. A Taiwanese girl who went to the class with me almost fell asleep. She escaped in the break......
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Anyway, let's wait and see~It was just the first class.

I got a haircut this afternoon, so my hair is like this now↑
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I like short hair. A short hairstyle lets me feel free because I don't have to think about what it looks like on my head and so on. My hair was a little bit too long lately, and I had to comb it every morning...I was tired of it, so I went to a barber shop on the street this afternoon.
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The barber was a kind and talkative old man. After I told him what kind of hair style I need, he started to cut my hair and ask me some interesting questions at the same time.
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"Let me ask you some interesting questions." The barber said. "How to stop your dog barking in the house...it's a little tricky."
"Aaaa...Let it barking outside!" I said.
"Oh...you are smart. And...the second question is: How to stop your dog barking on the front seat in your car?" He said.
I thought about it for a while because this question is too easy. "Let it barking on the back seat. It's a same question with the first one!"
"Ok! Ok! Now, it's the last question..." He smiled craftily. " Why dogs prefer to lie in shadow? "
I really didn't know, so I guessed. "Because dogs don't like hot."
"It's close." He said. However I still had no idea about this question. I gave up.
"Your answer was very close...The answer is: They don't want to become hot dogs!"
"I was afraid that you don't know what hot dog is, but you know it, isn't it?"
Wow...ha ha...=__=
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It was my first time to cut hair in America. After these questions, we talked about the campus life, something about Taiwan, and some stupid American movie like "Fantastic Four". He liked some Taiwanese and Chinese movies and said a couple of movies' names. Because of translation, the only one that I could understant was "Raise the Red Lantern"(大紅燈籠高高掛). Then I told him my favorite movies. One of them was the Italian movie "Nuovo cinema Paradiso."(新天堂樂園) He felt very surprised and told me he is an Italian, came to America in 1960s. He loves this movie, but no American young people know it. He was very happy that I knew and loved it.
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The haircut cost $8, but I gave him $10 including tips. I felt so good when I walk out of the barber shop. Although my new hairstyle is just short and...no style, it was a very pleasant experience.

This is my new room......
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The new semester is almost start. I checked in and put my luggage in my room yesterday, yet my student ID card was not working for my room, I lived with my friend in his room in the another dorm. Today was the day that almost every student moved into their dorm for new semester. Starting from the morning, this quiet campus which was surrounded by forest, was full of cars, students, and their families. Every one was moving their stuff. I got up late. When my friend's new roommate came, I just packed my stuff up form his bed and ready to leave. I was a bit embarrased because he was confused that why their was the other guy lived in his room.
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I fixed my card in the afternoon. It seemed a common problem. The students got their cards today, but many of them had problem. For this reason, there was a long line in front of the ID card office. Many students didn't know their cards were not working and went shopping for sheets, quilts, detergent or something else. When they came back at night, every one were locked out of the door. They requested resident assistants to open their doors, but they had to wait for tomorrow business time to fix their cards.
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It's a little story of nothing. I just want to write something for practice.
Sleepy~~~~
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Incidentally, this SUNY student ID card is useful. Because of it, I can enter MOMA for free ticket. They charge $20 for adult and $12 for regular students.

I just finished a two weeks trip in New York City. It was a whole new experiance for me because it was not my first or second time to come to New York City. I have been to almost every "important" tourist spot in guide book before, so I had a really unrestrained vocation in these two weeks. I didn't need to go somewhere in a hurry.
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" IF YOU SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING!" It is a very common catchword in subway to remind passengers for doubtful things. (I also saw an artist used this one as a material for his art in a gallery...ha ha...) I saw many interesting things in my trip, and I tried to write down everything for you. However, that writting became very boring and strange, and I couldn't finish it. I wrote them down just like a long list! It would be better if I just focus on only one thing and write something about it each time...
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Anyway, I came back to SUNY New Paltz, my little, quilt, countryside campus this afternoon. I can live with my squirrals, ducks, geese and firebugs again. ha ha ha ＋﹏＋
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The photo is Coney Island, the south seashore of Brooklyn. A very odd place...