Looking for Fun at Night

Looking for Fun at Night

      Every culture has its own way to have fun with friends, like parties, receptions, picnics, and proms. I lived in China for twenty-three years, and I have many friends from my hometown. We always played, ate and drank together, but the best time we had together was at night. China has a wonderful nightlife, and I used to have a lot of fun hanging out with my friends. However, things have changed since I came to the U.S. I lost my favorite things----hanging out at night, barbecue stalls, and buying alcohol anywhere.

      Each moment I spent with friends, we always stayed out very late. We might go to the KTV to sing, or just hang out on the street. We played some table games while singing, or we talked about funny or unhappy things about ourselves on the street, or sometimes in a quiet park. We always had a lot of fun. We stayed until midnight or even the whole night. We could go back to home very late or even not to go home and don’t need to worry about our safety. In the U.S, I haven’t been able to do that again, because some part of Chicago is so dangerous that I fear staying outside too late here. There are a lot of guns, robs, and crime. I can only stay at home or go home early.

      Another part of my nightlife was going for the barbecue stalls or other snacks. There are lot of stalls and snacks at night in China, like kebabs, fried tofu, and roasted fish. I could go to the street stalls which have a lot of delicious specialty food, I could eat and drink here. However, I haven’t found anything like that in the U.S, no street stalls, no special Chinese food, and even no friends. There are just indoor restaurants, but they are too quiet and just have small rooms, and they always close too early.

      Chinese people like drinking while eating with family members or friends. Anyone can buy and drink alcohol without ID. Even a little boy can buy and drink alcohol. There are a lot of stores everywhere in China, even a very small store will sell alcohol, and many of them open all day. I can buy wines and beers wherever and whenever. However, in the U.S, people can’t buy any alcohol without an ID. I never succeeded to buy a bottle of beer in the early days I came here. The wine stores are very few and they are far away from my house. It’s very inconvenient to buy alcohols without a car and an ID.

      I have been in the U.S for eight months, but I still haven’t found a nightlife culture that I can be part of. One reason is that I don’t have many friends here, and another is that I don’t know much about Chicago. I really want to find some places where I can have fun. I miss my friends, miss the barbecue stalls, and miss the interesting night life.

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Movie Review

Movie review

                                                                                             ----- “Mid90s”

     

I have to say that the chairs in the AMC theater are very comfortable, but the food is not very tasty.

The theater is a good theater, the movie is also a good movie. Ok, at the beginning, this is the basic information of the movie: The movie's name is Mid90s, its director is Jonah Hill, the production company is A24, and the main actors are Sunny Suljic and Lucas Hedges. The movie was made in 2018 and the country of production is the United States. The film mainly talks about the life experience of a boy named Stevie in the mid-1990s. He lives unhappy at home, so he makes some friends who like skateboarding. Well, this is boring, isn't it?

There are only three people in Stevie’ family, they are Stevie, his mother and his brother, Lan. Yes, Stevie doesn’t have father. Lan always bullies Stevie, he beats him, yells at him, even grabs his money. Stevie is very sad but can’t do anything to change that. Until one day he saw some teenagers skateboarding, he wanted to join them because he thought they were cool. He learns to smoke, learns to drink, and even learns to take drugs. Finally, he became friends with them but also became a bad boy.

      In this movie, I like two people, one is Stevie and the other is one of his friends, Ray. His friends are not all bad boys, because Ray is a good boy and is also a good friend. When Stevie is in a bad mood, Ray will talk to him and advise him not to drink and take drugs. Stevie is a very cute boy, and the audience likes him. When they saw him taking drugs, the audience lamented "Oh, no!". And when we saw that he was injured in a car accident, we were very upset.

      I like this movie very much because it tells us that teenagers should make good friends when making friends, but not to make friends with bad boys. In my opinion, this movie is worth watching for all of us, including adults and children. Children can learn the importance of making friends, and adults can learn the importance of caring for children. This is a thought-provoking movie, you can always learn something from it.

      Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

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Reflection 2

Reflection 2        In this unit, our learning theme is popular culture. In the first part, we learned what is popular culture. We read an article about "What is pop culture," and then I know that pop culture means popular and culture. And popular means “of the people”, when we think of popular culture, we should think about people first. In this article, we also learned that pop culture is made up of all the objects, people, events, and places to which most of us readily relate and which comprise a society at any given time, past or present.
                   In the second part, we have learned that what makes aa star. We have watched 4 articles about 4 stars. They are Adele, Michael Jackson, Lady Gaga, and Hatsune Miko. After that, we also made an oral statement about the American star and introduced a biography of a favorite American star. In this section, I introduced my favorite movie star Paul Walker.
                   My “Aha Moment” is that I was surprised that when I had known that popular culture is “the fabric of our lives”.                   My “Bumper Sticker” is pop=popular=of the people.

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Reflection

Reflection

      As time goes by, I have learned more about the different aspects of cultures. I have known different terms about culture, like mainstream, folk culture, high culture, subculture and counter culture. I learned these by doing some readings. I have watched a video about 7 aspects of culture, because of this I’ve known that culture is the collective programming of the human mind that distinguishes the member of one group from those of another. And it’s a system of collectively held values basically the glue that holds society together. That opened a new door of my mind about what culture is.

       My Aha moment was an iceberg, this iceberg is not the iceberg in the Titanic, it’s the iceberg model of culture. We drew an iceberg in the classroom. It clearly showed us what we know and don’t know about the culture. The culture we have known is like the top of the iceberg which is on the water, and that is the formal culture. And the culture we don’t know is like the part of the iceberg below the surface of the water, and that is the deep culture.

      Then, my bumper sticker is “Culture Shock”.

      I didn’t know that what is Culture Shock, but after I watched some videos, I’ve known that Culture Shock is a very real experience for many people who move to another country. And there are some different stages of Culture Shock. People will feel sadness, loneliness, melancholy, etc. Then I realized that I am in the Cultural Shock right now. That really opened my mind.

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