Chapel Hill - Life Get Started

After a week adjusting different lifestyle here in Chapel Hill, we've been following the pace with its peace and harmonious. Life seems more than simple and regular--jogging in the early morning, making breakfast, going to campus by bus, having classes in both morning and afternoon, discussing and working together with the dinner, blogging... Lei says she's more like to have a grandma's daily life, so do we.



The Weather

It seems so changeable, the difference in temperature at night and noon is also big. Yesterday the lowest temperature was -3 degree but the highest temperature today is above 18 degree. But fortunately warm enough indoors, no need to be aware of dressing.


I can't even figure out which season it belongs to: fall, winter or early spring?



The Food

Usually, we make breakfast, lunch and also dinner together by our own. Permutation and combination of food materials proceed to make dishes no second same taste. But for only several food stocked in the refrigerator, there could be more choices to make. We've got these dishes of this weekdays:

• sliced pork lib with carrot in curry sauce
• fry pork piece with celery
• roast chicken
• chicken soup
• lettuce with dried shrimp
• tilapia in soy sauce
• tilapia soup
• scramble eggs in sweet and sour sauce
• fried rice with apple dice

Making dishes together should be quite exciting and impressive, maybe we'll hold a banquet for our classmates after coming back.

The Courses

We've got four courses all considering multimedia theories and practice, so it is required to have classes in computer lab all the time. There's a lot of homework and projects and designs to cover this semester, reviewing's also a prior work. We might be able to have a basic view of Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign till the end of this month.



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Life US at Beginning

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John F. Kennedy International Airport

We stayed up the whole night at the JFK airport. The photo below is a passage between the terminal and air train. There're nine terminals in JFK, which really confused us when landed.

Off-campus Living

A fascinating place to live. Ten-minute-bus to the campus, forest nearby, quite neighborhood with convenient distance to the shopping mall and market. Everything seems to be going on by rule and line.

First Cooking Party

So there's nothing we can depend on others while leaving home alone. Dining should then be the top priority for us five. The second day landlord drove us to the Sam's Club and bought essential food of one-week storage. We made our first dinner here in US--all by ourselves.

The Finley Family

The Finley Family includes four girls name Lei, Olivia, Daisy and Shell(from left to right in the photo), one boy Daniel(me myself), and our landlord Jian--an American citizen lived in US for more than 19 years. Excitedly, there are more than 6 members in this family, they are: George, Mark and Sissy, three cats adopted by Jian. Well, they're really hospitable to strangers. And George loves our trash can :D



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