News

Today is July 26, 2006. This semester will finish at August 11, 2006, so I have two weeks left. I felt so tired during these days. It’s so busy in this week. First of all, I am going to back to China on August 13, 2006. I have to find a place to live before I go, but it’s very difficult to find a rental house or apartment near the university. Secondly, there are a lot of tests and assignments during this week. We have a Oral presentation on Wednesday, a listening test on Thursday, a Writing test and Reading test on Friday. Also, the attending lecture and article report will due to next week. I did not go to bed before 12:00 from this Monday. However, I just heard news about the policy of Leap program. If I did not pass one course, I will fail all the Leap 4. Therefore, if I fail one course, I should repeat all the three courses on next semester. This news gives me a high pressure. From now, I cannot play any computer games in the next two week. Now, I have 2 wishes. One is I can pass all the tests and exams in the next 16 days. Another is I can find a good place to live with my friends near the university.

Calgary Stampede Park

Yesterday I went to Calgary Stampede Park with Harry, Jay, Jamie and Amy. We have a lot of fun in the stampede park. When we arrived there, we felt hungry. Then we start to search food store in the park. Beny told us there was a great BBQ chicken store in the park. We found out the store and ate the chicken. It’s very delicious. In the doorway, a woman, who may be a staff in the park, told us a great dog show will start one hour later. When we got enough food, we went to see the dog show. The show called Super Dogs. In the show, all of the dogs are so cute and smart. They followed the order and jumped the barrier. It’s a great show, and it also is a advertisement for dogs’ food. IAMS is a dogs’ food company. This company trained a lot of “Super Dogs” to show the benefits of the dogs’ food. After the “Super Dogs” show, we played some games in the park. Jamie and Amy won some toys. Then, Harry and Jay went to play exciting game. Jamie, Amy and I went to some stampede stores. There are many funny products in the stampede store, but it’s too expensive. Also, we went to the agricultural building. We saw many cute and small cows and horses. All the cows and house looked sleepy and tired because we went to the agricultural building at 10:00 p.m. While we went back the C-train station, there was a band show beside the entry. Jay said, “Wow, people mountain people sea.” It’s a Chinese idiom. It means that there are so many people on there. Although we were so tired on that day, we had a happy time in the stampede park.

Stampede

Stampede is the most famous day in Calgary. I saw a video on Thursday afternoon. The video show what Canadian do in the Stampede. On that day, cow boys are the main characters. There are many events on that day, such as competitions, shows and so on. For example, there are stage shows, concerts, agricultural competitions, chuckwagon races, First Nations exhibitions, and pancake breakfasts around the city. It sounds interesting. However, I did not go to the Stampede on Friday, because I woke up too late on Friday. I woke up at 12:00 p.m. Most of my friends also did not go to the Stampede. They thought stampede is so boring. Therefore, I just played computer games and basketball on Friday. Today, I just hear news. Stampede will open until next week. Therefore, Harry and I may go to stampede on Sunday. Whatever, Stampede is the most important day in Calgary. If someone wants to go with us, just tell me before Sunday. Hopefully, we will have a good time on that day.

Disappointment

On the Saturday morning, I woke up so early for watching the world cup Quarter-Finals.


The first match is England V.S. Portugal. In that match, England’s status was very bad. First, Owen’s lag was hurt on the round of 32. That match was England V.S. Sweden. The score of that game was 2-2, and both England and Sweden came into the round of 16. However, Michael Owen was injured on the match. The injury put him out of the 2006 FIFA world cup. Therefore, England would lose a strongest striker, when England played with Portugal. The second bad situation was that Wayne Rooney got a red card and was sent off in the 62nd minutes. The third bad situation was that Beckham was hurt at the beginning of the second half. The most famous player of England cannot play on that match. At last, England was lost in the Penalties. I felt disappointed about the penalties especially Lampard and Gerrard. These two men also were famous in the England team, but they did not get score in the penalties. I felt so bad.

(England's Player John Terry cried after the match)

The second match was Brazil and France. I never image that Brazil can lost except the Final Match. In fact, Brazil was beaten by France. One man I do not like him very much. He is Ronaldo. He is so fat. When he was running in the field, he looked like walking on the field. Although he has high experiences and skills, he did not have any enthusiasm. There were many chances to get scores, but he didn’t. I think the Robinhol is much better than Ronaldo. He is a new star, but he also has good skills and high speed. Therefore, I think the coach should not change Kaka, the coach should change Ronaldo to Robinhol on the 71st.

Consequently, I felt so disappointed about these two matches. I may not watch the semi-final and final match because my favourite team Brazil had gone back home.