2010年4月16日星期五

Trip to Key West

I went to the Key West in this winter holiday. Key West is a very beautiful island located in the southernmost of Florida, and of course, also the southernmost of The United States of America. After 4-hour’s drive from Miami, we arrived at this beautiful place. Because it is in the tropical area, so it has no winter. The average temperature there in December can be as high as 80F. Palm trees grow all around the island. Houses there are mostly in the Central American style. We can hardly find these things in Toledo. It seems that residents here are very rich because many of them have famous dogs in their homes. Sports car were seen everywhere on the street. I think the blooming economics here are resulted from its great tourism. But because it is a tourist attraction and a small island, the price here is typically high! I bought a normal swimming pants for 50 dollars in the Key West. Residents here are living a very peaceful but also exciting life. They love swimming (Key West has one of the best beaches in the U.S), fishing, diving… They are born to love water-related activities. Ethnicity of residents can be mainly divided into three parts. One is original people. The other two kinds are people who immigrated from the mainland of the United States and Central American world like Mexico, Cuban (very close). A great number of immigrants from overseas make Spanish the second mostly used language in this island. I really love this place because of its very attractive scenery and unique mixed culture.

2010年4月11日星期日

There are only two people in China speaking the truth

In modern China, There are only two people in China speaking the truth! One is the professor in Chinese University of Hongkong, Xianping Lang. And the other is the colonel in the army, Xu Dai. Xu uses very detailed example and logical anaysis to gragh the future of china and the difficulties China are facing right now.

Nowadays, everone are pursuing GDP and nobody cares about how GDP comes from. The are two real examples in the history of China. GDP of China was highest in the world in Song and Qing dynasty. But both dynasties didn't get away from the fate of the death. Why is that. Because their GDP came from the lower level of industry production. Western countries inhibit China to produce higher level of production. Like ipod, the design is in U.S but production is in China. So although China has very high GDP, it will not get away the control of other countries if China don't focus on higher level of production.

2010年4月4日星期日

Thinking about getting the green card

I am dreaming of getting the green card one day. This country will limited me a lot in improvement because of my indentity. There are three ways to get the green card. One is chosen by most of international students. They will choose to get hired by a company. Then the company will apply for green card for them. The second way is by marriage. The third way is through investment. And the last way is through political asylum. Of course for me, I will choose the first way if nothing surprising happened. But only the best students can be hired by companies in U.S. Because those companies are required to hire american students first then international students. And they have to provo to immigration bureau that this postion can't be qualified by U.S citizens. They also have to pay $5000 to apply H1B visas for those international students. And things are not over after you get the H1B visa, you have to apply for green card with 20% possibility. So it is really hard for international students to stay in U.S.