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3/3/11 my learning plan.docx Hello everybody. My name is Jane and I come from China. I have a daughter who lives in the U.K. I was a doctor at the high school in Shanghai. I came to Hobart on Sepetember, 2010 and I have been studying an English course at the Polytechnic in Tasmania since October last year.

My short-term goals are to improve my listening, speaking, spelling and writing. . How to overcome my barriers for studying English? To improve my listening and speaking is Nnumber one thing because I really know my weaknesses with English. I can't catch all the words when people speak with me. But my strengths with English are, I do like to learn and study hard every day.

My ultimate __goal is__ to be a good western cook and I would like a career in writing a book for my family. Although writing is not my occupation, but I think that will be my commitment in the future because I have the responsibility to write a particularly impressive book for my family that will include all the thoughts in my mind, my frustrating experiences and all my happiest lifetime.

21/04/2011 EXCURSION TO VISIT MUSEUM On Tursday 7 April, at 10:00 am, I went with my General English 2 class of 17 students and our teacher Suzanne to the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. First, we spent about 10 minutes to walk there. In front of the museum we met an art teacher who worked with the Access Art program and her name is Rosie Mckeand. Our teacher Suzanne took some __photos__ for our class before Rosie told us about how to draw pictures. After that Rosie gave each person a pencil and a clipboard. Then, Rosia led all of us went to the third floor, it was the top floor of the museum. After we visited all the galleries in that hall we started to draw the pictures we liked. Before our Access Art program finished I had drawn 3 pictures. When we were concentrating on our drawing, Suzanne took many photoes for us. She said to us, we were all like the real artists. We enjoyed our visit to the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery very much. Many days passed. I can still remember Artist Rosie when she said some words to us. She encouraged us by saying that any person could draw, even children. To use our eyes can lead to self-discovery; To use our brain improves our self-imagine; To use our senses leads to self-inquiry. She really gave me a great __education__ for my future life.

28/04/2011 EXCURSION TO VISIT THE STATE LIBRARY On Thursday 14th April, a rainy day. After our first lessons, the teacher Suzanne led our clan of students, and walked 3 blocks across the city to the state library of Tasmania. It is locaded at the corner of Murrary and Bathurst Street in Hobart. We went through the entrance to the inquairy library on the ground floor. There was a inquairy desk in the middle of foyer. One of the librarians, she was a blonde lady with a charming smiled and gentle voiced. First, she got our wet unbrellas together and placed in storage. Then, she told us there are many boxes on the left side which can be locked for people to put some individual objects inside. On the right ahead there was a newspaper section, people can read everyday's daily at that area. Next, we followed her up to the first floor from the entrance to the lending library. Around the library reception centre I found there were hundreds of bookshelves with thousounds of books. After that, the librarian started helping us to learn about the library and she guided us to look for books according to the subject. When we saw many counties and different languages book on the bookshelves, we all opened our eyes and quickly searched what kinds of books we wanted to read, and then the librarian said to us, each person can borrow 10 books one time for 3 weeks, but we had to use the library card to borrow boooks. Opposite the children book section, there were some DVDs, PopCDs and CDs with music and movies from all around the world. There also can be borrowed for a week at the library. We were keeping along the bookshlves I saw a series of items, there were Travel books, Biogrophies, Cooking, Political, Enconormics, Sciences, non-fictions book and with a capital letter published Romace fictions etc. Then, we arrived at the corner on the right side of the reception where there were about 20 desk-up computers. People can sit there to search for libyary books on the computer and read books online, but people had to make a reservation before they use computer. The librarian helped us to use doing. How to access the catalogues of the library to search for what kinds of books we want to borrow? and how to use the library catalogues system to search by topic, author or by title? Very near reception there is a machine which can scann a library book. Out of the lending library entrance on the left hand there was a big red box on the wall to place returned books we from the gap slipped books inside. Also the ground floor had another one where books can be returned when the library is closed. Finaly, the librarian gave us some brochures to read. From brochures I knew the library works timetable and the rulers for borrowing and returning books. Some of students had library cards and they were looking for books they wanted to borrow. We had no library cards need to start filling in library application forms. After completing applicatin forms, we should support our proof of identity to reception staff, such as bank cards, driver licence or madicare card. My classmate, Zayed, was joining the library and he had got a new library card before we left. When we went to back to our class, it was nearly 1:00pm, many students held books they borrowed from the library. I was envious of them, because I didn't have my library card yet. After two weeks, when I saw our class visit to the state library on the excursion slide in computer, the students were learning the second lessons in the library. Zalalem was searching the catalogue, Madrena was looking at a books, Rosa was borrowing a book ......It seemed like it happened yesterday!

12/05/2011 WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN CHINESE AND __AUSTRALIAN__ __About chinese and Australian appearence:__ Chinese are called Eastern people. __Australian__ are called Western people. Chinese have black hair, a flat forehead, dark-brown eyes and a full-round face. According to Chinese traditional culture that is a good luck feature. A woman who has this kind of face will be exuberant her husband and children. Australians have many hair colours, blonde, light & dark-brown, red and grey. They have a high nose and a high forehead. They all have longer eyelashes, double eyelids with blue, grey, brown and green colour eyes. It is said if people can see a lady's cheek-bone that is beautiful. Some handsome men have a dimple on their chin. About Chinese and Australians life: Becaurse of the differences in __enviroment__, culture, education, hobby, and interests etc. Chinese and Australians have many differences. Such as: In China, most men smoke, in Australia, most women smoke. In China, a couple __only can__ have one child, if more than one, the parents have to pay money to the goverment, but the Australian goverment encourges people to have more children by making payments to the parents. In China, most people go shopping or playing Mahjong in the weeked, and in Australia, most people go on an excursion or garden. In China, people drink white wine only with a meal, but in Australia, people drink before, during and after a meal and also drink different types of wine. In China, the young Chinese couples with children spend most time with elderly parents on their holidays but Australian young couples with children spend most holidays abroad. What are other differences between Chinese and Australians? next recounts I will introduce to you.