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Q1:
Living in a completely unfamiliar situation like studying abroad always makes people nervous and scared. It is common that people seek for someone from the same country so that they have topics to talk. They can communicate about anything. They have same culture deposites and can understand each other's words and thoughts. The US students can not understand what Chinese thinking about. They don't know Chinese culture and customs. Some even look down upon Chinese. I live with Chinese and mostly make friends with Chinese.
Studying abroad cause people feel lonely and scared. They need abreact to remove these bad feelings. Staying with people from same country let people feel safe. They can communicate better than communicate with Americans. Besides, people from same country will unite and news will spread fast so that they will benefit a lot.


Q2:
stumble:make an error
sarcram:A form of humor that is marked by mocking with irony, sometimes conveyed in speech with vocal over-emphasis
rumble:a loud low dull continuous noise

Nonverbal Communication

In normal communication, nonverbal communication helps a lot. We use gestures, eye contact and some body language when speaking. In the US, when people talking, their eyes are on the person who is speaking or listening. However, in China, young peosple should not stare others eyes especially when talking to older. Because this behavior shows young people's respect. Such behavior makes Chinese easy to be shy when talking. In China, using finger to point to someone for a long time is a kind of rude behavior. In the US, these kinds of behavior is natural. Chinese people do not hug usually. Americans like "Give me five" which Chinese people never use.
On the contrary, there are some actions that both Chinese and American use such as shaking hands when meet. As everything goes international, in some formal situation, people's actions are the same in different countries. Noding heads means yes and sometimes means "hello". Smiling makes people move upward.
All in all, nonverbal communication is no long independent in a country. Body languages and eye contact spread all of the world. It is no more amazing that in a totally unfamiliar country, you can live as you live in homeland.

Real me

First image of a stranger always provides people reasons determinating him what kind of people he is. So, people pay attention to their first images, especially for managers because they have a lot of meetings. As a student, to me, it is also very important because I stand not only for myself, but also for my homeland.
I prefer my first image to be modest, honest and friendly. As China's 5000 long history and culture, modesty has gone deeply into people's hearts. On the other hand, modesty makes me gentalman and can quickly shorten distance between stanger and me. Honesty shows my genuineness. When stranger sees your genuineness, it becomes easier to make friends with him. Friendly helps a lot. No one likes cool man who is hard to touch. Being friendly so that you will have a large group of friends who will help when you in trouble.
The goal is really head to reach. I try best to be modest, honest and friendly. However, there is no standard to judge how I do. I think it is not too far from real me. I like chatting with friends. Of course, sometimes I prefer staying alone. Receiving 20 years Chinese culture, I am modest and honest, but shy compared to American. I hope I will be what I portray to be.

Review of Mother Tongue

This post is to describe language differences between two generations and in formal and informal situation.
In China, where 5000 years' culture received deeply, use of language much differ between two generations. For me, I can use any words when talking to my friends. We young people prefer using fresh words which are created on the Internet and much newer. It is common that when we talk to our parents, our parents cannot understand what we say as the words they do not know. Besides, when I talk to my parents, I should show enough respect by culture. We are forbid actting like brother with parents.
When it comes to formal situation, I should use Putonghua. On top of that, I should not use imformal words from Internet. In formal situation, we also need to pay attention to our body language. On the other hand, we can use both formal language and informal language when having informal conversation.

A new time arrive

Hello dude. My name is Jingdan Zhao, from China mainland. I am 19 years old. Playing basketball and online games are my favourite. I play World of Warcraft. I study finance and mathmatics. Now, I am living with other 4 guys who play World of Warcraft as well. Can you imagine there are 5 guys playing World of Warcarft in a small house? Unfortunately, the Internet breaks down everyday bacause of our playing.