Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Journal #2: Transportation system


Getting out of the international airport Los Angeles three weeks ago, I was really impressed by the road system in this State. They are wide and extremely organized. However, I could fully understand the comment “the United States of America has the best roads in the world, but the lousiest public transportation” four days after that when I went to the university and heard many complains about the bus. There seem few buses on the roads and they are not very punctual.

In fact, I stay at the University Village and walk to the school every day. I do not own a car and have not had chances to get around here in America, even by car or by bus. Moreover, three weeks is not a long time enough to have an exact comment on transportation system in this state, except what I have seen on streets very day. They are much peaceful than transportation system in my home country, especially Ho Chi Minh City where most of foreigners feel stressful to travel on the streets. If you would like to experience a traffic jam or a drive of motorbike once, you can visit my country.

See you there :)

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Journal #1: Introducing


Welcome to my blog!

My name is Mai. I come from Vietnam, a country in Southeast Asia. I have been in the United States for three weeks. I do not have any relatives or friends in California. Everything, therefore, seems very challenging for me.

I am very happy to meet you all in the composition course. This is my first semester in ALP. Thus, I have to make acquaintance with study as well as life of students, especially designing blog to support for the course. Last weekend, I even could not finish my homework because I could not handle with creating and designing my blog myself. Thanks for Rachel’s help with information to manage my blog.

My sincere thanks also go to Mr. Sean, our handsome professor, who introduces to all of us this useful method to practice our writing. I hope that our class will have enjoyable time together.


Yours Sincerely


Hoang Mai