What The World Eats

What's on family dinner tables in fifteen different homes around the globe? Photographs by Peter Menzel from the book "Hungry Planet".

• Japan: The Ukita family of Kodaira City
• Food expenditure for one week: 37,699 Yen or $317.25
• Favorite foods: sashimi, fruit, cake, potato chips

• Italy: The Manzo family of Sicily
• Food expenditure for one week: 214.36 Euros or $260.11
• Favorite foods: fish, pasta with ragu, hot dogs, frozen fish sticks

• Chad: The Aboubakar family of Breidjing Camp
• Food expenditure for one week: 685 CFA Francs or $1.23
• Favorite foods: soup with fresh sheep meat

• Kuwait: The Al Haggan family of Kuwait City
• Food expenditure for one week: 63.63 dinar or $221.45
• Family recipe: Chicken biryani with basmati rice

• United States: The Revis family of North Carolina
• Food expenditure for one week: $341.98
• Favorite foods: spaghetti, potatoes, sesame chicken

• Mexico: The Casales family of Cuernavaca
• Food expenditure for one week: 1,862.78 Mexican Pesos or $189.09
• Favorite foods: pizza, crab, pasta, chicken

• China: The Dong family of Beijing
• Food expenditure for one week: 1,233.76 Yuan or $155.06
• Favorite foods: fried shredded pork with sweet and sour sauce

• Poland: The Sobczynscy family of Konstancin-Jeziorna
• Food expenditure for one week: 582.48 Zlotys or $151.27
• Family recipe: Pig's knuckles with carrots, celery and parsnips

• Egypt: The Ahmed family of Cairo
• Food expenditure for one week: 387.85 Egyptian Pounds or $68.53
• Family recipe: Okra and mutton

• Ecuador: The Ayme family of Tingo
• Food expenditure for one week: $31.55
• Family recipe: Potato soup with cabbage

• United States: The Caven family of California
• Food expenditure for one week: $159.18
• Favorite foods: beef stew, berry yogurt sundae, clam chowder, ice cream

• Mongolia: The Batsuuri family of Ulaanbaatar
• Food expenditure for one week: 41,985.85 togrogs or $40.02
• Family recipe: Mutton dumplings

• Great Britain: The Bainton family of Cllingbourne Ducis
• Food expenditure for one week: 155.54 British Pounds or $253.15
• Favorite foods: avocado, mayonnaise sandwich, prawn cocktail, chocolate fudge cake with cream

• Bhutan: The Namgay family of Shingkhey Village
• Food expenditure for one week: 224.93 ngultrum or $5.03
• Family recipe: Mushroom, cheese and pork

• Germany: The Melander family of Bargteheide
• Food expenditure for one week: 375.39 Euros or $500.07
• Favorite foods: fried potatoes with onions, bacon and herring, fried noodles with eggs and cheese, pizza, vanilla pudding

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1626519,00.html

Who Do You Look Up To?

Who do you look up to? Write a paragraph about your hero. Be sure to included three supporting sentences explaining why this person is your hero. You should also include examples.

My mother is my hero, there is no one can be more important than her in my heart. Not only because of she gave a birth to me, but also there are a lot of reasons, such as she is a great single mother, always work hard for family, whatever happened, she is always be there for me. First, she is great single mother; I was born after my parents divorced, so I grow up in a family with single parents. When I was little, I didn’t know what difference between normal and single parents family, only thing I know is my mother who is the central of my life. She needs to be both mother and father to me and my brother. Second, she worked very hard to make money for us, to keep our life more comfortable. In my memories, she always overtime works in the midnight, sometime even work overnight. She did a lot for my family, to give us a better life quality. Third, she is the great support in my life, whatever happened; she is always being there for me.

Body Language

Body language plays a significant role in communication. Make a list (at least 10) of the different types of body language and explain what they mean. For example, a smile means that a person is happy.

1. Biting nails means insecurity or nervousness.
2. Touching, slightly rubbing nose means rejection, doubt or lying
3. Rubbing the eye means doubt or disbelief
4. The eyebrows get together means confuse.
5. Puff the lips means innocent.
6. Stroking chin means trying to make a decision.
7. Looking down, face turned away means disbelief.
8. Open eyes dramatically means surprise.
9. Hand to cheek means evaluation or thinking
10. Tapping or drumming fingers means impatience.

July 7, 2007 (7-7-7)

This Saturday is July 7, 2007 (7-7-7). Do you think this day is special? Will something lucky happen? Please write a story about a really lucky day. Make sure you exaggerate.

From my point of view, I think 777 is a very interesting day for the number itself, but not really about lucky or not. Since everyone is talking about this day, I started to believe it should be a lucky day. I also share this information and idea with my friends in Taiwan. They all think it is a pretty cool idea and thought. I hope something lucky could happen on that day, but it did not happen so far. To respect this day, I even bought $7 dollars California Super Lottery on that day.

A really lucky day? I think it will be the day I win the California Super Lottery... After I got all the money, I will buy a big house here, start to plan my trip around the world and buy what I most want. Especially, I can stop going to school and be worry about my investment and life style I want. I truly believe it will be a really really really lucky day from the bottom of my heart.

Happy 777 to everyone, cheers!!!

Independence Day

This Wednesday is the Fourth of July. Please read this article about Independence Day and then write some of your own thoughts and observations about this holiday.

This is my first time in the United States to enjoy the Fourth of July. I know it is a very important holiday here, however, surprisingly I rarely see any celebration event. I know that you can play firework in some cities, but that is about it. From the other hands, I feel totally relaxing holiday everywhere. Lots of people have BBQ in their home and have fun with their family. Also, I saw many people, just like me wearing blue & red on the street to enjoy their holiday.

Like myself, I woke up at 11 a.m. and had lunch at IN&OUT with friends. After that, we went to Costco and Nordstrom Rack for our "celebration shopping" for us and for the Fourth of July. We had a lot of fun and "harvest" from this 2 places. It was a very happy day to me. I think that was a very good way to celebrate my first Fourth of July.