Journal #5

If tourism is an important source of revenue to a country, it means many more people visit this country every year, and people always cause problems.
To clean the garages that tourists produced will be a big project. In some tourist spots, it is impossible to put dustbins everywhere. For example, on the mountain, the path is very dangerous, so there is no space to set a garbage bin. Furthermore, it is also quite difficult to clean the dustbins. And in some certain scenic spots, it will be strange to set a dustbin there. Consequently, it will be a big problem, if tourists throw the garbage everywhere.
To protect the environment of the scenic spots will also cost a lot of money. As I just mentioned, if tourists throw garbage everywhere, a huge amount of money will spend in employing people to keep the scenic spots tidy. People also need to clean the dustbins every day.
If there are lots of people gathering in the same places, accidents will occur easily. We always can see the news that people get hurt in the famous tourist spots on holidays because of the overcrowding. And if the foreign tourists get hurt in tourist spots, complicated international political problems will occur.
As a result, while we are developing tourism, the problems caused by tourism cannot be ignored either.

Journal #4

California is a wonderful place to live, study and visit. I like where I live, Rowland Heights. And when I go to LA Downtown, I also have fun there.

In Rowland Heights, you can always see the houses around, and you can hardly see tall buildings here. So I was a little bit of disappointed when I just arrived here. But then I find it is interesting and comfortable to live in place like this. It is quiet and clean, not crowded. On the other hand, in LA Downtown, there are tall buildings all over the city, and more people in the city. It is always lively and busy there. You cannot feel lonely there because you can see people around you.

In Rowland Heights, if you want to go shopping you will drive for a while to get to the place. Shops here are more like supermarkets, and there are few malls in Rowland Heights. As a result, if you are crazy about shopping, you cannot be satisfied here. However, in LA Downtown, there are malls, private shops and shopping streets. I really like to buy things in private shops for their own unique styles. I always get surprise in such stores.

In conclusion, these two places are both nice in different aspects. Rowland Heights is comfortable for living, and LA Downtown is a nice place for shopping and playing.

Journal #3

Hi, this is Jin Yang Liu, and you can call me Elva. I am from China. I want to enter the graduate school after the ALP program. And my major in China is pharmacy, so I want to continue to study it in the USA. My hometown is Shenyang, a city in the northeast of China. It’s also one of the co-host cities holding the football games for 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. I like shopping, if someone of you want to find someone to go shopping with, you can tell me. And I am crazy about all kinds of food, so you also can ask me if you want to try some new food. I also like to go out to travel or just go somewhere near to have fun. I love misic and movie. I have so many hobbies except studying.

I just have been in the US for 3 weeks so everything is so unfamiliar and fresh to me. When I just got to the airport in LA, I felt a little of strange. There were all people around you saying another language. But what is the most uncomfortable thing to me is that a man was staring me all the time. Anyway he was kind, because he smiled at me, I still could not used to such this thing.

And it is quite different between cities in China and here. There are all houses here, but in China they are mostly flats for people to live in. High buildings can be seen everywhere in Shenyang, but they are merely to see here. The weather here is also not like my city that I used to live in, as it is too dry and has too much sunshine here. I always need to drink water.

There are really some things that seem weird to me. First, when you are going to walk across the street you should press the bottom that is set beside the street. There is no such thing in China, so I am not used to it at the beginning. Second, when I go home, I can see hills along the road, but the grass on the hills is yellow. Why? I mean it is summer now. And then people here tell me that the grass will turn green in winter. However, I still cannot understand things like this. And the traffic code here is different from that in China as well.

But in a word, I like to study here, and I will try to get used to things around me as soon as possible.