Review on my report draft

Although it's a moving weekend, I have to face with my report draft, which is full of mistakes. With a varity of mistakes, I find the problems is not only comes from the lack of academic language but also comes from my carelessness.

With the process of assessment, I can see more of my shortage in langusge, the inappropriate preposition, the incorrect collocation, as well as the mistakes due to carelessness, such as the change of tence, the different form within different context. From this, I can also find my weakness when I use the language, which should be combat through some effective practice. Just like the saying, practice makes prefect~~It is a truth indeedly. Just with more practice we can find more weakness, take more effective measures to deal with it, and improve it continuously.

It is a process which must cost a long time even on the whole way you study or work, but I believe no pay no gain~~ ：）

Finished one more~

With the score paper handed out, I indeedly feel one more assessment has finished.

Just now I finish the report draft, which took me almost more than two weeks, afterall it has a result now.

I am happy these days, house has been decided, two and a half assessment has been finished, the letter from the department of EMCA has been sent to me, beside that, today I grow a little order again, the first time don't enjoy with my family and the friends in my hometown, the most amazing thing is today also is the chinese Valentine's Day......so funny~

Anyway, I am not upset like some days ago, maybe due to the everything I've done, I try my best to deal with all of them in good order, actually I get the fruit to some extent, it's sweet! But I know it's not the gain of myself, because some of you by my side, family, teacher, friends, classmate, all of you who give me a hand~~~~~~Thank you!~I am a lucky dog because of you~~

Homesick

Just like the stage of culture shock, which we are concertrate on these days, when you encounter numerous constant difficults you tend to feel depression and confusion, unconsciously, I find I have been this stage.

The pressure of coming assessment alternate with my worry about house-hunting, which made me so tide and homesick terribly last week. As a young adult who never leave from home before, it is hard for me to deal with everything indeed. Sometimes I want to ask my parents and friends for help, however, beside worry about me they can do little to help me, just because of that I say everything goes well to them... Moreover, I know I have to learn to how to adress problems by my self, from making a decision to deal with it, from making a plan to get something down, all of them I should learn to face independedly in a strange country.

But I also can enjoy the furit after making effort, such as the improvement on language study. It is so fast that time flies, more then two monthes have gone, and it seems the language will finish soon...I cherish the days in pre-sessional course, and will try my best to produce a nice result in the rest days, I believe I can deal with the assessment as well as the moving, acually, it is no longer that I am a child spoiled by family, so, be independed, be courageous.

Learn to choose, concentrate on one thing~

Every coin has two sides, you can't ask for every thing get prefect totally, but you can choose the the better one for you according to your 'value' , the word we talked about in the class today.

Indeed, everyone have different value, which guide our lives, just like that, when most of classmates were busy finding a house, the thing I do was just waiting for the allocation from university with a positive state of mind, enjoying the books I like, doing the preparation for presentation with a quite feeling, unexpectly, I got a bad house two days ago, which made me start to worry about the place I will live. Actually, it's a disturbing problem, and I have admiration for the friends who can spent so much time on finding a house, which seems so hard for me, I can't say it's an action of wasting time, because it's not a fault to require a good standards on living, and it's also a precious experience on the way of studying abroad, to some extent, I am agree that the process of finding a house is not only another way to know more about the city you living, but also a chance to enhance your ability. However, it's vary from person to person.

I said to Marie that I am an outsider to the group who all finding a house day by day without any complaint, she refute it by 'no one is a specialist', I admit it but I insist the value of everyone is also different. Just like me, only taking half day to find a house, I feel boring and complexity about it, because for me, there are more important things to do I think. I don't like spending my time on that, (actually one of my friend could give me her accommodation to me, the only problem is the rent is higher than usual to a relative large extent), so, in the final analysis, there are just two choice whitin the process of finding a house, a good place with a high, an unsatisfied place with a cheap price. At this time, it's totally depend on yourself, so it's hard to say whether it's worthy or not~

I will accept the house of that accommodation, without a good condition indoor but a safety surroundings. So I could embark on my report and other tasks soon, for which I have considerable enthusiasm on the way of achieving my dream~~

Why no time to relax~~

Today, I just finished my presentation, about which I feel ok to some extent, however, I still can feel some problem with me, there must be some grammar mistake, and inaccurate expression, I know it's need more time to combat it, and I think I will insist the language study even when I start the main course, it's a necessary and perpetual task provided that I keep on studing in english, I like english, which made me feel not only difficulties, but also the sense of achivement after I make my efforts on it.

But I suppose I could feel a little easy after the presentation before, actually, it's totally different in present, not for the report but for the house I will live 10 days later? Where can I live? where are the reasonable house for me?......

I can't wait for more time, I should work on finding a house, and at the same time, making a satisfactory report, so I think I can balance them and, put off my relax, then I can get a ture big relaxabout probably three weeks later~~~Come on, how time flies!~~~

A saturday with ALESSI

From decisiding the top-design housewares company as our topic to deviding the work, from working out the layout to adding the specific information I want to convey, from working on the PPT to making a practice, I find, actually, it is a process not only ask for the ability of making a research, but also requires the patience involved. Indeed，it's not the first time to do a presentation for us, but the most important one, which also is the assessment on the two months study.

Half weekend has gone, and the thing I will continue is preparing the presentation, not only for the assessment on the day after tomorrow, but also for a good start for the further research and presentation, I believe just insisting with a right way, than you can get the positive result after all.

Looking forward to the better sunday~~!!

Be an energetic person

With the easy listening, I am coming to here again. It seems to be a habit to reflect something in here instead of notebook, I can't say it's better than notebook to what extent, but, actually, it's a happy thing to share something of my with others, especially, when you got the comment or opinion from your friend, the inderict way is another way to communicate, very cool~

Although I just have done a third of my preparation of presentation, but with a relatively understandable layout, I feel relative relax at this moment. Which just like we learn from the class that having your own stage and making a clear structure before you do the academic assessment, no matter it is writing or presentation. With the clear opinion and the structure in my mind, I could feel better to deal with the things come later...tommorrow, we will do the practice on presentation, which is a nice oppropriote to show the stage you're now, and finding the weakness of you, I think I will cherish the chance to practise, although I have not prepared it perfectly, I just want to find more weakness from it and try to make an improvements.

Today, the lesson about cohesive words made me a little confused, but I know their founction is to bring together our ideas which made people easy to understand our idea, and different cohesive words should be used in different way. Maybe we need to may more attention to distinguish the subtal difference, and make sure the way you use is in the right way..

I like the gain after your efforts, when it comes to the fruit in my mind, I will be energetic again, what's amazing on the way you're exploring now~~

Day by day~

How time flies~It seems about two months since I've been here, which contained the honeymoon stage and shock stage for me, and now I am still being adjustmennt stage.

Under the pressure of block 2, I have to adapt my self not only to the press from the consistent homesick, but also to the different way of academic studying from our country. Everything should be arranged by yourself, and no one will control you and tell you at what time you should do this or that thing, so new and free environment it is. Because of that,almost all the things I do everyday is the process I try my best to adjust. Just like, I attempt to organize the time of my, avoiding disorder because of the personal living habits, for welcoming the class of tomorrow with a good spirtual trip. On the other side, actually, there are lots of things to do for me, so, I have to deal with all of them in a appropriate order, even the ordinary things like eating, washing or making a clearing.

However, it can be seen that, actually, there are some improvement on myself, time-organization as well as the self-discipline. That's the other part of fruit I picked alongside the some development of english, of which I am not sure the extent, hehe~~

Fighting, do make a nice preparation for the last weeks of block 2!~

Learn ALESSI again

Today, I research on ALESSI again, and find more new things about them, which is not only a housewares company, but also a design factory with so many creativity and innovation that from the design of production to the means of collaborating with the designers all over the world, from the ways of marketing to the thought about failure.

Based on that, I find I can't lose sight of the importance of decision maker, just like the Alberto Alessi, the CEO of ALESSI, who made most of the creative decisions for his company, especially something related to the aspect of design, he choose the designer of ALESSI from the different specialties, such as the architects as well as animators, not restrict to the design background on design, beside that, ALESSI enlist all their excellent designers, who can brought a different language, from all over the world...Maybe it related to the background of the CEO, the man who brought his love of architecture and art to the table...

Do not go to a dead end

As I said yesterday that I responsible for the target market of ALESSI, which pose a difficult dilemma for me these days. Actually, it's a successful company among so many houseware companies today, which is largely due to the innovative design of their production rather than the marke strategy.
Just like the CEO Alberto Alessi said, profitability is of secondary importance for them, and most of their concentration on the quality of production. Because of the attitide of the CEO to their company, I find it's difficult to face with the task on target market...

Then, I can't help going to a dead end, fortunately, I got a good idea from Mark, why I don't shift from who is the potential consumers to the primary reason of their success, apparently, it's a process of examining why they can be the leader in the competitive market, the same goal, just from a different aspect to analyse. Yes, I will embark on preparation of presentation whit a more clear way. Thank you, Mark~~haha~~

Alessi

These days I am working on Alessi, a medium-sized Italian family firm, leader in top-design household articles. Actually, the company which founded in 1921 show a successful evolution from one of the many lathe-works factories in local area to a popular houseware design company. With the devolopment of Alessi, their target market also have undergone a subtle change in the same time. This presentation I will responsible for examining the target market of Alessi, I believe, however, having a definitely target market is crucial for survival of any company...

Traced by the development, nearly 30 years ago, Alessi began shifting away from in-house design and became one of the pioneers of open innovation. What's more secret behind that?? Please looking forward to the presentation on ALESSI~~

Quick decidion on report

Today, from changing the theam of report to reaching agreement on the topic, from think about the new topic to working out the questionnaire involved, it seems so quick, but we find it is effective through the brainstroming of our team members, especially our new member--Tony.

With around one hour discussion, we designed a questionnarie on our topic of report--A Survey of ELUPP Students' sport habits, from which I confirmed again that all the questions should be concerned on the theam, and serve as the argument for report, the more concise and relevant these questions are, the more effective the questionnaire will be, all of which is crucial to a good report.

Beside that, we also learned about Noun-based phrases/nominalisation, which is used more then verbs in formal written. We use the none-based phrase instead of the 'wh' clause, which require us to use the exact words to express the same meaning, of course, that's the difficult point for us to do it. Take some of my mistakes for example, when we want to express 'where food is', we can use the noun-based phrase 'the location of food', which is better then 'the place of food' I used. Moreover, you can use different form of noun-based phrase to take the place of one sentence, the only thing you have to pay more attention is whether the phrase you use can convey the same meaning. Just like 'the durition of imprisonment' and 'the length of imprisonment', different noun are employed in the two phrases, but give us the same meaning.

So, I think the the more we read the more we pile up, the more we pile up the more frequently we can use in our academic written.

Team work~

Within all the stage in pre-sessional courses, we will take by the form team work. There must be different ideas, that's why we need disscussion, after that, some times, we can get agreement, but some times not, that's why we need to continue negotiating, during which we need try our best to express our own idea and exchange the idea with your parter, just through that, we can get the best thought.

Actually, I find it's a good priactice for not only speaking but also the logical thinking. That's why we need to have team work, isn' it? I enjoy the time of discussing, because during that time, I find I can learn more, think more, most importantly, think about some thing from more aspects.

To be honest, I felt pressure at the beginging of block 2, in whicn we will face more serious challenge, but I'm happy that I have a team to work together, and I have the confidence that with the the strength of the collective, and the individual effort we can get our goal, basically, we could gain many valuable thing.

It's get dark earlier~

With the end of block 1, it's seems it gets dark eariler then before. However other thing is going on~

Class trip has finished today, I spent almost half day the our trip venue--Design Museum. There are three main parts of current showing, the DRAWING LIFE of Mariscal, REMEMBERING JAN KAPLICKY - ARCHITECT OF THE FUTURE, Super Contemporary.

The Drawing Life of Marisal is my first place of visit and my favorite part of this exhibition as well.

The first impression of Marisal is a feeling full of living, with so many black and white illustrations hang well, we could see the the things surrounding the Spanish artist. These works are so lovely that making people hard to forget, and they also reflect the attitude of the artist to life along with the many landmarks in Mariscal's career. But, the works you can see behind the curtain seems more attractive for me, when I passed it, it is!

A wall full of random collage~

Editiorial Curtain