Fifth literacy blog entry

This time I want to talk about dreams. I am sorry to say that I got mono last few days and I had a seriously fever, 104 degrees Fahrenheit. It is really a hard time. I felt so terrible that I even felt death came to me.
While I was sleeping in fever, I dreamed my body was burning on bed, the flame of fire around me as a storm. I was struggling on the verge of death. I tired to jump out of the fire, but it could not make it, I was falling deeper and deeper in the fire. When I nearly lost, a hand showed in front of me, and I did not know whose it is, I just caught it and the one pulled me out. Then I was awaked.
I know it sounds like a paragraph in movies or stories, but it was true and happened on me. I always think about this question these days, if I did not catch the hand in the dream, I might already died in the night.
Dream is unpredictable sometimes. Some dreams look back on history, some predict the future, some mean nothing, and some have delicate relation with truth. It is hard to say what is the relationship between dream and reality, but sometimes dreams have incredible power. Dreams can make people happy or sad; also they can give people hope or frustrate them.
To the other meaning of dream, people own their belief. And their belief made them advanced, also made the world advanced.

Forth literacy blog entry

I think many had heard about that a creature named Grass Mud Horse and its friends was created by Chinese net buddies. China was trying to block something that the officers thought they were not beneficial to internet environment. But something they did not expect was they deleted too much. So that it affected the freedom of speech of Chinese. Then Chinese created some creatures to satirize this event.
These creatures are all named by Chinese dirty words, but they were not exactly dirty words. Chinese used partial tone to name them. For example they used “Grass Mud Horse” instead of “fuck your mother”; they had almost the same pronunciation in Chinese. These creatures were so famous that almost every Chinese known them. Also, some foreign Medias reported them, such as CNN. Additional, one creature named “River crab” occurred. This one had nearly the same pronunciation with the word “harmonization”. It showed Chinese government emphasized the policy of harmonization too much, they controlled too hard on internet, and it had affected normal life of Chinese people. Too much was harmonized. So they made the story of “Grass Mud Horse” fought with the “River crab” to hint they could not stand in such a hard policy. Reporter of CNN said a sentenced that my entire friend thought it was classical “But it involved their mothers.”
This should the diversity of literacy, it can critical much but without any dirty word. But people’s anger was released out. It also should nobody can give too much pressure to the society, or people will fight against it.

Third literacy blog entry

I was told that music can effect human emotion, but I did not notice it was a truth. Today, I found that music really works well on that. I worked at the cafeteria this afternoon. I was so tired because there were extra many came to my station today; also, my station was lack of one member, so my work was extremely busy. I was so exhausted that I told myself many times I should quit. Finally I got a chance to take my break. I sat in the corner, drank a glass of sprite, and tried to quit. Suddenly, a beautiful song came out of speakers, someone told me it called “Love story”. I felt so good with the song, it was like the sun shining around me, all the terrible feeling was left, I was relax because the enjoyable melody. After I back to work again, I tried to sing pleased songs myself, and it works well, I felt much better, even there was still many came.
I think human emotion has much relation with music, musicians write music when they were happy or sorrow, also, when others listen to music, they were effected by music, they feel happy when music were joyful, and lost when music were said. In conclusion, music means much: sometimes, we can listen to music for fun, but more important, music is a kind of psychoactive medicine, helps people to have a better life.

Second literacy blog entry

I do not know why that I felt so frustrated today. I should be happy as the sun shines in the sky. I do not know what should I do, and my friend told me that I looked like lost my soul. With my mind went blank, I looked at photos that I took in the great canyon last week. Then my mind was taken by one of them.

I still remember the day. The sky was so low that I felt it nearly melted with earth, and I was the connection of them. I stood at the edge of the cliff; I had never been so close to the sky. With one more step, I would fall down. I did not have any fear that time, the only thing I thought about was “Come on, one more step, I can hover in the sky as an eagle.” I understood much at that time. Human life was so small when we faced the magnificent nature. Days and nights pasted, the great canyon still stood there, but human changed generations by generations. When faced the age of great canyon, any human emotion or memory was not deserved to be proud. I felt it even was not important to talk about living or death. Everyone should open their mind, as broad as they can, till the edge of the sky. Everyone should have a free life, like an eagle enjoying in the sky, nobody was meant to be caged, both their mind and body.
I stood there, thought a really long time, stared at the horizon, enjoyed the attractive scenery, and told my friend to take the picture for me to memory.

First literacy blog entry

When we are talking about literacy, mostly we are talking about reading and writing. Literacy happens in our daily lives. Literacy happened when we having conversations or lectures. In previous day’s visual project, I was trying to figure out what does literacy means in my mind. And now I want to express it with my words.
I was confused when I first time saw the word “literacy”. I did not even know there is any relation with my life. I thought it was jobs of litterateurs. But after deep thinking, I realized that I was wrong. Literacy is a complex term concerns everyone’s daily life. Basically, it is about reading and writing, and after we expend it, we can see that it has different meaning to each.
To children, literacy mostly means a way to know the world; also, they feel outside and express themselves with literacy. They are learning from watching and listening. Children feel happy or sorrow because of literacy, and they express themselves by talking or writing.
To adults, I think literacy means much to their social relationship and success, because adults need more communication. Whatever they had conference or interview, literacy is extremely important to them.
To seniors, literacy is a tool that gives them an enjoyable time in their last days. It is not only a way of killing time, but also improves their life quality. For example, seniors who can read and write have richer life than the ones who cannot do that.
To me, my literacy is still processing. I need to learn more and create a better life for myself. And I also feel different culture have diverse literacy. I was living in an eastern country, and I felt much difference in literacy between eastern and western countries.
In conclusion, literacy means way of thinking and living, people with literacy always have a better life.

Literacy, culture

Literacy teachs me much. I can speak both English and Chinese, as I stay in different countries, I feel much difference between two culture. We have defferent on the way we talking, sociality. For example Chinese do not say much when people meet, usually we just say "hello", but American talk much, like"how is going", and Chinese hardly have a party, people in China living kind of "silently". Also, much difference can be notice in social behavior, for instance Chinese are told to have manners, they cannot do what they want in public area, but American live freely, people can go outside with slippers, they sleep outside on grass, sit on ground, it is a easier way of life, and there are much more difference in culture, these are all literacy brings us.