Saturday, July 19, 2014

First American Home - My Students' Visit



   I had the sincere pleasure of hosting my international students at sweetlittlehouse this past week. For all, it was their first visit to an 
American's house. I am not able to put into words the beauty of their reactions, so I include snippets from the blogs that they write for me... 
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 After the quiet adventure in the wood, we went to Carrie’s house with great expectation. Carrie has a spacious two storey house with a history of more than 
150 years. On the first floor there is a living room, a guest room and a kitchen. 
The decoration in it leaves me a warm and sweet impression. Outside the house, there is a big courtyard with some huge trees and a variety of flowers and 
vegetables. As far as I am concerned, it is really a wonderful place for people 
to live.     Yi Ming

2014年7月17日星期四


Carrie’s House

      This afternoon, we went on a 3-hour trip to three places: a beach, a forest, and Carrie’s house, and what impressed me most is Carrie’s house.  
       Carrie possesses a very old and spacious two-storeyed house. Carrie told us that it has a history of 150 years. On the first floor are a large kitchen, a bathroom, a guest bedroom, and a very spacious living room. The main bedrooms are on the second floor. The floor is wooden. The rooms are very tidy, clean and very comfortable.
Outside the house, there is a shed, and two big courtyards, on which grow green grass, various kinds of vegetables, and several huge trees as old as the house. The environment is really beautiful!
Guess how much the house costs Carrie? Only about $140, 000 (RMB900,000)！
What a cheap house it is compared to mine in China!

       My husband and I bought a new 3-bedroom apartment last year.Though it is newly built, it is unfurnished, and neither is it as spacious as Carrie’s. And it has no courtyards or shed or big old trees. But it costs my husband and me more than RMB950,000!
                                                     Qiu Xiangling


Thursday, July 17, 2014

This is the lovely, blossoming tree outside our teacher's ancient yet comfortable house. 


I adore the life in great leisure and dream  of owning a house with a cool courtyard and plant the fruit trees and beautiful flowers in it.   Feng Tong

2014年7月18日星

The Art Corner in Carrie's House

The Art Corner in Carrie's House
July 17, 2014

 Yesterday we had a wonderful trip to our instructor Carrie's house.

 This is a beautiful and cozy house with a large backyard. In the yard there is  a relaxing swing.

 When I went into her house,a corner in her living room caught my eye. On the window hangs a bunch of crystal beads with Japanese characters in them.The colors of the beads well matched with the background white color of the curtain, presenting a harmonious atmosphere in the house and showing us
the special artistic taste the owner of
the house has.    Tian Xiangling
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After we finished our hiking in the wood, we set off for the final destination: Carrie’s house. Carrie was so kind that she invited all of us to her house. The moment I went into the courtyard, my eyes were caught by the bowl of flowers hanging beside the entrance gate which seemed to smile and greet every guest who entered the house, and then I smelt light fragrance, soon I found in front of me a tree blooming with white flowers but behind the fence. On the left there were a lot of flowers whose names I didn’t know. As I stepped forward, I found there was a grape tree on my right side, just under the window of the living room. There were so many different plants in the yard that I find it difficult to focus on just one of them.  What attracted me more is the backyard which I soon found. It was so spacious that it must cover about two basketball courts. What’s more, there are two very tall big trees which provide shade over almost all the backyard. Between the two big trees there is a white super big hammock which is really eye-catching! After we lingered on the backyard and tried the hammock and took pictures with it, we visited Carrie’s house. This house is more than a hundred years old but it’s still in good shape. Carrie displayed everything she had collected and made room like a mini-museum and of course the house is very lovely and comfortable too.  What a wonderful house it is , so close to nature and so fit to live in!      
                                                                           Zhou Juezhi



  Carrie's house is really wonderful .I love her neat kitchen, her pretty-decorated living room , her small "reading corner". And the thing I want to mention most is the Garden which is perfectly matched to her house. The hammock hung between the trees swaying with gently blowing wind, the green leaves fell down from the ivy just like water smoothly splashing from the fall. Such images only appeared in dream and now it became reality.


                                             
Maybe there is something called "Destiny" which connects people together .  How magic it was for people from different places to meet with each other in such a small inch! - He Mei

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Though we didn't see any animals in the woods, the next thing we did that afternoon really made all of us cheer up. Carrie invited us to visit her house which is quite near the woods. After about 10 minutes drive, we came to Carrie's house. Seen from the outside, the house is a little bit old. It is a two-story house. After walking inside, we found it is a really tidy, cozy and even a romantic-looking living place. We just visited the first floor. On the first floor, there is a tidy medium-sized kitchen which is on the left side right after you go into the house,a sitting room with sofas, couches, a tea-table, a fireplace,a rocking chair and even a small goldfish bowl. On the first floor, there is also a bathroom. Looking at the following picture. Carrie smiled a broad smile. You can well imagine how happy Carrie was when so many of us visited her house.

 What really struck us was the big courtyard in the back of the house. I think it must be the size of more than half of a football court. Really big, ha?  The courtyard is all surrounded by fences. In the courtyard, there are several big old trees. Between two of the big trees, there hung a hammock. And under the shade of the two trees, there are several arm chairs and a table. You can well imagine how comfortable, romantic, leisure and carefree Carrie must be when on one of the fine mornings or afternoons, she lies in the hammock reading novels or sits in one of the arm chairs with her family members listening to music and taking snacks. In the big courtyard, we even found a little place on which some vegetables such as pumpkins, tomatoes and some unknown vegetables are growing. What's more, there is a small rectangular house in which there is a big long table and some chairs are surrounded the table. On the table, there are some candles. Carrie told us when some friends or relatives come to visit them, she would entertain them in this small house. What a place!         He Jia 








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  1. UnknownJuly 20, 2014 at 11:56 PM

    Your students' comments were so thoughtful and detailed that I felt I had been there myself. How lucky they all are to have visited the home none of us have been able to see first hand...

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