How I admire the countryside in Ohio

Today is the most exciting and fascinating of all of these days in Ohio. We went to the countryside in Ohio inhabited by those people who lived as their ancestors did in the past. The Amish people don't use electricity, telephones, automobiles, televisions and cell phones in their daily life. As we can see, they lived a life very peaceful, all the Amish love their families, I think their happiness based on their self-dependence and freedom. I admire them very much, how I hope that I can live a peaceful and free life as they do one day.

The most interesting thing is that I saw many horses on the farm, I love horse very much. They were kind to people when we touched them gently. But I was so sad to see that those horses  belonged to the farm, they had no freedom to run freely in the grasslands, they only could be alive for twenty years. When we sat in the buggy touring around the farm, we were told that the horse was nearly sixteen years old,  it means that it should work to death.

On our way home, XIAO YA said she wanted to be a farmer as the Amish did in the future, I can understand her, because I believe everyone loves freedom and peace, if we can live together with our family in an area where is full of happiness, peace and freedom when we become old people, I think it's the last expectation of people's life. I love it !

the Ohio Historical Society Museum

Today is the SGO’s day! There were five small group activities today and I am lucky to participate two of them. On the morning, I went to the Bexley Elementary and High school with some of us. The school is very lovely and the principal was very kind. In the afternoon I went to the Ohio Historical Society Museum, which contains lots of funny things.

I want to talk about something about the Ohio Historical Society Museum because it was so nice that make me feel like our museums in China should really make some improvement.

First of all, there’s a shelf beside the door where contains many reading materials. So when people enter into the museum they can find out information about the museum and the exhibition immediately.

Secondly, the Ohio Historical Society Museum has many small screens and when you push the button below, the short video will be played and you can get information without bothering others. I know there are some museums have similar systems, but most of them still rely on guiders to introduce the museum and give out information. This is not efficient at all because the guiders have to repeat same words day by day, which makes their job bored. And visitors can not explore their own way to tour because they may not get enough information without guiders.

And the last one, which is also the most impressing one, is about the village. The Ohio Historical Society Museum built up a village to tell people how’s it like to live in the 19^th century! That is tremendous because this village is consisted of real functional buildings and people can walk into the rooms and sit on the chairs and imagine the life of their ancestors. Rick told me that to build a village like had took six or seven years and cost a lot of money. But I think it’s worthy because of the educational meaning. If this village did not exist, then I may not learn so much about people’s life back in 19^th century. But now, I may never forget the village which show me how living is in earlier time for Americans.

Thanks for taking us to the museum! It’s a very nice experience.

Here's some pictures about the village.

This is the Ohio Village School.

What surprised me is that there's a small black board on every desk and some of them contains words, as if students have just finished their class.

These two are some inside stuffs in the Female Seminary. I met a lovely girl who dressed like a lady in old time. She told me that this is a school for girls who were born in wealth families. They came here to study how to be a real lady and eventually, became  good wives.
 Learn something everyday!

The history educates us to advance

        As we all know,the slavery played an important role in the history of America. I think that everyone who went through it would remember it throughout their life. When we visited the national underground railroad freedom centre yesterday, I was impressed by the miserable experience of  slaves and their courage of seeking the freedom. Freedom means that you can do anything you want, go to anywhere you like. I can't imagine how to live without freedom, it's very very terrible. I feel very lucky that our ancestors fight to abolish slavery, and set the slaves free, so today, we can live in this world happily and freely. The burning flame is the symbol of  freedom, I hope this flame will go on forever.

         This afternoon, we visited the Ohio historical society, it's really ery interesting to see so many artifacts. I was mostly impressed with the large Mastodon skeleton in the main gallery.
Also, there are so many plants, animals, ceramics, furniture, woodenware, and metal ware. A wonderful village attracted us the most. People in this village told us stories in the past years, and tried to imitate life in the past to all of the visitors. I think history is the best textbook to show people how our  ancestors worked hard to make a better life for their children and children‘s children. We also can learn some valuable experience from them to make a great advance.

A Wonderful Day In The Zoo!!!

    Though it was very hot outside,I enjoyed our zoo day very much.My favorite is flamingo,It was the first time I saw them,but I fell in love with them at once, they are beautiful ,aren't they?Especially thier color,maybe that's why people call them '火烈鸟' in Chinese.

    But I still think the animals in the zoo are so poor,zoo shouldn't be the place where they  live,they should live in the wild .It is us who destroy thier homes and force them to live like that.I still remembered the polar beers in such hot weather,they must feel uncomfortable.Every time when we develop our living environment,we neet to be aware that we share the earth with lots of beautiful and amazing creatures.

Random thoughts in zoo

I can't imagine that someone has never been to the zoo when he or she is a children.Zoo is a wonderful place for people to realize the power of nature and the truth of live.Besides，you can feel how small we are and read a vivid book without word about the significance of environmental protection，the equality of all living creature.Although there is no doubt that most of animals in the zoo are similar as the domestic, I still find some variety animals,such as flamingo,bald eagle,bison,otter.I realized the difficult symbol of cultures and their inside.However what shocked me most is even so small city which still have zoo and aquarium，therefore I dream one day our country would have basical facilities such like ,zoo and international restaurants,no matter how small city or countryside it is in near future.That's all,is there anybody will upload some pictures today?

It was really An Unforgettable Day,yesterday. Morning, we visited the RPAC, it was wonderful！MARK, who worked as our group‘s guide，is a kind man，very friendly. He showed us around the RPAC, introduced those outstanding sports facilities to all of us. Then, it was freetime. I hope for a  similar sports center or a better one in WUHAN university！Afternoon, we went to a Chinese food restaurant.VERY VERY WONDERFUL!!!The Chinese food there was very delicious. I liked it very much.I found that there was a Maneki Neko (Lucky Cat) , the same as the one in my house. All of these reminded me of my family, my dear mom’s special recipes. I miss my family ！So, thank you very much ,Mike and Hans !It was really An Unforgettable Day! o(∩_∩)o

      It was a hot day.The most interesting part for me was afternoon's assignment.People here are friendly .When we asked way from a girl who was studying in digital union ,she just left her laptop on the table and led us to downstairs to show us the way.It was amazing,because in China,if you just did like that in campus,your laptop would probably fly away when you came back.
      And when we ask the way,we sometimes added extra questions like "Which one do you think is more famous,James or Kobe Bryant ?"They have different answers of course.But a family from TX were just started talking about football.Different from China,I found that people here are into football as well as basketball.

the photo of group four