An Interview With My Classmate-Phoung

Today I would like to interview my classmate Phoung. She is from Vietnam. She is 19, and not married. She is student at El Monte Adult School. She came to The United Stated in 2007. Her aunt brought her here for a better life. She is planing to be a full time student for her next five years, and complete her general education here. When she was a little girl, she used to play around with her sisters in her room, sometimes played too rough and got hurt badly.

The Sense Of Time

I am convinced that people view time differently in different culture in the world. People have different attitudes toward the time. Men,women,young men,young women,older men and older women are all vary in this regard. There are some similarities and differences how Taiwanese view time and how American view time.

In Taiwan, I believe most people put things on their time schedules in order to save time. In workplaces people are tied to time. Being late is not tolerated. People make their appointments to visit their doctors and reservations to dine out. Just like Americans do. Americans take time very serious, and put business in tight-scheduled as well. However, there is a major difference between Taiwanese and Americans view time. Americans think business is more important than friend relationship, they take business one at a time. Relatively speaking, Taiwanese enjoy taking business as many customers as they can.

Finally, to have the concept of time is very important to our interpersonal relationship with others in our social life, it usually gives a first impression to people and express our personality. So we should be aware of this.

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The two processes of making a pot or cup of tea and of coffee

I almost drink tea and coffee every day.

First both beverages have something in common, for example both use water.
Say if I want drink tea, first I take out my favorite tea leaves or tea bag and tea pot and cup.
then fill tea pot with water( filter water is better) and heat water until it boiled. One thing is very important is warm my cup first because this will make loose tea leaves taste much more aroma. Next put the loose tea leaves or tea bag into my cup and wait for water is boiled. while water is boiled I pour hot water into teapot and wait about 20-30 seconds to steep to my desired strength then drain the water and pour the tea into my cup. Now I can have my hot tea and do whatever I want to do or relaxing a bit.
As to how to making a coffee, personally I prefer ground coffee to instant coffee. First I put my favorite Kona coffee beans in grind machince then grind it. Next I boil the water just like making the tea, then put the filter over the coffee pot and put about 2 teaspoonful of ground coffee into filter and wait until water is boiled. When water is boiling I pour the hot water into the filter and let coffee drip into my coffee cup, meanwhile I'd add some half and half into the cup. That is !