My sound in EAP class

My favourite song

reflection of aboriginal art

In the Art Gallery Excursion organized by EAP Listening on May 13th, 2014, we visited NSW Art Gallery, Aboriginal arts in particular, guide by Tahjee Moar (Tour Guide) and Sally Cullen (Volunteer Guide), who introduced us a number of traditional and contemporary works of art, among which some artistic works really attracted me. For example,the sculpture called ‘Fruit bats’ by Lin Onus in 1991. As per Guide Tahjee Moar, the fiberglass sculpture features 99 fruit bats, hanging on a Hills Hoist clothes line. It combines traditional indigenous culture with the suburban Australian lifestyle, and is the picture of a sort of ‘suburban dreaming’. This Aboriginal artwork expresses some special meaning of Aboriginal. Due to the white people cut trees and occupy the land, as a result, Aboriginal have no more space to live. They have to live together and share food. So, in the artwork, the bats are hanging in the clothesline while the ground is mess. All the bats seem the same but actually different to each other, which implies the life condition of Aboriginal in the period of time. The Aboriginal artworks help indigenous to pass culture to next generation, and help us to understand the Aboriginal life and thinking,as well as promoting communication. Because I think art is something, no race, no colour, no language and no national boundaries.

My Youtube video

My art gallery excusion

Here is a link to my photo album

Our class excursion

We are going to visit the Art Gallery next Tuesday.

Reflection

It's always happy and interesting to learn all kinds of new knowledge. With the rapid development of technology, IT makes the connection between people closer, quicker and more convenient. Obviously, the computer class of EAP provides us a good chance to study new computer skills. We not only learned some basic "office" computer skills, such as introduction of some basic computer knowledge theories, how to insert file name and path in footer, how to do a hanging indent for APA reference, and how to make PowerPoint slides; but also studied the most important computer skills about how to apply emerging technology to communication with others. For example, we learn how to create a blog, how to publish your post of blog, how to use template and image to make up your blog better and so on. Moreover, adding a blog list with link to other blogs and creating a post with link to our own favourite website also give us more effective approaches to communicate and learn. So, no matter where we go in our life and how old we are, there's always something new and interesting to learn about. After all, life is full of surprises.