Reflection journal #4

Hello guys, it is a sad day. This is my last time to write this blog.  I hope I can share my views and expression to you. But this project is ended. Never mind, I will still post the blog when I have time.

Lets me share some interesting things to you. As I mentioned before, I go to fellowship every Wednesday night. I meet three Korean girls there. They told me lots of things in Korea, like food and places. I really enjoy listening to them. I think this is a great experience for me to learn different cultures and values. Also, I am going to have a dinner with my flatmates on coming Saturday. I could introduce Hong Kong to them and share my own value with them. I hope they will enjoy the meal.

Time is short, maybe I could meet you someday. Goodbye.

Renewable energy

Nowadays, we all used energy for different aspects. We rely on energy without it we cannot survive. Somehow do we know what energy we are using? There are two main categories of energy, that is fossil fuels and renewable energy. Could fossil fuels replace renewable energy in the future? The answer is “yes”.

According to the information given by the European Commission, over 90% of energy consumption in the UK is fossils fuels, only 8.2% is renewable energy. The percentage of using fossil fuels are much more than that of renewable energy. There are 2 main factors leading this result.

Firstly, fossil fuels are very effective in production. They can produce energy in a short period of time. It only takes several hours to complete the reactions. We can also use a few fuels to produce a large amount of energy, like nucleus power.  While using renewable energy is needed several conditions. For example, in solar power, we need to consider the weather is suitable or not to obtain energy. If there is no sun, then we cannot gain any energy the sun.

Secondly, fossil fuels are cheap. The cost of fossil fuels is low, which compares to renewable energy. The maintenance and extraction cost of fossil fuel is low. While renewable energy needs to have a high maintenance cost. Renewable energy is required high techniques of materials to keep a constant energy supply. Like solar energy, it required several solar panels in order to obtain a large amount of sunlight. The cost of solar panels is high and expensive. They need to replace a new panel after every month. This will lead an increased cost in energy supply.

Some people may think that renewable energy is much better than fossil fuels due to no greenhouse gases has emitted.  In fact, the production of materials will emit greenhouse gases and also allow continuous global warming.  It also harmful to the environment.

As a result, fossil fuels are important to our lives. No one can take the place of fossil fuels and they cannot be replaced.

Reflection journal #3

I feel really tired during this week. I got lots of stuff to do. For some of them was hard and challenging. I had classes and classes over the week. I am going to have a physics experiment after I finished this post. For this experiment, we need to find out the oscillation of the pendulum, that is known as the pendulum experiment. Basically, I know nothing about physics and oscillation as I did not study physics during my secondary school. But I tried to look over the things I need to know for the preparation time. I hope I can understand it well and perform well during the time I do experiment. To be honest, I am a careless person. I usually break things in the lab. I broke a test tube before when I was in secondary school. I wish I will be careful this time!!

Health

Health is important in our life. We used to have a healthy diet and do exercise regularly in order to obtain a healthy life. In Hong Kong, the government always promote a healthy lifestyle through television broadcast, radio and pamphlets. The government educate the public by teaching them the importance of having balanced diet. As you know, a balanced diet can help us to fend off diseases and avoid gain weight. Besides teaching the balanced diet, they also promote the benefit of doing exercises. So as to encourage the public to do exercises regularly and promote sports, the government decided to set up an event called “Sport for all day”.  The public can join different recreation programmes and leisure facilities for free at that day.  This was a really successful event which attracted lots of people to join. Therefore, the public can live healthier and obtain a healthy life.

Reflection journal #2

Hey guys!!!

In this week, I joined a christan fellowship in Liverpool. I am a Christian, so I always go to church and fellowship in my home country. As I came here, my church life was stopped. Recently, I found a church which is near to my accommodation. On Wednesday night of this week, I try to join the fellowship. During the fellowship, we needed to read the Bible and discussed with our group mates. I found it was a bit difficult for me as this was the first time to listen to the God’s word in English and read the Bible in English too. Still I enjoyed the time in fellowship. Although it will be hard for me, I will try my best to read more English in order to improve my English. 

Tradition

Hello, guys!!

Let’s me introduce some traditions in my home country to you. We have many traditional festivals in Hong Kong. Like the Mid-Autumn festival just pasted a week before, it is a time for us to gather with our family and have a reunion. So, we usually will have dinner together and enjoy the full moon. We will also have some traditional food, that is mooncakes!  But as time goes by, people nowadays won't do these kinds of stuff to celebrate the festival. Just like me, as I left Hong Kong so I cannot celebrate it with my family. And some of these traditions have been changed, for example, people no longer to have reunion dinner face-to-face instead they try to skype for it, they are eating newly iced mooncakes instead of the traditional mooncakes.  But the luckiest thing is that the values behind still exist in different forms. 

Reflection journal #1

Hello, is me again!!!!

Today I would like to share my reflection to you.
I have started my lesson for two weeks since I came here.  In this week, I attended all my lessons. There are lots to do in this week. I had classes, tests and tutorial during my week.

I learnt lots of stuff like biological sciences, biochemical sciences, physical sciences. For those in biological sciences and biochemical sciences, I had learnt at secondary school. So, I can handle it. While I have not learnt physical sciences before. I need to work hard to achieve a better result. I learnt lots of unfamiliar words and symbols during my physics lessons. I felt confused at the very beginning. But I tried to have a revision after every class. I can figure out what items I don't understand. For example, what is a resultant force, what is velocity...
By the end of this week, I finally understand them!!!!
I feel really impressed and I will work harder!