Farmer's Market in Lincoln Square and Taste of Champaign

On This weekend, I spent one day to visit Lincoln Square in Urbana. Tourists can reach there by taking Green 5/50 E or Silver 130.

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A local market fair, Farmer's Market,is always held on Saturday morning.

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Vendors selling fresh produce, art crafts, and home-made foods are all local. I paid 2 dollars for a cup vanilla ice cream and 5 dollars for two cards, one for my father and the other for my father-in-law.

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Today was a pretty sunny day with a blue sky. People brought their dogs or lovely kids to this market to get some thing. There were also some artists performing around corners.

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Then, I took Green west to Taste of Champaign-Urbana which is held by The Champaign Park District.

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Before entering the park to enjoy food, I have to get tickets at this booth.

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Various food items include hmaburgers, chicken grills, thai food, ice cream, hot dogs, sandwiches, gyros, lemonade, and much more!

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I had a corn dog for my lunch....and a cup of dippin dots

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There's a feast for ears too. You can enjoy free concerts all day long here from some of the best bands. Listening to music from these bands under under this such a sunny day is a different experience.

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There's plenty of fun for all ages. A booth sold suger bear for pocket pets and tought people how to adopt this cute animal in the family.

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One booth sold sugar bears as pets, actually pocket pets. A man sitting in from of the booth held a sugar in his hand. It is really cut and tamed. He said sugar bear are small marsupials which are native to rainforests of Australia and Indonesia. They like to eat any fruits and vegetables that are sweet. And,sugar bears are very safe to people and very clean. However, it's so expensive to have a sugar bear, though the cost of food for raise a sugar bear is much less than that for a dog.

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I also stopped by taking a look in some artist booths located throughout the park that weekend. From paintings and pottery to ceramics and crafts, there's sure to be something different for me at Taste of Champaign-Urbana 2009.

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Before I left, I dropped by the booth of MTD and got some free gifts.

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Tour in UIUC Campus

UIUC has many wonderful buildings and facilities for students, such as Illini Union, Quad, Libraries, ARC and greeny lowns.

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The computers installed in the Labs are tatally brand new Apple Mac.


The main transportation in Champaign/Urbana for students, except driving cars, is MTD, a convenient and free tool to access to many places.

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Market Place

Just arrived at CMI UIUC

After taking a short flight from D.C. to BWI and transferred at Chicago, I arrived UIUC yesterday.
CMI Willard airport is local one and is owned and managed by University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.

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Ming-che picked me up at 14:30 and showed me some places for shopping glocery. He also told me how to take bus in local area. Ming-che is so kind and so patient to help me adapt this new environment.
When moving into the house subleased from a student posting it on the UIUC TSA website, I found this is a cheap place to live;however, I have to endure something, such as poor housing management, no mail pick-up for residence, poor utilities...etc. It's jsut kind of trade off.

Moreover, I went to National City Bank to open accounts. Without bank accouts I couldn't banking in a easy way. I got two accouts and am supposely to have a debit card 10 days later.

Also I went to IEI to register my language program and I have to visit IEI office several times in the following days.

最近要念的幾本書

Skyjack!

60頁的Skyjack完成

看過的DVD與電影

我們的冒險青春 Somers Town
暮光之城－無懼的愛 Twilight
七生有幸 Seven Pounds
為愛朗讀The Reader


Son of Rambow (2007)
Neil Dudgeon
Bill Milner
Director:Garth Jennings

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
Director:David Fincher
Brad Pitt
Cate Blanchett

Made of Honor (2008)
Director:Paul Weiland
Patrick Dempsey
Michelle Monaghan

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

導　　演：	羅勃柯恩（Rob Cohen）
演　　員：	布蘭登費雪（Brendan Fraser） 瑪麗亞貝蘿（Maria Bello） 李連杰（Jet Li） 楊紫瓊（Michelle Yeoh） 約翰漢納（John Hannah）

Batman;The Dark Knight

導　　演：	克里斯多福諾蘭（Christopher Nolan）
演　　員：	克里斯丁貝爾（Christian Bale） 米高肯恩（Michael Caine） 希斯萊傑（Heath Ledger） 蓋瑞歐德曼（Gary Oldman） 亞倫艾克哈特（Aaron Eckhart） 摩根費里曼（Morgan Freeman） 威廉費區納（William Fichtner）

Rent

Pay it Forward
Kevin Spacey
Helen Hunt
Haley Joel Osment

Hell Boy II-The Golden Army
-Ron Perlman

Hancock
-Will Smith

You Don't Mess With Zohan
-Adam Sandler

Iron Man
-Robert Downey Jr.

Indian Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull
-Harrison Ford
傑西警探犯罪檔案:樂園謀殺事件 Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
-TOM SELLECK
傑西警探犯罪檔案:小鎮疑雲 Jesse Stone: Night Passage
-TOM SELLECK
Harry Potter and The order of the Phoenix鳳凰會的密令
哈利波特：火盃的考驗 HARRY POTTER & THE GOBLET OF FIRE
神鬼奇航3:世界的盡頭 Pirates of the Caribbean III
The Queen黛妃與女皇

The Good Shepherd 特務風雲:中情局誕生秘辛
神鬼認證：最後通牒 Bourne Ultimatum
送信到哥本哈根
戰地琴人
蝴蝶效應
衝擊效應 CRASH
終極殺陣4 TAXI 4
變形金剛 Transformer:The movie
火線交錯Babel
玩命關頭3：東京甩尾 The Fast and Furious 3 : Tokyo Drift
疾風禁區 GOAL
史密斯任務 MR. AND MRS. SMITH
限制級戰警2:極限公國 XXX 2: STATE OF THE UNION
瞞天過海2：長驅直入 OCEANS 12
國家寶藏 NATIONAL TREASURE
特洛依:木馬屠城 TROY
神鬼認證2 THE BOURNE SUPREMACY
戀愛沒有假期 The Holiday
新婚奧客 You, Me and Dupree
婚禮終結者 THE WEDDING CRASHER
金龜車賀比:全速前進 HERBIE:FULLY RELOADED
全民情聖 HITCH
BJ單身日記2:男人禍水 BRIDGET JONES:THE EDGE OF REASON
計程車女王 TAXI
冒牌總統 Dave
汽車總動員 Cars
納尼亞傳奇:獅子,女巫,魔衣櫥 THE CHRONIDES OF NARNIA
霍爾的移動城堡 Howl's Moving Castle
北極特快車 POLAR EXPRESS
波特小姐:比得兔的誕生 MISS POTTER
穿著Prada的惡魔 Devil Wears Prada
達文西密碼 Da Vinci Code
安隆風暴 ENRON:THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM

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這是剛剛要開始看的書GOLD FISH

,雖然等級還是不高,但是閱讀的速度快了!希望吸收到的內容能更加精準!!

High School Musical (Disney)

The Yearling

The Yearling

作者：Marjorie K Rawlings
出版社：Penguin Longman Publishing
出版日期：2007年07月01日
語言：英文 ISBN：1405852178
裝訂：平裝

Jody Baxter makes friends with a young orphaned deer called Flag. A powerful tale famous for its descriptions of the natural world.

Reading...Love Story

Love Story (1970)
Starring: Ali MacGraw, Ryan O'Neal Director: Arthur Hiller Rating Product Details
Actors: Ali MacGraw, Ryan O'Neal, John Marley, Ray Milland, Russell Nype Directors: Arthur Hiller

Ethan Frome

AuthorEdith Wharton (1862-1937)

was born into a wealthy New York family. From 1907 she lived in France, where she became a close friend of the novelist Henry James. She wrote many novels and short stories during her life, and in 1920 became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, for her novel The Age of Innocence.

在高雄市親水公園騎單車--日間

高雄市愛河親水公園[五期]

今天17:00趁著夕陽西下的時候,騎著小黑到我家後面的愛河親水公園[五期]去兜風.

話說小黑就是小白的弟弟,那小白又是誰呢,他就是在台北市立圖書館總圖被偷的摺疊式自行車.兄弟倆都是我在PxHOME跟台中[新瑞興][阿伯的店]買來的. 當初會買他就是因為他的規格低到不行(沒有碳纖維車架,沒有先進的變速裝置,更沒有高科技花鼓與賽級座墊)用來讓小偷死心,沒想到台北的小偷這麼窮連重達20KG+鼓式後煞車的小白都給搶了,所以為了安心享受騎車樂趣,我還是再花1990跟阿伯買了小黑,收到小黑的時候才發現後輪制動已經"升級"成為V型煞車了.

因為小弟對"痣安"沒啥信心,所以去買了鐵鍊再加上U型機車鎖.哈哈,這樣一來我可以安心一點了