American Life Experience: Four Vacation Arrangements in American Universities

By June 5438+February, many international students from China began to prepare for their Christmas holiday. American universities have four holidays: Thanksgiving, winter vacation, summer vacation and spring break, which add up to about four and a half months.

winter vacation

Winter holidays include national holidays such as Christmas and New Year, which last for three weeks to one month.

In America, winter vacation usually begins two weeks before Christmas and ends in early January. The holiday lasts three to five weeks. Every school is still different, but they are all the same. Most universities will close their dormitories and restaurants during the winter vacation and require students to leave school with all their luggage. Some schools provide dormitories for students who stay in school during holidays, but only a few schools provide holiday apartments for free.

Thanksgiving Day

Thanksgiving Day on the fourth Thursday of 165438+ 10 every year lasts about five to seven days, which is shorter than winter vacation, summer vacation and spring break. Due to the short holidays, international students usually do not choose to return to China.

summer vacation

Summer vacation is the longest of all holidays, about three months.

International students can have two choices: returning to China for vacation or staying in the United States. Students studying in high schools in the United States can take advantage of summer vacation to attend summer schools, on the one hand, to avoid too long holidays and neglect their studies; On the other hand, you can also review previous courses and preview next year's courses, especially American history, biology, English and other courses that are relatively difficult for China students; Or strengthen the course of mathematics and physics, which will help you to take the honor course of high school or AP course of pre-university in depth after the start of school, and add points for applying for university in the future. You can also attend language training classes, prepare for the SAT, or work during the summer vacation to complete volunteer service. Being a community volunteer is very popular in America. College students can use their vacation time to practice and accumulate work experience.

spring holidays

In addition to the normal winter and summer vacations, American universities arrange spring beaks in the middle of the spring semester every year, usually for one week, and some schools arrange two-week holidays, basically in March.

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China people are very modest. For example, if someone praises you for your beauty, you usually answer? Where is it? I'm not pretty. . Being too modest in America will be considered very hypocritical. When others praise you for your beauty, what will Americans say? Thank you? . If a person who can speak fluent English apologizes that he can't speak English well, then he can speak fluent English. They will think you are a liar. Therefore, in the United States, students should seek truth from facts, meet others' praise and express their gratitude directly.

2. Don't ride with strangers

Don't ride with strangers in America. Cases such as being robbed of money or insulted because of hitchhiking often happen. Especially female students, when they see someone stopping on the road, they say they want to give you a ride. Be sure to refuse coldly, and don't talk to him too much. In order to avoid danger.

Don't take the subway at night

Unlike China, the subway in the United States is extremely messy and becomes a gathering place for drug addicts, thieves, hooligans and triads at night. Therefore, for your own safety, please don't travel by subway at night. If something goes wrong in this state, even the police will not sympathize with you. This is the most basic thing to know when living in America.

For those students who are credulous, simplistic and lacking in interpersonal skills, parents need to strengthen the education of prevention awareness before their children go abroad.

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