Third time Speaking Circle

Hi everyone,
Our group made our third time meeting in MSU art museum. This is my favorite meeting time so far.


There were three galleries open on that day which are "Future Returns: Contemporary art from

China", "Future city: Lansing" and "Fat women life". In Chinese Art session, we talked a lot about the arts. For instance, there is a art work about called "Notes from Reading". The artist uses antonyms in Chinese which were "real" and "fake" to compare with the process of sharping a knife to illustrate the violent nature of the blade and the illusory nature of the words. The more sharping of the knife, the more clear you can read the words. This is really hard to understand but I can read the Chinese introduction of this so that I can learn the artist mind. So I explained it to Fatima, she listened carefully and fall in love with this great work suddenly like me. Based on this, we talked about our views on arts and what kind of style we like. And also, there are some arts based on Chinese history such as the work called "the Silk Road". So Colas and I told our Chinese prosperous history to our friends that in the ancient time, Chinese Silk is the most representative monument that shows the cultural communication around the world during that time. Colas and I learned a lot from this, because this was our first time to talk about our such a deep history to others, even though we stopped a lot of times to check our electronic dictionary, we enjoyed in this special experience.


In a word, all of us really enjoyed this event. This helps us become closer to talk a lot in a interesting

and enjoyable way. We will keep paying our attention on the events which will be happened in next

month!