DST for Party Animal

DST Script. How to become a “party animal”?

As the title shows, I want to discuss the way to get involved in the American party life. However I am an international student, so I am learning. Most importantly, I want to share some interesting problems that I faced during not only in party. Due to the fact that I do not find all the solutions out, I want to share with people and want people to help me or them out from this problem.

 First of all, I want to present some interesting differences between Chinese party and American party. The difference which immediately comes to mind is the type of people that join in the party. Specifically speaking, most people who join into the party are familiar with each other and people know strangers from other friends’ introduce. In contrast, in the most of formal American party, people are invited by the holder to go into the party even some of them are strangers. Due to this phenomenon, if an international student wants to join the American party, they can have some difficulties to participate. For example, when I first time to take part in an American party which is held by my roommate’s host family, I feel nervous and I cannot find a topic to talk with people who I just met. However, I struggle to get out from tension and figure out way which is that I can pick out topic from some “common knowledge” ---refer to everything surrounded me and try to come up with questions. Such as, why you choose this place as your house and what is your dog’s name. Moreover, in that party, there is big problem which is that sometime I cannot understand the American special language use. For example, ASAP referred to “as soon as possible” and PMS referred the recently time is very bad and annoying. Moreover, I want to talk more about this kind of language use. For example, FAQ is referred to Frequent Asked Question, additionally “U” and “Cuz” are used to instead the “You” and “Cause”. In order to get quick used to American special language, it is impossible to figure to all them out, which I try to achieve, so I know I have a long way to move in.

Second difference is place and content that the party uses in two countries. In China, most people choose outside place to have party and they often choose some restaurants outside and most of time friends often gossiping and talking about people’s interests. However in American party, people always choose their home for the party. Moreover the game in the party is different; people play a game which is throw the sandy bags into the whole and try to get 21 grades. In contrast, people in China play in a different way which is card boarding game.

In conclusion, some of the problems which I describe before are still confuse me during the party time. I hope everyone just enjoys their party time and tries to find o out the way in order to solve the language problem and culture differences.