Last weekend, I was lucky to watch super bowl and know about it background knowledge with GRF Shiv and Professor Blalock. As someone who has never knew about football or other popular US sports before, I felt a little awkward at first when looking at the question sheet and watching everyone else was so excited. Thanks to Shiv and Professor Blalock, I knew about the rules of the game from scratch. However, after talking more with Professor Blalock, I realize that what is interesting is not the game itself, but the culture and controversial issues behind it: For example, many children from relatively poor family are sent to the football sports team because their parents regard this as a way to make quick and big money, even if the sports may cause serious brain knocking; US people regard super bowl as a world game, which in fact in the world nearly only Americans love football(others may prefer baseball etc). I was deeply impressed by the atmosphere in dining hall that day, and the issues behind the game.

This is a great opportunity for me to know more about US culture and step further about this culture other than academics. I hope that in future I can have more this kind of opportunities.