When you come to Auckland (奥克兰), you will easily find a pub (酒吧)either in small towns or in big cities. In these pubs many different kinds of drinks such as wine, beer, coke, coffee and juice are served. You can find out the local (当地的) culture. However, if you don't know the pub culture, you may lose face or even get into trouble(惹上麻烦).

    Most pubs in Auckland have no waiters, so you have to go to the bar to you're your own drinks. If you don't know this, you may wait a very long time until you know you have to go and get your own drinks. When you are standing in front of the bar waiting for service(服务). you are able to talk with others. The bar is the only place where you can talk freely. But while you are talking with others or talking about what you want to order, you must be careful.

    Remember, you'll never go into the pubs unless you are over 18.

    When you are in England, you must be very careful in the streets because the traffic drives on the left（左边）.

    In China, before you cross a street, you must look to the left first and then the right. If the traffic lights are green, the traffic can go. People on foot mustn't cross.

In the morning and in the evening when people go to or come from work, the streets are very busy. Traffic is the most dangerous then.

    When you go by bus in England, you have to be careful, too. Always remember the traffic moves on the left. So you must be careful. Have a look first or you will go the wrong way.

    In many English cities, there are big buses with two floors. You can sit on the second floor. From there you can see the city very well. It's very interesting!

    When you write a text message or an email, you might put a smiling face or other pictures at the end to make the message more fun. These pictures are emojis. The first emojis were on Japanese mobile phones in the 1990s. Later, they were used on Apple's iPhone and Android phones. Now they are everywhere!

Before emojis, there were emoticons. The word is a mixture(混合) of emotion(感情) and icon(图标). Emoticons are made of the signs you can find on your keyboard, for example:) for a smiley or @};—for a rose. The first use of :-)was in 1982 and it was called "joke marker". Emoji is a Japanese word which means pictograph: e(picture) +moji (character). Emojis are real pictures, for example ，or . There are 1851emojis that can be used on mobile phones and other devices. There are all kinds of emojis, from faces and weather to things in the kitchen and animal.

    In England, we have a saying: A picture paints a thousand words. For many people, an emoji is like a punctuation mark(标点). It's like the tone of voice when we speak on the phone, or hand movements(gestures) used in conversation. Emojis are also changing the way we write. The more we use emojis, the less we use slang(俚语), such as LOL or OMG.

    When someone speaks and looks serious, we try to look serious, too, and when someone smiles, we smile as well. This is how we show empathy(同感) and make friends(and enemies!). But when we're online, we can't see the person's face and there's no emotion. The invention of emojis changed that! Scientists in Australia have discovered that when we look at a smiley face online, the same parts of the brain start working as when we look at a real smiley face. Our mood changes, and we try to change our face to match the emoji. This is something we learn as we get older. Our brains have developed this ability over the last two or three years. This means that emojis have created a new brain pattern(模式)in us!

    Today, with the development of society, people all over the world almost have the same hobbies That is to say, we are not very different in some way. However, cultures are still quite different. In the East and in the West, social rules are not the same.

    In the East, it takes a long time to become someone's friend. People are very close to their friends. When people from the West meet you, they will call you a friend right away. That doesn't mean they are close to you.

    When people from the East meet you, they want to know about your age, your salary (薪水) and whether you are married or not. For people from the West, these are not polite questions. They think such kind of questions violates their privacy (隐私).

    Family is important for everyone. However, in the East, kids live with their parents for a long time. They still listen to them after they grow up.

    In the West, independence is very important. After their kids grow up, they leave home. They don't have to listen to their parents.

    In the East and in the West, people think differently, too. People in the West think less and act more. In the East, people notice relationships between things, and they often keep their opinions quiet.