an experience with my school mates At the beginning, it was really hard for us to find an interesting topic for everyone of us since we are four people and we all come from different country. Before being gathering together, no one expected to be part of an “international” group like this. So since each one of us has his or her own language and culture background, we think it would be a good idea to do something about cultural difference. More precisely something we may share but different from one country to another. Initially we talked about our childhood and games we played when we were young. It turned to be less interesting than we had thought because even though we did played different games, the relation between what we played and our culture are not that clear. We would like to do something more representative. Then I suggested to talk about the most important holiday in our country. Since I am Chinese, the holiday means the most for us is Chinese New Year. Then we discussed the origin of the holidays in each country and we found out almost every holiday has some mythological color behind it, which makes the story more interesting. Finally, we all agreed to do mythology of each country as our topic. Based on what we have down earlier, we all think mythology is important for quite a few reasons. For one thing, it makes up a major part of anybody’s heritage. It is a constant reminder of who we are and where we come from. Every culture has their own legends which embody the hopes and aspirations of the majority of people in the society and are used to transmit and preserve cultural values of the group. That is why we eventually decide to present one of the most famous mythological symbol or story of our country and compare what are the differences and what they have in common.