After GLPS

Today I got my diary back! I left my diary at Ms. Lee's room and I got it today! Anyway, I read all of my diary over. It made me think about the GLPS again, and eventually it made me sad ㅠㅠ

After reading and thinking about GLPS, I realized my life style has gotten better than before. 

1. I wake up early now.

I woke up very late before which about 7:50 and I was always in hurry which was quite bad habit. Also, sometimes I was late to school or I had to break my promise with my friends. Now, after GLPS, I started to wake up at 6:30 and study. Even though I have only went to school for 2 days, I go very early so many of my friends are surprised. 

2. BLOGGING

Before using vanessashin.blogspot.com, I had another blog in naver. However, instead of writings like these, that was where I post my picture and picture of celebrities or songs of them. However, I started blogging on more serious? stuffs and I am proud that I am blogging on matters like that. 

3. Speaking Style

Everyday at history class, I had to present something. Through that, I became competitive and tried hard to change my problem, speaking fast. It was very hard for me to fix that but since I hear how slow other speak everyday and special coach, who are my friends in dorm. 

There are more things such as friendship, study period, diary, etc but I one thing I am sure of is that I am so happy and there are no regrets that I have went to GLPS♡

News article about the medicine

Our family read news article from Joongangilbo. Today I was reading one column which was very interesting. It was a Korean article. 

The title was "Greedy personality of pharmacist draws back selling medicine in the supermarket (consisting convenience store)." It grabbed my interest because my grandmother is pharmacist and she talked a lot about that issue when our family visited her house for the new year’s holiday. Also, I didn't felt good because saying greedy is from one person's or some specific group's point of view and it is not appropriate for the title of news article. After finish reading this article, I thought of good and bad aspect of selling medicine in the supermarket. Since I found 1 good aspect and 2 bad aspect of this, I wanted to express my thought.  

First the good aspect is that even though when pharmacy is closed, people, the citizens can afford medicine when needed. According to joonangilbo, Mr. Park (Park Ki Yong), a business man had a cold but he had lots of work to do. So when he visited pharmacies, it was all closed. Only places that were opened was some stores and convenient store. Actually, many of you might've experienced this before. If you feel sick at night, you cannot do anything because pharmacies are closed. 

However, the bad aspect is that children can encounter medicine easily. Many children go to convenience store and if the medicines are in the convenience store, what will happen? They can buy it easily. Since children don’t have any professional knowledge about the medicine, nor does the person working on part-time job, in serious cases, it can lead to drug intoxication. In reality, United States allows the medicine to be sold in super market. As a result, my father says that he saw many news article before about children being involved in drugs and getting serious diseases because they took so many pills that is not needed in the body. For the children’s future, I think this should not happen.

Lastly, how can the pharmacist live? If all the people goes to super market or convenient store, only fly will be welcomed in the pharmacy. Then this can lead to other problems like deleting the subject of medicine in the college. If pharmacist cannot earn lots of money, who would want to study that subject? Also as personal example, my grandmother is, as I said pharmacist. I don’t want her and other people working as a pharmacist losing job.

This is big issue nowadays. I think there are more bad effects in the society than good. Many people says that they cannot afford medicine but I think if they go out during lunch time, or have some medicine like Tylenol before being sick, can prevent this. The government is dealing with problem of ‘job losses’ but if this law passes it might give more problems.

Dear Diary - January 24th

Dear Diary,
When I woke up today, earily, I had a really bad sore throat! This sore throat doens't seems to get better! So I drank a cup of tea, which was very sweet and brushed my teeth. To eat brunch, we went to our grandmother's house( this time, my mother's parents). Since all of my relatives came yesterday, it was only our family there. I called my closest cousin, Mary. She said she have to go somewhere today so she can't come. I thought she was going to play since today was a holiday. But! According to my mom and my grandmother, she was going to an academy. Only thing I could say was WOW! After coming from GLPS, the whole holiday was my playtime but she was studying.

This was the episode. Mary is going to become middle school 3rd grader. She always took 1st place in her school whenever there was test so she dreamed of going to KMLA. But her father, my uncle, said KMLA was so expensive and since she had not been to foreign country, her father said to try highschool for science geniuses.

When I heard this, even though I envy her because she is so smart, I think her effort to acheive her dream is really beautiful. She is kind of late for preparing but I belive that she can do it 'cause she tries really hard on everything she does.

Through this, I had made up my mind. In order to go to KMLA I will try really hard, no matter what kind of things face me. If she can do it, why can't I? I'll try really hard to go KMLA, Fighting!

New Years day

Tomorrow is the New Years day. The Lunar new year! What do you do in Lunar new years day? Like every other families, I get together with my relatives, have a talk and eat delicious foods. I'm very excitied about meeting them because I haven't seen them for a while. This is year it is January 23 but according to wiki pedia in 2013, it will be on Febuary 10th!

In Korea, the Lunar new year is like a family holiday. The 3 day off is to return home or visit their ancestral grave. Many Koreans wear Korean traditional clothes hanbok. However nowadays, most adults or teenagers don't wear it because it is very uncomfortable to work or play. Nowadays, we don't wear original hanbok but changed ones that had changed so we can move easier. But this year, I am not going to wear one either.

In these days, we eat traditional foods that ancestors used to eat this day. The most common one is Tteokguk. It is basically rice cake in the soup. Actually in the New years day, we have had it for breakfast in GLPS. When we eat tteokguk, we say that we are getting one year older.  The broth consist of protein by using beef, chicken, pork, pheasant, seafood. It is very yummy and if we put dumpling it is even more tasty. We can also make variety of different kinds by using different kind of rice cake.

I wish you Happy New Year!

Dear Diary - January 22

Dear diary,

Today is the first day I came from home. But even though I met my mother and father I don't really feel good. I was sick very bad. So yesterday, I couldn't eat meat, even though it was my favorite. My parents were very surprised and got me medicine. I felt like I would throw up but after eating medicine, I felt much better. I got text message from my friends from GLPS and I really wanted to reply but I felt so dizzy so I did it today morning. After sleeping for hours, I felt a bit better. Even though I am sick very badly, I feel relieved because I am sick after the camp. If I am sick during the camp, I cannot get any help from my parents, and also, I cannot attend to classes.

During text messaging with my friend, I found out that she was sick too. My friend Clauida from class 11 said she got high fever and has sore throat. I hope Claudia and I get better soon ~

Home, Sweet home...

I am finally back at home after 4 weeks of GLPS. It seemed like if I come back home, it will be more comfortable  but I think I was wrong. 4 weeks may be a long period. Yesterday was the last day and my roommates cried but I didn't. When I found a letter from my friend, who already went home, I started crying. All the memories with roommates, with teachers, PAs, TAs, even the memory of getting scolded passed by my head and I could not stop crying.

Today, I won debate and I could finished my history presentation well. Also, I got the best blogger awards. I want to thank everything to the teachers. Ms. Lee, Ms. Hughey  and Mr. Garrioch. I think I could improve!


I will miss everything in GLPS!

2 days till the end

D-2 of going home!
Well.... I feel happy but somehow very sad. I will miss my roommates, classmates, PAs, TAs, and all the teacher that taught me.

In 2 days, there will be many things happening. Final debate and final history presentation. Since I am doing both on Saturday my parents are coming and going to watch it, so I have to prepare it really hard.

I feel very happy because I made many memory here with my friends, and some of the 5th graders. Also, I am happy to learn many things here★ I hope I can come back next camp!

Wacky Web tales

A Special Valentine

It's fun to let people know you care about them by making them valentines for Valentine's Day. Follow these instructions to make your own pretty valentine:

1. To make the valentine, you will need pieces of pink paper and pieces of red paper. You will also need scissors, some chocolates, and a marker or a(n) candy.
2. Cut the pink paper into the shape of a(n) box.
3. Cut a smaller box shape from the red paper.
4. Glue the red paper box onto the center of the pink paper box.
5. Use the marker or the candy to write a Valentine's Day message to the person. If you don't know what to write, try a phrase such as, “Won't you be my smartValentine?” or “Vanessa thinks you are as cute as Infinite!”
6. You may wish to add other decorations, such as laptop or other paper shapes. Now you have the perfect pretty valentine to give to someone special!
7. Be careful when using your scissors, and remember to clean up the area where you have been running.

CA - Dead Poets society 3

Chapter 3

Charlie was reading the newspaper in the normal Sunday noon, drinking coffee. There was this page that was about this genius boy. His name was Neil Overstreet. Neil... Overstreet?! It definitely had some relationship with Dead Poets Society, especially Knox, Knox Overstreet! He appointed the meeting with two of his friend. Fortuantely, Cameron said he has known that newspaper company CEO for long time. With asking the CEO and the reporter, they could find where that genius boy lived. It was actually quite far, near Welton Academy.

Three of them went there and knocked on the door. A beautiful young lady opened the door. She was very familiar. They thought for a second and shouted all together,

“Are you Chris?” That woman was very surprised and said

“Yes sir but who are you? Wait, are you...Knox!” she called Knox, that we all expected.

Knox came out with his son, which they saw in the newspaper. Chris whispered something in Knox’s ear and Knox recognized them and smiled asking them to come in. Chris and Knox married! The Dead Poets couldn’t thought of that would happen. Since, Chris knows Cameron, Todd and Charlie, she could join in the talk. In Neil Overstreet’s room, Neil was reading poem by Robert Frost. The three dead poets started talking about the plan to Knox, who was smiling with pride. Knox really liked the plan and he said

“With dead poets honor!”

It was what Knox said while attending Welton Academy. Including Chris they all smiled since she knows that. There was good news from Knox! He said he still contacts will Meeks and that he lives just one street far! So Steve Meeks came over right away when he heard that his old friends were here! Everyone was here but they can’t go on sailing without a captain. Their biggest task was now facing them: Captain, Mr. Keating. 

Ode to thanks by Pablo Neruda

Ode to Thanks by Pablo Neruda

Thanks to the word
that says thanks!
Thanks to thanks,
word
that melts
iron and snow!
The world is a threatening place
until
thanks
makes the rounds
from one pair of lips to another,
soft as a bright
feather
and sweet as a petal of sugar,
filling the mouth with its sound
or else a mumbled
whisper.
Life becomes human again:
it’s no longer an open window.
A bit of brightness
strikes into the forest,
and we can sing again beneath the leaves.
Thanks, you’re the medicine we take
to save us from
the bite of scorn.
Your light brightens the altar of harshness.
Or maybe
a tapestry
known
to far distant peoples.
Travelers
fan out
into the wilds,
and in the jungle
of strangers,
merci
rings out
while the hustling train
changes countries,
sweeping away borders,
then spasibo
clinging to pointy
volcanoes, to fire and freezing cold,
or danke, yes! and gracias, and
the world turns into a table:
a single word has wiped it clean,
plates and glasses gleam,
silverware tinkles,
and the tablecloth is as broad as a plain.
Thank you, thanks,
for going out and returning,
for rising up
and settling down.
We know, thanks,
that you don’t fill every space-
you’re only a word-
but
where your little petal
appears
the daggers of pride take cover,
and there’s a penny’s worth of smiles.

Translated by Ken Krabbenhoft

Ode that I found during my research. It was very interesting, and when I was reading I could really learn that I should thank everything. This ode made me feel happy and thankful also, it made me smile the whole time. 

Final debate

In Saturday or Friday, GLPS students have final debate. We, 1A debates on the motion of 


THBT globalization improves quality of life. 


I am in team 3 with Kevin, and Chulmin, who I showed terrible teamwork with. We are the opposition and 
Kevin is the prime minister
Chulmin is the deputy leader of opposition
and lastly I am the whip!


I hope we could win this debate with class 15! 
Fighting☆!!!

Dear Diary - January 17th

Dear Diary,

Today I went to the 11th floor in the first study period to use computer. Since I've started but not finished my assignments for Writing class, I wanted to come yesterday but yesterday was WEEKLY TEST day! So unfortunately I couldn't. Before I go, I went to 6floor and 7th floor for about an hour with my friend, Kim Ji Young. She is in class 9 and her classmates, who is 5th grade lives there. So we went and chatted and played and went to 11th floor together. There, I went to my blog. I confidently, when I was in computer lab changed to Dynamic vie, I thoguth I couldn't access to my blog so when I got in, I quickly changed my design to window view and started to work on my project. First for odes, I couldn't get any idea so I searched in google and found some example and also went into my friend's blogs to get some idea. Then, I thought of the topic, which was something that I was drinking right now, Green tea! From that, for two hours, I revised and added some of the essays to my blog. Viral video, I fixed and added some details.

It was a very worthy(?) day and I felt like all the heavy stress on my shoulder all flew away. When the time was left, I researched for debate and sent some URLs to my email. I really want to be the BEST BLOGGER!♡

American kids react toward K-Pop - My thought

I think that those kids, since they are from United States are too self satisfied with their music and think they are the best. According to the video, the kids say that K-Pop singers are following American pop stars but I believe that they are keeping unique style. I don't really know about American pop songs but I'm sure that the Korean singers have unique voice and dances.

Also, they say they would listen to these songs if they are translated in to English, maybe. However, I think that is acting greedy because since it's K-Pop, Korean Pop, people should understand even though it is in other language, since we listen to music that is in English, like songs from Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber.

When I watched this video, I kind of agreed that it puts more percentage in how addictive it is rather musicality. K-pop songs are very addictive and we don't like them very easily too when the time passes by. When I searched some blogs in naver, I found many of the comments. Many agreed with what I agreed but most of them were angry when they say that K-Pop singers were copying, following American pop stars singing.

I think, through watching this video, even though expressing their thought is free, people should at least try to understand other culture and how it works.

CA - Dead Poets society 2

Chapter 2

First, they searched in internet eventhough they thought it wont’ come out. They searched for hours and hours and when they decided to give up, they saw a name and frowned. It said Cameron the most annoying name. The reason why the Dead Poets Society was revealed, the reason why Mr. Keating could never teach them again was because of him, Cameron! To dead poets, he was the most furious creator alive. Worse than Nolan. However, he was still one of the members in Dead Poets Society so they went inside the web site that stated his name. It said his address that he presently lives. They wrote that on the note and decided to have a visit. They decided to meet at Todd’s hospital two days later 3PM.

November 21,

It’s the day meeting Cameron. Todd, wearing clothes felt envious feeling in one side but was also nervous to see Cameron. On the other side of town, Charlie was feeling the same thing. When they visited that house, Charlie and Todd felt that house was haunted. It seemed like noone lives there and was cursed. With adventurous mind, they went in carefully. There was Cameron in the room, reading and writing poets, face filled with misery and guilt. When Cameron recognized his old friends, he gasped and cried and screamed in misery. After he relaxed, he started his story.

“I was afraid what will happen if we get caught. I will get kicked out from not only school but from my house. But after I revealed it, I knew it was not what I really wanted then from that I felt guilty and wanted to probate these problems but I realized that I was too late. Please forgive me, my friends,” cameron said with crying.

The two friends’ envious feelings started to melt. He was young at that age and they thought that he might’ve been very depressed feelign those guilts for these logn time. They decided to forgive and accept that as just a mistake. After they heard his story, they told Cameron that its okay and about the plan. He said he will participate. So three dead poets found so far!

CA - Dead Poets society

At CA class we take every Sunday in GLPS, I was "Reading." At that group, we made book and for the topic, since recently I read "Dead Poets Society," I decided to make up a story that might happen after the book ends. 
This is what I made ...

Chapter 1

Todd Anderson was reading the poem by Walt Whitman, “O captain My Captain.” His faded memory from his high school popped up like it is an event that happened yesterday. He really missed being a free soul, being taught by Mr. Keating. Now, he was a famous dctor that cures patient. After, Mr. Keating was kicked out from the school, Todd had to go to medical school by his father’s order. Also, since they were kicked out of school, he couldn’t meet with his friends, dead poets.

“Doctor, next patient,” nurse voice broke the silence in Todd’s office and he had to come back from thinking.

The door knob turned and the patient came in. Todd felt familiar with the patient. When he saw the patient’s profile to see who is it, he was very surprised and laughed crazily. It said Charlie Dalton. Charlie, his old friend, one of the members of Dead Poets Society. At first Charlie was confused but when he saw the doctor’s name written on the desk, they hugged each other, satisfied. They promised to eat dinner that day and Todd invited Charlie to his house.

Todd wasn’t married. He thought he could love noone because already loves poems. His house was messy with papers that had printed poems in. Some of them were made by him and some of them were written by many famous poets. He cooked simple foods that Charlie could like and when time was left, he took out some pictures from Welton Academy.

Ding! Dong! The door bell rang and Charlie came. They sat down on the table and at dinner. It took so long to finish dinner because they talked and talked and talked. First of all, what they were most curious about was what they did after they were kicked out of Welton Academy. Charlie told his story and Todd felt really sorry for him. Charlie’s family was very rich but the business went wrong and they collapsed. Charlie sobbed when telling the story because he had so many hardship to regain his honor back. He said he ran away several time but caught everytime and had to go back to study. He felt like being at jail when all the freedom was blocked from him. Now the hardship was gone, since they were together. After that they changed the topic to their memory at Welton. They missed dead poets and Mr. Keating! So that thought of having a meeting again and do what they have done while they were in Dead Poets Society. 

Reflective essay

This movie "Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring" we watched only the Spring part shown above. In a small island that has only one building and a ship, an apprentice and an old monk lived. They always sailed to land and gathered some herbs. One day, young apprentice went by himself and played some tricks with animals by tying rock on the animal's body. As the punishment, the young apprentice was to tie the rock onto himself, sail to the land and untie the rocks from the animals.

Through this, I felt very uncomfortable and guilty because when I was in 2nd grade, I stepped on many ants which I thought it was fun at that time. While watching it, I felt that even if it might seem fun to me, it was a serious thing for the ants and nature. They are losing life! If I imagine giant stepping me, my family and my friends, its just terrifying. I think the punishment that the old monk gave was very effective. Since, the young apprentice could see how the victim feel, he wouldn't do that again. Would somebody hit somebody after experiencing who annoying and hurting it is? well, NO! This method is called "An eye for an eye" a method that is basic of Hammurabi laws. Actually in my personal experience, I have stole my friend's candy and threw it in front of her for no reason because I thought he had better taste. As a punishment, my teacher took away my candy and threw it away. After this, I never stole my friend's stuff nor did I threw it. Also, since I could feel what the victim will feel, I tried to think before I speak. But punishment for EOP, I think giving out EOP paper is the best way. EOP paper can help us realize that we have done something wrong and since it is so hard to memorize the student might try not to get another EOP paper.

I really liked this video even though it was not really a comic. I usually hate slow movies or things that only have pictures in it but it gave me some advice and we could examine stuff. Watching this video, I could think about some punishment, along with what I have done in the past so I really liked this and if I get a chance, I would like to watch the whole movie, not only spring part.

Wacky Web Tales 4

The New Kids in School

This year is sure to be a(n) big year at Seoul Seorae Elementary School . There are several new kids at the school and they are working hard to make new friends. They just moved here from Cartoonville!
In the first grade, Wonder Woman is the newest addition to the group. She is learning about sitting at a(n) sandwich and about math. In fourth grade, batman is studying tomatoes.

Both kids are trying hard to fit in. Since Wonder Woman is a cartoon character, she can bend her arm unlike any other kid. This makes her really popular playing starcraft on the playground because she can get out of the way of the other kids very beautifully. batman is also trying to fit in. He had many friends in his cartoon, but they do not live here. He's become popular because all the other kids are asking him what it is like to be a cartoon character, and what superman and spiderman are really like. Both cartoon kids are sure to make this a special year!

Wacky web tales 3

All a Dream

I fell asleep yesterday listening to an old album that my mom had. I really enjoyed it, though I had a weird dream. It was kind of like one of the old songs.

I've been workin' in Europe,
All the hillarious day.
I've been workin' in Europe,
Just to pass the time away.
Don't you hear the whistle eating?
Rise up so early in the morn.
Don't you hear Louis 14 shouting
“Jessie, ran your horn? ”
Jessie, won't you ran,
Jessie, won't you ran,
Jessie, won't you ran your horn?
Jessie, won't you ran,
Jessie, won't you ran,
Jessie, won't you ran your horn?
Someone's in the bedroom with Jessie.
Someone's in the bedroom, I know.
Someone's in the bedroom with Jessie
Strumming on the old trumpet.
It was the weirdest dream I've had in a long time!

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Ode to ipod

Fun interesting device

MP3 video game, everything

The machine that have everything

Father hates you

but mother likes you

my brother is fond of you

and I love you

Bad for education

but good for communication

It can make the friendship stickier

but also can ruin the friendship

forever!

Now since you are

drowned in the

not water

COFFEE!

I miss you very much♡

Ode to greentea

Dear Green Tea,

First time I tasted you, you were bitter than the juice I used to drink. However, your cover looked so pretty I took one after one sip. Your clothes, often called tea bag was very attractive. Every time I took sip, it tasted better and better and I got addicted to you. When I'm drinking water, I also had you in my hand. 

However, in 1st grade there was a terrible incident that I shouldn't have done to you. It was drinking hot chocolate. When drinking hot water I always had with you but when my friend's mother gave me  hot chocolate, I thought it was more sweeter and better. From then you were no where in my attention. I bet that you might've got stress and shock from me and I really apologize that.

When I came here, GLPS, I drank you, green tea just because you were the only left one. First, I groaned because Jetti, the chocolate milk, the colder version of hot chocolate was already sold out. Then when I tasted you, it was like WOW! It tastes wonderful. It was mroe addicting than hot chocolate and now I enjoy drinking you and you are the best drink ever!

I'm sorry for what I did in past 6 years. I really apologize for that however I hope you can understand that as just acting like a baby and going through puberty. You, with the heart as big as ocean, please understand me and I won't do that again>.< I'll find you when I want to drink something from now. But! I don't want to be too~ addictive so please don't complain if I dont' find you everyday!

Best,

Vanessa

Wacky Web Tales - super salad

To make best apple salad you need fresh ingredients. The best time to buy a fresh apple is from September to January. Go to the local market, pick up one apple and study it. The apple should be rotten and delicious. These taste the best! Put 5 of them in the shopping cart. You will also need a pound each of carrot and bowls.

Next you need to get the ingredients for the salad dressing. You might like orange dressing, which taste yummy on apple salad, but you might also enjoy melon dressing. Pick out 8 best foods you can buy. Take you ingredients home, and get ready to make your salad. 

Wash and dry each apple thoroughly, you use camera to seperate the parts of the apple. put the pieces in large salad bowl. Next, chop the carrots and bowls, and put those in the bowl. To make the dressing, mash the fruit in the another bowl. Add a cup of oil and 9 teaspoons of vinegar. Pour the dressing into the large salad bowl and mix the ingredients. Wow! Enjoy your apple salad.  

Wacky Web tales - dear diary

Summer Camp

Dear Mom and Dad,

Camp is so Fun! The food here is really good, unlike that camp food Edwardtold me about. We get to eat pizzas and chickens every day of the week!

This week I get to try out all the activities and sports. We are canoeing in coolwater on Lake Fred. We also are learning how to dive off the stupid diving board! I tried archery and I wasn't very good—I hit a(n) flower by mistake. I'll practice and get better, though.

For Arts and Crafts, I made a clay cell phone, a(n) ipad out of macramé, and a shelf for Mom to put her tubes on. I even learned about whittling. I made a(n) computer out of wood! Can you believe it?

I especially like all the friends I am meeting. Kids here come from all over the country, from as far away as Kangwon do and Kyungido. I am sorry I have to leave soon. I sure am going to miss all the fun I've had here. Maybe I can go camping in the backyard when I get back and pretend that I'm still at camp. Do you think Spot will want to camp with me?

Love always,

Vanessa

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Chain Writing (+metafiction)

Mr. S was marking the essays for essay writing contest from KMLA. He found an interesting paper which the writer had same name with him, Bob. He got interested and started reading the essay with enthusiasm.

It started like this...

Many things must be stopped. First of all abbreviation in language must be stopped. Nowadays many people uses abbreviation in language. The most famous are "CU" or"LOL" which is abbreviation of see you and laugh out loud. Since so many people uses abbreviation to most of the things, people are getting confused. Sometimes when I use abbreviation speaking to my mom, she gets confused and doesn't know what I am talking about and keep asking me. Also I think abbreviation is destruction of the language. It is erasing the original meaning that it contained. 

'The first introduction is quite okay...' Mr. S said and he continued to read.

Abbreviation made our communication hard to understand and destroying Han-Gul words own features. If we keep using abbreviation maybe here will be no our own words but only strange words will left. Then who will be using these abbreviation? It is mostly by students. Students or young teens wants to make long word shorter to pronounce easier. Also, it looks more nicer if we use abbreviation. For example, elevator in elva or teacher to Ssam. Well it is okay to use it but if we keep using it,it will be bad. 


I believe that KMLA should be aware of abbreviation mostly because KMLA is "Korean Minjok Leadership Academy" We need to keep Korea's original word. Like such, we have to keep Korea's tradition. To keep it, we should stop EOP because it can damage our love to Korean.(?)


And all English academies will be perish! All!!!! And we should say "Every people in earth,you have to use Korean!" so every company and school should teach Korean. And they will have Korean Academies.

"Huh?" He said. " That's kind of off topic!!"

However there are some positive sides of abbreviation. Some teenagers can make their own world and share their things. Not only for the teenagers, it can be good for the adults in some way. They can save their time writing full words or sentences. 


Like such, we should find the other way to shorten time and stop the abbreviation. 

Mr. S finished reading and he gave the score of B. It was not a bad score but it wasn't very good either. He felt that he should mention the student to kind of go into topic.


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Metafiction
Vanessa 
Ye Won
Christine
DoKyung
Ji Woo


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Through chain writing, I learned that one simple topic can lead to other serious topics and also that one that can be a problem can have positive aspect too. 

God - the big three

'Big Three'

Zeus is the king of gods, the ruler of mount olympus and the god of the sky, weather, thunder, lightning, law, order and fate. His sacred animals are eagle and the bull which we can see many times in the myth. However, when I see Zeus, I have negative emotion first because when I think of him, I think of rich people using their power to show up and have many girls around them which is really disgusting

Poseidon is brother of Zeus and he is the god of sea, rivers, floods, droughts, earthquakes and the creator of horses.

Hades is the king of underworld and god of the dead and the hidden wealth of the earth. His wife is Persephone whom he kidnapped which I think that act was really nasty and the biggest act that he have done. 

Trojan war

'Trojan war'

The Trojan war's cause goes down to the myth of marriage between Peleus and Thetis a sea goddess. At this wedding, Eris, the goddess of discord was not invited but who would want to invite the goddess of discord to their happy wedding. Of course, Eris got mad and threw a golden apple that said 'to whom the fairest' which was found by 3 goddess, Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite. They all fought each over who's is it and the judgement was left to Paris, the most beautiful man alive. In order to get that apple, Hera promised to give Athena offered Paris wisdom, skill in battle, and the abilities of the greatest warriors; Hera offered him political power and control of all of Asia; and Aphrodite offered him the love of the most beautiful woman in the world. However the most beautiful woman was Helen who already had a husband, Menelaus. After Menelaus learned that Paris took Helen to Troy and married with her he called all of her suitors to take Helen back. The warriors had hard time finding Troy and after they found Troy they started attacking the country neighboring to Troy because Troy was getting supply from them and also the Greeks could earn money and women. During the war many famous and great soldiers died including Hector on the Trojan side and Achilles from the Greek side.

Later, since it takes so long and many soldiers died, according to the book, clever odysseus thought of making Trojan horse which leads them to victory.

They made some soldiers go home like if they give up the war and the other warriors hide in the horse following Odysseus. simon was left and he acted like Greeks left them and like he was mad toward them. He explains to the Troy that the wooden horse was safe and would bring luck to the Trojans. Stupid Trojans according to the book let the horse in and celebrated like they won but in the night the Greek soldier came out and made it Greek's victory.

This is the famous Greek Trojan war. However, myths are just myth. they arenot true but I am surprised how smoothe the story and the characters are. I think it is very reiable and I can understand that it might've controlled the lives of Greek people. They have personality similar to the humans which shows that greek gods are not perfect like Jesus and I think this added more reality to the myth.

These greek myths are made in ancient Greek people's point of view and I believe even though we don't believe in those gods anymore, if we make it, it was be very different from the myths of ancient Greeks because the life changed and things that we believe its more important is different. 

Nuclear weapons

The spreading of the nuclear weapon can maintain the peace of the world. Mightier countries uses their power to subject humiliate an dot spread their influence over smaller countries. So in reality, USA attacked countries such as Vietnam, Iran, Afghanistan, and USSR attacked Afghanistan, and Georgia. This happened because there was no balance in the powers between a nuclear country and non nuclear one. If these countries had nuclear power, would they get still even though they get attacks? They might've attacked the US and the USSR. However, since they didn't have the nuclear weapon and that there aren't balances in the power with the big countries, they can't. In comparison, however when the country has a nuclear weapon, the peace can be maintained. As an example, In the cold war, it was very difficult to keep the world peace. Sometimes, there were possibility of world war 3. However, the peace was maintained because of the balance in power. US and USSR both possessed nuclear weapons and they both knew that if one of them uses a nuclear weapon a mass destruction would have occurred. Isn't it surprising that the nuclear power was used for keeping peace? Many people have prejudice that the nuclear power ruins the world peace, however, it can prevent the mass killing from the fear from each other. Thus, all countries should have the right to possess nuclear weapons.

Harry Potter in 99seconds

Have you read or seen all the Harry Potter series? Since it is divided in 7 series and thick, it is hard to read all of them when you are not a big fan of Harry Potter. However, since it blows idea of magics and wizards stuff, it is very interesting and it increases our curiosity. Also, with good casting in the movie and strong stories, the movie is very popular too. When me and my friend searched the movie theater when the last series came out, we couldn't watch it that day but had to wait until Saturday to watch it. When the internet had video of Harry Potter in 99 seconds, it was quite interesting subject to me and just knocked me out.

To introduce this video, this video was made by 'paint.' Paint is like a duet(?) group that makes these kinds of videos with rap. They have their official homepage in youtube which they store all those videos and let the viewers  see. If you want to finds some video from them, we can find it from www.youtube.com/paint. There are 7.047.050 viewer and there are 139.648 likes and only 1.781 dislikes. Also, in the version that has Korean subtitles has 105 likes with NO dislikes. I think that's amazing because no video can fit all the people's standard but it shows comparison that most of the people likes it. It was very famous toward Koreans because many of them are fan of Harry Potter. It was one of the most searched topic for three days.

I think this is a very innovative idea that the 'paint' have thought of.  Who would've thought of shortening Harry Potter into 99seconds? Or if they thought... well unfortunately they haven't put that thought in practice. The beat was very fun and easy to follow and the rhythm was very interesting. The other boy putting in like a background music, actually helped us more concentrate and follow the flow. However eventhough this is very interesting I found some places that they lack.

If we analyze the video:
In the first part, the Sorcerer's stone, it talkes about some professor getting fired and about the stone being passed to Dumbledore and Harry becomming a wizard and meeting Hermione and Ron. However, eventhough it is a good summary, I think it kind of lacked detail because it doesn't show how Ron and Hermione and Harry became friend, nor it didn't explain how important friend they are. But it was quite interesting. The video goes on like this. It is quite interesting.

I think this became viral because thoroughly the Harry Potter series had been enchanted and got all the attention when it came out in movies. However, Harry Potter movies are never short and also they have many series, 7 in book and 8 in movies! However, it told the people who didn't watch all of the Harry Potter series the  big flow and theme of it and it was also very entertaining. Also, since Harry Potter is a well known subject so I believe that it could draw more attention than other themes.

I really like this video and I hope they, the Paint makes more video like this with other series that I didn't read or saw about. It might be very interesting ad also I want to compare from different point of view, which is after knowing or before knowing.

Diamante poem - III

Normal phone
dumb  thick

calling   folding  pressing

2G      3G      applications       addiction

web surfing      listening   playing

winged  extensive

Smart phones

Diamante poem - II

Tablet
convenient tiny

download   reading   playing

multimedia       ebook     internet       keyboard

searching      typing     folding

swift  immense

Laptop

Diamante poem - I

Cartoon
amusing  understandable

depict   crack up   liberate

webtoon       animation      Tale       Poem

writing      interpreting     studying

tough  lengthy

Literature