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!