Monday, November 26, 2007

book report

Magic Tree House #14 Day of the Dragon King
Mary Pope Osborne
Nov,26,07
page 1~68


I read the book “Day of the Dragon King.” This book is a series of The Magic Tree House. It is a very short and easy fiction novel that everybody can enjoy reading. I love this book because I can read in a short period of time. The story is about a girl and boy who are master librarians trying to get the book from the history. They travel around the space and over time by the magic tree that Morgan made. This time, they went to the early china when the Dragon King lived. They tried to find the book that belongs to the Dragon King. The boy and girl went to the palace of the Dragon King and got the book. After that, they hid to the cemetery of the ancestor of the Dragon King. They got lost in the cemetery so they got help from magic silk which the silk weaver gave it to them. It led to outside. They came back to the Frog Creek where they lived after they got the book. Morgan told them that the silk weaver and the cowherd was the legend that helped them. I noticed that this story is about a legend that describes the Milky Way. This book is an okay book but it is not a good book. The bad part about this book is that it does not have enough conflict in the book. When the book goes to the climax, I always disappoint because I can even predict what is going to happen. Even though it is a short story book, I get bored many times. I think it is good thing for author to make a book little longer. Sometimes, it does not make sense in the book. There were thousands of archers in the palace. The Dragon King told them to kill the boy and girl. How can they not get killed by thousands of arrows? Even though this book is a fiction book, I think they need to be more realistic. The book can be imaginative such as the magic tree makes them to go over times but not getting killed by the arrows doesn’t make sense. Even though there are lots of things to change in this book in order to make better book, I think it is an okay book for people to read and enjoy in short period of their hobby time.

Sunday, November 25, 2007

journal

cWhat happened?
I went to church today in the morning. After church, I had to eat lunch by myself. I ate yueigeujang soup with rice and lots of other side dishes. I think I am a pretty much good cook. I can cook whatever I want to make if I have enough ingredients. It is because I can see recipes in the internet these days. Development of the cyber space let me make lots of food. I enjoy making food because I can taste it whenever I want.

Emotion
Even dinner, I had to eat by myself because my parents were in church worship God the whole time and sharing their feelings with other Christians. It was so annoying to make another meal, so I ordered jajang noodle for my dinner. It was quite delicious than I thought. I ate with kimch that I had in my refrigerator.

Education
I learned that we made a lot of progress in the electric devices. Even my laptops are good as a one computer. I can do almost everything that I want to do with it. I can even play high quality graphic games with it. I am happy.

journal

What happened?
Even though I slept at 2o’clock yesterday, I woke up at 9:00AM. I usually woke up at 12:00PM on holidays and weekends. However, somehow I got up early today. As I got up I did sit-ups for my health. These days, I think about being a good singer. I am pretty much bad singer. I am doing sit-ups for singing. I love music. Music can make my life really happy. I can enjoy when I am studying, doing my homework. As I woke up, I started with music. When I was listening to the music, my dad told me to turn it off because it was too loud. I put my earphone on and I listened to the music carefully. As I was listening to the music, I can feel the emotion and feelings the singer have. I think good singer is not the one who can do vibration really well and sing nicely. I think good singer is the one who can actually share the feelings they have with the melody and lyrics.

Emotion
I felt so full today because of the turkey I had in the church. It was so great for me and my mother to share our feelings with many people in STEM. Our pastor told every parent really a good lesson. He told parents that they need give their child to God. As an example, he gave Samuel for example in the bible. Samuel lived in the church. How come parents do not let us stay after to know about God more because of study? We were so blessed.

Education
I learned that I will believe Jesus and know about him confirm so that I can teach my child and have confidence about Jesus. I wish I know a lot more than what I know right now. I think like that but I I don’t put in to the action most of the time.

Sunday, November 18, 2007

What happened?
I went to sleep at 2o’clock yesterday. I do not even remember what I did. I just know that I saw the time. Maybe I woke up because of something. It could have been the wind sound. As I woke up, I had miyeok kuk which is seaweed soup with rice. It was delicious than I thought. After having breakfast, I went to bus station to go to church. Like every Sundays, I started with praise and listened to the sermon. Each sermon of pastor’s let me think about many things related to me and God. My relationship with God is the most important thing in the world.

Emotion
I was very tired today but also I was so blessed by the sermon of pastor. Even I was tired, I tried not to miss any words from pastor. His word was God’s word. God gave him those words for us to listen. He gives us sermon in the bible which is God’s word. I love God.

Education
In the sermon today, pastor told us to thank even though God gave us little things. It is different between complaining to God and asking for God. For example, if you are complaining, it’s like, how come I am not smart. If I am asking God, please give me wisdom God. You can see the difference between them. I wish I am the one who don’t complain but ask God for it.

hi

What happened?
I went to church at 2o’clockat midnight. It was very hard for me to wake up at that time. As I woke up, I did not wash but just clothed up and went to the car. As I got on the car I slept about 40minutes in the highway. I felt so sorry for my dad because he had to drive all the way to there. He must have been really tired I guess. The place we went to was crowded with lots and lots of people. It was thousands of people because it was the lost day of midnight worship celebration. As I got there it was hard to find a seat. I got in to the one crowd. They let me sit right in front of the worship room. There were many people who did not get to the worship room. They had to stay outside and watch the screen. There were two thousand people like that. I was very lucky. Even my parents had to sit 3rd floor at the back. I was so lucky. Many people stayed overnight in the church to see this worship. I was very lucky to sit in the front seat.

Emotion
I was so blessed by the word of God and praise. The most important thing that impacts me was the prayer with other language. People beside me prayed in other language. There were name for this but I forgot. They actually prayed with other language. It was not the language they knew, but it was language that God gave them to pray. I never had a chance of it, but I am really willing to do it. I guess my heart is not fully devoted to God.

Education
I was kind of sad because, as I was praying, I felt that I was not fully devoted to God in my daily life. I was like Sunday Christian who only worshiped God on Sundays. I felt so sorry for God that I cried with true hearted. These days, I worked for my own. I think my purpose of studying is for God. How can I not study about God first and study about earthly things. I should study more about God and know about more.

Friday, November 16, 2007

haha

What happened?
I had a basketball practice after school. First of all, we learned how to stretch for basketball. It seemed like easy but actually it was very hard to it. Every time I stretched, it killed me. After stretching we ran about 5KM. The coach said it was for team unity. As I ran, I noticed that it wasn’t that hard as last time I did it. I do not like to run because it makes me fatigue after. As I was running I was so tired. I sucked it up and try to go to the goal I have made without resting. For 5KM, I only rested one time. It was fantastic.

Emotion
I was so tired today because of running for 5KM. This distance was the most distance I ever ran to anywhere. When we came back from the running, we had to run again for missing shots to the basket. One shot missing equals one suicide. Suicide is a drill that we have to go to the half line and come back and run all the way down to the back and come back. We did that for 7times. Lastly, I made the shot so everybody relaxed for a while. It was the toughest practice we ever had.

Education
I learned many things today. I learned that I can do it if I really desire to it. I also think that I can do it if I just keep on try. I have to keep my pace not to be very tired in the game. Every drill that we do has a purpose.

Sunday, November 11, 2007

journal

What happened?
I went to church today. It was very great because today we did baptism stuff. I was baptized when I was born so I went to adult ministry and had bread and grape juice. These are symbol for Jesus’ body and blood. When I heard the verse that was about Jesus, I was so sad. He died for our sins and he knew everything that human beings felt. I am so thankful that I am saved by the blood of Jesus.

Emotion:
I am very nervous right now because I will have a test which is ESL test tomorrow. It is very important test to me because it will determine whether I can go to mainstream class or not. I will get lots and lots of sleep in order for me to do well on that test. Lots of sleep will help me get good scores on that test I think.

Education:
I learned many things from church today, I mean from pastor’s sermon. He told us that we pray when we are in trouble. I thought about it for a moment. It was true that I usually pray more when I don’t have good relationship with other people or I have lots of task and test and hardships. I felt I need to pray more when I am not in trouble.

journal

What happened?
I was so happy because I woke up at 11:00AM. When I woke up, I wasn’t tired anymore. I was so happy. It was so amazing that I can actually sleep until 11:00AM. After waking up, I ate much food starting from Pepero. I was busy eating Pepero from Pepero day. I think my stomach is full of Pepero that I am going to turn into Pepero. I think it is kind of weird for foreigners to see Pepero day celebration. Even I think it is very weird stuffs to do on every November 11. I think I will eat Pepero for my dinner.

Emotion
I was so happy because I woke up at 11:00AM and also I bought new shoes and clothes. Even though it was very expensive, I bought it because it was so pretty. Well, it’s actually my parents’ money that bought the clothes and shoes. I am so thankful that I have my parents. My father is working so hard for our family to earn money and my mom is also working in our house such as making food. Many people can think it is obvious thing but I do not think so. It seems like it’s obvious thing, but it is hard to do like that. They are doing it because they are our parents.

Education
I didn’t learn very much from physical thing, but I learned many things mentally. I knew that my parents love me in any situations. I knew that God loves me even though I made sin. He can wash away that I have made.

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

come on yo

What happened?
I woke up very early today in order to go to my homeroom faster than other day. From last week, I got tardy to my homeroom class for 5days in a row. I think Mr. Reimer got mad about this. He told me to stay after school for the detention. Today, I woke up early no to get detention anymore so I was not tardy today. Today cardio room was very interesting. It actually tells me how many calories I had lost and how much I ran and what is my heart-rate. Mr. Julki who is my PE teacher actually grades with this. He grades with my heart rate and also distances. It was pretty much interesting to me.

Emotion
I am so happy because I do not have many things to do for homework today. I think today, I can have more time with books so that I can improve my comprehension in reading. These days, I am reading a book about an owl named Soren. I like this book because it seems like birds can think as humans.

Education
I learned if I have free time, I need to study. If I only do my homework and sleep all the time, my English skills will not grow high as fast as I expect. So I think I need to work on study right now. Even though I cannot play with my computer, it will have more benefits.

Saturday, November 3, 2007

Final draft

I think the most important relationships to me are friends, family, and teachers. They are most important relationships to me because they can support, develop, and help me to be a better person.

Friends help me to develop and confirm personality. Sometimes in bad ways or good ways, friends help me to make characteristics. I think friends takes important part of creating personality and developing them. Relationship with friends develops personality. I think this makes friends more valuable to me.

Family helps and supports me in both financial and mental ways. The most important thing about family is they do not think about give and take stuff. They do not care about it even though they only give. They just want to give everything they got because they love me just because we are one in family.

Teachers give me lots of information how to live in the society that I am going to be in. The good thing about teachers is that they can teach me in both ways. They can either conciliate or compel me. I think teaching in both ways can make me to be better person.

Although different people plays different role in making my personality, I think each one of them is important to me. I think relationship with friends and family and teachers make most improvement in my characteristics.

high point

Before you move on.

1. This helped show that humankind was not at its center.
2. I think it was because they wanted to see the space first.
3. If they do not have Manned Maneuvering unit, they would be lost in their own orbit around Earth.
4. They have to obtain oxygen, they need to eat and drink, and they need to sleep.
5. First, I will play with weightlessness, and I would eat what I have and I will explore some new planet.
6. I don’t think that I want to live in the space because then, I cannot play sports such as basketball and soccer.
7. It shows how it could look in space.
8. It discovered dried meals, digital watches and new fabrics and clothing, and food wrapping.
9. In the future, they will use flash beam like aliens so that we can travel in the light speed.
Grammar IN Context.

Work (Action) outside a spacecraft looks (linking verb) dangerous. Sometimes the astronauts are (helping verb) tethered to the craft. Other times they wear (Action) an MMU.

Practice

1. Space research has helped (helping verb) out lives.
2. Bar code scanners were discovered (helping verb) from space technology.
3. Thermal fabrics were come (helping verb) from space spin-offs.
4. Other inventions made (action verb) life easier.

journal

What happened?
As I went to school, I went to the gym right away because I had KAIC tournament which is volleyball tournament. There were many schools, actually six schools that came to play. There were IIS, CCS, ICSP, ICSU, KKFS, and us. Eventually, we lost to CCS in the beginning. I was so sad about it. I think I will try harder and better when I am older. I tried my best but it was almost impossible for us to win because of the height and skills.

Emotion
I felt very happy today because today I had no class because of the volleyball tournament. I made good friends today like Kacy, Fill, in ICSP. They were so good at volleyball. They supported us as we played volleyball. I think they had good manner as they were good in volleyball. Kacy got MVP of the tournament and the best spiker award.

Education
I learned how to adjust myself in volleyball. Even though I wanted to hit hard as hard as I can, I need to adjust it in order to win and make a point. I cannot lose our team’s score for my greediness. I think I need to adjust myself for the team.

Friday, November 2, 2007

journal

What happened?
I woke up earlier than last night because I washed up myself and wanted to stay calm in my bed. I think I had good time. I was very happy because doctor told me that I can play volleyball with something on my ankle. Right now I am going to the military base to play volleyball. It will be great opportunity for me to recover my ankle this time. They were so good at volleyball. We went to the college and played with them.
We eventually lost to IIS. It was the last game before the tournament. I was so sad this day.

Emotion
I worried about my ankle very much today because it would feel really bad if I hurt my ankle again in the volleyball court. I jumped really carefully today and I also feel very tired. I wanted to sleep, so I slept in the bus while I was going to IIS. Intentionally, I played full time. Even though it hurt little bit, I had to suck it up in order for my team win but actually we lost to them.

Education
I learned many things. I learned that I had to wait and wait until the ball comes to in front of my face and hit the ball. In order o make a good spike, I need to wait and wait until the ball is in front of my face.

Thursday, November 1, 2007

relationship

The most important relationship to me is friends, family, and teachers. They are most important relationship to me because they can support and help me to be a better person and develop.

Friends help me to develop personality and confirm personality. Sometimes in bad ways or good ways, friends help to make characteristics. I think friends takes important part of creating personality and developing them. Relationship with friends develops personality. I think this makes friends more valuable to me.

Family helps support me in both financial and mental ways. The most important thing about family is they do not think about give and take stuff. They do not care if they only give. They just want to give everything they got because they love me just because we are one family.

Teachers give me lots of information how to live in the society that I am going to be in. The good thing about teachers is that they can teach me in both ways. They can either conciliate or compel me. I think teaching in both ways can make me to be better person.

Although different people plays different role in making my personality, I think each one of them is important to me. In all of many people I think relationship with friends and family and teachers make most improvement in my characteristics.