Sunday, June 29, 2014

Book Report-'The five people you meet in heaven' by Mithch Albom

  From this year, I started to learn in  the UIFLE; 'Ulsan Institute of Foriegn Language Education for gifted students'. To join this program, I had 3 tests; 1.application 2.genious exam 3.essay writing & interview in December,2013. And finally, now, I am learning there with passion and I met many new friends who are good at English and also kind to others.
THIS is a book report I wrote about the book named 'The five people you meet in heaven'.



   When I heard the news that the book for report changed to ‘The five people you meet in heaven’, I got shocked. Because, I didn’t even open the book cover. So from that day, I started to read this book really fast wherever I was; I read this book in school, academies and on bus. At first, reading this book was annoying but after reading half of this book, I couldn’t put it down. Because, this book is fiction and also somewhat fantasy that has totally new and special theme for me. The most special thing in this book was the first part; starting with ending. I wonder where the author, Mitch Albom gets these creative ideas. I am so glad that I finally met this wonderful author.
   The main character is a man named ‘Eddie’ who worked at Ruby Pier, an amusement park as ride maintenance worker. When he was young, he participated in war and from that war he got wounded and he became a lame person. He thought he is useless person and his life is always the same, in the same routine. But one day, there was accident in Ruby Pier on ride. He sacrificed himself to save the people who were riding on it. It wasn’t the first time he did good things for others. When he was in war prison, a friend named Rabozzo who was really sick; could only barely stand, got hit from crazy wardens, he shouted at them “stop doing it” even he could die by that statements. I think even he seems like cold person, he is essentially warm and nice person.
   Blue man is a first person who Eddie met in heaven. He died to save Eddie when Eddie was really young kid. Eddie was playing ball game with friends and for some reasons the ball rolls out to the road and blue man was driving truck on that road. Not to hit Eddie, blue man suddenly drove the car in wrong way. So he died. From him, Eddie learned about the relationships with others that we are ‘one’ which has connections.
   Captain is second person who Eddie met in heaven. Eddie called him captain because he was captain for Eddie when they were in the war prison. In heaven, he tells Eddie that he shot Eddie’s leg but by listening to his reasons and how captain died, he understood him and learned about real sacrifice.
   When he was young, his father always scolded him and never listened to him. So, he really hated him. But by meeting Ruby in heaven, he knew that his father who he really hatred and hated was a person who loved family a lot and forgave a drunken friend who did bad thing to his wife. So Eddie understood him and forgave him.
   The fourth person he met was his wife, Marguerite who is Eddie’s only love and also passed away in the age 47 by tumor. She said to Eddie “Lost love is still love. It takes a different form. Even life has end, life doesn’t”. This was really touching statement for me. We live loving many things, losing and loving again. I’m really curious who will be that person who I really loved and meet in the heaven when I die.
   The last person was a little girl who was waiting for her mother but died because Eddie fired the hut. She asked him to wash her body with water. When he washed her, her burned skin disappeared and changed to bright color skin. Before she leaves, she said “a girl, who you wanted to save from the ride crash, is alive. And that’s what I wanted”. This was the most heart breaking part because only 5 years old girl forgave him and showed beautiful smile to Eddie.
   I think well organized with polished words attracted me to read this book. For example, “All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time” and “When you sacrifice something precious, you’re not really losing it. You’re just passing it on to someone else.” These philosophical statements made me think of ‘what is sincere life?’
   If I could change something about the story, I would change the last part. In book, it says Eddie is waiting for a girl named Amy or Annie, to be a person of five people who she will meet in the heaven when she grows up, love, age and die. But if he became a person in line of Dominguez, the coworker of Eddie, it would be more interesting, full of stories that happed during work. I think just like the captain who Eddie met, Eddie can teach a lot of things to him. I think this author wanted to say about the thing that there are some reasons and values in every lives even if people think that it’s insignificant themselves like Eddie. Because, a person affects other and other affects one another, meaning all lives is connected. And that’s what the world is like.
   This book taught me that we always have to try to understand and to see the hidden parts of other people. And sometimes, we even need to have courage to forgive ourselves. And also we have to live with thankful mind for the days given to us thinking that ‘today is the time a person who died yesterday craved a lot’, ‘The five people you meet in heaven’ which gave me lots of lessons will be my best English book ever!

Monday, December 2, 2013

A NIGHTMARE!

Today, I had a nightmare which was really terrible.
I'm sure that nightmare is the best word for my dream.
Do you want to know what happened?
On November 28th, I had a final exam. It was really final exam. For this year and also for my elementary student days.
At the first period, we had 'Korean exam'. In the midterm exam, I got one wrong answer in Korean. So, I read the text book again and again and again this time. Because, I spent lots of time studying Korean, there wasn't any difficult question for me.
At the second period, we had 'Math exam'. There was no difficult questions but there were lots of calculating questions like 'which is the cylinder that has the biggest volume?'
So every 6 grade students couldn't finish solving questions in time, so that teacher gave us 5 more minutes.There was no enough time so I couldn't recheck - I'm kind of worried if I did calculating mistakes.
At the third period, we had 'Social science exam'. Cause I am 인문영재(cultural science talented student educating program) in Ulsan, it was really easy for me. I finished in only 20 minutes.
At the forth period, we had 'Science exam'. Science was the most difficult subject.
I could solve all questions but one question was uncertain. It was about 'lever'. I'm sure I saw it in the text book, but I couldn't memorize it all. That was the problem.

Question. 다음 지레 중 받침점이 사이에 있는 것을 고르시오.
 ㄱ.펜치   ㄴ.연필  ㄷ. 펀치  ㄹ.병따개  ㅁ.가위  ㅂ.손톱깍기

The correct answer is ㄱ, ㅁ. But I wrote ㄱ, ㄷ, ㅁ. I confused the shape of ㄷ.
Gosh, I hoped to get all 100 in the exam. But my dreams are flew away ㅠㅠ
If there were pictures of ㄱ,ㄴ,ㄷ,ㄹ,ㅁ,ㅂ, I could know the answer. I'm so sad but this is my fault not reading the text book in detail. Even it is my fault, still IRRITATING.
At the fifth period, we had 'English exam'. Numer 7 question was kind of strange. There were surely two answers, but the question said 'choose one asnwer'. So, after the exam, I visited to our school foreiner teacher, and she said "I think this is question's error. So, I will give you score if you wrote one of the two answer." So I think English will be ok.

And in the dream, my classroom teacher showed me the test papers and I had 20 wrong anwers, meaning my average is 80. This was the lowest score ever. For me,average 97 was the lowest score during the elementary exams. It was terrible, unpleasent, irritating score!
So, I woke up screaming "OH MY GOOOOOOOOD!!!!!!!!!!!"
So, my mother came to my room and asked "Did you have a nightmare?"



Yes, Surely!!! It WAS a NIGHTMARE. Average 80.... It can't be true.
Tomorrow, the result will come out. I'm so nervous and worried about the score.
Hope I did well...PLEASE!

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Wearing a bright SMILE

I read an article which is quite impressive! So I am going to post that article on my blog.


A researcher reveals one of the secrets of happiness: contagiousness.
If someone I know well becomes happy, the possibility of me becoming happy will increase by 15 percent. If someone I know indirectly, like a friend of my friend or a friend's wife, is happy, it will increase by 10 percent. Instead of having simply many friends, it is more helpful to have a few happy friends. This doesn't suggest that you should cut ties with friends who often worry.
Remember you are also the source of the happiness of your friends.
You can spread happliness by wearing a 'bright smile' on your face!


From now on, I will try my best wearing smile on my face even in the irritating situation.
Then it will help me to calm down and also be in the better emotion~
I suggest you to smile for you and for the people around you!
BIG SMILE ^-----------^
 
 
 
 
 

Saturday, November 2, 2013

Ulsan 911 festival- Fire prevention English speech contest

Hi. It has been really long time to visit my blog and write the posts.
I suddenly recognized that there was a blog which I used for my GLPS English camp's writing class.
And I visited all of my classmates' blog and saw there is a girl who is still using it.
So, I decided to restart posting. Even I'm not good at writing and there're some grammatic errors, Please read these with generous mind!

Today I am going to talk about English speech contest about Fire prevention.
After all of the local education office's english contest disappeared, this 911 English contest became the only and the biggest English contest for elementary students in Ulsan.
In my English academy, all of the 영재원 students participated and also  I participated in this contest.
In preliminary round, all of my classmates in academy failed and only I passed!
It was kind of burden because one student in my class lived in America for 3 years but she failed and I who I haven't been abroad for studying English passed.
So, I tried harder and harder like practicing the script every 2 hours a day for one mothes even there was a midterm test in school.

And finally on October 18th, I had the contest and I got the first prize!
I am so happy and glorious that I got this kind of wonderful prize. Thanks to everyone who helped me for this contest especially mom. I love you~
It was great experience to be one part of this contest and festival.
I also wanted to put the video clip of mine but I just have some photos.
Then have a nice day~





Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Argumentative Essay - Animal experiment

Today, I am going to write an argumentative essay about 'Animal experiment'. 
Do you think that animal experiment should be allow or not?
I think animal experiment should be allowed! 
I am sure that you will think that animal experiment is okay after reading this essay.
Then I will start my argumentative essay.


                                -Animal experiment should be allowed-
Animal experiments should be allowed.
We have to check 'Is the stuff or things that scientists invented are valuable and beneficial as medicine? Or 'Is there any adverse reactions from taking this medicine?'.
And for that, we have to experiment with cultured cells and tissues.
But, if we use this way for experiment, the accuracy is compromise. So, we can't get the good result. The best way is human experiment. Do you know the period when the medicine and medical science developed the most?
It is World War 2. Because, many people died and the human experiment happened officially and unofficially. However, nowadays human experiments are not allowed.
So, to test with animals is the most effective and realistic way to test these drugs.

First, there is no replacement of animals. If we prohibit the animal experiment, the plant experiment will be the main experiment. Then the field to develop the somatology and  medicine will decrease. So, until we find a living thing that can work like animals, we have to keep using animals for experiment.

Second, the animal experiment helps to make longer life for not only people but also animals. A lot of animals are exposed to diseases. And because of these diseases, thousands of animals could die suddenly. From animal experiment, we can check 'how does this medicine affect the body and is there any adverse reaction.' So, we can make people and animals recover by verified medicine. Thus, doing animal experiment is just preventing a great sacrifice by using small sacrifice.

Opponents of animal experimentation say animals' rights and dignity are not respected.
But I want to rebut this argument by 3R rule. 3R rule is the rule to be at least courtesy to the experiment animals.
The first R is reproduction. It means 'do experiment with the needful amount of the animals'. Let's think that we only have 5 mouses for experiment. But the scientists made a mistake and they need 7 mouses. Then they made unuseful sacrifice. So the first R is 'Do not make any unuseful sacrifice'. 
The second R is refinement. It means reduce the pain as much as we can. After the experiment, when we have to kill the animals because the bad bacteria or some thing like that, we have to anesthetize the animals to reduce the pain to the animals. 
The third R is replacement. In this case, replacement is different from the word replacement that I mentioned before. Replacement means devise a new way to experiment. Like if we use rabbit's eye, we have to use the eyes which is from a dead rabbit not an alive rabbit.

Second, even there is no side effect to animals, the people can have side effects. 
However this argument doesn't stand also. 
According to the law, you can't sell medicine if you didn't experiment with animals and test how does it affect. So, even the result could be different to animals and people, you have to test and experiment with animals.

All of the arguments of opposition side don't stand because of the rules and laws. 
However, my arguments stand because there are many examples and evidence.
Thus, animal experiment should be allowed and I am sure that you will also think 'animal experiment should be allowed'.

Sunday, January 20, 2013

Disappearing SNACKS!!!

-Today, I am going to write drabble. Do you know what is drabble?
 Drabble is a short story that has 100 words exactly about a theme. 
 My topic is about ALL OF YOU in GLPS! So, I think you will be very interested in my topic.
 Read this short story and leave the comment please. Then, I will start my drabble! -


                                Disappearing Snacks!


In GLPS, parents send us mail. 
My roommates and I go to the post room and get the mail. 
We are not curious about whose mail it is. We are just curious about how much does the mail weigh.  Because, we can imagine and predict  what will be in the box. 
Do you know what is the best mail for us? 
It is..... SNACK!!!
Even if the box is full of snacks, the snacks disappear after two days. 
It is because there is no place where we can buy snacks.
I can't understand why there is no store in KMLA.


This much of the snacks disappear in 2 days!!!

Thursday, January 17, 2013

A Response Essay on the movie 'Brave'

-This is my Response Essay on the movie Brave that we watched together on Friday. I was a little bit shocked because of  the request that we have to write over 500 words. But I think writing essay over 500 words isn't something difficult after writing this essay. Please read this essay and leave the comments!-

Do you know the movie 'Brave'? In this movie, there was an unusual princess who likes to do archery and her parents ordered. her to marry with other tribes' princes. So, she went to the witch and tried to change her mother and her fate. From that situation, her great adventure started. If you listen the plot, you could think that it is just princess's kind of adventure movie but this movie is very touching and has many lessons.
First, I will give you basic information about the characters. The story happens around Merida. Merida is the princess who I mentioned already. She is really unusual and different from other princesses like Cinderella or Snow white. She likes archery and riding horses. And the queen Elinor is her mother and she is really strict about Merida's behaviors. She says to Merida "Don't do that.", "It's not the right behavior for princess.",  "It's not allowed for princess." or kind of like that.







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Second, the personality that I  want to change. The movie was about Merida and her mother. So, there were more things that I wanted to change than other characters. For Merida, I think cutting the taqpestry was a cruel behavior. The tapestry was queen Elinor's most precious and important thing because, she tried hard to make it and sewed her families' picture. However, queen Elinor was cruel to Merida too. Even though, she is angry at Merida's behaviors, she has not to throw the Merida's bow to the brazier. Both of them just wanted others listen to them. They just said "Listen!". And they didn't try to understand each other. If they tried to listen and understand , they could have a good relationship. I think the witch who gave cake to Merida is very clever and wise. The mother became a bear because of that cake so, Merida and Elinor had to get out of the castle. And they experienced some dangerous situations 'together'  to make Elinor change back to a person. Because of this, Merida could understand her mother Elinor and Elinor could understand her daughter Merida. Both of them changed to people who can listen to others and try to understand others.

Third, the lesson from this movie. At the end of the movie, Merida had monologue. An I was really impressed a lot about the monologue. She said "Fate is within our life. And we are making to see our fate."

From this movie, I could think about the relationships between my mother and I. Even though, I am not in a good mood, I will try to understand my mother's mind and thinking. I have just one thing that I want to change in this movie. It is Merida's and the three boys' hair color. Neither king Fergus or queen  Elinor have red hair. But Merida and the three boys's hair is red. So, I want to change the hair colors to make it more realistic. I want to recommend this movie for a mother and daughter who does not good relationship!


This essay has 508 words ! And this is the  video of movie 'Brave'.



-She followed the WISP and suddenly she reached to the witch's house!
According to the legend if we follow the wisp, we can meet the fate 
(we can change the fate)