True love

I count myself lucky enough to receive my families, my friends, one of my teachers, and my boyfriend’s tremendously love, care and tolerance and have no doubt about it.

I am glad I have wonderful parents who always phoned me when I didn’t go home. My dad is like most of traditional fathers in Taiwan. He never said he loves me or expresses his love to me directly. However, I am not sad about it at all since he teaches me his philosophy of life by what he experienced whenever I got into trouble. I know this is his way of loving me. My mom always gave me what I wanted and shared her feeling including trivial things that happened in her daily life with me on the internet or by phone when I am not home. My sisters always think of me when they got good things such as books, cookies, clothes, music and etc. They did nothing without consulting me. We discussed school lives together; sometimes I pretended my mom and told a little lie to help my sister took school off. Ha, it’s kind of horrible and nerves when I spoke in a severe voice to the teacher. I did it because I know the feeling of pressure and tiredness to face those intense classes in senior high school every day. My little brothers are very naughty and always make me angry. Yet, they are very considerate. I remember once a time, they gave me their pocket money when I went back to school because they felt since I went to college, I became thin. Ha…… they were so simple-minded. Although it was a small amount of money, I was touched by the two sweeties. I know they love me unconditionally. When it comes to my friends and boyfriends, luckily, I have true heart friends. We talk about future and pressures in our lives. We discuss homework together. We help and support each other when either of us have problems. We sometimes have argues and it did make us disappointed but we tolerate and forgive each other after communicating. I believe there are true loves in everyone’s life.

My Saturday

Today, after coming off work at cram school, Ellie and I decided to sports’ supplied store to buy volleyball. It cost us NT$300. We were satisfied to have this volleyball because we can play it together whenever we want. After making the decision that jogging around the playground one hour a day, we came up with another idea. We can play volleyball in volleyball court at night, this way we can exercise without getting suntan. I cannot wait Monday’s coming!

Tonight I went to night market with my friends. I am not quite interested to go to places like that. It was smelly and crowded. And most of food there was not healthy yet delicious. However, I convinced myself that night market must have something interesting and charming that I haven’t discovered or there will not be so many people in Taiwan like night market.

Ants everywhere!

These days, I think it’s the weather getting warm again; therefore there were ants everywhere on my desk and my bed AGAIN! That’s really pissed me off! I was fed up with they crawled around on my desk and regarded my water as their swimming pool. How disgusting they were! My roommates and I tried to apply some pesticide on the wall and tried to poison them. It looked work in two or three days but the following days they just appeared again. Even worse, my bed crawled with three or four ants when I was sleep. Oh my goodness! I cannot do anything except poison them. I hope winter will come soon, and then there will not be so many insects in our dorm.

Martian poetry

Today in writing class, teacher instructed us a new writing style called “Martian poetry”. We have to pretend we were aliens and describe things we saw on the earth to our alien friends. I think it is much similar with that I used to write when I was an elementary student. Teacher told us to write one poem about daily objects and describe its shape, color, smell, and etc and guess what it is in class. (Of course it was written in Chinese) I don’t know English has the same thing like Chinese. I like it because it’s interesting and make me imagine more.

The following is my description of alarm clock:

I have never seen a little metal ball like that
It is covered by a piece of see-through paper on its surface
and wears two little round- mental like hats on both side of its top

Strange enough, it has many eyelashes on it
There are three sharp needles which are only circling around

Suddenly, it cries like babies and no one can stop it
till someone slam its head

It jumps up and down like it’s out of control
Sometimes no one found it
it just cries and cries till it is exhausted and silence down

Children’s imagination

Today my little brother sent me a picture that he drew yesterday. At first glimpse, I was reluctant to look the messy picture. However, after my brother’s explanation and a clear look, I found it was interesting.

The name of the picture is “The earth was attached by undefined flying object”. The black part is the universe. The rounded shape is definitely the earth. The white spots surrounded the earth are UFOs (we can know that on my brother’s perspective, the shape of UFOs do not necessarily be round). As a child, he has no sense about every continent on the earth should be displayed. Therefore, he drew out the earth that he thinks should be. It includes Taiwan (the smallest green spot on the above right-hand side of the earth), the Pacific Ocean (the blue area aside Taiwan which wrote a Chinese character”太”), the Dead Sea (the blue area on the above left-hand side which wrote a Chinese character “死”),and the Bermuda (the blue area on the below of the earth which wrote a Chinese Character”百” ). And the thick and thin black lines are the beams aliens used to attach the earth. I appreciated his masterpiece. It let me understand him more about his thoughts and the knowledge he gained in school or on his reading. It seems all the children at his age like to imagine earth are attached or controlled by something and believe it is true. It’s really interesting!

Boring

Today was very boring. Somehow I felt school life was bland without something new and exciting. The same schedule, food, streets, people and place made me felt bored. I wondered why I had to take those boring courses which were not related to my major. An inspiration suddenly flashed through my mind that was I need to do some useful efforts to make my major professional. I really had to change everything as before now.

Today I am in my home

It has been three weeks I have not gone home. Since I got a part-time job on Saturday, I rarely have enough free time to go home. In the morning I was very excited in the Children English cram school. I really missed my mom and my sisters. In evening, my mom went to the train station in Shin-ying to take me home. On the way to my home, my mom told me that she prepared lots of delicious seafood, curry and my favorite vegetable. I love my mom! She always treats me so good that I feel like I am a doting child. I chatted with my sister the whole Saturday night. She told me about her college dream and she has been studying very hard for next year’s college entrance examination. I encouraged her try to do her best and God will bless her. Afterwards, my grandpa asked me to message his arms and the back as he has been aching all over his fatigue busying his farming work. In the living room, Dad watched discovery channel and drank tea as usual. I told him about my job, and my feedbacks. He told me to save the money I earned for future using. I promised him although I was not sure I will save whole money that I earned. When I was in home, I always appreciated the love that my family gave me. I did not know the exactly time that I’ll go back home next time. But I really love my home! It brings me warmth and family love that school dorm cannot do.

Characterization

Yesterday in writing class, teacher taught us about characterization in stories. It let me know there is another way to appreciate stories I read. There are two examples that I come up with.

Matilda applied superglue on her classmate’s chair during the break. She thought it was pretty interesting to see someone whose ass was stuck on the chair. Unfortunately, she was seen by one of her classmates while she was doing this evil thing. After school, teacher asked Matilda to her office and started to teach her morals. But Matilda didn’t pay attention to the teacher instead; she pissed in front of the teacher and laughed loudly deliberately. That really annoyed the teacher. We can say that Matilda is a naughty girl.
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Today is the first day of the semester. There is a new comer this semester. His name is Richard. He is very tall and shy that seems no one want to talk to him. Linda noticed that he sat alone in class and had no idea about the school at all. What Richard knew was that there was a 7-11 in their campus. He almost bought food every day. Linda thought that was quite unhealthy. Therefore Linda tried to talk to him and invite him to come to her home having dinner. Linda explained all the details about their courses. Linda told Richard they have swimming class this week so Richard can prepare the swimming suit. What’s more, Linda called Richard to play volleyball together on the weekend then he will meet more people in their class. Richard appreciated Linda very much. Without her, Richard cannot get familiar with the new environment in such a short time. We can say Linda is such a considerate, good-minded and easy-going person.

Japanese culture

Today in writing class, Fiona, Ellie and I were trying to pronounce the Japanese words. Teacher asked us why so many Taiwanese people love Japanese culture. It’s really a strange phenomenon. I think about it and try to come up with some answers.
In my opinion, although Japan had been occupied and controlled Taiwan for nearly fifty one years and took plenty of advantages from Taiwan in the past, we need to know their culture well. First, we can realize why their culture is so powerful and mighty to against America and other mighty counties at that time. Second, for geographic position, it is one of the nearest countries to Taiwan. It is the same for many European can speak at least two languages that near them and understand their culture. Furthermore, Taiwan, Japan, China and Korea cultures are influenced each other deeply. I think those are main reasons for Taiwanese are fond of Japanese culture.

An inconvenient truth

This is a documentary film. The former American Vice President Al Gore explains all the myth and science evidences about global warming by illustrations and statistics. He won the Nobel Peace Price by it this year (2007). I learn a lot from this film and highly admire Al Gore. Maybe there are some comments said that he has a political purpose, however, I think he just describes the facts. The whole climate is changing; we can see those big changes by observing our nature environment. Especially in the northern hemisphere now it’s summer time. The glaciers are melting, if the warming continues, we can expect global sea levels could rise and devastate the low-land counties. As a result of heat, droughts and wildfires will occur very often. Plants and animals are forced to die or leave their habitat. Some maybe survive, but most of them will die out. As Al Gore mentioned in this film, we have the power to make differences. He said:” Small changes to your daily routine can add up to big changes in helping to stop global warming. ”There are many ways that are easy to do in our daily life. For instance, firstly, we can turn off electrical devices while leaving home. Secondly, we can use recycled products more. And also, we can plant trees to absorb carbon dioxide. I am glad to have the opportunity to see this great documentary film. Hope everyone can learn some good knowledge from it.

Gossip

(This Soviet war poster conveys the message: "Don't chatter! Gossiping borders on treason" (1941).) I’ve read an article that discussed “gossip” in a magazine. It said gossip is not always bad for it makes yourself introspect what you have done wrong. It can normalize your behavior to fit in a social community. But, frankly speaking, I really dislike others backbite or speak negatively about people without any constructive purpose. Don’t believe all the gossip you heard and use your judgment to identify right and wrong among all of the rumors.

National celebration

Today is our national day, although there are many political issues between Taiwan and Mainland China which have been bothered Taiwan for many decades, our government still held some programs to celebrate it.
The birth of the Republic of China can go back to 1911 October 10th. Sun Yat-sen, the main leader of Xinhai Revolution, finally overthrow the Qing government and ended 2000 years of monarchy. It was a remarkable success for Han Chinese.
In Taiwan, in order to memorize this meaningful day, we commemorate Xinhai Revolution as Double Ten Day. Many overseas Chinese held the celebration in Chinatowns across the world. These years, due to the political issues between the Republic of China (ROC) and People’s Republic of China (PRC) many people forget the original value of this day; even many politicians amplify it with their election. I wonder when the issue will stop firing and have a happy and peaceful national day!

Literature class

I like today’s literature class. The story affords much food for reflection. It’s interesting and thought-provoking. At the beginning when I read this short story, I think it was hard to understand. However, when I read it the second time, I put more patience in reading it and found out I could understand more. It felt so good when doubts had been dispelled and explained by teacher in class. Especially once I saw the picture of Fortunato, all the doubts about what he looked like on earth had been dispelled. I think I can get used to teacher’s way of teaching as long as I pay much more patience and efforts to read and imagine them. Today is a wonderful day!

New knowledge that I learned

Today I read “Business Weekly” magazine, they interviewed Jane Goodall who is the best famous for her study of chimpanzee social and family life. However, in this interview, she chose “sustain development of our earth” as the theme for discussion. And she made her point to the diet that human eat has significant effect on our earth. She mentioned that in order to produce more meat, people consume plenty of water and lots of grass and crops to do it. It causes energy crisis and destroy the earth. Her philosophy of this phenomenon is wise, she said human attach importance to eating nowadays is due to life’s meaningful things become less. And eating is a way of prompt contented to fill the vacancy. She thought modern diet condition can damage the environment. I think what we need do is to spend more time considering the food we eat. In Taiwan, we have some supermarkets that import variety of seafood, beef, pork, fruit, vegetable and many kinds of exotic sauce and spice. Although food globalization is quite convenient, it wastes lots of energy to transport those foods. Meanwhile, emissions of those harmful gases that airplanes, cars or ships discharge when they transport those foods are the killer of our earth. This is one of the reasons for global warming as well. In fact, Jane Goodall said, we are not selfish on purpose, we are unthinking. We never spend time thinking that why we have to eat exotic food that come from miles away from us. It is not necessary to say that we can not eat exotic food; instead, we can learn from realizing the culture of food or its history. It can make them become meaningful instead of just eating them. I appreciate Jane very much. She made me to observe and think more about the unusual things that seems normal happened in our daily life.