Kim Seong Yeol / Are pets good companions? / Wed 11a.m.

Last week's homework.

Sorry to be late...

 

Pets are good companions

 

 I think that pets are definitely good companions. They can be a good friend for us and make us not lonely or bored. People feel lazy and meaningless when they have nothing to do. However if there is a pet we have things to do to care them, such as feeding them of washing them, or even training them. Sometimes these might be bothering and hard, but still it's a good way to prevent passing meaningless time. Also giving them love makes people feel happy and relieved. I heard that people have hidden desire to give one-sided love to something. Love between humans is interactive and that is a natural thing, but such love can cause stress unconsciously and that cannot satisfy our desire fully. Pets help us to satisfy it. Love giving to pets is unconditional and one-sided so that it makes people feel comfortable. So pets can be very good companions to us.

Sehee Hwang/A Special Memory From My Chidhood/Wed 11AM

Sitting Down On The Couch While Sleeping

 

When I was in elementary school I used to love playing soccer. I spent most of my break times on playing soccer outside but I had to stop playing soccer for 10 days because of an accident. One day, I was playing soccer with my friends as always. It was lunch break so there were hundreds of kids playing on the ground. There were more than 20 balls rolling on the ground. It was like a chaos so I had to look for the ball among those kids. Finally, I found my ball and I was running toward it and suddenly, I saw another ball flying toward me in a split second. It hit my right eye so hard and I felt the pain coming to my eye. It was very painful so I had to cover my face with my hands. The kid who kicked the ball came to me and said sorry. He didn't see me coming becase it was such a mess. After the pain was gone, I looked up the sky and it was very weird. The sky was yellow and I couldn't see it clearly. I was so scared because I thought I might lose my sight. I ran to the nurse's office immediately and the nurse said I needed to go to the hospital. In the hospital, the doctor diagnosed me and said there was bleeding inside my eye. Fortunately, there was no problem with my eye sight. However, he said it would take some time until the bleeding stops and settles down. He said if I move, the blood would spread inside my eye again so I had to sit down and do nothing. Even when I am sleeping, I had to sit down. I did it for 10 days. It was a nightmare. I can tell this special memory with a laugh now but at that time, it was the longest and most uncomfortable 10 days in my life.

Dasom Yoo/trip/Wed34

Unforgettable Experience on the Bus   I went travel to Suzhou, China with my aunt 5 months ago. The things I remember the most of it was how I got to Suzhou. It is about a bus my aunt and I took to reach our destination. The bus was unforgettable. I have never seen this kind of bus in my life. It was a bed-bus which had size of two-story bus and contained about 30 beds. It was good transportation for us because we had to take bus for 12 hours, 5 pm~5 am, to get to Suzhou. So I did not have to suffer from sitting on the seat for half a day. I spend most of hours on sleeping and watching movies. An hour before we reached our destination, I sensed that something was wrong. My aunt was talking with the driver, and she looked confused. I asked her what was going on and she said that the driver is going to drop us in the middle of highway. We knew before we took the bus that we had to get off the bus because the destination of the bus was not Suzhou. The bus was on the way to Hangzhou via Suzhou. So we thought that the bus was going to stop at the bus station in Suzhou. But instead, we were standing there, middle of highway near expressway rest area around 4 am. And the worst thing was that it was raining and we did not have umbrella with us. But luckily, there were two other passengers who got off from the same bus and they offered us a ride. They had a friend with a car waiting for them. Thanks to them, we did not have to shiver with cold and got to our hotel safely.

Hyejin Kim/Narrative Paragraph/Wed 11 a.m.

Valuable Challenge; Volunteering

 

 

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Hyejin Kim

I have read many books since childhood thanks to my mother who encouraged me to learn true knowledge through reading books. Especially, I liked the autography of Biya Han who is a famous aid worker in Korea. She taught me there are millions of people who need other's help and I can be the one who volunteers for whole world in my own way. In spring semester, 2010, I started volunteer work for young students. I taught Science to middle school students and also studied science every week and had meeting with other teachers to teach them in much easier way. I participated in making our own Science textbook with other teachers for students, too. I would face many barriers to interact with each student, because I could not understand what they were feeling and they also did not understand why I reacted in that way. As time goes by, I realized that I kept enforcing them to do in the way I easily took control them without changing myself. And then, I tried to understand them sincerely and changed my way to act. After three months, my volunteering period ended. At the last day, my students wrote letters for me, took picture of me, and promised to study hard. They taught how to communicate with others to me, while I taught Science to them.

 

Young in, Lee/ A man with a knife. / Wed(11am)

A man with a knife.

Have you seen the murder case in directly? I didn't sure the case that I saw is murder or not, But I could not forget the scene I see. In 2009 summer, I was in the china. My Chinese friends called me there house, so I and my friends went to the china. First place where we went was Qingdao, it was famous for beer. But the case was happened in Changsha. I and other Chinese guys went to the club and we went out for more drinks and we were in a narrow alley for eating famous grilled skewer. We were all drunk and the time was around 1a.m. The alley's lighting was not bright enough and streetlamp gave light weekly, so the color of there was like a light red. And there were so few people around us and the sounds like Chinese song came to my ears. Then I saw a man put a hundred meter, and he was holding like a stick. He looked that urged by someone, and in the road after he went over, some water trace was spread. I could not notice what that is because it was same with a color of the lightness, Red. It was blood. And after around five steps over to me, one man collapsed in the street. The victim's bleeding continuously and the blood wet his body. There was no moving on him. I felt some of an intense fear of seeing his body. Also there was no sound in there, The Chinese song was sure to play nearby there, I could not catch it. I couldn't hear anything. And my friends, few people in the alleys were in the deep silence. Then some woman started to cry out and the man with a knife still ran away. I saw my friend's eyes there was only fear, other emotion was not existed. After I noticed that I was not the only person who feels the fear, I could hear some sounds. I and my friends decided to get out of there. We should cancel the plans which drink more beer.

Geun-Hong Kim/How I Met My Best Friend/We​d 11am

Geun-Hong Kim

Professor Jon Bahk-Halberg

Introduction to Academic Writing (1)

June 6, 2012

 

How I Met My Best Friend

 

             When I was 12 years old, I met my best friend for the first time. While I was walking in the hallway, there was a person who was walking toward me. She wore the same clothes so I couldn't help but recognize her. She also looked at me weirdly and we just said hello only for the reason we wore the same clothes even though we didn't know each other. It was really unusual experience so I laughed off and forgot about her. Then a few days later, I went to the church because of my mother's continual nagging. After attending mass, there was a Catholic doctrine class for young students and I took it for the first time. There were about 20 students in the class I felt really awkward. Teacher said get the textbook out but I didn't bring anything because I didn't even know there was a class. Teacher said look at the textbook with a student sitting way in the back then I saw her, I noticed she was the girl who I met in the hallway. I already felt like she was my best friend even if I didn't know her name. However, we just said hello and took the class without saying anything. I didn't even ask what her name was or which class she took. I thought it was odd and smiled away again. Then when I reached 13, the new semester started. I didn't know anyone but my new classmates seemed very nice. And there was her, the one who I met in the hallway firstly, and in the church for the second time. I felt funny and weird but approached her and eventually said "Hi, I'm Geun-Hong. What's your name?" Then we became best friends and ten years have passed since then, we are still best friends.

 

Min Ho Jung/ Childhood Memory/ Wed 11AM

My Childhood Memories 201101227 Min Ho Jung      When someone asks about my special childhood memory, my mind immediately goes to the time I spent in Michigan. Among the countless stories I can remember, the ones that linger longer than other are the ones that I had with my family and our friends. The friends I am referring to are my dad's friends and their family. There are three other families, and all our dads met when they went to University together. We spent most of our Summer and Winter vacations with them and would gather together once in a week. Among the various trips we went on, the most memorable one is the last Christmas all of us spent together. We went to the usual place we go during Winter break, rented a condo and went skiing together. It was nothing much different from our usual trips; we skied, had our snowball fights, rode down the high hill on our sleds, ate delicious food from the restaurant, drank hot chocolate in front of the fire place, went into the hot tub and stayed up all night talking. In the morning we will discover presents in the stockings and under the Christmas tree; nothing different from your usual Christmas. Nevertheless, what made it special for me was that I knew it would be my last holiday I would be spending with my friends, and the fact that it felt so warm and cozy to be with them made me sad. When I had to say good bye to them, I felt as if someone punched me hard. It truly broke my heart, and was one of the hardest things I had to do. Despite the fact we haven't seen them for a long time, I know that this special memory will be in my head and will always be cherished.