keeping a dairy

     Are you keeping a dairy now,or have you done this before?
     Recently, I have been curious about how can dairy be benefited for me. The last time I wrote the dairy, I was still a elementary student, and I was writing this merely for homework. Therefore, the thing come out of my mind about keeping dairy is how naïve it is.
     Currently, I have read several dairy of some famous people, and I am aware of that journaling is not that useless. First of all, it could help me to store my memory. Some people used to memory by photographing. As my opinion, remember what happened by your own describing is much more vivid and impressed. Secondly, keeping journals could enhance your language skills. Beside English, it also improve my native language skill to some extent.
     There is one difficult when I am keeping the dairy. I don't know what should I tell my dairy book. I always worried about will the story be too boring or too awkward when I read it in the future? I wish I could get through it and be benefited from it someday.

The importance of reading

    Reading, as a major part of language course, benefit not merely vocab but also various aspects of our life. As Herzen said,"Not to read， there is no real education， but also impossible to have what good taste。"But some people suggest literature is nothing but words,the only thing we have to do before starting business is learn the technical knowledge for future career.However, I would like to argue with them by following statements.
    The more books we read, the higher value we have. It's no exaggeration to say that books can affect our value by providing opinions with convincible sentences.Take my aunt for example, she was totally changed her mind sin she read "Pride and Prejudice",she decide to be independent, to develop her career without apprehension.To hold right value is as necessary to life as bread. These "bread", mostly come from the books,since the books offer different types which contain different ideas and opinions,from science fiction to autobiography, is unmatched by other literature format.Ont the other hand,even if a person master the technical knowledge,he or she would be refused by company due to the superficial knowledge.
    Also,people can recognize and understand other culture even history by reading the original novels.The ironic novel reflect dark side of government;The science fiction suggest what local people interest in at that time.Reading is the most convenient method to "travel" around world.
   Above all,it is obviously that reading is always benefit our life.The opinion that wants to remove reading from college is extremely ridiculous and preposterous.They(students who support this idea) are only thinking about how to cancel the lesson, which they have gotten low score, but not trying to improve themselves,unfortunately,this sorrowful thinking in Chinese teenagers is prevalent.

Movie Time

Last Friday,when I finished my school,I went to watch a outdoor movie in a primary school. It was 7 o'clock at afternoon. When we went there, the weather was so cold. Although I worn jacket, but I still felt very cold. We bought tickets and walked into the playground with flooding chairs. There were more than 100 people take their children sit on the underground. I bought some popcorn and a bottle of water, then I sat down. After 10 minutes, the movie was start. The movie's name was "Paddington Bear". The screen was very big so everyone can saw and heard the movie clearly. It was so cold outside so I put my hand in the sleeve to eat popcorn. I have never drank water because it felt like extremely cold ice piece. After an hour, my legs were frozen and I lost consciousness. Fortunately, my uncle took a carpet for me. So I didn't' freeze anymore. When the movie was over, we packed the folding chairs very soon. It was so cold, but we still had a good time. Many children went back to their cars with their parents. I had notice it was 9 o'clock, I just wished to lay in my bed.                                                              G

learning sewing machine

In Korea, one of my dreams was learning how to sew by using a sewing machine. Since I love to wear various clothes, making clothes sounded very attractive; it was fantasy for me. However, It was not easy to get a chance to learn it because most Korean students are not allowed to have much free time. It doesn't mean I studied all day, but still almost everyone focused on just studying. Luckily, I came to America and got a chance to learn how to use a sewing machine. I got the my own sewing machine for the first time in my life.  Fortunately,  my guardian's friend came to our house and taught me how to use the machine.. I learned many basic skills  and the names of the parts of the sewing machine.. I also learned how to measure my body to make a skirt and what to be prepared for creating a skirt. I was so happy to learn this, and it was really fun. I want to practice more and more, so I can make many clothes that I can enjoy wearing them.wear. Someday, I will wear the clothes I make and go to my school. Then, please judge how they look! I am so excited to do this and cannot wait making clothes. I think this is very useful experience, and what I learned will be a useful skill for all my life. I strongly recommend all of you in this class to try learning how to sew.

Cultural difference in foods

 When I went to a Vietnamese restaurant with my friends, I noticed that some kids weren't able to use chopsticks. All the kids from western Asian countries were able to use chopsticks very easily. However, all of my friends are not from these countries. They were using chopsticks like forks, and this looked so funny to me. I haven't seen any of my friends in Korea who are not used to chopsticks.
 This made me think about some cultural differences in eating food. The way people eat are not the same around the world. Some use chopsticks, and some use spoons or hands. It depends on their culture. The way they eat depends on what they are eating. For Asian countries, such as Korea or China, they use chopsticks, because they eat a lot of noodles. On the other hand, western countries in Europe or the United States prefer to use forks. It is because they wanted to eat food as simple as possible.
 After thinking about the difference, It became a serious problem to know how they eat in their culture. Nobody wants to make mistakes at a friend's family dinner table. When We finished our meal, I really wanted to learn the culture of my friends. It seamed like a interesting thing to study about in the future.

Love and money

 The Gift of the Magi is a short story wrote by O.Henry. I have read it many times but every time I like to read it slowly and deliberately. This story tells us that a very poor but blissful young couple named Jim and Della in the end of 18th century in England exchanged gifts by sold the most precious thing of each,but the two precious gifts all became useless things. While they got the most precious thing than any material objects——love.

  After reading this story , I learned how to respect others love and how to love others. In this story ,they all lost the most valuable things——Jim’s golden watch and Della’s beautiful hair. But they get more important things. That is love each other.

     In this materialistic society, people often use money to  measure gifts.  But in this story, the gift is priceless. It is possible that one word one greeting, honest and simple. In some sense, they are invaluable.                

Love has nothing to do with money, possession or status. It's consideration, tolerance and respect. It's giving one's best to the other even it means sacrifice.From" The Gift of the Magi", from Jim and Della, I have learned a lot about love, life and hope.