The Advantages of Being Married

Nowadays, many people do not want to get married as much as their parents generation did. They want to be single. In last few decades, the number of singles has remarkably increased. However being married has much more benefits than being single. The three advantages of being married are emotional stability, family and finances.
The biggest advantage of being married is an emotional stability. First, people who got married have their own family as shelter for their social life. A lot of people are having a hard time in their work places ,and sometimes there are too much hazard to endure. The home and family gives comport zone and energy to restore. Also, love is one of strong advantages from being marriage. For instance, people who are single have chance to have lovers, however their love is not endurable for life time. On the other hand, being married, their love is committed.
The other advantage from being married is to be a family. All of people have born and grown in family which was formed by their parents. First, married people have life long partners, spouses. The marriage gives togetherness and role as husband and wife in family. They have to have responsibility and they will be in a same boat forever. Second, marriage is chance to be a part in spouse’s family. They could have new parents, brothers and sisters. Third, they could have children. If people have children, then they could learn how their parents have lived for them. To be a parent gives enormous advantage in their life and raises person to be more than they could do before they were.
Furthermore, there are magnificent benefits from the marriage. As first, married people have better condition than to be alone. They have double income, so they could be affordable then before they were. Also, they do not get necessarily same price of tax as one. They are assumed that they are sharing their expenses, so they live less expensively amount of money, even if single person makes same amount of money. Third, they are sharing that a house, car and food. They should pay less bill for basic living conditions. Therefore they make more money but spend less money.
All in all, there is a lot of advantages that people take from being married, such as mental advantages which is based on family and commitment love, and more financial merit than one. Most of all, in my opinion, to be a parent is biggest thing that they are blessed with marriage life.

Journal Entry # 33

What are you going to do over the 3 day weekend?

In this weekend, I have worked same as every weekend I do. After I work, I went to my co-worker's house, and we had a korean barbecue party. I met new friends and we have watched Korean drama. On sunday, I came back home right after I finished. Since I have a lot of assignments. I did watch "The Memories of Geisha" which is one of my favorite movies. Also, I read a book "The Diary of a Young Girl" that written by Anne Frank. I have read the book when I was 8 years old. I want to read a book in English, so I went to Barns and Nobels in this monrning, and I bought it. In Korean, usually I could read a book in 2 hours. However, I could not finished the book that I bought today. It was my first time to take a rest for a while.

Journal Entry # 32

Thanksgiving is coming up soon. What three things are you most thankful for you?

I have three things that I feel thankful. First of all, I am thankful to everything I have. I have harmonious family, loveable friends, and I have health. Every single morning I pray for thankful new day. Second, I am thankful to dream. I am still young, and I have many chance to start something new. I have a determined goal, and I am running for that now. Also, I am thankful to study in the U.S. Even though it is for a year, it will be really helpful in my life and inforgetable memory. In conclusion, these three reasons are motive of my life.

Journal Entry # 31

Is it ever okay to lie? In which circumstances?


In my opinion, people have to control to lie. There are some reasons for that. First, if someone starts to lie, it will be getting bigger even he/she do it in good way. A lie makes another lie, andn it will do over again. Also, to lie to help others is not ever kay. Even someone tell a lie to help others, sometimes it could hurt others. To sum up, people should try to do not tell a lie even it is for helping others.

Journal Entry # 30

Does it matter what strangers think of you? Do you care if everyone likes you or are you content just being yourself? Write a paragraph explaining your answer.

I do not care what people think of me, so why would I care if they like me or not?When I was teenager, I used to care what people thought of me, and how I looked to other people. At that time, it was pretty stressful for me. Every single time after when I hung out with my friends, I did think "Did I do something to annoy her?" or "What did she think about me when I talk to her?". I have realized it was useless thinking. I tried to change the way I think, and I don't care about other people think about me anymore. I've realized it doesn't matter what strangers think of me because they are no one that's part of my life. I would rather care about my friends, family, and people who I actually see everyday think about me rather than strangers. I wanted to be loved by others but I know that never be possible. It seems like I want to change myself just, so people would like me and I know that was not really who I was. I didn't like who i was becoming. So when I was trying to become a person like that, it seems like that I was loosing myself instead of being myself. To sum up, now I am trying to pay attention what I really want to do, and I am sure I do not care what other people think of me.

Journal Entry # 29

Post your scary story. We're going to read the stories on Wednesday!

Supisa Somto (Peach)
Dung Do
Eun Sup Lee (Kenny)
Hyerang Sim (Kaitlyn)
10/24/07
Composition 4C

A Dancer


One full moon night in the rainy season, a man who lived in an apartment on the 13th floor felt alone and bored. His apartment had lost electricity because of the thunderstorm. Therefore, he held a candle in his hand and then put it on the table. Suddenly, the window was opened by the wind. Then he tried to close the window. At that moment, he looked at the opposite building, and he saw a woman who was dancing. However, he couldn’t see her clearly because there was the heavy rain. Strangely, he didn’t see her again until the next full moon, and she was still dancing. She wore a white dress, and she danced like a butterfly. He fell in love with her and really wanted to meet her. In the next morning, he went to her apartment, but no one answered the door. Next time when he saw her in full moon night again, he ran to her apartment immediately. He knocked on the door, and he waited for her. A few minutes later, he knocked again, and the door opened slowly. He went inside slowly and saw a dirty room with old furniture and many spider webs. The room smelled disgusting. When he walked into the room where she was dancing, he couldn’t believe his eyes. There was an empty room except for a noose swinging back and forth by the wind.

Journal Entry # 28

Please post your pictures from the ALP Halloween party. Summarize the night and tell me what I missed!

On last Saturday, I went to the ALP Halloween party with Choae. I did work on Friday and Saturday, so I didn't have time to get costumes before I went to the party. Furthermore, every friends who I talk said that they didn't prepare the costumes, so I didn't mind to were them. To be honestly, I was too tired to go to some where after I did work, but Choae and I decided to go. However, I was really regretful when I gor first step in the pub. Most of them wore costumes, and they were having a very fun!! I wanted go back home and get something on!! I took some pictures with my classmated, Mr. and Ms. Ewing.

Journal Entry # 27

I am going to Las Vegas this weekend. If you were going to Las Vegas, where would you go and what would you do? Lastly, do you have any suggestions on how I can win a lot of money? Which games do you like to play?

I have been Las Vegas for 3 times in this year. First time when I got there, everything looks fabulous for me. Since my cousins love to go to Las Vegas, I could exprience a lot of excitings. We stayed at MGM Grand hotel, and we played in the beatiful swimming pool. We tryed to see the Lion show, but unfortunately we couldn't. Second time when I went to Las Vegas, we stayed at Bellagio. There are really beautiful water shows at the front of the hotel. At that time, I have seen "Blue Men Group Show". It was awesome!! Every single time before I went to Las Vegas, I decided to do not play gambles. Actually I was wondering to play games, but I realized I am not even make my own money, and I am relying on my parents. Therefore, I want to suggest to you to see the show which is playing in Las Vegas. There are numorous of really good shows in Las Vegas such as Mamma Mia, Blue Men Group and famouse singers' concerts. All in all, this way is more economic and productive way than playing games.

Journal Entry # 26

Compare and contrast two sports.

Tennis vs. Badminton

Tennis and badminton are usually compare and contrast to each other. Both of them need rackets and balls to play. Players are standing at the end of the courts and hit a shuttlecock or tennis ball over the net to opposite side. The shuttlecock is a ball which in badminton and tennis ball is in case of tennis. Besides the balls have to land in the lines. Although tennis and badminton are sports which using rackets, balls and similar rules, there are several differences between them. One of different is that badminton is more physical sport. The tennis match lasted 3 hours and 18 minutes whereas the badminton match lasted 1 hour and 16 minutes. However, during the matches, 1,004 shots were made in the tennis, compared to the 1,972 shots in the badminton. Therefore, the badminton players hit twice time as tennis players in half running time. To sum up, they look like similar sports, but they are completely different.

Journal Entry # 25

Compare and contrast two major fast food restaurants.

IN-N-OUT VS. McDonals'

Although In-n-out and McDonals' are most famous fast food restaurant in California, there are several diffrences. One differance is freshness. In-N-Out makes your foods right after you oeder them. Different from In-N-Out, McDonald's keeps most of menu in the thermostats. Second, we need to consider for health. In-N-Out burgers are easy to get rotten. If you put them on the table for half day, they will be get in bad conditions. Unlike MaDonald's, they don't even get rotten for a few days. It means McDonald's infuse food preservatives into the foods. The preservative can never be good at our health. Finally, there are many differences in cousins. In-N-Out has 4~5 kinds of burgers. In contrast, McDonal's has more than 20 kinds of burgers and many side menus. All in all, they have many differences, yet both of them are deliciuse and famous fast food restaurant.

Bonus Entry

Polly wants to get the heck out of here!


In Friday night, Conwell, 33, was fall asleep with his 9 year-old son on the couch. Suddenly he heard screaming of his bird, Amazon parrot, and then he has realized there was fire in his house. Smoke alarm has activated, but he just heard bird's calling. He ran out of his house with his son and bird. Large part of the house has destroyed by fire, and fire officer said the fire remains under investigation.

Journal Entry # 24

A Person Who Has Made a Difference : King Se-jong

King Se-jong has made a great difference in Korea. He was the king of Cho-seon, which is ancient Korea. Before the 12th century, Korea had used Chinese alphabet because of they did not have their own one. King Se-jong had decided to make the letters. After that, he organized the research institution for making the alphabet. During the research, not only did he give support for them, he researched and studied with his scholars. After all, they had succeeded to make a new letters. The new alphabet was called "Han-geul". "Han-geul" has 14 consonants that is based the figure of human's vocal chords system, and it has 10 vowels. According to the study, Han-geul is the only alphabet that knows who made it. In addition, the King Se-jong paid attention to his vassals and the people. As the reason of that, Cho-seon had prosperous time during he ruled over the Cho-seon. He was a scholar and protector of the poor as well as the king. Nowadays, king Se-jong is the most respected person in Korea. In conclusion, he is a person who has made a big difference in Korean culture and Korean.

Journal Entry # 23

How to make your favorite dish. Give the recipe and instructions for making your favorite dish. See the example on page 105 (Eggs).

How TO Make Korean To-fu Soup.

Korean soft To-fu soups are not only easy to cook but also very delicious. You need a pack of soft to-fu, 8 of small clams, 4 oz sliced pork(or beef), soy sause and chili powder. You also need a pot and tea spoons. First roast the sliced meet with chili oil in the pot and then add chili powder and 3 cups of water. Put a chopped kimchi and wait for boil. In this step, you do not have to add kimchi if you do not mind. Nest scoop in the soft to-fu with spoon then wait again until it boils. When it is boilling, add the clams, chillies, green onions and onions. Then cook for minute or so. Finish with egg york in the center and a dash of sesami oil and black pepper powder.

Journal Entry # 22

How to lose 10 pounds in two days.

If you want to lose 10 pounds in 2 days, follow the directions which are followed. The first step is to go to the market and buy a bottled milk. Next, boil the milk, and then let it be to cool down in the room temperature. The second step is pretty easy. Put the milk in the kichen. If you want to get it earlier, them put them outside when it is more than 80 degrees. After 24 hours, go get the milk, and fill a cup with that. Then drink it. In this step, you need to be patient with disgust. When you done with the whole bottle, to wait until you feel the signals from your stomach. As soon as you feel the signals, go to the bathroom. Now you might have to go to bathroom repeatedly. After that, when it comes to lull, go to the kitchen and have lactic acid such as milk or yogurt. This time, you do not have to drink spoiled one. Thet are just for speeding up. Finally, if you keep these steps, you can lose 10 or more pounds in two days. After that, you might have several side effects such as you do not mind to drink milk anymore, or you might be taken to hospital by suffer from gastroenteritis.

Journal Entry # 21

How to find/choose a marriage partner.

If you want to find special person whom you want to get marry, follow these directions. First, go to the social places such as party, bar or church. However, do not go to there alone. You should bring your friend who is familiar with there, then they will be very helpful to make a network. Secondly, to be friendly. Meet a lot of people as possible as you can and do not forget to do eye contact. Next step is to pick out at least 3 of them. Keep going out with them and checking your condition what they have. For example their religions, way of their think and etc. Then make a last decision who is your man or woman. This step is not to choose your husband or wife. Just to be a couple. Keep your relationship at leat a half year. This step is really help you to know them deep. Finally, make a great deal. Marriage is not only to be husband and wife, but it is to be a family. To sun up, you need to think carefully but if you feel a destination, then make a decision resolutely.

Journal Entry # 20

Topic: There are three types of people in this world. (Don't give easy answers like "tall, short, fat, skinny, etc.")


There are over 7 billions of people in this world, and every person has their own individual character. However, we could devide them by three characteristics. First of all, there are maximizers. The maximizers are kind of disposition toward to maximize their achievements. They are wondering to be 'higher' and get 'much more'. For example, they have to get the best job, to be consider as the best co-workers and they want more salaries. Therefore, there are lots of successes in maximizers. However, they can never satisfy until they achieve their goals and when they distinguish someone who succeed than themselves. They are uneasy to be happy. There are, indeed, many hypochondriacs who are maximizers. Another type of people is 'satisfier'. The satisfiers, in contrast, they think like 'not too bad'. For instance, they are like "I have a my own house even it is not in very good condition. I am better than homeless, am I?" or "I, on the other side of unemployeement, have a stable job. I am the lucky one.". They are positive, yer they are weak of purpose and upward because of they are satisfy the environment that they have. The final is life as a dayfly. They do not worry about tommorow, and they do not even have a any of plan for their futures. Some of them are the poor who can not even image except for lifehood. On the other hands, some of them have parents in prosperity. They do not have to worry about reality, and they are just enjoy to being spoiled children even they are adults . To sum up, maximizers could never happy even they have a lot. Satisfiers are happy but nondescript. The last one is neither one thing nor the other.Then, isn't God really fair?

Journal Entry # 19

Topic: Being single has many advantages.

These days, there are many single people who are not wondering to be married. They said there are several advanteges for being single. First, they can enjoy for themselves. It means they do not have to waste their time and money for the others. They have more chance to concentrate their own life then people who married. A second is free love. People who are married have to have responsibilities for keep their family. Singles, on the other hands, do not have to do. They have numorous opportunities to have free love. Also, singles do not have to worry about be the head of a family. Thus, they can travel whenever they want, and they can even move to another place without mouths of feed.

Journal Entry # 18

Topic: Playing sports has many advantages.

According to tend that people want to well-being, advantages of playing sports are in the limelight. First, it can prevent to gain weight. Obeses are emerged as one of social proplems. Furthermore, obese may lead to all kinds of illness. However, if someone exercise steadily, he or she could keep her/him good condition of health. As second, playing sports gives regular living habits. People, who enjoy to play sports, usually like to do it in their own terms. Regular living habits affect as well on all of their environments. An additional, playing sports is good way to calming tention and no stress. Emotional health is close to physical fitness.

Journal Entry #17

Summarize the movie we are going to watch. :)

My Big Fat Greek Weeding

The movie "My Big Fat Greek Weeding" is not a hilarious movie, but it has jokes that everyone can agreeable, also it describes family's love. The Portokalos are the immigrant from Greece. They have proud of themselves as Greek, and they are keeping the Greece traditions even they moved to the U.S over a decade ago. According to Greek, the Greek has to marry with the Greek. One of their daughter, Toula, is 30 years old, and she is serving at the restautant which is owned by her family. She seems to be over 30 years old and has lived a prosaic life. On of her day, she met Ian at the restaurant. It was start. She has tried to change by herself. She has entered college, find another jod, and tried to be a stylish lady. She and Ian, who is non-greek, fall in love. The families of both of them didn't like each other. The Portokalos are too entertain, but the Miller are too quiet. The movie has epsodes about her weding. At the end of the movie, they are having a big and fat greek wedding, and finally the Portokalos and the Miller became a family.

Journal Entry # 16

Describe your most embarrassing moment. One paragraph. Use descriptive language.

Most Enbarrassing Moment In My Life

I have been to Vencouver, Canada for 2 weeks in this August. One of my friends lives in there to study, so could visit her. We went to Canadian Rockies for 5 days, and we traveled around Vancouver. We were attending same university and having same major when we were in Korea. When we were freshmen, we used to imagine how does will be amazing that we could go to another country. Finally, it happened in this summer, so it was wonderful event for me. I felt like as fly in the sky. That was the problem. I had a flight to Los Angeles at 7:30 a.m. She and I tried to do not sleep to prevent oversleeping, yet we slept more!!! Of course I did miss my flight by 5 minutes. When I heard that "You are too late.", I brain has stopped. I couldn't even stand on the gound. Furthermore, it was a day before to start fall semester of ALP. It was like a nightmere. I felt like I was Tom Hanks in his movie "The Terminal" for 4 hours until I got a same flight but on following day.

Journal Entry # 15

Research Halloween online and write a paragraph summarizing the holiday.

Halloween
Halloween, October 31th, was a day before New Year in Celtic Ireland, France and United Kingdom. Also, it is connected to good bye to summer, welcoming winter and remembering to dead. The word 'Halloween' is from Hallow E'en as called in Ireland. It means 'll Hallows Ev' or the night before the 'All Hollows'. In Roman Catholics, Episcopalians and Lutherians used to observe All Hallows Day to honor all Saints in heaven. One of Halloween customs. trick-or-treating seems to originated 9th centuty European custom which is called as souling. At that time, on November 2, early christmas was spread out as 'soul cakes'. The event was that they mede a square bread with currants. The soul cakes were received and they promised to say on behalf of the dead.

Journal Entry # 14

Write about your experience at Universal Studios! (please post pictures too)

My Weekend
In this weekend, actually I got mad. I have tried to go to Universal Studios, but I could not. I had to go to work. I was trying to figure that out with my co-workers, but there was no one could switch with my schedule. Finally, I gave up and change my mind. I decided that I will go to Universal studios by my own money that I earned this weekend. After I started to think positively, I could keep my temper while I am working. I am so sorry to my friends that I could not enjoy with them, but I am not putting blame on me by my self anymore. So far, it was so good on my weekend.

Journal Entry # 13

Write an academic paragraph. Try your best to give three reasons supporting the topic sentence. Don't forget to give examples and write a concluding sentence.

Topic sentence: There are several reasons to eat fruits and vegetables.

The Reasons To Ear Fruits and Vegetables

Thesedays, according to increase of fast-food, people would prefer eating meat-food to vegatables. Therefore they have point of view of new desease that caused by eating pattern. For example, the blood vassels get blocked by high blood cholesterol, fatness, especially childhood obesity and varius kinds of disease. These circumstances could give support to eat fruits and vegitables. First, fruits and vegitables can prevent cancers and disease caused by smoking. In accordance with researches, people, who are eating red meat more than 5 times a week, are easy to get a colon cancer than people who have red meat less than 1 time a month. Second, a vegitable centered menu could reduce attack of heart disease. If you choose foods rich in soluble fiber and folic acid, they could decrease the sturated fat which occurs cholesterols and heart disease. Third, to be in brief, fruits and vegitable centered foods are delicious. For the most part of traditional dishes in the world are based on the vegetarianism.

Jounal Entry # 12

Describe your bedroom using spatial order signals. Look at page 62.

My Room

When you enter at the our front door, you will see the stair way on your right hand side. Through the stair way to upstairs, you can see glitering walnut floor of hallway. The hallway has both wings and there are 6 rooms along by the hallway. The first room is laundry room and next room is bathroom. My room is next to the bathroom with a white door. When you step in my room, you can see mustard colored wall. It has short aisle which has a length of 2 feet. The wall, on your right of the aisle is a part of my closet. My closet has white sliding doors. I am always open the sliding doors. A bunch of my cloths is hanging on a bar by colored order, and some of them are keeping the order on the ledge at the bottom of closet. My room has 3 windows every each wall, and they have woody blind. The bed is facing two of the windows. Between bed and closet, there is a floor lamp and a lot of bag is loading up like as someone throw it away in my room. The bed is covered with beige sheet that has red flowers. There is a counter side by side with a bed. On the table, there is a table lamp and a big mass such as sudoku papers, cosmetics, bible, and accessories. I could not even image to clean them up. Along the other wall, there is my desk that unbalanced huge with my room.

Jornal Entry # 11

Practice freewriting. Freewriting is when you write quickly without stopping to think or organize your thoughts. Don't worry about grammar or spelling. Just write as much as you can in 10-15 minutes. Check your textbook if you don't remember what freewriting is.


The korean wedding Culture

In my country, Korea, has unique wedding culture. In early 1900s, the western culture started to come into Korea. At that time, the number of Korean people who had western style wedding had increased. After the Korean War, in 1960s, people was trying to go back to our traditional. Finally, Korean wedding culture like as now we doing shows up. It has mixed with traditional way and westerns. They have celebrate eve right before the wedding day. In the evening, groom and his friends bring a big box containing wedding presents of bridegroom to bride. The bride's friends welcome them, and they are having a party at the bride's home. In the wedding day, they have western wedding march with a white wedding dress and a tuxedo. After the march, they have a simple traditional event with Korean wedding dress. The wedding culture has changed a lot for a century because of history of my country, but the meaning of that has not changed. They swear by the God for their marriage, and the guests are witnesses for them.

Journal Entry # 10

Today, I was selected as a possible juror (someone who performs jury duty). However, the court decided that they already had enough jurors. Part of me wishes that I could have participated in the case to see what it is like in the courtroom. However, part of me is glad that I don't have to miss class (because of my wonderful students and also the money).

In America, the legal system includes lawyers, judges, and jurors. How does the legal system work in your country? Who decides whether a person is innocent or guilty?

The Legal System In Korea

Every country has their own legal system which is based on their history and social. My country has also our special legal system. There are the supreme court, high court, district court and domestic relations court. There are defendant, prosecutor and witnesses and counsels for both of them. It doesn't have jurors like as U.S's one. If prosecutor or defendant, who has lose a suit, wants to appeal, then they will be forwarded to higher court.

Journal Entry # 9

What Is a Friend?

While we are living our life, we have met numerous people by providence. Sometimes they have became our friends but sometimes not. There is one of Korean proverbs about friendship. It is "A person who has true friends at least 3 people, he or she got successful life". In my opinion, a friend is the air. When I am staying with my friends, I don't have to worry about what am I talking or how do I behave for them. Instead, we are just feeing each other, and we are laughing when we happy or crying when we sad. Thus how do I live without the air? As second, true friends can say truth for each other. If I am trying to do something as a wrong way, there is no one who can take me to right way except for my friend. For the last, there has to be trust between friends. Even though no one help me or trust me, if I have my friend who sincerely believe me, that is enough for me. I could overcome that I have to do, and my life will be blessed if my true friends will stand by me like as now they do.

Journal Entry # 8 My Dream Vacation

My Dream Vacation : Euro Trip With My Brother

My Brother is 17 year-old, senior in highschool. We have gone to Australia in 2004. At that time he and I were too young to travel together, thus, we have fought a lot.
Because of it, we couldn't have a good time. After we went back to Korea, we have regreted for that. I tried to travel to Europe before I came to the United States, for the moment, my parents suggested the Euro trip to us. We have decided to go to Europe in next year when he goes university. We will go to Greece, United Kingdom, France, Switzerland and Germany. Hopefully, it will be great time for us to make up for our Australia trip.

Journal Entry # 7 What I Did Over This Weekend

What I Did This Weekend : My First Job


I started my first part time job in the United States on Friday. It is employeed as a clerk in hair accessory shop in the Brea Malls. I have tutored for a year when I was in Korea, but this is first job that I employeed as a service occupation. The reasons of that I work are, first I want to travel around the America in this winter. Second, I want to buy snowboard equipments by myself despite of rely on my parents. I was trying to go to the Concert Under the Stars, but I was working at the shop. Actually these are all that I did on this weekend and I will be doing every weekend instead of play. However, end of this semester, I could do everything that I want to do all by myself.

Journal Entry # 6 Unforgettable Experience In My Life

The Unforgettable Experience In My Life : Sailing Yachts

In first semester of the university that I went to in Korea, my friend and I have joined the yacht club. My city, Busan, has coast and beautiful beaches. At the reason of that, every university has yacht club. For the first time we sailing on the sea, we had amazing experience. It was the first time that I sailing over the horizon. Thus, I was scared the deep blue sea, but after few minutes on the sea, I could see the beautiful coast view from where I was. The scene that I looked from the ocean was completely different from what I imaged before. I couldn't believe my eyes. The shinny blue sky and horizon above the ocean which made me feel like I was in heaven. I could not enjoy the sailing because of I am staying in California, but wish I could sailing on the ocean when I go back to my city.

Journal Entry #5. My Favorite Season : Winter

I like the winter. Actually I prefer cold weather to hot weather. My home country, Korea, has very clear four seasons. Furthermore, it has very cold winter. Korea, in contrast to the United States, has new school year by March. At the reason of that, we have very long winter vacation for more than 2 months. Up on this, I used to wonder the cold winter during a summer and fall. When the weather is getting to colder and colder, I was waiting for the christmas with stars in my eyes. After having a great holiday, I used to go to skiing, which is one of my favorite sports, with my friends or my familly. During the winter, not only I could do many things that I love to do, but I could reflect on my last year and make a plan for new year. These are why I love to during a winter.

Journal Entry #4

Hello, This is Hyerang Sim, also known as Kaitlyn. I am currently attenting 4C class in ALP. I was wondering if I could change my classes schedule on every Wednesday. The reason I want to change the schedule is because of I want to join the Fun Lunch on every Wednesday at 11:30. Our classes schedule on Wednesday is 8:00 to 10:00 then next class starts on 11:30. I, include my classmates, really wish to go to Fun Lunch with another ALP students and having a great time. Please try or look if there is any possibility that we change our classes schecule. Thank you very much.
-Hyerang

JOURNAL ENTRY # 3 Person Who Has Made a Difference : King Se-jong

A Person Who Has Made a Difference : King Se-jong

King Se-jong has made a great difference in Korea. He was the king of Cho-seon, which is ancient Korea. Before the 12th century, Korea had used Chinese letters because of they did not have their own letters. King Se-jong had decided to make the letters. After that, he organized the research institution for making the letters. During the research, not only did he give support for them, he researched and studied with his scholars. After all, they had succeeded to make a new letters. The new letters were called "Han-geul". "Han-geul" has 14 consonants that is based the figure of human's vocal chords system, and it has 10 vowels. According to the study, Han-geul is the only alphabet that knows who made it. In addition, the King Se-jong paid attention to his vassals and the people. As the reason of that, Cho-seon had prosperous time during he ruled over the Cho-seon. He was a scholar and protector of the poor as well as the king. Nowadays, king Se-jong is the most respected person in Korea. In conclusion, he is a person who has made a big difference in Korean culture and Korean.