Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Journal Entry #21

How to find/choose a marriage partner.

Nowadays, finding or choosing a spouse is not simple. Noone is perfect at all. However, you can follow these steps for fingding a marriage partner. The first step is to come to parties and hang out with your friends at social places usually. When you do that, you will have a lot of new friends. Do this step more often, your friendship will be more closer. The next step is to make network with friends of friends. Keep going. The third step is to stay in touch with them. If you often talk with them, you can find one or 2 people you like best. The forth step is to invite the people you like to go to the restaurant or hang out with them. After many times talk and hang out, you will find the best person who are kind and has a same interest with you. Then go out many times to know more than about that person. The final step is to think carefully and give a last decision. To sum up, find a spouse has many difficult, but if you try to follow these steps and shoudn't go the shortest way, it make a little bit easy.

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

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 three types of people in the world. First, there are simple people. These people just live and work, don't claim anything else. When they are young, they study like what their teachers teach. They study, study and study as their parents want them to do that. When they are adult, they graduate, and then they go to work. They work to earn money, and after that, they marry. To them, that's enough. Many people in the world have this lives. Second, there are ambitious people. Most people of this type are richer that people who aren't. They determine which way they will go in the future when they were young. They always think about their lives, and what leads to success. They try to work hard and use their intelligence to achieve thier ambitions. Some people do everything to be successful. They use all of tricks which they can think to have what they want. In general, people who lives purposely can have more successful percent than people who don't. Finally, those are people who almost do nothing in their life. They were born in a prosperity, and they don't know what poverty is. They may be famous, may be superstars, but mostly based on their wealth. They have money and use those money for indulge in doing everything. They don't lack of money, and their jobs are finding the way to spend money easily. In conclusion, many types of people live in the world, so that everyone should live helpfully for our society.

Journal Entry # 19

Topic: Being single has many advantages.

There are several advantages to be single. First, you control your own life. When you are single, you can go everywhere, make friends with everyone and do everything you want. For example, if you got married, you couldn't always do everything you want such as: hang out with friends, travel, etc. Because you had another person beside you, there was your wife / husband. Some people are selfish, they don't want their wives/hunsbands do anything without them. It causes a little inconvenience. Second, you just need to take care of yourself. Certainly, you would have to take care of your family if you got married. After finishing your work, you can't go everywhere except your home because you have a new family, especially women, they are more expectant to take care of children than men are. Imagine if you were a woman and had children, could you go shopping with your friend when your children were at home, and if you went, would you go comfortably? It'd be very difficult if you got married. In fact, people who get married are not happy at all. Last but not least, you can focus on your education or career. If you had a wife/husband, would you keep your mind on your work or studying all the time? In some situations, couples have troubles or divorce because their wife/husband go abroad to work or study usually. It makes people feel uncomfortable to do whaterver they want. In conclusion, you can be yourself when you are single.

Journal Entry # 18

Topic: Playing sports has many advantages.


There are three advantages of playing sports. First of all, playing sports helps people have a good health. When people play sports, their sweats are eliminated, and it helps blood circulates well. It also means playing sport can prevent some diseases can caused by weak health. In fact, many evidences show that a person who usually plays any sport has a better health than a person who doesn't. Second of all, playing sports helps people have well-proportioned. If they choose a sport such as jogging, their statures are not only healthy but also brawny and well-built. It is very helpful for obese people. Moreover, everyone wants to be healthy and to have nice figures, especially women. The last advantage is for relaxing. Whenever people feel tired or exhausted by stresses, they should play their favorite sports. Their souls mix with the sports and leave every tiring things outside. It had better play with friends because the more friends they have, the more fun they will get. In conclusion, playing sports is the best and easy way to have these advantages. We should play at least one sport in our life.

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Journal Entry # 17

Summarize the movie we are going to watch. :)

My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Toula, a 30-year-old woman, was born in a big Greek family so that her parents want her to marry a Greek man and do everything a Greek woman usually have to do such as: stay at home, makes babies and take care for her family. Toula doesn't want to do that. One day, she falls in love with a American man - Ian Miller. This is such a big problem with Toula because her father always reminds and hurries her to get marry with a GREEK man . They love each other although they know Toula's parents never agree. They want to use their true love to persuade her family. Finally, after many difficult and funny hardships, her family accept this American groom. A big fat wedding is hold to celebrate the couple with so much happiness, merriness and many wishes from their both families.

Journal Entry # 16

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

My most embarrassing moment

When I was in middle school, at the closing ceremony to finish the school year, I was given a reward for working hard whole year. I was very excited because my efforts were requited meritoriously. First, I wore my school uniform neatly and I went to school. Many pupils were there. They looked happy because their summer was coming. Then the ceremony was started. I lined up with my friends who also were given the rewards like me and waited for the MC called our names. When the MC called my name, I went to stand in front of many pupils. After receiving the reward, I came back to the place where my classmates sat. Unfortunately, when I went up the platform, I was tripped over a step. I thought that I would fall down and I tried to hold the flap of my friend who walked before me. Unfortunately again, I couldn't balance cause my friend walked so fast and... I fall down. I looked like a frog in front of many people. Everyone looked at me in a few seconds and then, they laughed at me. I did never know that it could happen to me. I stood up and tried to find somewhere to hide their laughter. I can't forget until now. I think this is the most embarrassing moment.

Journal Entry # 15

Research Halloween online and write a paragraph summarizing the holiday.












Halloween is annual holiday which is celebrated on the night of October 31. There are many activities in this holiday include: trick-or-treating, watching horror films, visiting haunted houses, etc. The term “Halloween” is shortened from “All-hallows-eve”. Halloween is very popular in most of Western countries such as: the United States, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Canada, Puerto Rico and sometimes in Australia and New Zealand. This holiday was started by “The Celtic Festival of Samhain” of Celts who lived in Ireland and northern France many many years ago. They hold this festival to comemorate and glory Saint Samhain on Oct 31 (with Celts, at the beginning of November was also the beginning of the new year) because he administered the dead people’ souls. In nineteenth century, Irishes and Scottishes immigrated to America and brought the version of this holiday to here. Trick-or-treating is one of main activities in Halloween. Children in this night usually wear special costumes and masks, then they come to houses arround the place they live and ask for candies with a question “Trick-or-treat?”. This term means if the host don’t give them candies, they will do bad things so that most of people give them candies or cookies. The symbol of Halloween holiday is “Jack-O’-Lantern” which is carved from pumpkin. According to Irish legends, “Jack” was a name of the Irish guy and, when he died, he couldn’t go to the heaven or go to the hell because he was so mean and ridiculed devils and tempters. Finally, he had to wandered on the streets with a lantern. Nowadays, Halloween is one of the big and special holidays of the year, especially with children.