Reading Journal

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091014/ap_on_re_as/as_skorea_mass_weddings

Sun

Oct/16/09

Reading Journal

 

About Unification Church

 

                  The article ‘Rev. ‘Moon performs biggest mass wedding in decade’, by HYUNG-JIN KIM, (Yahoo News/Oct/14) explains about biggest mass wedding. This wedding was held by sham religion.  From South Korea to South America, Rev. Sun Myung Moon married tens of thousands of couple in the Unification Church’s largest mass wedding in a decade and potentially the last for the 89-year-old leader. Rev. Sun Myung Moon is the Unification Church’s Founder. He has claimed that he is Messiah who says Jesus Christ called upon him to carry out his unfinished work. He has been criticized by people since founding the Unification Church in Seoul in 1954. Moon paired off couples, with many first meeting on their wedding day. He frequently pared off people from different counties as part of his aim to create a multicultural religious world, He thinks that is the best way to make peace , so he held his first mass wedding in the early 1960s. Time goes by, the wedding grew in scale. Finally, the largest mess wedding was held on Wednesday. More than 20000 people came to Sun Moon University campus in Seoul, for this wedding. I choose this article because It sounds really weird ,so I want to read this article minutely. I can’t believe this funny situation was held in Korea. When I was in Korea, I heard about this religion and leader of church. Unification Church is kind of sham religion. People who strongly believe this religion devote their lives and salaries to Rev. Moon. I know some one who strongly believe this religion. She was my class mate. Her mother and Father was brainwashing adherents, so she have to join the Unification Church. I can remember that she talked about her religion very proudly and said to me ‘I’ll married with nice guy who is chosen by Rev. Moon’. I strongly agree with the idea of freedom of religion, but I think It is a comical incident. I never want that kind of wedding. 

Grammar

Count & Noncount Nouns

Copy the following activity to a New Post in your blog & correct the errors:

1) some cheerful atmosphere

2) much warm air

3) a lot of ugly men

4) a few dirty erasers

5) a lot of stinky smell

6) some sweet coffee

7) a few trashes

8) some yellow leaves

9) som fresh air

10) some green gress

11) a dirty trash can

12) some cold wind

13) three wood chairs

Study Log

1. This week, I read the NO.1 Ladie’s detective agency. I watched the movies with English subtitles.’The Legend of 1900′ this movie was so good. I went to my church’s ESL class this week.

2. This week I learned about Passive and Article. I always confuse the article. I made a lot of mistakes in article. I have to review. I think I have to memorize the some rules of article.  We learned about which is good topic sentence.

3. These days I didn’t memorize the vocabulary,so I can’t write the sentence by using the good words. I think I have to memorize 50words in a day.

4. I hope we can practice article more. It’s really hard. I like to learn about writing skills like how to write the topic sentences.

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Sun

9/29/09

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My First time in Egypt

 

                I went to Egypt with my family in 2007. We went to there for family trip. At there I was never used to two things. First I wasn’t used to food. There food actually looked good but the smell of food made me dizzy. I was in Egypt for 5days, but finally I couldn’t get familiar with the smell of food. Whenever I go to another countries I try to eat their traditional food but at that time I couldn’t eat anything  after I throughout everything what I ate. Second I wasn’t used to hot weather in Egypt. I can’t forget the weather of Egypt. It was so hot. I most passed out because of hot weather.  On first day, I was sick because of food and hot weather. I was leaved in hotel room alone. Even I just stand under the sun, I was sweating. And I wore the long sleeves because of strong sun shine.  I was not used to these two things.  Because of two things I lose my weight almost 3kg but except that things it was really good trip.

Study Log#3

1. This week, I finished the charlotte’s web. It was good~ I visited the ESL center 1 time this week. I watched the movies with English subtitles.

2. This week I learned about Passive which is I alway confused. I have to review. I learned how to send a message to business connection formally in my business English class. It was really useful. I wasn’t good at a formal languages.

3. I need to review the grammar book. I have to practice a formal language.It is hard to use frequently.

4. I always confused when I use the article. I think that’s one of my weakness. Are we going to study about article in the class? I hope so.!:-)

Sun

9/22/09

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A person I admire

　　　　　　　The hero of my life is my mother. Everyone thinks that’s too normal but there is no one who I respect more than my mother. There are three amazing qualities of my mother’s characteristics that I always admire. First of all, She is self-controlled. I always admire this characteristic because I always behave emotionally. I can’t not control my feelings well but she is always in peace and clam. For example, when I was young she never shouted and corporal punished to us.  She was  wise. We had to write what we have to observe ourselves instead of physical punishment. It was really worked. Second, I admire she’s dedication. Maybe I can’t do like her in I my life. Before I was born, my mother was successful career woman. She earned the money more than my father. After my birth she decided to quit her job for my brother and me. She always concede everything for family so, I hope she will find what she really want to do in rest of her life instead of taking care of family. For example, In Korea, woman have to do almost house works in holiday like Thanksgiving day. Many relatives come to my home every year so, my mother have to prepare a lot of food and do a lot of house work. After the holiday she always sick but she never complained about that. She satisfied with family’s happy time. Third, she is really wise. When I was young, she always read a book in my bed. I loved that time so, I still like to read a book. She read books whenever she has time. This was really good model for me. I tried to read a book like my mother. Whenever I can’t figure out my problems, I asked about that to my mother and she gave me a clear answers. She is my counselor and life tutor. I hope I can be a person like my mother. She always my role model in my life.

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 Sun

9/22/09

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A person I admire

                The hero of my life is my mother. Everyone thinks that’s too normal but there was no one who I respect more than my mother. There are three amazing quality of my mother’s characteristic that I always admire. First of all, She is self-controlled. I always admire this characteristic because I always behave emotionally. I can’t not control my feelings well but she is always in peace and clam. For example when I was young, she never shouted and corporal punished to us.  She was always wise. We had to write what we have to observe ourselves. It was really worked. Second, I admire she’s dedication. Maybe I can’t do that I my life. Before I was born, my mother was successful career woman. She earned the money more than my father. After my birth she decided to quit her job for my brother and me.

STUDY LOG #2

1. This week, I read the charlotte’s web but I didn’t finish yet. ;[ I visited the ESL center 2 times this week to talk with my tutor. That was my first time. It was great so I decided to have a tutoring every week.

2. This week I learned about Passive which is I alway confused. I have to review.

3. I need to review the grammar book. Christina said that studying the grammar book is up to us. I’ll preview and review the book.

4. I like the game which we usually did in the class. During the game we can be familiar with each other and It helps us to understand topic which we will learn.

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HyoSun Choi

9/15/09

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Money

Some people believe that money can buy happiness. I agree on the point that Money can give people more chances to be happy. In other words, even though money can’t buy happy life, money can buy temporary happiness. It is evident that most of people like money. There are three reasons. First of all, whenever we buy something we want we feel happiness. If we have a lot of money we can buy a car, house, jewelry and so on. Think about that you don’t have money so, you can’t afford what you really need like house tuition. Can you feel happiness without any money? I don’t think so. Second, money can give us a lot of experiences which we can’t experience without money like traveling to abroad. We can experience many things with money. For example there was my friend who couldn’t go to university because of the cost of tuition. Of course I can’t say that she is unhappy person but at that time she really wants to go to university at this point this is obvious that she missed an opportunity because of money. Third, we can do anything that makes you happy. For example if you feel good by helping the poor people you can donation with your money. According to some research, wealthy people feel happier in their life than poor people do. I think important thing is that if spend money wisely, we can be happy with money. In conclusion, money can buy happiness if we spend it in a good way which makes us happy.

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In Old town. It was awesome :] ♥