Elementary Composition – Night

This site is a group effort by the students in Gord's Elementary Composition evening course at Catholic University!

Give me rice, or give me death.

 In Korean language, most of time, the word for eat means “eat rice”. Most of Korean people think eating snack or bread cannot be a regular meal.  Even if they  had snacks or breads fully, they have to eat rice again for tree times meal. When it comes to elders, it would become more serious. They often say that unless they eat rice, they won’t feel satisfied. Also, they habitually say “I live my daily life with the power of rice.” When I was young, I couldn’t understand why they said like that, because I liked eating snacks and breads more than rice. However, now I’m all grown-up and I became be able to understand what they said. I don’t know it’s because of I’ve been living as Korean or the diet that I’ve been eating whole my life. One thing I can be so sure is I have to eat rice for my meals everyday.


Get Lucky Rice for Your Girl.

 If you want to give your girlfriend something special and unique, the Lucky Rice would be good. It’s a new kind of accessary made of rice which is famous among young people. It’s hand carved name rice. They will carve less than two names you want on the tiny little grain of rice. And then, they put the name rice into the mini glass capsule, fill water into it and seal it up. It would be look like a tiny fish swimming in a mini fish bowl. It can be wore on your neck or hung on the cell phone. It should be a cute and meaningful accessary for your girlfriend in any way.


What is love ?

 What is love?

I loved one man in very long time, now I fall in love another man. But I still feel hard to define about love. First time, I think love is happy, but I love him when I have a quarrel with him. So, love is understanding, trust and consideration. If we don’t have this one , we won’t go on our love. Because we argue who is right.

Passion about love to the other man  is maintained by understanding, trust and consideration.

 


Why don’t you try uncleaned rice?

Nowadays, every Koreans eating rice as a main food. Most of every Koreans tend to think that they have to eat rice per meal but they don’t might think they need to get proper nutritions.It is needless to say that rice is good for people’s health, but what I mean is more useful nutrition is comes from uncleaned rice, not raw rice. I am going to say about the adavantage of eating uncleaned rice.

 Assume that uncleand rice have 100 percentage of nutrition. So, how much of nutrition raw rice have? Broadly speaking,raw rice have less only 5% of nutrition than uncleand rice. It is simmilar with the grade 100 versus 5. It’s huge differnece, isn’t it? What causes that? It is because of the rice skin. There is a yellow skin wraping a rice and an embryo bud and that is way uncleand rice is yellow. An embryo bud of rice has 66% of nutrtrion of one whole rice and the yellow skin of rice get 30% of nutrition.  The rice that we eat everyday is the thing that remove the skin of rice. Then, what could we eat in such a tiny rice even stripped its skin? That is, there are 5% of nutrition in a polished rice even in amount of 95% of rice. Raw ricw is polished to look nice.

 Therefore, I want you to eat uncleaned rice for your health. You should soak rice in the water about 30 minutes to make easy to eat. At first, it is hard to eat but you might have a falvor like a butter! In these days,a ‘Well-being’ syndrom have become popular so many Koreans already have tried that and uncleaned rice is cheaper than raw rice. Why don’t you try uncleaned rice? You’ll like it!


Washing rice when I was young

It was such a trivial story but I remembered it as a cute problem. When I was young, I used to want to help my mom. At that time-as many kindergarten students doing-I had much curious about happening around me. I wanted to do chores on my own, even wanted to take care of baby or wash clothes. I concerntrated on what my mom or other adults’s have done with curious eyes.  

 One day, I attempted to washing rice because my mom was taking a nap and her face looks tired. I don’t know why I thought like that, but I felt that my mom was tired so she want me to help her cooking! Now, I realize that I had another guess coming. I went to sink and standing on a chair,wearing an apron then washing rice. After a while, I fell off the chair and the rice in the bowl was scattered to all around the kitchen. Oh, crap! I should not have danced on a chair. I immidieatly tried to clear the kitchen not to scolded by mom but I couldn’t avoid mom’s beware. But as opposite of my thinking, mom laughed at me so I thanked to her. Girls, you don’t have to do chores so early!