Elementary Composition – Night

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

Be careful When you travel another country

Most students plan to go abroad to study or travel. There are some advice when you are travelling.

First, students ought to pack a first-aid kit and any medication they need, and they shouldn’t drink water from the tap. Second, students should tell the the driver where they’re going before they get on, and they have to have exact cahge for the fare. Thrid, they shouldn’t carry a lot of cash. they can be stollen by thief! Last, in most countries, students don’t have to have an international driver’s license, but they must have a license from their won country. They also need to be over 21.


Stupid Wizard

A long time ago, a animal that can speak English lived in Africa. The special animal was a lion. Mr. Leo was the master of it, and he earned much money with the lion because many people in the world wanted to see it only once. Thanks to the curiosity, Mr. Leo could buy anything he want. Especially, he liked diamond, so he always wore a diamond at least. He was so arrogant, so many people got angry eventually. One day, a wizard in black came his village, and he cast a spell on him become malaria. Next day, malaria spread easily, and attacked all beings. Besides, tigers got angrying because of malaria attcked people, too. A wizard wanted to gave him a good scolding, but it caused downfall of the village.


My dream as a child

When I was young, I had lots of dreams. but, from when I was a child and now on, my dream always changes as the conditions.  At first, I wanted to be a teacher when I was in the fourth grade. At that time, we had always seen teacher’s job and were influenced by great teacher. One of them was my homeroom teacher. She was  always very generous to the students. I have thought that she had loved students and had warm hearts. So, I hoped to resemble as her. When I was in high school, I was very interested in the current events. So, I read a newspaper and saw plenty of  books. After that, I changed my mind. I decided to be a journalist when I was in high school.  To come true my dream, I also joined the English-language newspaper club called “HERMES”. The club published a newspaper twice a year. There, I could learn process of issue newspaper. With that view, we had from interviewed with many people to edited the newspaper. Although I had difficulty in writing an article, I completed my task with teacher’s assistance. Then, I felt worthwhile. After the experienced, I came to have a realistic goal. From now on, I am going to inch my way forward to my dream. 


Making delicious sandwich

I am going to make banana and peanut butter sandwich.

1 banana mashed,  2 slices of bread, 2 tablespoons butter, 3 table spoons peanut butter

First, mix the peanut butter and mashed banana together. Then toast the slices of bread. Next, spread the peanut butter and banana mixture on the toast. After that, close the sand wich and put it in a pan with melted butter. Finally, fry the bread until it’s brown on both sides.


Going to Mt. Doo-ta

My family went to the kang-won do in last week. We climed Mt. Doo-ta in the Dong-hea between Sam-chuck. In fact, after I climed Mt. Ma-ni when I was a highschool student, I never decided to go Mt. again. However, I couldn’t help to clime Mt. because my parent wanted to clime. Because Mt. Doo-ta is very steep and hard, my parent seemed to be hard. Fortunately, I didn’t have a hard time. Getting in a sweat, we reached the top of Mt. Doo-ta. Though we had a hard time, we climed to do our best for worth success. In the future, we’ll often go to any Mt. . Breathing fresh air to the fuil and exercising, I hope we are healthy, especialy my parent!


Break those bad habits !

Some people leave work until the last minute, a lot of us can’t stop gossiping, and others always arrive to events late, including me and you! These aren’t serious problems, but they are bad habits that can cause trouble. Habits like these waste your time and, in some cases, might even affect your relationship. What can you do about them? There are some advice to end your bad heits!

First, It’s a bad habit that do works tomorrow. People often put things off becasue they seem overwhelming. You can solve like this. Try dividing the project into smaller steps. After you finish each task, reward yourself with a snack of a call to a friend.

Second, I have a bad habit that I don’t arrive to events on time. So I do like this! Set an alarm clock. For example, if a movie starts at 8 o’clock and ti takes 20 minutes to get to the theater, you have to leave at 7:40. Set the alarm to go off at the time you need to leave.


Disgusted rats

I dislike rats. There are several reasons. The first reason is rats’ apperence. Because rats’ gray fur, I think rats are very dirty. Besides, Its tail and feet are disgusting. Even it can grow up too big like a dog. The second reason is that rats carry diseases. Rats inhabitate dirty places such as a waste basket and gatter, and they excrete anywhere in the places. So, they carry pest. The final reason is that rats spoil food. They often eat food such as potatoes, rice and so on. When we catch them, they run away too fast, so we couldn’t catch them.


I hate a TOEIC.

If you are a university student, you maybe have a experience about TOEIC. TOEIC is a Test of English for International Communication. Although it is only a test for increasing English, its influences is very strong in Korea. For example, high school students learn it for their university, university students learn it for their job, and officer also learn it for their promotion. I admit English is very important for many reasons. But I believe only a TOEIC score must not judge people ability as well as test for a proper English skill. I really do not understand why we are always required to the TOEIC score everywhere in Korea.   


Her Unusual Friend

Miss. Lee’s friend Mr. Shin is an unusual person. First, he has ability to make people have fun, In Japaneses Conversation class, he usually replies to teacher’s question absurdly although he can speak Hapanese fluently. For example, one day, teacher taught about ‘chu’ meaning, and he asked students to give examples in order. When it was his turn, he shouted ‘picachu’ that is hero’s name of popular Japanese animation, and all the people including the teacher in the class burst out laughing. Second, he has ability to make a good guess what about someone’s character or blood type at the firsy sight. For instance, he told Miss. Lee about her blood type and whether she has sisters suddenly when he met her first in school bus. Sometimes, this strange behavior of his scares her because it looks like he is psychic, but he is a cheerful person, so she likes him. This is the reason why she thinks as Mr. Shin is an unusual person.


My favorite Actress who names Nicole Kidman

I introduce my favorite actress  who names Nicole Kidman. She was born in Honolulu, hawaii, in 1967. she is now 37 years old. Her father, an Ausrtalian, was a student in Hawaii at that time. When she was 4, the family returned to Australia, and Kidman grew up in a suburb of sydney. Kidman became interested in acting. Her first experience came when she was 6 years old. She trained in drama and dance through her teen years. In 1985, she role in the TV miniseries Vietnam. she was only 17. When she role in her first American movie, Days of Thunder. Her coastar was Tom Cruise. kidman and Cruise were married in 1990. Duringthe marrige, Kidman’s career continued to grow. She and Cruise adopted two children, and they worked hard. Unfortunately, they divroced in 2001. After this divorce, she did her career hard. She starred in a number of movies, including the musical Moulin Rouge. Then, in Golden Globe for her role as Virginia Woolf in the film The Hours. She is very famous actor in the world.


Cellular phone can become your only friend.

Do you have cellular phone? Almost every person maybe have cellular phone. I have cellular phone also, but thesedays my phone stop their skill. Because my phone breakdown. First time I feel uncomfortable because I used to send message with phone and recieve connection. I can’t touch anyone after my phone breakdown. However I feel free as time passed.  I can get out of phone. I can see the beautiful scene instead of sending letter through phone when I go to school. Also, I have time for thinking. I have chance to talking with person who sitting beside me. Cellular phone give us comportable, but It can take our something more importance.


My valuable birthday.

I’m my parent’s elder daughter. My sister express her feeling, about my parent well, but I’m so shy that I couldn’t express them. I love them very much. But way of expression my love was only that study hard, and pray for them. When I was high school student, I got up and ate my birthday “Mi Youck Guck” (brown seaweed soup). My parent already went to their office. But I felt their love. So, I decided to tell them and I called my mother, and I said ” I love you, thank you “. I was crying when she told me ” I know your love, I proud you”. That day is my best birthday.


forgetfulness can be present.

I felt uncomportable. Because I didn’t remember something. Than I think ‘Why God make me to forget? ‘ But If we never forget, we will be hypochonkriac. Because everyone has bad memory. Forgetfulness is way of conquest. For example, I broke my ex- boyfriend who meet for four years last year. I wanted to he comeback to me, but he never comeback. I was crying when I though memory about he. But I forgot him slowly time pass away. So I can something I have to do, smile again, and meet new boyfriend. Also, If we remember everything, we will hard for find memory we need. Because we have too many memory in our brain. So, sometimes forgetfulness make you very hard, but It need us.


Go!! World Cup

Did you see a football game last night? The game was Korea VS Bosnia. I was happy, because Korean team won. The score was 2:0. ^_^ It’s not long before the 2006 World Cup . I expect the Korean team will play as good as the did in the 2002 World Cup. Korean team fighting!!


short story

Their who the pool and the rich disparity growing quickly. The rich make money and raise position. For example, some rich have special pet. It’s a lion. I don’t know that is true, but they have big garden that lion is able to live there. Also people wear diamond. However pool can’t eat enough, and have to hard work. So, disease spread quickly. For examplen, Malaria spreads quicky in Africa. They died. Becase they couldn’t be treat. Disease attack the pool like tiger attacks people. We need to think about poverty and wealth.


Teenagers’ smoking is very harmful.

Teenagers’ smoking is very serious the whole world. Smoking beginning age has become low gradually in recent years. Do you know why young people’s smoking is very harmful than adult’s smoking. Because, smoking give rise to some disease and cancer. Specially, damage of young people is higher 3times than adult smoker . Therefore our society should be encouraged stop smoking to tennagers.


My favorite movie

A few years ago, I saw a movie. The movie’s name was Harry Potter. It’s a fantasy about Harry’s adventure. At first, I was disappointed, because this movie didn’t match original story. But, It was very interesting , because I usually like fantasy movies. I also liked miraculous magic and special effects in this movie. Anyway, Harry Potter is my favorite movie.


Bad teachers

Yesterday I saw internet news that shows many bad sides of some foreigner English teachers. The news showed internet community of foreigner teachers. Many English teachers were sharing their opinions about Korea through that web-site and many of them didn’t seem good people. For example, there were many articles that insult Koreans especially women. I could know many teachers were thinking Korea as land of opportunity where anyone who speaks English can make a lot of money without difficulty. There were many immoral articles also that I couldn’t believe teachers wrote. It was news that made me very angry and sad.


I like that movie

Some days ago I saw a korean movie named ku-mi-sup (meaning spider forest). It was story about mysterious forest. A main actor went to this forest to interview someone for his TV documentary program. In the forest his memories were totally messed up. The movie showed many things but didn’t let me know what is true and untrue. Some movie scenes were too complicated to understand. Even the director of that movie said all things are up to us, so I can interpret it in my way. I like that kind of movies. This kind of movies make me think a lot.


Bullfrog, leave the earth!!

Do you know bullfrog? Bullfrog is not good. Why is bullfrog bad? First, bullfrogs are very noise, because they cry loudly. For example, whenever they cry. They even cry at night. Second, they eat everything. For instance, they even eat big animals. So, bullfrogs destroy ecosystem. Also, they don’t have natural enemy. Finally, they are so prolific, so they are immortal. 


english grammar

My major is English language & Culture so I have to study English. Yeap! I like english so much but sometimes it is really boring when I study grammar. Of course I know I have to that part because grammar is important one in language. So sometime i envy someone who use English as their mother toungue. That is like korean learn how to speak, how to know korean naturally. Haha. If I live somewhere that everybody use engliksh about 5years, can i do that ??

Yesterday I finish watching Friends season1.(for a week) It is really fun and interesting. That is not boring. However I should care about grammar.


Ambiguity of wine

Wine is many kinds of favorite food that people use very for a long time. Some people praise wine and others people refuse. Like this, there were a lot of side effects as the history. So, I will search ambiguity of wine in two sides here. First, it is advantage of wine. It is very famous doctor that Greek Hippocrates speaks “Wine have value most as drink, and tastes most as medicine, and amuse most among food “ 2700 old years ago. In this way, wine has considered by efficacious medicine from ancient. Nowadays doctors certified truth that suitable drinking protects heart disease. There was report of this truth that it is good for metabolism and act as digestive. Also, it is peddler’s secret and profitable in person’s mind health. For example, It makes personal relations smooth being in civil life.But, there were a lot of side effects as the history. Wine have tried to control mankind if is an opportunity. A person who wield for wine suffer from alcoholism or drinking affects in all important special skills of human body such as central nervous system, endocrine system m stomach heart pipe, and so on. And In spiritual a side, it can cause home disagreement because does individual’s spiritual and physical fitness by contradictory value, and deal harm that is great on company or whole society. Like this, wine has various ambiguities. But, there is a common in such various ambiguities. According to use it, it is effective as medicine or becomes harmfulness. So, we have grasp ambiguity of wine certainly and use to only good side.


Colors in my life

I like many colors. White, black, red, and so on. Each color has its merits. Sometimes I feel better, because of color. For example, light pink manicure give me bright mind from gloom. And yellow curtain makes a snug room. I am a quiet person, so I avoid too gaudy colors. I enjoy wearing white and black colors. It has correlation with my personality. But I don’t like blue, because there is bad memory about it. When I was 10 years old, my teacher let me shook dust of her clothes. I was delighted because I liked her. So I opened the window and shook a her jacket out of the window. When I finish it, I found out something wrong. A jacket was stained with a blue color paint. I was astonished at the sight. When I spoke my fault her, her told me to be fine. But that day was horrible. It was the worst blue.