Elementary Composition – Night

 Today, when I was having a lunch at the cafeteria, I saw the news about Korean kidnapping in Nigeria. The news said that five Korean engineers were being kidnapped by Nigerian militants. Recently Nigerian situation is really unstable because of terrors and kidnapping by Nigerian terrorists. In fact, many foreign engineers from other countries already have been kidnapped many times in Nigeria. In last May, four local police and an American reporter were found killed.

 Yesterday, Chinese Language major presented many performances at the little theater in the student hall. Our seniors presented a play. We dramatized a play named “Urine Town”. This play won the Tony Awards in 2002. The story of ‘Urine Town’ was about a happening that happened in a town which was suffered of lack of water. Therefore, the inhabitants had to pay whenever they wanted to use toilets. We changed the people’s name and script in Chinese. I played a bad owner of ‘Urine Good Company” in the play. The character was really bad and selfish, and I played that character really insidiously and artfully. Fortunately, our all team members had a great acting abilities. Therefore, when our paly was completely finished, we received a thundrous round of applause.

Lee Woo-Hyeok is an author who innovated a new kind of fantasy based on Korean history. He is the highest earning Internet author in Korea. For example, he earned more than two billion won from royalties. He is a famous writer, and successfully runs the IP company called Hyeok Net. He has published best-sellers such as Toemarok(The Soul Guardian), Waeran Jongyeolja(The Protector of Korea from Japanese Invasion), and Chiuchenwangi(King Chiuchenwang).

For readers who like both history and fantasy, the story of Waeran Jongyeolja would be fantastic. There have been western styled monsters like dragons, trolls, and ogres in fantasy novels so far, but Waeran Jongyeolja is totally different. We can find original Korean ghosts and monsters in this book. The plot is about finding the protector of Korea from Japanese invasion, and about covert fighting between good monsters and bad monsters in the spirit world.

This book is famous for several reasons. First, this book is a new approach to Korean fantasy, because the author based the fantasy world on real historical facts. Second, this book shows Korean ghosts and monsters for the first time in a fantasy novel, so it highlights those monsters in a modern literary world. Finally, because the author precisely based the plot and historical background on three years of study, this book is famous for having an enormous list of reference books.

I live on the 6th floor, and my room has windows that connected to outside. Everynight there is a guy who smoking. I guess he lives 5th floor. The problem is when he smokes a cigarette, the smoke gets into my windows, and makes the air in my room thick and smell so bad. I really hate the smell of cigarette!!!! it’s driving me crazy!!!! What can I do with this!!! The weather is getting hot, and I need to open my windows. No matter what, I will do anythig to stop him tomorrow. I can’t live with this!!! I really really hate that guy!!!!!

 I’d like to talk about my unforgettable vacation. When I was a second grade in Elementary school, our family and all relatives of ours went to Juju Island for a vacation. We had great time there, we ate lots of seafoods, and played in the sand everyday. However, the thin that made this vacation unforgettable wasn’t that great.

One day of the vacation, we took a boat for going to a small Island named Bam Island. That was a really small Island, so even it didn’t have a sand beach.

Then we started to swim, because we couldn’t play in the sand. When I was swimming, I suddenly got a cramp in my leg, so I just kept falling into the water and was struggling to get out. When my dad saw me in this situation, he thought I just played at for fun. Because he knew that I swam well. He pointed at me, and said, “Look at her, she is playing it like real!! That’s funny!” Then he began to laugh loudly. However, when my mom saw me, she immediately sensed that I wasn’t playing around. She jumped into the water. Even her swimming was worse than mine, and finally she rescued me. Until now, I never forgot that my daddy just laughed loudly at that time.

 When I was a middle school student, I went to the English institute for studying English conversation, and I met an English native teacher for the first time. Unlike these days, there were not many foreigners in Korea at that time. Having a conversation with foreigners seemed an adventure to me. I still remember my first native teacher vividly. She was tall and had a nice figure with her blonde hair. To a young boy like me, she was just so beautiful, and it was so interesting that the beautiful foreigner spoke some foreign language. However, after a while, no matter how beautiful she was, my interest to speak English was disappearing. It wasn’t fun anymore, because whatever she said I couldn’t understand at all. I just couldn’t understand her pronunciation and accent. It was totally different with other Korean teachers who taught English at school. Because I understood less and less, I spoke less and less. In spite of her trying to understand me and help me to speak English, I started to doze off after all. When my interest to speak English was almost gone, I began to think like this, “Is it really necessary for me to learn English in this way? I won’t go abroad and have a test for English conversation at school.” After that, I moved to the other institute for studying some subjects of the entrance examinations. That was the end of my first English conversation lesson. It was fun, but I hadn’t enough basic knowledge about English to keep studying it.

        After time passed, I entered the university and chose English for my major. As a result of my major, I took many classes to study with native teachers. But the problem was I barely spoke English, so I started to keep silent again in the classroom. Most of my classmates felt it was difficult to listen and speak in English, but there were always some students who had a great conversation with a teacher. I really envied them and wanted to be like them, too. One day, therefore, when the class began, I decided to talk about something to the native teacher after class, but I failed after all to talk. I was too timid to say something. I guess I didn’t have enough confidence. Now I’m doing much better, but I still sometimes feel nervous to talk to native teachers. I’ve studied English since I was in middle school, nonetheless I’m not good at speaking and listening in English.

I guess, however, the attraction of learning English is that the harder I study, the more fun I have.

(This writing is the assignment from other class. But I put lots of efforts on this, and I think this is quite well done. This one is I translated other studdent’s writing in Korean to English. So, I’d like to share it with you guys. ) 

 Last Sunday, I visited an old people’s home for doing volunteer work. It was a task from the chapel class. A hundred of grandmas and forty grandpas were living there. Many of them are not able to move on their own, so they needed to be helped. I helped seven grandmas to take a bath then cleaned up the whole floor. It was hard than I expected. However, even though I was totally exhausted when I got home, but it was worthwhile.

 Now finals is coming up and a summer vacation is just around the corner. It seems like I blinked and this year is almost half gone. Time is flying so fast. I’m a little sad that I don’t have many things to remember except all those tests and assignments. I’m not sure I’m doing right. It seems that life is getting difficult and more complicated. I know it definitely could be more, but not less. Well, so I guess life goes on.

 My mum blamed me again for that I’m afraid to drive a car. Even though I already got my license, I’m not good at driving a car. After one year and half living in China, I almost forgot how to drive. She always told me that I can’t live like this much longer and I should start to practice driving. Unlike me, my mum is an excellent driver and my dad and brother, too. I don’t know why I’m the only ugly duck in my family.

Do you believe signs of the Zodiac? The Zodiac is the system of twelve star signs. These signs are believed that they are related to personality. I was born under the sign Cancer, and I also believe that my Cancer traits are related to my character. Traditional Cancer traits are affectionate, romantic, moody, touchy, thoughtful, careful. Among these, I will choose ‘thoughtful’ and ‘careful’, then write about how I am thoughtful in good way and careful in bad way. The good trait of a Cancer that I have is thoughtful. I can notice what other people want, need or feel quickly. It’s easy for me to take notice of what other’s next move and respond to help them. For example, I usually could notice what my friend wanted to do with me before she said it out of her mouth. Also, I try to find thoughtful solutions to problems. I always try to embody information about a problem accurately, and focus on how to use that information effectively. Another trait of a Cancer that I have is careful. Being careful is good thing, but being too careful is make people less enjoy their life. I’m too careful. That’s the problem. I took long time to finish one assignment or paper work all the time, because giving too many attention to details to make it perfect. Besides, I’m too careful about other’s feeling and mood. Sometimes I waste time to read other’s face too carefully and got tired of it. In conclusion, I barely like all the traits of my character. They could be good thing, but not that I want. Particularly, I don’t like that Cancerians are too emotional. It seems essential that we Cancerians have to learn how to reach an emotional balance.

The frestival is getting alive out there. It seems lots of students are having fun. Some studentb are selling food. some others are having performances. Also, there will be a music performance at night.  The atmosphere is full of anticipation for the music performance. Every student looks so happy except me. Now I’m doing my assignments in the library and I feel so tired. Even I have a class later, so I have to wait until 7:50pm. My day is finishing with lots of assignments and group workshop. It’s tragic..

 Tae-Gwang’s friend, ‘YS’ is stingy person. He never spends money when he meets Tae-Gwang. For example, he never spend money when he goes a pub with TG. Even YS has more money than TG has, but he doesn’t spend money. Also YS is unusual person. For instance, he invites TG for drinking and then he lets TG pay for it.

 We hate mosquitos for several reasons. First, mosquitos carry viruses and disease such as Malaria and Japanese encephalitis, so the viruses can be transmitted to people when the mosquitos suck people’s blood. Second, mosquitos make annoying sounds. For example, they make annoying sounds at near of our ears when we sleep. Third, After they bite us, we feel itchy seriously. Finally, we have to spend money because of mosquitos. For instance, we have to spend money to buy medicines, mosquito sprays and mat.

 This place is famous for serving coffee with free cakes. Both of the headquarter and its chain place in Sin-Chon, Seoul. Many couples visit this place for drinking coffee, because not only it offers free cakes, but also ‘couple seat’. The couple seat has a partition and a sofa which has the high back so that couples have a comfortable time without caring other people’s eyes. Can you guess what place this is??

 When I decided to go to Pretoria, the capital of Republic of South Africa, I was warned of the danger of Malaria. I was said that Malaria was spreading easily and quickly in Africa, because the atmospheric temperature was abnormally higher than usual. However, It couldn’t change my mind to go there, so I went to Pretoria. When I arrived there, many people only wore diamonds on their underwears, because the sparkle of a diamond prevented from approaching of wild animals. My travel guide told me that actually a tiger attacked people, because they hadn’t worn diamonds. That anecdote made me scared. One day I was walking around in the national park. Suddenly something came out from the bush. It was a lion, so I took out my emergency diamond from my pocket and throw its sparkle on the lion’s face. the lion got frightened at the luster, ran back into the bush.

 One year ago, I took a religion course which was a compulsory course. The professor was a young priest. He lectured on the ‘New age phenomenon’ for a semester, and I really hated him for the whole semester. I hated him, because I didn’t like his way of teaching it. It seemed that he taught us something that even he couldn’t understand. Apparently, he didn’t have the ability to teach. He might be a great scholar, but he wasn’t a good teacher. He gave me C+, so I really hated him. I didn’t absent any single day, and I did my best on the test. Because I considered that I didn’t learn anything from his class, I hated him. I thought that he wasted my time.

 I’d like to describe one of our classmates. She is tall, and her height is over five feet six inches. She has long brown wavy hair, and it comes down to her back. She has arched eyebrows, and its color is dark brown. She doesn’t have eye lids, but she has long lashes. She doesn’t wear glasses. Her ears are little bit small, and they are cute. Her lips are rather thick, and the corners of her lips are uplifted slightly. Her build is neither thin nor big, she has a normal build with long legs. Her fingers are really long, and she has a manicure on her nails which are pink. She wears a pink jacket and blue jeans. Can you guess who she is?

First, make 1.5L coffee or green tea(It would be good with some ice) and put it beside you on the desk. Next, open your book at midnight and start studying, if you feel sleepy on and off during study, just drink your coffee or green tea a lot. Then keep study until the sun rises up. Finally, after watching the sunrise, go to sleep.

 You need a chicken, two potatoes, a half of carrot, five hot green peppers, an onion, a half of green onion, some garlic, five cups water and chili sauce.

(Making chili sauce: Put ten spoons of chili powder, two spoons of chopped garlic, two spoons of chopped green onion, seven spoons of soy sauce, two spoons of honey, three spoons of soju, three spoons of sugar, one spoon of sesame oil and seasonings to taste in a bowl. Then mix them together until well combined.)

First, cut a chicken into pieces and soak them in cold water for about thirty minutes. Then cut potatoes, carrots, a onion and a half of green onion into pieces. Next, pour five cups water in a pot, add chicken pieces and the vegetable pieces except onion and green onion pieces, and bring to boil for thirty minutes, then skim off any froth and fat that floats to the surface during boiling. After thirty minutes boiling, pour three cups water away from the pot which the chicken and vegetable pieces were cooked(You don’t need all of the water), and add onion pieces, green pieces and the chili sauce,  stir all of them together until well mixed, and then simmer them until the pieces of onion are cooked. Finally, place them on a plate and serve with rice. Yummy!!!

 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.

 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.

 Do you often say “Sorry” a lot? Do you care too much about what people think about you? If your answer is “Yes”, ninety-nine percent surely you are blood type A. People of Blood type A are generally too careful and cautious about everything. They care too much about what people think about them. Moreover, if there is bad things happened, they would think it’s all because of their fault. What makes them act like that? What are the reasons? There are two kinds of reasons.

One reason is they are caring and very sensitive to other people’s feeling, so they are usually worried that they might hurt other people’s feeling. On the other side, the other reason is they are often lack of self-confidence, so they are not confident enough about what they’re doing and saying.

There are some magical effects drinking alcohol has on our mood. Many people think drinking alcohol only has bad points, but it’s not always the case. If you drink right amount of alcohol in the right place, you will have a great feeling. First, it’s good for relaxation of emotional tension. When you overstrain yourself, drinking a glass of wine would be helpful. Also, it’s good for stress release as well as making cheerful atmosphere. When we are stressed out by the test, we usually say, “Let’ go drink!”, because drinking alcohol creates a cheerful atmosphere in those people, and it makes easy to release our stress.

Hey~ Guys~!! We Korean baseball team just won Japan an hour ago~!!!

Wow~!!! It’s really cool~!!!! What a great news~!!!

I’m so proud of them~~~~!!!^0^

Honestly, I’m not that big baseball fan, but since today I think I’m going to be a big fan~!!

It’s really fun and exciting~!! now I gotta get to know some baseball game rules. hehe…

Guys~!! Have a good day~!!! Korea team fighting~!!!! Ye~!!!