#19 my new hobby

Recently, I bought a Cannon 40D, called Digital Single Lens Reflex, so taking picture becomes my new hobby. Before I bought the camera, I just thought a camera is only for memorizing. I remember when I was a child; my mother was so good at taking picture. At that time, the camera that my mother had was neither good nor electronically. However, the results of her skills were always wonderful. Her behavior when she tried to take was so professional. I have asked her why mom acted weirdly. Taking pictures is not a just thing, she said, it is a like art. I could not understand what she said, but after almost 20 years later, I can catch her point. I don’t like normal things anymore. I don’t know what makes me, but it is true that I want to feel more real experiences, and I dislike being similar with others. Therefore, I bought a heavy, dark, and ugly camera. However, the quality of results is unbelievable. The more I take pictures, the more I addict that. It is so interested for me. I realize the importance of the light. Maybe I have taken over 10,000 pictures with reducing the light or increasing the light for two weeks. The results of taking picture to use different way are totally different. It makes me crazier about that. I want to buy other lenses being able to make different effects after I go to the college with job. This hobby will be forever, and I want to see the amazing pictures showing my family with my children in the future.

#18 Plans that I made during spring break

I have mentioned about my plan before on blog. My plan was to study hard. However, I could not study very well. Actually, I did not study. Studying during on vacation on which everybody enjoys is too hard. People who become very famous or succeed usually say that if you enjoy the time with your friends, you will never succeed, and you will never rises above the crowd. I think I am a so lazy guy. I should think about my character. I am definitely a lazy person, and I certainly have positive thought. Now I realize I. ^^misunderstand meaning of lazy and optimistic. My lazy behavior was not optimistic behaviors. For example, I have a heavy homework until tomorrow. Lazy person maybe think it is too heavy for every students, so it is ok if I do not homework, and everyone will not do homework. On the other hand, optimistic person will think I can do my heavy homework, and it is not impossible. It is totally different situation. I was first situation person. I totally understand my character during vacation. I am not going to do that again. It will never happen until at least I graduate university here. ^^

#17 one thing that I realize from kids

Yesterday, I went a school to which kids go because a Korean woman who was my classmate last year asked a favor to take pictures for her son’s activities. Last Friday, I bought a new camera at Best buy. The camera is kind of DSLR, looks like heavy and can change lenses. It was a stuff that I really want to buy, so I had thought whether I buy or not for a year. After I bought the camera, I took over one thousand pictures maybe. Therefore, I said to the Korean woman it is really fun that I take pictures, so she asked the favor. The school is located in Valencia St. Her son’s event was like children’s activities exhibition. The title was variety cultures. Children’s ages are 5 to teenagers. They are very cute and beautiful. They showed us who were their parents and me African, Asian, west America behaviors. While I was taking pictures, I realized here is real America. It means that when I went to school, I used to do that, but I could not feel about other country culture because we who acted about other countries were all same country kids Korean. However, here in America live a lot of kinds of people. They who were showing events were Americans, Asians, Arabians, and African American kids. They seemed they do not care about different culture, country, and skin. They can be friend anyone. On the other hand, I thought while they are growing up, some kids will be changed their thought. It is sad. What things make people change? I really wondered about that all day.

#16 My stretegies making improve my english skills

Language is a thing that if I do not use it continuously, I forget. I have seen a lot of people that are not adapted to English because they do not think about English a long time. This spring break is not a long time, so I do not worry about forgetting. I decide I am going to improve my English in this small vacation. I have some strategies. The first one is to read a book. I have never finished reading whole story in English. I have almost 9 days. If I do not complete reading, I will develop my reading skills I hope. The second one is watching whole season Friends. I have seen before, but at that time, I watched with Korean subtitle. At this time, I am going to try to watch without subtitle until English and I become a friend. The last my strategy making to improve my English in spring vacation is using English. The English that I learn from a book and Friends have to use it. I live in American home stay now. Here are 5 native speakers. Therefore, I am going to show them my advanced English include pronunciation. Up to here, I wrote my hopes. I am going to try all of them.

#15 a plan for a spring break

I have a lot of places to which I want to travel. The most places that I want to visit are Las Vegas. The first reason is I have never seen before, and the second reason is I sometimes believe my gut feeling, so I want to see my feeling with black jack. However, now my position is a student that really wants to get great TOEFL score to enter the Fullerton College. I know current my score, and it is totally not enough to go to the college. Therefore, I planed I have to memorize 2000 vocabulary, to master grammar, and to listen English 3 hours every day until next TOEFL test. I think spring break is very good chance to study myself. I know this is crazy plan, and everybody will say this is impossible. I think so. I know I am a person who is really lazy guy. If I do not have any homework or tests, it is ten to one but I will not study by myself. I want to believe I used to do that. I want to speak fluently my emotion, I want to write smoothly my thought, I want to read easily funny novels, and I want to listen to show program without a hitch. I really consider traveling to Las Vegas.

#14 I am unique for my hometown

I am Korean, and I had lived in Kujea Island for 20 years which is located in South of South Korea. My hometown is surrounded by sea and mountain. In addition, people living my hometown use dialect. It means I have a little bit different character with capital people. When we living my hometown talk with other persons, we usually do not express too much. It looks very rude. I do not know why people do that, but we understand we are not rude. For example, I have never seen that my father says, “I love you,” to my mother. When he get some gifts accidentally, he usually says why did you do that, or you do not have to do that. He never says thank you, and he seems to try to not appeal his emotion. However, I totally understand his behavior because he always thinks his family more than himself. One day, my mother fainted just an hour for her working too hard while she was washing dishes. At that time, my father working at his workplace called her 5 times, but she did not answer, so he came home quickly for worried, and then he saw my mother lying on the couch. He carried on his back her, and he ran to hospital. I think he has deep emotion. When I had lived in Seoul, I was unique. Because of my blunt character everyone had misunderstand. However, I like to give impressed, and I try to pretend not to know favors I got. I am not a sweet candy, but I want to be a person like a indispensable tools.

#13 American 50th birthday party

Party culture in America is so interesting for me. In my country, we also usually have parties; for example, when we have the celebration of a baby’s first birthday, New Year’s Day, Korean Thanksgiving Day, or 60th birthday, but these are not like American style. I think if my country peoples here the word party, they usually imagine very huge events. However, I think American regard as just normal and casual things because they do often. I can see often they have parties in the parks on weekend. Therefore, when I heard my home stay mother would have a party in her best friend’s house yesterday, I thought maybe it’s just casual. I brought music CD for her, and I wrote a letter written I appreciate you. Then, I arrived at her best friend’s house, and then I opened the door. After that I was surprised because there were so many beautiful decorations. There were 50 chairs, desks, plates with flowers, and foods. I had impressed for an hour, and then I could eat foods. One thing I remember is when I played soccer with kids, someone called me, so I went there crowed people. Carol, my home stay mother, was reading my card I wrote yesterday. I was kind of embarrassed, but my feeling was so good because when Carol was reading a sentence, people said “oh~”, or “wow”. I think Carol got impressed because nobody gave her cards like my card. My card was not a simple, it was so long paragraph. I satisfied of my card and my idea. ^^ It was good day.