#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.

#12 The hope

If someone asks me what your favorite movie is, I can answer The Shaw Shank Redemption without hesitation. When I was middle school student, it was first watching. However, at that time I could not understand the meaning of the movie. After I got over 22, accidently I saw The Shaw Shank Redemption again. At that moment, I felt amazing emotions and got goose bumps. By that time, I was working at contracture building for assistance two years after I had finished Marine Corps for two years, like army. My brain was so complicating because I had not decided my future plane yet. In addition, I thought university to that everyone goes was not necessary for my goal, but real life was not same as my thought. My parents wanted me entering university, but I did not want it because the money for university was not mine. I was kind of embarrassed myself. By the time I felt, I saw a movie that tells me about the hope. They in the movie include main actor live in the Shaw Shank prison. The story is a main actor, called Andy Dufresne, does not forget his hope although he is in terrible prison. Above all, it was very impressed a scene that Andy says the hope is very important and makes us not to lose our way and destination even tough everybody says to do not wish the hope because it is very dangerous and never happen. I realized all my behavior that I had was all excuses. Now I sometimes watch The Shaw Shank Redemption when I feel lazy or depressed. After I see the movie, I can have a lot of stimulations. (It was so difficult to express expressions. There are many wrong worlds and sentences I think)

#11 My strategy improving writing

I planned to improve my writing skills for several ways before I take composition class. First, one of ways deveroping my writing skills is listening english. First of all, I should get rid of my korean thought when I write. I have bad habit to think out korean when I write. I realize to think korean is very bad to write english because native american do not understand my writing. They say me it is totally different between korean structure and english structure. Not only grammar but also thought are different. I totally understand they say, but thinking on english is very difficult for me. Therefore, I decided I have to watch american TV, radio, or movies. It will help me to think American way. Another way is to copy sentences and to use it from other books, news, or movies. I think the best way to write to use English is copy and repetition because I do not know about American expressions. Therefore, in my opinion, if I use other expressions enough, I will be able to write to use on my way. I think famous writer would read a lot other famous writer, and then they wrote their way. I try to read a lot, but it is too difficult to me. It takes a lot of time, and understanding is also hard when I read English books. However, I believe some day I write fluently on my way.

#10 one thing that I can not forget

If I have a chance to go back to time that I want, I will return to January 2002. It was one of my happiness times in my life. I have six friends as my family. My parents also know them so much. In January 2002, we decided to travel to go anywhere. Why we determined to go travel was we just graduated, and we were going to enter the different university each other. In meant we would not meet together for a long time. In addition, I got a mail that was written that I should go to army until May. After we discussed, we decided to go to the mountain that has rent houses. We saw picture houses in on the internet. We just thought there was nice place, and there were several leisure places. We took a bus, and we ran for 6 hours to go there with heavy luggage include lots of foods and beer. After 7 hours, we arrived there, and all we got impressed. There was amazing place. It was totally different with picture that we saw before we went there. Everywhere was white. Threes, land, houses, and even a man who is host were covered with snow. Three dogs followed a man owner with waving tails. There were all white dogs. It was so cute and looked like three moving little snowman. Snow piled up on the ground to thickness of ten centimeters. We took pictures so much, and it was enough to play around. I often see my picture that we took at that time. I can see a young and joyful boy. It was me, and I so much miss that time.