Love

Yesterday, we had a wonderful lecture which was about "Love" by JCastle. It is a subject relate to everyone, because of human condition( we are vulnerable, weakness, not perfect). If we without human condition, "Love" will be impossible exist. Also, there are 4 different types of "Love"from this lecture. There are Philia, Romance, Agape, and Eros. Might be these words look like new words for us, and those are so difficult to understand, but after J.Castle's explanations, it was easy to understand. Philia( friendship which is characterized by loyalty and trust). Romance(passion, characterized by "falling in love" with another). Agape(human caring, kindness we extend to others, even strangers).Eros(passion and respect for our two lives, dreams and creativity).

Now, I will express some of my ideas. Firstly, I want to talk about the friendship. Many people tell me the best friendship is in the time when we go to the High school. It is not only pure, but also we had our own idea at that time, we can realize good things and bad things. I agree with this idea. I had 3 best friends during I was in high school. We lived together, ate together, had classes together, played together, did everything together. We felt so happy. We can shared happiness and sadness. We companies with each other. I missed them so much. Also, I knew that time wouldn't change our relationship. Although, we were in different countries now, we still kept in touch. I know I was so lucky, because it was so hard that made real friend from heart.

Secondly, I want to talk about Love. From my experience, the strong feeling( fever, smile all the time..) just exist at the beginning time. In that period, people who fall in love always loss their intellect, they willing do everything for another person who they loved. But it is temporary. After few months or one year, the relationship become change, might be always fight with each other, or get annoyed with each other.At this period, I will become to confuse about this "Love". I am not sure I still love him or not. Then, after 3 years or even more, he will be more like my family member than boyfriend, and we depend upon each other... Might be we don't want to see each other all the time, but we will miss each other if we long time no see. Also, we will consider each other when we do everything. We like to give each other freedom to make our friends, and do whatever we like. Although we don't have much passion as like as in the beginning time, we feel happiness. We just need our mediocre life instead of the luxurious life.

Moreover, the love from parents is the most important !!! Children can't grow up without love . ..They always protect us. I believe even they divorce but they still love me, so I grow up as well as normal children... I never complain about that, because I think their love just can be decided by themselves. But everything won't change the fact that they love me ... Anyway, family is the most important in my life...

Happy Hour

Yesterday was Friday, after school Loc, Fox, Toby, Truc, Kathy, Tiffany, Emily, Petro, Daniela, Aurelio, Peng, Nicole, Choyi, and me we went to a Vietnamese restaurant which was recommend by Truc to have lunch..It was a big group,wasn't it? Anyway, we have a good time in there and enjoy the delicious food. We liked it. Unfortunately, I didn't take camera so that I can't take down this happy moment.
After lunch, some of us went to Karaoke.. Although we came from different countries, we still enjoy our time. .. everyone have their own characteristic...Music doesn't have national boundaries...We were happy..
Moreover, I want to thank Loc, Fox, Toby,Truc, and Peng for staying with me ... I had a excellent time.. ...Unfortunately, when we paid the bill,, the waiter lost our $20. As result Loc and me can't get our money back. Also, Fox and truc just got an half....I was so sorry about that.. Because I asked you guys to stay.... Anyway, I had a good time,,, I hope that you were too...

Happiness

The second face comes closest to expressing my whole life. I enjoying my life now! Although I have to face with some problems in my life, I would rather say those are challenges. Nobody have a perfect life. Different people has different difficulties in their own life. However, I have parents who love me so much, I have friends who always stay with me, I have teacher who always help me. I have house to live, I have clothes to wear, I have food to eat and I have good opportunities studying here. We should satisfy with everything we had. We should cherish everything we had. Therefore, I can't say I have a perfect life. But I will say I am happy in my life.

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Short answer question

Question 2 Ivy
I would like to take “Linda and Josh” example to explain how different conversational expectations can lead to misunderstanding between men and women in social environments.
Josh was Linda’s husband. Their relationship became worse. Linda felt upset because Josh made plans without checking with her. Also, Josh also felt upset because he had to ask her wife’s permission before he did everything.
In this case, Linda thought checking with her husband meant they closed to each other and their life bounded up to each other. Also, it showed they considered each other. She liked it. On the other hand, Josh really didn’t like it. He thought it meant he was seeking permission. It showed he was not independent and no freedom to make decision by himself, just liked a child. From this case, it reveals even female and male use the same vocabulary, but they express different meanings. Women always use more social words and think in intimate way than man do. Men always think and express in hierarchical way. It creates distance to communicate with each other. Men are more independent than women. Therefore, female and male receive different metamessages from same words so that they misunderstand each other all the time.

Congratulation

Congratulation !! Our book project finished in last Friday .. I was so happy!!
Although I was not the best one, I knew i did my best. Because I know it was 5% of our final mark ..
Although our group just had two people, I thought it might be easier for us dividing the work. I thought I had little bit nerves when I presented the book, it also had some grammar mistakes, because the grammar is my biggest enemy. I have to overcome it step by step. Moreover, I have to thanks for my partner--Yufi ..because she paid for our beautiful pictures...HaHa ..just kidding .. I know she also worked so hard.
Anyway, I satisfied my presentation, but I know I will be better next time. I will improve myself.

Book review

Love gives us courage! Ivy

Anne of Green Gable
by L.M.Montgomery
(314 pages, $5.99)

Lucy Maud Montgomery is the writer of the “Anne of the Green Gables”. She was a Canadian author. She was an orphan when she was young. Her mother died of tuberculosis, and her father left after her mother death. She was raised by her grandparents, but they didn’t treat her well. In 1984, she got teaching certificate in Prince of Wales College in Charlottetown. In 1902, she went back to live with her widow grandmother in Princess Edward Island. During this time, she wrote her first book “Anne of Green Gables”. In 1908, this book was published. It became popular in the world. It was not only children’s favorite, but also be loved by adults. It has been translated into 17 different languages and has sold millions of copies. Also, it was made in films, carton, or musical forms. It was so successful that followed series of sequels with Anne. There were 8 books in total to describe the whole life of Anne.
“Anne of Green Gable” is the first section. Lucy Maud Montgomery emphasized the childhood of Anne in this section. Anne was an orphan because her parents died of fever. She was eager for a family. Matthew and Marilla lived in Princess Edward Island (Green Gable). They were unmarried brother and sister. They wanted to adopt a boy to help them do the farm work. But they received a little red hair girl—Anne, it was entirely unexpected. Anne didn’t give up herself. She tried to work hard to let her stay. Finally, not only Matthew and Marilla, but also everyone loved her. After many years, Anne graduated from high school. She had a best chance to study with scholarship in Redmond, but she give up, because of Matthew’s death. She wanted to stay in this small island and look after Marilla. She thought it is worthy because she loved her “family” very much. Lucy Maud Montgomery created this little girl who everybody loved because she was an orphan who nobody loved when she was young. She wanted to inspire herself and everyone who live without love. Family and friends are very important for us. We should cherish everything we had, especially love. We should appreciate everyone who loved us. Also, Anne’s optimistic spirit helps her overcome difficulties one by one, never afraid of challenges.
The most success of this book is the attractiveness of Anne’s character. She was an optimistic and hardy girl, although she had a hard life before she came to Green Gables, she wasn’t a pessimistic and never give up. She had full of enthusiasm for everything. Even she just lived in a very small Island—Princess Edward Island. There were no TV, no radio, and no car at that time, but she still enjoyed the life. She was a nature-lover. She had an enormous imagination. She could talk with trees, flowers, river, birds and so on. Also, She is a frank and talkative girl, expressed everything what she thought or imaged. This was also the reason why this book is so popular in Japan. Little girls in Japan were careful to observe the proprieties. They can’t speak out whatever they like. Therefore, they curious about this little girl and had a great yearning to be her.
This book is in chronological order, it is easy for reader to follow and understand the story. Also, it is encourage novel, especially for people who are facing problems and feel hopeless. Don’t worry, this book will give you power of hope in the life and it may be help them begin a new life. Moreover, you must be attracted by the wonderful descriptions in this book. You will have pictures in your mind. Furthermore, it is very realistic because the author putted some her experiences in the story. After finishing this book, you must desire to visit Princess Edward Island where did Anne grow up. It is an amazing place!! This is an amazing book!

Artical (news paper)

In his article "Keep them out of school" publish in The Gazette, 7, April, 2008, by Pierre Home present his opinion about why student need keep cellphone out of school. According to the author, he points out student keep cellphone in the school will lead to some problems. From the point of author, Studying is a hard working, student need concentrate and focus on learning. Therefore , problems of student keep cellphone are many students sent the message in the class, talking on the phone in the class, and cellphone goes off in class so that interrupts the hole class. Moreover, he mentions about the biggest problem against his idea is parents. They say they can't connect with their children without cellphone. Even some teacher think if they can create an interesting class, student won't use cellphone. But according to authors ideal, it is doesn't work. Because it is impossible to make classes as interesting as what cellphone provide.

In my opinion, I almost agree with Pierre Home , It is work for day pupils in the school. But I think banned cellphones in the classroom is more reasonable than in the school. Because there are some student who live in the school and go back home once a week. Cellphone is very convenient to them, also it is easier for parents to keep touching with their children. Of course, ban the cellphone in the class is necessary , also teacher have right to confiscated it, patent should support teacher do that. Because education is a hard work not only depend on school, but also depend on parents. They should work together.

Talking about Learing Languages

1) The differences between Chinese and English are huge in their forms and pronunciation. The alphabet of English is from 26 letters. But in Chinese, there is no letter , we call that " character". Also in pronunciation, English depends on phonetics.

Chinese depends on Phonetic transcription. There are 4 different tones. If one letter has different tones , they will express different meanings.

When we express our idea, we don't have tenses, but we have some symbols of words such as yesterday, today, future and so on in the sentences, and we needn't care about the transference of verbs at the same time. On the other hand, the order of subject , verb and object is almost like English.

2) I suppose there are several reasons could explain why some people learn a second language more easily than others. Firstly, they have good skills on studying language and working hard. For example , they constantly looks for patterns in language, guessing words or practise as often as possible ..... The second one is environment. People who begin learning in childhood or live in a family who speak different languages are learning much easier than others.

3) I think "smart" for me to learning other languages is not the most important, diligentce is more important.

4) From my experience, translating is not useful, using dictionary when you see new words , pretending you understand, and making list of words when you are learning the second language. On contrary, watching lots of movies, TV shows,singing in English, reading book,speak out and willing make mistakes are much usefulness when we are learning second language.

5)Learning another language can change the personality of a person. Because we not only learned how to speak and write when we are learning second language, but also learned about the different culture. Taking me be an example, my second language is English, so my parents sent me to Canada to study English. It is an important turning point in my life. In here , I have to be speak out, have to be a vivacious person so that can make friends. Also, I have to be more independent because I stay away from my parents.

6) Learning English doesn't change my appreciation of my first language yet. But it might be because I staied here is not long enough. Actually, If I learn for a long time and speak English all the time , It will confuse me. So far, I just forget some words in my first language.

7) Learning English at CE LI can improve speaking , listening, reading and writing. But other English courses always just focus on one part, especially in Grammar.

8)The advice for other people who just start to study English at CE LI is doing everything what teachers ask to do. Do your best and never absent from the class. Anyway, I have a good experience here...