Journal Entry 33 Title: Thankful

I'm thankful for being a citizen in Hsinchu, even though it might be better being citizen of other places, but I'm satisfied with what I have now. I love my country, because it is full of educated Asians (I'm not kidding, I really enjoy and am proud of being Asian). I'm thankful for being on the Yellow Team for sports day. Yellow Team is definitely winning this year, I'm sure. I'm thankful for being in the Class of 2015, for meeting all these good friends. Hopefully the world wouldn't end before I graduated. I'm thankful for going to this school, instead of some local school that I really dislike. I'm thankful for having food that we can enjoy in this world. If there is no food, I bet a lot of people will give up on their life sooner, because eating helps human release pain. I'm thankful for getting a chance to go to Japan this Christmas Break for snow skiing. I really look forward to the trip since I never get to touch snow before. I'm thankful that I got stung by a bee over the summer, and I now know what to do after I got stung. I'm thankful that I think I am an alien, so that I can look at this world in a different way.

Journal Entry 31 Title: New Technology

Technology is developing and changing everyday. Things changes fast on this planet, Earth. New knowledges are discovered and help developing the technology in our lives. Lots of ideas we see as common sense now, was a myth or was wrong for people living centuries ago. Just like science, new knowledges are found everyday in our lives. The knowledges, informations we see on the internet is refreshing every second. The world is changing, in a really, really fast way. Now in the presents, if you want to go somewhere far, you can just get on an airplane and fly there. During the time of the Roman Empires, airplane, or a flying metal bird is impossible and sounded ridiculous, but guess what? There are airplanes flying back and forth everywhere, every hour in our lives. Many things may seem ridiculous then, but it can be so common looking now. If they always believed things like airplane are impossible, then we wouldn't make it to the 21st-century, such a wonderful time with all the technologies that help our life be easier. Now we might say, living on Mars is absolutely impossible, but maybe few centuries later, people will be living on Mars or other planets. If we don't believe in these crazy ideas, human might extinct from Earth!!

Setting as Character

A setting can be a kind of character, even though it may not have emotions or we don’t know what it is thinking about, they can still have movements that cause events to happen. Usually characters cause conflict with other characters or even themselves. But can setting have conflicts with the characters or itself? Of course! The natural world may cause problems for the characters or itself. The natural world maybe the best kind of situation when the setting can be characterized. The natural world can be unpredictable and sometimes not caused by the other characters. There is always action then reaction, it is the basic for any events to happen. For example, the ocean is really unpredictable since it is liquid, it causes lots of problem, which is the action of the setting. The sailors or anyone sailing on the ocean will have reaction about the action. Maybe in a forest, a natural fire started, all the characters that is related to the forest will have reactions on the natural fire which is the action in this event. All kind of situation can allow the setting to become a character. Sometimes stories are made with only setting as the character, then the story can describe the setting real well.

Journal Entry 29 Title: Compare and Contrast Dogs

There were two dogs in our building. It was years ago, the dogs were named Shin-Shin and Happy. They are both shiba, but Shin-Shin was black with a white tummy and Happy was pure white. They were both hyper puppies and eats a lot. They weren't my dog, they were my neighbor's dogs. I was allowed to visit them often and was able to play with Shin-Shin and Happy. Even though they were both hyper, Happy was really energetic for only sometimes and Shin-Shin can be hyper for a long, long time but not as hyper as Happy. Shin-Shin is tricky, he likes to hide Happy's snack under sofas and drawers. Maybe that is because  Happy never remembers where Shin-Shin would hide them even though he only hides it in certain places. It's always fun to watch Happy search for her precious snack. They also like different snacks, Happy loves milk cookie, it is made of hard cookie tied into a bone shape, for dogs to chew on. Shin-Shin don't like snacks, he just want to eat his meals for a long time. That's why Shin-Shin is skinnier than Happy. Happy is a dumb dog, but I like her a lot, maybe because she's dumb. :D

Describe a Place You Know

My favorite place in the all the places I’ve been to, was the corner of my bedroom. It’s a cozy and quite place for me, myself and I. The place that I would be no matter what mood I‘m in. This corner is suitable and comfortable, the pillows I set on the floor makes the whole place cozy. The smell of my dinner is usually trapped in that corner of my room, I am allowed to have dinner in my corner sometimes. My computer and comic books are also placed o the sides of the corner. It’s convenient for me to live my life in the corner. I fell safe when my right shoulder touched the end of my bed. When I rest in my corner, it fells like there is only myself in this hectic world. I am able to leave everything in reality behind, and can be in my own world. The wooden bookshelf on the left side of me, hold all my precious books and comics, that’s also the place I usually place my dinner. My radio is usually placed beside my left leg if no one moved my property around. The computer is placed right in front of me, so that I could research and do other work on it. I placed most of my life in that little corner. It might seem weird, but I like it being weird.

Setting

Once when I’m still in elementary school, our family went to a restaurant with some of our friends. The meal came late so all the kids went playing hide and seek. I was too naive to believe in Benson, he told me he knows a better place to hide than behind the door. I walked beside him with my eyes closed, like what I was told to do. We walked for a long, long time and finally we stopped. I stood there with my eyes closed until he said I’m allowed to open them. When I opened my eyes, a blue door stood in front of me and I back up so I could look at the whole thing. As I back up, I hit a toilette that was behind me all the the way. I tried to open the door while I realized it was the male’s restroom(because the door is blue). I was scared, because I realized that the door wouldn’t open. I panicked and wait for people to rescue me. The smell of excrement made me feel like puking, and the sound of flushing made me want to pee. I waited and waited, until I forgot what had happened. When I woke up, I saw Benson standing in front of me, helping me get up. I threw everything out off my head and did one thing, a sucker punch on Benson’s head. After that, I wasn’t afraid to go to a men’s rest room, even though I don’t really need to have that skill.

What I Like About This Class

I like most of the things in this class. This is my second favorite subject in the four major subject, which is math, English, Science and History. The class system is very organized, because it is mostly using internet. Informations are easily given out to student and they can’t really loose it. Paper work can get lost or easily ruined, but using the internet can save the files and not easy to destroy. The homework system is very organized, the date are clearly informed on the Wiki pages. I like having homework due on the same date. It is easier for students to remember the due date. Also the homework given out are all in the same format, so it would be easy to understand after a while. Even if we have any question, usually I can just check the Wiki Pages. Wiki pages is a very good way to organize school work, students are able to use it anywhere that has a computer. I also like having a weekly Greek or Latin roots quiz. It helped me memorize a lot of word jus by looking at the roots. This class is very organized and I’ve learned a lot about formatting essay from the past 8 weeks.