Week 11 // Summury of the music I like - Jason Mraz Geek in the pink

 Jason Mraz - Geek in the pink

 My younger brother letted me listen thig song by chance and I've fellen in this and it stucks in my head these days. I found the lyics in a music blog and read it, but I'm not sure about what Jason want to say. Anyway I will tell you the story of the song

 The song consists of 3 verses and 3 hooks. In the first verse I think he likes a girl and start to show off himself, talking to her that "I'm a geek in the pink".  The hook says that he doesn't care of what she think about him and he can protect her and change her and hang out with her.

 In the second verse I think they become a couple and start to have good time. However, Mraz start to say that she tries to obesess over him too much and he doesn't like that of course. I think the lyrics "Well she can get her toys outta the drawer then Cause I ain’t comin’ home I don’t need that attention" shows that he hates about her behavior clearly.

 In Third verse Mraz deciede to break up with her, saying that he just want to have relax and understand. And then he is writing songs and want people to just listen up to him.

 The meaning of the song sounds unclear for me, but I know that this song is absoultely cool song!

 Here is the link of the song : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2KcxrYnWkQ

Week 10 // How could Chongshin University or the students be kinder to the environment?

 I see many rubbish everywhere in Korea. Sometimes I can find some trash in my university. I used to throw away trash everywhere before I went to NZ. I think it was very shame on me! I hardly could see trash on the streets in NZ, so that makes the city very clean,beautiful and even gorgeous.

 How can we protect our environment that is nearby us? There are just very basic and small things that we should do. First, don't spit on streets. It not only makes people feel unpleasant, if they see someone who is sptting, but also makes the streets dirty. It is very easy one! Just keep in mind. Second, if you smoke, don't throw out the cigarette ends in any place. There must be some trash cans and you must try to find them and throw them in. Do not think like "It must be me alone who throwing this out here". Everyone has been thinking of that.

 I think all things to make good environment are not hard but very easy! I just would you like to think before throw away your dirty trash and how they are going to make the place dirty and massed up whole the places.

Week 9 // Write a review of the lecture

 The speaker of this video is Arianna Huffington who insist we should take enough sleeping to success in our life. She says modern people like to work very busy instead of  taking a break and sleeping to be successful. She says that is not a good way and sleeping unlocks billions of big ideas so we should sleep enough.

 Actually, I really agree with her. I can see many Koreans who are not even sleeping but studying and working overnights. I do think it is very bad, because I used to do it when the mid-term exam, and at that time, my head was completely stopped. I just slept about 2 hours and the exam started and I even couldn't understand the questions of the test. Truly, I spoiled my exam and I have not studied overnight even in important exam terms. I just sleep before some important thing and it makes me feel good indeed.

This shows that sleeping is very important to us, but some of you might not agree with that. If so, just try this. You must feel difference between sleeping and not sleeping.

Link : http://www.ted.com/talks/arianna_huffington_how_to_succeed_get_more_sleep.html

Week 8 // How to study English

 I think the most basic step of learning second language is grammar. When I was in middle school, I just tried to read the English coursebook without any the grammar knowledge. I could understand very easy and simple sentences such like "He give a present to me", but couldn't get like "He give a present that he bought yesterday to me"
I was very confused because I thought "Why there are two subjects and two verbs in a sentence? and what is "that" in middle of the sentence? I was not able to get the meaning of such like sentences during my middle school life, and I gave up learning English.

 However, I started to study grammar in high school and interested in English because that was pretty easy things actually. So I think the most important thing in learning English is grammar and after that it depends on us. I think we should do something in English whatever like listening pop songs,radios or watching English movies,dramas etc. I heard that there is a maxim in English culture. "NO PAIN, NO GAIN". I totally agree with that. If you listen a English radio, I think you are not going to understand at once. If you try to understand English news, I'm sure you will not figure out the information of it. Just try again, again AND AGAIN!

Week 8 Write a review of the how to video.

 I used to try rock climbing many times in many mountains. I'm interested in it still, and that is why I watched this video.  I think the man who is instructing viewers in the video explains the basic steps of rock climbing very well. I was instructed in rock climbing by some kiwi instructors in NZ and the instructions in the video are pretty good as I was trained.

 There are a lot of basic steps in rock climbing but I think the hands positions are most important thing so going to introduce some ways in hands positions.

Hands positions

1. "Crimp" : When you find a big and nice hole, you can use this way. Keeping your hands flat when you found a hole on the rock just like the shoe is flat on a flat hole and grab the hole, bending your fingers. It will give you most power and you can do this with your thumb over the top.

2. "Slopping hold" : When you find very tiny holes that you can hardly put your fingers on it, you should use this way. To try this way, your finger strength must be strong enough and your hands are going to be like "open hands" and sure, you can do that with your thumb over your fingers.

3. "Side pull" : Not all holds are able to be pulled down on. For some, you need to do what's known "Side pull". Some holes face to side way but not straight up. These kind of holes are called "side pull" and if you find them, grab the side pull to the side, and just pull the side.

4. "Under-cling" These kind of holes face to downwards. The way to hold onto it is pull up on it. And also if you use your feet, you can get oppositional pressure so that your foot is pushing down and your hands are pushing up. So that's what's going to keep you on the rock there.

I think you are not going to get exactly these instructions, so here is a link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynQ5UMQaJ7g

week 9 write 200+ words about one of your other classes.

 I'm taking the class "an introduction to language"  This is one of my major subjects, I feel pretty hard to learn this though, sometimes it is interesting and makes me have achievements when I understand the contents of the book.
 The hardest chapter was "Semantic" which studies meaning of language. Especially, the part of "idioms" was very confusing. For instance, there were a paragraph "In many places such as Times Square in New York, a ball is dropped at midnight on New Year's Eve. Now, if the person in charge doesn't drop the ball, then he has "dropped the ball. And if that person does indeed drop the ball, then he has not "dropped the ball. Right?"
   When I first read this, I just thought " What is this..". I really no had idea of it and started to find the meaning of "drop the ball". I found that it means "spoil something", still confused about the paragraph. What I don't get it still is  " Why the person is supposed to drop the ball on Christmas?"And why, if (s)he doesn't drop the ball, (s)he has spoiled this?. This paragraph sounds very weird to me but I know this is because of cultural and linguistic difference.

 The second hard one was "Syntax" which studies structures of language. It looked like very complex tree and I thought why should I learn such a thing and I will never get it. However, I started to concentrate on reading the part calmly and it was not harder than I thought.

 I realized feeling of achivements is very awesome when studying the subject, although the way of getting to them is very painful.

Week 7 What is your dream job? Write at least 200 words in which you explain the job and why you are interested in it.

 Actually I have a few dream jobs, but just going to introduce one of the most I want to be. It is spaceman.

 When I was very young, I used to listen about space from my father with some scentific books and watch programs about it on TV. I remember that the videos about the universe and the pictures was extremely beautiful to me, and even now I feel space is great, massive, and mysterious thing. Until I graduated the elementary school, I wanted be an astronaut, because I hoped of getting out from Earth and traveling the universe. I realized that, however, I need to be good at science and mathematics to be an astronaut, and I gave them up because I really hated them. I dislike them even now. That is why the job is my "dream job". I'm so curious about space and want to see the planets in the solar system and have been wondering about the state of nongraviation on a spaceship. Especially I would like to observe Neptune because it pretty looks like the most myterious thing to me.

 These days, I read some articles about space and stars in the Internet sometimes. I found that the earth is exteremely small compared with whole universe. And we are living in such a small world. I look forward to the days that can afford to travel other stars like taking trips to the other countries these days.