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W uthering Heights
Dohyun KIM (1A)

//Wuthering Heights// is a gothic novel and it is a story of a house called “wuthering heights”. “Wuthering heights” means a house, which is exposed to stormy weather. Emily Bronte wrote this book. This is mainly about the tragedy of Heathcliff and Catherine’s love.

This story is mainly narrated with Nelly’s voice that is a housekeeper of wuthering heights. Since Nelly tells the story, this story is narrated at the point of view first person limited because it is only focusing on what she heard, saw and what she could find indirectly by observing what was going on.

Wuthering Heights, which is standing against the storm, there are Mr. Earnshaw, and his children Hindley and Catherine. Oneday, an orphan called Heathcliff came to their house. Heathcliff was loved by Mr. Earnshaw and became good friend with Catherine. However, after Mr. Earnshaw died, Hindley and Catherine gives terrible scar on Heathcliff’s heart. He suddenly disappeared and no one knew where he went. Oneday, Heathcliff came back to wuthering heights after three years. After 3 years, Heathcliff changed a lot. Heathcliff not only brought himself to wuthering heights, but also huge tragedy.

The author, Emily Bronte, shows us various kinds of people. It shows Heathcliff’s love that changed to revenge and hatred by violation and aggressive behavior. It also shows Catherine’s self-centered behavior, Edgar being weak in front of love, and Isabella’s foolishness and blindness in front of love. People in this book are never perfectly nice or perfectly evil but they changed as the story goes on. They all have pain and sadness in their heart. Emily Bronte is famous for depressing style of writing. This book shows her style of writing very well. This book is always in dismal mood, which makes us to feel the tension of that situation.

Personally, I do not want to recommend this book. This book is quite hard to understand and I cannot understand why did the characters acted like that. It was easy to under stand the story and the summary of the book but the story had happiness or hope. This book just made me depressed. After reading this book, I could find that the end of the book was vain. Some might feel something after reading this book but I cannot think of any reason for Emily Bronte to write this book.

Book Reveiw
This book, “The Last Lecture” is the last lecture that is __told__ by a lecturer called Randy Pausch. It is the last lecture because he only got several months to live because of cancer.

He was a father and a lecturer. He loved his family but he also had passion as a lecturer. By reading this book, I could see the passion that Randy Pausch had as a lecturer. Even though his wife wanted him not to do the lecture, he went to do the lecture. Even though the day before the lecture was his wife’s birthday, he went to do the lecture. The last lecture, he asked Jai to show their children the lecture when the children ask Jai how was Pausch like to Jai who did not want Pausch to held a lecture. This shows us that how clever he was, how much did Pausch loved lecture, and how he wanted to be remembered to his children as a father.

I could also tell that he was a very bright and positive person. By looking at his way of speaking and his pictures, I could feel the passion and happiness that Pausch had even though I was not watching the lecture directly. Since I could know that he was a very positive person, I could feel his energy that is full of passion. I almost forgot the fact that he is going to die soon because of a cancer because he was so energetic.

Lastly, his lecture made me to reflect on myself. He was trying everything and tried to do and experience as many things as possible even though he knew that he did not have much time to live. However, I am not that passionate in my life like Randy Pausch and I am not that energetic like Pausch. I suddenly felt guilty and started to reflect on myself. Especially, when I read : “Luck is what happened when preparation meets opportunity.” I asked myself if I were just waiting for luck and do nothing. I felt guilty again. I could know that Randy Pausch was a person who never stops till the end and this made me to reflect on myself.

By reading this book, I learned lots of thing and I felt lots of thing. Pausch has many thoughts that I should follow. Even though he is not on earth any more, I am so sure that his children will be proud of their father as they watch the lecture, or this book. He was the most passionate, energetic person that I have ever seen. I love this book and it was the most touching book ever.

HAITI SPEECH
Partners In Health, which is abbreviated by PIH, is an organization that has long history of distributing aids to Haiti.

Mr. Nordmeyer must donate 700RMB to PIH because they provide free health care and education for the poor and address the basic social and economic needs.

Also, service is a trademark of PIH. As they start this organization, PIH has been serving their patients and their communities.

This is said by a man called Denizard Wilson, who is an AIDS patients and motorcycle messenger for PIH in Haiti. “I want to ask all the people and organizations that are supporting Partners In Health to keep helping them so that they can give more people a chance at life, like me”

Lastly, we can see that PIH is a trustable organization because PIH is supported by many other organizations such as PROGRAM IN INFECTIOUS DISEASE AND SOCIAL CHANGE and DIVISION OF GLOBER HEALTH EQUITY.

As you can see, Partners In Health is the best organization, which helps Haiti a lot. Mr. Nordmeyer! Partners In Health is waiting for your 700RMB!

Reflection for Q2 Goals
READING - I did read books but I did not read books regularly and I did not read books as much as I expected.

LISTENING - I always listened to English music and I checked some vocabulary of the lyrics of the songs which I was not sure every weekend.

WRITING - I did learned lots of vocabularies but I did not have enough time to write book reviews

SPEAKING - I sometimes used English with my friends even though the friends are Korean but not always.

Q2 GOAL
Because I do not read books usually, I will try to read book. I'm going to choose time to read book. ex)twice a week(during weekend)
 * READING - I want to work on my reading speed. (I have to read faster!)**

I will listen to English music so that I can improve listening skill. I will listen to English song and try to understand the meaning and to listen to every single words of the song.
 * LISTENING - I want to improve my listening skill of listening to fast speaking people.**

I can try to write book review after I finish a book. I will write a book review that of a book that I read to improve my reading skill. It will be a good chance to look back on what I read and to improve my writing skill.
 * WRITING - I want to improve my writing skill by learning lots of new vocabulary words.**

I will try to use English with my friends even though the friends are Korean to improve my speaking skill.
 * SPEAKING - I want to improve my pronunciation**

Descriptive Writing - Nightmare at the Beach

 * Key** : simple compound complex

 Even though it happened when I was 4 years old, I still cannot forget this day when the tremendous accident happened.

 It was one steaming summer day ; heat haze was coming out of fevered cement road and the Sun was attacking my dad ’ s car with burning heat. My family and another family of my father ’ s friend went to a beach on a holiday. Although I cannot remember which beach it was, I can very clearly remember the disaster happened to me.

 As soon as we get there, we ran to the beach. There was beautiful shining white sand like glass and gorgeous pure aquamarine sea. I could not tell the border between the sea and the sky because the sky and the sea were both azure. At that time, I could not predict that the calm blue sea would hurt me so much.

I was playing with my friends and family on immaculately white sand. We built big castle, run around playing tag and hide-and-seek. Just playing on sand was not enough for us. It was very fun but it was too hot so we wanted something that can cool down our swelter.

Therefore, we decided to get into the beach. That was the biggest mistake that I ever made ……  My father and I went first. I could feel the water refrigerating all the hotness in my burning body. Others started to get into water after we got in. I was on a tube and my father was holding me, swinging my tube to make me to have fun. We got into deeper water but I did not mind a lot because I trusted my father. I was having extreme fun and I thought it would last forever.

I could not even imagine a great misfortune falling on me.

Sure enough, the wind started to become stronger and the wave started to become bigger. The wave might not seem huge for adults but it was ultra large wave for me. I started to cry and my father was embarrassed and he tried to calm me down and tried to get me out of the water. AT THAT MOMENT! A huge wave ran toward me to swallow me. My father suddenly slipped his hand from my tube and the wave took me to deeper water. I was so afraid so that I cannot even shout. I could not see my dad and I was in panic. My feet were not touching the ground and I felt I might drown.

All of sudden, the tube went upside down because of another big wave. I did not know how to swim and all I could do was struggling and wriggling to be free from the monster like water. I could not breathe. I tried to catch the tube but the tube was too slippery to hold and soon, I could not even find the tube. The tube that always kept me safe was refusing me to hold him and disappeared. I really needed someone to help. I could not get out of that water by myself. I was too young, too small, and too weak to get out of the water by myself. Moreover, I could not see anything because the wave woke up all the sand and dirt sleeping under the sea and all the surprised sand and dirt were flying around in the water. They made the hell even scarier. Everything looked unclear and translucent. I thought I was looking at everything through dusty window in front of my eyes. I jumped by using all the energy that I have to get out of the water to breathe but it did not work.

Finally! I could feel something very warm and soft thing holding my waist. Yes, it was my dad ! I could finally breathe and I could feel the cool breeze patting me to calm me down. I started crying non-stop and my dad quickly took me out of the water. I went under the shade and had a rest. I was too exhausted and I did not do anything on that day after the disaster.

Because of that accident, I am still afraid of deep water. I become panic if my feet cannot touch the ground in the water. I am scared of everything that is related to water. Of course, I love going to beach but I never go into the deep water. The vivid memory never disappears in my brain even though it happened when I was very young.

I think it would be hard to forget this disaster forever and ever and ever …

China Alive "Greatest Hits"
1. I went to Lijiang Tradition Trip. For those five days, I could know that I was a very lucky person. I felt sorry for the orphans when I went to Orphanage to help the orphans. They said that they are living in orphanage because they do not have parents or their parents do not want them. The little kids looked happy when we went there but I felt so sorry for them because they did not have parents to rely on and to be with. I also heard that they are waking up at 5 : 00 am and to go to school and coming back on 5 :00 pm. The most sad thing is there would be no parents waiting for the children after they come back to orphanage. The cute children's smiling face made me very sad.

2.a) This is the picture that I took in cable car. I chose this picture because I wanted to show people that the cable car went up really high. Everything is vague because we were in the clouds... And I am scared of height. It was such a horrible experience...

b) This is a picture of dried worm... People said that these worms are used for making medicine. It was so gross...! I could not believe that it is possible to eat worm. I chose this picture to show people that lots of things can be used for medicine ...

c) This is pictography that is written by a Naxi person. It looked quite beautiful because the words are written in a symbol or a picture. I chose this picture because I wanted to show written language that is quite different with the way that we use to write.

d) This is a picture that I took in a park. The scenery of the park was so beautiful and the lake was so clear. As you can see in the picture, we can see through water. I chose this picture because I want to show the beautiful scenery of Lijiang.

e) This is traditional dance of Dongba culture. The song and the dance was quite unique. Actually, everything was quite different with just traditional Chinese song and dancing.

f) This is taken in a orphanage that we went. The orphans did very cute performances. They danced and sang. Actually, they danced really well. I chose this picture to show people the orphans who we met.

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