ELL Trip to Chattanooga

Aquarium in Chattanooga

- Picture of Hae In 

Leticia

Me 

Leticia and Me 

Me and Leticia 

  We rode a Chattanooga Ducks!

Ms.B! 

Amber Leticia Hae In
Me
at Ben & Jerry's 

April 17, 2015, Last Friday, I went to ELL trip to Chattanooga! I didn't know this trip would be this fun! I have been studying in ELL for two years now, and I'll be done with it next year. So, it was not only the first field trip of the year but the last ELL trip for me. We went to Nashville last year, and I remember it was fun too. However, it was a lot more fun this year. We went to Chattanooga as I said before, and it was the first time I've been there. It was so pretty and clean as I had heard before. In my opinion, it kind of looks like Chicago downtown (I love Chicago downtown). I rode Ms.B's car with Alex and Leticia, and we all fell asleep because we left at 7:30am. After I got there, I was pretty excited because I didn't expect there to be that pretty, but it was actually really pretty. We went to aquarium, and it was big and clean. After we toured aquarium, we had free time for lunch. So, I went to Genghis grill with Haein and Leticia. It was delicious as usual. Then we all met in front of Genghis grill at 1:15pm, and headed to ride a boat. I had never rode a duck and didn't know what it looks like. Ducks are the boat that can be driven on the road and can just jump into the water and float. Everyone was so excited when the boat was going into the water. I was really excited too. After that, we went to Ben & Jerry's, Ice cream shop, and it tasted so good. After our schedules were done, we came back to school. It was a great opportunity to experience the city I had never been to. I really enjoyed it.

My weekend

Last Friday, I was supposed to have a softball game after school, but it got cancelled because of rain. So, after I got a message from coach, I just went to bed right after school. I remember that I set up alarm at 5:30 to go to dinner, but I didn't wake up. I don't know how, but after I woke up, it was 10:00 p.m. Therefore, I missed dinner. I was really hungry, so I made noodle and ate it. I stayed up until 4:00 a.m. and watched Korean TV shows. After Friday, so, Last Saturday, I woke up at 8:00 a.m. to Skype my boyfriend. After that, I went to dining hall to do breakfast check-in. Then, I just went to bed again because I only got 4 hours of sleep. After dinner, I watched more of Korean TV shows and went to Haein's room. We talked and ate some snacks. I slept in her room, and it was so comfortable. We had a good sleep and went to breakfast together. At 2:00 p.m. Haein and I went to Walmart and came back. It was not an ordinary weekend to me even though it seems like it was because I usually just stay in my room and don't go anywhere during weekend. 

My Special Bunny

Today, a baby bunny has appeared in a hat on my doorstep. I soon discovered that it has one special, magical ability. I've talked to her and got some informations. A bunny's name is Laura and she is from the land called, "A Magic world". Her age is same with us:17. She says her land is the underground space of the earth. She has two special ability that could help me in daily life. Her first ability is that she could make me as an invisible man. I haven't asked her to make me invisible yet but I am so excited to see what is going to happen. Even though, there are no special things to do in invisible man because I don't want to give any damage to people. Her second ability is that she can memorize anything that she has seen or has heard. This is awesome. I've made a deal with her that every single time she helps me with my quizzes or tests, I will give her carrots. Isn't it a great deal? She says she will make herself invisible and go to class with me. Then, she will listen to all the classes and will help me. She says the reason why she came to human's world is because of her parents. She says they are so strict and unadaptable. She wants to be a magician but her parents force her to study and get a job like a doctor, teacher, and professor. She says she thinks it's awful that modern teenagers lose their dream and just care about college. So, she will help me with studying; consequently, I can more focus on stuffs such as piano and softball. 
My special bunny Laura will be my life saviour. 

New Rule

About two or three weeks ago, we had speaking practice in ELL class. The topic was "If you can change or make rule for your society, what rule would you change?" Everyone was thinking it only as  class-speaking practice, but I wasn't. I had been thinking about this idea since like a month ago. I don't remember when it was exactly, but someone was talking about negative effects and little bit of unfairness of our rule of punishment. I think our rule about demerit is double dipping because we get demerit and also have to do work-crew. I mean, I know we need punishment, but if we need a punishment, I think it has to be either get demerit, or doing work crew, not both. So, the rule I suggested was this: If person gets demerit, that person should get two choices. First choice is get proper amount of demerit depends of what that person does and keeps that demerit. If the person chooses this choice, he (or she) can't efface his demerit if he has already made his decision. However, he won't have work-crew. But other punishment (such as room promise, campus promise) will still happen to him if its needed, and that is going to be depends on what problem he has done. Second choice is do at least eight hours of work-crew for each on demerit, and get rid of demerit. So if the person who got 4 demerits chooses this option, that person will have to do 32 hours of work crew to get rid of it. Or keep six hours of work crew but makes it harder. After that person is done with work-crew, the person will be free. I think both choices has advantages and disadvantages, and it is going to be really hard to change the rule that has been for a long time in school, but I think if we need it, we have to change it. I've seen a lot of people complaning about it and also work-crew dosen't really "work".. It will really depends on consequence but I think it's an ok idea to make people to make less problem. I have more detail ideas about it but don't want to make this blog boring. So, thank you for reading it! 

Are you a conformist?

Do we tend to accept the opinions of others instead of developing our own independent ideas?

It is really depends on different situation, but mostly, people tend to accept the opinions of others instead of developing their own independent ideas. People who follow this silent rule in our society, called conformists. People who do not, called non-conformists. Even though every single person has their own individuality, people often keep their own thoughts or ideas in their minds to make their life easier. Most people chose to be conformists to get along in the world. In my opinion, people are taught to be conformists naturally. Since people are young, they go to school and learn how to associate in school. Furthermore, in communities, people learn as they live that following other people's opinion is better in not making mistakes, and also, in looking more naturally. But of course, we have non-conformists in the world. Obviously, they are opposite to conformists. They do not follow others' opinions or idea but their own. Those kind of people usually have more original ideas and unique personalities than conformists. However, all conformists and non-conformists create our society together; consequently, nothing can be defined as right or wrong unless it's unethical. 

Comparing

For today's blog, I couldn't think about any good idea at first. I had to think about it for more than ten minutes, and then, I came up with this idea. I want to compare my freshman year to my sophomore year even though my sophomore hasn't finished yet. So, how was my freshman year? I think it was pretty fun. It was my first year at Webb and in America; There were a lot of changes for me. I met lots of new friends and new teachers. I also learned a new style of studying. I took ELL 2, Chemistry, Honors Geometry, Piano, and ELL World History last year. ELL 2 included two parts of different studies: literature and grammar. We read books and we learned different types of grammar. It was really fun, and I really liked my class because my classmates were so fun and nice. Chemistry was hard at first semester because many words were unfamiliar to me, and it was hard to understand. But after I got used to it, it was much easier. Honors Geometry was definitely my favorite class, and my teacher was so enthusiastic and professional. Even though we had a lot of homework, it was really helpful in improving my ability. ELL World History was easy and simple. Other parts of my last year were pretty good, too. There were more Korean students in school compared to now, so it was fun. This year, I also met not as many people but made some more new friends. My roommate and I got closer even though we were close last year. She is definitely my best friend in this school. I'm taking ELL 3, English 2, Honors Algebra 2, Honors Physics, World History 2, Speech, Ethics, and Piano. All I can say is, everything is way harder than last year, and so is my life. It's so hard to keep it up with all classes, but I have to. I thought sophomore year would be easy, but that was a misunderstanding. I feel pretty afraid about next year (junior year) because it's going to be even harder. I know there is no way to avoid it, so just I'm going to work harder.

So, my conclusion is: freshman year was better, honestly. 

My New Year's Resolutions

"Every end is just a new beginning. Keep your spirits and determination unshaken and you shall always walk the glory road. With courage, faith and efforts you shall conquer everything you desire. I wish you a very happy new year"!

Like everyone, I always make New Year resolutions in the beginning of the year. I have three resolutions this year.
 First, losing weight: I know.. I've been trying to achieve success on this resolution since I was in elementary school, but I have never reached it. But it's going to be different this time. I'm going to make it this year. I'm going to try to stop eating fast food, and I'm not going to eat any foods or have any drinks after 6 p.m, except water.
 Second, finish reading the Bible: I have been christian since I was born and I have never finished reading the Bible. Therefore, I'm going to try hard to finish it. I will make a specific plan and follow it.
Third, finish SAT: Actually, I have to finish it. I can't say I want to finish the SAT this year because the SAT is going to be different after next Jan. or March. So, I must finish it unless I want to study the whole new thing in the second semester of my junior year. When I go back to Korea in this summer, I'm going to put all of my effort into studying for the SAT(or ACT). My goal is get a higher score than 2100. I know it's going to be really hard for me but I'll try hard to make it.
 These are my New Year resolutions and I hope I will be able to say, "I have done everything that I wanted to do this year."