Joo's+Journal

(From now on I'm writing the recent ones up here)

1/28/10 **mince (one's) words** to soften the effect of one's words.

**miss the boat** to be too late to get something that you want

Dear Tom,

You really don't need to know my name. Tom, what do you think of the girls in our math class? Do you think they're all pretty? If you want to lets meet at the high school gym after school, you don't need to come but just in case. When we meet tell me what you think about me don't mince your words when saying that I because I want to know the truth. Its kind of missing the boat but I've prepared you a chocolate. Come I'll be waiting

From Secret Admirer

1/26/10 **wild-goose chase** a worthless hunt or chase; a futile pursuit.

**with flying colors** with great success

Dear Joo,

Hey what's up Joo its me Ron. Its been so long since we met when we were kids at elementary school. I even sent an email to you in 15 years. Anyways since we are adults now I want to ask you some questions. Well first I'll tell you what I have been doing. Just 2 hours ago I passed the test with flying colors and got a driving license. Hey this is the best part yesterday I was going to make a contact with the police department and ask for a job but I think they were on a wild-goose chase to chase the criminal because they didn't pick up the phone. Well this is what I have been doing lately so make sure you send me a reply full of things that you've been doing lately.

Sincerely, Ron

1/19/10 **Rome wasn't built in a day.** something that you say which means that it takes a long time to do an important job

When I said to my mom that I could finish these project before monday she told me that Rome wasn't built in a day.

**square peg in a round hole** //Fig.// someone who is uncomfortable or who does not belong in a particular situation

When I never had a single experience of survival game I was square peg in a round hole when I was in a survival game holding a AK-47 machine gun.

1/12/10

I was a nice person who availed anyone who needed help. On a hot warm day when I was helping a old man that I knew, I saw someone who ceased us. I was scared to the bones because he had so many minions behind anyone could tell that he was a strong epic knight. When he said to release that old man I had to follow his orders even though I was a bit worried about him. When I handed him to his minions they started to hit the old man like cat hitting a mouse. After the beating the old man who barely stand up and he had so many welts on his body. The injury and the welts hurt the old man so much so he had to lay down in the dirt transfixed not moving his body. After I took got him on my back and took him home his kin were waiting for him worried. After I saw that the old man was resting in a bed which was covered with parchment thats when I was relieved.

1/6/10

go out on a limb
if you go out on a limb, you state an opinion or you do something which is very different to most other people

I drank 3 bottle of soju which was out one on a limb compared to the others around my age. ** out of the woods **to emerge from a dangerous situation

I got out of the woods when I swam to the island before the sharks could get me.

12/11/09

**on the double** very fast; twice as fast as normal **jump the gun**  to start before the starting signal I have lots of things planned out for my winter break. I'm going to jump the gun and run to my cousin's house on the double and we'll play lots of games together. We'll not only play games we'll go skiing and snowboarding together. 12/9/09

**In hot water**  in a difficult situation in which you are likely to be punished

**If the shoe fits wear it**

if the statement applies to you, admit it or do something about it 

==I was a strange bear who could hear what humans were saying. Even though I couldn't speak human languages but I had no problem just being able to hear. At night I was so hungry so I trudged along the campsite looking for food. After a few minutes I was about to die of hunger until I discovered a huge trash can with lots of trash in it. I ran back to the forest after eating the trash but I was in hot water when I get discovered because I have changed the campsite to a smelly place. The next day I was hungry again and slowly trudged along the forest to the campsite to find some trash but I heard 2 park rangers swearing and saying that bear should die to each other. If the shoe fits wear it was how I felt like i had no opposing with that because it was true. I ran back to the forest with tears in my eyes.==  12/7/09 =Loose Cannon=

A person whose actions are unpredictable and uncontrollable

=Tickled Pink=

When you are very pleased about something

While I was coming up to the school from the B3 floor I was shocked because my friend Michael had suddenly touched my shoulders and said hi and when he laughed because I was surprised and when he was laughing my face was turning red. After a few minutes Michael came by and said sorry which I had feeling of Tickled Pink.

12/2/09 Get your goat-Someone or something that is really annoying you.

Get up on the wrong side of bed-to begin the day feeling unhappy and uncomfortable.  I usually get up on the wrong side of bed each day because I can only have few hours of sleep because of all the homeworks that I have to do each night. But there are my friends who can make me relax and have a fun time in school but there is this one kid who really annoys me and it'll get your goat too if you even talk with him. The kids name is Tom and I hate him.

11/12/09 Teenagers in the Medieval times were different than the teenagers wee see today. They had to work everyday instead of going to school. They also had no school and since there was no school or anything related to educational things the teens and no goals. They had no goals because they couldn't learn anything and only thing they knew was to work

11/11/09

Summary Crispin Chapter 1 by Joo

In chapter 1 of Crispin the boy was a little confused because his mother was dead. It would be soo sad to even know that your mom is dying but this boy is actually wrapping her dead body with a shroud and actually digging his mother's grave. He also had to watch his mother getting buried and hear the prayers of the priest slowly with tears in his eyes. After a few moments he couldn't take it anymore so he ran to the gloomy forest where nobody can find him.

10/26/09 If I was pushed towards a goal that I did not choose, I wouldn't be satisfied. What is the point of living here on earth if your going to waste time doing something forcefully that you don't want to do. You can only live once and it has its limits. If I keep living doing something forcefully that I don't want to do I'll be never satisfied because I'm doing something that I don't like and because I keep worrying that I might do this unwanted subject forever.

10/19/09 She is very tall and she loves to weave. She uses the same kind of magic that the daughter of the titan uses. She is a evil sorcerer pretending to be kind. She lives all alone in an island full of animals. She was also forced to promise an oath saying that she can't hurt the king of Ithaca and his crew. Before the king of Ithaca even went to the castle he got a advice from the messenger god and got a flower. As long as the king of Ithaca kept grabbing on the flower he was safe from the sorcerer's spell.

10/6/09 Well, in Chuseok I got over 20 thousand won so I'll represent this as my snapshot. In Chuseok when I went to my dad's mothers' house grandma gave me what is called (용돈) which means money I get in Chuseok. As the time passed more and more people gave me money so I put them in the bank. Right now I'm saving up money to buy a new laptop.

9/25/09 There is few things that are special to me in Chuseok one the few things special to me in Chuseok is family. My cousin originally lives in il-san which is really far away from here but when it comes to Chuseok my cousin comes to my house and we have fun time playing computer games together. Second reason for why I like Chuseok is because I like it when all the family members come together and eat and have fun time. Third reason for why I like Chuseok is because I get to eat song pyeon.

9/24/09 This means to me that all KIS students should have their own laptop. But I don't agree with this statement because well, students who can properly use the computer while class time including not playing games, not fooling around with your computer when you're suppose to be studying.

9/22/09 Why I like Fantasy related stuff ====I always liked anything that was related to fantasy including games, art, characters, manga, books and all sorts of other things. I like fantasy because of only one thing and that is because I like it. There is no particular reasons for why I like fantasy related stuff. Well there is one thing I like fantasy because, I like it but also I want to be in the word of fantasy that’s why I like the “Lord of the Rings” movie it was just the movie that fitted me. It was just the movie that showed what I wanted, traveling around the world fighting monsters riding horses. But that time has been put away but I’m not even sure that kind of time existed before. Now days people are just in the same old place working eating cooked food living in a house built by builders traveling to other places by planes or cars which pollutes the environment. I don’t really enjoy that but thats only my opinion I believe there is 0.000000000000000.............1 percent of this world is going to change to that time again after what humans have discovered which is oil,technology etc. humans will never try to lose what they have discovered. But I want to change earth to a place where you can get a horse or whatever or just walk around the place buying weapons killing monsters discovering new places. If people give up what they have discovered and agree with me and change the world that’ll be my best day ever!====

9/15/09 Something that has been annoying to me lately is after school policy. It is annoying because after school we played games and one of my friends had been caught. I didn't understand why he got caught I mean, it was after school which means were no longer in school but the teacher still managed to track us down. I don't like this. I mean we finished our day by working hard so he just get a reward of some game time after school not even in school. I think that teachers should track students down when their still in school.

9/09/09 One thing that I would've changed about yesterday would be to change blocks. Yesterday was GABC which was (social studies,band,korean,math) from the first thing in the morning I was late and I didn't want to be more late but I had to be more late because I first block was G block which was on the 4th floor. It takes me a long time to get to the 4th floor but if i did change the blocks i would change from GABC to ACBG. ACBG is much better because then my first block would be on the B1 floor which takes about 3 minutes for me to rich there.

8/20/09 Today after school I felt like crying because I felt hungry and tired after school. My mom told me to wait at the parking lot until she came to pick me up. When she came she told me that I had to go to my guitar academy right away as soon as I heard that I was horrified. After the guitar lesson I slept in the car when I came home my bad luck didn't end there I had loads of homework to do. After I did everything it was about 2 at midnight.

8/26/09 I always dreamed of having some kind of super power but if that came true and I had a super power that'll be my best day ever. If I had a choice of super powers that I can have that'll be to jump really high. If I jump really high I could go to other planets whenever I want to go. Maybe I could go in lunch time. Of course just being able to jump high won't let me travel around the universe because there is no oxygen there. So I'll combine powers with other kids who have super powers and travel around the space!

8/31/09 I would admire Columbus because without him long time ago there would be a lot of people dying because, if he didn't find the sea routes lots of people would get lost in the sea and die of hunger. I want to be like him when I grow up traveling around the world solving mysteries helping people. It'll be fun!

9/2/09 If I could change one thing in middle school it would be to put more people on duty after lunch time. I want more people on duty because even if the students knows all the rules that KIS gave to them on how they should behave while they're in school, they don't necessarily follow the rules. So the students keep doing it because there is no one to stop them doing something bad they'll keep doing it over and over again but if there was more people on duty the students can't act bad because their always being watched.

9/4/09 If I could visit any place in earth I would go under water. I want to go underwater because I've been always been fascinated with under water mysterious that scientists couldn't figure because they couldn't go deep enough because of the pressure or there isn't enough technology. Of course in order to go where I want to go I'll need super gears that is strong so it protects me from the pressure and I could breathe underwater. If I could really find the mysteries that hides underwater I would be the most famous person that has ever lived!

9/7/09 Today was a busy day. Every monday is the worst day of the week. Today which was monday was very tired, I was tired because I had to wake up early, go to school and the worst part was that my first class was C-Block which was on the 3rd floor so I had to walk up all the way to the 3rd floor from the start of the day it was horrible. When I entered my C-Block class I wasn't late but there was a quiz so I had to do the quiz while half asleep.