Joonyon's+Journals


 * February 19th, 2010- Success In My Life**


 * Success is an accomplishment of an aim or purpose. From that meaning, success can be alternated with the point of perspective you have. If you are dreaming of something extremely difficult, accomplishing something little won't be a success. On the other hand, a person with the goal of something small would be successful with that person accomplished that goal. For me, the expectations from me are low, when the expectations around me are high. I would define success as reaching my own goal, nothing to do about my atmosphere. Success, is basically when you reach your own goals. **

ONCE IN A BLUE MOON- very rare ON TOP OF THE WORLD- everything is going well; Summary= I was in Koh Samui for the whole break. Koh Samui is located near Thailand, ranked as one of the most beautiful islands. I cam back at Wednesday night, which happens once in a blue moon because I never actually had a vacation until the day for school. However in Koh Samui, it was like on top of the world, feeling the cool sea wind and hot weather. I would never forget this break of my life.
 * February 19th, 2010- Idioms**

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 * February 12th, 2010- DOL**

February 11th, 2010- Idioms DIME A DOZEN- easy to get; Nowadays, computers are a dime a dozen because it's cheaper than before. DON'T COUNT YOUR CHICKENS BEFORE THEY HATCH- don't think you have something that's yours yet; When the boy was telling everyone that he got a PS3, his mom told him to not count his chickens before they hatch.

January 26th, 2010- Idiom Letter NO SKIN OFF YOUR NOSE- something that you say which means you do not care about something because it will not affect you NO DICE- not possible Dear Joonyon, Hi. That’s the only, and simple word I’m going to say for this whole letter. However, it’s a no dice because I already wrote 24 words, excluding the “24 words”. I have no idea HOW, WHEN, or WHERE you’ll read this, but it’s no skin of my nose. I don’t care if you can’t understand these idioms that I’m even confused of, because this is just a random letter to the future me. Bye, and I will soon become you. I’ll be you, and you were me. Confusing, right? From, Joonyon

GO BANANAS- to go crazy; When the girls saw the extremely famous actor, the went bananas. GO AGAINST THE GRAIN- to do something unusual; He failed the test because he went against the grain when he was studying.
 * January 19th, 2010- Define Idioms**

ROME WAS NOT BUILT IN A DAY- many things require time and patience; On the exam day, Joon wanted to get an "A" when he completely forgot to study. Then Mr. Schwalger told him that Rome was not built in a day. ROUND PEG IN A SQUARE HOLE- when someone doesn't fit in well; When I went to an ancient museum, I was a round peg in a square hole because I was the only teenager there.
 * January 14th, 2010- Define Idioms**

SHOOT FROM THE HIP- to speak directly and frankly; The one unfavorable characteristic about that kid was that he //always// shoots from the hip. SHOT IN THE DARK- a very general attempt; When I unfortunately had to choose between the three boxes, I just went for a shot in the dark.
 * January 12th, 2010-** **Define Idioms**

ON THE DOUBLE- very fast JUMP THE GUN- to start before the starting signal Journal Entry= I am buying a horse this winter break. The horse is unfortunately attending the national horse race next weak. His name will be Jo, and he will probably suffer due to my extreme training. All I trained him to do for the race was to jump the gun, and then run on the double. That's all Jo will do, and that's all how he will win the race.
 * December 11th, 2009-** **Define Idioms**

IN HOT WATER- in trouble IN ONE EAR AND OUT THE OTHER- heard but not remembered Journal Entry= After I got caught trying to kidnap my teacher, I was in hot water. I tried to escape, but there was no way in front of Mr. Schneider. When Mr. Schneider yelled and told me to never do it again, it went in one ear and out the other. Next time, I kidnapped my teacher again, so I got expelled. Sad T.T;;
 * December 9th, 2009-** **Define Idioms**

IN TWO SHAKES OF A LAMB'S TAIL- a short length of time MAKE A MOUNTAIN OUT OF A MOLEHILL- to exaggerate the importance of something Journal Entry= I woke up in two shakes of a lamb's tail, due to the lateness of the time. I hurriedly dressed up and rode my bicycle to the school. In school, people asked me why I was so late, and I made a mountain of a molehill about how much I woke up late.
 * December 4th, 2009-** **Define Idioms**

GET YOUR GOAT- to make you annoyed or angry; How could you clean the whole house in one hour, it's going to get your goat. GET UP ON THE WRONG SIDE OF BED-** to feel grouchy particular day; I don't want to work to day, because I got up on the wrong side of bed today.
 * December 1st, 2009-** **Define Idioms**

November 13th, 2009-** Teenagers in Medieval Times... Teenagers in medieval times were quite different form teenagers these days. In those days, the teenagers were living to survive. Some even worked for earning money, and most of them played their times. I am a teenager boy in the medieval times, and I'm in a poor family. I work everyday in my house to earn money, not going to school. Personally I want to learn, but our family just can't afford the environment. My sister helps my mom farm and cook. I am planned to be a servant for the rich family next week.


 * October 19th, 2009-** Choose one of the characters from Ulysses. Create a journal entry from their POV.

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I met my true father, coming to Ithaca in a form of a beggar. I was amazingly shocked, with actually looking at my real father's face. I couldn't believe my eyes. I welcomed him, but we had disguised my father, Ulysses, into a beggar. There were suitors trying to marry Penelope, Ulysses's true wife. Then Ulysses and I had a magnificent plan to meet Penelope and win. However, I will stop here, since I would be giving to much clues.======

**October 6th, 2009-** Besides Ulysses, what book are you reading now? What is it about? What are your feelings about it?
For me, I just started reading a book called "The Egypt Game". This is a fantasy book, including characters from Ancient Egypt. This is a story about a girl, who lived Hollywood and came to an old village. The young girl isn't used to the atmosphere, where everyone is old-fashioned and everything is strange. However, she meets a girl living next door, an African-American. They start playing with paper dolls and get to know each other. Through some conflicts, they get over with it and survive, starting the Egypt Game. That's what happened until the part I read.

**October 5th, 2009-** Think of a 'snapshot' of something you did over the break. Write a paragraph using third person point of view.
This was a true snapshot of his break, at about 12:03 A.M. This was the time when this boy was sleeping on his white bed. He was sleeping well and quietly, being ready for his next day of his Chusok break. To describe his character, it would be just like a sleeping baby, who was full of chocolate cakes inside his stomach. He was twitching a bit here and there, but he was calm and was in his dreamland. Perhaps he was also dreaming of chocolate cakes in his dream because he was obsessed with chocolate cakes. In conclusion, the quiet, calm, eyes-closed boy was sleeping well on his white bed. When he woke up, he would be served as chocolate cakes for breakfast. Happy Chusok break (sleep well when you can)! Bye.

**September 24th, 2009-** KIS is a 1:1 school. What does this mean to you? What are some pros and cons about this?
KIS uses the 1:1 program so that each one of us has a Macbook, and is learning from the teacher with a smaller ratio of teachers to students. I personally think that this is useful for learning, because students are corrected by teachers more detailed and specific way. For example if there is one teacher and 100 students, the teacher can't actually teach all of them, causing problems. Some of the pros would be that you could learn more detailed and effectively from the teachers and by using your Macbook. On the other hand, the cons would be that some students would not focus on the subject and just play with their Macbooks. In conclusion, it's a great way to learn knowledge.

**September 22nd, 2009-** Make up your own prompt. (What subject do you like the most?)
I personally like English (one of the reason is because an English teacher is reading this). For a several reasons, you get to keep up with your writing skills and train them. You can also have peace by reading or speaking. Also, I think that we need to use the English language a lot, meaning that we have to learn it. I actually think that this subject is fun and easy. The schedule is not that strict, and the level of the readings are just right for me. In conclusion, English is my favorite subject and I'm training my writing skills. Bye.

**September 17th, 2009** - Pretend you are Ulysses writing a letter to Penelope, your wife.
Dear Penelope, I am in pain to see the land of Ithaca and my family (especially you). I've went through many adventures, including Cyclopes and scary gods. Every moment time goes by, I miss you and my family. Most of my men died of sacrifice, giving me courage to survive this horrible adventure. My lucks have been bad, and I think I have a worse future coming. I'm scared inside, but I'm trying my best to show bravery. I seriously want to go back, with booties in my arms. I hope if we would all meet together one day. Sincerely, Ulysses

**September 15, 2009** - Write about something that has really been annoying you lately. If your life is perfect, make something up.
Okay. First, I would say that nothing really was annoying me lately. It was just normal, studying, eating, and sleeping. Pretty simple, but quite complicated, if you think about the problems all along the day. I personally think that if something annoys you, you should just avoid getting into it, and find a solution. For me, nothing is really annoying me, but somethings such as my mom screaming at me and my sister annoying me was annoying lately. Overall, I have a simple life, trying to prevent things that annoy me. I appreciate my happy life. Bye.

**September 9th, 2009**
If I could change something about yesterday, what would it have been and why? Yesterday? Well, nothing much happened yesterday. If I could change anything from yesterday, it would be waking up much later. Yesterday, I barely woke up in the morning because I only slept 6 hours yesterday. When I thought about getting a tardy for school, I just woke up. Even though it was painful, my mom forced me. That's what I would want to change about yesterday, sleeping a bit more. Maybe about 8 hours. Bye.

How is my day going? I started off with waking up quite early today. Same days, same systems. Everyday is the same- wake up, school, rest, lessons, dinner, homework, and swimming. Going around and around. This is the morning right now, and I didn't do much of anything, it's just 8:07 A.M. this moment. Usually during the weekends I wake up at 10:00 A.M. Well since it's the morning, I don't have anything to write, except for that I'm sleepy right now. Bye
 * September 8th, 2009**

How has my day been going? Well, I woke up fairly early today, at 5:00 A.M. because the alarm clock was set on the wrong time. So I decided to sleep back, and when I woke up by the call of my mom, it was 6:50, obvious missing the school bus. However, I didn't give up the hope and I ran across the house getting ready in about 5 minutes (shower, an egg fry, brush teeth, dress). Fortunately, I survived and rode the bus, now here at school. Now finishing the story of the tiring morning, I began my E Block with P.E. After sweating and wasting my energy, I went to web design for F Block. This block was quite smooth, including the advisory time and the lunch period. Then now I'm here, in front of my laptop, writing this journal Mr. Schwagler told me to write. Sad to say, all this was just the beginning. After this block, I have orchestra, with all those different notes and black lines and strange words on a white sheet. I assume the following 4 hours won't be that difficult. There are 3 problems now for this day- trumpet lesson, homework, and swimming. First, I will have a trumpet lesson today at 6 o'clock, playing some crazy pieces. Second, there is the "Homework" section, where it takes about 2 hours, studying for the math test tomorrow and all the other assignments. Finally, swimming. Unlike any other people here reading this, I actually swim everyday, 3 hours each, from 8:00~11:00 P.M. The worse part is where you have to swim about 11,000 kilometers very fast. I think i have the middle record for 100M Freestyle, if not anyone disturbing. Well, that was a simple review of my busy school day.
 * August 24th, 2009**

Which super power do I wish I had? How would I use it to do good? If I happen to have the chance to choose a superpower that I wish to have, I would choose to be invisible. Wow, being invisible would be like the wish of everyone. I would even sell everything that I have to be invisible since if I'm invisible, I can just steal everything in the world by not showing myself. Also, I can play pranks and play awesome tricks such as poking a teacher when they can't see me. Well, I'll be able to solve any problem in my life, being invisible. I'll be able to do anything in the world, without getting caught in those CCTVs. Even though this might not actually happen, being invisible would surely be the best gift of my life^^.
 * August 26th, 2009**[[image:the-invisible-man.jpg width="126" height="96" align="right"]]

How can television (or video games) influence my behavior? It's absolutely normal to watch television or to play video games when you're just playing or resting. However, if you ask me how it influences our behaviors, I can quite answer that briefly. I have experienced this exact situation when I was a little older than 6. In those days, I used to love watching the television even when I'm sleeping, or eating. Through time, I realized that my eye sight has gone worse, but I also realized that I was slowly following the things that I watched from the screen of the television. If people in a comedy show spoke in an educated way, I talked like that to my friends and my family. After I got punished for saying bad things that I learned from the television, i stopped playing video games and watching television. So I basically think that what you watch on the screen will come true through your body expressions and language.
 * August 28th, 2009**

Which person, living or dead, do I admire the most? Why? Actually, I admire great, fast swimmers. Of course, the best of the world would be Michael Phelps. I admire Phelps the most because when he swims, I can see the pain he took when he practiced. For example, such a swimmer that didn't practice enough wouldn't be fast enough. That shows how much Phelps practiced swimming and tried. That is why admire Phelps's skills and swimming.
 * August 31th, 2009**

If I could change one thing about MS, what would it be and why? One thing that I would change would be changing the schedule of the whole middle school. For example, I don't like the system of going to another class in 5 minutes. Why not 10 minutes so we can actually go to the restroom or even rest? Also, I think we could take out the club time, so that we have more time eating, and we could have some time to calm down. Sometimes, I feel that the school starting time is too early, and the students have to wake up in midnights. Overall, we just don't have enough time to do our homework, projects, and after school lessons, and to sleep at least 7 hours. We you calculate my schedule for the day, there won't be any time to rest. Ahhh, I hope school closes because of H1N1...(just joking to the teachers).
 * September 2nd, 2009**

If I could visit any place on earth, where would I go? Why? Actually, I have a place that I want to live in when I get old. That place would be Austria. I've been there once, and I loved the nature and the musics. I like peaceful places, where I calm down and think. Even though I can simply go there by an airplane right now, I would just like Austria for its cultures and the atmosphere. A lot of famous composers lived there, and I would appreciate a simple house with my own things.
 * September 4th, 2009**