Jasmine+Lee's+Journal

warm-up: In the novel, Juan's life and his expectations of success change. In your journal, write a paragraph in which you define success in your own life. Explain why you define success as you do. Success is accomplishing something important to me. Success is evading problems and coming up with solutions if I happen to encounter one. Success is getting along with my friends and maintaining good relationships. Success is making sure others have a brighter day, even people I don't know. Success is finishing a book I have spent weeks reading. Success is smiling with satisfaction when I finish writing a short story. Success is getting an A on the test I studied endlessly for. Success is finishing a school year and looking back at old memories. over the next twenty days just before he lay back to sleep put me in mind
 * June 3rd**
 * February 9th**

Write a newspaper article on your locker. Underline at least five propositions.
 * February 3rd**

Today's headline: The most ingenious locker in the world!

Who would have known that a common everyday locker __at__ an everyday international school **in** an everyday school __with__ an everyday number (222) would have super powers alien to any other kind of cubby in the world? Well, that's what we have discovered in Korea International School. The locker's mystical powers have been at work for the last four years, but had never been noticed; They had always been blamed on the owner's so-called 'clumsiness'. However, this year, through many tests, it was observed that the locker had the abilities to change the password __at__ his own will, and open and shut as it'd like. Interestingly, it was the only one which did that out __of__ the thousands of lockers __in__ each of the many schools in Korea. It is still a mystery about how this is happening. Some theories proposed have to do with the locker being alive, a soul __within__ the gray, metal door. However, some scientists disagree strongly with this hypothesis. How could a potential "thing" be considered vital? The FBI is intending to visit the school today. Check back for newly acquired information we might get at this inspection. It will be updated soon. mince words- to soften the effect of one's words miss the boat- you are too late to take advantage of an opportunity
 * January 28th**

Dear , Although you might hate me, I like you. When you talk to me, will you please mince your words so I don't get so hurt when you say bad things to me. I know I missed the boat and didn't talk to you at all when you sat next to me in art class, but please give me that chance again.

rain check: another way to say that you would like to do it, but can't do it at the moment, and suggesting to do it another time. "As much as I would like to go bowling, I have a headache, so I'll take a rain check. Q.T.: secretly "The girl told me what grade she got on the science quiz in QT." out on a limb: in a disadvantaged position because of support out of the woods: out of danger January 4th, the day that was supposed to be our first day back from the winter break, was my birthday. However, it ended up being a pretty horrible birthday, thanks to all the snow. When we were on the road, I was kind of scared because we could've gotten hurt because of the many cars on the road. However, when we got to school, I knew I was out of the woods, but I had been in the bus for four hours. After that, I walked to Sunae Station and got lost on the way, so I had to walk for 2 hours in the snow, which really made me sad. When I got home, I kept mumbling about how this was the worst day of my life and didn't eat. My mom was very worried. She went out on a limb and told me that she'd buy me anything I wanted, like the iPhone that my dad wouldn't buy me (my mom is always saving money, but this time she offered to buy it herself). She even told me that I could have a birthday party tomorrow or on Friday, even after I said it was okay. However, I got over it soon enough, and all my friends made me feel welcome today. I got many presents, and overall, I guess it wasn't such a horrible birthday after all. 1.In two shakes of a lamb's tail- Very quickly 2.Make a mountain out of a molehill- Make a big deal about something small Two days ago, me and my drama class (four other people) had agreed to log on into iChat at 10:00 PM to discuss our project due the next day. I logged in at 9:55. In two shakes of a lamb's tail, Jane, Suji, Hyunsoo, and I succeeded in entering a video chat room. However, Mickey failed to Me and my peers called him repeatedly, only for him to say that his iChat was acting up, and he could not work properly. Suji, Jane, and I thought that that was okay- that we could talk to him through phone or MSN. However, Hyunsoo made a mountain out of a molehill. He went on and on about how he didn't WANT to log in into his MSN ID, how Mickey had the most important part in this project (which he didn't), how he DIDN'T want the script that Mickey had been writing for three hours- That he just wanted him to log in RIGHT NOW. We knew we couldn't even video chat with him, because the maximum people were in that chat room. However, Hyunsoo insisted that we just text chat with him once he came in iChat. We waited for an hour, complaining about how we didn't want to wait, calling Mickey every five minutes, and not getting any work done. Finally, he logged in, and sent the script to Hyunsoo. As soon as Hyunsoo saw it, he insisted that that was all; we were done. They all sent me their work, and I rewrote almost all of it and did some extreme editing on the script. I proceeded to sleep at 4:30 AM. 1. Get your goat- Make you annoyed or angry ex) My brother always manages to get my goat by stealing my things and hiding them away. 2. Get up on the wrong side of the bed- Have a bad day ex) I can't help yelling at everyone at least once on those days when I don't get any sleep or wake up on the wrong side of the bed. I have worked everyday of every week since my 5th birthday. I would sometimes make clothes and work out in the garden. However, now I'm a teenager. I still have to do all the old chores, but do them in larger amounts for longer times. Also, I have more jobs to do. Now, I am the ONLY one who tends the garden and sews clothes for everyone in the family to wear. Also, now, one of my jobs is to cook lunch and dinner. I don't go to school- I just work all the time. I am sorrowful because mother, my only parent and caretaker, took her last breath yesterday. After she died, Aycliffe told him he had to deliver his ox to the manor house as a death tax. If he didn't, he would starve, he was told. Father Quinel advised me to come to church, but I refused. I don't even feel better when the priest tells him it'll be alright, and that my mother is being cared for by Him. In fact, I run away, crying, feeling hopeless and lonely in the big world. Journal: Choose one of the characters from Ulysses. Create a journal entry from their POV. Students will guess who it is. I'm so excited! Who is this man who claims to have traveled with my husband? Tells these wonderful stories about how he showed that he still loves me? However, he must be dead, as my son said so. That is the sad part of the whole thing, but the memories... The memories of him playing with our son 20 years ago, the memories this old beggar has about him... I can just see him now. Back to the beggar. I think I've seen him somewhere... I can't exactly strike where or what, but I KNOW I've seen him before. I know his face like I know the back of my hand! Even if I'm imagining this, I know I trust him. I've basically given him most of the jewelry on me! Just... Who is he?
 * January 21st**
 * January 6th**
 * December 4th**
 * December 2nd**
 * November 12th**
 * November 11th**
 * October 19th:**

The scariest monster I can think of:
 * October 12th**

What is special for me at Chuseok? At Chuseok, my family will visit the misty Dobong-Dong Mountain. That is where all my distant relatives are buried, and we visit them every Chuseok to bow down and then tear out the bad weeds growing there. Under the light of the full moon, the women dance around. However, you don't want to go directly on the day of Chuseok. The traffic is unbelievable (I learned the hard way). I am 33 to sink my teeth into Songpyeon, a crescent-shaped rice cake filled with sesame seeds, red beans, chestnuts, jujube and other grains which is steamed upon pine needles and is prepared on the eve of Chuseok. Yum!
 * September 25th**

KIS is a 1:1 school. I enjoy this program for a few reasons. I also think that the 1:1 program is bad for a few reasons. First, you can use the e-book instead of heavy textbooks that you have to keep in your bag. You might leave some books at school, but with e-books, this won't be a problem. All you have to know is your ID and password. Also, the macbook is like all your binders put together. You don't have too many papers everywhere (like we had in 6th grade) and everything is organized. A problem that we could have with macbooks is forget the password for the e-books. THAT would be a problem. Another con is that some people could be distracted by iChat, MSN, Facebook, etc. If THAT happened, the student wouldn't be able to learn properly/effectively. Yesterday Yesterday, I thought it was a half-day. Because of this, I didn't eat my breakfast because I thought we would have lunch early. My stomach was grumbling the whole day. Another mistake I made was that I forgot to bring my macbook because I thought we wouldn't even have time to open our macbooks. For those reasons, I got in a lot of trouble with my teachers yesterday. From now on, I should make sure when we have half-days so that I don't make the same mistake again. Also, I should bring my macbook around whether or not we have a half-day. This is because I learned that, even if its a half-day, we use our macbooks... Like I am right now! THE LAND OF THE DEAD Christina and I trembled in our seats as we were going to school. We had been caught speaking Korean yesterday in English class, and our teacher had caught us. We were SURE we would be called to...The Land of the Dead. We said our prayers and talked about how much we loved our family, and how we would never see them again. We even cried! We would be dead before we saw our house, our parents, and even each other! We stared at the digital clock up at the front of the bus, begging the time to go slower. We didn't even talk because we thought the time would go quicker. //Our last moments with each other in silence,// we both thought, sadly. Journal: Something that's really been annoying me lately is a friend who I stopped being friends with a year ago. However, he used to be my best friend out of the boys. We both don't remember why we fought and who asked to break off our friendship first. He asked to be friends again, and I excitedly said yes, thinking about what a good friend he was in 5th grade. However, I didn't see any difference in what happened between us. We still just glanced at each other and walked away, pretending we hadn't seen anything. Trying to break the ice between us, I sent endless texts and tried to chat with him. However, I never actually got a reply. Then, one day, he suddenly said, "Hey," in iChat. I was thrilled... Until he asked, "What comes out in the science test." I could feel myself boiling up. Did he want to become friends with me because of //that?// Was he trying to //use// me? I'm still upset and annoyed... Even though it happened 2 weeks ago. -_- September 9th: 1. If I could change one thing that happened yesterday, I would have studied for the math quiz instead of sleeping right away. This is because I planned to study, but I just overslept. September 7th: My day today was pretty average. I woke up at 6:30 AM, had breakfast, took a shower, and took off for school. Today is a CDEF day, so I had social studies first. We got assigned a project and partners. If I could visit any place on earth, I would go to LA. This is because I am more used to there than here, seeing that I have lived there from ages 3~9, while I lived in Korea from 10~13. I also spent some of my younger years here, but I barely remember anything about them. The result of my living in the US more than I have lived in Korea is that I speak English better than I speak Korean (I am actually pretty bad at Korean- that is why my parents sent me to an international school) and I am pretty tanned (my skin has gotten lighter over the years, though). If I could change one thing about middle school, it would be for us to be able to choose which block we had when. This is because it is tiring when we have to run up and down the steps from B1 to the 4th floor everyday. Also, it would be nice to have blocks with friends you rarely have classes with. Another good thing about it is that you don't have to have all the boring subjects gathered together and all the fun subjects gathered together, because then you never will have any balanced days- only good and bad ones. Also, in my case, if that happened, I would have tons of homework on some days and none on other ones. That's my biggest complaint about middle school. Otherwise, it's pretty good! August 31st : The person I admire the most, living or dead, is my dad. This is because my dad is capable of being funny, smart, happy, and different... all at the same time. He's my role model. Many people say I'm just like him, but I know I have a lot of things I do before I am able to be on the same level as him. He can get anyone to like him, and although he has the brains of a professor (which he is), he has the personality of a five year old.
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 * September 22nd**
 * September 16th**
 * September 15th**
 * September 4th:**
 * September 2nd**:

August 26th: I wish I had the super power of turning back time. If I fought with my friends or did something I shouldn't have, I could turn back time and that would be it. I wouldn't have had done it. Not only for me, but if there had just been a giant disaster in the world, we could go far back in time knowing that it would happen, and we could prepare correctly for it. Also, when I get older, even if there's a small problem in the place I work.

August 24th:** Yesterday one of my best friends left Korea to move to China. She has been saying "I'm going to move to China next week..." everyday for about a million years, and finally it became true. Eva has been at KIS since the second semester of 4th grade. She was one of the only ones who would stick up for me, and she understood me. When she joked about something, I had to agree, and she was also one of the only people who could really make me smile. She called me in the airplane at 6:57 PM yesterday, right before she left, in the airplane for a 7:00 flight. Are you even allowed to do that? I really miss her, and I hope she does actually email me, contact me, and go online in iChat, and this isn't the same type of situation with her saying that she will, and never actually doing it. The point is, I miss her a lot, and I hope she doesn't just forget about me.