Lina+Yang'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.
 * Thursday, June 3rd CW:**

Success to me is that I won't regret of what I did in my past life. It is because if I don't regret what I did in middle school and high school, that means htat I am proud and satisfied with what I did. If I am satisfied with myself, I would be a happy person. JANUARY 12TH skittish-nervous treason-betraying one’s country petition- written request of many people plight- unfortunate situation moot- debatable curfew- requiring people to satay indoors for specific time

Long long time ago, there were village people who had magical powers. They were called The Magic People. But then they had a curfew that told them that only could use their powers when everyone is sleeping, and when it is night. The curfew was made because of a petition. Even though it is a plight and treason for the magical island, it will help the people who are normal. It is uncertainly that they could win the guns and weapons, it is better than nothing. While I am writting this, I feel very skittish.

December 11th On the double-- very fast jump the gun-- to start before the starting signal.

This year went on the double. I think that especially these 3 months went fast. My sister went to collage 3 months ago, and it was the first time that my sister went out that far for that long. I'm going to go to the airport and jump the gun just to meet my sister faster :) I really miss herㅜㅜㅜㅜㅜㅜㅜㅜ

December 9th In hot water- in trouble In one ear and out the other- heard but doesn't remember

I don't know with that boy. He is already in hot water, and if I don't alert that Crispin is here with me, we'd probably go in together. Crispin doesn't know anything; not even reading or writing. I've heard about him that he is talented in something... I heard it in one ear and out the other. What do I have to do with that child?

December 8th Loose cannon: someone's actions which are unpredictable or uncontrollable. tickled pink: pleased or entertained.

I am a loose cannon in the morning after I take a shower. While I look for what clothes to wear, I begin to doze off. My actions are unpredictable, becasue I could either doze off or just fall backwards. Today we will be doing a keynote, but Sarah isn't here today, so I hope that Minji and I could make Mr. Schwagler tickled pink, even without Sarah. Dec. 2nd get your goat- saying that someone is annoying, grumpy -Get up on the wrong side of bed- grumpy, bad luck

Yesterday the ABCD blocks really got my goat because I had homework for all the blocks. I got up on the wrong sid e of bed today, I feel a little bad. All the homework was getting on my goat so I was really tierd and I had to stay up until midnight to finish my assigned work. I only slept for 6 hours, and that was even on the wrong side of the bed.....

Dec. 4th In 2 shakes of a lamb's tail--in a short period of time

Make a mountain out of a molehill--making a slight diffuculty seem like a big deal.

Journal The day before yesterday December 2nd 4 people including me had to sleep over in Cahterine's house without planing. We did a sleep over because we had this humongous Chinese project to finish by the next day, 8 oclock. Because we had to go to school the next day, we also had to finish homework, too. Because of that, eventually all of us fell asleep at 1 oclock, and so we slept in a 2 shakes of a lamb's tail. Seriously, I'm not making a mountain out of a molehiil!

November 13 Instead of studying and attending school, teenagers in peasant families would work. At the age of 5 and 6, the children would assist their families. They would gather many fruit, heard, fetch, and walking horses, fishing, and other things that helped the familiy. Girls would help making clothes, and simple tasks to help cooking. Young boys would assist fathers goating oxen. f and wuold harvest.

I am a boy and I'm too tired right now. I'm just 12 years old but I have to goat oxen and my ams and legs hurt so much. But I understand that life is hard for my family, because my mom died giving birth for our twins. That is why my sister is working so hard to be like a mom for the family. She gathers, fetches, and does more work than me, but she never complains. :)

NOv 11th He (the narrorater) feels very bad because of his mother's death.

Oct. 26th ?This person's dream is to become a designer that is very successful. I don't want to become a desigher, but I do want to go to a good university, of lawyers. I also want to be rich :) But I don't want to be forced to be something that I don't want to be.

Oct.19th I am a person. I like Ulysses. What about you? Hundreds of men have died because of bad bad bad gods. I have a son, his name is Telemachus. People who are trying to marry me are trying to kill my dear son. I want to help him, but I am afraid for both of our death. There are romors saying that my husband is dead. I am not loosing hope though. Somthing is saying my head that he is out there somewhere. Do you know who I am???????? Bye Sol~ :)  Answer: Penelope :) -Sol

Oct.6th I am reading a book called soul surfer. It is a nonfiction story that the author herself wrote, so it is an autobiography story. The author has only one arm, because of a shark. One day, when she was young, she was riding the waves and a shark came and bit her surf board and her arm. Because the story is a fun kind of book, I finished the book quite quickly. The book was a fun book, so I think that the author's life woud've been not a fun, but interesting life.

Oct.5th I did many things over the break. I went to Busan to meet my family who live there. I got 100000 won from my uncle, and grand parents together. I stayed at Busan for about 2nights and 3 days, and did a lot of things over those days. Our family also went to see Hea Un Dae, a sea that is very famous. Also, at October 2nd, it was my dad's birthday, so we selebrated the birthday in Busan, where he could meet his family and siblings.

Sep.24th I think that there are many pros and cons of having a mac book. Of course there are many pros for students, but many cons for parents. First, there are many pros for students because I think that only our school lets students have computers that are almost the most new ones. Of course we played games and switched spaces before, but now we know that Mr. Bray is looking at us. Because of the scary thoughts, we now know how to use the computers well. Because of Mr. Bray, parents can now trust there children. The students aren't allowed to chat so now they can be cool about it. :)

September 22nd I love to shop! Seriously I'm becoming a shopaholic every day. Whenever I look at street say shopping malls I always keep my eyes open and start to beg my mom for new clothes, but most times she doesn't even listen to me. So I am thinking of getting money to buy my own clothes. Since there isn't any thing to write about anymore, I will tell you about my expierience of getting money taken away. I was with my friend few years ago, and someone asked to use my phone, and the people took my money;;. ㅡ.,ㅡ

Sep.17th Dear Penelope, I'm Ulysses. I'm still alive, so don't worry about me. We won the war, the Trojan war, but I think that I have maddened the gods. The gods are mad at me, and I am fighting with all the trouble they are sending me. So I'm having a hard time caring for my men and myself. Wait until I return for Troy (and don't marry someone else, even though you hear that I'm dead, because I'm not going to be!). Can you explain to me about my son? I truly do want to see him before I die. But I guaranty that I will get back in about 6 month, maybe less or more. You don't know how much I miss you, but when I return, don't be surprised that my beard has grown since. From Ulysses .Sep.15 There are a lot of things that are annoying me lately, but I just got one right now. I just wrote the wrong journal for the wrong date. OMG! Thats why I'm writing it in green text, because this is so annoying!!!!! But thankfully, I wasn't the only one who wrote about the wrong topic. Sarah, and Esther Lee. But Mr. Schwagler, I'm so sorry, but you should've put the 15th topic before the 17th one. Bye Bye Sep.8th. How was my day going? Well it is the beginning of the day so there isn't a lot I can write. Almost every day, I eat bread for breakfast, which was good for some time, but now I'm sick of it. So my mom asked me what I wanted to eat, but I also don't want rice, becasue I don't have that much time in the mornings. I just wanted to drink milk for breakfast, but she said that is too little. First she told me that she'd make anything that I would like and now she says no to the milk. I want milk!!!!!!! Bye Bye

September 4th If I could go any where in the universe I want to go to heaven. Yeah! The reason is because I want to see and I am curious if there is a real god or not, because I believe in god!!!!!! >< Also, I want to see if there are angels with wings who are singing and delicious food. But most of all would like to meet my great grandparents. Bye Bye

September 2nd If I could change one thing I could change, it would be the afterschool policy, and the lunch policy. I would like the after school policy to change, because every one needs to stay after school sometimes. Projects and homework is needed to do after school sometimes, when parents or drivers can't drive you home. Especially, sometimes during after school days, there are winter concerts, spring concerts, etc. But also I would like the school policy to change because students should be aloud to use the elevators if they come to walk up the stairs from B3 to 6th floor. Joonyon- Yeah, I agree because we do more studying than the teachers and only the teachers go on the elevator. Nice journal~

August 31st Who do I admire? My sister, mom, and dad. First I admire my sister because I want to be just like her (Her English name is Elaine). Elaine graduated KIS this year in July. She went all the way to Indianapolis, in Lafayette, and entered Purdue with management. My father is very proud of her. I'm glad that my family could afford this, because in Korea there aren't many people who have a lot of money. That is why I admire my parents, because they can afford me and that they had the ability by working. I think my dad is really smart, and I think my mom is really pretty. Just kidding. They are both smart to afford this big step. Bye Bye

August 27th How can television (or video games) influence your behavior? 7 sentence minimum. Television, video games, computers, and many more electronic items can be bad for everyone. First television is bad for you head, because it makes you not think. Television makes you also copy the gags that come out in the show and funny stuff that parents don't like seeing. But video games make you addicted to it that you don't want to put it away; and when you get addicted, it means that you woud want to do it a lot. My opinion is that the computer is the worst of the three electronics, because especially on the mac, you can do so much to make your mom not catch you doing something else in the computer: change spaces, hide icons, etc. Bye Bye\

August 26th If I have super powers which would it be? I would be the king of super powers who has all the kinds of super powers any person could have. But what I really want is to fly, be invisible, and to be a genius. I want to fly, because then I can be a person who can be really adventurous. But that one would only be fun if I attend a Korean school, because Korean students walk around a lot outside the school. I also want to have powers to be invisible, because then I hear and be next to someone who is talking about me (not to be like a spy;;). The reason I want to be a genius is because I want to be smart and want my father and mother to be happy about me. Bye Bye.

How is my day going so far? I had so many quizes today so I'm sleepy. During advisory and F block my stomach has been grumbling ever since. Even though I just had lunch.......I'm hungry><. Oh.....todays a monday! no wonder I'm having a bad day......because its a monday!!!!!! Okay...that was my first journal.....bye bye.....
 * August 24th**