Christine+Kim+(JY)

**♥ Journal 1 ♥ Jan 26, 2010**
List 20 things that annoy you. Pick one to write about.  People say, things happen at the wrong place at the wrong time. This statement is entirely true; my macbook had to freeze at that moment. Though this didn’t necessarily occur at school, and sometimes occurs at times when it is okay, it is truly the most annoying thing that I could ever go through. Because I spend most of my time on my computer, it seems to me that this incident makes me waste time on the computer. I could do many other things if my computer didn’t freeze.
 * 1) Criminal Negligence
 * 2) High-pitched voices
 * 3) Masking identities
 * 4) People with too many secrets
 * 5) When my macbook freezes
 * 6) Catching the School Bus/ Getting up early
 * 7) Sites that are not Mac-Friendly(Especially in S.Korea)
 * 8) When the garbage ball that I threw misses the garbage can
 * 9) Hearing my phone but not knowing where it is
 * 10) Emphasizing the difference in life style between me and a brilliant student somewhere in Harvard University
 * 11) Soap Operas
 * 12) Having no channels to watch when given free time with the TV/ Having nothing to do when given free time with the macbook
 * 13) Making too many typos when texting someone especially with a touch phone
 * 14) Staring at a F placed right in the middle of As
 * 15) Having no choice but to stare at people who over-react
 * 16) When God is not on my side
 * 17) Witnessing grades fall right before Parent Conferences/ Report Cards
 * 18) Irresponsible teammates
 * 19) Oversleeping
 * 20) People who bother others only for their own good

♥ Journal 2 ♥ Jan 27, 2010
Dot was someone no more than a normal young lady. Her hobby was to make scarves for her loved ones, and was well known for such acts. Her best moment of a day was when the show “God of Sea” was on the TV. Regardless of her standard and mundane days spent completely on what she loves doing, Dot stays to be memorable character because the people who got presents from her thanked her and constructed a monument that had her named engraved. Everyone who knew her loved her.
 * Write a paragraph about a girl named Dot, but use no letters with (i.j).

**♥ Journal 3 ♥ Jan 31, 2010**
The hungry mankind was blinded by the need of liberty that they forgot to think about what they were about to lose. With the introduction of individualism, two cheetahs by the name of equality and socialism left us, leaving us mourn and wail for their return. Equality, commonly recognized as one of men's inalienable rights, basically guarantees a life without discrimination. Though it is impossible to say that people before the introduction of individualism lived in an Utopia where everyone is equal, it is definitely said that they had more chances to be similar to each other. Back then, every individual received the same amount of money after working under different conditions by the name of equality; of course, people were treated equally by the same name. What we see now is quite different; our society is characterized by a social hierarchy, where people are grouped by their monthly income. People in this world has now entered an era of chaos by even willing to remodel themselves by the name of individualism and the right to pursue happiness. Is this really what mankind wanted? Freedom to the extent where we now feel insatiable imperfection in any point, in every area? This is what we say, the danger of our society's organization. Maybe the escape of socialism may explain the reasons for the constant increase of crimes in our world. We now view the world merely as the congregation of people who dream to belong in the upper half of the economy. We now only see the importance of doing well academically and winning the lottery, rather than the need to mature as a well-natured human being. Such "minor" details of human character can be outrun by the prominence and wealth. But then again, living in a world that allows an equilibrium of individualistic views and socialistic views is nothing but an illusion. Now its time for us to take a step back and try our best to achieve the impossible yet incredible dream.
 * Liberty and individualism in our society

♥ Journal 4 ♥ Feb 1, 2010
red, silver borderline in the middle, mechanical things are gold, the actual lever on the top is red, standing due to the red base, has words painted white on the base(it indicates what it is), has a blank white tag attached to it, has white stickers attached around the base, black pipes/wires stick out from the upper part, circular and cylinder shaped.
 * Close your eyes briefly. Think of one object that’s in the room and focus on it without opening your eyes, recall as much detail as you can about it. After three minutes or so, open your eyes and write about that object without looking at it. (This exercise was done in class and timed.)

**♥ Journal 5 ♥ Feb 3, 2010**
Silly is a young girl who eats the cookie in the cookie jar, closes the lid and puts it back where it was hoping it the vacancy of a few cookies won’t be noticeable. Silly is also a middle school boy who accidently spills coke onto another’s clothes and wipes it off quickly, wishing that the other will blame someone else for it. Silly is a middle aged man who drinks alcohol until late at night, tiptoeing into his house hoping- despite his wife is wide awake- that he could get away with it.
 * Silly is a middle-aged man who combs his remaining limp strands of hair into an elaborate swirl over his bald spot, gluing them in place with hair spray and hoping no one will notice.
 * Silly is a golden retriever who slinks sheepishly off the sofa whenever his owner comes home hoping-despite the piles of hair all over the cushion- that she won’t notice he’s been sleeping there.
 * What else is silly? Give three more examples.

♥ Journal 6 ♥ Feb 4, 2010
My room is of a very pleasing size. In the middle, there is a big white bed with fluffy linens that seem to attract whoever inside the room to come sit on it. On the bed are stuffed animals; resembling the friendliness of the room owner. Right next to the bed is a small table with only a big and dreadful alarm clock on it. The alarm clock seem to be frowning at the big pillow next to it, cautioning it to stop topping it when he is doing his job.
 * Choose one from the following list for today’s prompt.
 * Describe your bedroom the way you want it to be.
 * Describe a storm. This could be a thunderstorm, a snow storm, hurricane, a tornado, a hail storm, a rain storm, or any type of storm.

**♥ Journal 7 ♥ Feb 8, 2010**
“Look, it is my birthday today. I really should have gotten a car, mom! I told you that the __//only//__ thing that I wanted was a car!” This was the first words that uttered out of 16-year-old Fatima on her birthday. Apparently, she had gotten a few party dresses, not the Lexus that she had longed for. Fatima started kicking and screaming frantically, knocking over everything that came into her sight. Expensive decorations, plates, and statues were airborne, and dropped straight to the ground. The house was noisy, and was soon covered in shattered pieces of pottery.
 * Fatima is a very spoiled teenage girl. Show that she is spoiled, by describing what happens when she doesn’t get a car for her birthday.

♥ Journal 8 ♥ Feb 10, 2010
The cat was staring at the fish with it's big, shrewd eyes. It found an opening in the fish tank and tried to rake at the fish with sharp claws. Ouch! That got to hurt, but nothing thankfully happened. This time, I tried pinching the cat and pulled its tail. The cat yowled and yowled and cried like a baby. Then suddenly, the cat stopped bawling and noticed an object below the stair case. The car suddenly jerked down to the stairway. When I looked down to see what it was, it was Jenny- the owner of the cat.
 * Write a paragraph about a cat attacking something, but don’t use the words hiss, scratch, or pounce.

**♥ Journal 9 ♥ Feb 12, 2010**
Tired smells very cozy, just like the teddy bear that I have slept with for years. I can smell my house and my pillow, I can even smell my own shampoo. I think I can smell the onion soup-my all- time favorite- in my own blanket, so detailed that it confused me for a minute that I was in an italian restaurant. Tired may not be the best feeling, but it certainly is comfortable.
 * Describe what you feel right now using your sense of smell. If you feel frustrated, write about what your frustration smells like. Use vivid words. Don’t skimp on adjectives.

♥ Journal 10 ♥ Feb 14, 2010
(Freewrite) Fumbling up the podium, odd papers stuck out in my disorganized stack as I stared blankly out. Words refused to mouth out of my lips even though I opened them and an all-consuming knot took over my stomach. I could feel the white light radiating heat as dust particles floated around me, and I continued to fidget while the auditorium stood silent. The first few debates I attended continued in this pattern. My instructor informed my mother that I was not very talented, had not improved in months, and certainly was one of the worst debaters on the team. The more I thought about my teacher’s words, the more they angered me.

♥ Journal 11 ♥ Feb 18, 2010
The little boy was excited that he was finally going to visit a market with his mother. His mom has always stopped him from going shopping ever since he tore his head open while enjoying a ride on a shopping cart. The delighted boy started to write things that he felt he had to do in the shop on a torn piece of paper that he had found in his kitchen. Taste just about all free testers in the food corner, go to the toy corner to check out all the new toys, take pictures from time to time so that he could look back to his visit later on, ask his mother to buy some chips... there were so many things that he had to do in such a short visit. "Tony, time to go!" yelled his mother. The time had come. The little boy marched out of the house and got onto his child's seat, planning out the mission for the day.
 * Use the following words in a story: little boy, torn page, market, cart.

**♥ Journal 12 ♥ Feb 20, 2010**
My greatest weakness is also my greatest strength. On a daily basis, I have always been reminded that I am too creative, and I thought that this was a euphemism for, “Christine you’re just not logical.” Teachers wanted me to memorize and regurgitate facts, but international school changed the rules of the game. I have used my talents to restructure arguments and add a creative flair, and while rote learning is crucial in middle school the power of my imagination never fails me.
 * Freewrite

**♥ Journal 13 ♥ Feb 26, 2010**
I started to feel guilty. Unpacking took more than ever; when I looked up to the clock after I was done, it was already a little past midnight. After the endless badgering from my mother about the homework, I decided to confess that the homework had not been done. Mom, I am sorry. I lied. I had no time to do the homework. As soon I blurted the words out, I could see my mom’s face twitching and going red in anger. The flourescent lights above us made the look on her face even more fierce, and the temperature of the room was at it’s extreme.
 * Write an eight sentence paragraph on a topic of your choice. Make sure that you vary the length of each sentence.

♥ Journal 13 ♥ Feb 26, 2010
I think I will use their natural weaknesses to appeal to them like an inside joke. (EX)An old man decided his old wife was getting hard of hearing. So he called her doctor to make an appointment to have her hearing checked. The doctor said he could see her in two weeks, and meanwhile there's a simple, informal test the husband could do to give the doctor some idea of the dimensions of the problem.
 * What kind of cartoon show might appeal to the overage 65 audience? Imagine the show. Then, in 100 words or less, describe the show and its main character.

 ♥ Journal 14 ♥ Mar 4, 2010
1. Read a book under a candlelight 2. Run to a PC bang to get access to a computer 3. Go visit a sick family member in a hospital 4. Go to a another family's house to charge your phone 5. Go to a cafe to get internet access 6. Bring a charger to your father's office to charge your macbook 7. Study vocabulary 8. Sleep in peace 9. Go outside and play 10. Exercise in a gym 11. Stay home and use the pre-charged macbook 12. Go out shopping ==
 * Electricity is recent discovery. Think of 12 things to do when there is no power.

♥ Journal 15 ♥ Mar 5, 2010 Working at the Seocho Youth Center, I met Mrs. Hwang and discovered she was a victim of domestic violence. She explained, you do not know where to turn and the shame is all consuming. This short encounter affected me profoundly. In many ways, I felt like I woke up to the world around me, and I became more acutely aware of homelessness, crime rates, and other social issues afflicting my community. Through the center and meeting Mrs. Hwang, my advisor and I try to seek an alternative that suggests a better tomorrow.
 * Freewrite

♥ Journal 16 ♥ Mar 8, 2010 Christine is waiting for the day she will turn sixteen. Thinking that her life will be amazing about then, she practices a skill to make her look attractive- winking. As hard as that was, she feels that she acquired enough skills in endurance that she could master punky jazz. Birthday that she has waiting for for years have come and to her disappointment, it is just like any other day. Presents given to her are worth only a few cents. She expected more than this- "Ah my life" she says- while sipping a glass of tea.
 * Write a rhyme paragraph. Each sentence must begin and end with the words that rhyme with each other.
 * An example: Spring is a wonderful thing. Flowers start to sprout with the help of rain showers.

♥ Journal 17 ♥ Mar 9, 2010

Not everyone is a person who can leave all stones unturned. For example, I have a friend who always makes sure that EVERYTHING she does is certain and there is no possibility and uncertain chance of something unwanted happening. I, on the other hand, is a very lenient(?) person who lets everything flow the way that it flows, rather than inflicting on the event.
 * Describe in detail a person who leaves no stone unturned.

♥ Journal 18 ♥ Mar 11, 2010

 * Write 150-word profile of someone named “Margaret Mallory” or one of the characters for your short story.

Innocent Jay is a fifteen-year-old boy with curly brown hair and freckles. He is quite short, and is somewhat ashamed of his height especially when it came to sports. It seemed to him that his classmates could easily shoot the goal with a nice, laid back jump whereas he had lunge into the air by using his maximum power. Watching a basketball match between the best players was discouraging for him, which was why he always chose to wear specially-designed heightening sneakers wherever he went.

♥ Journal 19 ♥ Mar 12, 2010 List 10 things you usually do on a rainy day. Pick one from your lis and free write for 5 minutes.

In Korea, Dduckbokki and odeng is a must in a rainy day. I like to follow these routines whenever it rains because the mixture of hot and spicy food and hot mild odeng is surely the best any korean could wish for. These traditions are especially the best when they are served in Pozangmachas, or a outside restaurant, in a chilly rainy day.

♥ Journal 20 ♥ Mar 13, 2010 Free write for 3 minutes on this cliche "ice running through her veins."

Icy cold. This was the only feeling that I could feel in my hands. Suddenly, the image of a frozen hand cutting of a live person's body without any feelings haunted me. What if my hand chooses to do so too? What if it really falls off? Do I really have to live without a hand? Should I grab my frozen hand before it melts? All sorts of thoughts came up in my head. Though I didn't LOVE the way my body looks, I didn't want to live without a hand. Having only one hand would mean that I couldn't play things that I usually can- like the violin.

♥ Journal 21 ♥ Mar 16, 2010 Free write

All teenagers are criminals. We always do things that are not right, such as texting during class or speaking Korean on the school campus. Of course these actions are wrong, but such minor offenses are not the only factor as to why we are so guilty. These misdemeanors can be justified under the fact that we are a teenager, and that we are opt to make mistakes due to brain immaturity. Then, what should make us so sinful?

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♥ **Homework 1 ♥ Jan 25, 2010** Though we live in a world where people praise originality, it is also a fact that there is no distinct line between a creative individual and a person who is not. The lack of the criteria for the aforementioned leaves room for us to classify whether or not one is producing ideas worthy enough to look up to. As one of the myriad judges present in this world, I feel that creativity is the power to speak our minds in our own distinctive colors. (Webster's New English Dictionary) There is one definition of it as an adjective; and one definition of the world as a noun. No, they don’t necessarily. The definition refers only to the imagination and originality sector of the word ‘creative’. Relating, but not limited, to imagination and innovation esp. when expressed with a personality.
 * What does the word “Creative” mean?
 * Use a reliable dictionary and look up the word. How many definitions are there?
 * Do the definitions match what you believe creative means?
 * In your own words, write a definition for the word creative.

**♥ Homework 2: Description ♥ Jan 27, 2010**
__Sarah Waterworth Photo__ Water, Droplets, Leaf, Black and white, //Focus, Veins, Stems, Rain, Stable, Stopped, Frozen, //Still, Dead, Clear, clean, fresh, //shadows, Aged, //Varied //sizes, accurate//

__The Moth__ Still as if dead,

shadows lingering behind, focused on its prey.

This creature is aged, with various signs of tiredness. Frozen in space.

__Compare & Contrast__ __Explaining something else with words: A Goldfish__ A goldfish is slimy and slimy, and resists the hands of a human being, They say that they do so because men's temperature is too hot for them. I dropped the fish gently into a bowl, and smelled the wet and seawater-y smell pushing into my nostrils. A goldfish is quite appealing to the eye; it is colorful and orange in color. It is also big.

__In the quotation above, what do you think Socrates means?__ //“Man’s life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.” -Socrates// I think that Socrates is trying to say that a man’s life is irregular and cannot be expected. Like a drop of dew on a leaf, man’s life doesn’t have a clear destination as to where it will arrive, and also doesn’t have any sufficient evidence as to where it will end of falling. It is not just that, because a man’s life my even split up(like a dual job, or living multiple lives) just as a drop of dew on a leaf. Also, a man's life may be considered a drop on a leaf because the dew depends entirely on the leaf, which may bed considered as luck in the real world. Though these interpretations may not be precisely the meanings that the great philosopher left behind, his words leave room for much analysis.

The ‘chef’ dressed in white with a funny-looking hat is looking down on me, and twirling me on the plastic stage. Maybe he wants to make me into a pop star. Though I know that I have a promising future, it is burdening to know that I already have so many fans. The ‘chef’, apparently the head of the fan club, is eager to prepare my debut stage. Oops, I think I made a mistake. But, the loyal fan remains calm. He suddenly picked up an object, As a outsider, I do not know what is going on. I think it an object that fixes my posture. I wait, but things seem odd. The edge of the object shines bright due to the stage lighting, and comes down straight on me. It hurts. Apparently that object was what men call a knife.
 * Imagine that you are an onion that is about to be sliced onto a hamburger.

**♥ Homework 4: Description ♥ Feb 3, 2010** This photograph looks like a pointy-nosed clown wearing funny glasses. When it is rotated into different angles, it looks like a chess board that is falling apart. Also, I think that this is a capture of the clown's glow stick show, and it was taken by the audience.
 * What is your interpretation of this photograph? Turn it upside down and sideways for different views. What is it? How and where was it taken?

**♥ Homework 5: Poetry ♥ Feb 18, 2010**

**Lake of the Woods** **by** **Chris Buzeli,** **RISD Works Gallery, Private collection, Date: sep 23, 2002** **Some words that come up into mind:** Calm, quiet, silent, frozen, still, movement, water, pure, nature, happy, reminisce, memory, bird, scary eyes, terror, forced, power

Nature is beautiful with water, bird, and man coexisting, but another look suggests the power that is preexisting. Is nature really pleasant as the sight of the wedding ring?
 * Poem:**

Look at the bird’s big and bulky eyes; filled with fright too sizable to be disguised.

Against the little boy in red in its back, the bird reaches for a fish in the water; a sign of shrinking back.

Now we think again, to nature we are only a bane.

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">**♥ Assignment : Comic ♥ Mar 8, 2010** Title: Problems with My Personality **♥ Assignment : Wordlet ♥ Mar 11, 2010**