Learning Journal 3

It's about the end of this semester, I had learned countless thing that I didn't know before. From the punctuation to the argument article, although it was hard when I got approach with them first time, for they were really different from Chinese way to compose. After about 4 months, It is really touching that we can do so much improvement; however, there still have long way to go. No matter what, we have to keep it up!

Learning Journal 2

     After learning the way to use every kind of punctuation, Mrs.Chen started to taught us different kind of article. First of all we learned narration, different from Chinese, English narration emphasize more on the imitating narration but not comparison. This class really gave me lots of new information that I'd never been aware of before. I will keep working hard in this class.

Learning Journal 1

     Entering SCU is kind of breakthrough to me, since it is really first time for me to study and learn by myself. There haven't been anyone that encourage or blame me for something. In others words, this is the first time for me to feel that I'm controlling my life without others bothering. Day after day, I started to get used to with this kind of new life gradually. In this class, we learned the basic way to use punctuation. Although it's really tricky and boring, Mrs.Chen said it's really important to use punctuation properly in our article. Therefore, I'll hang on it!

My Meaningful Object (WA2) Version 2

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Description Version 2
11/22/2013
483 Words

The Book I’d Never Read

     Among all the thing in our life, it's friendship that must be the most precious. When it comes to the issue, it will always remind me of the 14-year friend, Caroline.

     Everything can be traced back to 2001. Thanks to our fate, we get acquaintance with Caroline. The first day I met her still seems to be yesterday news to me. As soon as I knew Caroline, she had been an appealing and interesting girl, and I could feel something in my mind on the spot. Walking through 14 years and those countless hardships, we used to believe that nothing could separate us and we could be together for goods. However, no matter how great a party is, it will end, and so did us eventually. Last year, 2012, facing to our future, we had our first quarrel, for she wanted me to study abroad in America. Not knowing the reasons, I insisted studying in Taiwan or Hong Kong but not America. That was the first time for me to be stubborn, and the last time, too. Standing in front of the game of our friendship, I think that both of Caroline and I lost the game now. I missed her charming voice, short curly hair and the warmest heart that I had encounter. At the last day we met, it was a wonderful spring day; however, my heart was so cold that everything seemed to be frozen. The sunset of 14 years told us that we lost. That was the first time for me to face such sorrow emotion, and it was too heavy for me to bear, so I ran away. I ran away like a coward.

      That's how our story ended. After she disappeared as a shadow, the farther time went, the more I missed her. Starting to wander in my mind, I asked myself why this happened. There were a French book, L'élégance du hérisson, which was the last gift she gave to me, but I had never read it. Actually, I was afraid of reading the book, for that's my way to avoid the memory. Recently, I gave it a try to read the book telling about a mystery story but also appealing just like her. The story revolves mainly around the characters of Renée Michel and Paloma Josse, residents of an upper-middle class Left Bank apartment building at 7 Rue de Grenelle – one of the most elegant streets in Paris . A girl with a dream which is extremely different with others usual dream caused huge trend to literature of Paris. That’s committing suicide at her 13-year-old birthday, and she set fire to her home. However, due to my French is still too poor to finish the book, I hadn’t read the whole book, but I’ll hang on it! Though we may never meet the other, the book will always be the most precious thing for me.

My Meaningful Object (WA2) Version 1

     Among all the thing in our life, it's friendship that must be the most precious. When it comes to the issue, it will always remind me of the 14-year friend, Caroline.
     Everything can be traced back to 2001. Thanks to our fate, we get acquaintance with Caroline. The first  day I met her still seems to be yesterday news to me. As soon as I knew Caroline, she had been an appealing and interesting girl, and I could feel something in my mind on the spot. Walking through 14 years and those countless hardships,  we used to believe that nothing could separate us and we could be together for goods. However, no matter how great a party is, it will end, and so did us eventually. Last year, 2012, facing to our future, we had our first quarrel, for she wanted me to study abroad in America. Not knowing the reasons, I insisted studying in Taiwan or Hong Kong but not America. That was the first time for me to be stubborn, and the last time, too. Standing in front of the game of our friendship, I think that both of Caroline and I lost the game now. I missed her charming voice, short curly hair and the warmest heart that I had encounter. At the last day we met, it was a wonderful spring day; however, my heart was so cold that everything seemed to be frozen. The sunset of 14 years told us that we lost. That was the first time for me to face such sorrow emotion, and it was too heavy for me to bear, so I ran away. I ran away like  a coward.
      That's how our story ended. After she disappeared as a shadow, the farther time went, the more I missed her. Starting to wander in my mind, I asked myself why this happened. There were a French book, L'élégance du hérisson, which was the last gift she gave to me, but I had never read it. Actually, I was afraid of reading the book, for that's my way to avoid the memory. Recently, I gave it a try to read the book telling about a mystery story but also appealing just like her. Though we may never meet the other, the book will always be the most precious thing for me.

Upside Down

(The summary of the assigned article. )

     Nowadays, there will always be some corners that we had never taken a glimpse on in the society. In other words, it's the dark side of our world. The world full of gambling, drugs, drinking, smoking, just to name a few. A innocent girl of gentle birth lost her direction just for a gang boy who was carefree and bad. Upside down, and everything in his life became everything in her life. From books to guns, from classmates to gangster, the helpless girl started to walk on the edge of our world; however, there was no one could give her a hand. No one helped her. The fallen angel had lost on the fork of the path in her life. The place with violence but without care would happen endless sacrifice, and so did their world. A reckless hand took life from the boy's cousin in a fleeting moment, and it is this event that turned everything in her life into her deep fear. The boy who experienced such unaccepttable death changed into a cruel man. A cruel man with violence but without care. That's to say, he was part of the world. As we all know, no matter what, bad guys would run into their sentence sooner or later, including the cruel man. The fallen angel was faced to everything she didn't know and also everything she would never want to know. There's another fork on her life now. "What should I do now?" She asked herself this way, counting the day before the jail released that cruel man. She asked herself this way. 

Something You May Never Know (The Unforgettable Trip in My Life) ( WA1) Version 3

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Narration Version 3

11/22/2013

315 Words

Something You May Never Know

     Among all the things in our life, it’s those touching moment that makes a trip so unforgettable. When it comes to the trip, I will always remember forever, one piece of my memory will flash into my mind instantly. I’ve been to Africa as a voluntary worker from Eden Social Welfare Foundation. Traveling to Africa was a kind of tough encounter, for you had to take some medicine or shot for fear of coming down with AIDS or other disease. However, everything would seems really worthwhile when you saw the smile on the faces of those extremely skinny orphans.

     I traveled to Africa as voluntary worker in 2011. It’s about 2 years ago, but when I try to memorize the trip, everything and every moment are just like yesterday news in my memory. Not only the kids living there but the environment also made me start to treasure what I had already got now. Everything I encountered in Africa was so astonishing to me at the First day. Left the quality of the drinking water, there was even little water if we didn’t arrive at there, so did those innutritious foods! What’s worse, it was really a unbelievable shock for me to believe that those orphans were brought up with these sorts of things. When I saw these children smile at me for my teaching or aid, I started to think this way, “Why can’t everyone in the world smile like them? The smile doesn't have other meaningless things. What’s wrong with us? We have already got everything we need!” Well goes the proverb, “ No matter how it changes, stay real.” It has been the motto that I always bear in my mind. Remember that treasuring what you have now, and being appreciated for who gave you these. There’s no scar that won’t fade away, so why is sadness still on you face?