Reflective essay

 We watched a short video clip called 'Spring, summer, fall, winter, and spring'. We watched the first spring part. A boy monk tied some stones to a fish, a frog, and a snake for fun. The master monk tied a rock to him, so that he could learn a lesson. The boy monk tries to save the fish, the frog and the snake the next day, but the fish and the snake is already dead. The boy monk learned his lesson.

When I was young, I loved to play housekeeping. Especially the cooking part. I picked as much leaves, flower petals, a whole flower, and roots as I could. I pretended leaves as dish, flower petals as bowls, anthers as rice, juice as soup, and roots as herbs. Once in a while, I mixed them all and pounded them with a stone. I laughed at the mess I made, on the ground and to the plants. I only did that for fun. Just for fun. Not now. After I watched the video clip, I now realized how much damage did to the trees, and the flowers. Just for one moment`s fun. I felt a sudden guilt, and sorry for all the leaves I pounded, all the flowers I picked. I should have realized that picking plants for fun also means killing plants for fun. I was my younger self, so I did not know that. I do know that now. I fell very guilty, doing all that to the plants.

In my opinion, parents should tell their children how much damage they did to the environment. Not the real harsh way like the master monk did to the boy monk, but they should scold them. Or their kids will grow up not knowing that, and goes on harming the environment. I think parents should tell them that that is wrong, and that they are harming the environment just for fun. That should teach kids a lesson.

My Wacky Web Tale

The Mummy

We thought our trip to the museum would be boring, but we were wrong. After we handed our dusts to Barack Obama at the door, we were led into the museum's mess hall. The first things I noticed were the mummy cases against the cage. Why were there mummy cases in the mess hall?

While we waited for our guide, Mr. G told us how the pharaohs always placed a large tv in their mummy cases to protect them from intruders. Rose and I got a little numb hearing this. There were, after all, 3 mummy cases in the room with us.

Suddenly we heard a(n) cringing sound coming from inside one of the mummy cases. “what`s that?!” Rose and I screamed at the same time.

“Nothing to worry about,” said Mr. G calmly. “I'm sure it's just the wind.” Just then one of the mummy cases watched open. Out played an enormous tv covered with chocolate chip cookies. Just as I was about to run from the room, the tv threw off the chocolate chip cookies and howled, “April Fools!” It was Ms. Hughey!

We had forgotten that it was April first, but I guess Mr. G and Ms. Hughey had not.

This is my Wacky Web Tale. I had put Mr. G and Ms. Hughey in there, and I am so sorry.        But it`s funny anyway.  Ha-ha. I am really enjoying this wacky web tale.

Viral Video essay

This is a video of 'harry potter in 99 seconds' from YouTube.

Genre: Comedy, Music
Released: July 19, 2011

By: Jon Cozart   

I would like to tell you about viral video, Harry Potter in 99 second! I first watched this video because its title was interesting. I am a huge fan of Harry Potter, so I watched it. Actually, it was far more interesting then I thought it would be. The title is self-explaining, but I will explain anyway. Two boys, one singing the lyrics, one holding the title of the book and helping him, sings a summary of Harry Potter series in 99 second. All 7 books in 99 seconds. And it`s a good summary too. Not a lame one.

The maker of 'harry potter in 99 seconds' is a 19 year old American boy. He posted the video with the name 'Paint' but the real name is Jon Cozart. There is a rumor that the two boys in the video are the same person. The melody they sang is the theme song of each series. Two foreign young people as if dictating a story to film the story of Harry Potter series, which takes way to deploy a 99-seconds period in a cappella music in the background to describe the movie plot is taking. His video was picked as the most read video 43 times this month, and 51 times this week at YouTube Comedian Category. Internet users say "He looks like a high school student" because he sang a birthday anthem for his principle in his another video, Kid Roasts His Principal. He is known as good at playing piano and ukulele in addition to his great singing skill. 

I really like this viral video, mostly because it`s a good summary of Harry Potter, one of my favorite series. This video was once a big hit in Korea too. I think they are really good at summarizing books and making them into lyrics. And I also like the little signs the boy on the left holds. It`s pretty. To add, the expression the guy holding sign have is funny, too.


However, there is a flaw, too. Why is the part about Half-blood prince so short, Well, that is one of my favorites of Harry Potter! (I like Harry doing a good job at Potions.) I think all the parts` portion should be almost same. That way, people will not think the Half-blood prince is shorter than any books.

This video is so famous, there are already parodies about it. The most famous one is, harry potter in 58 seconds on YouTube. In the 'harry potter in 58 seconds' video, there is only one foreign girl, and sings the background music of 99 second faster and dictate. The real video time code was not 58 seconds- it was 59 seconds. 


I really like viral video summarizing a book. I hope a lot of videos like this will become viral. Hopefully, it would be Tara Duncan Series.

This is a video of 'harry potter in 58 seconds' from YouTube.

Ode to Green Card

Dear Green Card,

I never met you, but I have heard about your kindness, beauty, and happiness. Your appearance makes everybody excited. Your color makes everybody ambitious. You are a super star at GLPS. I tried a lot to meet you, but I never had much luck. You with teacher`s signature always went to other kids. You with teacher`s signature always made me envy other kids.

You are the super star

A couple of days before, I came close. Remember?
In math class, I solved the Sudoku problem, but I was the third so you were not available to me. I desired to meet you once, the super star, marvel at your beautiful hue, and feel the happiness and pride warm me up. But the chance always went to other kids. I felt like a fool.

Everybody gets ambitious when you turn up. They become smarter, swifter, and faster. They make me envy them, because they met you a lot, and I did not. I tries my best, but I never can reach enough to you. You are kind, I know, but you are really busy too. So sometimes I get frustrated and unhappy because I feel like I can never reach you. But I really want you, so if I can reach you, please, oh please, wait for me. I will do my best to reach you and finally get you.

Oh, Green Card, if Yellow card is a devil, you are an angel. If Yellow Card is the Ugly Sisters, you are Cinderella. If Yellow Card is fire, you are water. Yellow Card is destructive, but you cover it. You make the sorrow of Yellow card disappear and magically fill any place with brightness and happiness. Oh, Green Card, I said a lot of praise about you, so if you do not wait for me, I will be resentful because of you.

Please wait for me. I am trying my best, so don`t go away so fast. Please wait for me so I won`t lose my hopes.

Chainwriting

The girl with dark hair

Once upon a time, there was a girl with dark hair. Her name was Selena. She was lonely because the other girls all had pale, blond hair. Her mother told her that she was precious and exceptional, not weird and wrong. But she still thought her hair messed up everything. She stuck out. She was always sad. she couldn`t join other girls because she was just different. Selena thought that when her hair`s color change, her life will change too. She always wished her hair to be blond like other girls.One day, a stranger with grayish black hood came to her house. He said, "If you follow me, I can change your hair color. I know a good method." She considered following a stranger and dye her hair, or don`t do that. Finaly, she decided. She paid some money from her allowance. She hoped that it would be permanent. The stranger took her somewhere she did not know. Then he took off his hood. His hair was dark like hers, too! Her eyes went big and round. She opened her mouth, but no sound came out. This was the first time she ever saw another person having dark hair. The stranger whispered, "Selena." But Selena couldn`t find her voice. The stranger whispered hoarsely, "Selena." again. Selena finally found her voice. "Who... Who are you? How come you have dark hair, like me?" she said. He responded faintely, "Oh, Selena, I am your father. Didn`t you ever thought how strange it is, you having dark hair but your mother having pale hair? You have my hair. My dark one." Selena said, shuddering by this new fact, "How come I didn`t know you? If you are really my father?" "Because your mother didn`t like my hair. I wore this hood when I met her. I always wore hood. She didn`t know that I had dark hair. Then you were born, and you had dark hair. She was confused, so I had to tell her the truth." Selena asked, "Why did you came here then?", a little hopefully, wishing the answer would be, "Becaused I missed you."
The answer was, however, a little different. He answered, "Because I want you to have self-confidence on yourself, and on your hair. I moped around with my hair in my whole life, and I regret it. So I want you not to make mistake I made. Your hair color is really unusual. Your hair makes you special. Without it, you are just an unremarkable common girl. Your hair makes yourself." When Selena heard this, she became really positive. With her father`s words, she was encouraged. She started to like her hair. She smiled and said, "Okay." After that, she asked her father to stay with her mother and herself, and he accepted. Finally, Selena had a whole family, very characteristic, very peculiar, her own family. And they lived happily ever after.

My favorite...season!

Our writing teacher told us to write about our favorite something.Anything.

So, I decided to write about my favorite season.

Summer is too hot, winter`s too cold, spring and fall is best.

Spring is just enough warm, and fall`s just enough chilly. I like them.

I love spring. Spring is warm, full of holidays, and there`s the start of a new term too!

Starting of a new term, my birthday(03.13),mom`s birthday, parent`s day, children`s day, teacher`s day, and other great things are in spring! And, of course, plants and flowers bloom too. There`s suddenly green all over the place instead of white, there`s so much warmth, a perfect weather for a picnic.

I love autumn too. Fall is chilly, but it`s not as cold as winter. Leaves have pretty shade of red, yellow, then they fall off the trees. I like to go on a picnic to a mountain and pick some leaves from the ground, then I save them inside the books I like,or I just make them drift away on a little stream (if there is one). Sometimes I read books peacefully,then a leaf falls off and lands on my hair. There are a lot of holidays too,such as Chuseok, Korean Thanksgiving. It`s a great time to get together with the whole family.

Spring and autumn, they are my favorite seasons. But it`s starting to disappear because of global warming. We have to save our beautiful two seasons. Let`s make the global warming disappear and become spring and autumn saver!

My diamente poems

I wrote some diamente poems in my writing class.
Here goes!

GLPS

nervous uneasy

straining    shaking    sobbing

EOP     tests       room     blanket

comforting cuddling consoling

relaxed friendly

Home

Is it good??

I`d really like to know.

Diamente

hard   ridiculous

humiliating envying embarrasing

words   thesauraus   diamond   shape

trying   thinking   searching

anxious worried

Poems

I wrote a diamente poem about diamente poem!

Ha!

mother

cozy warm

smiling cooking helping

chef laugh humor computer

working playing loving

funny happy

father

There`s a couple more, but they are in my diary and Ms. Hughey has it now, so I`m sorry but I can`t post them. Aaaaah~

Was my poem good? I`d like to know. so please comment about my first-ever diamente poems!