Journal #10

Last year in America , I experienced a unforgettable event in church on Thanksgiving day. In Korea, We are used to celebrate Thanksgiving day on sharing Korean cakes and plentiful fruits with lots of people in church. We also have special worship and meeting. We don't eat turkey. However, we know the story how to make Thanksgiving day come from. I could experience to taste turkey with crenberry source, pumpkin pie while we enjoy talking friendly each other.
I felt amazing atmosphere in America that I couldn't do in Korea.

Journal#9 spending 6 months in ALP

It passed six months since I have attended in ALP. I feel my English skill is better than six months ago. I took the class "IBT toefl prepared" in this semester. In the beginning, I couldn't say anything in speaking test. However, I could answer something about questioned topic in the test taken a few days ago. I could't answer completely to question, but I am happy I can answer a part of question. Especially, I think tutor system in learning center is effective to ALP student. It is important how many times you can speak with native person. I have spoken with tutor three times a week. It helps me not to get an afraid of English. Besides, when I was talking with tutors who came from different countries, I can meet a lot of information from tutors. I would expect my English skill after another six months. Maybe my English skill will be better than now. If I go forward to get an one step after one step not to hurry up, I wish Iwould get to the goal.

True Friend

It's hard to define a true friend. Some consider friends to be someone easy to get along with, or someone who gossips with me, and share troubles with me. In my case, I have a true friend who has similar circumstances with me. When I was faced with great troubles, I could share my suffering with her. She also had gone through lots of pain and distress. Therefore she is able to understand my mind when we talk each other about the problem. We can be consoled with mutually. Sometimes, I can tell her about some trouble which I can say nobody, even my parents and husband. Besides, we are keeping a lot of memories. Six years ago, I have suffered from asthma. At that time we shared lots of time to hike and golf with her because I need to breathe fresh air and relax to be better from asthma more than anything else. That made us feel sympathy each other. Now, we are far from together. However, our mind is always close to each other. When I come back to Korea on next year, we may spend lots of time in speaking.

Journal#7

Television programs I usually watch are CNN news and NCIS. Theses are helpful to me in learning English. However, I don't feel it better than before. Time goes by, I wish my English skill would be improved. First, comparing to two programs, CNN news offers me a lot of informations for around the world. Furthermore given some topic sentences with pictures and formal pronounciation make me more easily understand it. In the case of NCIS, I can't hear many words from it. But I can focus much more on it than news because it's story is interesting. So, I usually watch NCIS when I was boring in studying. It enables me to refresh
myself. I think News and NCIS is intended for adults. Sometimes, we can see cruel pictures from them. I think It is necessary for children not to be exposed themselves to such programs.