ike

definition

    It is impossible to climb  a mountain without water. It is a clamber. when I was in Korea, I used to climb mountains with friends. Climbing a mountain, I think my  sweat was vaporizing rapidly. So, we need sparking water while climbing  mountains. If you forget to take water up a mountain, you may face a crisis that you will be thirsty more and more, and that situation also will be a disaster. Even though climbing a mountain doesn't take  an eon, I think the best way to avoid that crisis is to take water up a mountain.

Dancing with past tense

     when i stepped in the  room, Terrie was sitting on a chair and preparing this class. she looks energetic. What  happened to her. she might have a good plan during weekeen or she will give us too many assignment- Noooooooooooooooo!

    Anyway,now I have to dance with the past tense.

    this is  a true story. Almost 10years ago, I went to Guam , a small  island  located in the East Pacific Ocean. At that time, I was almost broke because even though I was working at the TV station, I spent my money drinking and travelling to the countryside nearly everyweekend. So, i could'nt save my money. One day one of my friends asked me why don't you go to Guam with me. and I decided to go there but I didn't have  enough money to go there. Therefore, I sold my own car and I began working at a culb as a  DJ : i was almost crazy.

  When i arrived at the Guam airport, it was raining and windy. It was really  terrible. You can imagine that situation. Through the whole year, Guam is always hot and I wanted to enjoy swimming , driving and watching tropical scenes. But what happen was my room was  so cold that night i had to be covered with a blanket.

  The second morning , the weather was better than yesterday. it was cool. My friend and I rented a sports car and werer  driving to all of the famous places and ate a lot of delicious seafood .

  The following day, we went to a resort  at a  remote beach in order to swimm and ride a canue. When we were riding the canue, and  also two younger people were riding a canue but they didn't know how to use to the paddles. Few minnutes later, we heard that someone was yelling like "help me". We were looking arond for a while. What's the hell going on there. The canue that younger people rode was turned over so, they were almost drawn, but I could stand stopping my laugher because where they were drawn wasn't deeper enough to die, menaing that they were in  a shallow of the beach.

  The final day,  After we  finished packing our stuff, we went to a swimming pool   because we were a little tired and had the exrta time we could sleep on chairs there. But we slept heavily and the guide called the police about us as missing people. The guide didn't find where we were sleeping. Fortunately,a safeguard heard of the announcement that the police ware looking for us ,and then we could come back home even though we caused the problem.

  What a good memory!. I will never do that again.

at 12.4 06/30/05

    I am in a class.But I am little tired because i tossed and turned all last night. i don't know why.........? age studying,think of life, future, lover,or parents. Anyway ,big holly day , just 4 days,is coming. i gonna enjoy my life, but enjoy what, whom with.

      What a beautiful day! everybody says. But it's been really hot and hot for a couple of weeks. As a member of my sister's family, I have been cleaning a wimming fool. It seems to be  easy working, but I hate it because it is really boring. In addition, from spring to fall, I have to take care of garden. Since i came here,I've watered  flowers and threes and a  lawn even though there are many sprinklers. By doing my duty, i've felt that i am one of my family. Also i planted many flowers  last wekeend in the backyard with my nephews. But I'd never planted  many flowers before.

     Even though gardening and cleaning have brothered  me , up to now,  I like to do them. In Korea, I'd never done these and also i had  no time to do these. One day,I suppose that this stuff will be one of my hobbies.

    One thing, what i like is  playing golf. Since i came here, I've played golf almost everyweekend exept in  winter season. Because ,in Korea, green fee is expensive more ten times than here.

   If someone has experienced  gardening or cleaning wimming fool, please tell me.

      

                                  

  Me again, now you can negnize me!

     

    Call me Ike friendly!

Crime i School

      It's really a gooooood news that crime dropped sharply in mosy trouble-plagued schools this academic year.Crime in schools is a big issue all of the world. If you are a parent or you have nephews or neices, you are intresting in and concern with. ON TV, in movies, in magagines or on internet, there are much violence that young people can follow. young people's crime are related to adult's bad behavior, meanig that they are likely to follow adult's behavior.

    Fortunatly. according to this aticle. overall crime dropped 52 percent, and violent crime fell 57 percent. i hope every year the crime rate will be decreasing in all school and our cummunities and school will be safety zone-a safer learing environment.   " obedience to the law is demanded as a right, not asked as a favor"

    IKe's today suggestin : Don"t do moonwalk . it's irregular

Identity versus prejudice

         What is identity? People usually depend on their identity when they are in danger or have to decide to do somethingimportant through the whole life. In my experience, I can define the words "identity" and ” mindset” as a strong belief that others can’t invade even though that can made others’ troubled mind l, sad, unhappy, depressed or frustrated. The Gravity of pink (Eden Abigail Trooboff) and Go Carolina(David Sedaris) are about these writer's own experiences at the young age that they had a lack of identity.

       In The Gravity of pink (Eden Abigail Trooboff), the author defined herself: I am a woman, meaning that she now doesn’t depend on her figure as female or wasn't disappointed in vulnerability. But when she was a young age, she spent mych her times and energy hesitating to find herself –that is, she had a terrible memory about a summer party that made her feel to be a child because she was picked up so easily by a charming man. And also she was serious and worried about women’s weakness. To the strength of man, she might feel flirted with him. That’s right, in contrast, if a person looks like "David", who likes him or feels to be attracted by him. Now she seems to find her identity and understand that" body enough to know that it has enough spiritual weight and pulsation not to float away” (The Gravity of pink). Also she believes that “The female is female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities"(Aristotle)

In Go Carolina (David Sedaris), there are two identities of author and main character, miss Samson. Author had a bias to miss Samson with a heavy western North Carolina accent that he used to discredit her authority. He lisped and was good at cooking like scones and cupcakes for someone, watching Guiding Light with her mother (I don’t exactly what it is), and collecting rose petals for use in fragrant potpourri: anything worth doing turned out to be a girl thing. That doesn’t matter for me whether he will be a gay or not. What’s his prejudice! I am wondering what he wanted leaders to know about his essay? : Using a one-side, boring miss Samson, he described her as a bed people. As for me, I am tending to avoid F sounds. Instead of F sounds, I use to other words - that is film versus movie. But I don't blame to others who help me or use them for me. Author said that his speech classes never made him a difference, but he knew that Agent Samson who was a teacher about articulation tried her best to work.  Even though his speech classes was nothing for him, he and his mother might find a new way to overcome his obstacle, meaning that even thought she gave him endless pestering or repeated badgering, that made he can find a new therapy that he thought normal people didn’t have.

Different people have different  backgroud or environment having the different  identity. Also two authors have their own identity. We sometimes are confused by using two words identity and prejudice. As far as i know, identity is based on either direct experience or indirect experience,streotype,whether that is true or not, and also prejudice is based on either selfishi or ignorance.

Which one is better either called you "YOU" or "UNCLE"in English

     What are good for people's life in now and future. When I was trevelling to many cites and intresting places, I could see many parks , libraries, and museums that made me impress about American and American's life and America. Frist, at anypark, many people were practicing that they like or are intrested in. also in the libraries, I could see many old people who were reading books. In addtion, in the museums, there are many tourists who wanted to learn about historical valves of America or get information about their intrests. I suppouse these are good for not only human's body and people's mind, but also next generation.

   In America, there  are many similities and differences compared to Korea where I was born and grew up. Even though sometimes both of the simlities and differences make me sad, happy, angry, extied, I am really enjoying my America's life.

   Long times ago when i visited to Chcago for the first time, I took the driver's license test and easily passed it. So, now I get a the driver's license. that's because between road rules of Amrerica and that of Korea are almost similar except turning left. In Korea , when I only have a left traffic signal, I can drive to left. Because of exception, I had a car accident at the intersection in last year.If you have a America driver's license, you might drive safetly in Korea.

  Have you ever thought of calling foreigners "YOU"in English? When somebody who seems to be younger than you calls "you" or indicates "you",it seems to be rude to a Korean. Here is one example. For the frist time when I met my nephews who were born in America, they called me "YOU" instead of "UNCLE".That situation is really impolite speaking behavior in Korea so, I was a little upset. And then I explained that situation and told them you are a Korean-American so you have to learn or study the Korea culture and language.

SORRY, I DID'T COMPLTE MY  ESSAY CUZ OF THE TIME

   

Who is IKE?

   I am from korea. My original name is IlGwan Kang but you can call me IKE friendly. I came here to Chicago two years ago because I wanted to trevel to all of the intresting places in U.S. Now I am living with my sister's family which is  a big one: grandmam, brother in law, two nephews and two dogs. When i had treveled  here, I changed my mind in order to study  Media Menagement in the graduate school in Coulumbia College that one of my native friends,graduating from Columia College, rocommended me. In classes, I might have a great time with all of the class mates and teachers , and also I hope my English skills will be improved a lot. i am forgettable. Sometimes i may forget your name ,If so, please forgive me. that's why my friends call me "The Old Man". Anyway, good to see  all of you and let's make our classes outstanding, awesome, intresting ,and fun together.