Monday, September 24, 2012

Sistine Chapel


The Sistine chapel was built in Vatican, the smallest city in Rome, from 1473 to 1481 by the pope Sixtus IV's orders. However, in 1508, pope Julius II hired Michelangelo, an artist, to decorate the ceiling. After that, in 1536, Michelangelo was called up again to paint the 'Last Judgement'. Lots of praise goes to Michelangelo's ceiling and 'Last Judgement'.

The ceiling was painted from 1508 to 1512. It gave a lot of damage to Michelangelo's back and neck. The central part of the ceiling shows scenes from the Genesis, the bible, and there are paintings of prophets on the both sides.

The 'Last Judgement' was painted from 1536 to 1541. It shows the moment when God judges a man.

Excluding these two well-known paintings, there are much more paintings in the Sistine Chapel. I wish to go there one day. I do believe that it will be a special trip.


Summerize

'The Tiger Rising' is a story of a 12 year old boy named Rob. Rob lost his mother and lived with his father in 'Kentucky Star' motel, Florida. Rob felt sad when he thought of his mother, but didn't let his emotions show. Rob was bullied a lot but kept all his feelings in an imaginary suitcase. When he saw a tiger in a cage in the woods, he used the thought of the tiger to close the suitcase. The day Rob saw the tiger, he met Sistine, a girl with an angry temper. When Rob showed Sistine the tiger, She insisted to let it go. Rob was helping his father with the motel works when Beauchamp, the owner of the motel and the tiger, gave Rob the job to feed the tiger and the keys for the cage. With the keys, Rob and Sistine freed the tiger. However, Rob's father shot the tiger as soon as it ran off. Rob got angry and opened his imaginary suitcase. He said every thing that he had kept to himself. He felt free and much lighter. The story finishes with Rob and Sistine having a funeral for the tiger and going to school.


Wednesday, September 12, 2012

After 15 years

I can imagine myself teaching students English in Seoul National University. I've graduated the Minjok high-school in Korea as my wish. I have a big picture in a frame of me and my friend Ceri laughing out loud in graduation day. Then, I went to the Seoul National University. I studied English literature really hard and took off to America as soon as I graduated. I got the master degree in Yale University in America in 2 years. I spent a year in America to take a rest.

One day, I met a man in a small library who became my husband. My husband is from Connecticut, America, and he is a doctor of a hospital. He is kind, gentle and sometimes quite romantic.

I am an English teacher in Seoul National University, and I enjoy my job. The students sometimes doesn't listen to me but they go along with the class quite well. English literature can be a quite boring subject. However, I try my best to make the class fun and helpful. Personally, I like poems. They rhyme and also has their own meanings in them. I try to show the students that there are poems that help our lives and give us courage with a secretly contained meaning.

 I am pregnant so my husband and I will soon have a daughter. We will make a book of our daughter's childhood.

I should also mention that I am a comic illustrator. I've enjoyed to draw comics even before I could even write. I remember drawing a comic without words and that needed explanation of what was happening in the drawing. I love to imagine, create a new world with new characters and make a fun story. I didn't stop with just imagining. I started to draw my own characters and developed it more and more. I began to write the main character's thoughts and conversations. I developed it more so the eyes became much cartoon-like, the face from the side became much beautiful, the hands became much realistic, and finally I figured out how to put in speech bubbles using the computer. I use basic skills because I figured things out myself. I like to look at my old comics thinking about the developments I made through years and I try to remember the day when I drew the comics. The comics that I drew in my childhood are not just regular comics, they are memories to me. They are drawn by my own hands, they remind me the day I began to draw, they also remind me of my friends who enjoyed my comics. Now drawing and publishing my comics is my minor job. It is a job that I can show to lots of people and also my children.

I drew three characters that I'd like to have as my children. One is a girl with her father's curly blonde hair and my black eyes. Another one is a boy with my straight black hair and his father's blue eyes. The last one is a girl with hair of the combination of blonde and black, and has one black eye and one blue eye.

I will live happily ever after with my children, my husband and my parents. I wish that my life goes on like this.


Sunday, September 9, 2012

My name poem

Dreaming to be a great diplomat
Also wanting to be a well known comic illustrator
But it seems to be hard to be good at both
In fact, almost every students my age has the same trouble
Nobody knows the future. It depends on how much I try.




Friday, September 7, 2012

Visualizing

Book Title: Tiger Rising
Author: Kate DiCamillo

I am picturing Rob and Sistine running away from Beauchamp's car. Rob and Sistine laughs and hold hands as they run through the woods. I can imagine the smell of fresh grass which squishes under the two childrens' feet. The scene looks green and bright.

Rob felt sad and depressed after his mother's death. He kept his feelings and emotions to himself, into his suitcase. However, Rob thought that he looked silly when shrugged as Sistine said, so he laughed along with Sistine. Thinking about a funny thing with Sistine made Rob feel something that he didn't have for a long time; Happiness.

Saturday, September 1, 2012

Acrostic Poem

Tiger


Tiger is a fierce animal
It is big and has sharp teeth and claws
Girls think that tigers are scary
Even the boys think so
Really? I think that tigers are cute!