Matilda

Do you like stories where the kind wins and the bad loses? If so, you should read “Matilda”, by Roald Dahl.

Matilda is an extra ordinary girl who reads and calculates really well even though she is young. However, Matilda is treated badly by her parents. So she counterattacks by outsmarting them. She puts superglue on her father’s hat, acts like there is a ghost in the house and puts her mother’s hair dye in her father’s massage oil so that her father’s hair becomes dirty grey. At the age of 5, Matilda goes to school. Her teacher, Miss Honey is kind and gentle. On the other hand, the head mistress, Miss Trunchbull hates children and treats them badly. Miss Trunchbull’s bad attitude toward students makes Matilda angry and she gets super powers. She can move things without touching it. When Matilda finds out that Miss Trunchbull is Miss Honey’s aunt who used Miss Honey as a slave after Miss Honey’s father died, Matilda decides to use her power to help Miss Honey. In Miss Trunchbull’s class, Matilda moves the chalk without touching is and writes as if it is the ghost of Miss Honey’s father. Miss Trunchbull runs away so Miss Honey gets back her property. Matilda’s family runs away to Spain because Matilda’s father got caught by cheating customers. Matilda stayed with Miss Honey and they lived happily ever after.

I think that this is a story which teach us that doing bad things well eventually be revenged and doing good things will be rewarded. At the end, Miss Trunchbull and Mr. Wormwood got punished for their bad behaviors but Miss Honey and Matilda lived happily ever after. I have some similar experiences. If I do something bad, it comes back to me in a long term. If I do something good, then I get rewarded in other ways. I think that even though life is quite tough, if you help other people like Matilda and Miss Honey, you have a happy ending one day.

I recommend this book to people who think that their life is tough. Even though this is just a children’s story book, it shows that Miss Honey and Matilda had a not really good life at first, but at the end they became happy. I want the readers to read this book and realize that even though life is tough now, if you help other people you will be happy.

My six years in yeodo

Come on, people! This is just a poem!

Don’t look at me as if I came out of foam.

Now, would you like to hear my story?

It’s just my history.

When I was in first grade

I learned to drink lemonade.

It’s just a joke.

Don’t spit out your coke.

In second grade, we sang about the multiplication tables.

We had to topple over as if we stepped on cables.

I had a great time when I was in third grade.

Every day, we played.

Fourth grade was a blur.

I had a fight with a girl.

Fifth grade was wonderful.

Our teacher was always cheerful.

Now I’m in the sixth grade, thinking about the past.

I learned to do everything really fast.

I will miss Yeodo very much.

Book report on Frindle

Do you like stories about a creative young student doing a big thing? If so, you should read Frindle, by Andrew Clements.

In this book, there is a boy named Nick. He is very creative and likes to put things to action. Nick meets Mrs. Granger, the language and arts teacher who is very strict. In Lincoln elementary school when Nick was in fifth grade, Nick tries to make “Frindle” a new word for “Pen.” However, Mrs. Granger tries to stop it by punishing the students who uses the word “Frindle.” Nick solves this problem by spreading the word in shops and at school. The news spread all over the country and so many people got interested in it that “Frindle” couldn’t be stopped by punishments. After 10 years, the word “Frindle” got added to the dictionary that Mrs. Granger sent to Nick. Also, Mrs. Granger confessed that she was acting the bad guy to make “Frindle” a real word, which was quite a surprise. The lesson of the story is that students should put creative ideas into action.

Although this is just a story, I think that it can be related to the real world. Lots of young students do big things. Even though making the word “Frindle” is not an important thing, I think that it was a great thing to make the whole country to know it. I want to be a great student who makes a big event.

In my opinion, Frindle is a very good story that encourages students to be creative and put things into action. I’d like to recommend this book to students who live quiet, normal life so that they can read “Frindle” and begin to be creative.

Prologue + Chap 1

Mystery school

1.     The start of C.I.T.C

 

Prologue

 

“Lots of strange things happen here.”

“Yeah”

“We’ve gotta make a plan.”

 

Chapter 1

 

Rue was walking across the school playground. Her long blonde hair that comes to her heels flickered.

“Rue Greenbird!” yelled someone behind her.

Rue just had time to turn around before a boy crashed into her.

“Mitchell Brown! Stop that!” complained Rue.

Mitchell grinned and shook his straight black hair.

“Ok, Rapunzel” said Mitchell.

Rue just rolled her eyes.

“Say, how ‘bout making a new CA?” said Mitchell with twinkling eyes.

“A new CA?”

“Yeah, a new Club Activity. I’ve already made up the name for it.”

“Say it” demanded Rue.

“C.I.T.C” said Mitchell.

“C.I.T.C? What’s that supposed to mean?”

“Curiosity Improves the Cat”

“Wait a moment. If you’re going to use the saying, shouldn’t it be ‘Curiosity kill the cat’?” asked Rue with one eyebrow raised.

“That’s the point, Rapunzel! How come curiosity kills the cat? It’s just a thing made up by adults who don’t like children’s questions. We solve mysteries and prove that curiosity improves the cat!” said Mitchell confidently.

“What a ridiculous idea. But I do like mysteries. Let’s give it a try” said Rue.

“Way to go, Rapunzel!” screamed Mitchell.

“I told you a million times, DON’T CALL ME RAPUNZEL!!!” growled Rue.

Mitchell stuck out his tongue and ran off before Rue could catch him.

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.

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.