For some weeks before the exam starts, we did project making a porfolio about the Renaissance. I made a story book that is short, and have some illustrations on it so that little kids can also read, and understand.

It was little hard to write a story book for kids because I have never wrote it before. So I think it wasn’t really a book for kids. I like what it was made at the end but feels like I could make it better than this. Also I think it was a new thing to try for me, and gave me the chance to try a new kind of a story.

Passion Project

Few weeks ago, we started our passion project of this year. I decided to do it with Sheila because I thought doing with her will be better for my project that I was thinking about at that time. Now, the project has changed a little by caring about the time and experience from last year.

We decided to make a comic book and stuffs that we use in life that characters in our comic books are drawn, but after we searched some information and calculated the time, the book will be hard to get finished. So we changed the plan and started to write the list of the things that we are going to make.

1. Mug cups
2. Sticker
3. Tumbler
4. Cloth that we use to wipe the glasses
5. Poster
6. Notebook
7. Pencil case [maybe]

We are going to finish it 2 weeks before we show it to other people because we need to check the qualities of the things and count the number of it and see if it is right or wrong. I hope the things look good at once because we need to pay the cost of making things and if it comes wrong, we are throwing our money a lot.

I hope this project ends successfully and stays in good memory after.

[Plan]

finish sketching until April 19th

Draw it again in computer/phone using proper program until May 7th

Send it to Taobao and order it successfully until May 9th

Get it all before May 16th

and then check if there is a problem or not

From April 1^st to April 4^th, we had holidays to stay at home, go out and play with our friends, or go to trip with family members.

My family decided to stay in home resting quietly. At first, we were going to go out somewhere else then just staying at home but when the day came, we were too lazy to not go. The time that we went out was only when we were hungry. We went out to eat lunch/dinner in Global Center, Jahamoon [Korean Restaurant].

On Saturday, after we ate lunch, we were going to the Auchen to buy some things that we are going to use this week. While we were going there, we found a park that was full of bamboo. In there, one old man was selling sugarcane drink. I have never tried it before, and my sister wanted to drink it so we came out of the car and bought two cups of it. It didn’t taste that sweet as I heard but it tasted as lots of fruits and sugars are mixed together. I just drank it half of it because it was too sugary to drink one cup of it. However, my sister drank it all of it and wanted other half either. (sugar monster..?)

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Princess Deok-hye

A book that I read this weekend is called [princess Deok-hye], this book is a real story that is based on the records of the Korean history.

She was the last princess in our history, and a woman who lived really poor life having a title of last princess. When she was born, even though she was the princess of our country, she could not get the name, and also couldn’t be called as princess until she had to go to the Japan. She had to live there for a whole life about 5 years before she dies in the palace where she lived when she were young child in Korea. This book is the one that tells her life realistic and it is mostly fact about her life.

While I was reading this book, I thought about how she would feel while she was alive. I felt sad when I read the part that she had the mental disease after her daughter said to her that she hates her mom and she doesn’t want to be her daughter.

I think it is one of the best books that I have read in my life. I want to offer others too so they can know about her, and understand her.

These days, we were learning about human rights in class. We read world human rights in A4 paper and started the wikispaces project about it. The project was about making a page about one human right law by myself or in a 2~3 members in a team. I choosed to do by myself and started to search about one human right law, copyright. That I was interested about it because I am the one of the person who draws a thing and post it in SNS such as Tweeter, blog, wechat (moment) and Kakao Story (Korean Instagram).

In this project, while I was searching about it, I learnt more about copyright. Such as how long the copyright law does have effect on each object. It was much shorter than I thought before, I thought it would be more than 100 year at least but it was only 40~50 years. Also, because the punishment doesn’t work so well so the owners cannot move to protect their things by law. I knew it is hard to say something about it for my drawing not to be steeled. We can only post a word about stolen drawing and make that person never do the SNS ever. (However, they make a knew account and do it again)

I am sad about the internet was not working well and that made me can’t finish my work until the end that I wanted it to be seemed. If I had just one more day, I would have better page and words. And when we do similar project next time, I will try much harder to improve my page to look better and easy to understand what I want to talk about this topic.

Copyright is a word that means a right of the owner of the structure to be protected by law until 40 years pass after the owner dies. Human rights about copyright is the right about the structures that one specific human made. Other people can’t follow, or make that is their’s that they made by their one idea. It is made for protect person’s work and the owner’s feeling.

I think protect of copyright is very important, because the word copyright means the owner of the structure gets right to allow spreading of their stucture and right of their one. This law is important because it the rights of the structure and the owner is not protected, the structure will be spread every where and there would be no identity of it anywhere.

By these reasons, I think copyright is have to be important part in basic human rights and this have to be done by lots of other people who thinks one person’s object is nothing.

On Friday December 12, we had half day at school. We had a pizza party and did changes of presents to each other. I brought packs of candies from Korea but it looked too small in front of other’s present. In pizza party, we ordered lots of it as much as we can, I was worried if we can’t eat all of it but when we started to eat, I noticed that it is useless worry. We ate it a lot that we had only few pieces left at the end of the day. After coming back home, I did a shower and started to prepare like doing my hair and do some makeup on my face that did not work at all.

After we ate dinner, my family and I went to a airport. While I am in the car, I texted Dabin to ask her where she is and she said she is already in the airport where they do a ticketing. When we arrived to the airport, we put our carriers on the cart and ran to the ticketing place, so we can have a seat quickly and I hopped it is not a seat right infront of the engine.  I really hopped it isn’t right infront of the engine, but I didn’t noticed right after I checked the number of a ticket that it is a number way back of the airplane and it is really right infront of the engine that will make me half crazy for 3 hours.

When we finished doing a ticketing, we went to get a check of our passport and ticket to the person in the desk, I saw Oliver there so  i said hello to him and went in to the gate. While I was writing my passport number, flight no., name, the year and day when I was born. I had to write my mom’s and sister’s either and do their signs as I remember and make one because my sister Chae won, asked me to make one for her telling me she likes how I do sign so make one similar with that.

I met Dabin there and had a talk about lots of topics. After that, we met Samuel, Ian, and Joey in the gate, we played together until the time that flight is ready comes. I was half sleeping and half awake, I listened to the music for whole hours while we are on the plane spending my lovely batteries. I was tired but didn’t want to sleep on the plane because  I always dream a night mare when I sit infront of the airplane engine. Finally, plane arrived to Korea and it stopped at the gate going in to the airport. I felt so happy when I first breath an cool air.

Reflection

This unit about culture was related most of the parts that I know about the culture. Such as the culture about the female and males, funeral, caste system of ancient China and the things that is in, and called as it is a culture.

Something that extended my knowledge is the European culture from the poems. I knew things about it by reading it and searching about it to know more about it. Something new about the culture is that it is hard to be used to other culture after a person is grown up in the other culture for a long time. The reason that I thought like that is because it wasn’t that hard to be used to other culture for me. I lived several places since I was 5 years old until now for about 10 years. It wasn’t hard for me to get used to it so I was curious about why they can’t be used to it. However, my sister was not fast as me getting used to other places so I thought about her and understood them.

I used to think culture is just people like to memorize it and do it each specific days in these days that lots of culture have disappeared. Now I think the culture is the main source of creating people’s personality that will be gone forever.

This unit was not that challenging for me. It was the thing that I was interested when I was young and I was in Czech Republic. I wanted to know about Korean culture and by reading a book about it, I picked a book about Chinese culture also and read it when I was young and memorized it until now. This helped me a lot in this unit and it was much easy for me to understand this more than other units that we did. I think is the second time that I felt it is easy one to do it after we did “Romeo and Juliet” last year. I think this unit was fun and I liked to do home works about it.

On September 13, 2015, Sunday grade 9 and 10 from Leman international school went to a trip to Heishui that is in Tibet. We went to a trip for 4 days, on first day to Heishui, we went to Wenchuan and stayed in the guest house. The way going there, we were on the bus for 2 hours. I was sitting with my friend Dabin and we were listening to the music on ear phone sleeping. I heard all music that is in my phone and did games with other friends too. I tried to go card game in bus with them but I thought it will get dizzy when I play games one the bus so I just sit down on my sit sleeping for 2 hours.

After 2 hours passed, we arrived to a guest house that the base color of the building was red and grapes were growing on the woods. I and Dabin became roommate and got room that is up on the roof and have ladders to go up the small roof and look around the village. The guest house was really large and the quality of the building was not so bad. However, inside was not cleaned well that dusts were all around the place. The bugs were flying in the room also it looked like it is a guest house for bugs and dusts. The sky was blue and air was clean up on the mountain (the guest house was on the mountain) but air in our room was felt like I am in the desert. Warm water did not come out, so I and Dabin could not take showers, we just wash our hairs quickly and came out of the bath room. Toilet there was really bad, place where we shower and toilet was right beside each other and also we had to send water that we used to the toilet and flash it after we had a shower. After we changed our cloths in to warm one, we went to visit foreigner’s houses. We looked around the house and also heard about the history about that house. It has been more than 2000 years and the owner’s ancestors have been leaved here more than 2000 years.

I felt surprised about that because in these days, children and adults won’t like to live in old houses and go out to modern places. Same as my thinking, nothing related to young adults and children was not found. It seemed like the old owner of this house is the last person who lives in that house. That house was made by long woods, and no nails were used to build the house. Only woods were used to be holding each other and support. There was a room that we can cook foods, it was in the middle of the room of the house

After we came back to the guest house, I changed my cloth in to comfortable one that I wear when I sleep. I went to Sheila and Sophie’s room to turn on the music and play games. We did rock scissor and paper and the person who won drew funny things on the loser’s face. We had to go down to eat dinner with that face because it was dill that we promised before we start the game. Lots of people laughed at us when we went down to the restaurant with funny faces. After eating dinner, we went up to the room and started to play games again. We played card games together listening to the music. We turned on the K- pop music and started to sing, we wanted to make Tae Woong angry by singing A- pink’s song loudly. We were laughing when we sing songs, it was fun to see Tae Woong’s angry face and keep coming to our room to say stop it.

We slept after 2 hours and when the morning came, we went to the Heishui riding bus for 4 hours. We stayed there for 3 days more in a hotel and did lots of various experiences that normal students could not do. we went to the place it is similar with temple but not. (Monastery) We learnt about Buddhism gods, Siddhartha was the prince of  Indonesia. He wanted to go out of the palace and learn about real life so he went out of the palace and starts to live same us poor people. And at last, he notices about what is the real life and became Buddha. He haves few students to teach what he noticed and one of them goes to the other place to teach other people Buddha’s notice. Next day, we danced in the park with the foreigners, few played with the kids chasing them and others were dancing or resting. I learnt how to dance their traditional dance, it was hard to follow them but it got better and better and at last, I could dance quite similar with them.

On 28^th of August, 2015, Friday during language art class, we talked about being an independent learner. Also, we talked about the various ways to be an independent learner. During the class, I could understand it at first, but it got confused later. So I was worried about it, because if I don’t understand it well, it will be hard for me to write a blog post later after class. But finally I understand 80% at last by thinking about it lots of times and make a list of connections of it. To be an independent learner means, that we are learning lots of various things in the world by our self, or study only one things for a long time. Being an independent learner will be really hard for most of people who were learning in groups of least one person together for a long time least 5 years. Learning independently needs to know how to understand things that you don’t know by yourself. Such as finding dictionary, search in internet and ask someone. Also, being an independent learner is related to the cultures too, cultures around us can affect us big and also give us help or troubles. For examples, there are place where we are learning, manners in our characteristics, foods we eat, education systems, and climates of the country where we are studying. Most of the people could think why that affects us huge. And now I will explain about it one by one, first, a place where you are learning gives you affects by the cultures in that place, second, education systems in every country are different so the place where you have education is really important too. Third, manners of the countries are different, the position we study is different and also how we study is different too. There are other things too but it is too late so I will write until here. Thank you for reading it.