4. Optional Extra credit 1. Find another blog post on the same topic as the blog post that you summarized this week. Read and take notes. (The other blog post does not have to be one of your classmates’.) On your own blog, compare and contrast the opinions of the two bloggers.


According to her, listening to the advice of family or friends is wiser way to learn about life because it can gives you better answer, since the adviser has already experienced the situation where you are put into, and you don't have to take risk to experience it yourself.
However, he disagree with her. He thinks the advice of others give you indirect and incomplete understanding about the situation. In this sense, he prefer to have firsthand experience, which is worthy taking risk

3. On the blog: Summarize the main points of your classmate’s opinion blog post and then say whether you agree or disagree and why. Link to the original blog post.

He said that learning about life by listening to the advice of family or friends can give you helpful answer without taking risk, but it gives you at the same time indirect information. In this sense, he think that having personal experience is better way to learn about life because it gives you more direct and correct understanding. I agree with him.

http://sophie2357.blogspot.kr/2013/05/week-12-homework-two-ways-of-learning_30.html?showComment=1371294363831

3. Optional extra credit: Answer the following question with a 200-300 word essay on your blog.

What do you want most in a friend: someone who is intelligent, someone who has a sense of humor, or someone who is reliable? Which one of these characteristics is most important to you? Use reasons and specific examples to explain your choice.

Intelligence and a sense of humor are important things in making friends but I think that reliability is the most important characteristic to me because I believe that relationship is built on reliability.

When I was in a high school, back then I had different type of friends. One of them was a really funny man. He was like a comedian to us. When we hang out together, we laughed all the time. We never got bored. However, he was not faithful and does not know what a friendship is. When I needed support from him as a friend because of some serious problems, he ran away, though he was responsible for it.

A friendship does not just mean enjoyment. A true friendship, being involved in a relationship with someone, means taking responsibility for your friend. The responsibility in a relationship basically means reliability which includes honesty, sincerity, faith, support and encouragement. If it is a true friendship, you can share personal stuff, and to do so, it requires fundamental trust that he would stand on your side no matter what happens. In this sense, I believe that reliability is more important than intelligence and sense of humor in making friends.

2. On the blog, answer the following question in a 200-300 word essay:

Some people believe that the best way of learning about life is by listening to the advice of family or friends. Other people believe that the best way of learning about life is through personal experience. Compare the advantages and disadvantages of these two different ways of learning about life. Which do you think is preferable? Use specific examples to support your preference. 

Some people think that the best way of learning about life is by listening to the advice of family or friends because they think that family or friends can look though the situations objectively where you are put into and give you a wiser advice than what you can come up with, since you are the subject in the circumstance. However, I can not agree with the idea. Human acts by what they believe true. No matter what is objectively right or wrong, and good or bad, people follow by their believe system. It is not about right or wrong but what they accept true and think worth to believe because it is them not someone else who pay the price and take the risk. It has nothing to do with someone’s opinion, even when they accept other’s advice, they do so because they think it is believable and worthy. In this sense, I think that the best way of learning life is through your own personal experience because the experience is not from others but your life, and you earn it by paying the price though your life, whatever the price is, so it is very believable and worthy following by to you whether it is good. The experience obtained through your life is an alive advice unlike others.

D. Optional extra credit 1: Write an extra blog post. Tell about something you did this week

I hung out with my friend from church last weekend. We couldn't go out far since i was on my final, so we went to 이수. She came all the way here. Hanging out with her wasn't awkward or weird but fun, though it was first time to hang out with her outside alone. It was more like two close friends hanging out together after a long time. We really got closer in very short time.
We went to play batting after dinner. There were a few people. I thought her how to swing a bat. She got scared of it at first but later enjoyed. After that, we walked around for a while and went to a cafe. We sat on the second floor where it had a huge window, so we could watch people walking around the street.

2. On the blog: write an English review of a Korean TV program, film, or book (200-300 words)

Serendipity
The title of this movie means a haapy accident. The story of this movie begin with a woman and a man who grab the same gloves for their each lovers. The moment they first met, they felt that they were attracted by each other. So they decide to have dinner together . It wasn't gorgeous dinner. It was more like simple dinner but sweet and lovely.The more time they spent together, the more they felt attracted to each others. At the end of the simple date, he asked her phone number but she rejected it because she believe in destiny. So, she wrote down her number on the first page of a book that she had with and he left his on a dollar to buy candy. After that they tried to contact to each other but failed and regretted that they didn't exchange each other's phone number. After 7 years of effort to find the book and the dollar, though they left the cities where they lived to find it but failed. however, she fortunately found the dollar on return flight back home. She went back to the city where he lives but found that he just got married. On the other hands. the day before the wedding he was given the book from his fiance as a wedding gift. He tired to find her but couldn't because she left the city to find him.
On the wedding day, he couldn't get marred because he was in love with her so he canceled it. They walked weakly around the street. They accidentally met each other at the rink where they had a date

4. Optional extra credit: Write 200+ words about a book that you have read, a film or TV program that you have seen, or a song that you like. Tell why you like it.

Beautiful Mind

I love watching movies because it is the best way to get rid of stress to me, so when I feel depressed and stressed, I normally watch movies. When I watch movies, I feel like I am in totally different world where time even doesn’t pass. I can fully fall into movies and enjoy what a specific atmosphere the movie makes without worries about the reality.

A couple of years ago, I saw Beautiful Mind and it became one of my favorites since the time. This movie is about a genius mathematician who has schizophrenia. He went to Princeton University. He was genius and unsociable like usually the genius are unsociable. While attending Princeton University, he started seeing ghosts but he didn’t think they were ghosts but real. One of them was his roommate though he didn’t have anyone. Other was the roommate’s niece. Around that time he met a beautiful girl at a bar though he was unsociable. Both got attracted to each other and got married. After graduation, he worked in national institute and saw another ghost, a Government agent who constantly gave him secret missions, which is decodement. He got so obsessed with code breaking that it caused many troubles. He went to doctor and started to have medicine but the medicine brought him other problems. The whole schizophrenia things drove them into very hard time but eventually they got through it. Thanks to his wife’s love, he decided to just ignore the ghosts without medicine. After long time, he won Nobel Prize. He said to his wife, “I’m only here tonight because of you. You are the reason I am”

3. On the blog, write a summary of the information that you found. Link to the original source.

http://www.korea.net/Government/Current-Affairs/Korean-Wave

The Korean wave, also known as Hallyu, is a term for Korean entertainment and culture that have been getting popular all over the world. It succeeded because of the balanced combination of Western elements and Korean traditional values. The first wave was driven by Korean TV dramas within Asian continent and the new wave which refers to K-POP lead the Korean wave beyond Asia, reaching all over the world with the development of Information Technology. The boom of Hallyu has led the fan of it to other Korean culture and life style.

2. On the blog. How could Chongshin University or the students be kinder to the environment? Write a report with your ideas. If you do research, quote with quotation marks or paraphrase your source. Tell where the information comes from and provide a link back to the original source.

REPORT ON THE ADITTUDE OF CHONGSHIN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS ABOUT ENVIRONMENT

INTRODUCTION

In recent years, as our country’s economy has rapidly grown, the environment has been destroyed because we have failed to protect the environment and always put interests before the environment.

CURRENT PROBLEMS IN CHONGSHIN UNIVERSITY

1. Too much food garbage.

As the restaurant in the school does not provide students good food, many students left much of theirs share of food and throw it away.

2. Not enough effort to separate garbage

There are not enough amount of recycling bin in the school.

SOLUTION TO FOOD GARBAGE

1. Appropriated budget of the restaurant in the school will make it possible to serve students better food and it will be led to less good garbage.

2. If the restaurant let students distribute food themselves, food garbage will decrease.

SOLUTION TO RECYCLING BIN

1. It will be helpful to reduce garbage that we set more recycling bins in the school.

CONCLUSION

It is considered that the main environmental problems in Chongshin University is food garbage. If we reduce the amount of the food garbage in this school, it will be very helpful to protect the environment.

4. Optional extra credit: On your blog, write 200+ words about one of your other classes. What is the most interesting thing you have learned in that class this semester?

Since I am majoring in theology, I am taking a class related to systematic theology in which the most I am interested out of many other specialties. It is about Protestant’s doctrine. There are many different type of categories in the field. It goes first about God. Specifically, it is about the unique properties of God. One of the most important things about God is the Trinity doctrine. It is very important because mostly heresy has a wrong knowledge about the Trinity doctrine. If you have a wrong understand about it, it drag Jesus down to the ground and it will give you the wrong idea of what Christian salvation is. Basically, the knowledge of the Trinity is related to salvation.

Before I explain about the Trinity, we all should know that it is totally impossible to understand the Trinity entirely, further partly, because it is a mysterious knowledge that belongs to God. Although, we can entirely understand it, but we must know what it is at least if we are Christians. God has three unique hypostasis. Each hypostasis is distinguished but not segregated. Each hypostasis has the same essence. I know that it is difficult to understand and there are not enough explanations, as I wrote it in English, but this is it. There can be more explanations because we can’t in human languages.

3. On the blog Write a review of the lecture. Who was the speaker? What were the speaker’s main points? Would you recommend the lecture to another student? Why or why not? Include a link to the video.

http://www.ted.com/talks/terry_moore_how_to_tie_your_shoes.html

A fat and old man starts to give us a lecture about how to tie shoes. He begins the lecture with his own experience. He bought nice shoes. Those shoes came with round nylon laces and he couldn’t keep them tied, though he had a confidence in tying. So, he went back to the store and said to the owner, “I love this shoes, but I hate the laces”. He took a look and said, “you are tying them wrong”. After this story, he tells the audience the usual way people tie is wrong and weak and teach how to tie strong, which is tying the knot by going the other direction around the loop.

He concludes that sometimes a small advantage someplace in life can yield tremendous results someplace else, from the lecture.

4. Optional extra credit: Write a 200+ word “how to” essay about one of the following:

  A. How to study English

First, check if you have strong motivation for studying English. It’s always the most important one whatever you do that usually people overlook easily.

Second, make a goal in studying English. There are many other ways to study English. The reason you study English can be that you need a high score in one of English test required from school or you want to speak English fluently in order to talk with and make foreign friends. Therefore, make sure what you need to do.

Third, memorize as many English words as you can because whatever goal it is, it require you to know words but look up the word in English dictionary and find out in what exact situation it is used and how exactly it’s pronounced.

Fourth, read books written in English. It’s a good way to improve both your reading skill, which is based on all the other skills in English, and speaking skill because it will make you more used to the grammatical order in English, which is totally different from Korean.

Fifth, listen to a conversation recorded by foreigners. The more you spend time on listening, the more you will understand. One thing you should know about this section, there is no fast way to improve your listening skill. Practice it every day. Be steady.

3. On the blog. Write a review of the how to video. Write your opinion of the quality of the video and list the main steps. Include a link to the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH9z7eTfEvo

It’s a good video to learn how to swim for beginners, since basic steps to swim are well organized and explained. As it’s a quite short video, it won’t be hard to follow the instruction. However, it doesn’t include full detail of the move of stroke, as it’s just for beginner. For that reason, I added some detail in the assignment that the video doesn’t include.

4. Optional extra credit on the blog: What is your dream job? Write at least 200 words in which you explain the job and why you are interested in it.

I love watching movies. I don’t know since when I like it, but I still remember that I got very excited every Saturday night because there were movies on TV. Although I was just a little kid who didn’t know what a movie is like and what the actors were doing in the movie, but I just enjoyed the movie and the acting. I don’t know whether it had an effect on me to watch movies, I think I was talented in acting when I young. Sometimes I acted as if I had been sad or angry while hanging around with friends. All my friends didn’t figure out if it was playing. I used to imagine myself acting in hypothetical situation for fun, while laying down on the bed to go to sleep. Back then, it was really fun watch their puzzled face, and that nobody could figure out if I was acting, as it seemed quite real. I really enjoyed making fake feelings and imagining putting myself into some hypothetical situations. I was a curious boy. I wondered about the feelings I’ve never felt before. I used to spend time on imagining the feelings and situations as if it was from a movie. Even though I’m a grown up, I imagine it would be fun if I became an actor. I think I would try if I had good looks like actors.

3. On the blog. Suppose you want to hire a personal assistant. The personal assistant may help you with cooking, cleaning, shopping, proofreading your English writing assignments, or anything else that you would like help with. Write a classified ad for your assistant.

Looking for a personal assist.

Personal qs.-yr. experiences?

Pref. f.t. if poss

R’q’rd. cleaning, writing assign, shopping.

Btw, the preference will be given to candidates who are a good cook.

3. On the blog (optional extra credit): Write about someone you admire. Tell why you admire them 

It’s Jonathan Edwards that I admire most. At first, I didn’t know much about him until I started reading books about him. Since I started reading those books, I got shocked by his passionate life in faith.

He is one of the greatest believers with John Calvin and Augustine in Christian history. Some people say that Calvin and Augustine have a great effect on Christian history, specifically in Protestant history, though Jonathan Edwards is the greatest one. Each of these great theologians have a feature in their theology. Firstly, Augustine had a broad knowledge of the world, and it is well shown through his works. Secondly, the feature of John Calvin is conciseness in his work. The essence of his conciseness is well shown in the book that he compiled the whole Christian doctrines into it. Lastly, though they were great theologian without dispute, Jonathan Edwards had something different form them, which is one of the reasons some people estimate him superior to the others in some way. It is the depth of his theology. His work is full of profound insight.

Another reason that I admire him is that he was a person who never let himself lazy and satisfied but tried to live a life rightly in God. In his mind, there was nothing but Jesus. He didn’t want to feel or have anything if it’s against getting to know God and growing his faith in Jesus. He made decisions everyday to live more like Jesus and estimate his life himself if the decisions were retained.

I’ve never imagined if there has been a person like him who struggled incredibly hard to live after Jesus. I hope someday God made me as passionate as he was in faith like he did to him.

  B.Optional extra credit: Write an extra blog post. Tell about something interesting that you learned about in chapel or one of your other classes.

I took a class named ‘understanding of God and human’. It was about Christian doctrines. I’ve learned many things from the class. The most impressive one among them that I’ve learned was about the providence of God. What it’s said about the providence of God was beyond what I thought it would be. God not only created universe but manage it himself. It said that God manage everything on earth. Nothing can happen without his permission. Anything can happen, if he wants. Even a leaf can’t fall off without his will. A drop of water can’t fall down on the ground against him. The same thing applies to human. He discerns our going out and our lying down, and is familiar with all our ways. He perceives our thoughts from afar. Before a word is on our tongue he knows it completely. So, there is no such thing as a coincidence because everything is under his control, even Satan. 

 A. Write a travelblog (200-300 words) about a place that you have gone. (The place could be somewhere around Chongshin University if you prefer.) Include photos if you can.

I’ve gone to JeJu island a couple of years ago, which is located at the bottom of Korea. It’s one of the most beautiful tour spots in Korean. As it was busy season when I went to JeJu island, it was expensive at almost twice the price than usual. So, if you are planning to go to JeJu island, I recommend that you avoid peak season.

I stayed there for 2 days. On the first day, I rented a car and drove along the seashore. It was amazing to drive, listening to music, along the seashore in a lovely sunny day. I visited 천지연 water fall. It consists of three different water fall. Although the first one was the smallest among them, it was the most beautiful one. The water fall was surrounded by columnar joint and the color of the lake was emerald green, which was incredibly beautiful.

On the second day, I went to Seongsan Ilchulbong, which was an amazingly beautiful small mountain that has wide plain and is surrounded by sea. Though I haven’t gone to many places, it was the most beautiful spectacle. My first view of the scene took my breath away. I was totally overwhelmed by the solemn scene.

If there is only one place I can visit again, it’s the one without hesitating. I hope you visit there once someday. 

3. Reading: A travel blog (next week we will be writing travel blogs in class) Upload your report here on Educlass.

Web address: http://www.camelsandchocolate.com

Author: Her name is Kristin Luna. She’s a travel writer by profession

 

Place that the writer describes: Though here are many places she’s been to but I’d like to go with NYC

 

Did the blogger have a good time? Why or why not?

She went to NYC this time. She traveled light without laptop, photography gear. She described the first morning she had in the trip like this, “It’s hard waking up on a sunny day in New York, with the Hudson River stretched out before you, and think of anywhere else you’d rather be at the moment.” and she sent Washington Square Park. she said the weather seemed to be smiling.

 

Write 3 interesting or useful phrases that you found:

1. a jacket and scarf were both necessities

It’s quite a bit awkward expression to me as it finish the sentence with a noun which is totally different from korean.

2. keep it a secret

3. take the view from up here anytime

D. Optional extra credit 2: Write about a club or church group you are involved in. What does the club do? Why did you join?

Although I don’t belong to any clubs or groups now but I was in a group that helps people settle in a church. We welcome them and help them not feel left out in the church. Most importantly we studied bible together to help them to receive the gospel. We had them in the group for at least 4weeks until they were ready to get into other bible groups. It was meaningful to help people who first came to the church and a pleasure to meet new people. I think it is always exciting to meet someone that you haven’t met. 

C. Optional extra credit 1: send an English thank you e-mail to someone

Dear Wu Chan.

I’m writing to you to say thanks for what you’ve done for me. When I met you and Joy last year, I was still in a confused state of mind because of all the things that hadn’t been solved, though I entered university. Before then, I didn’t have anyone that I could seriously talk about the problems that I had in faith. I didn’t know what to do and how to deal with it. I felt like I fell into a big hole alone where there was no light, hope and help. I was struggling all by myself. But since I met you I don’t feel alone anymore as I can share how I feel and what I think in faith, although I’m still struggling and confused by the unsolved problems.

I’m always encouraged by you. You do your best whatever you do. You don’t waste time doing something worthless like everybody else but always try to do what you must do. Sometimes I feel depressed and emotionally exhausted. But when I see you live life to the full, I got encouraged by your attitude to life.

You are a brother in faith. I thank God that I met you.

Best wishes

I saw your advertisement in a magazine.

There are some other place that we have seen already but I am very interested in your place.

I plan to go there with my wife in late march and stay over a week but I am not sure how long we will stay yet.

There are a few questions that I would like to ask before making a booking .

Do you have an Internet network? I need it because I have to check my email.

You said that breakfast is served. Is it included in the cost of staying a night or It require additional cost?

I have noticed that there is a mountain near the house. Since we love hiking, we would like to climb the mountain, if it is not too high. Could you give us more information about the mountain. Is there any great tour spots near the house? We would like to visit some of the beautiful places nearby.

As it seems that we will have tenth wedding anniversary there, we would like spend a great time. Can you recommend us a nice restaurant?

For the last time, can you give me a discount if we stay there over a week?

I look forward to a reply.

 

Best wishes

Organization 1: World Vision

Web address: http://www.wvi.org/wvi/wviweb.nsf

Name of organization: World Vision

Type of volunteer/mission work: they have three major mission. transforming communities, responding disasters, seeking global change

Destination (where do you go to do this kind of work): they are global, working at the grassroots in countries all around the world

Cost to participate: they mainly look for sponers for the starving children. It costs at least 3만원 a month

Write 2 questions you could ask about this organization:

1. do you receive volunteers? if you do, are there any requirements for volunteeres?

2. genarlly, how long is the mission tirp? and how much it would cost?

 

Organization 2: Pioneers

Web address: www.pioneers.org

Name of organization: Pioneers

Type of volunteer/mission work: Pioneers mobilizes teams to glorify God among unreached peoples by initiating church-planting movements in partnership with local churches.

Destination (where do you go to do this kind of work): the whole world

Cost to participate: It depends on you.

Write 2 questions you could ask about this organization:

1. how much will it cost to go to Newyork?

2. does it require a fluent english speaking skill?

 

Organization 3: Green Peace

Web address: http://www.greenpeace.org

Name of organization: Green Peace

Type of volunteer/mission work: they work for the international enviornment

Destination (where do you go to do this kind of work): it is global. they go wherever the earth needs them

Cost to participate: its free but you can donate if you want

Write 2 questions you could ask about this organization:

1. what will I do if I send you application to save Amazon?

2. what is the qualification for application

 

Of these three organizations, which do you think does the most important/useful work?

⇒ I think what Green Peace is doing is important for everyone living in this world

 

Of these three kinds of volunteer/mission work, what kind do you think you could do

⇒ I think joining Pioneers is a good way to help unreached people

 

First, I love all kind of sports. I used to learn how to swim for almost a year. I love swimming.I haven't gone to swim for a while but I want to learn it again soon.

Second, my favorite soccer team is Liverpool in England. I started like Liverpool because of Torres who is my favorite soccer player, though now he doesn't play there.

Third, I love watching movies. It's the best way to get rid of stress for me. When i watch a movie, I feel like I'm in entirely a different world that the movie makes and time doesn't even pass.

Fourth, I became like reading books since I realized how many good things I can learn from books.

Fifth, I don't eat smelly vegetable.