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Dear
Yun hye,

 Hi, Yun hye! I'm your friend  So yeon. How are you these days? I'm about to melt nowadays. The sunlight is so strong, ins't it? I'm in Austin, Texas, you know. The weather is even hotter than Korea, but it's dry! I don't sweat well.
 I have to go ACC every day. I have class of: ESOL, history, composition, speech and so on. The professors are really kind here;more than our homeroom teacher! :-D In my homestay house, I usually talk my school life and go shopping with my host, Morgan. SHe is also very good and cool! She cooks Korean food very well. However, I wanna go somewhere with her more. Today, she had vacation so I have to go Stephanie's house. I'll go back to Korea on August 21st. I miss you a lot cuz you're always my best friends! So, wait little more, and see ya! Bye :-)

Your best friend,
So yeon

To,Too,Two & Who, Whom, Whose

 Today we learned grammar about the differences among to, too and two, then we learn who, whom and whose. It was pretty easy, but confusing.

 At first, we learned about to, too, and two. In case of 'to', it is preposition firstly. It tells us the directions. For example, to is used like this: I went to the police office to find the owner of the purse I picked  up. In case of 'two', it indicates the number. Like one, two, three... It can be used like "I bought two brushes at the store. Lastly, 'too' emphasize something, or 'also'. It is used like " Too much instant food cause fat." or " I hang out with my friends at that shopping mall, too".
 The pronounciation of all three of them are same, so we need to be careful when we use them.

 Next, we learned about who, whom, and whose. Who comes at the position of the subject, and whom comes at that of object, and whose indicates the ownership. For instance, who is used like this: Who stole my pencilcase? or My friend who is really pretty was casted on the street. Whom is usually used like" To whom did you send that present?" Finally, Whose can be used like " Whose pet is this?" or I met the girl whose dog is big and white.

 Those are what we learned today, and I'm going to study again about them and I'll never confused about them.

My childhood

 Everyone has their own, special and precious childhood, isn't it? I also have my memories of my childhood. Today, I'm going to remind my time when I was little.

 My first memory starts at when I was 4. At that time, I LOVE eating. It may sound like funny, but I really did. I used to have  two bowls of rice, including my mom's ,;, _ ,;, . While my mom was calling to her friends, I got rid of  all the rice into my stomach and then, I cleaned up all the bowls and cups. My mom was REALLY surprised to see the 'shiny' table. Actually I showed that table with a big smile. Whenever I think of that memory, I laugh. :-D
 There is one more memory realated to my appetite. One day, I had to finish my homework by next day, so I really had to do it that day. Of course, I didn't want to. My mom forced me to finish it, but I just played and slept. Finally, my mom used a hidden card. She said, "Unless you don't finish your silly assignment, today, no dinner to you!" As soon as I heard that shocking saying, I quickly sat on the desk and quickly finished my homework.  My mom was really happy to see the effect of her way.

 My second memory is when I was 6. In the kindergarten, I had time to draw something I like. Because I really liked dragonfly then, (which I really don't understand now) I drew several dragonflies with 10wings. My friend saw it and said " What on the earth is this? What have you drawn so far?" When I heard this, I was really angry. I think I was self-respecting, so I cover my picture with black crayon. I couldn't understand why I did that foolish behavior.. and that's my strange second memory.

The last memory is when I was 7. After classes in the kindergarten, I got some sweets from my teacher. I wanted to eat them, but my mother doesn't want me to eat any sweets. I thougt, ' I will eat them really quickly in front of  my house, and I'll go home. Then, mom will not suspect anything.' I did exactly what I thought and I heard some broadcast from the administrator of our estate. It was about finding me! I was very surprised to notice that my mom was looking for me! In the long run, my mom could find me, and she scolded me a lot.. :-(

 These are my most special memories in my chilhood and I'll try to make good memories from now..and..please wait my next story! See ya :-)

Reflective Essay

 The movie " Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring" is about an old and an young monk. They live in country side near nature and learn from it. One day an young monk went to mountain alone and bound fish, todd, and snake withe thread which there is a rock end of it. The old monk saw thet secretely and young monk get punished by carrying heavy stone until he make animals free. He found that fish and snake died. he felt guilty of that, so he cried.
 I have a similar experience with it. When I was young, I visited my grandmother's house very often. There was a dog. Whenever I visit ther I played with that dog. When I ran, The dog runs, too and I was interested in it. I always run to see dog's running and I think this made not only me but also dog exhausted. Also, I throw something to the dog. I threw food to dog and sometimes I throw a rock when I get andgry. My mom said that I must not do those kind of things but I had fun with playing with dog. In addition, one day, I have dog a pop corn. The dog ate pop corn very well so I was pleased with that. I continued to giving a pop corn. I didn't think anything about whether pop corn is good for dog's body or not because I was really young. I think it was just fun. However, next month I came back to grandmother's  house, there isn't a dog. I looked for the dog but there wasn't. I asked to my grandfather, " Where is the dog?" . He said that the dog died.
 I suddenley realized that the reason why the dog died is that I gave it  too much stress and bad food to it.

Spring Summer Fall Winter... and Spring - Master and his pupil (polish s...

Metafiction

 One day, Mrs, Johnson and her son, Donny were sitting on the sofa. Donny was talking about his preschool teacher who tells the story very well. Soon, Donny said to her mom, " Mommy, I want to listen to your story. Can you tell me one of the stories you have?" Mom answered, "I have a story that your grandmother told me when I was young. Do you want to listen?" Donny said, " Sure!" Mrs. Johnson cleared her throat and start the story of Vampire.

<Hungry Vampire>

 It was a dark stormy night. Lightning lit the sky and wind blew strongly. There was a small hut on a big hill, and there lived a vampire in the hut. The vampire was very hungry, but he was timid,so he couldn't go outside. And there wasn't any food to eat in the hut. At that moment,he found something walking toward the hut. He was wondering what it was. It came right in front of the hut. It was a beautiful girl. The vampire thought that the girl looked delicious. But when he saw the girl's frightened face, he decided to save her. The girl said, "Thank you", and gave him what she was holding in the basket. It was a loaf of bread. The vampire was so happy to see the food. He ate the bread hastily. But he was still hungry, so the girl made him a bowl of mushroom soup. Unfortunately, he had allergy to mushrooms.

<Mushroom Soup>

 "Is there a mushroom allergy?" Donny asked.
 "Yes, to vampires." Mom lied.
 "What happen if they eat mushrooms?"Donny asked again.
 "If you listen carefully, you'll find the answer, Donny." Mom replied.

 Finally they fell in love with each other. And they got married and had a baby.But the baby was really strange. He also had an allergy to mushrooms. One day, there was food which looked really delicious. The vampire didn't want to show eating food hastily. He tried to eat slowly, but he couldn't stop his appetite. Therefore, he ate the food sharing with his son. Suddenly, their skin became red and they wantd to scratch. Yes. It was made with mushrooms.

 "Was it made of mushrooms? They can't even notice that it was made with mushrooms?" Donny said.
 "You ate tomato soup yesterday dinner and you didn't know what the soup is made up of though its color was red, huh?" Mom said.
 "It's different situation, mom. They have an allergy. They cannot notice the smell of mushroom." Donny said.
 "Vampires only can smell of blood." Mom answered.
 "Mom, what's today's dinner?" Donny said.
 "What do you want to eat?" Mom said.
 "Mushroom soup!"
 "No, I'll cook vegetable soup. Please come to kitchen when I call you to eat."
 "Then why did you ask that question to me?" Donny said with angry face.
 "Because mushroom is vegetable, too, right?"
 

 "Right." Donny said.

 That night, Donny dreamed about a girl cooking mushroom soup for vampires.

Dear.Shoes



Dear. Shoes

Hi, you're in my shoe bag right now. I have something to talk about you.

 I think my shoe bag is too small. Doesn't it too hard to stand that dirty, small place? I actually doesn't wash it very much. I'm sorry for that. I 've been just care about things that are placed "up". I haven't seen bottom of my body much even though you're standing my weight and protect from things that hurt my feet like broken glass or something. Sometimes, instead of my feet you got hurt many times, right? If there were many scratches on you, I just wanted to throw away you. Then, after I throw away and buy new one, I realize that you're the most convenient ones. I could wear you more. I'm very regreting about it.

 Also, when I lose you, I realize that you're on of the most important things which are worn on my body. Without you, I should walk freezing road with snow. You're always protecting my feet and stand hurt or cold air yourself.

 Nobody want you to in their room because you have mud, dust, and harmful viruses. They just put it in porch. Although you're not working, you have to bear all of these weather. However, you never complain about it. You just keep do your work quietly. Those who buy you ar people and those who throw away you are also people. We sometimes forget  what your role is and how important work you're doing for a moment.

 In addition, there is discrimmination among your world. People prefer shoes that are made in famous brand. Though you're born to protect people (that's your job) but sometimes you are thrown away with no opportunites to protect people's feet.

 I want to say sorry to you. I will wash you often and think of you from now on. One more thing I decided to start is that to live seeing people who are on "bottom". Do you understand what it means? I'll sacrifice myself for those who are in poverty or someting when I grow up. I'll help them very often like WHAT YOU DO EVERYDAY. You're on bottom but actually you're on the top.

 Thank you for your work and I'll learn from you. Again, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.