Byebye,,,

I just stopped by to say goodbye to my classmates and Cara.
I didn't realize that I'm the last person in the photo of this front page.
Vehbie.. Ziyad.. Cris.. and me
Time flew really fast...like an snapshot of cameras..
I still remember the time when I took cara's idiom class for the first time..
Thank you for your enthusiastic lessons..
It was my pleasure to have you Cara as my best teacher and it will last forever for sure.
take care and keep in touch !

"To learn another language is to possess another soul" Cara said once..
and I guess now I have another one thanks to Cara, who is the greatest teacher,ever.

Obama's speech

I was very impressed by what he said in his speech. but after that, the question just popped up in my head. how wasn't they elected as the president even thought Obama's speech was that touching? I'd like to know how Red side do. i guess the speech was a great first step for him to spread his clout.
that's why we can see him on tv a lot today as the president of the U.S.

imperfection

when i was in a high school and practiced singing to get acceptance from a university, i always wanted to be perfect. i really wanted to sing perfectly without any mistakes so i hoped it gave people some stunning impression. i thought only perfect performance could do that. i was so obsessed with it. now i think i weren't happy at all. pursuing perfection is kind of sweet poison. i'm not going to say it's wrong. it's worth a try but i don't think i can be last that long. it's tough. everyone can make mistakes and i also have made countless mistakes in my life.it's not a shameful thing.just take mistakes as a proof that you are human-being

My favorite Invisibility..

no actually it's not my favorite. I don't know. power of invisibility is more than just the power. flight can't be a proper rival to invisibility. as i said in class, having power of invisibility is sort of human's unsolved desire. for me, flight can be my future dream. but it's not enough as super power. i think a person who chooses flight as super power is lying to themselves. it cannot be denied. it's a instinct that flows in your blood. have you ever thought that when you saw you Mr. right or Miss. right and felt like you have to follow them to see what they usually do? however, becoming invisible is kind of lonely work. we should be ready to endure loneliness anyways.

The differences about family between Korea and The U.S.

The differences about family between Korea and The U.S.
When I saw this question, I deeply thought that what differences we have.
I’m not sure if you know about Korean family in the past well but I would say that in the past, Korean family was very very strict. It didn’t seem to be a relief place as home today. We still have this kind of concept. Fathers are very powerful in Korean family. Sometimes, this power makes their children give up his/her dream. I know it’s sad but it happens for real. And I think the way that mothers usually do to family is as same as mothers in the U.S.
I think this thing could be a huge difference. Parents support their children until before they got married in almost all families in Korea. I mean that financial support is also included. Even thought sons/daughters turn over like 25, parents still support their children. Parents give them allowance. And this allowance is supposed to be back to parents when they get older and can’t work well. It’s not necessary but usually people do.
Lastly, parents prefer sons to daughters. It has been changing so I’m not sure if it still works today. But I guess people still think like this. People’s name is supposed to be followed by their father’s name. So I guess that parents might be considering that only men can keep their family over and over. That’s why men is a little bit welcomed when they see the world for the first time.

Christmas tree? Holiday tree?

since we talked about the Christmas tree, I've been confused about the freedom of religion and establishment things. when they built the U.S. over the new land, furthermore, when they came from england, the reason why they escaped from england was because they pursue the freedom of religion. but somehow, as history goes on and on, people in The U.S. started to think that The U.S. is the country of Christianity and celebrating on Christian events on public places. this facts is a little bit ironic. i feel like these actions are kind of invisible pressure to people who live in The U.S. and don't believe in Jesus. I have the same experience as it. when I was in military in Korea, it was the Chinese new years day and as usual, we celebrated it. but the problem was the way of celebrating is for Buddhist and all soldiers are supposed to take actions of the way of Buddhist. but as you know, Christian doesn't do thing like this and even don't bow to ancient. of course, it was allowed to soldiers that just standing at the set of table for celebration and pray. we could choose what to do in front of table. Korea is not the country of Buddhism. but we did it and we do now as well. I didn't believe any religion at the time, but i just did what Buddhist are supposed to do. definitely I felt pressure for that. what i want to emphasize is that if someone who has authority try to make his/her belief public so often, it is unfair and violation of freedom of religion. this is invisible pressure for other people.

I'd like to know why people believe in god.

I know I'm kind of weird person about religion. I think I can call myself atheist. but it doesn't exactly explain myself 100%. I've believed what I've seen and what I've experienced. every things that happen around us have reasons definitely. this is what I believe. I like to talk to myself not to god.only myself give me the answers. I also believe everyone has 2 faces like devil and angel. life is tug-of-war between them.
do something or stop doing it. no one dare knows what you are supposed to be and controls you. I don't know what I'm talking about~ am I supposed to say this?

Footballholic

is it correct? footballholic? can I say footballholic? I don't know lol
football.. why is it so popular especially in the U.S. I didn't understand why..
i tried to understand why Americans are so into football and watched football games several time even though i had no idea about specific rules. I just caught myself zoning out....what i'm watching now like this...I used to just turn the channel in 10min. 10min was more than enough at the time. however, since I've started to research it and realize some rules, which is very important, I feel like I'm getting into it. am i going into that black hole?

trip to free library

Actually,it wasn't my first time to go to free library. I hate to say this but when I was in drexel, I was given assignment to visit free library which is located in around vine street and participate in some activities. and i didn't know there is another free library except that place that i mentioned. and i heard they have a lot of events that is very helpful. anyways, i went to free library near kaplan and i was a little bit surprised that there were a number of people there. we all looked around the library and got a card and finally borrowed a book. but a woman was so upset with us. I know she was busy but..how dare.. argh.. i don't want to say it anymore. i just want to keep it as a cultural difference. sometimes, we need to be more patient with something that we can't accept. thank you for your time!

Oklahoma land rush... and heroes.

As soon as I sit, Cara started to show us some video clip. I didn't know what that was but I just watched. in the video clip, everyone was standing at the starting line riding horses. some of them had wagons. all of a sudden, all people who was at the starting line started to run at starting signal. "what the heck are they doing?" at first, i thought it was kind of ancient sports game. but it was not. I was totally wrong. it was the way of taking the land in the past. as a citizen who lives in such a small country, Korea, I was shocked a little bit and I was jealous of the way that they took lands as well. it's sad that even South Korea is smaller than Pennsylvania. anyways, after that day, we've learned what happened after people took the land and how they survived. "how do they survived in that deserted land? it was the first question that popped up in my head. although I knew how hard that was through my military experience, it's essentially different situations. surviving from nothing. it's surprising and amazing.I guess that's why people live now romanticize them. we all know how tough it was and i think no one dare try to put themselves into that situation. self-reliance. perhaps, that's the reason how The U.S. has reached this top status among the all countries. although America's history isn't that long compared to others, they already knew it how to survive by themselves.

A Kind And Generous Heart.

http://thisibelieve.org/essay/43396/

I don't know what happened to me but..
when I needed to put any topic in the search box, I caught myself typing "donation" without any thoughts. I started to listen to Christine little's story..it's touching more than enough. her son was very sick when he was 13years old. he had a disease called cardiomyopathy, which happens because of heart muscles. he was in hospital unlike his friend. he couldn't hang out with his friends. but one day, fortunately, his parents got a call that someone donated a heart. she thought that it's truly the present of god but in other words, it means that this heart came from the family that would have much more griefs. even though her son died after 2years when he transplanted a heart, she was saying that she received a precious years with him.. and decided to donate her son's cornea by his request. a selfless giving. I've learned the most beautiful word today.. it is a selfless gift.
something highly motivated me.. and I don't know what it is exactly... only i know is the way of how to live my rest life.

I dare disagree with Socrates !!!

'the unexamined life is not worth living"
I don't think so.the more you think about yourself over and over, the more your life become complicated. and also it could put you in a small cage. sometime, just let your life flow freely. life is not that long enough to think about yourself a lot.

In Korea, blogging is considered a good way to show yourself. Even though it's just a web page, each person can decorate their own page with an lot of stuff that is different from others'. however, a few years ago, there was a big problem related to personal blog page. a guy was really interested in cars and he started to collect almost all of articles about any cars. he also wrote his opinion on his web page.as time goes by, his web page was getting bigger and people became a big fan of his blog. his writing was pretty clear and honest. his blog was a full of information about cars. furthermore, his opinion is even more powerful than any other media for example, tv commercial or experts' analysis about cars. hyundai an kia, which are really big car company in Korea, realized this facts and they tried to convince him to post about their cars in a good way. they, actually, gave him a lot of money and made him upload lies. those companies wanted to cover the deficits of their automobile. and finally, he did. all information on his blog became manipulated. he is making a lot of money just posting some lies. these kind of things is happening a lot again and again now.I'm wondering how blogs end up in the end....

why do you think people are using blogs??

Hello my name is Bongsung Kim from Cara's class, of course.I'm in the middle of the class now!! let me introduce about myself a little bit I'm from Korea and I'm really interested in cars and my dream is helping poor people living in all over the world.

The reason why people are blogging is because of the results of individualism. People is getting more individualized regardless of their intention. Human-beings aren't supposed to be alone and no one ca live alone. It's true. However, somehow the social circumstance is forcing us to feel loneliness. So blogs appeared and have become a useful way to get people's attention. By doing this, people has started to feel that they could be a part of society. They feel alive communicating with others through blogs even though it's a tiny little personal things.