Journal #15

What are your plans for the Spring Break?

My spring break

After I finished a reading quiz, I began to plan what I am going to do on this spring break with my friend at restaurant. I have a lot of plan to do. The first plan, I will go to Poula’s house, and we are going to have BBQ party together on Monday. After than on Tuesday, I will go to visit Mira who is my old friend last semester with Vuong, Tyler and my friends. Then on Thursday, I am going to Sixflags, Magic Mountain, with Peach, Poula and Poula’s friend. We really want to go because I heard a lot about this place. It is very exciting have a lot of roller coasters to play . So I want to go this place before I can’t play it.

Journal #14

Lee Server wrote a very elaborate article about Jackie Chan (the article we read in class). In the article, Server discussed Chan as a unique artist in the display of his cultural identity. Also last Wednesday, we discovered 8 nationalities represented in our classroom. Although there are features that make us unique as an individual, more often than not, our culture plays a big part in our identity.What makes you unique? How do you display your cultural identity.List (in a paragraph form) the features which make you unique as an individual. Connect your individuality with our cultural identity.

My cultural identity

My cultural identity displays a part of my life. I was born in Thailand. I grow up with my family which has grandmother, father, mother, two older brothers, and one older sister. I am a youngest sister in this family, so I have to follow the rule and obey who is older than me. Sometime, I had fight with my older sister. My mother would complain us about why we had to fight together because both of you are real sister. If we don’t love each other, it means that nobody will be like both of you. In addition, my mother always told me to help another person especially children and elder. My mother didn’t ignore to help them. I still remember and continue to do it. Although, I may be get a problem after I help them, but I really feel uncomfortable to ignore them. For example, my friend forgot homework at her house which was very important to her for send to her teacher. While we were waiting to study next class, I decided that I had to drive my car to pick up her homework even if we would have oral presentation in 15 minute. The last thing display about my cultural identity is my respectability. I always greet ,which action by raising two hands to touch together and put two hands on the center of my chest and after that slowly bow my head touch my hands ,a person who older than me before I went to school. However, in current I don’t live with them but I still do this action when I see Thai persons who are older than me in Unite States.

Journal#13

This is a free journal. You may write about anything you like, as long as it's clean.

My old friend

I still remember the moment time I met my good friends in the first class at ALP. I began to study at ALP in the last summer. The first time, after I knew that I had to study in here, I was very worry about my language how I can communicate with them, how I will manage with a new society and deal with them. After I continued to study one week later, I was very surprise we became a close friend. We had fun together. We laughed and laughed more. I was very happy to study with them. We usually have a small party and watching a movie after we finished quiz every week. In addition, I had had my first party birthday in aboard with my classmate and composition teacher. They sang a birthday song, and we ate a delicious birthday cake. Although, we had a lot of good time to stay together but it was a short time for us to keep contact. After I finished this semester, everybody had to come back home or transfer to another school. I really feel sad in the first weekend because everything will be change. However, I still have a good time with them.

Journal#12

What kinds of movies or books do you like? Choose one movie or book that is your favorite and write about why you like it.

My favorite movie

I usually like to watch comedy and romantic movies. I have a lot of favorite movies, and I still remember the story such as Notting Hill, Coyote Ugly, She’s the man, Music and Lyrics, and Holiday movie that is the most favorite movie. I had watched this movie maybe around 3 times because I really like the main idea of movie. It is about two women who never know each another before chatting together through computers. Both of them have a problem about their boyfriends, so they want to switch their house during the Christmas day. After that, they meet a good experience and excellent relationship with new friends. In the end of movie, they know how to deal with their problem. After I watch this movie, I always smile. I feel if I don’t try to do a new thing which I really want to do and will be changed my life, I won’t never know the end of my story. So, sometime when I am afraid to do a new thing, I usually think about the story of two women. Although, I never know what will be happen in the future, maybe it is a good or a bad thing, but I just try to do and learn the result of it. I think it is better than never try to do anything.

Journal # 11

My evaluation

I had talked with my composition teacher in last Friday about my homework. Before I talked with her, I know myself that I still have a lot of mistake when I wrote my paragraph. The reason is I don’t know what my problem is. I think too much how I can write smoothly and clearly paragraph. After I talked with her, I know my problem. Her comment helps me to know what my problem is. It is very helpful to understand a main of my problem and the way of solution. Now, I start to follow the direct way that she suggests me for writing paragraphs. I try to stop translation sentence from Thai language to English language. I begin to think every sentence which I will write by using structure of English. Even though, sometime I have had a problem about using a correct structure of grammar. I think my skill of writing didn’t improve very much in the former half of this semester because I might be absented three weeks in the beginning of this semester. So I didn’t know some important of basic of paragraph. However, it is good enough to improve my writing in the latter half of the semester.

Journal # 10

My niece

I have been here with my sister who was pregnancy. After nine months, my sister gave birth to a baby girl. Her name is Alyssa. Her weigh was ten pounds at birth. She was a huge baby girl. She has a black hair like her mother. Normally, her hair is straight but when she is taken a shower, her hair becomes a curly hair like fusilli. She has two big green and gray eyes like her father. Her eyes are very big like an egg of buck. When I see her cheek, it likes splendid tomato. Her lip is red rose on valentine day. Her skin color looks like a mountain in the winter. When she stretches herself, her long straight finger is playing piano. I always hear her cry, but it doesn’t annoy me her voice as same as a cat. When holding her, it like I carry on a heavy pillow. After I come home, I always smell her sweet candy hair and body. I wait to see her grow up step by step from crawling to walking. Every her moment has a lot of amazing event .

Journal # 9

My favorite Disneyland ride

I went to Disneyland on last Saturday with American Language Program. It is the first time for me to go this place. It was exciting and amazing. After I played a lot of parks such as Adventure Park, New Orleans Square Park, and Tomorrow Land Park, I meet my favorite ride at the Tomorrow Land Park. It is Space Mountain. The first time, I saw the time to wait for playing Space Mountain. I was very surprise. It was around one hour but I didn’t see many people in the line. I really wanted to know why it takes so long for this ride. After I walked in this ride following the line to the second floor, I saw a lot of people staying in the long line. I tried to find the entrance of this ride which stays so far for me. Now, I know why they told us around one hour. After I waited so long time in the line, I started to play the Space Mountain. It is a little hard for me to describe the first feeling because everything was been beginning very fast. I had to sit in the small machine and went through a dark hole mountain which I couldn’t predict my way to travel. I feel that I traveled in space by following extremely tortuous rail. While I was traveling in dark shadow by up to the top and down to bottom of the ravine, I tried to touch the glittery star during this way. After I find this ride, I really want to play again and again. It is different another ride. It is challenge, unpredictable and freedom. Although, every moment is very fast, but I still remember special moment when I play it.