英语随笔写起来~~ From Sophy

October 21 2016 (Friday)
It's chilly in the moring and evening. Of course it will become colder and colder, and winter which i hate will finally come over too.┳＿┳
I'v been suffering from irritability rhinitis(过敏性鼻炎) for a couple of years. My nose and eyes are itch, and i sneeze a lot everyday. My nose is sensitive to the temprature, humidity, even smell of environment around my nose. It likes warm, clean and wet air and hates cold, dry, and dusty air. Dusts which are from clothes or other places usually make my eyes and nose streaming agian and agian. So i have to take pills to relieve these symptoms and wear a mask when i clean up home, clothes and go out.
In winter, it's colder, drier and dustier than in other seasons. So my rhinitis usually gets worse in winter. That's why i don't like winter very much.

Novembr 2nd 2016(Wednesday)
Time is run so fast.
I even didn't realize that today is already Wednesday.
I am reading a book borrowed from the library this week .
It's originally an english book and the writer is an American.
It's a great book which is transted in more than thirty kinds of foreign languages.
I read a Korean version. I must finish reading in a month because you are allowed to check out books for one month.

November 17 2016（Thursday）
My goggles which was being used were not so good. So i bought a pair of new goggles at an online shop several days ago. Two days later, i got a text message said that the items i bought would arrive on that day.
my door bells rang on that evening. But when i hered and then opend the door quickly there was nothing around the door. I thought someone might make a mistake because it was just about 10 senconds from hearing the bell to opening the door. Then suddenly i got another text message from the same number. At this time i was told that the goods were put into a place where fir hydrant was in. Someone who rang the bell just now must be the man who sent the goods to me, i thought. So i called the mumber and confirmed it. Then i opend a fire hydrant's closet on the wall near my door and saw a package in there. I took it and checked the address. So i opend the package but i was suprised. because it was a book not my goggles! Then i called the post man again and asked why i received the wrong goods. He asked me whether i opend the neighbour's closet of fire hydrant and told me my goods were in another closet.
After talking with him i finally paid attention to the adress written on the package and found that it was really my neighbour's. Then i returned the package at once and apologized to my neithbour for my mistakes. However,she thankd me because she said that she didn't know there was her package in the closet of fir hydrent.
I took the mistake and the post man was a little irresponsible meanwhile. Finally i called and asked him to wait a liitle more when ringing the door or give customers a call before delieving the goods.
Anyway it was the first time i have experienced such a thing since i moved here for three months.

Monday, November21, 2016
Eifo provides manykinds of free courses to improve our English. Watching English movie is one ofthem. The purpose of watching English movie is to enhance our listening andspeaking abilities. But now I am almost unable to understand what the actors oractress said without the subtitles below.
I watched an Englishmovie at our YY open class on Sunday. The movie named point break. Actually I followedits subtitles from the beginning to the end. And I have forgotten the dialoguesof the movie. But it’s difficult to forget those scenes. It was about peoplechallenging the most dangerous activities in the world. The scenes were so amazingand incredible. I even thought they were made by computer technologies ratherthan human beings. But I was wrong. They were really finished by people. So I wastotally scared and my hands sweated during watching the movie. Because it wasso dangerous and it was like I would die.
I saw those men who wereeager to reach that extreme points and break them even if they died. They continuechallenging the new and more and more difficult things to go beyond themselves.I think that was what the movie wanted to tell us.

Tuesday, November22, 2016
Our new AVIIIcourse started last week. My teacher is Joshua with a very good voice. He has been teaching English for many years. I also heard that he is interested in computer and likes programming.
The topic of the first lesson of our course is about childhood. When you say something about your past, these patterns will usually be used. For example, you can ask peoplein this way ‘Did you use to do something when you were a child?’ And answer like this I used to do something. The negative way is I didn’t use to do something.
According to my parents,I was like a boy when I was a child. I did what most of the boys did. Of course I can remember some of them. I used to clime up trees, walls or roofs. And because of climbing lots, I used to tear my clothes. I remembered that one day, I climbed a tree and found birds and their eggs. What a naughty child I was!
When I was aprimary student, covers of my books or the first or the last page of my books usedto be ruined. It was always torn or gone just like I eat them. I really didn’t know how to protect them very well. This would get better later when I was upto five grade of primary level.
My grandma and my younger brother were always in memories of my childhood. My grandma who lived with us liked pets and flowers. She used to have cats and plant a lot of flowers outside every year. My younger brother and I used to sleep with grandma’s cats. I remembered that when the baby cats were born, we used to take care ofthem and we used to help my grandma giving water to the flowers. Grandma’s cooking was very good. My grandma left some wonderful memories for me. Sometimes I miss her and those tasty foods she cooked though he had passed away for 20years.
Time is run too fast to believe my childhood has gone away for more than twenty years old.
Oh my god!~

Wednesday, November, 23th, 2016
Today i listed to a chinese old song in English. The name of this song is "后来". I think most of Chinese people know this song and can sing it. I don't know when its English edition come out. But it seems English edition is not well know yet to people.
Its English edition aslo sounds wonderful. It makes me feel comfortable. I enjoy listening it.
And the iyrics is beautiful too. I like it. The words like this
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Whole life the wonder such you bring the beauty
i can see but i keep deep inside on it
oh life i feel that i can bring it again
in the world where love will still remain
choose your words make them whys
many things have produced where we are
I am here
here with you
close your eyes let love heal the sorrow
once again i feel in life
i'm sure of this insight
and i need you more than ever
life's told me so much more
feel stronger than before of this feeling stay here
forever
long ago i was blind
i thought the love was so waste here to stay
bu we walked all the way
and we said good bye
even though i knew i loved you still
suddenly you were gone and she was in your rounds
its picture i remember
i was lost could not be saved my life just ran away
i only wish that we could start over
but true love will find its way
now i love it seemed to stay
i lost it once and now i found the way to live again
oh life i wonder such you bring the beauty
i can see but i keep deep inside on it
oh life i feel that i can bring it again
in the world where love will still remain
but ture love will find its way
now i love it seemed to stay
i lost it once now i found the way to live again

Thursday, November 24, 2016
Have you seen blind persons swimming? I have never thought about it. But today I met a woman who couldn’t see in the swimming pool. Actually I had seen her several times before because we always swam in the same lane. But I had no idea about her except she looked very concentrated and energetic. That is because she never see anything or anybody and she never stop when she starte swimming. So I even thought she was a littlestrange. But I was wrong. She is not strange, she just can’t see. So if you think someone is strange there are probably some problems with him or her.
Today we still swam in the same lane. I’m just studying backstroke recently so I swim backstroke very slow. I didn’t know she was behind me until my feet touched her body maybe her hands I guessed. I stopped and saw another woman coming and taking her to a place where no body was. Then she began to swim again. It seemed something was wrong I thought. So I asked that woman who had helped her. But she said it was ok. So I rest assured. Later another woman told me that she couldn’t see. I was very surprised. And I thumbed up for her in my heart.

Friday November 25,2016
My friends calle dand told me about her husband. She wasn’t satisfied with her husband andsounded a little sad. The more they argued the worse their relationships got. I understood my friend and comforted her. Meanwhile, I wanted to tell her about below.
We can't be dependent on other people even our parents or our husband or wife. Everyone has to lead his or her own life. Some people said that couple is an each half circle individually so they can form a whole circle together. But that is not right. Actually every one should be a complete circle. The two complete circles love and push each other. Although we are not perfect enough we can try to understand and accept each other. In fact, no one is perfect in this world. We mush learn to how to understand, forgive, even appreciate any imperfect people and things rather than hate them or complain. Sometimes we hope to change our friends, lovers, parents or anyone who we care about to satisfy ourselves. But don’t forget, that’s impossible. You should try to love them rather than change them. The only thing we can do is to change ourselves to be a bit batter than we were. The harder we try the better we will to be. Then you’ll find that the relationship between you and the others will be better too.

Wednesday,November 30, 2016
I studied some useful English expressions of real life in our class. Our learning materials which are more practical and interesting are different from those had been used in schools when I was young. They are more closed to our real life. So you can remember it much easier.
For example, Unit2 is about traffic people talking about in their cities.
Bus lane, bicycle ane, taxi lane, parking lot, parking garage, parking place, bicycle stand,taxi stand, news stand, like these, we use them every day but we haven’t known how to use in English.
And I learned some useful phrases ‘get around’, it means not a travel, just go outside, go to apark, or visit your friends or relatives’ home.
‘zero-emission’means vehicles don’t emit harmful things.
‘eco-friendly’ means something is good for environment.
‘family-friendly’means something is good for your family.
‘pre-paid’ means you paid for something previously.
Recharge means give something electricity. And use capacity to express the quantity of electricity. For example, you recharge the battery of your cell phone up to 50 percent ofcapacity in 30 minutes.
And I sawed someone ride a vehicle that I’ve never seen before. I didn’t know what it was. But now I knew about it. Its name is wheelman. It has two wheels and a motor. You put your feet in the wheels. You use your weight to steer and control the speed with a ball you hold in your hand. It’s very similar to skateboarding or surfing. Another vehicle I saw before is called scooter in English. It has two wheels. But trikke scooter means the scooter has three wheels because ‘tri’ means three.
Anyway, it’s avery good for me. Thumbs up for our class

Thursday, December01, 2016
I always lost things in my life. I lost my bank cards two times before. Today I almost lost my bank card again by my mistake. My friend and I met at noon. And we had lunch at a Chinese restaurant. After lunch, we went to another place to meet someone.Because we had to talk with that person in his office so I turned off the voice of my cell phone. About one hour later, we finished talking. My friend and I broke up and went home each other.
30 minutes later,when I got home I checked my cell phone and found there were one call and one message both from the bank I use. I didn’t care about them and didn’t think about them more. But the moment when I glanced at the message I found this. It said that the bank was told that my card was lost. And there was an identifying code in the massage. It was unbelievable I thought firstly. But I wondered why the bank sent such a message to me soon? So I opened my wallet and found it wasn’t there. It wasn’t in my bag either. I couldn’t find it anywhere. I didn’t have time to think anything but called the bank at once. After checking some identity information she told me my card was still in the Chinese restaurant and gave me the phone number of the restaurant. So I contacted with the restaurant and confirmed it immediately. Then I remembered how I lost it. I paid for our lunch with the card. After swinging card, it seemed like the boss of the restaurant didn’t give it to me because someone called her at that moment. She forgot probably. And yes, I forgot too. I just went without checking and asking for my card.
Oh my memory… Is it like I already became my grandmother?

Wednesday,December 14, 2016
Today I saw an article about learning how to learn which was actually a course designed by a woman who majored in Russian but started to learn Math at her 26 years old and finally got a Doctor degree in engineering when she was 43 years old. She attributed her success to correct ways of thinking. There are two ways about how people think in our brains. One is called Focused Mode, and another is called Diffused Mode.When we learn something we should use the Diffused Mode to get a whole understanding and find a right direction first. Then we open our Focused Mode to learn deeply. And it is important that you should know when you need to alter the two thinking modes. For example, when you can’t resolve some difficult problems,you’d better stop the Focused Mode and start the Diffused Mode to relax your brain. Another way about learning is chunking. Because the limited memories of our brains it’s hard to remember more than 9 kinds of things at once, the principle of chunking is dividing the difficult problems into several parts which are easy to handle. We put these small parts in our short-term memories. Then you connect these individual parts into a complete thing according to their relationships between these small parts though practice repeatedly. Then you memorize it in your long-term memory and use it often. So you can master it.
I think it may be useful for our English learning too. Maybe we should have a try.

Thursday,December 15, 2016
I always remembered how much I liked the boiled peanut my father made when I was a child. Once I started eating I couldn’t stop. I ate boiled peanut as a kind of snack. Yesterday I suddenly wanted to eat it. So I decided to make by a way my father told me.
I dipped peanuts in the water for a night before using them. After soaking, the peanuts became bigger and would be boiled well and quickly. Today I started to cook them. First, I cleaned the peanuts with water and put them in a pot. Next,I added water in the pot and sprinkled some salt, fennel, and a little staranise into the water. Then, I boiled the peanuts until they were ripe. After that, I left the peanuts in the liquid for several hours, so that they could continue absorbing the flavor. Finally, I removed the liquid, picked up the flavorings put peanuts in a container and enjoyed them.

Friday,December 16, 2016
There are many reasons why I learn English again. First, I like English than other foreign languages. If I had to master a foreign language I think it was English. I had studied English since middle school. By the time graduated from the university, I had already learned English for 10 years. But my English was not very good. Especially, after working in company for several years, my English became worse and worse because there was no need of English in the company. But I can’t accept that I don’t know English. For another words, I don’t think I’m ok if I can't use English. Another reason why I learn English is because of its importance. It’s necessary for me to make good use of information in English. For example, searching and reading articles, papers and books, watching videos and so on. Besides, there are more and more English words appearing in our daily life. In Korea,it’s more serious. You can often hear English words used in people’s conversations. People don’t translate English words into their mother language.They just use them. Therefore, as English is more and more important, I have no excuses for not learning English.