Poetry

     I don’t like poems. I don’t get what they are talking about. I learned about poems in Korea, which was hard for me. I never thought I’m going to learn about poetry in OVS.  At first I wasn’t happy about that. After the lesson it was easier than in Korea. I learned how to write it in free verse in Korea. Now I know the form of poem and how to write. My favorite format is Haiku. Haiku is easy to write. I also enjoyed our group poetry. We wrote about the busyness. We were having a little bit of hard time, but it was all good memories.   Now I have a lot of confidence of writing poetry.  If someone asks about the poetry I’ll definitely answer the question!

 

-My favorite Poem-

Silver & Gold

friends

New friends

They are silver

But old friends are

Gold

  

Class Hike

This hike was the first time in my life. We walked 8 miles. At first I wasn’t sure I could finish the hike. When I finished the hike I proud of it myself and it was wonderful. It was fun and very challenging. I realized about the difference with American and Asian’s culture; however I like the hike, and I want to hike again.

      During the hike, I had so much fun. Mr. Gartrel gave us funny quizzes. I didn’t even get the point of the question, but the funny thing was I liked the quiz. I just gave up and chat with Ally. We were talking about Korean food and Chine food. We chatted like crazy people.  I almost lost in font of my people; of course they waited for us. Every hour we had water break. I hated drinking water. It was really hard to drink two water bottles.  I just throw some water on the ground. I had no choice. I had to do that. If I don’t drink two water bottles all the 7^th grader would wait until I drank amount of water. But, still everything was enjoyable.

     Accenting to the peek was really challenging to 7^th graders. I think, most of kids was whining about we didn’t have enough breaks. When we reached to top of the mountain we got a lunch break. I wasn’t really hungry. We ate lunch to early, plus I brought sandwich just a half. I don’t know why. After I ate lunch I saw view. It was beautiful and I proud of myself. I saw Santa Cruz Island. Mr. Gartrel said, when we going down to the trail we can meet 8^th graders, but we couldn’t.  I wanted to see Soo Bin and take about the hiking.

     When we were going down, we played in a pond. Most of boys went in to the pond all the way down. They said the water was way too cold to go in. Most of girls went in there too.  I don’t know why girls and boys get in there. My all-Asian friends and I didn’t understood why did they playing like that. In Asia we don’t play with water or jumping inside. It was just different way of playing America and Asia. Mr. gartrel offers to all of 7^th graders to throw rocks to metabare. We bet who is good at throwing rocks. I wasn’t good at throwing rocks.

       Actually I don’t really like nature. I rather like to play with electronics; however I liked this class hiking. I liked spending time with my friends and looking beautiful view.

I think this is OVS’s appeal!

In A Week

During the holiday I had so much fun with my families; however I ‘ve got bad news of my mom’s  side of grandma. Bussan it is the place that my mom borne. I went to hospital where my grandma staying, spent time with brother’s best friends, and listening about my grandpa’s experiences.

      We had been stay there a whole week. When I met my grandma she seemed different. She seems more week. I felt bad at her. Now I realized being healthy is important to me and around my all people. My grandpa told me, my mom and mom’s sister had a hard time to taking care of her at the hospital.  My mom didn’t say anything about that, but I can felt it and grandpa told me about that. My mom usually being means to grandma, but at this time she was different. She was quiet and just helped her a lot.

      I like to play with my brother’s friends, because there are all nice to me. My brother and he’s friends know each other very well. They were all roommate at high school. We went to karaoke and ate delicious raw fish. I made so many memories with them. I always thanks to them, because I not good at playing with younger people than me. Even though they were playing at Bussan they came to hospital every morning.

      My grandpa likes to draw pictures, and I do too. I didn’t know that before, we had a lot of commons. I also like to listen about anything. I just like to listing and he likes to take about he’s experiences. I listen about the South Korea and North Korea. “If we get war, who will go out and fight for their country?”  He asked me. My answer was no. I thought only men can go to war. My answer was wrong and my thought was wrong. He wanted to me say yes. He lost he’s one of leg at Japanese and Koreans’ war. I think he loves Korea more than anyone. If he didn’t lose he’s leg at the war I’m very sure that he will have been a solider.         

      I made a lot of memories at Bussan. Actually I didn’t like to come to Bussan and visit my mom’s side of grandparents, because we were living too far away. We also didn’t have much time to meet each other. When I meet them if felt awkward, now it’s different I like them more than my father side of grandparents. I also promised with my mom’s side of grandparents to spend time a week again with my brother. I want to go Bussan this summer vacation. I think this holiday was the best in my life and my grandma is getting better.

     

Independent Trip

    I love camping! I really love camping, but there is something I didn’t like about it. I’ve never gone camping. This was my first trip. It was so good. I learned how to overcome the horrible rain, a smelly bathroom, and be friendlier with my tent mates.

     I like the rain. When it rains, I took out my umbrella and walk around. I love the sounds of rain. During the camping trip I hated the rain!

It made it hard to do things. At first our tent was not so good, the water came in and bugs came in. One of my tent mates hates bugs. When she saw bugs she just screamed! Her skin is very sensitive and has to be careful every time. Because of the rain my mummy bag was wet. I felt the water coming in. It was so cold! I couldn’t sleep. I woke up at five am. Our tent was way too small. I couldn’t stand up, so I just stood and killed bugs.

     The bathroom was suck! It smelled really bad. When I used the bathroom I couldn’t breathe. Inside of the bathroom have lots of bugs.

We couldn’t flush our things. It was so gross. One time the tissue was gone, so I got tissue from Mrs. Andrews.

   

      My tent mates were Sophia, Melody, and Yukimi. We chatted a lot.

During the camping trip I think Yukimi and I became friendlier. We had good teamwork. We made our tents vary easily. We did a little arguing, but we were good. After two days we got new tents. As you know our tent was not so good. The second tent was very good. The bugs can not come in and I could stand up. During the camping trip I learned how to make a tent. It was pretty easy. Now I want to go to a different place. It was so much fun and besides the rain, the bathroom and, making tent I enjoyed it a lot.

    The teachers read a book to us. It felt I was come here with my family. This trip was my first trip and it was really good. Also I had more opportunity to make American friends. Now I call them and say hello. I heard that we have one more camping. I can’t wait until that day. I love OVS.

Embarrassing moment

Embarrassing Moment

     When I was thirteen years old, I went to party. It was selling things for cheap. My mom forgot to give me some money. I called my mom to give me some money. I saw a black car with same design, so I though it was my mom’s car. I nuked the window. It was not my mom. I was freeze. I don’t know what to say. She didn’t say ether. I was so embarrassed. I couldn’t tell anything to her. Now I think that was not a big deal, but when people ask me “What was the most embarrassing moment?” I say to them about this story.

My Dad

                                                                                                                             

                                                                        

      My dad is really thin and tall.  He is super kind to everybody, so sometime it doesn’t look good. He likes to eat something at night .We hate that! We eat something at same time, but he doesn’t get any weight. When I was in the kindergarten. He brought many foods at night.

       Most of the time he spent at works or he plays with grandpa. When he came back he was so tired. He doesn’t take a bath and sleep. Sometime I think when he will play whit me?  I know how he tired, but playing whit me is also he’s job. I’m late child, so my mom and my dad were tired of going out. I was really sad.  Now I can erase those memories, because I made wonderful memories whit him before I come here. I like my dad! I didn’t know that we have common. We both love animals. I have a dog at my house, but nobody likes her. Except us!

                                                                                        

All About Me

All About Me

           I’m from Korea and I’m native Korean. I’ll tell you all about me!

I have one big brother; he graduated OVS five years ago.  We are getting along well.  Also I have lovely dog name Happy. I don’t know what I should have to write!  And I ‘m little embarrassed of   writing about me!

         I like animals, so I’m doing horseback riding. It feels fantastic!! I want to get my horse but I’m just beginner, so I can’t get mine. My horse name is Ginger. She is pony. She is so nice to me or everyone. Did you ride horse? I want to tell about the feelings, but I can’t tell you, because I don’t know how to explain that feels. Just ride

        I though when I come here I’ll miss my family a lot; gases what? I don’t

Miss them a lot. I think I’m doing well until now. I make different kind of friends.

But I like to get a long with Korean. You know it’s much easier to say and  we now our culture. Some time I miss Korean food too.