Journal 3

I was really sporty this weekend. Sunday morning, good weather for sports. I played volleyball, basketball and badminton on the very day. It was really interesting to play those sports. However, I suffered a lot for it. After a whole day of sports, my legs hurt a lot. I can't even walk normally now. But I really think it is worthy. I think that when I was really concentrated on the sport that I was doing, I would forget anything that had been bothering me. When I was playing the sports, I really enjoy it. I can felt the sunshine, the wind, even my sweat. I laugh from my bottom of my heart. I was surprised that how happy I was when I was playing the sports.

I had been too busy to enjoy this little happiness. When I was a child, I could feel so happy merely because I went to a park for the swing. However, as I grew up, I could not feel satisfied that easy. I tend to ignore the happiness I could get from my daily life. I try to seek something is far and vague. Today, I suddenly found out that happiness were always there. I recognized that happy or not depends on how we see things. I might feel exhausted and tired for playing all those sports, but I could also choose to be happy for my achievement. After a sporty Sunday, I found the girl who can feel happy due to a song she likes. I found the girl who can feel the simple happiness of life. I found myself back today, and I hope I would not get lost again. From now on, I am going to cherish all I can get from my everyday life. I will try to live fully of my life. Be a girl that is thankful and easy to feel satisfied.

Journal 2

Yesterday was my mother and my father' birthday. It was really special that their birthdays were on the same day. That was because my mom’s birthday was the same day as my father’s birthday by lunar calendar. It was really a meaningful day, so my families went to a fancy restaurant to have dinner together to celebrate their birthdays. I really like that restaurant because the steak there is delicious, and I also love the dessert a lot. Above all, the atmosphere there is really appropriate to celebrate birthday. We often celebrate birthday in that restaurant because the servers will come over and sing a birthday song for us, and after that, they will take a picture for us, and give us the photo before we left. That day was almost as usual, except we invited our cousin. Surprisingly, my cousin is a regular customer and is a friend of the restaurant manager so the manager gave us aperitif for free. That was really a joyful thing to have that savory drink for free. Another delightful thing is we took a lot of gifts for spending a certain amount of money. I think the whole dinner was really fun and the most important thing was that my parents felt very happy.

p.s. I happened to know that the restaurant would have a branch store in Chiayi. I will go there someday to see if I can find the same happiness there. I also hope that everyone can find some joy in this restaurant.




This is my favorite!

Journal 1

Today my friend and I went to see a performance in the school performing hall. It was a music performance. We didn't plan to see this show at first. We happened to see the poster outside the performing hall. The poster was quite attractive. So, we went inside the hall. However, when we were there, we were already late. But we were touched as soon as we saw the performance.“聲光火舞”is a performance present by music with some special visual aid.

Most of the performers are from Taiwan, but there are some foreigners who also appreciate the music and the culture from Taiwan. I think it was really special that the foreigners were performing the things from east. They could also understand the beauty of the eastern culture. They not only sang but also used guitar, drum, and some other instruments from different country to perform the music from different culture. I think that was really cool. They combine the elements from both east and west, and perform something new and creative.

The show really impressed me. I enjoyed the music and the light effect a lot, but what really touched me is the spirit that the lead singer wanted to show us. That is the spirit to show the beauty of our country (culture) to the world. The performers all think that to show our culture to others is a kind of duty. Especially the lead singer, a girl from Taiwan, she is really proud of her own country. They toured around the world, and brought the shows from Taiwan to the world. When I heard the lead singer sang, I could tell that she really love this place.

Week Fourteen

Q1: How do you like the weekly writing prompts? Are they interesting or boring? Inspirational or weird? Are they related to your life? Can you suggest anything better and give some examples?
I like the weekly writing prompts; I think those topics or issues are interesting and related to my life. They are not only interesting but also inspired me to think.
Q2: Do you like the two-way online discussion with your keypal? Or do you think we should have more people (like 3~4 students) form a group blog to exchange ideas? Why or why not?
I like the idea of the two-way online discussion with my key pal; however, when the theory put in to action, it might encounter a lot of difficulties. For my own experience, once one side of the student could not finish the task on time, it would be difficult for his or her partner to finish her own part. For this reason, I think more people to discuss one topic might be better. I believe that if more people participate in the same task, we might know more different ideas about the issues or it might inspire us to think those topics from different angles.
Q3: Have you encountered any difficulties during the semester when using blogs to discuss with your keypal, e.g., computer problems or anything?
Actually, I think the whole process was quite successful, despite we don’t get a lot of chance to discuss the topics.
Q4: How do you like the project website? Are they friendly enough? Have we left out any important content? How do you like the layout/design?
In fact, I love the project website. It is delicate and it is very convenient to see our task every week due to the link. I also like the pictures or videos about our every week tasks. It makes us easier to understand the topics or sometimes it even inspires me to come up some thoughts about the tasks.
Q5: What have you gained from this blog activity?
From this blog activity, I learn to express my thoughts in a more efficient way. I also learn to think things in other ways, in different angles. The most important is I try to think more, I try to show concern to the latest issues.
Q6: If you had an opportunity to start over, would you have done anything differently? If so, how?
Since I already saw others’ thoughts about those issues, if I can start over again, I might have more thoughts to express.

Week Thirteen

Q1: Please offer your suggestions as how we can grade your performance better?
First, I think the content is the most important part to grade our performance. The reason why I think that the content is the most important is that to write blogs is to show our opinions of the topic and to share our thoughts about the issues.

Second, the grammar and the writing skills are also important. This class is about writing, so the way we present our ideas also matters. The ability of writing will affect the readers’ understanding about our thoughts. That is why grammar and some other writing skills should also be valued.

Third, the last but not least, I think how much efforts we make in writing the blog is also very important. For myself, maybe I am not doing very well every time, but at least I try hard and I take those tasks seriously every time.


Q2: Based on the criteria you suggested in Q1, please give a score to yourself and explain how you’ve earned it.

I think I would give myself 7, since I try my best to fully express my opinions of those topics, and I do think a lot before I write the blogs. However, there must be some other improvements I can make. For example, I saw other’s blog and the ways they presented their thoughts are clearer than mine. Also, I found myself bad at grammar, though I tried to pay a lot of attention to it; there must be some mistakes that I didn’t notice. But I think I make a lot of effort to write those blogs. I also think that I learned a lot from writing these blogs.

Q3: Based on the criteria you suggested in Q1, please give a score to your partner and explain how s/he has earned it.

I would give my partner 6. First of all, I believe that she might be very busy so that she can not do the tasks on time. However, it is a little unprofessional to catch up the progress at one time. It also makes me hard to do some tasks too. Nevertheless, I think that she presented her ideas and thoughts briefly but clearly which I should learn from her.

Week Eleven

Very often I find myself get really excited and motivated when we are doing discussion. On the contrary, I do not really like the writing part. I really like the discussion part is because I like to share my opinions with others and get their reflection right away. I can not only express my thoughts but also have a chance to think from different angles. I think to have discussions can also inspire us to think, and to respect different point of views. However, when it comes to writing, I feel like my thoughts are being limited. Since my grammar is not good enough, I can not fully express myself by writing.

I like the psychological test, revising “a touching moment” together in the class. About the psychological test, the teacher let us to write down a paragraph from the power point, and analyzed our characteristics by our handwriting. I think it was really interesting, we were all talking about whether our characteristics are like what the psychological test tell us. And about the revising of the paragraph, a touching moment, I like the feeling of team work. Everyone discussed how to let the paragraph better is really interesting, and we can find out what we missed but other noticed.

When I encounter some difficult knowledge, I often turn to others for help. When there is something I could not figure out, I will ask someone who understand it and is willing to teach me. Or I will gather some friends and to discuss the difficult knowledge with them. I believe that to discuss with others is more easy to find out the solution than thinking alone.

Week Ten

Q1: From 1~10 (with 10 as the highest score), how well are you two doing? Please grade yourselves and give a suggestive score.
After discussion
We decided to give us 7.
Q2: How and why did you two decide the score?
We both tried hard to do our own part well, and our content is quite abundant. We do answer all the questions and we try to illustrate our ideas about those tasks as clearly as we can. We take this assignment seriously and hope to do it well. However, we didn't fulfill our task on time every time. Although, we didn’t finish it before dateline sometimes, we still made a lot of effort to do it. That is why we think we can get 7.
Q3: What kind of improvement are you two making in the remaining weeks of the semester?
Q1: From 1~10 (with 10 as the highest score), how well are you two doing? Please grade yourselves and give a suggestive score.
After discussion, we decided to give us 7.
Q2: How and why did you two decide the score?
We both tried hard to do our own part well, and our content is quite abundant. We do answer all the questions and we try to illustrate our ideas about those tasks as clearly as we can. We take this assignment seriously and hope to do it well. However, we didn't fulfill our task on time every time. Although, we didn’t finish it before dateline sometimes, we still made a lot of effort to do it. That is why we think we can get 7.
Q3: What kind of improvement are you two making in the remaining weeks of the semester?
I hope we can have more chances to discuss those issues. I also hope that my key pal can response my opinions in time. Although our progress is a little fell behind, we will try to catch up the progress.