Change

In Korea, only women were in charge of cooking and serving in the kitchen.

In Korea, women had to do all the house work, and men were working outside.

In Korea, people had to be polite and could not say no to elders.

In Korea, parents were the one who decided their kids' marriage no matter if they liked it or not.

In Korea, individuals paid for everyone (friends/elders) to show politeness.

In the U.S., both women and men can cook and serve in the kitchen.

In the U.S., both men and women can work outside, and both of them can do the housework (together).

In the U.S., people have freedom of speech.

In the U.S., people can marry whoever they want to, and it is not based on their parents' opinion. 

In the U.S., people split the bill and pay for their own.

When I first came to Cheshire Academy

     When I first came to Cheshire Academy, same as Sookan's experience, I felt that the culture was very different. People here were very welcome and outgoing, except me. I was very nervous because my mom said that I need to make a lot of foreign friends as there is so many Chinese here in this school. My English was not very well that time, I still tried to talk to them though my voice was not coherent. Different from Sookan, I didn't adapt this new environment very quickly. For a long time, neither foreign friends nor Chinese friend. I was very lonely and felt homesick. Luckily, the courses I took weren't very hard, I could  handle it easily and had a lot of free time. Mostly, I spent my free time in my room with myself as I did not have any close friend. Things didn't get better until I finally gave up and join the Chinese group. After I knew more people, I became more confident, and now I had not only Chinese friend but also foreign friends.

Questions for chapter 4 and 3

1. Where did Sookan go instead of having lunch with Marci,why she need to go there?
2. Why Sookan take so many difficult classes?
3.What kind of person is Marci? And who is Marci?
4. What job did Spokane get? Who gave her this job?
5. What kind of person Sookan's mother is? What did Sookan think after reading the letter from her mother?

Sook Nyul Choi

The book "gathering the pearl" that I am going to read is written by an author named Sook Nyul Choi.
She was borned in Korean but her nationality was American.
She had two countries, her native country Korea and her adapted country America.
Her writing will tell the reader the history and culture of Korea.
She wrote about her own experience as a young refuge of the Korean War.

As a reader and a writer

    Since we have been a student for so many years, we learnd a lot about how to read or write and we experienced a lot. In schools, we spent a lot of time reading and writing. Most of the time we were required to read a novel and write about it. I did not like writing or reading when it was for homework. However, as we read and write a lot, our learning skills got improved. Both of writing and reading became easier for me than before.
    I used to like reading when I was still in primary school. The most enjoyable thing I had was lying on the sofa and read some books. This time seem to be very peaceful and that was why I enjoyed it so much. However, as I grew up, I had more hobbys and friends that took most of time. I started to spend less time reading and lying on my sofa. Now the only kinds of book that I would like to read were comic book and suspense stories. Not only because I have more thing to do rather than reading, but also because I have more reading assignments to do for classes. Most of there reading assignments were boring and hard to understand. Usually, while I was reading a novel, I read through one pages but in fact I did get any of the details. I just read it without understanding it. That why if I was reading a novel, I need to be very careful and focus my attention well. Reading a English book used to be very hard for me, but since I read more and I learned more vocabulary, it became easier. My favourite book from English class is Persepolis. It is a comic novel which is the one I have interest to read. It talked about a girl named Marji’s childhood. It included a lot of pictures which made the story easier to read, and full of decrepive details such as her emotion. Otherwise, my favorite book is . It is a suspense story which talked about 14 suspense artists was taken to a secret house, and they had to create a story duing each night. The people who had the highest score can escape. 
    For writing, I like writing if it was a topic that I have idea to write. The writing I don’t like to write is the one I have no idea to write. If I have a topic which I know how to write and have idea about how to write, it will be very easy. However, if I don’t have any idea, I can’t even start the introduction. The worset writng assignment I had before was the lab report. So it was all depends on topic. As a writer, I think writing is a way to make me think and help me express my idea. Sometimes, I have no idea on onething, I write it down and focus my attention. Then after writing a while, I get the idea.
    In conclusion, whether as a reader or a writer, I am still a student. Students do writng and reading all the time, and they learned about how to read and write in schools. As the time going, I think I will be more and more good at writing and reading.