My great conversation partners

I have two conversation partners in NCC. One of them became a friend of mine while we have met for more than 8 months  from last February. We went  to play poolball and went shopping together. I have been her house and I went a night club  to celebrate her birthday. Additionally, I had a chance to meet her  fine boyfriend.  She met my children as well.

I met my new conversation patner last Semtember.She is a student in NCC. She was struggling for math class.
I could help her math once. She likes Korean food. We went to Korean restaurant once. She comes to our building to meet me every Monday and Wednesday.

I am so happy with these two patners in this semester and I really thakful for all of these chances.

The pursuit of happyness

I saw many movies on DVD at home because I bought many of  DVD movies  for my children to study English when we lived in Korea. One of those movie titles is "The pursuit of happyness".
Will Smith and his real son, Jaden Smith  performed the main characters in the movie as a dad and his son.
He, named Chris Gardner in the movie, bought a bunch of medical devices with his all money. However, they are not popular to doctors. His wife left him and her son to New York since she could not get over their economical difficulties. He had to put his son in a day-care center everyday. On the wall of the day-care center, there was the words, "happyness", with a picture. Chris asked the owner of the day-care center to cange Happyness to Happiness, but the owner didn't. Finally, he overcame all his difficulties and became a stockbroker which he had dreamed to be.

My home town

My home town is a very very small and isolated  village from cities in Korea. There are all moutains around  the small village.  Buses came  just two or three times a day  to the village and took passingers to a small city.  No family had a car in the village when I was a middle school student.  We often went fishing with my brothers and friends holding torches in summer nights. One day, my friends and I went to pick and steal watermelones which were one of our neighbor's.
 (I will continue to write about this story.)

Actually, the neighbor was another my friend's mother. She got angry after she found us at her watermelon field and ran after us. It was really hard for me to run away from her because I brought my 5-year-old younger brother who couldn't run fast.  However, we escaped barely from her after several times hiding and finally we arrived  my house. We gave a sigh each other and took a rest in the house. After a while, we could listen to the my friend's mother's talking from outside, so we got scared. She told to my father about the incident that we stole her watermelons, and she went away. After that,I really felt guilty and I didn't do any stealing thing. Now,I can recall that my father naver had told  nor scolded me about the incident.

I am a mother of two children now. I don't know exactly which reaction is better for my chlidren when they do bad things. Anyway, punishing them might not be the only solution.

Watching TV

Even though I have studyed  English for such a long time,  my speaking skill is so poor. So I asked my son and daughter who are much much better than me " What is the most important activity to make English speaking  ability increase?"  Both of them  answered that it's watching TV programs and movies. They speak English to each other at home recently except me.
What they think is that interesting thing can be important fact to keep doing something. Anyway, I am a bit exhausted  because I am still struggling. Should I have to watch TV programs and movies  for my speaking ability tomorrow?  Or do I have to meet a native American to  practice speaking English?

Playing tennis

I really have enjoyed playing tennis for several months from last May to last October. Today, I went to the park where I always played, but it was too cold to play outside. Balls didn't bounc well enough and it was even windy. My tennis partner and I  dicided to go Starbucks  coffee shop  to talk about  whether we stop to play or not. He suggested to play Ping-Pong Ball  in this wintertime instead. Even though I like to play ping-pong ball and I am quite good at to play, I'd like to say goodbye  during wintertime because I am waiting to go skiing.

I am tired!

Today was so hard day! I took a test today and changed my  front two worn tyres to new tyres. I went groceries.  I am so tired now, so I 'd like to take rest watching a movie. 
My eyelids  are beginning to droop now. I had to go through several difficulties today.  My dog is barking at  my daughter who is riding a small board  in the living room.  I have to go to bed now.

Kyung Ju City

I 'd like introduce a nice city in Korea, Kyung Ju. It's located at South-East part of S.Korea. It's a famous place to visit for tuorists. Silra Kingdom  florished in that area about 1500 years ago. Kyung Ju was the capital, and the city boudary was even  bigger than now. Ancient buildings, famous temples and huge tombs  are remaining  there.

 There are several wonderful places in Kyung ju. One of them is Bomun Lake arounded many big hotels and theme parks. Also.Cherry blossom festival is held  there every spring.The restaurant on the picture was so nice since not only various loyal cuisine (food in palace) are served for people, there are traditional dancing performances every day.