My SLR progress today

During the ESL class, I am learning enthusiastically since sometimes I do not get what teacher says, I really try to ask and find it out. When I do my homework at my home, I truly enjoy and do my BEST on it. Moreover, I love it when teacher gives homework about writing. In fact, I really need to work on my writing. Writing homework is extremely good for me because it makes me think creatively and I can improve more!

On the other hand, I also have a thing that I need to improve more during the ESL class. I need collaborating constructively. In personal , I like to work by myself rather than work with other people. Needless speaking, I like to do something alone. Not just because I hate meeting people or talking with others. I DO love talking and meeting with others. Yet I like to do by myself. And it works for me.

Pandora Wordle

　Those words above are very important vocabulary in Pandora story.
As you see, some words are really big and some are not since big words are more important than small ones.

'Pandora' is the biggest word because this is a keyword in the story.

I have a word 'curiosity' and it is also big since this story shows us how and why people have a curiosity.


Watching vocabulary above carefully, you see smaller words. It shows that those words are still key words but less important than big ones. For examples, I have a word 'Epimethius' on that picture and I make it smaller. The reason is that the name is mentioned in the story but is not a quiet important name compared to 'Pandora' or 'Curiosity'

Book Report Reflection

While I was preparing the book report project, I really enjoyed presenting my project. The book I chose was " I know what you did last summer" written by Lois Duncan. Actually, I didn't have any information about the book before I chose it. Later I realized that it was a mystery story and even a movie was released based on this novel. I thought it was rather good that I didn't have any knowledge about the book because I could more concentrate on the plot and characters of the story. It made me scary but thrilled. After I read the book, I searched on Internet about the movie because I just wondered how different the book and the movie. At first, I guessed the movie script would be the same as the original book but my guess was totally wrong. It was EXCEEDINGLY different between the book and the movie. Even the names of the main characters were different. Also in the book they just left the dead boy on the road and ran, but in the movie they wrapped the boy's body and threw into the river. However, I thought it would be interesting to watch that movie.

My activity was creating a new ending of the story. I used to draw cartoon or make a new story when I have a free time. I love making new stories. So it was very enjoyable to do the activity. One thing that I did really good during my presentation was that I made my classmates focused on my speech. I can tell this because they seemed very interested and concentrated on the presentation instead of feeling bored. On the other hand, I had some problems. During the presentation, I was so nervous that I skipped some important parts of the story and some of my pronunciation was inappropriately. Surely I needed more practice and practice. That is the best way to make me improved, confident, and not nervous.

My SLR was thinking creatively on this project since I made a poster. On this poster, I typed words and made them BIGGER so that classmates can see that clearly as well as easily. Moreover, they could follow where I was explaining when I read the story on the poster.

If I have a chance to read another book, I would like to choose warm and touching story. The book that I chose for the project was really scary and complicating. So I want to try a totally different story next time.

My Precious Memories

I have lots of things to tell you about my beautiful memories. Some of them make me smile and happy but some of them make me sad. However I am pretty sure that my story is surely going to be fun.

One of the memories that makes me warm is my pet's pictures. I used to keep various pets since I love to take care of pet animals. One day my father brought me a puppy which was Schnauzer. It was IMMENSELY small and EXCEEDINGLY cute. I really loved her and decided to take care of her with all my heart. We had have a great time together. She is such a cute and well-behaved dog. I fed her delicious food and we sometimes took a walk. Few years later, I was sorrowful when I heard I need to go to Malaysia. I wanted to take my pet but my parents told me it was not a good idea and might cause annoying problems because Malaysia is very hot. Unfortunately, we made up our mind to leave the pet in Korea. Now I really miss her since I love her so much. People, who used to keep their pets and love them so MUCH, might understand me. I never forget her untill the last day of my life.

My second memory that makes me still excited is airplane tickets and pictures of other countries that I visited. Whenever I go to other countries, I always take pictures and collect tickets that I visited like museums and concert halls. So that I can remember easily where I visited. I went many countries when I was young. I went to Hong Kong, China two times, Australia, USA, Japan and Malaysia. I am happy and excited as I see those pictures and tickets. When I grow up, I think I would be very proud of myself. I will not lose my precious pictures and tickets !

As you know well, everybody has their own valuable memories. In personal, it is great to have one. When I am in a bad mood or feel stressful, I usually think of those wonderful days that I had a fun and time that I enjoyed. And it surely makes me feel much better. Also I make a plan from my beautiful memories. Since I have good experiences visiting other countries, I have a dream to go to other countries that I have never been to. Actually I want to travel Europe someday. My another plan is to go back to Korea this winter vacation to see my puppy that already became an adult dog. I am so looking forward to seeing her, and we are going to make another beautiful memories together!

Orphan Boy

Once there lived a lonely old man who looked up the sky every night. One day, he realized that one star has gone. He became sorrow. Soon, he met a young man whose name is Kileken. Since he was an orphan and the old man was childless, they decided to be friends. Kileken did a lot of house chores to care of cattle. He did extremely well so the old man got surprised and wanted to know the secret. Yet the boy never told it. Although drought came and no grass to eat for cattle, Keileken made them fatter. So the old man ask him the secret but the boy replied "A secret known to two is no secret." The wall and shadow lured the man to find the secret by himself. One night, he followed the boy and saw him make the sunrise. The grass grew and the cattle ate them. Suddenly Kileken turned around and saw the old man. The grass was gone and drought came again. The old man became loonier and it was too late to regret. The orphan boy, Kileken became a star which was the planet Venus. It appeared at dawn in the east and at night fall in the west.

I truely love my name !

As you know, everyone has his or her own original name which means I also have mine. I would like to share the story of my name since I have lots of things to tell you about it !

My name is Suh (Seo) Hyun Hwang. As you know Korean names has meaning at its each letter. In my first name, 'Suh' means "realizing dreams" and 'Hyun' means "Work widely." Therefore my name Suh Hyun means "Realizing my dreams and work widely."

According to my parents, my name was from my grandmother who was from my father's side. When I was born, my parents lived with my grandmother together. She wanted to give my name by herself. My name is not that pretty but whenever I see my friend whose name is really strange and unfamiliar, I always think that my grandmother chose good one for me. Actually my friend has had a hard time because people easily teased her ugly name and made her grieved. Yet it is fortunate that she is a really active and outgoing girl, so she did not care much about what other people saying.

In personal, there are no advantages or disadvantages of my name since my name is one of the most common names in Korea. It is not fantastic or ugly name either. I rarely got teased from my friends and I do not have any bad experience but sometimes I got teased because of my last name. My last name is "Hwang" sounds the same as the animal ox in Korean. "Hwang so" is an ox. Before I came to Malaysia, some of my classmates in Korea used to call me like "hi ox, what's up?" However I never took that seriously or got hurt. We did it just for fun.

Frankly speaking, Suh Hyun is still okay to be called but I have wanted a cuter name. It is because as I said above, my name is the very common one in Korea. However I like my Korean name since it is from my grandmother who has loved me so much. She tried and thought really hard to give me a good name. On the other hand, I have an English name "Hannah." I LOVE my English name, too. My mother named me Hannah from the Bible. Hannah was a very sincere and truthful lady. She also prayed heartily and had a wonderful relationship with God. I like her character very much as well as her name.

I think I am very luck to have two names, Suh Hyuh and Hannah. I like both names. Those two names also have their own special meanings. So I thank my grandmother and my mother for giving me wonderful names. With these special names, I can feel how much they love me and that makes me so special person!