After Lecture About Love...♡

Personally, the lecture that we had on Monday was really interesting. I think the topic was very attractive enough to focus on the lecture for 2 hours because everybody loves, and we can’t survive without love. Not only the topic but the Prof. Judith Castle was a really wonderful lecturer. Among the 4 different types of love, 'Eros' was the one got most of my attention. It was just beyond the concept of love. It was the power that keeps us who we are, and makes us be loved. After the lecture, on the way going back home, I was thinking about what my 'Eros' is. Several questions popped into my head. 'What am I interested in?', 'What makes me lovable and doesn't?', 'What do I usually daydream when I am on the bus or metro?', 'Is that related to my Eros?'....so on and so forth. Normally, I don't really think about this kind of stuff everyday. However, It was such a great opportunity to think about my ego more deeply by having this lecture. I am also interested in Psychology field so after level 8, I may take her part-time social psychology class to build more knowledge and understanding in order to be able to know myself and even others.

Moreover, as she said, it costs nothing to love.

So why hesitate? What are you waiting for?

Remember what we learned from the lecture and show your 'Agape', not just say it ! ! !

Happiness

The four-leaf clover: [the symbol of good luck and happiness]

Among the faces scale, second or third face comes closest to expressing how I feel about my life as a whole. I think no one can say that they are always having happy and joyful time in their entire lives. Everybody experiences both difficult and happy times. However, what makes difference is that what you think and how you think when you are having either hard or wonderful time. There is a well-known anecdote about different view can make big change. Speaking of the story in short, one guy saw the water bottle and complained “there is only half of water in here.” but then another guy saw the same water bottle and said, “Look, there is even as much as half of water in the bottle”. What do you think the difference between these guys? They have different way of thinking and seeing the same situation. So depending on your view, your life will be changed in the exactly same way of your thinking. This is why I am trying to be positive and optimistic all the time no matter what kinds of situations I am in because I do know that it will change my whole life. So far, I think I didn’t really go through hard time as my parents or someone else. Maybe, because I am still young or I didn’t face real outside world yet. My real life just starts from now and I don’t know what kinds of difficulties are waiting for me but I do believe that if I always keep it in my mind to be positive, I will be happy and be able to overcome obstacles in my life.

Let’s just give it try to have first smiling face in our lives!

Look on the bright side, people!!

Reaction after book presentation

First of all, I am really glad to have a chance to read a Canadian novel in English from the first page to the end with my classmates. It was pleasure to share book reviews from different types of books that we have read for 2 weeks. For me, and probably Loc and Pedro, “Deja Dead” was challenge to finish within 2 weeks but luckily, I was able to read whole book in time thanks to my partners. While preparing my presentation, I got difficulty to summarize the whole 560 pages long book without telling the ending and too much details. Anyway, when I was having the presentation, I felt comfortable and enjoyed that moment. Obviously, I need more practice in order to present the my ideas clearly, naturally, and fluently so next time I will prepare more than this time so that I can get better result, improvement and much more satisfaction on myself.

★Learning Language★

▶The biggest difference between my first language and English◀

My first language is Korean and there are several differences between Korean and English. The biggest difference is word order. For example, word order of English is subject, verb, and then object. On the other hand, word order of Korean is subject, object, and verb. Unlike English, always verb comes at the end of the sentences. So when I write something in English, I have to think and adjust different word order system. In addition, Koreans barely use passive so it takes few time to change verb form in my head. Pronunciation is quite different as well. Korean doesn’t have ‘R’ or ‘F’ or ’TH’ sounds so I always get confused when I say ‘B’ or ‘V’, ‘P’ or ‘F’, ‘TH’ or ‘S’ and ‘R’ or ‘L’. For instance, I was supposed to say ‘thousand’ but I sometimes said ‘sousand’ something like that.

Summary of Article

Article "Agence considers ditching honour system for turnstiles" published in The GAZETTE newspaper on Wednesday, April 9, 2008 is about train fare procedure called 'the honour system'. So far, Montreal has used the honour system which means fare of train relies on passengers' honesty so people believe that passengers are going to pay their fares honestly. There have been no machines like ticket turnstiles or fare gates in metro stations so people have been able to pass train station without paying fares. According to the AMT, no matter how much fare evasion has been decreased, now we have to install gates in four busiest train stations to catch passengers who didn't pay fare. The four train stations that The Agence are planning to put gates in have been passed by 80% of suburban trains' passengers and all AMT's commuter lines stop at those four stations. Therefore, in this way, ticket fraud will be reduced much more efficiently.

welcome-,everybody~♪