Journal 32: Free Write

This week seems too be going on for too long and its hard to bear. Especially since BEIMUN is beginning next week on Wednesday. I just can't wait for another trip to Beijing with all my friends and sleeping over at the same hotel. I can still remember how much fun we had last year and all the funny scene that occurred during the conference. The late night room service and also all the former classmates from my school in Shanghai that I got to meet again. Last time I was less prepared and I remember how nervous I was. However this year I am completely prepared to take on the debates and to be confident with the stands I take. As a group we have started a count down and we are only 7 days away from today. Everyone is excited and anticipating this trip. Yet people worry about who they are to be grouped with for rooming. I am nervous too. I am hoping not to room with a specific someone who seems to be the person that everyone else is avoiding. I feel bad for thinking that way but there is a good reason why we do that.  All in all BEIMUN is in a week and I can't wait to get on that 7:45 plane and fly to Beijing.

Journal 30 : Extra Curricular Activities

I have never taken swimming seriously until the summer of 2008. I swam everyday and almost half of the time I was in the pool. I have been swimming since I was in the elementary school; however I never took it seriously. I didn't know any other stroke other than the breast stroke. I swam all summer and began learning the other strokes myself. It wasn't easy but in the end the hard work paid off. School started and I joined the swimming team. All the effort I put into learning the strokes and building my stamina paid off during the practices and even more in the competitions. I noticed how hard work pays off. I have never been a hard worker but learning from this experience, I was determined to change. I work harder knowing that it will result in a better out come. I have grown from Swimming.  

Journal 29: Valentines

What is love? Love is to care for someone and to be there for the ones you care about without the wish of anything in return. Love is a sacrifice and many times it hurts. There are many forms of love and even more ways of which one can show that love another. You love your family, your friends, you pets, your toys, your life, your partner, and each type of love is the same yet different. I prove my love to others in many different ways. I usually show it by being a good friend and to help the people I love whenever I can. Sometimes I may seem to not be helping at all, but only because I know that they don't need help and that by doing it themselves they will learn more. I have never experienced what others called "love at first sight" and frankly I don't believe there is such a thing. "Love at first sight"; you only like what you see but you have no idea whats inside it. Its just like when you go and buy a video game when you look at the front and back cover you like it a lot. however when you ply it it may not be what it looked like and now you see it for what it truly is. People are the same its only through time you get to know someone and only then can you truly love someone.

Journal 28: Sources?

The current issue that I am writing an essay on has a abundant amount of information on the internet as well as on paper. I myself know a bit about the issue but I am sure the more information would help. The information I can gather up from the news and internet can greatly help me to convince my readers. It is because how I matured after the economical crisis and that I began to learn more about the world around me. If I write the essay without such information I would seem like I didn't mature at all and that I haven't learned any thing about the world around me and that I am a lazy person. Colleges don't want to see that I am lazy therefore I should search up more information on my essay topic so that it can help me convince my readers of my growth. Since the event has occurred four years ago it is very likely that most of my information would be on the internet and old newspapers. Since old newspapers are harder to get by my best bet would to be searching about it online with Google or Yahoo and once I find information I need I would bookmark it for later use and also check if the information is valid.

Journal 27: Personal, But Not Selfish

The economical is a global issue that effects millions around the world and more.  My family was a group that was effected and it changed all of our lifestyles. We Shanghai to Taiwan for our family to be together and the be able to afford the life expenses. It wasn't a easy transition for me and only later did I realize that many other families like also did what we have done too. My parents began to tell me about the economy and the situation we are in. I use to be the kid who ask for money from parents and believe that I deserved the money and that the money seemed to grow on trees. Yet after this economical crisis I found how the money actually came; from all my father's hard work and savings. They use very little on themselves but a lot more on my sister and I. My realization of this truth was a bit late but I believe that I can still use it as a valuable knowledge. I still many times see other kids in school so seem to use money like it falls form the sky and take material things for granted.

"Oh no my Iphone broke! Oh well I just tell my mom to buy me a new one, but I lost my contacts! Nooooo!"

I really pity these people because once they lose their parents as "patrons" of their lives they wouldn't know how to save money. I think from learning and changing from the economical crisis I can help others understand the situation better and hopefully change some of these spoiled kid's attitude towards money and life.