The Christmas Eve

This Monday I went to a fantastic American style restaurant with my close friend. We had planned for our activities on Chirstmas eve for several days. We decided to meet with each other in front of the school front entrance at six thirty. Then, we set out for the restaurant we had already made the reservation. At that night, everywhere was full of the atmosphere of Christmas. To my surprise, the meals there were really tasty and they were certainly very big. What was more, the waiter and waitress there were all very polite and kind. I really felt warm and happy that night.

After the meal, we went to a friend' s house to have a big party. One of my close friend held a party at his house, and he had invited a lot of friends. We had the party at 9 o' clock. We listened to the music and danced crazily at the party. Moreover, he had bought a lot of snacks and drinks for everyone. What made me feel most happy was that I met a lot of new friends that night and I really enjoyed myself. To sum up, I really had a wonderful night and I knew that this memory would last for a long time in my life.

Christmas is coming

YA! I love Christmas because I am going to receive the present from Santa. That was me ten years ago. I used to believe that there is Santa in another world. When Christmas comes, he will come to our world to give every child a lovely present. I remember once in my childhood, I really got a present when I got up in the morning. From that time on, I would put a stocking near my bed at night on the day before Christmas. And I could receive the present every year. Finally, one night by accident, I discovered that it was my parents who put the present into the stocking. There is no Santa in the world.
However, even I realize that there is no Santa in the world, I am still very excited when Christmas is coming. The reason is that I will always go out to have a big Christmas dinner in a fancy restaurant with my parents or my friends. I love to eat fancy food, but I can only have this kind of luxury once a year. I always go to the restaurant that is really high level and the meals there will probably cost me almost a thousand dollars. See, that is why I say I can only have this big meal once a year. Next Tuesday is Christmas, and I am making some plans with my friends. We all want an unforgetable memory of Christmas this year. Want to know what we are going to do? ......I will tell you next week.^^ See you~

Shakespear in Love

This morning, we watched the movies in English literature class. The title of the movie was Shakespear in love. Actually, it was a movie that had been released a few years ago, and I had already watched it for two times. Although this was the third time for me to watch the movies, I was still impressed by the scene in the movies. To tell the truth, I really love this movie.

I like the love story of the two main characters in the movie. Their love makes me feel satisfied and what's more, they make me believe there is certainly true love between two people. My heart was not only captured by the poetic words of the characters but also taken over by the great power of love. It is really amazing that although there are a lot of sexual scenes in the movie, they won't make me feel disgusted; instead, I can strongly feel the passion between them and also realize how much they love each other.In the movie, they show their true love by a famous play, which is written by Shakespear, Romeo and Juliet.

Although their love can only be a dream that exists during the night, they still face the reality bravely. They cannot get married because Shakspear is already married and the lovely princess has to marry to a duke as the duty of a daughter and also the queen 's command. Even though they finally depart from each other, each of them still stands an indispensable part in the other 's life. Their love will last forever and their images in the other's heart will never perish.

Feeling Frustrated

I feel really exhausted and frustrated this week because I have to do a lot of works. To tell the truth, I have been very busy through this semester and sometimes I feel like giving up. I have been asking myself why I have to make myself extremely busy. I really want to escape from all those things but I can't.

First of all, the total credits of my course is 25. The reason why I take so much courses is that I still minor in marketing. I have to take another 20 credits of marketing courses before I graduate. And the marketing course are always easily to be arranged at the same time as our department courses. It is hard to choose the courses of marketing department.

Second, I am the leader of my class. There seems to be a lot of works that are considered my duty. I always have to deal with a lot of stuffs for my class. Actually, I was not that busy when I was the leader of my class in the freshman year, but the difficulties and the quantities of the sophomore's couses increase so that being a class leader become more exhausted because I have to spend much time on my studying.

Third, I have to take part-time jobs four days a week because I have to earn my own money for my apartment rent and my daily expense. The economic condition in my family is pretty bad. Because of my father's debt, my mother cannot sent me money every month. She has to work hard in order to earn money for offering my young brother to study and sometimes she has to help my father to pay the debt. She is my beloved mother so I don't want to increase the pressure of my mother. I want to live independently and try my best to earn my own money.

Although I feel unhappy about my tiredness everyday because I sometimes doze off in class, I still try my best to enjoy every happiness in my life. After all, there are more people who live in a much harder life than me. I still think that I am more luckier than many people because I still can go to school and I have money to buy food and I still can live in an apartment. Although I have to earn my own money and I lead a much tiring life than other normal people, I will keep going on and never give up. I want to live happily and I am sure that I can make it. Thanks for this journal because after complaining, I feel much better now, and I regain my confidence and energy.

The Class Reunion

Today is our class reunion, I really feel excited. The reason is that I have been preparing for the reunion for quite a long time. Because I am the leader of the class, it is my duty to plan for everything, including ordering, restaurant arrangement and the time arrangement. To tell the truth, I am really exhausted because it took me a lot of time to prepare for everything and to put everything in great order, but I really want everyone to have a good time. That's why I try my best to do what I should do.

On Thursday night, we gathered together in front of our school and we set off together at about 6 p.m. It was really exciting on the way to the restaurant because some of us were having a car race competition although it was dangerous. Actually, we were not driving really fast; on the other hand, we were just having fun. At that time, I was very nervous because I was concentrating on the directions. I was really frightened that I might forget the way to the restaurant.

We had a wonderful dinner at that restaurant and I also got my certificate of merit which was in commendation for my outstanding academic performance during last semester in freshman year. I was really happy that I got the feedback for my hard-working. We enjoyed the meal there and chatted with each other. We also took some pictures. Most important of all, I got what I want during the reunion that was the smile on everyone's face. I knew that I really held a wonderful and memorable class reunion. I was extremely happy for what I have done.

The Volleyball Team of English Department

As everyone knows, English department is always full of girls. There are only limited boys in each grade of English department. As a result, the English department is always not good at sport because generally, the boys or girls who are studying the literature usually have no great talent on the sport. However, there are still a few people who are really talented in sport and have a great interest in sport. I am one of them and my favorite sport is volleyball. I am pretty good at volleyball but because of lacking of boys in our own department, we could not unite a volleyball team and that is the reason why I could not have the volleyball competition with other departments during my freshman year.

Things have been changed a lot because we have some freshmen who are fond of sport join us. They joined many different kinds of sport team. Some of them joined the volleyball team, some joined the basketball team, and still some join the soccer team. These teams are all founded by our own department members. This year can be the golden year of sport in our department. Not only for boys but also for girls. In the past, these teams are only for girls because there are not enough boys to found the team. I am very excited because we, boys of English department finally can have our own ball teams and we can have the competition not only with the other departments in our own college but also with those in other colleges. It's a token of the dignity and the identification of the boys in English department. I am really happy and I hope this trend can last forever.

The Freshmen Camp

Finally, we held our freshmen camp last weekend in a farm. Although the place was not big enough for all of us, that meant we did not have enough room for every members, so some of the workers had to sleep outside the rooms in the sleeping bag, we still had a very good time.

During the camp, we had many activities. When we arrived at the farm, every team workers came out to have the self introduction. Then we began to play the guitar and sang the songs together. In the afternoon, we had the games on the playground and the most impressed was that there was one team who lost the games when competing with other group. The punishment was that they had to choose a boy and a girl to have a security kiss and they had to kiss other no less than 10 seconds. There was a girl who wanted to be the volunteered so that I was really shocked and I thought she was really a brave girl. At night we had some fantastic performances such as acting, dancing,and group activities. On the second day, we had the RPG game in the morning. I played the role as Michael Jackson, and I had to reapeted the same lyrics the whole morning. That really drived me crazy. Before we went home we had a funny activity which was to choose the boys in each team to decorate them as the girls and let everyone choose the most beautiful girl to be the top camp girl. That was really funny and everyone enjoyed it a lot. The boys who were choosed tried their best to make themselves become more feminine.

Whenever I recall the memory, it's still very interesting. Without any doubt, this will become the beautiful memory in my heart and I will never forget it. I hoped that I still have the chance to participate in the freshmen camp when I am a senior.

Midterm Exam V.S. Freshmen Camp

Sorry that I dismissed the class on Tuesday because I had a lot of exam to prepare. = = To tell the truth, I think that the course in the year of university is really harder than the freshman year. Especially the other languages that I have to study are really difficult that I have to spend a lot of time to figure out the grammar of the other language. I regret choosing two second foreign languages as my credits. First of all, it is tough for me to study two languages at a time. Second, the grammar is so difficult that I sometimes feel confused with the difference between Spanish and English.

Why I am a little late for preparing the midterm exam is that I was preparing for the freshmen camp during the past three weeks. It a pity that we hold the camp right after the exam week. It really makes me tortured when the school works and camp stuffs come up together at the same time. Of course that I cannot complain about anything; after all, it is my own choise. I enjoy participate in the activities that are held by our own department, but this time , a little difference is that we hold the camp with other department. If we do the best job and hold a successful activity, I will feel proud of not only myself but also all the workers who pay their efforts in the activity. And this weekend we are going to hold the camp in the farm, and I am looking forward to how it goes on.

A Beautiful Night of Music

On Thursday night, I went to the guitar club to play the instrument with some freshmen of our department. We had eight people in the room with a piano. Four of us could play the piano, three of us could play the guitar, and one of us was a biginner of the guitar. We got together and enjoyed the music together. We played the instruments that we had and sang the song together.

At first, we played the piano piece by piece and we played by turns. After several pieces, we began to played it together. Two people at one time; one played the main melody and the other played an accompaniment. It really excited and fantastic when we played it together. After the piano playing came the guitar playing. Three guitar players played together and one of them even sang loudly. It was really a wonderful time that all the people who were fond of music got together and shared personal experiences and showed our fantastic talents and skills.

After that night, I really missed the time that I was still learning the piano. It was a way for me to dispel the pressures and enjoy my life. However, I stopped my piano learning when I was in senior high school because of the heavy burden of studying. Even though I can still play the piano today, my performance is not as good as before. I think I will buy a piano when I have enough money. I am not sure when this goal will be achieved, but I will make it one day.

The Cheer Squad

This Wednesday I went to see the cheer squad practicing of the freshmen in our department. It makes me feel like going back to my freshman year. When I was in the freshmen year, we freshmen also had a cheer squad competition which is held because of the school anniversary. At that time, we practiced every night and we also spent some money on the guiding teacher. Now the freshmen have the same situation with us. While I was watching them, I really missed the freshmen year when we were preparing for the cheer squad competition.

I remember that I was very excited when I heard the cheer squad competition was coming. I had watched the cheer squad competition before on TV. I really thought that the cheer squad was very energetic and fantastic. It was a kind of healthy exercise and it contained a lot astonishing skills. Actually, I really love this sport, but the process of practicing the cheer squad was really exhausted. It was difficult for us to do the skills at first. Everyone felt stressful and we failed many times. Some girls even fell down from the top when they were raised up by the boys, and the boys really needs a lot of strength to hold the girls tightly when they were on the top of the boys. Even though it was really difficult, we all felt released and extremely happy when we conquered all the dilemmas. At the end, we didn't win the prize, but everyone did their best and we didn't blame on others. We were satisfied with ourselves and we did a really good performance.

The freshmen this year are going to have the competition on this Friday. I hope they can do their best and create an unforgetable memory in their college lives. Good luck and best wishes to them.

The pressure and duty of a leader

As I am a class leader and also the leader of cleaning education class, sometimes I really feel pressured and that really makes me exhausted. To be honest, I am a man who always makes myself so confused, and I usually give a lot of thought on all the issues in my live. Now I am quite wondering whether it is good for me or not.
You probably don't understand what is the cleaning education class. Let me explain it. Actually, it is a class for freshmen to clean our campus and I am their leader who instruct them to divide into several groups and supervise the freshmen when they are cleaning. But recently, I have faced a lot of problems, and they really bother me a lot. I meet almost the same problems on both two sides, the class which I belong to and the freshmen's cleaning class.
Everyone is an indivitual and people are different in many ways. As a result, eveyone has varied emotions and the ways that people think are also quite different. This is the reason that makes people only care about themselves. People become selfish and they don't care much about other people's feelings. And I am the victim under this kind of circumstances. When I am busy at working on the students issues, for examples, I have to hand in the document which needs everyone's signature before Friday, and I got those stuffs on Wednesday. I only have three days to finish it, and the difficulty is that everyone has taken the different classes, so we only have few classes that require every sophomore to take part in. It is hard for me to finish the job and there is even someone who always like to skip the class, so I cannot find him or her in the classes on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. In order to finish the job on time, I have to make a phone call to ask him or her to come to the class. The same kind of situation happens in the freshmen. The only thing they care about is when they can leave, and if some of them finish their own areas, they just talk to each other and never help other people. Unless I ask them to do so, and they will do it reluctantly. But they don't give the thought that everyone cannot leave until all the works are done. If they can give others a hand, then everyone can leave earlier.
Now I am really thinking about myself. Of course that not everyone is so selfish, there are still other people who are willing to help and to stand in other's shoes. I really hate those people who only care about themselves. I am wondering that if the same situation happens again, I will leave those selfish people behind. In order to finish the job, maybe I should make myself a little bit selfish to those people who don't care about others. I shouldn't always be a nice guy, after all, I am not the great Jesus Christ.

Time is Money

As a sophomore, I find out that how to use the time efficiently becomes a really important issue in my life. I really feel that I am often running out of time. When I was still a freshman, there was always free time for me to enjoy myself and go out to play with my friends, but now it is luxurious for me to have valuable time to plan my own outdoor activities. My schedule is full of daily stuffs that I feel myself like a working machine. I can't let my brain take a rest because there are a lot of stuffs that I must remember clearly; otherwise, I will miss some important things. Even though there is more elective courses in the second year of university, the difficulty and quantity of the courses are increased. I have to spend much of my time studying the textbooks and making the reports. Besides, I have to work part-time job after class four times a week. Still, I have to prepare for the activities of the camp which is held by our department and finish the job of a class leader. I am really busy every day, sometimes I just want to get rid of every thing in my life and have a vacation in some other places. But I know this cannot be true, and I cannot just escape from my own duty. I must finish them and put everything in order. As a result, I have to use my time efficiently. I strongly realize what the saying"Time is Money" means. even though sometime I will still waste my time. Anyway, I am still learning how to use my time efficiently and make a plan for my daily stuffs. I can do quite better now, but not well enough.What's more, I am still trying to defeat my laziness and I know it very hard for human beings to conquer themselves, but I will do my best.^^

After reading the article"Without Emotions"....

After reading this article, I feel a sense of tension and fearness. I can even imagine the hard time during the world war. It seems that when the war breaks out, everyone has to be well-prepared to fight against the enemies, even the children who are still in their teenages.The auther tries to kill without emotions in order to combat in the war. I think a child's purity and innocence has been totally eliminated.There is no pity and compassion during the war time. Everyone fights for their own life.The relationship and friendship among people are no longer the value that people will care about.I can hardly judge whether this action "kill without emotions" is right or wrong because maybe I will do the same thing when I am involved in the war.I think I will do everything, even to kill the enemies , though they are also human,to protect my family and of course, myself.^^

My Pholosiphy of My Life

As the proverb goes "Practice makes perfect." This saying is rooted deeply in my mind. When I was a child, it was always a saying that my mother used to remind me whenever I felt tired of doing things hardly. As time goes by, I realize the importance of the saying and it instills into my mind and becomes one of my my life principles.
I was very interested in the music, especially the fantastic instruments. I always stared at the teacher who was playing the piano when I was in the kindergarten. As a result, I began to learn the piano when I was ten years old. At first, the teacher said that I had a great talent and a gorgeous sense in music, but I was insulted the next class. The reason was that I thought I was a music genius; therefore, I did not spent my time playing the piano after class. It turned out to be a mess the next class. After that, I made it a rule to practice the piano everyday after school. Since then, I always received high praise from my teacher and I did a really good performance on my piano concert. This case set a best example of the importance of the proverb "Practice makes perfect."
Even now, I always makes a lot efforts on everything that I am going to do. I will prepare for all the materials a few days ago before the due time and practice as much as I can. Although sometimes my hardwork does not lead to a successful achievement, I never give up. I always believe that the chance of success is for one who is already well-prepared.

My Moon Festival Holidays

I had been waiting for this holiday for a very long time. The most unforgetable memory during the Moon Festival is that I went to the Sun Moon Lake to watch the fantastic live concert and the amazing firework with my friends. We set off at about five o' clock p.m. on Saturday and arrived at Sun Moon Lake at seven thirty p.m. The ceremony had already began. There are a lot of people standing in front of the stage and listening to the music. There were also many popular singers attending the ceremony and performing their beautiful melody. The first thing we do after we got there was eat at a nice restaurant because we all felt very hungry after such a long journey. After that, we bought some delicious food from the venders. There were milk ice cream, stinky tofu, and sausage, etc. We went to see the concert with the food we bought, but we could only stand at the backward. Fortunately, we could not only see the concert but also the singers on the stage. Actually, almost all the people were anticipating the fireworker in the end of the ceremony. Believe it or not, the fireworker was more attractive than the singers. Until now, I can still remember the pleasure and the cheerful scream of the people when they see the firecracker. Everyone shouted loudly and clapped their hands excitingly. Of course my friends and I were doing the same thing as the other people.We enjoyed ourselves and had a really wonderful night. On Sunday I went back to my hometown and shared my experience with my family. We had barbecue at that night with many of my relatives. They all ask me whether I had a girlfriend or not. Whatever, we chatted with each other and played with kids. Before I came to Taichung, my close friends celebrated my birthday and we went fishing together. What a surprise, we did not catch any fish before we went home. I don't know when I can go home the next time to meet my family and my friends, but this memory will certainly last forever.