http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/rss lucia's latest journal entries Lang-8 Inc. Mon May 28 15:53:44 UTC 2012 Mon May 28 15:53:44 UTC 2012 Lang-8 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Lang-8 And I love to travel. . .
So,I have so many picture in my computer hard disk. . .

However, nowadays I can't find a chance to take a picture . . .

I've been busy. . .

Anyway I'm going to the park this afternoon. .

I will record good picture~~~~

What is your plan this weekend??

Posted at Sat May 26 04:41:18 UTC 2012
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1496140 http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1496140 lucia Sat May 26 04:41:18 UTC 2012 I ran in order to pass crossing in time.

2. I ran to the crossing in order to pass in time when I saw the traffic light blinking on the way home.

Which one is better?

I'd like to know natural expression. . .

Thanks in advance.
Lucia~

Posted at Fri May 25 15:24:19 UTC 2012
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1495517 http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1495517 lucia Fri May 25 15:24:19 UTC 2012 There isn't anyone in the office.
He wrote 'Where are they?' as a comment.
So, I commented at his picture 'your office, it looks lonely. . . '.
Is it the right sentence?

If there is better expression, let me know.

Thanks in adbance.


Posted at Fri May 25 14:52:09 UTC 2012
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1495442 http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1495442 lucia Fri May 25 14:52:09 UTC 2012 A private institute is a little different from school.
Students in Korea go to the private institute for an extra class after school.
They study there form 5pm to 10pm....
poor students and poor Lucia~

anyway, because the education curriculum changed so much when I came back to Korea frome there in 2 years, I had to prepare classes , so I've been busy.

I've been busy busy, but I'm always missing there and you.
I've saved money to travel there again...
2 years or 3 years later, I might be able to to there to see you. ^^

How are they? mama, prosper, mwamanda mama, mjomba shabani, mwashibu. . . .

Say hello to them....

I'll contact you again~


Posted at Thu Mar 15 03:30:53 UTC 2012
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1365169 http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1365169 lucia Thu Mar 15 03:30:53 UTC 2012
Dear. Peter and Deo.
How are you? Long time no see.
I'm sorry that I haven't contacted you in a long time.
It's been almost 1 year since I came back to Korea.
I had been so~~ busy to adapt me to korean life style as soon as came back.
And then I god a job.
Lucia who was idle inTanzania has disappeared, now only Lucia who are very busy because of too much work exists. . .

I've been thinking about I should write a letter to you, mama....
You know my English and Swahili ability. . .

I always made up my mind to study Swahili and English, but it's not easy to translate thought into action.
Hahaha
It's too difficult to write a letter in English. .
It was really good when we were chatting face to face because we could communicate with body language. .



Posted at Tue Mar 13 02:38:07 UTC 2012
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1361617 http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1361617 lucia Tue Mar 13 02:38:07 UTC 2012
And

of itself in this sentence 'Cinderella may return to her original form of itself at midnight.'.

Thanks a lot in advance.
Lucia~~~~~

Posted at Wed Feb 15 16:09:56 UTC 2012
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1317358 http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1317358 lucia Wed Feb 15 16:09:56 UTC 2012
For example. . .
Today, I wanted to mutter even anywhere , because my students bothered me.
However I couldn't write on facebook page, because some of my students read mine.
So, I wrote that in Swahili. . .
KKKKKKK
I felt catharsis after wrote that. . . .



Posted at Wed Feb 15 12:09:35 UTC 2012
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1316847 http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1316847 lucia Wed Feb 15 12:09:35 UTC 2012 But, sometimes I support department of mathmatics becauae of insufficiency of math teacher in our institute.

Every tuesday and thursday, the student who makes me crazy comes to the institute.
TODAY IS THE DAY WHAT I MENTIONED!
She is poor at math. . . besides she doesn't make an effort at all. . .

Here is an episode. . .

She anawered 0.8 when I asked her that "0.7+1= ".
I couldn't help laughing.....
How can I teach her???????????
She is a 13years old. . . . . . . TT





p.s (How can I read "0.7+1= " in English?)







Posted at Tue Feb 14 13:19:53 UTC 2012
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1315293 http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1315293 lucia Tue Feb 14 13:19:53 UTC 2012 I had to study Swahili to survive there. . .
Swahili was easy to learn than English in my case.
My neighbors used to give me a compliment for my swahili ability.
However. . .
It's been 10 months since I came back Korea, my swahili ability is getting worse.
I've almose forgotten it.

Today, one of my friends asked me to teach swahili.
I thought I'd better go on study swahili in case.

I may travel to east africa again. . . .KK




Posted at Tue Feb 14 05:55:23 UTC 2012
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1314726 http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1314726 lucia Tue Feb 14 05:55:23 UTC 2012 I have set the table,then started to eat. . .
As time goes by I was getting sad because foods have disappered. . Kkk
I'm not full in despite I ate the meal. . .TT

Posted at Mon Feb 13 15:54:34 UTC 2012
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1313885 http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1313885 lucia Mon Feb 13 15:54:34 UTC 2012 We got together at an outback steak house.
We spent a time having a chat and ate a lot.
After lunch, we went shopping.
We were wandering around shopping center.
1 hour later we scattered to come back home because I bought a ticket in advance.
When I arrived at a bus terminal, I felt hunger suddenly.
I had only 10 minutes by bus departure time.
I bought a dumpling box before get on the bus.
Now, I'm eating dumplings in the bus.....
I think I'm getting become like an AZUMMA.
When I was young I couldn't imagine the feature that I eat a food at a public place. . .
Now,I can't feel shame any more hahaha


Posted at Sun Feb 12 09:40:09 UTC 2012
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1311463 http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1311463 lucia Sun Feb 12 09:40:09 UTC 2012
Posted at Tue Feb 07 16:22:30 UTC 2012
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1304191 http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1304191 lucia Tue Feb 07 16:22:30 UTC 2012
5 * 4 = 20

10 + 5 = 15

20/5 = 4

Thanks ~
Lucia ~

Posted at Wed Oct 26 06:19:22 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1156370 http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1156370 lucia Wed Oct 26 06:19:22 UTC 2011 I can not remember where I read this, but it touches me.



증오, 남을 미워하는 마음이란 내가 독약을 먹고 상대가 죽기를 바라는 것과 같다.
Hatred. A strong feeling of dislike for someone is the same as you take poison then you want him to die.



한국어로 된 글을 읽고, 영어 문장을 만들어 봤어요.
I read it in Korean. Then I made an English sentence.

자연스러운 문장으로 고쳐 주세요^^
Please fix it in a natural context.



Thanks~
Lucia~

Posted at Sun Oct 16 15:11:27 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1142840 http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1142840 lucia Sun Oct 16 15:11:27 UTC 2011
Posted at Fri Sep 16 13:57:32 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1100277 http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1100277 lucia Fri Sep 16 13:57:32 UTC 2011
I've always regreted after I shouted at somebody.
I should have controled my temper today.
We should have 30 seconds to calm down whenever we get angry.

This evening, when I entered the classroom, my students wanted me to buy some snacks because they were hungry.
I also felt hunger, so I gave them money to buy milk and they were out.

I told them "Come back in 5 minutes!".
However, they didn't come back till it passed 20 minutes.
I started to think like 'They must be eating instant noodle now.'.

Anger was welling up in my mind.
I shouted at them without asking the reason as soon as they came back to the classroom.

Then I asked them why it took them a long time.
They answered me that there were so many customs at counter, so they had to wait for a long time.
I was misunderstanding them.

I could have asked them the reason before I scolded them.

Posted at Thu Sep 08 13:33:40 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1090054 http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1090054 lucia Thu Sep 08 13:33:40 UTC 2011 Even if it's a studying English.

I've joined an English club praticing free talking.
The topic of last weekend was a hobby.

I don't have a special thing to do in my free time these days.
Because I have to work form 2pm to 11pm, I don't have much free time.
But I'm trying to study English as much as I can.

Last week, I answered "My hobby is a studying English." when somebody asked me "what's your hobby." at the club.


Then, everyone seemed that they were thinking me extraordinary.

Am I strange?


Posted at Tue Sep 06 06:29:20 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1086502 http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1086502 lucia Tue Sep 06 06:29:20 UTC 2011 Watanabe Hiroko(name of actress : Nakayama Miho)still hasn't forgotten her fiance.
It started with scene that Hiroko was standing up from the deep snow after she had been hidden herself there.
She had sat there as if she wants to know how felt her fiance was when he had been dying in the snow because he met a disaster in the mountains.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
I want to write a plot of movie named "Love Story"

Could you understand my jounal?
It's too difficult to write journal in English.. :-((

Posted at Thu Aug 11 11:12:55 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1049454 http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1049454 lucia Thu Aug 11 11:12:55 UTC 2011 => Yes, I had to move several times.
When I was young, I didn't have enough key-money, so I started to live in a house which is located at a half basement.
I moved to a new place whenever I made a pile of money.

22. Do you think a house needs to have more than one bathroom?
=> I think any house with more than one person should have tow bathroom.
That way no one ever fights over the shower.

23. Have you ever had to repare anything in your home?
=> I don't have any experience expect changing the lamp.

24. How did you choose your home?
=> Actually I didn't choose my home.
I just live off my older brother.

25. How important to you is the area around your house?
=> I don't care about the area around my house.
But, I want to live in Seoul.

26. What are the most common home styles in Korea?
=> I think that villas and apartments are the most popular.
I also live in an apartment.
However I'd love to live in a Hanok which is Korean traditional housing someday.

27. What do you think are common home styles in Western countries?
=> I think the most common style is a detached house.
It seems that they have enough land to have enough space for yards between houses.
Mose of Koreans dream to have a house which has a garden.

28. What do you think is the strangest thing about western homes?
=> I still can't get over wearing shoes inside.
It's so dirty.

29. Have you ever lived in a Western home?
=> I lived in not a western house but a Tanzanian house.
I decorated that house looked like Korean's.
But I was still missing Korean ondon system.

Posted at Mon Aug 08 14:15:12 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1045584 http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1045584 lucia Mon Aug 08 14:15:12 UTC 2011 => I think water-sking is more fun.
Actually I don't know the different thing between two of them.
Could you explain what's the jet skiing?

12. Have you ever been on a cruise?
=> Yes I have.
I went on a cruise so many times.
I liked to travel to island when I was in Africa.
Cruise tour is very popular in there.
The most impressive cruise was the sunset cruise on the zambezi river in Zambia.

13. Where would you like to go on a cruise?
=> I'd like to take a cruise along the Nail river in Egypt.

14. How much do you think a cruise would cost?
=> It could be flexible depends on the distance, where to go and how long it would be taken.

15. What kind of home do you have?
=> I live in an aprtment.
It's a 15-story building at the country side of Asan.

16. Do you think apratment are the safest housing?
=> No, I don't.
I think all kinds of housing is not safe unless you take care.

17. How big is your home?
My house has three rooms and two bathrooms.
I live with my borther's couple.
3 rooms and tow bathrooms are enough correctly.

18. How far is you rhome from here?
=> My house is about 30 minutes away by car.
I come here by car everyday.

19. How long have you lived in your home?
=> I just moved 2 months ago.

20. How much is the average rent in your area?
=> I think key money for a 34 pyoung apartment in my area is around 100 million won.


Posted at Mon Aug 08 14:06:27 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1045561 http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1045561 lucia Mon Aug 08 14:06:27 UTC 2011 =>Yes, I have gone fishing only one time(or once. <-which one is better?)
I went to west sea of Korea with co-workers.
I had to stay on the ship for 12 hours.
Fishing didn't interest me, and I was too tired.
Besides, I don't like Sasimi.

2. Why do people enjoy fishing?
=> I don't know.
If I knew someone who really likes fishing, I would like to ask him that question.

3. What do you think about catch-and-release fishing?
=> I don't understand.
Why they catch fishes if they wouldn't eat them?
Do you know the reason?
It might give them pain.

4. Which is more popular, fishing in the river or in the ocean?
As I know, neither of them.
Most of anglers go to some place where is prepared for the fishing artificially in Korea.

5. Do you like to go rafting?
=> Yes, rafting is a lot of fun.
But I haven't gone for a couple of years.

6. Do you think rafting is dangerous?
=> Yes, I think it is.
The water, rocks and rapids make rafting very dangerous.
However, thoes facts also make rafting very exiting.

7. What's the best river for rafting in South Korea?
=> Hantangang is the best place for me.
Because Hantangang has very nice scenery and very strong current.
But, if you find some place where you can enjoy with your children, you'd better go Donggang.

8. Do you think rafting is a men's sport?
No, I don't.
It's ridiculous to distingush men's or women's sport.

9. Are you afraid of drowning?
=> No, I'm not.
I really like water sports.
I like to stay in the water.

10. Have you ever gone kayaking or canoeing?
=> Yes, I have.
I went canoeing on the lake when I was a freshman in university.
Canoeing was a course of study.
I remember that it was too difficult to balance on the water bing in the canoe.


Posted at Mon Aug 08 11:50:06 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1045319 http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1045319 lucia Mon Aug 08 11:50:06 UTC 2011 I love Friday.
I have only 3 class in Friday.
I finished today's work teaching students science, calling parents of students to inform them of their children's attitude in the class(not the all of students) and submitting the paper to the head of a department, but I can't go home till 11 o'clock.
I don't have anything to do now, so I'm writting the journal now~
I' like to go home~
I need a rest~

have a good weekend~

Thanks for reading~
Lucia~


Posted at Fri Aug 05 13:29:01 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1041695 http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1041695 lucia Fri Aug 05 13:29:01 UTC 2011
The meaning is that I got a 9 point when the perfect score is 10.

I'm not sure whether I heard it correcly or not.




One more thing!

Please check the following setence whether it's right or not.

What do you think about person who answer "you're welcome" when I say "I'm sorry".



Thanks~ Lucia^^;

Posted at Wed Aug 03 06:33:28 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1038590 http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1038590 lucia Wed Aug 03 06:33:28 UTC 2011 Specially, I cherish very much the pictures of me taken when I was a little girl.

When I was young, my family made a bare living.
We didn't have any camera.

I wasn't taken a picture even on the hundredth day and on the first birthday, because I was last born, besides I am a daugther.
(There was a notion of prefering a son to a daughter.)

I have few pictures of me in my childhood.
And now, I really like to take a picture of scenery to memorize as much as I can.
And I also like to be taken a picture of me.



~~Have a great day~~

Posted at Fri Jul 22 08:18:21 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1022474 http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1022474 lucia Fri Jul 22 08:18:21 UTC 2011 When I was very young, I saw this movie.
I usually search preview about movie that I would watch it after buying a movie ticket in advance.
Because I am clumsy with all kinds of arts.
I usually start to like a music when it is start to become old-fashioned.
I usually understand mocie story exactly after a little long time goes by.
Anyway!!!
When I watched that movie, Love letter, I had not searched it, so I didn't have any information.


This is an outline a plot.
There was a starred actress who lost her lover.
She went to her lover's home on his memorial day, and she found his old address from his middle school year album.
(He lived other city till he graduated from middle school.)
She who is still missing him send a letter to his old address.
Despite his mother told her his old house turned into an express highway.
That address isn't exist any more.

Strangely, she would get a reply from a mistery person.
She start to be in correspondence with a mistery person.
At last, she find out who the mistery person is.
The mistery person who sent a reply is a difference person of the same name with her lover.
She misaddressed fromthe beginning.
The mistery person start to let her(starred actress) hear what happened between tow differnce people of the same name by mailing as her request.

It's a sort of love story.

The problem is that the mitery women has the same feature with a starred actress.

If confused me very much.
However, I understood that movie story exactly after thought of the story over and over.
I started to become a fan of that movie after understanding.

I admired how the writer could make that story.
I recommend you to watch it if you haven't seen yet.


Posted at Thu Jul 21 13:30:25 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1021536 http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1021536 lucia Thu Jul 21 13:30:25 UTC 2011
I can't remember exactly what I dreamed, but I can remember clearly that I felt very scary in my dream.

Strangely, I Knew that I was in a dream.
I thought that I had to wake up right now.
I tried to wake up, but when I woke up I realized that I was still in the dream.

That was the following situation.
I had slept with my head on my father's knee in my dream, and then I had another dream.

That is the most strange dream I've ever had.


Posted at Wed Jul 20 07:05:07 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1019732 http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1019732 lucia Wed Jul 20 07:05:07 UTC 2011
At last, she decided to let him know how she love him.
= She decided to ___________ .

She decided to confess her love to him. It's so weird.
She decided to dash him. <- It sounds not romantic.

Posted at Mon Jul 11 15:36:37 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1008074 http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1008074 lucia Mon Jul 11 15:36:37 UTC 2011 Then I take a shower and eat breakfast with them.
Around 9 o'clock I leave for an institute to study English every day.
I study for 2 hours at there then I come back home.

My brother and sister-in-law are working.
These days, my brother always come back home late, around 10 or 11 o'clock at night, as he has a lot of work to do at work.
My sister-in-law started to study Japanese recently, so she stop by institute on her way home.
They are very busy in a weekday.

That's way I become like a housewife for a couple of hours after come back from the institute.
Wash the dishes,
Do the lundry.

In the afternoon, I read a book or study or do something whatever what I want to.
I take a nap for a few minutes when I feel aleep.

It's very easy life.

A few days ago, I had an interview for a job and I took a job.
I'm goning to work from next monday.

I wonder whether I can crimb and study or not after starting work.
:-) haha


Posted at Thu Jul 07 13:30:32 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1002916 http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1002916 lucia Thu Jul 07 13:30:32 UTC 2011 => I think that learning English is easer than Japanese for most of Korean.
Because we start to study English very early.
English is the necessary subject, but Japanese isn't.
So, Almost everyone can read and write the alphabet, and we are used to using English.
If we want to study Japanese, we have to study from the Japanese alphabet(hiragana).

However, learning Japanese is easer than English, in case we are a beginner at both English and Japanese.
Because Japanese sentence structure is the same to Korean though English isn't.



No 2 Which smells better, a rose or a tulip?
=> I think a rose semells better than a tulip.
Actually I can't imagine the smell of a tulip.




Posted at Wed Jul 06 08:04:11 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1001224 http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1001224 lucia Wed Jul 06 08:04:11 UTC 2011
I'm taking the English class these days.

There will be a conversation test in a couple of days.

I made some sentences.

Check the following sentence please~

No.1 How far is your home from here?
-> It's about 40 minutes away by bus.

No.2 How far can you see from your home on a clear day?
-> I live on the thirteenth floor.
I can see very far,
but all I can see is rice field because my area is the contry side.


No. 3 Are you good at playing sports?
-> I'm very clumsy.
So I'm not goot at playing sports but I'm enjoying leisure sports.


No. 4 What is your best friend like?
-> My best friend is very kind and smart.
Besides she's very beautiful unbelievablely.
I always envy her,
but we know very well each other because we've known each other for a long time.
That's why we can rely on each other when we are in a tough time.


No. 5 Can you recommend an effective way to learn English?
-> I think there is no way except that spend a lot of time to use an English.
Read an English article as much as you can.
Watch a America movie or drama whatever.....
Write an essay whenever you have free time....


Thanks ~
Lucia ~


Posted at Tue Jul 05 13:43:39 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1000231 http://www.lang-8.com/18840/journals/1000231 lucia Tue Jul 05 13:43:39 UTC 2011