Monthly Archives: October 2011

hey guys I’m Vivian. I mean, my Enlish name is Vivian. But sometimes I feel like, name is just a symbol. I chose this name by myself, with no special reason. So I think, what if I chose another name? Like Katherine? Coco? Judy? Or Jennifer? (Of course it wouldn’t be Wendy or Tiffany, lol) Whatever, my point here is, no matter what my name is or what people want to call me, I’m still who I am. 😀

I don’t really like to talk about myself, because talking and behaving are totally different. I can tell people how perfect I am, but actually I’m not, right? But of course I wouldn’t let everyone know about my dark side, either. (Or I should say, people are not interested either.) However, after all, this is still an assignment that we have to complete, and is also an assignment that is much easier and more interesting than others. So I feel bad that I didn’t put much effort into it before.

I am turning 21, my friends always say that I think much  maturer than I supposed to. I like to take care of people, and also I cry very easily. I can even cry while watching a funny cartoon, just because it has one or two heartwarming scenes (unfortunately, my friends also disagree with my definition of “heartwarming”). One ridiculous (yes, even myself think it is ridiculous) example is that several weeks before I saw a little boy with a little dog on the street; suddenly I started to think how much I love dogs, then it remineded me that if I had my own dog, he/she would eventually die one day. I couldn’t imagine how sad I would be if that day comes. So I CRIED!!! I was thinking how ridiculous I am while I was crying, because I don’t even have a dog! So many tiny things like this could make me cry. I guess it is because I had been through a lot for the past four years. It was the darkest time in my life. I lost a lot and earned a lot, I regreted a lot and learned a lot. So I know how important it is to treasure our life and value everyone around us, both those who love or hate us.

Ummm…suddenly have no idea how to wirte a conclusion, guess I’ll stop here. Hope everyone will cherish his/her life. 🙂

In the workshop, I have learned that when I is chosing credit card, I have to be very careful. Average graduating college student has $4,100 in credit card debt and average interest rate is around 16%. So we have to learn to how to manage our money. In the workshop, I learn 5 ways to manage money. It does a lot of help. I believe is important to take control of your money. The workshop is very helpful but it is kind of long.

Hi, my name is juntao jiang. i have been here for 3 years already.  the most influencial thing for me is that i came here. because i have to face a big problem which is language. these two languages are totally different. i feel like i start to learn everything in kindergarden. However, when i get to know the language a little bit, i find out that the culture of america is different too. i used to regret why i have to come to another country to let my life get tougher, but now when i get with it, i really learn a lot of knowledge that i cant even know in china. now i really appreciate that my mom can bring me here, so that i can have a brand new life that even better in china. this could change my whole life in the future.

My name is Pengzhan Xia. My friends always call me Pen and I like it. Basketball is my favorite sports. I like it because of an anime which is called Slamdunk. Now Ifind a new hobby, play guitar. I just star to play guitar in one month and I learn it by myself with a book. Playing guitar is a happy thing to do. Eventhough guitar is hard to learn, I will not give up. In a few days, my friends and I will creat a band. I hope the drummer can get ready as soon as possible.

After meeting up in our normal  seminar class I made my way through the large crowd on the second floor celebrating halloween and the breast cancer month to attend the major/minor fair. There was a huge line leading into the multi-purpose room. When I went in someone handed me a piece of paper with the majors and minors. Each of the tables had a sign saying accounting, finance, theatre….. I signed in for most of the majors and minors that I was interested in. I thought it was a great opportunity to see the different majors and minors. While I was leaving I handed in a survey of the fair and I left.

Challenge in Jenny’s Life.

           Challenge, challenge.. There are so many of them that I can’t think of one. See? I am going through challenge right now. Hm, oh well I guess my challenge can be extending my focus time.

I tell you now; I was a kid with the shortest attention span. So one time I came up with an idea, that if I study each subject for 2 minute and keep rotating, I would be the smartest kid in the world! But as expected, outcome was a disaster. There were multiple tests coming up, and I just couldn’t do it! I stayed up all night, rotating my notebooks. Test results? Obviously my parents weren’t happy with it.

There was one thing that changed this ADD kid, and it was spanking. I was called into the bathroom, and why do Asian parents always take their kids to bathroom? Oh well, that worked really well for me, and since that day, I just started to read and read and read. I sat all day in my room reading. My mom brought me chocolate from time to time, so I was happy.

One day, I realized that I finished my writing assignment without playing ay computer games! It was such a victorious moment.

Hi My name is Taeyong. I wanna talk about how was my life after I came to America. I came from Korea when I was 11th grade. Everybody said to me I came here too late. Sometime I also agree with that. When I go to high school of America, Everything was new to me and english gave me a huge stress. That made me do homework that other guys can finish in a hour for all day long. Way to study was also different with Korean high school. I wrote my first essay in my life after I came here. I had never written essay in Korea. Of course, It was so terrible. I think my english is still not good. I don’t remember how could I passed ESL. That was so lucky.

Anyway, My high school life was not bad because I got not bad GPA and I made so many friends at high school. After I graduated, I came to Baruch because I’m not accepted from colleges I wanna go and Baruch is cheap. However, I think Baruch is not bad too.

Monologue

      I’m Jia. The biggest thing that affect in my life is moving to American. I never thought that I would go to move, because I never heard it from my mom. Since one day, my mom told me that we going to move, I was shock at the first moment, I hope that it’s a joke, but I know it’s not, because I could tell from my mom’s face. I was so depressed when I know I was going to move, I don’t really want to leave. And I don’t want to get apart with my friends. I so scared. However, I don’t have any choice, because I was too young to disobey my mom. I always think about it, what if I was old enough, is that means I have choice to choose stay with my friends and family but get apart with my parents, or leaved with my mom and get apart with my friends. However, there’s not if, and I still have to leave with my mom.

I made so many friends when I moved to America, but not close to them, because I know that when we graduated, then we would have many new friends. It just like what I expected, when I graduated from middle school, I only have one friend that I was close to. She is the first friend I made when I moved to America. She is so funny; she told me that she is gentle. However, I really want to throw out when I every time heard that, because I discovered that she was curse more than I do. When I went to high school, I made a new friend. She did so many dumb things. And I always said: “you were born with a joke” to her. And she always said I was mean to her, but I don’t think so, because I just told her the
truth. I think the word “miserable” is fit for my continuing life, because I met out even more weird friends. One of them, she is a miracle I think, because she never and ever cheat on her test, and played with her eraser during the math test. I bet you guys don’t want to know who she is, but I want to tell you guys, she is Wendy. One of them is addicted to Facebook, I think she can’t live without Facebook. And she is Tiffany. One of them, like an ordinary person, but not when she is hungry, because she would shout: “sushi! sushi!” and she is Xinglan. One of them likes crying but for no reason, even watched the funny
cartoon. I think I don’t understand that; and I don’t want to understand that at all. And she always mad at me when I miscalling her named with another friend’s name. She is Vivian. There’s one more, and she is like social all the time. It doesn’t matter where she at even in funeral I think. She likes killing and killing people all the time, but is not in real life, it is on web game. I think she is happy because I did not mistakenly call her name. I think you guys know who she is, yes, she is Lillian. I don’t know why I have much these shameless friends, but no matter why, they are my friends. Meanwhile, I am enjoying with these shameless friends, and their special characterizes, because they are so funny, and I love them to be my friends.

One of the challenges in my life that changed me was the first time I tried to play golf. At first, I thought golf was for old people who spent their time playing in the grassy fields. The first time I tried playing golf, I had confidence that I could hit the ball and that it would be up in the air to at least my height. I thought this because other people were hitting the ball much higher than their height. However, I was disappointed at the fact that when I hit the ball it only rolled a few feet and I told myself that I would never play golf from that day forward. However, my dad convinced me to give golf one final try. He taught me the basics of golf and instructed me during my practice to gradually build up my skill. Now I enjoy playing golf and I found out that it is not the sports that I first envisioned as. Now I look back even until today and regret saying that I would never play golf again because now I enjoy playing golf. This challenge has taught me to always give a chance to everything new so that I won’t have to regret.

My name is Xing Lan. I am 18 years old. One of my goals this year is to learn to manage my time. I always wait till the last minute to finish my assignments, and works always pile up. I always feel like there is so much to do, but there is so little time. I really hope that I can get all my class readings and assignments up to date so that I can have leisure time to play. Whenever I hangout with my friends now, I have to leave early because I need to go home and do my homework. Sometimes even if I stay up till 3am , i still can’t finish my homeworks, just like last night. And now i end up doing this monologue in math class. On October 21, a new movie called “Johnny English Reborn” came out.  My favorite actor Mr. Bean is in there. I really want to go watch it, but I have no time. I hope sometime this week I can go.