journal

Now I finally started to know why people always say their college lives are very busy and they are almost out of time. At first, I have to study the Spanish and Japanese, which I major in this semester. It is really hard to learn a new language, I have to adapt to its new grammar and vocabulary in the very short time. And that is really different from the situation I learn English before. When I was a little child, I could learn English by playing the games with my classmates. However, I have to memorize so many Spanish and Japanese vocabularies in a week and always have many tests and homework to do. Besides, I can not understand the middle ages history when I go to the English literature class. I can not separate the characteristic between Anglo- Saxon and Anglo-Norman. I think the English literature is more difficult than the Norton mythology, and now I have no interest in reading it just like before. Therefore, I am really worry about the mid-term exam is approaching and for fear that I will failed in those subject.
Secondly, I am busy for the freshmen’s campaign which will hold on November. I usually have a meeting twice a week, and everyone will discuss how to make the whole activities wonderfully. On the weekend, we will go to Miu-Lig and check the camping area again and again. Hence, I am always thinking of my freshman life, which is out of pressure and I have my leisure time to do whatever I want. But I will not regret what I decide, because I should not always stay at the dormitory and daydreaming like before, I should do some meaningful things to myself. .

journal

After I attended in my grandfather’s funeral on Monday, I quickly took a train and went back to Taichung. When I arrived home, my roommates told me that I have to write an essay, a journal, a transcription, and I also had a Japanese quiz, a listening quiz, a Spanish quiz and a grammar quiz in this weekend. Therefore, in order to finish my homework and prepare for the test, I have to burn the midnight oil and when I was in the school, I was exhausted and could not pay attention on the class. Furthermore, I have to borrow English literature from my classmates and write down the notes which I lost. Recently I usually think of my senior high school’s life is as busy as now. Maybe I am used to have a leisure life since I became a college student, now I have so many works to do let me became crazy. Besides, I have take part in the freshmen’s camping activities, I have to learn how to dance and perform it in front of those freshmen with my classmates. When I went back to Tainan, they have already practiced it several times, so I have to practice again and again with my roommate’s help at home. And I have to learn how to cook the green bean soup as our night snack when we go out to camp; however, I never cook it before and it is really hard to control how to cook it perfectly, so my teammates give me a really tough job to accomplish. By the way, the weather becomes cooler than in Tainan now, the temperature is low when I wake up in the morning. Although I want to go back to home to take my winter clothes, my homework does not finish. Hence, I have to wait until the mid-tern exam is finish. I hope I will not get a cold until I go home.

journal

This week is the most exhausted and busiest week that I have ever had. Since last Wednesday my father gave me a call and told me that my grandpa is dead. I felt my heart was broken and I cried all the night. Because I could not concentrate on my listening class, I decided go back to Tainan immediately. On the way home, although I was so depressed and agonized, I let myself face the music gradually. I knew my grandpa has become ill for a long time. However, I could not stand that he left me instantly because I still talked to him and took care of him in the hospital few weeks ago. I was familiar with my life that my grandpa always sits in the living room and waits me go home; I was familiar with my grandpa that he always smiles to me and cares my behavior. Hence, when I can not see him waits me at home now, I felt so lonely and cast down. I was regretted I did not do something and pay more concern about my grandpa, just like what he did for me. Therefore, mom told me what I can do now is read the Buddhism calligraphy as many times as possible. I hope my grandpa can live without illness and happily in the heaven. Furthermore, the most important thing is that I want to tell everyone we have to cherish the time which our family can live with us.

journal

After a long summer vacation, I find my English skill does not improve and I forget some vocabulary. I also can not write an essay as fluently as before. Therefore, I start to regret that I don’t practice English in my summer vacation but play and daydreaming all day. I am surprised that some of my courses become much harder when the semester started, especially the Japanese and the English literature. I find that learning a new language is really difficult. It means that I have to memorize its vocabulary and grammar just as I learn English when I was 10. Although it is hard to specialize a new language, I will try my best to study it in order to get a good job in the future. Furthermore, the English literature is so boring that I always take a nap in the class and I have no interest on it. Up to now, I have so many homework and tests that I even suspect why people usually say their college lives are out of tests and pressures and why my college life is so different from them. Besides, many of my classmates are having a part time job- to be a tutor. Hence, I also want to be a tutor not only to earn some money but also to gain my experience. However, it is hard to find an appropriate job for me. I search the internet and go to the tutor club in the school to find the job recently, but it is almost too far from the school or they pay less money to the tutor. My classmates tell me I have to wait my job patiently until there has an appropriate job. As a consequence, I have nothing to do at home now but just improve my English ability. I hope my writing and listening skill can become much better than last year.

reflection

At first, when I read through the essay, I feel the author is brutal and blindness. He shots the squirrel just for fun, and he does not have pity for the torture which the squirrel is suffered. On the contrary, he gives the squirrel another deadly shot. In his concept, if he can kill an animal successfully, he will not scare anymore when he goes to the war. Therefore, he conquers his fearfulness and takes another chance- to learn how to kill a chicken. When I read his article, I can almost imagine the scene because he describes it so vividly. Not only I but also my classmates are feel it is so disgusting and cruel. For example, the chicken can not bear the torture anymore and it will run away with out its head. This makes me think of does human has the right to deprive other creature’s lives. Should we kill those poor animals just for our dinner or they are so delicious. Hence, I am absolutely support everyone should quit eating meat and be a vegetarian. Furthermore, I am sneer at the author’s concept. Why he thinks kill a man is as easy as kill an animal? Killing men is committed a crime and even genocide. However, when I think of the era which writer lives, I consider everyone is easily affected by the period they live. As a consequence, the writer is so concentrate on learning how to kill.