2011년 3월 1일 화요일

I love hamburger!

When I think about American food, hamburger comes up in my mind firstly. Hamburger is not only famous food in the America, but it gives a big impact for me. There are lots of fast food franchises from U.S such as Mc Donald, Wendy, INnOUT, and Burger king which can buy many kinds of hamburger. Especially, these days, Mc Donald is expanded all over the world.

 Hamburger is convenient for many people to eat fast, and it is also very delicious, so lots of USA people eat hamburger 2~3 times a week or more. The people around the world usually point out the reason of American obesity is because of the hamburger.

 However, each hamburger contains meat, bread, vegetable, and cheese which are necessary for our nutrition system. Then, why do many American have trouble in overweighting? I think it is for side menu with hamburger. When we order the hamburger, we don’t usually order only burger. Instead, we order the burger with French fries and coke. French fries fry in oil, and Coke contains lots of sugar. Rather than hamburger, side dish adds calories more.

Nowadays, many hamburger franchises are built in the world, and They occur many bad health problem either. However, instead of blaming high calories, we should choose our diet wisely.

my story3

There is a famous quote “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” It is similar as the situation that is a cup filled with a half of water. When the pessimist first sees the glass, they might think the water only leave half. On the other hand, optimist think there is enough a glass of water. It makes a big difference.

 In my case, I am actually a little pessimist. When something happen to me like taking a test, choosing classes, and selecting a part-time job, I always consider the worst situation. My mother told me that it influences your health badly and gives you lots of stress. However, I don’t think having pessimism is bad. It helps us to prepare.

 Usually, having new opportunity makes someone feel exited, so they might decide impatiently; pessimist might decide the final decision through consistent consideration.
 

2011년 2월 15일 화요일

my story2

 One of my friends is very similar as me. Her identity card number is almost same except the last number; mine is 1 and hers is 0. Also, her English name is Mickey and my English name is Amy, so we can connect our name like Amickey. To our surprise, her father and my father graduated same university. Like this we have so many similarities each other, but there are also differences between us.

 First, she believes in Christianity, but my religion is Buddhism.  Whenever we talk about the religions, we always collapse and argue about which god is much better.  She really tries to change my faith.

 Second, she doesn’t like to go pub, instead of liking to go café. Of course, I like going cafe, sometimes I want to go bar and club, but she wants to go back to home earlier, so when we meet, we always go to café. However, strangely, she could drink alcohol far better than me.  I can’t drink more than three glasses of beer, but I think she is able to drink more than three bottles of beer.

Finally, I like puppy, but she likes kitty. Funnily enough, she looks like a cat, and I look like a dog. So, some of people make a nickname cats and dogs. I think our behaviors also take after the animals’

 We have many commons and differences, but we are close friends, and we call us the relation of made by god. I really like her, and maybe she likes me. I would like to go on our relation forever.

2011년 2월 10일 목요일

my story.

 I always take a number 153bus to go to a school, and it actually takes around 15minutes to get arrived the cal state fullerton. Once missing the bus, I have to wait another bus for an hour. As I first tried to take the bus since I've come here, I didn't know the exact bus time and system well, so I used to wait about 2~3 hours and pay more dollars.

 Contrary to the Korea transportation system, the orange county transportation system is much worse. In Korea, the time of coming next bus is within 20 minutes; the maximum time I have to wait is just 20minutes. When I was in Korea, I would complain about my bus time, because my friends' bus comes every 5 minutes, but it is common in here waiting an hour.

 I heard that the poor transportation system of Orange county is because everyboby has a car so they don't need to take a bus. However, considering the other side of this case, they have to use the car because of poor bus system. Jessica who is my homestay family has a car, and she always drives her car to go to school. One day, her car is broken, and she had to take the bus with me, but after using the bus, she is really pleased and always take the bus from that time.

 There are lots of beautiful place in LA and Orange County. Unless the LA, and Orange County transportation authority improve the bus system, it will be very inconvient for citizen and international student like me.

2011년 2월 8일 화요일

Let's learn Korean no.3

3. Introduce myself




Today's subject is how to introduce yourself to other people.

If you are planning to visit Korea, you might have many chance to introduce yourself to other people.

I hope you will do well!





M: Hi. Nice to meet you
W: Nice to meet you too.
M: My name is David. How about you?
W: My name is Amy.




M: An/nyoung? man/na/seo/ban/ga/weo. (안녕? 만나서 반가워.)
W: na/do. man/na/seo/ban/ga/weo. (나도 만나서 반가워)
M: nae/e/reum/eun/david/e/ya (내 이름은 데이빗이야)
W: nae/e/reum/eun/amy/ya (내이름은 에이미야)

2011년 2월 3일 목요일

Let's learn Korean no.2

2. Season





The second subject is the season. The reason why I choose the season for second is the pronunciation of season is soooo beautiful. I think 



Do you want to learn it ?



Let's start!

#Season → Gye/jul (계절) 

1) Spring → Bom (봄)

2) Summer → Yeo/reum (여름)

3) Fall → Ga/eul (가을)

4) Winter → Gyeo/wool (겨울)



5) What is your favorite season? → Jo/a/ha/neun/Gyejul/e/mo/ya?
   (좋아하는 계절이 뭐야?)

2011년 2월 2일 수요일

Let's learn Korean no.1

1. How to greet



Today, I will let you know about how to say Hi, good morning, and bye etc.. into Korean.

Its pronunciation is a little complicate. However, if you repeat it more than three times, i think, you can do well.




1) Hi → An/nyoung/ha/sae/yo? (안/녕/하/세/요/?) - [for older or formal

situation]


    Hi → An/nyoung? (안/녕?) - [for friend, younger, and informal situation]



2) Good morning → Jo/eun/a/chim (좋/은/아/침)



3) Bye → An/nyoung/he/ga/sae/yo (안/녕/히/가/세/요)
                                                                       
 - [for older or formal situation]

  
    Bye → Jal/ga (잘가!) - [for friend, younger, and informal situation]