Minh Anh Duong

           English

           Ms. Guarino

           19/11.

            

                                                      The Gathering of Peals.

         After finished reading the novel Gathering of Peals, I think it is a really good Novel. The novel is about the life of a young woman name Sookan, when she studies in America. The reason I say this novel is really good is because when I’m reading the novel I somehow see myself in it when I was first been to America. I had the same feeling as her, I asked the same questions like she has asked, and sometimes I get homesick so bad too but I think people who go far away from home will all feel the same way.

       

            Sookan’s life in America is never stabilizing. Before she comes to America she is excited and worried at the same time; she is excited because she has never been to America before so she is really curious about it. She is worried because she thinks her English is not good enough to communicate with people there and she has never been far away from her family before. She asks herself a lot of questions like: would people there understand me? Would they like me? Would I like them? When see been in America she feel so different, the airport is so big, people are so tall, and people is more open and more friendly than people in Korea. She get to America to study is because of the scholarship, it mean she doesn’t have a lot of money, all the pocket money that her mom give it to her; she need to buy book and school stuff. So see have to babysitting for Mr.Bennett after class to make her own money, so see can hangout with her friend she have free time. Because of that she makes her life harder. This is only her first year in America she already have a lot of hard class and she still have to do babysitting for her pocket money. So she is very buzzy and she has to world very hard to everything perfectly. When she have to try to really hard to do everything perfectly; she become tired and pass out. Her life is not just like that is because she is still really lucky that around her there is Mr.Bennett, Sister Reed, Ellen, Marci those people who is very important to her. When she working to hard and pass out they were very worry for her and decided to help her in her study so she feel less stress and don’t pass out again.

       That is the really great novel. It make me feel like a part of my life now is like that to. If I were the teacher I will chose the same book to my student to read because is the good practice of reading skills and I thing they all the student who study far away from there family to, so maybe they will find the interesting reading it. 

Diary

                   11 / 20 / 2015.
 Dear Diary,
  today is the first day of the thanksgiving brake and I didn't have a change to go back home but I have my mom, my cousin and my friend in Boston to hangout with me through the brake. The first day in Boston we just spend time to visit some college for my brother to apply in. We visit a lot of famous college for example like Bentley University , Boston College. Those university are very big and huge, it take a really long time to visit all the place and we have a lunch in Connecticut college and I think food in college is much better than the food in high school and i have a lot of chose to make. In the of the day we visit a few college and then we go to get dinner. So that is my first day in Boston

Thanksgiving

I didn't have a change to go back home this Thanksgiving brake. However my mom and my  cousins come to America to take me to Boston where my friend is study to. In the fist day in Boston we go to visit some college for my brother. In the end of the day we visit a lot of famous college like; Bentley university, Connecticut College. In the second day I pick my friend out of school and get to the house with me to live for a few days. We didn't anything much in the rest of the brake, we just going to shopping, go to play snooker but for me just hang out with my family and friends is enough. I was having to much fun, I'm not ready for school yet, but I just have to try hard 2 week until the winter brake and I cannot wait to come back

The ending of Peter Pan

In my opinions I think the Peter Pan show have a good ending. The reason i say that is because in the end Peter Pan kill captain Hook and safe Wendy and her brother, everybody was safe and the best think is Peter can come and visit Wendy one a year. Finally everyboday was safe and happy so i think the Peter Pan show have the good ending.

Peter Pan

Duong Minh Anh

English ( IS ) II

Ms. Guarino

15/11/2015

                                                    

                                                         Peter Pan review.

 First, I just went to the Peter Pan show because of the assignment, because I had never watched a play like this before and I thought it was really boring, but when I got there and watched I changed my mind. The play was very good, everything was set up perfectly, the music, the light, and when they were changing the scenes everything was setup perfect. When I was watching the play I felt like I was watching the professionals, not students at Cheshire Academy. They made people laugh a lot, that including me.

       The play is about Peter Pan. Is the teenager boy who can fly and never grows up. He just likes to play and enjoy the life. Peter Pan life in neverland, but one times he and his friend Tinkerbell was flying and playing around and get lost. They went in the house and get caught by somebody. They run away but Peter Pan lost his shadow in that house. So a few day letters they decided to come back and get the shadow. When they come back, they met a girls name Wendy. Wendy was very surprise of what Peter Pan can do. They talk a night and become friend and then Peter Pan decided to teach Wendy how to fly and invited Wendy to Neverland to hangout with her, but Wendy doesn’t want to leave alone so he call John and Michael who is Wendy brother to come along. When they come to Neverlanf they have a really good time together. But Peter Pan life is not just among friend. He a very big enemy who is captain Hook the scary parrot. He really hate Peter; he looking for Peter everyday to kill him, the reason why captain Hook hate Peter so much is because Peter is the guys who make Hook lost one hand. One day Wendy and their brother missing home and want to come back. Peter Pan didn’t like it but he have to let them go home. In the way home captain Hook get them because he know they are Peter friend and Peter will come and safe them, so they can get Peter. In Hook plant Peter come to safe his friend. Peter and Hook get into a big fight, in the end Peter push Hook into the sea and the crookerdia kill him. Peter bring his friend home and he promise to comeback one a year to visit Wendy.

     This is my fist time seeing a play like this in real life and is change my though about it. Before I think is really boring and not funny but after the show I really like it. If I have a change to watch other show like this and would definably go and watch it.  

 

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homework

Duong Minh Anh

English ( IS )- II

Ms.Guarino

5.11.2015

                                      Sookan life in America.

         Sookan life America is being very normal. She still has to go to the

dining to work to be able to keep her scholarship. She still have to do

baby-siting for Ms. Bennett in her free time, to make her own pocket

money so she can have money to going to the movie or going shopping

with her friend. Ellen and Marci is still her best friend in school because

Sookan meet them everyday, Ellen is her roommate and Marci room is

this next to Sookan room, and they are really close to each other, they

always helping each other out even through they share a different

personality. In Christmas no matter where they are they still remember to

buy other person a gifs, Marci, Ellen and Ms. Bennett is the most

important people for Sookan in America. There is only one thing that

Sookan worry about is her classes they she take mostly is European

history, the class that she doesn’t what to take because she think her

English is not good enough to take this class. But I think she can do it

because she is the hard worker like her mom. She going to the library

everyday even though she is very busy with all the work that she has and

the most important thing is she always have Marci and Ellen or even Mr.

Bennett that are negative speaker will always be more than welcome to

help her not just in History even help her to improve her English. So with

all the relationship that she has, she will be very successful in America.

 If she will be success and happy in America, there is no reason for her to

come back to Korean even though her family is all live in Korean, but in

America now Ms. Bennett family make she feel she has other family

beside her so she will feel warmer when she missing her own family and

make her not too homesick and come back to America, that will same

more money for her mom, because she do baby sitting at Mr. Bennett

house everyday than that will bring Sookan closer to Mr. Bennett family,

not just that Mr. Bennett cook something for Sookan or even in Christmas

she not forget to give Sookan a present In my opinions I think Sookan will

make more friend in the school year and maybe she will have a handsome

American boyfriend like Ellen. After Sookan graduate then she will come

back to Korean and bring all of her family to America then she will make

her own money to take care of her mom and her sister two people who

care about her the most because I think that is Sookan dream and that is

the reason why she come to America because she really love his mom the

person who never complain about anything to make money for her to

study in America, because in the story there is a since that Sookan just

want to come back to America to hug her mom and talk to her mom.