7.25(Thurs) : Diary

It is the day before the first Mock Trial. I am pretty nervous because I'm the witness who should stay in the character and answer the questions very well. I practiced with Seong-Ji about the questions that can be made from the Crown side. I hope there will be a good result. I made a blog in the computer room. I used www.blogger.com to create my own blog. It was a complicated procedure to make it, though I was satisfied  with my first post that I made. It was about self- introduction and I explained myself with 3 special things about myself. My blog was pretty well made. After he researched for information about our history presentation. I was presenting about Perseus, so, I mentioned about Medusa, Andromeda, and such other things for more direct information. It was a hard job, I used Wikipedia to find. It was the comfortable website having all of the major contents about it. Mr.Cox said that we should be careful when using Wikipedia because information in it isn't accurate sometimes. I actually agree because I just usually copy and paste what's in Wikipedia and find out that there are many errors. I should be careful!

Third Post : Movie Review

After few days in the GLPS camp we watched a movie called 'The Princess Bride.' It was made in 1987 directed by Robe Reiner. The genres is fairy tale, romantic comedy, and adventure. The movie was quit long for about 2 hours. The characters were the boy, Buttercup, Westley, Prince Humperdick, Fezzik, Inigo, Vizzini, Miracle Max and the citizens. The settings were cliffs of insanity, fire swamp, lightening sand, Forrest of Theives and Pit of Despair.

The main storyline is about Buttercup and Westley's true love. Buttercup and Westley and loved each other, although Westley left to get money and seek fortune. After 5 years, Buttercup gets married with Prince Humperdick though Buttercup doesn't want the marriage. She gets kidnapped in the Forrest of Theives by Fezzik, Inigo, and Vizzini. The theives attempt to kill Buttercup to blame the other country that they killed her to start a war. It was all Prince Humperdick's big plan. Westley faces some hardships during this quest. He gets to get tortured by the Pit of Despair by Prince Humperdick. Westley rescues Buttercup at the moment Buttercup was getting married to Prince Humperdick. Westley attacks the villans and live happily with Buttercup.

There were several lessons I learned from this movie. One was that true love never breaks and lasts forever. The other one was about bravery and knowledge to face challenges. Also, the movie had some parts of Inigo's revenge. Indigo managed to revenge Miracle Max who had 6 fingers because he killed his father. The person who had the most leadership was Westley because he attempted to rescue Buttercup with his courage. I learned some qualities of leadership from the movie. I learned teamwork, driving force, and self-control. Teamwork was shown by thieves which were Fezzik, Inigo, and Vizzini. They helped each other to handle Westley with their own skills. Fezzik used his strength and power. Inigo used his fighting skills. Vizzini who was the smart one attempted to use his brain to beat Westley. Though, Westley was the one who won. Also, the boy was very cute when he claimed to his grandfather to stop when Buttercup and Westley kissed. I found of kind of shocking that the story was read by the grandfather because I forgot of that fact that the movie was actually from the story.  The movie was too old and boring, I was very disappointed. I do not recommend this movie! 

7.24(Wed) : Diary

It is already the second day of the classes! Time is going so quickly! The first class was golf, We had golf lessons for 2 hours. A pretty teacher  taught us ate the second florr. We did golf with an iron which was hard and heavy. I had a hard time handling it. It was very hard to swing it and hit the ball. I kept making mistakes which was very embarrassing. I needed to practice a lot. The teachere was so good at it that I was very surprised of her skills. After, we did debate. I was Miss.Choi. We worked in two teams which are the Crown and the Defense. I was in the Defense team. We practiced questions that can be made during the real mock trial. We had 3 history classes in a row which was very hard for me. I picked Perseus as my presentation topic. There weren't any contents in the thick books that were given. I just hate history and memorizing the facts which is such an headache. We watched the Mock Trial in the Dasan building and my spine felt so miserable and my neck as well, However there was a prize which was Chocopie and I loved it.

7.23(Tues) : Diary

Today, it was the first actual day we did our classes. We did the orientation, the director and the teachers were introduced. It was kind of boring, clapping for about 5 minutes in a row. ㅠㅠ After the boring oritentation, we had an administration from our homeroom teacher who was Garrioch. He was very kind and we chose our pop song that will be sung at the English Song Contest. We chose "Viva La Vida" by Coldplay. I didn't know that song so I wasn't that interested about it. I wanted to do "What Makes You Beautiful" by One Direction, though, it was already chosen. The first class was debated which was led by Tierney. It was a debate called Mock Trial that was made in the Canadian courts. I was very confused at the first because I was supposing of British or American debate. I was pretty disappointed. Mock Trial had the Cronw, the accused, wittness, defense, and so on. I 've go to have a role as a witness whih is Ms.Choi. It will be very exciting and thrilling tomorrow. It has already been 3 days. I'm eating well and sleeping well. I'm pretty satisfied about this GLPS camp and looking forward to it.

7.22 (Mon) : Diary

It is already the second day in the GlPS camp. I started to get kind of homesick. The classe3s haven't acutally started yet. We took two tests which were writing and speaking. Eventually, my class was 18. I became very friendly with my roommates. I called with my mother and it was pretty touching.ㅠㅠ I actually want to go home and be with my family. However, I decided to do my best in this camp for 4 weeks with good friends and teachers, It is very thrilling and exciting as well. I am very excited about the classes tomorrow. The food is so so, I acutally want to eat my mom's food. I am pretty quickly adapted to this situation and especially waking up early. However, I can't understand why the lights are off at 10:30. I hope the time will be 1:00 because I need more time to do my homework from school especially math. I am very expectant about tomorrow! I hope I'll meet good friends and teachers tomorrow.I hope it will be very exciting. I'm especially lookinjg forward to the parlimentary debate because I want to learn skills of POI. I want to participate well and get certificates at the last.^^

Second Post : Set Goals!!

Yesterday, I saw a TED talk about 30-day challenges by Matt Cutts. He had a lot of goals and some interesting ones were no sugar, no caffeine, writing a novel, and climbing high mountains. I'm attempting to set 3 goals that will be available, during the GLPS camp.

There are standards for goal setting, it can be intialized as Smart. S stands for specific, M stands for measurable, A stands for specific, R stands for relevant and T stands for Time-Bound. Goals should have these characteristics. I'll introduce my 30-day goals; there are 3 of them.

My first goal is finishing my math homework. To achieve this, I need to make more time by doing my GLPS homework quickly. I will use 2 hours and do 20 pages a day.

My second goal is finishing my school vacation homework. I need to check tyhe list by using th computer in the Dasanh building. I'll need to use Hangul-document for 2 hours a day to do my ethics, science, english, and social studies homework.

My last goal is losing 3kg during the camp. I won't eat snacks during the night. I won't drink sugary beverages.

I hope my goals will be achieved during the GLPS camp. I will accomplish them for my self-confidence. I hope there will be good results of the goals and be leaded to success! Fighting~!

First Post : Self Introduction^^

                Hello, nice to meet you! I am Jenny from GLPS 20. It is the first post I'll make. So, I decided to introduce myself to you. I am 14 years old having 3 essential things that I want to talk about. First, I have a pet which is a panda mouse. His name is Jack. He has white and black patterns and he's cute and small. Second, I love listening to pop music. I especially like singers which are Taylor Swift and One Direction.

They're songs are so good such as 'We are never ever getting back together' and 'What makes you beautiful.' To wrap up, my favorite book is 'The Tree Grows in Brooklyn.' It is about a girl named Francie and her life. There are a lot of lessons, mainly 3 things which are poverty, education, and endurance. So, I recommend this book. Thank you and let's have some fun!