See You

        Tomorrow is the last day of STEP BEYOND. I remember a day before the first day of the camp. I was excited and little nervous. I wanted to do my best and learned whatever that could change my life positively. Now, I am not sure about the improvement of my English skill, but I know that I got a lot of good friends, and I became more comfortable with English. Also, I got to know my weakness of English, so after going back to Busan, I will fill holes. I am thankful for all of your kindness, and I enjoyed your aspiration to English a lot. We have different majors, so I can't expect meetings as much as thesedays. However, we can make a appointment frequently. I hope you had good days and good luck. See you.

        Especially to Erika, thank you very, very much about your passion and generous. I think your classes were the best. I want to take your class in coming-semester too. I promise that I will do better than this time. In addition, I wish you have a good time on your vacation next month.

Au Naturel

         Before answering the first question, I want to let you know that I am a anti of GMO food. However, if changing plants were proved to be safe, I would like to change a part of a strawberry. I love strawberry, but there's a one thing that I don' like. That is a crown of strawberry. It really bother me when I am biting strawberry. Because of these green crowns, I can't eat strawberries at one bite. I think it's decrease my satisfaction of strawberries. I need strawberries that eliminating crowns.

        I think both question 2 and 3 are difficult to answer. I've never thought about animal cloning with ethics. I was just surprised how science and technology are developed. However, if human cloning is not right, I think that logic should be applied to animals. Someone might say, humans are more intelligent than animals, so humans must be respected and animals not to be. It does not make sense. Humans are also animal and animals also alive lives that must be respected as humans.

Wings of Typhoon

        In Korea, we can usually watch news about flood. However, I've never experienced any horrible disaster, so I don't really get scared. Of course, I feel pity of disaster victims when I see a news about them. Since I was born, I have lived in Busan but never lived near the beach. There were no tsunami. However, every summer, typhoon come to Busan. It's not harsh as much as foreign news's disasters, but still strong wind and heavy rain attacked people. When I was in elementary school, a big typhoon came to Busan, a name was Memi. It hit the whole city very hard. At first, I didn't consider it seriously and I thought it just annual general typhoon. However, windows started to shaking. It became worse and worse then the body of a apartment started to shake. I knew that buildings can shake, and it protects from break. However, I was scared when the apartment was shaking like a swing. I was living at the top of a apartment, so the movements were the worst. Also, I thought it could be collapsed like a wooden chopsticks by shaking. Suddenly, all the lights in the city went out, and I experienced real darkness. I was really surprised, and I couldn't control my emotion. I made a little fuss, and I expected my parents would be worried about me and tried to make me calm down. However, they got angry and scolded me because they thought I was old enough, but I didn't keep calm and acted like a child. Actually, I was a child, but after that I regained my composure quickly. I was little embarrassed, but I understood it was emergency. I could hear other houses' windows were breaking by wind, and the lights didn't work. It took a long time to be finished, and my family had to sleep at center of living room all together for being away from windows.

Dreams Need Money

        There is my dream plan if I get a great deal of money. First of all, I would bank a billion won, and I would live with its' interest for food, clothes, and taxes. Second, I would invest the most of money in some interesting performing arts businesses that can affect to me and other people for living affluent lives. For example, I would make my own businesses in movie industry, performing industry, and Korean traditional instrument industry. In movie and performing industry, I would like to discover unknown talented people and help them to achieve their dreams. I would like to support restoration of Korean traditional instruments financially. For instance, there are lots of beautiful traditional instruments in Korea such as bipa and walgeum. After restorations, I would do my best to make the instruments to become popular in the world. Lastly, I would buy a broad area and built my gorgeous house that is designed by myself. In addition, I would buy some farms of tangerines, peaches, and strawberries and raise them in organic. Some extra fruits would be provided for free to the poor.

Helpful Help

         I'm going to introduce you about my meaningful experiences. From middle school, school has required volunteer career. When I was in middle school, I usually volunteered at a post of office near by my home. However, I couldn't find a purpose of volunteer. It made me feel that I was just wasting of my time and energy. I didn't think that is worthy. Therefore, I grew a dream of volunteer that is really helpful for other people. A chance came to me in the summer, my first grade of high school. There was a camp that is running by a disabled welfare facility. I participated in that camp with one of my close friend. I received a education about disability generally, and then I helped mentally retarded people for few days. I helped their eating, walking, and washing. It was very tough work, but I impressed of these new experiences. I kept thinking about them for several days. That thought came over to me, and it made me considering what I am. For a long time, I was stuck at somewhere in my head, but I'm not telling you it was bad. I'm sure it affected to me for a good way.

        Next year, I joined in a volunteer club. Therefore, on weekends, I had two kinds of volunteers for kids in need. First, I was in charge of one kid who has some difficulties. She was second grade of elementary school, but she was different from other same age kids. She had a mental problem, so she couldn't follow her class. Also, her family has a financial difficulty. I worked hard to make her read and calculate properly. I felt like I became Sullivan. I had to wait with patience, and I had to rid myself of greed. Although, I thought I was a master of patience, it took a long time to be comfortable. However, each time I saw her developments, I received huge overwhelming rewards.

        Second, I volunteered at a child welfare facility. I took care of about 30 kids for more than 5 hours. I played with them under the hot sun and helped preparation of meals. It sounds easy, but after those activities, I couldn't do anything except sleeping. However, during the time with the kids, I felt very happy innocently. They acted like little cute evils, but they were angels. I love them, and I missed them a lot.

        These three kinds of volunteers gave me all the different lessons. Also, they made me grew up with balance and deep depth. I thankful for these precious experiences, and I hope it help me to be a big plate that can put the world in.

A Manager of Your Body

         Have you ever raise a pet in cyber? You feed it, take it a walk, and put it to sleep. Sometimes, you inject for it's health. All of these caring are easy for us because they show us the amount of needs. How about applying these system to human in reality? If we know the requirements of nutrition, sleep, and exercise and just follow the information, our lifes are going to be easy. Here is a expecting someone's day-life who uses that system.

        Getting up from my bed, I check my one-day needs. It includes needs of nutrition, exercise, and sleep. In the nutrition part, you can choose food and organize your day diet to be correctly with day amount of calorie and nutrition. Next, I check the exercise that I should do today. Today's exercise schedule insists of swimming for 1 hour and aerobic for 40 minutes. After a day, I check a need of sleep, and I set a alarm.

        Isn't it cool? You don't have to worry about obesity, adult disease, and tiredness at all. This system will prevent you from all these kind of your health's enemy. There are many people who want to be in well-being. However, they are too busy to take care of their body carefully. With this system, it will be much more easier than before. Therefore, this system would be new trend of the future.

Become What You Believe

         Adults are not superpeople. They can make some mistakes like children. Nevertheless, they are separated from children because they are responsible of what they do. Even a fifteen years old girl could be a adult, if she takes a responsibility and people around her watch her with trust. I think Quinceanera perform a role that gives official approval she choose her life by herself.

        In Korea, every third Monday of May, coming-of-age ceremony is held for celebrating twenty years old people. Next year, people born in 1992 will be celebrated on this day. They are congratulated by their family and friends for becoming adults. Also, they get some gifts from their parents or lovers. Usually, a present consists of flowers, a perfume, and a kiss. However, after that ceremony, Koreans still depend on their parents for money. I think the ceremony in korea is held for fun just like a Valentine's Day.