City Connection

4) What did you learn from the city presentations of others?

All the presentations were enjoyable. When I watched their presentation I just couldn't stop admiring the presentations. Even though they all did little bit of mistakes, they looked very natural and the presenters didn't seemed to be nervous. They each had their own styles of presenting and learned that everyone has their own boxes. I mean the box used in "Think out side of the box." Some of us had fascinating designs, projecting their voice enough to be heard and telling stories from pictures to audience. If I have to choose 3 well prepared presentations I will choose: Maria, Joseph and Tem. First, I chose Maria because she used interesting movements in the slides and contained lots of details. Before hearing to hers, I didn't even knew what Bogota was. However, after hearing to hers I noticed that it was a city in Columbia and it is located in high altitude. On the other hand, she rushed and presentation suddenly went forward by mistake, it just smashed my expectation. However, it was well constructed presentation. Secondly, Josephs was the best example of reading stories out of pictures. Even though he didn't had as much informations as Maria, he talked as much as her. One of his pictures that I still remember is the food like sausages,tofu and vegetables. He explained what it was and his own experiences about the food. Lastly, Tem's was simple but very descriptive. She memorized hers perfectly,which I have to learn from her, and she didn't hesitated because of the articulation. Hers included every features of her city. For example, clear maps, resources that made her city developed and other informations. I think I need to learn memorizing and putting informations like Tem. To improve I also need to learn from others like using skills of slides, putting certain color in the text to be seen, and other skills people had. Next time, I suppose I must memorize mine and color the text in different color to be seen.

Domi profile

In last Humanities class, we used our time knowing about ourselves. We did something called domi profiles, to know  how we have to study by testing which is our dominant eye, leg, hand, ear and hemisphere. I noticed that my right eye, hand and leg are dominant and my left hemisphere. As a result, I got profile A, which was different from my last  test. Maybe I have changed from few months ago.

I learn best when I pay attention to details of the subject I learn. I am not sure of this answer even though its from the domi profile. However, I think it could be right because when I study, I read all chapters of the chapter, but it could be also not right because I don't pay much attention to how I study.

I need to summarize what I have learned, speak out and write about it to memorize what I have learned. This answer from domifile I really agree. When I write or speak what I learned (usually writing) it is normally remembered by my brain correctly.

The strategies that would help me in my learning would be reading and taking notes of what I have learned. When I learn something, I try to read over and over again. However, taking note, when I take note even though I have note them down I feel worried because I feel like I haven't wrote down some thing.

I would like my teachers to know that I like the idea of reading the textbook together and note taking in groups which I prefer to be continued.

2011

          This year is 2011. To asians or to most asians, this year is year of rabbit. Even though a year has passed, I don't feel special or changes. However, there are some changes in my house. First, my cousin started to study in malaysia with me but different school. Even though we live in same house, we hardly see each other in the morning, because she goes to school at seven forty in the morning and I go to school at seven am. In my opinion, my cousin also has same problem with me, vocabulary which one of my goal. My other goal is to get A on Humanities. 


         Getting A on Humanities is my biggest goal and what I wants most. However, it is a task that could be easy  or could not be easy. Now, my humanities grade is not very far from my goal, but I think it will take many months. The first skill that could be a step toward my goal would be writing. I believe that is the skill that needs to be improved the most. To improve this skill, I go to a tuition center three days a week and write essays, and in my free times, I read books. I also work to learn more vocabularies which is my second goal.

         Building on my vocabulary is a part of my doing better at writing. I chose this for my goal of this year because this can upgrade my writing skills by sentence structures and word for right place. I really need to know more vocabularies because when I write some paragraphs, I usually struggle with words. To use more vocabularies, I read books, get tested on spellings in tuition center and memo word that seems useful. In holidays, I read a book called "The red pyramid" which is written by my favorite author who's name is Rick Riordan. I read this for 3 times which makes me easier to understand.

         Over my winter holidays, I spent my time in my home country, Korea. When I visited my grandparents, our family met grandmother, aunt's family and uncle's family. We rested until we night. That night since we were bored, our whole family including aunt's family and grandmother decided to drive through the new road undersea going to an island named Gagu(e)do. I was expecting to undersea and peaceful view of the sea. Unfortunately, as it as dark, I was not able to see anything and there was tunnels and bridges which were boring. However, the smell of the sea was cool enough to stroke my nose. At the end of the road we reached a car resting place was filled with people even though it was eleven o'clock at night.


         Everyone has a talent, but I don't exactly know mine. My friends say I am good at making people laugh but I am not very sure. However,  instruments I can play are piano, recorder and clarinet. However, for piano, I have quitted that when I was young, and for recorder and clarinet, I haven't play for them for half of the year. I still have one talent, that I got black and red mixed belt(right under complete black) from a huge competition when I was seven. Unfortunately, I didn't joined taekwondo since I was nine because I flew abroad to study. However, I am going to start taekwondo again. This year will be the time for upgrading myself.