Tuesday, August 26, 2008

An Inspiring Classmate


By Shirley (441)

This is a sad story about a boy who is my classmates. It concern my classmates at high school how he used his left over life.

His name is Gray. In our class, he is a funny boy. He always brings for us happy. I think Gray is a sunny boy, but something bad things is going to happen. One day he had a headache serious. So his mother brought him to the hospital. That was a bad news for them. He got cancer. They felt very sad. His mother was crying all the day. After a month, his disease became badly then before. His doctor told to his parents should be mentally prepared.

Gray knew his disease was serious, but he wanted do many thing. So Gray wrote a plan about his future. First of all, he wanted to come back to his school. That is a happy place for him. There are many lovely teachers and students. He really wanted to study with them. But after 20 days, he felt difficult for him to study. So he bad to came back home. Secondly he might stay at bed every day. But he didn’t give up to study , he read some books and used the internet to communicate with his friends.

In the end, he wrote many mails for different people. He wanted to tell them not be sad for him if one day he left. What a good student he was. That was pity for him.

One day when our class was studying in ours classroom, our teacher told to us he just left. I looked out of the window. The sky was blue. I think there will have a angel more in the heaven.

I told this story about my classmate just to show we should treasure ours life. We have many things need to do in the future.

A Story For All

By Heng-Yu Liu (PHIL) (441)

I want to share the good story to you guys. This story has a deep meaning to make me strong my mind. The story is talk about my friend. He meets some problem in his life and finally he becomes a successful person. I will describe him how to tide over hard time in his life. And how to keep brave facing the problem than solve. It’s a great experience. So I want to share with you guys.

This story was happened in 2003. My friend his name is Robert. His father is a really good business man. He has a huge factory. They produce a lot of type material, such as iron and stainless product. They work with Japanese company for thirty years. It’s kind of cooperative business operation. The company runs really well.

One day, his father to be laid up, Robert has to help his family to in charge of their company. So, he has started to comprehend this knowledge about their produce process. Robert works with their workers all day. He tries to learn about all knowledge as soon as possible. Their worker also helps to him to learn. Obviously he knows, if he couldn’t support his family who can help them. His mother and Robert they need to work all day after than they also needs to take care his father in the hospital. This situation is real awful. His mother take care his father everyday. So, she got really tired. Robert still never gives up; because he think everything will be fine.

After six month, his father almost recovers than go back to work, but he can’t work likes before. So he started to teach his son how to run the good company. Robert already becomes a worker in the company. Finally, he became a leader of this team.

When I heard this story, I admire him so much. Fortunately, he passes this hard time in his life. Because he knows, never give up and facing of the problem is a best way to solve this type of the situation. This experience he shares with our friends, we know we got a great friend and he taught us. Never to flee the problem, face it. You will learn more from it. We heard he said. Now, he got married and he also has two children. Their company still operate very well.

Croissants


By Mohammad (441)

I think everything in this life have name , and all these names came from a story . So I want to tell a story of the Crossan that is people eat , and drink coffee with it because it taste good . but have you ever thought who made it , or why did that make it like the crescent . Actually , the crossan is related to old story of Islamic Empire , and also all the religions have an emblem . what I want to say the crescent is the emblem of Islamic religion . But do you know the story of that crescent and the Crossan how they related to each other ?

First of all , about 200 years ago , all the Islamic countries used to be one country and one of the strongest countries . That called it , Empire ottoman and that country used to fight with the countries are not Islamic , so when they were fighting in Europe countries , and they were closed to get in Vienna which is capitol of Austria now . When they were out of Vienna ramparts , the leader decided to dig the land to get inside the city , so they did that , but while they were digging in, the baker in Vienna heard that some people were digging under his store , so he told the soldiers in Vienna that he heard something under his story. Then they soldiers of Austria were in fact waiting for the soldiers of Empire Ottoman to dig in the land , so the soldiers of Empire Ottoman were killed by Austria soldiers.

At that time, when they beat the Empire soldiers, the king of Austria invited the baker man who told the Austria soldiers about Empire soldiers were digging under the land. So the baker came to the king, and he made new bread, that bread he made, was like the crescent which emblem of Empire Ottoman. The baker wanted from people to eat it to celebrate victory. So , the people and the king there in Vienne ate it to celebrate the day that they beat the Empire of Ottoman.

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Accident may not be a bad thing

Group Story by: Lin, Koon, Yang and Nicole

Jennifer’s day started with a big accident, and only got worse. The accident was her own mistake.

One day, Jennifer was planning to take exciting trip. She went to exotic dancing club for woman. After that, she wanted to try something that she haven’t done yet before. She stayed there all the night and drank too much so that she didn’t go back home.

Fortunately, a man who danced with Jennifer drove her to a hotel for rest, because he didn’t know her address of house. When coming to the room, both of them had heavy buzz so they lost their mind and did something wrong. Something which they didn’t expect happened in the room, they had closely body contact.

When the sun rise, Jennifer woke up and found out that she was naked and the naked man lay behind her. She shocked and became crying. She didn’t know where it was, and where the man came from. The man woke up because of her exclaim. He had no idea what he can do, and just said sorry to her. It was the first time that Jennifer experienced of the “one night stay”. She wasn’t a wild girl. She never did that.

She was surprised that, and she regretted her fault.

Two months passed away, she almost forgot what happened in that day. She tried to concentrate on her job and she heard about the new boss in her office will come from her co-workers. When her new boss is coming into her office, she was very embarrassed.

Unexpectedly, the new boss is the man who stayed with her in that day. They were surprised. But the man said “Jennifer, I was sorry about that matter. However, I have thought you for two months from that day. I miss you. Maybe I love you, Jeniffer.” Could you give me a chance to take care of you.

Finally, she accepted the man’s request, they got married and they feel happiness.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Don't Believe Anybody

Group Story by: Sophia, Jay, Yasu, Daniel, Albert (442)

Before getting into the taxi, Mary didn't check her purse. When she reached her office, she naticed she didn't have her purse.
So, she told taxi driver what she were going to get her money in her office, but driver didn't believe her because he didn't know anything about her, so if she didn't come back to give money to him, he lost his money, so he told Mary, `Call your friends who is working this office and she/he should bring money !'

But, she didn't have her cellphone too!! So, she told to the driver. ` I can't call my friend because I didn't have cellphone too.' Intead of I'll give you my ring. This is very expensive and important to me. I'll bring money to here, please wait just 5 minutes!'

The taxi driver waited about 10 minutes, but she didn't came back to here yet, so he checked the ring and he noticed this ring was very cheap one. So, he rushed into pedestrians. Few minute later, the police came here and cought the taxi driver because he hurt 3 man and 2 woman, so they had to go to the hospital.

The taxi driver felt regret now. But it was to late. He couldn't go back in time.

Finally, the taxi driver had to live in the fail for 10 years long.

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

How she became a big fat woman

Group Story by: Chen, Ayumi, Lan and Ryo (442)

Before getting into the taxi, Mary didn’t check her purse. When she reached her office, she noticed she didn’t have any money in her purse! Mary felt embarrassed and worried. She had no choice, so she said to driver “Sorry sir, I forgot there’s no money in my purse. I really felt sorry”.

“Really? Or you just cheating” Said the driver. “I promise” Mary said lewdly.

Then the driver didn’t say anything. He thought she was cheating. So he said “please show me your purse” and Mary showed her purse. And she had no money. He said “I’m sorry. Ok, I believe you” Mary said “Could you give me your cell phone number? After I found money I will call you and give you money.”

After she got out the taxi. She felt hungry but she couldn’t buy breakfast. Then she saw the watch. It was time to begin the work. So, she went to office without breakfast. She felt hungry and didn’t want to do anything! So her boss fired her.

She walked home looking sad. At home, she found the bank card. Then, she went to the bank and took money from the ATM. After that, she called the driver and gave 100 dollar for him. And she went to supermarket, bought a lot of food to eat! She thought she can eat a horse now.

Finally, she ate too much. So, she put on a lot of weight and she became a big fat woman.

Jennifer's Day Ruined by ...

Group Story by: Chiaki, Echo, Betty and David (441)

Jennifer's day started with a big accident and only got worse.The "accident " was her own mistake.

First, she was busy int this morning because she was getting ready for moving house. It made her crazy. She was in serch a hurry her lost book for going school at 3 p.m. It was already 7:30p.m. She opened 5 boxes from the garage, but the book was't here. then, seh went upstairs to look at the bathroom and she didn't find if she looked at the kitchen and it was nothing there neither. It was 2:40p.m. She called friend, Echo, to ask if she forgot it in her house yesterday or not.

Echo knew that where was Jennifer's book but Echo was not kind so she lied. Echo said "I don't know ." so Jennifer gave pu to find book and then went to school. After she arrived the school, she nothiced that she wore the different shos each foot. One was the red shose but the other was black shoes. She was embarrassing.

Finally, she missed her class. Also, she didn't find her book too. When she was very angry on the street, she met Echo. Echo wanted to play with her just a joke. So, Jennifer was angry too much, but she couldn't show her feeling becasue she wanted to finish her luggages for moving . She needed her hands, They went to home, and set them before she moved house.

A Page One Story

Group Story by: Phil, Momo, Kafka and Lucia (441)

Befor getting into to the taxi, Mary didn't check her purse. When she reached her office, she noticed she didn't have any money in her purse!

She must have done something to escape this situation. But, she couldn't imagine any ideas, so she was so embrrassed. She asked a driver that she could pay him money later, but he refused her asking. And then she telephoned her boyfriend. Her boyfriend was woring, but he wanted to help her, so he told to Mary.

"Please pass the phone to the driver". and then her boy friend told the driver.

"Would you mind driving to my company. I will wait for you in front of the gate of the building. The driver said "That's ok." and he truned the car to the company with her.

Suddenly, the taxi driver felt uncompotable because he had had heart disease for a long long time. He needed the medicine, but he left them in his house. he must have taken them frequently. However, he didn't have them at that time.

She was eventually a nurse, so she tried to help him. Then she asked him to stop the car next to curb. After stopping the car by the curb, He passed out on the street, so she started to beat his chest strongly. He couldn't breath, so she was really embarrassed. She tired to give him CPR, but she made mistakes. She misunderstood how to give CPR. She pushed his stomach and he almost passed out again. She started to cry because he was killed by her. He didn't breath anymore. She called her boyfriend. He heard that, and then he put down the phone immediatly.

She was not a nurse anymore. she got some hurt by this situation. There was a page one article about her story. She finally suisided by herself. And Her boyfriend also suisided.

What a Monday!

Group Story by: Shirley, Junko, Yacenia and Yohei (441)

Before getting into the taxi, Mary didn't check her purse. When she reached her office, she noticed she didn't have enough money in her purse.

Monday in the morning, Mary was very happy because it was her first day in her new job. She woke up very early, cleaned the house and she dressed the best clothes.It was raining and she had to call a taxi. She was very nervious.The traffic was terrible. When she needed to pay the taxi driver she noticed she did't have enough money.

She said to the taxi driver "I forgot to go to the bank yesterday, so i don't have enough money to pay now. could you please wait for me until I go to bank to get money?"The taxi driver was thinking for a while and he said "OK,I'll take you to the bank."What a nice person he is , she thought. After twenty minutes,they reached the bank she always used. However the taxi driver didn't stop the taxi.Suddenly she felt something bad happening.

Mary noticed that she was being taken to a police station.Then, she said "I 'm not lying! It's the ture story! I forget to bring money." to the driver. However, the driver didn't listion to her at all. She was upset and couldn't find what she should do for a while.

Mary thought she must come back home. She didn't want to stay theren anymore. But at this time , she couldn't do anything. She was crying and shocked. She asked a policeman to get a cell phone and called her boyfriend Tom. A little later,Tom came to the police station and explained what kind of perpson his girlfriend is. He paid the driver. Tom brought Mary's ID card. Then the policeman went to his office and seached the internet. After a while, he came back there and said to them "That's only a misunderstand, you can go now!"

Mary felt sad. That's a bad day. She first went to the police station and lost her new job.

A Trick

Group Story by: Dennis, Etienne and Frank (441)

When Tom’s alarm clock went off, he got up, took a shower, had his breakfast and headed to work. When he got to work, however, things started to go crazy.

After he went to work, he found that all the company and people were totally different. He seemed to visit a place which he never went to before. Also, he found that all is projects had disappeared. He thought that he must be dreaming, then he closed his eyes. But it wasn’t a dream. It’s was real. He was fired from his company. He wanted to know why he was fired. So, he went to his employer. And then, Tom protested to hid employer. But nothing was changed. So, he had to find a new job.

He was disappointed. He walked on the street for many hours. Suddenly, he heard a strange sound! This sound was terrible and Tom was afraid. He decided to hide himself behind a tree. He looked around and paid a attention “What happened?” Then, Tom saw all his friends, his boss and his colleagues. They all stood in front of him. Then, his girlfriend, Jeanne, said that “Happy birthday, Tom. Because of you always work and no play. Do you remember a proverb “All work and no play make “Tom” a dull boy?” So we make a trick for celebrating your birthday.”

Finally, Tom figured out that he was not fired. Besides, he learned a lesson that he had to work and play in order to enjoy his life and have a better life style.

Monday, August 18, 2008

Yasu Has Another Terrible Weekend!


By Yasuhiro Hieda (442)

On Friday, I went to a welcome Party.The reason was to find cute girls, just kidding... There were many new students that were Japanese, of course cute girls too. After talking to the new students, I went to another party and after drinking a little, I returned back home. In my room I watched a Japanese comedy show and fell asleep.

After a long time of not cleaning, on Saturday I spent the day cleaning my house. At night I drank with my friends in their room. At around 2:00 am we decided to go back to our own rooms and sleep. Finally on Sunday because one of my friends are leaving, I made okonomiyaki and takoyaki. Okonomiyaki is a Japanese pancake and takoyaki are little balls filled with octapus that are covered with a special batter. The main point of takoyaki is to make it into a ball, but this is the hardest part and in the end we could not make it well. The taste was still great! Of course, we drank sake along with eating the food. This weekend was really very fun! Reza, lets drink together next time.

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Discover Niigata City


By Junko Kobayashi (441)

I will introduce you to my hometown Niigata. Niigata city is the largest city on the Sea Of Japan coast side.We have Japan's longest river,the Shinano. We also have ibis(natural monument)at sado island.

Niigata city is dividing into two zone. One is "Furumachi". The Furumachi has several old traditional Japanese restaurants. Geisha still go to perform at in this area. Niigata's geisha have been famous for their beauty thoughout Japan since long ago.
The other is "Bandai". This part of Niigata is full of department stores and fashionable shops.They are popular with young people. Bandai Bridge is the symbol of Niigata. The bridge is very old. It was built one hundred years ago.

We have a huge variety of delicious foods. Rice and Sake are particularly famous here. Of course, Niigata is close to Sea Of Japan, we can eat fresh fish everyday. Sushi is the best food I suppose.

In summer, a variety of events take place in. One of them is Niigata Festival. The festival concludes with a giant display of fireworks on the evening. Another big event is the Sea Of Japan Sunset Concert. It is hold on the beach while the sun sets into the sea. There are so many famous singers gather every year for it.

Recently, there are a lot of travelers from another countries. Particularly, korea and Russia. It is only two hours from Niigata to Seoul by airplane.

Lastly, I want you to visit Niigata and enjoy sightseeing. If you want to know something, Please feel free to contact me!

Mad Cow Disease


By DENNIS (441)

Do you know Mad Cow Disease? It is deadly disease. It is a big issue in Korea. Although most Korean citizens object, the Korean government accepted the import of beef from U.S. We didn't want the import, but the Government decided that unilaterally, so many citizens have demonstrated against the government for a long time.

I heard that even American imported beef from the other countries because of this disease. However, the Korean Government chose economical benefit instead of citizen's lives. So I cannot trust our president, I think that the president is citizen's woker, but our president ignored citizen's opinion. The president holds office for 5 years. However, how can Korean citizens believe this President during that time. Also who will support the president who ignores citizen?

I Met a Man

By JAY (442)

My home stay seems no good, because I sometimes go home by bus. So I plan to change my home stay. My ex-classmate Young-Ha has suggest me a home stay, I have told UCR housing office that I want to move to this home stay.

A day, I stay in student lounge and discuss homework with my classmate. I ask him some questions, suddenly a men replied my question and we start to talk something about both. Ten more minutes later, I told him today I need to go home by bus again because my homestay was busy, he say he has a car and can pick me to my home stay, I say "No thanks", but he doesn't matter about this. Finally, I agree, we walked to his car and back home.

When we was in Freeway, I told him more about my home stay and the reason why I'll change my home stay. He say he stay in a home stay too and told me his home stay seems more better than me. he say he'll has a new roommate comes from Taiwan, I envy that student, because he is more lucky than me that can living in a good home stay.

Few minutes later, he say the date that the new student will move-in, seems the same with me, I asked him, "Is your home mother Gloria?", he say "Yes", Oh.. My God, I'll be your roommate in future, that is very surprise for us. So I ask him to go to his home stay to say hello to that family.

That day, I meet my roommate in future. Next Monday, I'll move to there. I hope I can stay there for a long time, because I don't like to change the house. Maybe there has another problem, I think if both pick-up/drop-off and provide meals are no problem, It is enough. I'll save many time if I don't take bus and prepare my lunch and dinner by myself, I'll have more time to study English. I wish~~

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Jay's Birthday Party


By Chen Ming Yi (442)

Last Friday, My classmate Jay birthday! actually his birthday is August 13. So we celebrate for him early on Friday~ We bought a lot of beer, vodka, pizza and snacks for party. We started the party around 6 p.m. until 12 p.m. Wow~~~so long! But I love it! We didn’t played music. Just talking and drinking and watching Beijing Olympic Opening show! Everyone just waiting them countries player when them into to the stadium!

This is very special experience for me! I never with international students watching Olympic Opening show! So great!
Koon was so funny because he will be bartender tonight! He service for everyone! When someone came room, he always mixes new beer for him/her! We bought a lot of beer but I think not enough for everyone!

Yasu told to Jay: you should change hair and eyebrows, so tonight Yasu will be hair designer. When Yasu already change Jay hair and show us the new style! Everyone was so surprises. Because Jay look very young and look likes Japanese! Everyone told to Jay: you must use hair styling because you are cute guy! Yasu so professional! I really like this hair style. If Jay can use new hair style and come to school! I think! He will be super start here!

Anyway Jay Happy birthday and we need make another party next time!

Something About Me!

By David (Lee, Jin Seok) (441)

How are you today? I am good because Reza gave a chance to me to writing something for posting on the blog, so I'm so so really happy. I really considered what I should write. After I had enough time for eassy, I decided about me like my hobbies, vision or someting.

So now, I will introduce about me. I am David, and real name is Jin Seok, Lee. I was born in Chung-Ju, Korea. Chung ju is middle of Korea. However, I had not grown in Chung ju, for my parents went to Seoul after I was born. Then, I had graduated middle school, high school, and university in Seoul. In university, my major was mechanical engineering. It's interesting but I want to change my major to electronic science. Therefore, when I will go to RCC, Riverside community college, I will choose electronic science as my major. Next, my hobby is watching movie. Therefore, if you want to see a movie, you should call me,only woman. Whenever I will go to a movie with you. I like to be with friends, so I want to make many friends. If you want to be my friend, talk me. I am always open.

Ok I'll finish to write eassy while my class, for my class is finished. See you guys!

Welcome Message from Koon


By Koon (442)

Congratulation, we have a new classmates already. Ryo & Ayumi come from Japan, Daniel & Yang come from Korea and Albert comes from Taiwan.

I really glad to meet you. However, who come from Thailand … Just me again hahaha!!! Your personal information is very interesting. I want to know about you because you have been coming to UCR, extension last week. I hope you enjoy class and life in here. Welcome!!!

Monday, August 11, 2008

Something About Betty


By Beatriz Amalia Portillo Avila (441)

My hometown is Hermosillo, Sonora, México

Not many people here know that i´m Architect. I had made several projects in my 3 years of career, but the biggest are 3 buildings close to one beach. Those buildings are up to 10 floors, so… be careful with this girl!

What I do in my free time? I really like to visit all my friends every day! But at the same time, I need time with me alone, for make some drawings, listening some music. You know, I'm a really music freak, who likes to collect thousands of Cds, download music, and make art with them.

Bands that I like: Fiona Apple, Nouvelle Vague, Manu Chao, The Exploited, Mecano, Portishead, The Arcade Fire, Sonic Youth and much more.

Now, my next plan for this year is get finished a book dedicated to "Dad", and special, mine. It has no Title yet, but it will be something like "10 ways to be the best Dad in the world". The only intention is give him (my dad) a special gift for next year.

Well, that's a short version of me… Luv u guys!
Betty

Malnutrition


By YACENIA MORILLO CORONADO (441)

I want to speak you about the a subject that actually has a great impact in the health human, “Malnutrition”. Malnutrition is a general term for a medical condition caused by an improper or insufficient diet. Micronutrient malnutrition refers to inadequate availability for some essential nutrients such as vitamins and minor elements that are requiered by the body in small quantities.

Micronutrient deficiencies lead to a variety of diseases and impair normal functioning of the body. For example, the deficiency in micronutrients such as Vitamin A is common in developing countries like Africa, Asia and Latin America. It affects million of children in the world and pregnant women. Vitamin A deficiency contributes a night blindness, which is the first sign of deficiency of this vitamin, reduces the capacity of the body to resist different diseases, diminishes the ability to combat infecctions, decreases growth rate, slow bone development, infertility in men and women.

International Center of Agriculture Tropical (CIAT) located in Colombia, is looking for solutions to this problem of health public. Actually, the CIAT is working with Cassava and sweet potato. Cassava in the most important food in the developing countries. Farmes particulary appreciate its strong tolerance of drought and poor soils. Some countries use this crop to obtain cassava’s starch roots for industrial use and how food for animals. CIAT’s scientifics have identified several cassava genotypes with high levels of carotenoids in the roots. The carotenoids have the capacity to convert in vitamin A when we eat foods such as green vegetables, carrot, broccoli, spinach, tomato and fruits as such peach, watermelon, guava, which have high carotenoid contents. Scientifics have used biotechnoloy based techniques to modificated the carotenoids pathway and to increase the nutritional quality of cassava. When the genotypes are obtain, these are propagated in field and they are send to other populations chronically deficient in this vitamin. The consumption of this crop may help to increase the quality life of the people which live in marginal regions.

Finallly, guys, remember a balanced diet, rich in vitamins and minerals is very important for our health.

Sunday, August 10, 2008

My New Roommate


By Chia-Hui, Lin (442)

I got a new roommate. He, who is come from Spain, is a teenager. The passionate guy likes listen to music, so I always feel that there is concert in my room seemly. However, I am afraid that my neighbor will complain us about noise, so I always tell him take care the volume.

Spain is famous for bullfighting and Flamenco dance, so I ask him about their traditional festival. It is a good chance to know other countries culture. And he always says “before 11 p.m., we can get free beer in night club” every night. He is too crazy, but I have class on Monday to Friday. Hence, I say “ No way” to him. I like go to somewhere with friends, I think that night club may be a good chance to know native friends, but I don’t like get drunk and hangover. Before he leaves, I think I will go to there with him, but just for fun, no alcohol beverage.

Extension is a good place to know many friends from different countries. All you need to do is to open your mind and adopt fresh things. I hope that everyone does not only improve their English but also know many friends here. When you leave UCR, you all will bring good memory back to your country.

Thursday, August 7, 2008

My Name is Etienne


By Etienne HUMBERT (441)

My name is Etienne HUMBERT-ZUCCARELLI. I’m French. I live in the East South of France in a city calls NICE. My city is in the French Riviera close to Monaco and St Tropez. In my opinion, French Riviera is more attractive than Paris and the North of my country because in NICE the climate is really hot and we have a very interesting culture and people love have fun time to the beach or to the nightclub. My mother came from Corsica. It’s a beautiful island in the Mediterranean Sea, where people are very different than French people (For example they have a different language). Some of them want the independence of the island.

I’m 19 and in September I will go to an International business School in NICE. I have two little brothers and one little sister. In my free time I enjoy playing soccer. I play in a soccer team in my city but next year I will play for my University. Soccer is my favorite sport. In my country is the most popular sport.

I like go to the disco or to the cinema with my friends. I don’t like go shopping with my girlfriend.

I Am Ayumi


By Ayumi Nakajima (442)

My name is Ayumi Nakajima. I’m from Japan Kyoto. Kyoto is beautiful, good , and traditional city. There is a Kinkaku temple near my house. So many people come there every day. I love Kyoto so much..
There are five people in my family.

I like shopping and sleeping and talking with my friend in my free time.

Call Me Frank


By Yi-Chih, Yeh (441)

My name is Yi-Chih, Yeh. My family name comes from my father. Because of it is a traditional for Taiwanese. However, right now, the government builds a new law that the child can also follow the mother’s family name. In Chinese meaning, Yi-Chih represents to courage. Why my parents want to give me this name? Because they want me to be strong, even when face some difficulties. I am delighted to have my name. According to the name, it gives me the power to face the bad situation. Therefore, I pretty thank you to my parents to give me this special name.

There are five members are there in my family. My father is a very busy businessman. Even he has to do a lot of works; he still takes company with me, especially when I am upset. My mother is a housewife. She likes to make some beautiful clothes in her free time. Besides, she also likes to cook some delicious dishes for me. My sister is still a student. She is going to apply for a exam to enter in the government. She is very good at in the music world. The final special member is mu puppy, Boa. All my family members love Boa so much. Because of I don’t have any young siblings. So, I always pretend that Boa is my little brother.

I live in Taiwan . Taiwan is a beautiful island. Taiwan has a lot of cultures and plenty of delicious food. People in Taiwan always welcome the foreigners. Even some special days, Taiwanese always have some special food to eat. Besides, Taiwanese also play some traditional games in these special days.

I like to surf the Internet .Because of it will give me the newest information. Besides, I like to read some books. It will help me to increase my creature in my drawing. Also, I like to hang around and have a dinner with my friends. Why? Because of I like the moment to being with friends. Therefore, it will make my friends and I relationship stronger. This is the first time I come to America . Hope I will have a nice time here in my following days.

My Last Weekend


By Sohpia (442)

Last weekend, I had good party again. Almost every weekend I have party. Last Friday we had party for our 2 friends because it was last weekend in Riverside for them. We supposed to start at 7p.m, but at 7p.m somebody didn’t come to party yet, not somebody, I think almost everybody didn’t . Every time if we make a party we are late. At almost 9p.m we started party, so we were drinking, talking and something. One girl who left here had to leave at 10p.m, so we gave her some t- shirts which we wrote massage for her, and she left the party. And that day was the birthday of guy who also left here, but we just told him, this party was for you and the girl because you guys will leave here, so we make this party. But we already knew that day was his birthday, so we bought birthday cake and some birthday present for him. At 12a.m we sang birthday song and gave him some present. And we put on the cream on his face, but it was not only him, all people put on the cream on theyre face. We had a really good time. Everybody was laughing, drunk, took a good picture and something.

Hi! I'm Ryo


By Ryo Nagata (442)

My name is Ryo Nagata. Ryo is given by father. I don’t know what’s means. I’m 19 years old. I was born in Hiroshima. But I live in Kyoto now. Kyoto is very good town. Kyoto is very far from Tokyo. There are many famous temples, For example, Kinkaku temples (Gold temples), Ginkaku temples (Shilber temples). My house is near the Kinkaku temples.

I like playing and watching the baseball and soccer. But I’m sleeping in free time. In university, I belong to Japanese kung fuu. Japanese kung fuu is murtial art.

Hi! I'm Albert

By Lee, Hu Men (442)

My full name is Lee, Hu-Men. Call me Albert. I graduated senior high school this summer. I’ll go to college. I major in society. I like to exercise and watch drama in my free time. I have four people in my family. My father is businessman . He sales freze foods. My mother is housewife. My sister is student. I come from Taiwan. Taiwan is a beautiful place. There people is very kind for any forigner. Welcome to my country.

Let's learn about Saudi Arabia


By Mohammed Alduayj (441)

Most of people here have no idea about Saudi Arabia .

-It is the original land for authentic ARABS .
- We pay NO tax on anything.
- We leave NO tips.
- NO military or community services required.
- NO paying for just parking!
- We have the HIGHEST estimate of oil storage & production, & the greatest oil company in the world (ARAMCO).
- To fill a whole-V8 tank with best quality gas, it would coast about 40 Riyals, that is about 10$ ONLY!
- A small bottle of water, a can of Pepsi, or any other similar drink costs around 1 Riyal, that is about 30 cents ONLY!
- We are the MOST generous country in giving out donations worldwide.
- We have the LARGEST airport in area (King Fahad's International Airport in the east coast).
- We have the LONGEST seashore in eastern Saudi.
- We have the TALLEST fountain in Jeddah, west coast.
- We have the HUGEST desert in the Middle East (Al-rub'u Al-khali) southern Saudi.
- We have the BIGGEST palm trees plantation & date palm production.
- We have NEVER had an earthquake or any other nature disasters (Thank God).
- Saudi turned from old life to highest & best quality-living lifestyle in LESS than a century.
- Education & Healthcare are FREE in government institutes.
- If u got accepted in a government university don't pay tuition, on the contrary, the ministry of higher education even PAYS you a good reward of monthly payment until you graduate!
- If you'd like to study abroad, you can EASILY have a scholarship, there are different kinds of scholarships, the least is the normal government's scholarship which pays full tuition + a monthly payment.
- It is NORMAL for a typical Saudi family to live in a house with a swimming pool, a garden or a backyard, having at least 2 maids or nannys + a driver & a guard, and owning at least 3 cars.
- Most of the luxurious & exotic car companies have their BEST sales in the Middle East , especially Saudi.
- We have both most SACRED places a Muslim

Links to some pictures from Saudi Arabia:
http://www.essoog.com/files/3513.jpg
http://saloo6.jeeran.com/Abraj-B.jpg
http://www.al3ez.net/mag/images/alharam_610.jpg
http://www.ibtesama.com/vb/imgcache/30268.jpg
http://www.watein.com/ksaimg/albums/userpics/14.jpg
http://www.asharqalawsat.com/2006/12/21/images/ksa-local.397851.jpg

Some pictures of city of Riyadh:
Kingdom center: http://www.rr-middleeast.oie.int/images/riad.JPG
Al faisaliah: http://www.lovely0smile.com/g-img/alriyadh-3.jpg
Al faisaliah: http://www.architecturelist.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/al-faisaliah-complex-riyadh.jpg
Sabic: http://www.arriyadh.com/Photos/modernRiya/sabic1.jpg

I'm Doil Choi


By Daniel (442)

Background
Family : There are five including me Father, Mother, brother and sister. My father and Mother are 63 years old. Father’s job is lending a building. And my mother is a house wife. My brother is a 34 years old. He married and live in Seoul . He is an accountant work at E&Y. My sister is 28 years old and live in San Diago. She study English at ESL.

Hometown : I live in Bundang near the Seoul . The Bundang is a small town. The population is about 500 thousand. The mountains are around the city and many park in the city.

What do you like to do in your free time?
I usually sleep or I go to the theater whit my girl friend. I like watching comic and action but she like watching romantic or romantic comedy. Recently we went to the theater together and watch the ‘Wanted".

I'm Yang Sung Eun


By Yang (442)

*Background
- Nation : South korea
- Home town : I live in Seoul which is capital in Korea .
Seoul ’s weather is good and Seoulite is very kind^-^
- Family : There are 4 people include me.
My father is a president of house management company.
My mother work with my father. She is my best friend.
My brother is university student, but he is in army now.
-Birthday : 9 December
-Major : Child Welfare

*What do you like to do in your free time?
- I usually go to see the movies with my friends and watch the T.V.
My favorite movie is ‘The butterfly Effect’
and I like America ’s reality show on On-Style.
Especially, I love America ’s Next top Model.
Every Sunday, I go to the church and I do volunteer work in church kindergarten.
I love child.

Just Call Me Lucia


By Yang Jung A (441)

Hello!

My name is Jung A Yang . But it is difficult to pronunciate. Just call me Lucia. I am from Korea. Korea has the four unique seasons. My hometown is Seoul where is small city. The Seoul is bloomed and crowded with people. But I think that Seoul is beautiful city in Korea because of beautiful night views .Especially Han River is the best.

Now I introduced myself and my family. There are five members in my family: my father, my mother, my older sister , me and ToTo who is my dog. My family is on good terms. My parents are kind and fun. Father is an artist who is painting and crafting. Also my mother major is art. They met each other in their university and fell in love with each other. My sister is 4 years older than I. She is a graduate student . Her major is the visual design . I think that my sister and my major are influenced by career of parents. So my major is interior architecture which is kind of design.

My English is not good. But I try to study English hard. Anyway nice to meet you. ☺

Do you know me? I’m Kafka!


By Kafka (441)

Nice to see you guys on the blog again.

You guys know me. I’m Kafka. Even though some of other class students don’t know me, it’s doesn’t matter because you will know and recognize me by this post. So “DO open your mind” and please don’t “STALK” me.

Ok. Let me introduce myself. My name is Kafka. It’s the same name as Franz Kafka, and it means black birds, crows. I really like whole something black like crows. Crows are definitely lonely bird because in the world, crow is recognized bad metaphor. I was kind of lonely person, outsider and nobody like me before. Anyway my name is Kafka. Sounds really great, isn’t it?

I have father, mother, older brother, and my dog. My father is very calm. I don’t know why he is calm. It’s ok, but I have never heard about my father’s history. That’s why my father has something weird to me. My mother is really kind and thoughtful. I remember a few really impressible memories in my life with my mother. sorry, it’s too long story, so pass!! My older brother, he is too much different from me. We have too many different types of clothes, food, girls, etc… I don’t think my brother is not real brother. It’s like something fake. He is so different from me. Last, my dog, DDOL, he is my dog. My dog is very similar to human. And he has very similar eyes to my mother’s eyes. His eyes are very beautiful and his hair is white and black. I like my dog but sometimes I beat my dog because he sometimes looks down on me. Shook…… I’m so sad!!!! I’m older than him and I fed him when he was baby!!!!!! I threw away his poop!!!!! Oh, what a rude my younger brother is. But I love him.

My major is making film and motion graphic, but I study making music. I really like something in motion. Think about music and motion graphic. Music is time arts. Music has to use time. And that’s not forever. Immediately when we listen to some phases in the music, It’s disappeared by time, very short time, but it’s really good. Second, motion graphic has really something exciting. All motion has rhythm by feeling based on emotion, and motion visually expresses human's feeling. That's why I love motion graphics, films, and music.

Yohei's Introduction


By Yohei Yamamoto (441)

Hello, nice to meet you. I’m Yohei Yamamoto. I’m from Ibaraki-City Osaka, Japan.

I’m living with my family in Japan . I have father, mother, a younger sister, a grandmother AND a dog.

My hometown, Ibaraki-City, is located north of Osaka and it has a big Matsushita’s (Panasonic) factory. I can go the downtown of Osaka only 25 minutes by train. I often go there to buy clothes and books. Also I can go the downtown of Kyoto only 35 minutes by train.

I usually watch laugh-in in my free time or play video games. I especially like baseball and shooting game software. Also I like playing and watching baseball so I sometimes play catch with my friends when I’m free.

If you want to know about me, please talk to me without reserve.

Abdullah's Weekend

By Abdullah Al Suwaidi (442)

Last weekend I went to Rancho Cucamonga to my new house with my friend and we had fun there and we made a big dinner party also we invite our friends and I think I have a lot of homework but I didn’t do it; I know that’s too bad for student like me so next time I hope I’ll do my homework.

First , I was really tired because I have to do some stuff at my house; for example clean the garage , kitchen, the 3 living rooms and the backyard. Also, today I have to call the net wire cable to came to install for the internet. as you know the most important things in there days the internet because you can order pizza online and whatever you want. Moreover yesterday I try to came to school but I could not because I went to sleep at 4:00 am. So that’s why I didn’t came and I know I miss the writing class so much because it’s everyday interesting, funny sometime and also the teacher he is the perfect teacher I met him. so this is my story about my weekend.

Thursday, July 31, 2008

For funny guy, Young HaHaHaHaHa~


By NICOLE (Wu, Szu Yu) (442)

Dear Young Ha Kim,

Thank you for your coming, i think that everyday is very happy because of you .

In fact , i thought you are a shy guy and did not want to talk with any person. We cherish everyday which with you ,and we hope you can still be very funny after you go to Korea....
Thank you for your company in the lab, you always studied hard.I am glad to be your classmate,and so does Lan.
Thank you for your chatting with Avy. Because of your conversation,i found a lot of happiness.
Thank you for your company on evening class, it made Lin and me so so so funny.
Thank you for becoming my classmate.
Thank you for you go back to Korea, it makes us to miss you .
Thank you for your gift.
Thank you for your praise saying me that i am lovely .
Thank you for your blessing.
Thank you for your post on Reza's blog, it makes me so sad.
Too much thank you i want to tell you . But just six weeks , i can't find too much your advantages.However,you are a work hard student, i think that you will be successful in the future. And when you go back to your home,please remember Lan and me who send you a big compose,also your classmates.

About Youg Ha


By Yu Lan (442)

I am so happy to make friend with all the classmates,I really like 442!but now Young ha have to leave. When I saw Young Ha at first, I though he is tall and shy, but after getting well with him, I thought he is funny and cute.He always smile and friendly to all the classmates.Sometimes,he will say some homouous words to make all the people laught.He really let us very happy,and he is a kind person.

Maybe we will see young ha again in the future.We will miss you !Don't forget us.

Spelling Not Important?!

Hi Everybody!
Abdullah Al-Suwaidi (from Writing 442 class) sent this to me, so I'm posting it for your enjoyment!
Reza


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To My Wonderful Friends


By Masaya Fukumoto (441)

In America, I learned many things. Everything I watched and experienced is my first time and valuable. Also, I met the people that they came from several countries.

In my class, I met wonderful guys!! They are very funny and little crazy. During the class, some people always say jokes and everyone is laughing. I love it. Actually, I don't want to come back Japan. Because, I want talk with my classmates more.
I miss them. I know it is difficult to see them again. I hope we meet somewhere again.

Now, I'll talk about my plan. When I am back in Japan, I'll graduate from my university. I want to be the teacher like Reza. I'm serious. Not kidding. Also, I want to travel in all around the world. You may meet me in the other countries. If you come to Japan, just call me.

I love you. See you guys!!

MASAYA

I Will Miss You!


By Young Ha Kim (442)

Actually, at first, I thought I shoud just study hard and proposed that. But, I couldn't do that because I like my classmates and teachers too much. Nowadays I couldn't sleep well because of YOU. I'm really so sad and gloomy even I can keep in touch with you. I have had friends of korean, however, I am really like you. Very kind, humorous and good you are! Whether you believe or not, I will not forget about you. Although I will begone, I am convinced that you will make success of your study and business. Good Luck!

Anyway, I have had many after classes. Also, thier teachers are too much good and nice, too (but, our teachers are better). So, I can practice and learn many things. Just I felt something wanting because you didn't come here. However, Nicole and lin had togher with me in evening classes. So, we could have a nice time. Actually, UCR-Extension make me cost expensive money but they give me really good experiences and friends.

When I go home, I'll get some part time job and meet my friends. Also, I hope read some novels and study someting. Then, after three weeks later, I will have sitted in classroom in my university. However, above all, I really want to mail to YOU, so send me a letter!

And I believe We Will Meet Again.

Your sincerely,
Kim, Young ha 김영하 金永河

Bye my dear friends!


By HENRY (Zhang, Han Lin) (441)

First of all I've to say "I have not got drunk!"Haha, I've just finished our dear MOMO's birthday party at Phil's room! I thought we realy had a good time so that I would not forget! All right my dear frient I it is time to say "So long and take care"! Because I'm leaving ... I'll miss you all!

So let me tell you my plan about my life in America.

As you know I'll go to University of Toledo in Ohio. And I'll learn accouning as my major. However I do not like it. So after 2 years basic classes there. I wish to transfer to Chicago and study management or TESOL also in 2 years. After that I plan to look for a job after graduated from school. At the same time I'll continue to learn MBA in another 2 years. After that I think I probable go back to my mother land China and start my own career. So I plan to stay in America at least 8 yaers !

All right if anyone who wants to visit me in the future, I'd like to treat you all my friends! And when I go back to China the door of my house still open to you!

Bye my dear friends! Have a wonderful life! All the best !

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

My Hometown


By Beatriz Portillo (441)

I want to talk about the place where I live. It's named Rocky Point, in Mexico. It's 7hrs far from Riverside. I live one block in front of the beach. People from Arizona use to go so usually there because its so beautiful, calm and too close. It is also a new Mexico project, so if you guys have money to make invests, its a very good business opportunity. If you guys will know this place, please visit Sonoran Sky Ressorts. It's the building that I already finished this year. You will love it!

Love in the Time of Cholera


By Yacenia Morillo Coronado (441)

Hello guys, I would like to share with you a novel that I read. Love in the Time of Cholera, a novel written by Nobel Prize winning Gabriel García Márquez.

The novel is about the story of Florentino Ariza, who is able to wait 51 years, 9 months and four days the love of his life Fermina Daza. The story developments in the Caribbean coast Colombian, during the time in that the region prevalence the hungry and several civil wars. In addition, the city is attacked for the epidemic of cholera and the “symptoms of love are confused with this disease”.

Florentino and Fermina fall in love deeply. He is very persistent, to write her constantly, to send her flowers all the days, to give her serenades, to speak her poetically of love. But, the Fermina’s father tries to keep them apart. For this reason, he sends her for long time to the house of some relatives in other village. However, they continue writing for telegraph. Over the time and the years, she returns to house. She discovers the Florentino’s love is a simple illusion and that he isn’t the ideal man.

Years pass, and the well Known Dr. Urbino treats Fermina for a case of cholera. They begin to leave and months later they married. In spite of this, Florentino decides to wait her.

Florentino, on the brink of suicide, is sent for her mother to work to Caqueta. In this trip he discovers his sexuality, but he wants to keep his virginity intact for Fermina. However he begins to have adventures with several women, but without forget to Fermina. Time pass, and this surprised them being elderly. On the Juvenal’s death, and after of five decades to wait, Florentino goes to Fermina’s house, because he wants to declare her his unconditional love. They begin a renewed and mature friendship, until Florentino to invite her to a trip by boat, where they to decide spend the rest of their lives.

Sunday, July 27, 2008

The happiest birthday of my life


By Yasuhiro Hieda (442)

My birthday is July 10th! I'm 21 years old now. I can do anything in the U.S. I'm f**ken happy. Also, I had the most happiest birthday of my life. Many people celebrated my birthday with me. I drank to celebrate with my friends on the day of July 10th. We drank a glass of vodka. It was the first time in America that I drank alcohol.

The next day, my friends threw a pizza party for me. We had to get the pizzas at the gate of Iowa apartments from the delivery guy. Then the pizza guy asked my American friend "Are you Japanese?" and he said "No," and then the delivery guy said to him, "Are you Chinese?" "No way!" my friend said. I've never thought so. He is definitely American and Mexican. It was a very funny story. We laughed so much about this. The pizza guy was funny and crazy.

Next day, my older friend made oyakodonburi for me. Oyakodonburi is a Japanese traditional dish, so I felt homesick for Japan. After that day, my extension friends prepared a birthday party for me. We drank too much, so my friends threw up. Of course, I did too. Also, I got presents from my friends. I'll keep treasuring these presents.

Everyone!! Thank you so much!! I'm f**ken happy! The best thing to have is great friends. It is enough to just spend great times with my friends. I appreciate them very much.

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Food: What to Eat?


By Chia-Hui, Lin (442)

Ha~ I have no idea of what to write, but I think whatever we do, we all need to eat food every day. The American food is different from Chinese food. So I use the food for my subject.

At the beginning of the whole day, we need to eat breakfast to give us power. Everyone has their choices. Someone like sandwiches, others maybe order salad for their breakfast. Still others opt for sausage and coffee.

When I was here on the first day, I couldn’t adopt the food. In our country, we have many choices of breakfast, and we prefer to eat the hot food. However, here I don’t have many choices of my breakfast. It also offers the hot food, but there are just fries or sausage…etc. And the beverages come in Cola, coffee, or vitamin drinks … etc. On the other hand, we would choose the milk tea and soybean milk for our beverages which accompany breakfast.

Concerning the lunch and supper, our staple food is rice or noodle. There must be three or four entrees and soup for a special. If you want to drink some things, you must to buy outside. In Taiwan, We don’t like drink soft drink, we prefer the ice tea. There are many stores and many kinds of beverages to choose. And we don’t need to tip the waiter. By the way, we use the chopsticks to pick up our food and put them into our mouth.

Sunday, July 20, 2008

Rewrite the Story!

Attention ALL Writing 400 students!

Below is a story by Echo. You must develop the story and rewrite it. The best three stories will win three great prizes!

Best of luck!
Reza


Story by Echo (441)

I already read it last quarter in the textbook .
But , I was excited about this story , so I want to tell you .
In this story , someone went to rock mountain far from the village .
He drove his car and stopped .
After he walked alone to the mountain , he started climbing the mountain .
Suddenly , he dropped before he didn't move .
Because a huge rock held his right arm .
Finally , he cut his arm at his elbow .
I was surprised when I read this story .
He is still alive .
He chose to cut his arm off .
In addition , he was in the bab condition , but he chose the best way!
If I were him , I would be shocked too much and cry all day .
I was impressed by him very much .

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Real Life, Movie Life


By KAFKA (441)

There are differences between movie life and real life.

Usually People who like movies want to live like movies, but that's really difficult to live like movie to non-sentimental people because real is not actually romantic, sentimental, and doesn't have any special effects and music like movie.

For example, one of romantic movies would show scenes about meeting at the airport. The boy and girl friend, Lovers couldn't meet for a long time because her boy friend had some problem, so his girl friend was really exited. When she was meeting him face to face, beautiful music was played and everything was became slowly for romantic, sentimental and remaining beautiful mind. And then they hugged. How wonderful situation is!

On the other hand, real is not exiting like that situation. When My first love was leaving to Bolivia, I felt embarrassed because I thought separation is sad. But, before she entered into gate to take an airplane, we also hugged. In my case, There were no music and effects like slow motion. There were only noise and people crowded.

The time was really fast. i wasn't able to have enough time to say good bye and feel sad like movies, when she entered the gate. She disappeared. At that time, I couldn't believe it. That's boring ending. I noticed real is not warm, and that's so cold. Real life is not Movie!

However, I didn't want to feel that it's really boring and not sentimental. That's why i made something in my Heart. In my heart, I played my sad music and tried to feel so sad. and then I felt something sad in my situation. everything was became slowly by myself like movie scenes. At that time, I became one of movie director. It was really beautiful and sad time.

Even thought Movie and real life are really different, but we can change our real life to movie life. it's not difficult. Just let's feel themselves that something happened naturally in our dry life.

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

My Last Weekend


By Chiaki Goto (441)

Last friday we didn't have school, so my weekend was of course buzy.

After school, I went to my friend's house at IV to party. I drank just a little bit of alcohol because I had a plan on friday to go to Magic Mountain with my friends. The party was really fun so I went to bed at 2:30 a.m.

I woke up at 7:00 a.m. I was already tired when I arrived at Magic Mountain. I almost cried because Magic Mountain looks really scary. I said "I miss Riverside" all the time. First, we rode X2, the newest roller coaster. It is the scariest roller coaster I have ever experienced so far. And then we rode many other roller coasters. It was fun at Magic Mountain.

On saturday, at my friend's birthday party I drank a lot of tequila. In fact, my low tolerance for alcohol made me too drank. Most of my friends were throwing up, making the restroom really crowded. I had a great time.

[Reza's Note: Drinking too much and throwing up may cause a severe decrease in your grades!]

Sunday, July 13, 2008

Where On Earth ... ?


Hi Everybody!

How do you like the new picture at the top of the blog?

Can you guess where this is?
What would you do if you were in this place?
Who would you take with you to this place?
What kind of music would you listen to if you were there?
Or would you rather listen to the silence?

Hope you're all having a great weekend!
Cheers,
Reza

My First Three Weeks Here

By Yu Lan (442)

I have been in American for three weeks now, before I came here, I had many imagine about what was American like. But after I came, I found so different with my imagine. Here is a very quiet place to live, it's make me relax and comfortable.

I have only 4 classes one day, is too less than China. The classmates are very friendly, and teachers are both very good. Sometimes I don't understand what the teacher say in class, so I must study English hard. After class, I always talk to may Chinese friend and play card, It's make us very happy. After all, we are from the same place, and we have same subject of a talk. Talk with the other countries student in English is hard for me at first, but I will try my best to do it, bacause this is my purpose to come here.

The transportation in here is not convenient, it's not easy to go here and there, so I feel gloomy. Sometime I think whether I need buy a car, but I don't konw how to drive and have no time to learn it. I really don't like always stay at dormitory, it's boring. When I stay at dormitory alone, I will imagine if I'm being in China, I can do anything I want, but I'm in American now. At that time, I will miss my country and parents so much.

I hope I can dapt to American life soon and learn to independent!

Friday, July 11, 2008

Disneyland Trip on Independence Day


By JAY (Cheng, Jie Yeh) (442)

I was sign-up a Disneyland trip of UCR Extension exercise on Independence Day, it was very exciting because this is my first time trip in America. But I lost my friend when I just bought a cap in a store, which is the reason why I went to Disneyland with myself.

Disneyland is a large place located in Los Angeles; there are many rides, cartoon houses, festooned vehicles and stores. Many kid there because it looks like children's paradise. Although just only one, I went to anywhere that I wanted to go. First, I went to play Space Mountain, it likes a roller coaster running in a dark tunnel, and many light point shots on the roof let me feel I am in space, it's very excited. Secondary, I went to Mickey’s Toontown and take the Roger Rabbit’s car, it is a spin train in the house, and it’s very funny. Third, I went to take Mark Twain Riverboat to navigating the river, it is a very large boat, I think maybe it can carry more than two hundred peoples in the same time, and I was taking many photos in this boat. Fourth, I went to take the Disneyland Railroad, it running a circle of whole Disneyland and there are four station distributions, everybody can get on and get off in any station.

About walking around a circle in Disneyland, I back to Main Street, I saw many people there to looking festooned vehicles, and I took many photos again. When I went to the Fantasyland, I was happing, because I met two Taiwanese girl whom I met in school register day, I went to say hello to them, but they seems didn’t know me and went away, OK, that’s go with myself again. Because today is Independence Day, they have a Firework at 9:25 PM so I have one and half hour free time, I went to Disneyland Monorail, It looks like an overhead railway and I didn’t know where the next station of this train is so I asked a steward, he say a lot to me, but I always unknown his mean, just heard 'If you have ticket, you can go back', OK, that’s go, because I have ticket.

When I get off the train, I was very worrying because I don’t know where I am. I lost my friends and lost my way, I asked another steward again, she say you must wait more than 30 minutes to take this train, she suggest everyone who want to take this train to give up and just walk to that direction. The sign tell me I was in Disney Downtown, where the here? How far from here to Disneyland? Firework will begin after one hour later, I must back as soon as possible, but I think take photo is very important things, so I took many photo in Disney Downtown, after ten minutes walking, I saw a familiar place 'Security Check', Oh.. God bless me, I back to Disneyland, actually, Disney Downtown just beside the Disneyland.

Many people came to Disneyland in Independence Day, so I can’t find a good position to watch the Firework, Finally, I watch Firework behind a ride (Astro Orbitor) and my sight just a half, but it still beautiful. After the end of Firework, I went home, End of my unforgettable trip, it’s a nice day in Disneyland.

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

The Olympic Games Coming Soon


By SHIRLEY (Wang, Xin Xiing) (441)

Today is july 9th. In one month, the most important day will be come ---The olympic games will begain at beijing.As a chinese girl,I am very pround of china.Olympic Games is window,That a good opportunity for china to show chinese cultur and spirt of olympic games to the world.

Beijing have spend 20 billion U.S. dollars to refurbish the beijing infrastructure. So Bejing changed more beautiful then before.In china,mang people have prepared for olympic games.In the morning,we can see mang children and old peopole do exercises in the park.In the univerdity,we can see mang students show the olympic games knowladge to foreign friends.In the street,we can see mang different words to encourage olympic games ,for example"ONE WORLD ,ONE DREAM.no matter you walk to where,you always see mang people do something for beijing.That is a beautiful sence to the world.

I have been to there abourt 20days.I have mang things to learn in USA.so I must to stay there for my study.That is a pity for me.I can't come back to china.But I think I alway stay with my country.In USA ,I also can do something for china.I will show mang olympic games konwage to my foreign classmates. I will encourage chinese sporter in their match......

I hope china would beacome more prowerful.I hope beijing olympic games beacome more interesting.
I love china.

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

My Fourth of July Weekend


By SOPHIA (Ham, Jihae) (442)

Last weekend was Independence Day, so we didn't have a school on friday. On Thursday night, I went to my friend, New's birthday party in IV. we had a good time. We were talking, drinking, took some pictures and sang birthday song for New. There were almost 10 people. It was very fun.

On friday was Independent Day, so I went to shopping with my korean friends. I bought some clothes and chooses. I met my friends in there.They were shopping too because Independet day was very cheep. And then, we went to my friend home to eat some korean food. But I don't know that name, it was pork and Kimch something ;(

And we went to extention 4 floor to see fire work. It was very beautiful. I felt was in Japan because it was first time
to see fire work in America. when I was in Japan, I went to big fire work many times, so I felt like in Japan.

On Saturday, I and my friends went to LA. First we went to little tokyo to ate Ramen. Ramen is Japanese noodle, but not instant food. It was very good. And we went to santamonica beach to drop off Chiaki and Haruka. They wanted to shopping in there, so we drop off them, and then we went to little tokyo again because I have to go to Karaoke to practice singing. I have some audition this Saturday, but I got a sick so my voice was crazy, so I couldn't do practice well.

So I felt was not good ... and then we ate korean BBQ. Store name is Mok Gill (I don't know korean spelling) there had a lot of people, so we wait couple times and then ate good food. I was very very tired ;(

it's my last weekend ... I want to go to beach next week.

Some Problem


By DENNIS (An, Sung Won) (441)

In these days, I have a problem, and I'm interested in this problem that Won, Korean currency, is getting weaker against other currency, because i'm here in US. Especially, Won is getting weaker against Dollar. American people are worried about Dollar's weakness, but Korea also is worried about Won's weakness.

This is strange because Won is weak against Dollar despite of dollar's weakness all over the world. I don't why. So I read an article that is connected with Excange Rate. But there was a bad nows in the article. The news said that value of Won might be falling continously, becase Oil price is going up endlessly, stock index is also falling. It is also another reason that economy crisis of US.

Now, I don't know what should I do ... Whether I draw my money from the bank or not. I have to save the money because my parents suppot me. Now I'm waiting for falling the excahnge rate and I hope that exchange rate falls.

Monday, July 7, 2008

That's Why I'm Here Now

By Kobayashi Junko (441)

I stay here, Riverside after an interval of ten years. When I was a junior college student, I've stayed in Riverside at homestay program. This program was very short term, but I had a great experiences. Now, I came here to study English again, because I want to be a English teacher for Japanese kids.

Actually, I qualified myself as elementary school English teaching license. But, my English skill is poor. I wish I could speak English well. For that reason, I'm in here now. My teacher said to me, "Practice! practice! practice!"

Absolutely Yes!

This class is very tough for me ... But,I will make a convulsive effort.

Please be nice to each other :-)

About My Classmates

By NICOLE (Wu, Szu-Yu) (442)

First class i knew there are four people come from Taiwan.I was very glad because i am Taiwanese. Chen, Lin, Jay and me are all Taiwanese. Sophia and Yasu come from JP. Lan is a Chinese. Koon come from Tai Lan. A Korean but i forgot his name, i just remember his Chinese name (金永河) and a new classmate Abdulla.

Since i went to class 44, I felt everyone are very quiet except Yasu. But after one week, in my opinion, Lan is a very cute girl,she loves to use the accent of China to talk to me.Sophia is a very pretty girl and she has a wonderful shape. Koon is very shy and his face looks like a cartoon character. Chen is a very very famous person. Lin is very kind because he bought a cup of coffee for me yesterday afternoon. Jay is very funny but he likes to say hello to a lot of girls. The boy who comes from Korea, he is very funny, and all we think he is very special. He likes to ask teachers lots of questions and when he talk to Lan, he always says Lan is stupid. i don't know what they are doing ... I think Nicole is a good name. Yasu is very special, he is very likes Japanese boy, he likes shopping. I think it is very cool. and he likes to wear the hat all the time, but his hairstyle is so cool, too.
the new classmate, I just say good morning to him, because he just come to our class for two days.

And how about our teacher Reza ? Reza's shape is not fat , he is very thin and so funny . In my class , we don't have a lot of groups, because our class is a very big group. I like all my friends and hope they like me too. And then, I wish all my classmates ... Everyday always have a very nice day.....!!

My Fourth of July

By Abdulla (442)
Saturday, July 5, 2008

Hi everybody , I would like to tell you about the 4th of July.

On Friday I want to Huntington beach with my friends to see the fire works and we went there at 3:00 pm. Also, we played volleyball on the beach and we ate a Hot dog so we sat at the beach waiting the show. After that, we start talking and remembering when we were in a High school in back home '' Dubai " until the fire works started and the show probably takes 32 minutes only but really it's good and we all like it and we enjoy the show after the show finished we try to go back to Riverside but we can't whole the streets are closed and there are a lot of people there in Huntington beach and all of them went to go out at the same time because the traffic and we wait maybe for an hour.Finally we came back from there and we are so tired.

Thursday, July 3, 2008

My Travel Experience in Las Vegas


By PHIL (Liu Heng-Yu) (441)
Tuesday, July 1, 2008

First of all, I want to share my travel experience with you. Because there have some information are very useful. I came to U.S. almost one year. Before, I studied in Ucla Extension. So, I have been to many different places with my friends. At this time, I want to introduce Las Vegas for you.

Las Vegas is a wonderful city in Nevada. There have many famous hotels. For example Mirage, Bellagio, Carsar, Venetain, Mandalay Bay, Luxor, and Treasure Island. These hotel have different show in the hotel, they also have great casino for you to gambling. Each hotel have varies feature to solicit many costumers. The place is fantasy and glorious. I have been to there for fifth times. Probably I want to achieve my dream win some money in the casino. Actually, it’s very difficult to win in gambling.

In Vegas, you have to do some things are necessary. For example, enjoy the show, there have some free show you could look at, and you have to go to casino to play poker or dice than you can make sun bath and play water in your hotel. Mandalay Bay have factitious wave, it’s very fun I recommend that. In Mirage hotel have Volcano show is free, and Belligio Hotel have water show and Treasure Island have pirate show. These show are free, you could enjoy these shows in different hotel.

Therefore, Las Vegas is luxury and dissipation city. When you arrive there you will be happy, just enjoy the relax time in your vacation. After that, when you leave in this place, you will see everything like a dream and disappear than you feel nothing, only memory you own. How fantasy life you own? That’s why I have been to there many times, for the reason is really fantasy. I am strongly recommended you ought to go at least one time in your life.

P.S. Hotel information and picture:
Mirage http://www.mirage.com/
Treasure Island http://www.treasureislandlasvegas.com/
Caesars Palace http://www.caesars.com/caesars/lasvegas
Bellagio http://www.bellagiolasvegas.com/
Venetian http://venetian.com/
Circus Circus http://www.circuscircus.com/default2.aspx
MGM http://www.mgmgrand.com/pages/index_flash.asp
Paris http://www.caesars.com/paris/lasvegas
New York New York http://www.nynyhotelcasino.com/pages/index_noflash.asp
Luxor http://www.luxor.com/
Mandalay Bay http://www.mandalaybay.com/

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

The Huntington Museum Trip

By CHEN (Ming-Yi Chen) (442)
Saturday, June 28, 2008

Last Saturday was a wonderful day because I went to the Huntington museum with my friends. This is my fist time to museum in the American. Before we went to the Huntington , my friends search about Huntington museum and how to go there. We don’t have G.P.S. We just search Google map and use Google map direction. It was amazing! When we arrived, we just drove almost one hour. It was easy to found the Huntington .

The Huntington is a private nonprofit collections based research and educational institution, founded in 1919 by Henry E. Huntington. This place was so bigger. There have different part. Fort example: Chinese Garden , Japanese Garden , American art, Library Exhibition Hall so many different kind. We spent a lot of time in the Huntington museum. We walked around the garden and took photo because too many beautiful view I want keep it. And the weather was so hatter I didn’t bring my hat and use sunscreen so I got sunburn. Lunch time, we didn’t bring and food to here and we don’t want to by lunch in there because everything is expensive. We just drank bottle water for lunch but is ok. In the dinner time, we will eat delicious food. Kind of like SHABU-SHABU I really excited about this.

Finally, We finish museum trip and went to the Jazz cat restaurant in the Monterey. The boss is Taiwanes so nice
I like this restaurant the food was delicious but the price a little expensive. Anyway the Huntington trip was so great and we talk about trip for next week. I hope so! It will so wonderful.

One Window House


By KOON (Ditdanai Sangkharom) (442)

One Window House
(read the complete article here)

Nowadays, House is most importance thing to human life. However, we don’t know how to design a house for convenience life style. This is website that who wants to see many kinds of architecture. For example, building, houses, museums, stadiums, landscapes and others. Are you planned to study a house? One window house is motivated you to study many kind of designer thing.

One window house placed in Venice, California. It is smart house in my opinion because they can maximize space, light, and natural surroundings in limit area. They used wood and steel framed wall to fabricate a house which are faster than brick wall, on the same way, it reduced the cost of construction. They design a house to be a solid style because easy to adjustable space and to provide the limit of sloping roof. They decided with large expanses of clear glass, polycarbonate, and corrugated metal panels. This is good for enhance your view.

Finally, this is convenience for house and home office. In addition, we must to install security system also.

Engineers travel to trip technology producer

By DAVID (Lee, Jin-seok) (441)

Engineers travel to trip technology producer
From: HIGHLANDER
Chritian Vargas, staff writer

SUMMARY:
Four university students, UCR, are traveling to China this summer for experience.

China is very important place because so much of today's technology is being produced there ,and the rapidly growing Chinese economy will be major in the future throughout the world. On the trip, they will learn Chinese culture. They will be travelling to Tsinghua University in Beijing and the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in Chengdu City for six weeks from June 28 to August 10 spending three weeks at each university.

In addition, the students will also participate in the 2008 Olympic games.

MY OPINION:
They will learn global marketing and technology etc in China, so it will be helpful to UCR when they will return. I think that traveling other countries is very important in life because we can learn many things which we can't learn in our country. Although we get a hard time with many difficulties on the trip, we will be happy after trip because the difficulties make us better than before. Finally, they will participate 2008 Olympic games firsthand. I have never seen Olympic games firsthand. Therefore, if opportunity like that will come to me, i will never miss it.

My Skin Was Burned!

By YOUNGHA KIM (442)
Sunday, June 29, 2008

Last sunday I was participated in Santamonica beach trip. I wanted I could have many time to playing, but It taked one hour and thirty minutes just go there!

By the way, we reached santamonica safely and I had some surprise experience.

There was so many stores and malls to shopping, just next to the beach. My country have stores too, but not so much like there. And There was too much wide sand of the seashore. So It was too hard to reach the seawater, but I could do because I'm Man.

By the way, I was playing with waves. when waves came to me, I swam to below of wave. It can avoid from fierce waves.
It was very funny!

After that, I went some restaurant and have some dinner with the meat of lamb. Cost $20... was expensive... But, It was terrible! Because of it's smells like a poultry farm's smells. I tryed to vomit in vain! I thought I throwed $20 away to trash can; After all, I came home. Just remaining things were terrible skin ache...

My Skin was Burned! And Still It bothers me ... T.T

Sunday, June 29, 2008

Last Week and the Weekend

Last week was the first week of classes, so I was busy getting ready for all my classes, getting to know the students, and getting used to waking up early again!

But last week was also a very sad week. I went to the funeral of a great man. His name is Neal. He was my boss in Beijing, when I worked there in 2006-2007. He was a dreamer. He dreamed of one day opening orphanages for kids who had lost their parents. He continued to follow his dream until he died. He died of brain cancer. For years, he was having headaches, but he didn't know why. Finally, he found out that he had a brain tumor, and it was cancerous. Unfortunately, he had a kind of cancer that could not be removed completely. So, after more than a year of fighting the cancer, his body gave up. Now, his pains are over and he rests in peace.

This weekend, I reflected on my life. And I cleaned the house. We will be moving soon, so we are packing and sorting through things, boxing things up, and getting ready for our big move to Korea. I hope all goes well!