Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Movie Review (Princess Bride)

Movie Review


At the first study period on last Tuesday, I went to the Dasan Auditorium to watch a movie "The Princess Bride". The genre was mixture of romantic comedy, fairy tale and adventure. The main characters were Buttercup, Westley and Prince Humperdink. Let me introduce thins movie to you. 
The movie starts with a grand father telling a story titled "The Princess Bride" to his grandson. Once upon a time, there was a girl named Buttercup and a farm boy named Westley. They loved each other and had happy time together. However, Westley had to leave because he had to go on a shop. Before Westley left, he and Buttercup made the promise of "True Love". It was about not betraying their love by not giving one's love to others and wait until they meet again and love again. Several years past, and Buttercup heard that Westley had died. She was in a great despair, and she became the bride to Prince Humperdink. 
When Buttercup was riding a horse to look around the forest, three men (Indigo, Fezzik and Vizzini) suddenly appeared and kidnapped her. They were sailing in the Fire Swamp to get to their destination, and Buttercup tried to escape by swimming. She successed on escaping but then, the Shrieking Eels surrounded Buttercup. She was rescued by Fezzik, the giant, who was one of the kidnappers and she failed to escape. While the kidnappers and Buttercup were sailing on the Fire Swamp, they saw a mysterious shop following them. They first thought that it was a fishing shop. So they ignored the shop and kept on sailing and sailing, and finally, they reached to the Cliff of Insanity. A man in black followed them, and rescued Buttercup. The man in black turned out to be Westley. But Buttercup had to go with Prince Humperdink again. Westley made a promise that he will come back and rescue her before the marriage. 
However, Westly got harmed by Prince Humperdink's person(Count Rugen). Prince Humperdink wanted to kill Buttercup so he can make a reason to have a war between his country and other country. As a result, he played a game with Buttercup. Buttercup said that if Westley comes before the marriage, she will go with him, and if not, she'll commit suicide. However, Westley was dead by Prince Humperdink. Guess what happened? Indigo and Fezzik came to rescue Westley and got him alive. All three of them headed toward the kingdom, where marriage had begun. Indigo killed Count Rugen, who had killed his father and Westley rescued Buttercup. They all ran away from the kingdom and lived happily ever after. 
I think the lesson of this movie is; true love goes above anything else. By Westley and Buttercup, we could see true love can do everything. Westley was alive, Buttercup almost had committed suicide. 
I think the character who showed leadership inside this movie is Indigo. He was first a bad man, one of three kidnappers, but he became a good man. What I mean by this is that Westley couldn't have been alive if Indigo didn't determined himself to find Westley. He's the one who persuaded Fezzik to find Westely. He's the one who made Westley alive.
In conclusion, I think this movie was pretty good to watch. It's quite old, but still, fun. Maybe I should go and watch this movie again.


Sunday, July 28, 2013

30-Day Challenge


30-Day Challenge


People usually make new year's resolutions. I was thinking of making a new resolution these days. Because it's not "a new year", let's make a 30 day challenge I'll call it the "30 day challenge". My three goals are; 1. Increase my English vocabulary 2. Improve my debate skills 3. Read many books. I'll explain how I'm going to achieve them below.


My first challenge is increasing English vocabulary. While I was staying in GLPS I had hard time speaking English because of the lack of my vocabulary. So I set up thing  challenge. For the first step, I will memorize 14 words every day. Then, I will be able to achieve my fist challenge.



 My second challenge is improving my debate skills. While I was studying in GLPS, I was shocked that everybody in my class had done English debate at least once. I totally had no experience of debating in English, so I was confused. That's why I set up this challenge. For the first step, I'll practice debate every time I have debate class. For the next step, I'll listen to feed back and correct my problems based on the feed backs. That way. I'll be able to  achieve my second challenge.

My last challenge is reading many books. I was not able to read books in school. I tried to read books but it didn't work. That's why I set this as a challenge For the first step, I'll choose one genre each week. For the next step, I'll read at least on book every week.
In conclusion, I set up three challenges; 1. Increase English vocabulary 2. Improve my debate skills 3. Read many books. I hope I can achieve all these challenges by the end of GLPS.

Three Things I Know to be True

Three Things I Know to be True

 

My name is Miji Kang. I'm fifteen and I live in Pohang. I've been to America for a year. Now I'm going to introduce myself with "Three Things I Know to be True". The three things are; 1. Drawing 2.Piano and 3. Wave. I'll explain each below.

The first thing is "Drawing". I picked drawing because I'm really bad at drawing, or rather, painting. I think it's pretty weird, because I am good at making stuff and sketching, but I'm really bad at painting. I always get an A at sketching and making things, but I get Cs at painting.




 The second thing is "Piano". I started to play the piano when I was six. While I was in elementary school, I got 3 grand prizes and 2 second prizes in piano contests. Joining the contests made me improve my piano skills a lot.




The third thing is "Wave". What do you think the word "Wave means? It can be a wave that we can see in beach, the wave that we do with hands..... Actually it's the name of my school band. I'm the main singer in my school band. I'm practicing the song "Mercy" and other Korean songs to sing in front of the students in my school at school festival. It helps me throw away my stress.





Did you get to know more about me? I hope so. Thank you for reading.