The last writing on this blog

 It's been about 2 months since I started this blog. Time flies so fast :( I'm feeling weird about the fact I don't have to write a blog from now on. Even though writing on a blog was a little bit stressful for me, it was very helpful I think! In other words, writing on a blog has been so good to me as I can practice writing in English. If I don't have to write two writings per week, I wouldn't have a chance to write a text in English.

 In addition, it was good to read other friends' writings and to share some comments. From some of other friends' writings, I got some good and useful information, and I knew what they are thinking about or what they are concerning about; It was so good as I can sympathize with them.

 Also, it wasn't a formal writing, so it made me more comfortable than in other writing classes that I had had when writing a text.

 Therefore, I think this class was so nice to me :) I can't forget writing this blog! and I will show this blog to my friends :D Now, I feel really great about having completed this writings :) I'm going to try to write a journal in English from next week haha. Let's try :)

Korean Wedding

 Now days, in korea, almost of all the people follow the way of western wedding, and many women like to wear a white wedding dress. I also want to wear it when I have a wedding ceremony. Even though it is common many people have a western wedding ceremony, I'd like to tell you about Korean traditional wedding today. Korean traditional wedding is generally divided into four steps.

 Firstly, parents of bride and groom dicide whether their daughter or son will get merried, and promise to have a wedding ceremony for their children.

 Secondly, the bride of family and the groom of family exchange a letter about the wedding. When the birde sends a letter that she can get married him and about the exact date of wedding, the groom replies to the letter.

 Thirdly, the groom of family send a present for the bride such as a ring and some goods to use in their married life before their wedding.

 Finally, they have a wedding ceremony that is held at a bride's house. The groom goes to the bride's house by riding a horse, and other people play some instruments to elate. When the groom gets the house, he gives a wooden goose to the bride's family. In this case, the goose means a constant married life. After that, the groom and the bride can meet and see each face, then they bow together. The bride bows two times, and the groom bows once. Actually, they don't know each other and meet together before having a wedding ceremony. Next, they drink traditional alcohol three times a cup. The first sipping means thanks for himself/herself, and the others mean their married life goes forever. Lastly, they bow to their parents, guests and ancestor.

 After the wedding ceremony, they have one more thing to do. The bride and the groom meet the groom's parents in a room. At there, the bride bows to the groom's parents, and serves some food.

When they go through all of these steps, they finally finish the ceremony, and become a husband and a wife :)

 Before wirting this blog, I did't know about the traditional wedding well. Now, however, I know the steps of traditional wedding and how old people have a wedding. It's so good that I know about the Korean wedding, and I'd like to try the traditional wedding!!

BBQ

 Today I went to Crescent Drive Park with my friends. At there, we had a barbecue party. The park was so good to have a BBQ party. Before we got there, we went to Super Store to buy meat, big shrimps, and other things we needed for the barbecue. At first, we went to St.Vital Park, but there was no room for us, so we moved to Crescent Drive Park. When we arrived there, we found a place to barbecue.

 Firstly, we soaked some charcoal with oil, and made a fire to the charcoal. We waited for 25 minutes for the charcoal to have a fire. In about 25 minutes, finally we can put the meat on a grill. It was a hard time to wait for the meat to be cooked lol. The smell stimulated me, and was so good :) When the meat was cooked we ate it so fastly xD It was really like 'easy come easy go' haha. We had also rice and Kimchi. Those were more delicious as eating outside! After that, we put some shrimps, onion, and mushrooms. I was so excited as I love big roasted shrimps!!! When the shrimps and other things were cooked, the smell was so nice!! Again, those food were gone so fastly haha. Those were so so delicious, especially, big roasted shrimps were fantastic kkk. It was first time to eat ones in Canada, so I was very happy :D

 In Korea, usually we don't have places to have a barbecue in a park, but Canada is possible to have it anytime and whenever. I think Canadian park is so convenient for people who want to have a barbecue out of a house! If you have a free time to go to a park, try a barbecue party in a park :)

A small cafe

 Near my home, in Korea, there is a small cafe that is not a franchise like Starbucks. This cafe is my favorite one, so I would never forget it.  Let me describe this cafe to you guys as I'd like to empathize with you all.

 The outside of the cafe is wooden, so I feel like I'm in the nature when I see it before going inside. As soon as I go into the cafe, fistly I can feel the good scent from this place, and the scent makes me feel good. In the cafe, there are some small and dark brown tables that are also wooden., and I can see the yellow wall that looks cozy. Some pictures are placed on the wall, and two small and green trees are placed near the glass door. On the front desk, a lot of chocolate are in a basket, so I can eat those sweet chocolate anytime. Next to the front desk, there are some books such as comics, magazines, and novels. In addition, the tasty of coffee at the cafe is so good and the smell from the coffee is also nice. When I smell the coffee, I feel like I'm addicted to the coffee! Whenever I go to the cafe, some peaceful songs that make me calm come out from speakers. I like the atmosphere of this place because of the scent, colors, size, tasty and the songs. All of these factors make me feel good and comfortable.

 I wish when I go back to Korea, the cafe would be the same as when I used to go there. Now I feel good as I've been thinking about the cozy cafe to write this text :)

Chocolate Festival

 Last Saturday, I went to Chocolate Festival at the Forks with Alix and Shoko. It was held at the Forks Market, and each of the stores served chocolate to the people who had a ticket. At there, once you get the ticket for 7 dollars, you can go to 22 stores that you can recieve chocolate. Does it sound exciting?

 When we bought the pass, we were so excited to think about starting this chocolate tour! The list of places we can go was on the pass, so we went around the Forks Market to find the stores that gave chocolate. When we got chocolate at one place, the clerk checked on the pass, so I felt it was like a mission! Every store served different types of chocolate, so we ranked which one was better. Whenever we went to new place, I wondered what chocolate they would give. Sometimes, I was disappointed at the next chocolate, but it was okay because I like chocolate. When walking around there, we saw the many kids whose mouth was messy with chocolate. They were very funny and cute :D  Not only the chocolate, some stores gave small present such as tea bag, chocolate spa bath, and chocolate incense. Sometimes I liked the gifts better than chocolate kkk.

 Finally, we got the 21 places! we didn't go one place because we didn't have enough time. After finishing this festival, I felt I went through a mission lol.  We ate lots of chocolate, so I felt I wouldn't eat chocolate for a while, but I already want to eat some chocolate now :p Anyways, the best chocolate I have had was chocolate bread pudding :)  Even though it was a small festival, I enjoyed it! If you like chocolate I would like to recommend you to go to this festival.

Try this application, Kakao Talk

 Kakao Talk, which is a messenger, is the most popular smart phone application in Korea. It is not an exaggeration that almost all Korean who have a smart phone have this application to send a message. There are some reasons why many of Korean use Kakao Talk.

 Firstly, it is a free application! You can download this application by your smart phone for free. In addition, although you send 1000000 messages to the people that you added for friends, it doesn't cost. As a result, for people, the biggest reason why they use Kakao Talk is this is free.

 Secondly, you can talk with anyone in the world. Once you add someone for a friend you can have a conversation even though you are far from the one. Actually, sometimes I have talked with Ayane who is Japanese girl and was my class mate, and Zoe who is chinese and also was my class mate by Kakao Talk. I'm so gald we can talk to each other whenever we want to have a conversation although one left Winnipeg and the other is not IEP student anymore :) Moreover, I can send a message to my family in Korea anytime, so when I need a allowance I send a message about it to my mom right away xD

 Next, you can also send a voice message or some pictures to your friends for free as well. It is very useful when you give some information about something, show something to let someone know about it, or tell something that is difficult for writing. For example, when I wanted to show my home stay house to my mom, I sent the picture of it by Kakao Talk, so she could see the house where I was living in easily.

 Lastly, you can have a conversation in a group. When you want to talk with some friends that are close together, you can absolutely talk with them in one chatting room! I have some groups to chat, and it is very funny to chat with my friends together. Sometimes I chat with Korean friends who live in Winnipeg in a group chatting room.

 After reading the text, would you like to have this application to chat? If you want to talk with Korean friends, you must have this one :p kkkk You can talk with your friends easily when you get this one! Let's have a chat together by Kakao Talk :D

How to bathe a cat

 These days cats are popular pet like dogs and it is easy for people to raise cats in their house. When you raise a cat, sometimes you need to bathe the cat. There are 6 steps to bathe a cat efficiently. If you follow these steps, you can wash your cat without teroubles.

 First, fill with the warm water till it reaches to chest of a cat into a tub, then make the cat relieved before starting a bath.

 Second, grab the cat and put it into the tub, then wet its legs firstly, and then wet the left body of the cat except a head.

 Third, make bobbles by a shampoo for a cat, then gently wash the body by hands. Especially, make sure you should wash the bottom of feet and the tail clearly, and shouldn't wash the inside of ears with the water and shampoo.

 After that, leave the cat about 5 minutes, then wash the cat with the clean water that is not different degrees from the degrees of previous water.

 Next, squeeze the water to the side of legs, and dry the body with a towel and a hair drier.

 Finally, before all of the water gets dry brush the cat's hair with a comb, then it is finished!

 If you wash your cat by this way, your cat can finish a bath happily without scary of the bath.

Dear my lovely class mates!

 Hello my class mates..
It is already time to let you guys go. Time's so fast..........!! It's been 1 month since we met. I can't believe this! At first, I wasn't familiar with the classs mates because I was a new student in 400/450 class. I thought many of them already knew each other, so I felt I was a very new student. However, you guys always were so so so kind to me and talked to me, so I could adapt to the new class easily. I always thank you guys for it.

 In addition, I really have spent nice time with you all when we had a conversation. It was very interesting to talk with Yosiko and Eriko about Korean culture, and I want to meet them when they travel to Korea in this summer! It was also nice to talk with Ceci. She is so bright and funny girl :D I like her this saying: So funny! I also can remember having a conversation about interesting thing with Diana! Haha, and when I talked with Hikaru, I felt happy because she was very active and bright. When she spoke some Korean words to me, she was very cute :) Furthermore, when I sat with Seho sometime, I enjoyed our conversation, and when I have a discussion with Kristina, she looked very smart! I'm sad I couldn't talk a lot with Haruka and Mei :( I hoped class mates who couldn't  often come to class to come to one because I wanted to talk with them more.

 I'm so sad I can't see your text on the blog anymore..:(  I want to blog with you all and to see your comments, and hope sometimes some of you come to my blog. I will miss you all♥ It was so great time to meet you guys! Take care, and I believe we can see later :)

Two ways of studying for an exam

 There are two ways of studying for an exam. One way is studying inch by inch everyday after class, and the other way is studying with a rush on the day just before the test.

 First one, studying steadily, seems difficult, so many people don't tend to practice this way. However, it is very effective. People who study like this way always study everyday inspite of studying a little bit, they strive to study what they have learned today after class at home or at a library. Since they study everyday and review their lesson, they are prepared for a test anytime. In addition, studying everyday makes people feel relieved because they can take a test right away! For example, If you study everyday constantly and you have an exam tomorrow, you won't feel nervous and be worried about the exam because you have a confidence about it! As a result, you can take a test comfortably and get a better result than people who don't study everyday. Moreover, studying everyday leads us to remember what we have studied for a long time even though we already had finished the test because we can memorize or remember what we have learned when we study everyday.

 On the other hand, second way, cramming for an exam is different from the first one. When people have a trouble, people usually try to solve the problem even though it is late to solve it. Like this, some people cram for a test if they feel they are in an emergency. In this situation, people can more concentrate on their studying than they usually do. For instance, one of my friends said to me although she prepare her test two weeks earlier, she can't focus on her studying. Eventually, she can concentrate on the exam when it is just around the corner, and finally she can study with a passion and spends all the night because she can feel the exam is coming. Therefore, cramming for a test makes people can concentrate on their test and use their competence at once, so it could be effective.

 To conclude, one of the ways to study is studying everyday and the other is cramming. Although these two ways of studying for an exam is different, they are effective for people in a different way. Try one of these ways that fits with you and get a good result from your test!

My favorite Korean food

 My favorite Korean food is pork belly called 'Sam Gyeop Sal.' It is very popular food in Korea and maybe 99% of Korean like it and often eat it. I can eat this lovely food everyday because I am fascinated by it. Acutally, I used to eat it at least once a week when I was in Korea. Let me introduce how to cook and eat this food.

 First, heat a grill until it gets hot and when it becomes hot, lay down raw pork belly on the grill. If you put the pork on the grill, as soon as you lay it you can hear the delicious sounds! Next, when it turns brown, turn it over to cook the other side. By turning it over sometime, it becomes cooked. Finally, when the both sides of the pork turn brown, cut it into small peices. After that, you can eat it, dipping in sauce.



 However, it is not the end. We can enjoy this food with other food. The first thing we can enjoy is 'Kimchi.' Many of Korean roast Kimchi with Sam Gyeop Sal because Kimchi and Samgyeopsal is fantastic combination. We also roast some sliced onions and garlic with Samgyeopsal. The third thing is sliced green onion with sauce and red pepper. Finally, we can enjoy this food with red pepper. In addition, we usually eat Samgyeopsal and all of cooked food with it such as Kimchi, garlic, and green onion wrapped in lettuce or sesame leaf. When you wrap the food in lettuce or sesame leaf, you can taste something different and nice tasty.



 While I wrote this text, I was going to die since I saw the pictures and thought about it. I really want to eat Samgyeopsal now! I'm sure I won't be sick of this food if I eat it every single day:D
I recommend trying this food. You will not regret and once you eat this food you couldn't stop eating it xD

Negative effects of Cell phones

 Do you have a cell phone? Many people have had a cell phone for many years because it is useful to the people. With a cell phone, people can contact with family or friends easily even though they can't meet them in person. Although cell phone made our life convenient, it can ruin our life since it has some negative effects. Using cell phone should be reduced for some reasons.


 First, Cell phone kills a conversation when people talking. It is common situation for people to use their cell phones when they have a conversation. For example, in Korea, when I meet my friends at a cafe, sometimes we don't talk to each other, watching and touching the cell phone. Moreover, some of my friends respond to each other insincerely as they are contacting with other people by the cell phones. Like this, cell phone makes us not concentrate on a conversation and this is a problem because it is true use of a cell phone during a conversation hurts someone's mind.


 Second, cell phone leads people to get addicted to games. Advent of a cell phone made many people exposed to lots of games regardless of location and time, so t is easy for people to spend time playing games by cell phone. As a result of this, many people became addicted to games. For instance, you can find it easy to see people who are playing games on the bus or in the class and they can't leave the cell phone from their hands.


 Finally, Cell phone makes us lazy. Cell phone gives a lot of information, so people don't use their body or brain when they get one. To illustrate this, people don't move their body to send an e-mail by computer, to read a newspaper, or to go to a bank. In addition, I don't memorize phone numbers of my close people as my cell phone shows the numbers. I can't contact with my family or friends if I don't have my cell phone because I can't remember their numbers.


 In conclusion, cell phone changed the world more conveniently and many people has been using one. However, cell phone also changed our life badly. Cell phone causes problems such as cutting off the conversation, then hurting people's mind, making people fall in a game, and leading people not to move and think. Therefore, people should reduce the use of a cell phone from now on. Then, it would be good if the people meet their friends and talk to each other without cell phones, or memorize some  phone numbers you don't used to remember. Leave your cell phone for a while and give a break time to it for your real life.

Where is my cell phone!

 This story happened on 26th January.

I was on my way to go to school in the morning and the roads were filled with snow. When I endeavored to find my cell phone to check what time it was, I couldn't find one. It was strange that I couldn't find one because just before I got out of the house, I was holding it in a living room. However, I just thought I left the cell phone at home, so I kept going to school with a little bit of worries.

 After school as soon as I got home I started to find my cell phone, but I could never find it! I was getting scared because of the possibility I could have lost the cell phone on my way. I strived to find where the cell phone was. I checked everywhere, and even called my cell phone by the homestay's telephone, but the cell phone wasn't at home! It wasn't anywhere the one could have been such as my room, the living room, tables etc. Consequently, I realized I lost my cell phone!! After realizing this, I went out to find the cell phone, then tracked the street I had walked. Although I strived to find the cell phone with a flash, I cound't find one. I was soooo miserable and shocked as it was the first time when I lost important thing.

 Still, I can't find my cell phone and contact with my friends or my homestay mom through a cell phone. I think I dropped the cell phone on the snow covered street, so I couldn't hear the sounds of falling. I gave up finding the cell phone and I am living without a cell phone. The bad thing is I have to pay for the cell phone every month because it leaves 1 year term. Therefore, this experience was so bad to me.