Journal Entry #20

Topic: There are three types of people in this world. (Don't give easy answers like "tall, short, fat, skinny, etc.")

There are Three Types of People in This World

There are three types of people in this world. The first type is self-centered people. This type is the people who care about nothing but themselves. They care about the way that they feel, or what they look like. They are not respectful of others' property. For example, they do not ask for someone's permission before doing anything that can relate another person. The second type is caring people. Their goal in life is to make other people happy. These people are the kind of characters that love to give others a helpful hand. They are sensitive to the unintentional things that can happen. The final type is two-faced people. This is the type of people that you should be careful. Most of people don’t like and ignore them. Things would be a lot simpler if two-faced people would just decide who they like, and who they hate. In conclusion, each type has problems and need to improve us all better people.

Journal Entry #19

Being Single Has Many Advantages

Being single has many advantages. The first advantage is you aren't responsible for another's careless behavior. You are free to do as you please, when you like, with whom you like. If you want to do nothing, you can do it. Each person may not know his or her own likes and dislikes. You will find that many of the things you have always done may not have been your own choice. Moreover, you don't have to deal with another's personal habits. You do not need ask someone how to spend your money, eating whenever you feel like it and not having to share a bathroom. The final advantage is give yourself time. You have more time to make new friends and have fun. Some of your married friends may not feel comfortable with a single person, especially if they are also friends with your spouse. You may find you have more in common with other singles, so seek out people that have common interests. In conclusion, being single has many advantages for taking time to enjoy yourself and doing what feels comfortable for you.

Journal Entry #18

Playing Sports Has Many Advantages

Playing sports has many advantages. The first advantage is good for health. Sports bring healthy to everybody, even if young people are fat or thin, playing sports help to get equal status, people will feel relax, happy and healthy. In addition, playing sports will clear their mind from pressures. When we enter into playing sports, we will try to do our best, missing something around us. The final advantage is playing sports can bring people together. So they should choose a sport which is suitable for themselves. For example, team sports train them team work. They complete not only themselves but also their team's honest. Individual sports help to complete both against themselves and against other individual. Playing team sports or individual sports, there 's always the feeling that they have the support and encouragement of others. In conclusion, playing sports is the best way to a healthy future.

Journal Entry #17

My Big Fat Greek

My Big Fat Greek is the film about a Greek woman named Toula Portokalos. Her family owns a small restaurant to be called Dancing Zorba's and she works in there as a waitress. She is 30 years old and hasn't gotten married yet. Her family is worry about this, especially her father who is always to keeps Greek rules and wants his daughters get married with Greek man. One day, when she meets a handsome and tall man in her family's restaurant, she is acttracted so much but this man does not. She decided to change her life by going to the college to study computer. Of course, her father doesn't agree but her mother helps her persuare him and is gone to the collge. She have many changes such as make up, wear modern dresses and contact lense,... She looks beautiful. Then she works at her aunt's travel agency and meet Ian Miller - a man who she met and was attracted in her family's restaurant again. They felt in love. Of course, her father does not agree because he is not a Greek man. However, Ian Miller loves Toula so much and is willing to make anything to her family accept him. He becomes a Greek man, to be baptized and married in Orthodox Church. Finally, her whole family accept their wedding. Her parents give them a house as their wedding's gift and they have a baby and live happy together in here.

Journal Entry #16

My Most Embarrassing Moment

One day when I looked at the photographs taken during my childhood days, most embarrassing moment about many memories of my childhood came to me. It is said that, childhood is the most beautiful period of a man’s life. However, this is not true to all people. It must be lucky for those who live in happy families because they have no worries and do not work very hard, except for their study. They are looked after and loved by their good parents. Their childhood is full of pleasant memories. On the contrary, it is unfortunate for a person who has to go to work too early. His childhood is full of worries, and his memories are the days of earning money or bad experiences. My childhood was very happy. Since I was born my mother has always taken a good care of me in everything. My father usually appears at any important events in my life such as the first day I went to school; the day I took my high school-extrance exam, or when I sat in the college-entrance examination... As you know, being loved by my grandparents I was a rather naughty child. I like chocolates, ice-cream but I hates meals. I can recall how my grandmother had to run after me whenever she wanted me to have lunch or dinner. I could run faster than her, shouting noisily. But sometimes, she told me fairy tales. My favorite story was “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”. Anyway, the happy or miserable childhood can’t be forgotten. Those memories have been lasting during one’s life.

Journal Entry #15

Halloween

Every year, on the night of October 31, having a holiday that is called Halloween to be celebrated. It is the popular holiday in Ireland, the U.S., Canada, Puerto Rico, the United Kingdom and in another countries such as in Astruslia, New Zealand. On this day, you can easily meet carved pumpkins with a candle to be lit inside that is one of the most Halloweens' symbols. Moreover, on the streets, to be overwhelmed by black and organge that are the traditional colors of Halloween. There are not only the carved pumpkins and the traditional colors but also have many traditional activities like trick or treating, costume parties, viewing horror films, visiting haunted houses,etc. It can say that in the United State and Canada, trick or treating is the main activity for the children on this day. They will be eaten, drunk and gone door-to-door in their neighborhoods, ringing each doorbell and yelling "trick or treat!" to solicit the usual gift of candies. In recent years, Halloween becomes the holiday popular more and more and also to be celebrated in many countries in the world.

Journal Entry #14

Write about your experience at Universal Studios! (please post pictures too).

Studying in CSUF, many students said about Universal Studios and on September 27, 2007, ALP office held ALP students to go the Universal Studios. What a pity! I could not join because I had a dating with my best friend in Vietnam by the Internet. That day is her birthday and I promised to go online and tell about my everything in American and say "happy birthday" with her, so I could not go to the Universal Studios. I hope that the next time I can go.