2011년 1월 12일 수요일

S.A.T Style Reflective Essay 'Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring



There is a Korean proverb, 'once experiencing is better than seeing it for one hundred times.' Like this, the monk made his student to experience the burden. The monk wanted to make the student to feel like what the animals felt like, so that the child would not do the same thing to the animals again. I like this kind of teaching method and a learning process, because not only you can learn it fast and easily, but also you can learn it effectively and it remains in your brain for a longer time.

In this film, the student of the monk did what the monk did not like. Therefore, the monk wanted to teach his student. He came up with an idea, to get his student to feel like the animals and learn the right thing. to do by experience. When he commissioned his student to go into the forests once again and release the animals from the rope, the student was burdened with a heavy rock. When he finds the animals that he committed the 'crimes' to, he finds the fish and the snake dead. He learned that he should not do such a thing anymore from this experience.
I think that this is a really effective and efficient teaching technique and a learning process. If it was just a normal parent, he/she would have just spanked the child and told the child to stop it. However, the monk wanted to make the student of his to feel and experience. Rather than spanking, I think that experiencing would be more effective.
This kind of learning process was applied to my life, too. When I was in the kindergarten, there was a dog that my maternal grandmother raised in her house. In the holidays, when all the families would be together there, I kind of bullied the dog by kicking and punching it for fun. However, one day, I was scratched and hit by the same dog. In result, I got hurt in many places. I then realized that it must have hurt to the small creature.

So in this film, the monk taught his student by making him to experience the same situation. It was very effective for me, too. I really liked the monk's idea, how he made the student to be just like the animals. So the Korean proverb, 'once experiencing is better than seeing it for one hundred times' was right!

2011년 1월 10일 월요일

The Potter Puppet Pals!

Hey guys it's me, Yoo Jin again, with my favorite viral video, the Potter Puppet Pals! Here is one of the videos, called the Mysterious Ticking Noise. I hope you enjoy it. It is a comical parrody of Harry Potter with cute puppets made by the people who made the video. This sequel has interesting and funny background song and has interesting dialogues and situations.

This video was made by a big fan of Harry Potter, and this has gone viral due to its fun dialogues, cute characters, and a parrody from a different point of view. People who like Harry Potter love it, and now it is going for 100 million views for a video, maybe a billion for the whole series.

P.S. Also, to enjoy it more, you will have to look up and find out more about Harry Potter's characters, especially Harry, Ron, Hermione, Dumbledore, Snape, and Voldemort.

Chain Writing: Prisonment at GLPS by Class 22

Hey guys! This time I want to show you a chain-writing work from my classmates and me...

"MAYBE IT WAS BECAUSE I CAME TO GLPS"!!!

I personally think that I started out the story (it ended as an essay) pretty fun.
But I do blame my classmates, as not only they changed the point of the story, but also they made the story... Boring. But I still wish you will enjoy it, and here I go, with my first writing work at GLPS.
And also remember that this is not the idea about GLPS from me... it is 99% fiction.

Maybe it was because I came to GLPS. I am a prisoner at KMLA. I have to use English every single moment. I cannot play computer games. It is boring and we have to be tortured with classes. We have to go up and down the hills several times a day. We have snacks after dinner, but it is always just bread and milk. Our parents come to visit their children, the prisoners. This imprisonment all began with one single cause.

One day at my school, my class periods were beginning when I got a phone call from my mother. She sounded excited. She yelled, "You have made it to GLPS!" So this, in other terms, marked the beginning of this imprisonment. At first, I thought that it would be a really fun class. However, when I arrived at KMLA's campus for GLPS, my expectations about GLPS all changed. When the classes started, it was just pure torturing. There was no chatting, no games, and none of everything that I like. However, there were some good parts. I made new friends who were really nice.

Back at my home, there are computers, family, friends, and other good things. However, in GLPS, we are not even allowed to speak Korean with my friends in the dormitory. However, I have an imporession on the foods that they are delicious. I miss my friends and my family back in Seoul. I want to hurry and go back home. I would not have come here if I knew the classes would be this strict. There is a rule called EOP, English only policy. If you get caught speaking in Korean, you will be given a EOP Paper, which you have to memorize in a day.

Although the classes are very strict and we are like prisoners here, we can learn many things. All PAs are exceptionally intelligent students, and we learn what we have to learn. We obey them and learn what we have to learn. If we do what they want us to do, they will be satisfied and we would not have to be imprisoned anymore. We learn English, too. English has become a really important issue nowadays, and GLPS helps us to improve our English abilities.

In conclusion, GLPS mainly consists of strict prisoning and harsh rules. but there are some pros for the camp. I think I should try to look only at the advantages of the camp and enjoy it until we go home.