The Proposal

  

I saw this movie " The Proposal" last night. It is a comedy, so it wasn't  out of my expectation. The actress, Sandra Bullock, is quite famous and I have already seen some of  her movies. She is like a next-door sister and her acting is nature and not too much hypocritical. The actor is Ryan Reynolds, and I have seen his last movie "Definitely, Maybe ", too. It seems like he is very suitable for comedy. The story is not very special but romantic and funny. One thing particularllyI found it is interesting to me that is about they went to see the immigration official. I guess all the immigration officials in the world are all the same. They all ask some unusual questions to people who want to immigrate to their country. If you like comedy movies, it is OK to watch because you can see lots of  interesting conversations between the chief actress and actor. It is quite entertaining . And there is no doubt that you  always can see the happy ending in the movie.

Reading a Story In a Book / Seeing It As a Movie

There are some different time consuming and enjoyment but amusement between reading a story in a book and seeing it as a move. One differences is time spending. People spend a long time one reading a story in a book. However, people seeing it as a move only take about one to tow hours. The second difference is enjoyment.  For example, it is filled with lots of imagination when people read a story in a book. They like to enjoy the power of words for fun in reading. In contrast, when people seeing it as a movie, it provides much vision and audition but less imagination for them. They like to enjoy seeing lively pictures for fun. Finally, there is a big difference of originality. Reading a story in a book is truly close to an original story, whereas seeing it as a movie, it rewrites or re-edits from an original story. Therefore, it adapts from a book and much less originality. To sum up, for people who like to take time on reading and enjoy creative of minds, reading a story in a book is an excellent choice, but for people who like to feel vision and audition only spending  a little time, seeing it as a move is a quick way to enjoy.

April of 2010

April was a long month for me because I was very sick, and I had some troubles at work. Since I have been a teacher, I am very easy to catch a cold. Every time,  when I am sick, I usually have a sore throat. Sometimes it is even worst I lose the vice, so I cant speak then I have to skip my classes. This month, I was sick again, and I had a sore throat which took me about one month to cure it. I went to see the doctor, and I just realized how serious was it. The doctor said, " I couldn't speak that was not because of a sore throat. It was because of the inflammation of  vice cord." At that time, I was upset and surprised because I couldn't find anyone to sub my classes. This is what I dislike my job because even you are sick, it is still very difficult to take a rest. Anyway, I asked a help for my supervisor then I finally got few days off.  There was another thing upsetted me very much.  I didn't work with a foreign teacher very well and it was getting worse and worse. I thought every thing I could talk to him and discuss with him, but I forgot he is a supervisor of foreign teachers. Maybe he dislike me to cross the line, but I still think I don't do anything wrong about it. It bothered me a lot and it made me absentminded most of time. I did a lot of stupid things in April, but  fortunately I had some good guys to help me. I think I am lucky, but I should be more careful no matter I meet difficulties or not.

March of 2010

I was a bit busy in March of 2010. First, my school started on the first weekend. Then, I was busy at preparing GEPT of Hess. This is a kind of English test for English teachers of Hess every year. I think it is a good opportunity to improve English skill. I really spent a lot of time studying English, and I also bought some text books to practice activities. I wasn't very good on last training test, so I needed to study hard. I set a timetable for practicing English. I practiced reading and listening for one activity per week. I thought it might make a progress on reading and listening, but I got the result  which was not good. I failed on listening but I passed on reading. Actually I wasn't surprised about it because I remembered the day when I took the test, I was  late about 5 minutes. It made me envious and I couldn't pay attention to listening. I learned a lesson from it but the result still made me be disappointed of myself. I like English, but I don't like to take any tests of English. In fact, only you take a test then you can know what is your weakness of English.  Even now, I don't like tests of English but I still want to take TOIC test to evaluate my accomplishment of English. It is ironical, isn't it? But there is one thing for sure, I need to plan better for next test and don't be late for the test.

February of 2010

February is a very short month for me because it is only 28 days. If it is plus Chinese New Year holidays, then I only work for about fifteen days. Actually I like February but I don't like a little salary. This Chinese New Year I didn't go anywhere but home, so it was a long holiday for me. My old sister and I were very busy at first two days for we needed to go shopping for some food, fruit and some stuff for praying gods and ancestors. The rest of holidays, we stayed at home and watched DVD- Korean drama which is The City Hall.  I like this drama because I like the actress for her personality and her excellent acting. The actor is also good and this is the first time he took the part of Korean dramas. As I know he is a model and he only preforms for movies. This is a quite interesting combination. At the end of Chinese New Year, I had a reunion of my family. I had lunch with my family and aunty at the hotel in Taipei. I like this reunion because everyone of my family can get together. Actually it started five years ago. My aunty who is my mom's friend meets us every Chinese New Year, and she treats us every time, too. I think she is just like a kind of our family member and we all appreciate to her for caring our family.

January of 2010

I had a quite busy schedule in January. I had a final exam at the beginning of this month. After the final exam, our classmates had a banquet at night  for thanking our teachers hard working. Actually I was surprised because all most everyone contributed to a good show for the banquet. I believed that everyone had a good time there. This is the first time I have had an unforgettable experience with our classmates and teachers. Then, I started my first summer vacation at Longhua. I guess every student likes holidays, and I am also not exception. I visited my younger sister in Zhunan for she gave a birth to a girl baby. I was very happy for her because she has one boy and one girl now. Our family had an opportunity to meet together again. I always like to see every member of my family can get together to talk and share our recent development. At the end of  January, I also went to a banquet of Hess at Xinyi district. This is the only time all of foreign teachers and Chinese teachers  meet together from north Taiwan. This is the only benefit for a part-time teacher at Hess. I had a good time,too.

All The Numbers

I bought a book and its title ,All The Numbers, a year ago. Actually I had heard of it from a master of a TV show. She recommended this novel to audiences. I guess because she is a mother of two children, so that is why she is touched by it.
It is about a mother of two children who are eleven years old and thirteen years old. They went on a vacation, and eleven-year-old son died by an accident. After it, she was very depressed,  and she couldn't get out of this tragedy. It made her family almost fall to pieces. Especially, the oldest son had to take the guilty of seeing his young brother drowning, and his mother ignored everything  to him and his father. This family went through lots of sadness and unhappiness. At the end, his mother finally got out of the tragedy by forgiving the killer of  her younger son.  She realized she needed to move on to a new life for her family because she had another son whom she had been ignored for a long time, and he needed her to take care of him.
This story touched me to the heart. I believe that every mother reads it and she must has been touched by it. After all ,we are human beings , and we feel happy, angry, sad and joy. When we meet tragedies to our families, it is very difficult to face it and let it go. If it happens to you and I hope you can find a way to overcome it.

An Introduction of Practicing Speech

Good afternoon, Mr Lin and everyone,
First of all, I would like to thank all of you for coming here today, and I'd also like to thank to Mr. Lin for giving me an opportunity to present my talk here. For those of you who don't know me, my name is Irene. Before my talk, I'd like to know do you know where Sydney Opera House, Gold Coast and Great Barrier Reef are. If you know, please raise your hand. Thank you. Some of you might know but some of you might  not, so my topic today is My Favorite Country which is Australia. I'll start off by talking about location first. Then, I'll move on to transportation. After that, I'll be focus on accommodations. Finally, I'll end with major tourist attractions. It'll take about 30 minutes and don't worry about taking notes. I'll be giving a handout to anyone who wants it. And I believe that by the end of this talk you will be familiar with Australia, and you might be interested in traveling there. Thank you for your attention.

How to Live on a Tight Budget

As I have been a student in Australia for a year, and I am a part-time teacher only making a little money now, I have had some experiences for living on a tight budget. Therefore, I would like to share my experiences with everyone. There are three ways to live on a tight budget. First of all, you must stop eating out often. This is the most basic way to decrease your spending. For example, you eat out frequently almost everyday. If you start to prepare three meals at home instead of eating out, then you will save lots of money you never know. Next, you must cut down your unnecessary expenses. This is also a way to help to lessen your expenditure. You need to strictly decrease your entertainment and material things spending such as new clothing, the newest high-tech gadgets, KTV,  movies traveling and so on. Finally, and it is also the most important way is to increase your income. It means not only have to save some money but also you have to seek more chances to grow your gainings. Likewise, you have a full-time job then you have to take some part-time jobs for making extra money, however, you only have a part-time job then you have to take more part-time jobs or you need to find a full-time job to increase your salary. To sum up, you must carefully expend on your money and find a way to increase your earnings then you can survive in living on a tight budget.

Why Should Pelple Need for Exercising

There are several reasons why people should need for exercising. The first reason is that exercising helps people to get in shape. For example, nowadays, people are too busy to work,and most of them do not eat on time or even not in time. As a result, they often eat too much or too late and then they get fat gradually. Thus, exercising is the best way to help them to stay in a good figure. The second reason people do exercise is to keep healthy. People often have more chances to eat out, and there are too much artificiality such as artificial coloring and favoring. They are easy to get sick or not going energetic for they do not have a well-balanced diet. Therefore, doing sports is a good way to keep them from illness and to be in full vigor. The last reason is people can extend a healthy long life. In the modern life, people suffer serious disease are easier than  in the past. When people are seriously sick, and they can be saved their lives from high medical technologies. However, some of them pass away at young age because of getting great sickness. In other words, if people keep a good habit of exercising then it can contribute to have a long life without being sick. All in all, people want to have a healthy body, a good figure and live longer then they should need for doing sports.