My Name

My name is Yerin which means wise. My mom said that she suffered to name my name specially. So I can put up my shoulders. It is short in English name only 5 letters. When I came to ISKL for first time most of them usually pronounce my name correctly. So I am jumping for joy. I can be happy with my name and have a big confidence. But sometimes I don’t really like my name as I like my turtle.

When I come to Malaysia most of the Chinese and Malaysians who is bad at English mispronounce it.It makes me dead of tired. Still my bus moniter thinks my name is so hard so she calls me Rin. It’s only 5 letters but why can’t they call my name properly? Also there’s another big problem. Koreans need to have traditional Chinese because they borrowed Chinese languages. But as I told you it is so hard and special that my parents doesn’t even know my Chinese characters.

When I ask them what is my name in Chinese characters they suddenly become confused. Their heart become stone. Because of that they named my brother easier. His name is Jeong Woo which is common. So my parents could remember his Chinese characters instead of mine. It kind of making me mad as a peak of a mountain!!!

But still I think my name is special. When I type my name in internet not much people has my name. I love my name so much and proud of myself.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

This is Helen Keller's quotes. The reason I like this quote is even though she is blind and deaf she overcome her suffering and became a famous person. When I read this I think I need to overcome because now I realized that there are about thousands of people who suffers more than that. So I need to proud of myself and feel happy of my life.

The day before Spring Break, I was totally unhappy and too lazy to go home. I am staying at home without going anywhere and my friends were gone for holiday. Also the schedule was totally same. My brother went to his friend's house to play with them and I need to go to acedemy that are Math, Englsh and Piano.

But it was really a great news. On Friday we will go to Penang for two sleeps. I was so excited that I jumped around and around. But my mom frowned because she didn't know how to do it. Luckily my father just did it into a new hotel that called 'Hard Rock Hotel'. My mom was surprised and said. " We don't need to stay in really expensive hotel!!! My father said, " Don't worry. It should be good hotel.

Finally on friday we went to Penang. I was so happy and saw the lots of kinds of trees. But after 1 hour I was so sleepy and going to vomit so I slept for 1 hour and 30 minutes. After I woke up still my father was driving. At last we finally was Penang but there was a big problem. We didn't know where was the hotel. My mother saw the map and she said, " I don't where should we go!!" So my father just picked the place. Luckily we found a hotel. HOORAY!!

The room was big and nice. In the swimming pool there was 3 slides and they were all fun. But it was too boring to stay at hotel so we decided to go to the beach. The beach was really clean. First I wanted to ride banana boat but my dad said" Ride a para sailing.' " It looks fun!! When I see it closely I was so scared that I said "I don't want to ride it!!" But unfortunately I just rode it!! When I ride it was really fun and cool. I could see the island closely and lots of apartment. The next day, we left Penang at 12 and barely return to home.

My New Settlement

Environment 1
Plains
I will settle on the plains that is really flat. It is very easy to survive to settle on the flat ground. There are many ways that helps to provide foods and helps them to survive. For example for food like potato, lettuce, corns etc. Next one is that it is easy to survive. For example They could grow lots of crops because if it is flat the crops will grow more well than hilly place.

Peninsula
I will locate it on the peninsula. There are several reasons why I want to settle there. First reason is it is surrounded by a water. So it is easy to get water to drink fresh water and it is almost like a plain that is flat. It helps us to grow well and easy to survive. Another reason is it helps to grow crops. This helps us to provide foods like potato, lettuce, and meat from animals that is cow, fish and pigs.

Environment 2(water

River

I will settle where there is a river. River helps to provide water, provide foods and save our life. First river helps to provide water. We could drink a fresh water so we could not be thirsty any more. Also we could use when we usually cook. For example making a soup, rice or everything. Next it could provide foods. We didn't need to be hungry any more. We could fish, could catch deers or cows to survive from a hunger. Lastly it could save our life. For example drought, it could helps us to protect from a drought because it provides water.



Seas
I will locate it near the sea. The sea helps to provide foods and salt. For example for foods there are fishes, dried seaweed, oyster, octopus. These helps human to provide energy. Sometimes we could eat whale meat but not turtle. Next it also provide salt. Some people said salt is bad for our health but it's actually helps to cook nicely. We could put a salt on the fish then it will be so delicious.

Environment 3(Vegetation)

Trees

I will settle where there are trees. This helps us to provide foods and provide woods. First it helps provide foods. For example it provides fruits from the certain season. So people could gather a fruit from a trees. Like papaya, watermelon, melon. Also it helps people to have a better food supply. Next one is it provides woods. It helps us to provide a shelter. For example it protects from a harsh weather and wild animals. Also it helps to makes fire so we could be warm and could sleep warmly. Lastly it could produce tools. For example it could also produce transportation like boats.





Forest
I will settle it on the forest. There are lots of reason that is it provide wood and oxygen. For example forest provides oxygen that is good for our human health. It makes to live more longer and give us a fresh oxygen. Next it provides woods that produces shelter to protect from the harsh weather and wild animals. There are so many trees so wild animals could be hard to find me.

My cutie little Samsung phone

My family went to Tesco to buy some things. On our way we saw someone selling a phone. My eyes looked at it longingly. I  beg my mom to buy for me a phone. I said, “Please can you buy a phone for me?” My mother said ok. When my mom finished her word I became so happy that I ran to the phone shop to choose a phone. First I wanted to do very expensive one but my mom said if I lose it will be begrudged.If you want to see my picture of URL click hereTesco .




 But I was still happy to buy a cheap phone because this was my first time to buy a phone. In Korea I used my father’s because he left to Malaysia. But this time I can use it for a long time. So my mom said to me to buy Nokia but the seller said that Samsung is better than it. Also my mother saw the Samsung phone and she agreed. So my mom bought the Samsung phone that is very cheap one, 85 RM. I was so happy that I jumped around and my mom

laughed at me.

After buying phone I quickly ran back to car I matched the time and date,save my parents number and show off my phone to my brother. I think my brother was too envious because he has old phone that could not call to anyone. I felt sorry for him but still I feel so happy that I could fly. I played a game, I put my alarms and matched the ringing songs that I like to have. Believe or not I don't know what's happening with me that I kept touching my phone. I could not pay attention or concentrate because of my phone.

If you want to see my phone click here.

Is my country a civilization?

I have learned 7 important civilization. Stable food supply, religion, social structure, art, government, technology and writing that is written language. I am going to investigate to see my country has these characteristics.
Stable Food Supply

In Korea, my cultural stable food supply is a soy jar. Ancient people put Kimchi in it because it taste more better to put in refrigerator. They dug a soil and put soy jar in it. Then it will taste like more cultural. Now days many people use Kimchi refrigerator that could taste also good but not really much. Today some grand parents or who lives in country uses still!!!

Religion
We Korean has two religion. One is Christian and another one is Buddhism.There are lots of people believing god but some are not. I am Christian. I went to the church with my family and cousins. Every Sunday we go to church. There are two floors. First floor is for children like prep senior to 6th grade. Second floor is for the adults only. These were seperate because children doesn't know what the adults are saying and it is boring for them so they will be loud when everyone is praying. This is my church that used to go on Sunday.




Art
Korean arts are about the nature. For example they drew mountains and trees. This was because our country is full of mountains and trees about 70% of it. Many artist drew about the nature. Now days everyone drew with a color but ours are drew with a Chinese ink. When they drew if they got any mistakes they throw away the paper and drew another paper. The paper was so thin that it could rip easily.


Government

Korea governments were now Lee Myeong Park. He is now the president. But many people doesn't like him because he doesn't seems like to help other people. So many children swear him. They think that another person will be the president. 

Writing

Korea writing has developed a lot. There once was a Se Jong De Wang. In past we needed to use Chinese characters s it was hard to use it. But he just found it so we could use our language easily. Because of him it is more comfortable. He kept try to invent in our own writing. He could not see his left eye but he kept try but unlucky he passed away.

Technology

Korea technology also improved technology. In the past they needed to walk or ride a horse to inform king, but this was hard because it gets lots of time.But now we could go by a car, airplane and train. Also it invented more faster car that is cost more money. They also could use cellphone that is small so it could go in the pocket. This helps to call someone to meet, work or something. This helps us to become life more comfortable. Maybe on future it could be developed a lot.

 Social Structure
We have 3 classes. that is common class, upper class and slaves. Upper class we had king, priest, government owners. Sometimes if the priest doesn't follow the rules then they will stay in jail. Common class we have fisherman, farmers, sellers. They sell lots of things. For example mirror or candle. Slaves doesn't have any money. If they ran their owners will be very angry. If they found them they will hit them as hard as they could. Most of the slaves died because the owners hit them so hard.

I took the picture of the chair. It has one symmetry. It's the straight to the middle.