Thanksgiving Day

“Thanksgiving Day” is one of the most significant holidays in U.S. From Wednesday to Sunday, most students went to home for thanksgiving. They meet their family they have not met in a long time. From Tuesday night, student began to leave school for home. However, I could not go to home to see my family. I envied American students. I just visited my friend’s house. Whenever it is holiday when all family is gathered, I miss my country, family and home. Usually I do not become homesick but the holidays make me miss home.

Citation

In last week, we spent most time to edit my projects and classmates’ projects. In the process, we learned how to cite the resources. It was not easy to cite resources because there were many forms. I used to use the “EndNote”. I think it is very simple to use it and I don’t need to think many things because what I have to do is only putting contents on the blanks. Then the “EndNote” forms the citation automatically. But I have to know what the indispensable to complete the citation is. Even though the “EndNote” is very helpful to cite resources, we don’t have to be completely dependent upon it.

There is a Whole Wolrd to Explore

I want to give this paper grade 4.
Pamela Gardner’s writing is organized well. Most paragraphs are arranged in adequate order. In the first paragraph, I could know exactly what the thesis statement is. He mentioned what he wants to notice well in the first paragraph.

However, after mentioning the thesis statement, I think the essay did not need the second paragraph. Of course it is good to know how he goes to Brazil but it is not related to the topic. In addition, the flow between the second and third paragraph is not natural.

When he mentioned Brazilian’s struggling to regain their land, I could understand why this part is mentioned. But it was too long compared to the next paragraph that is mentioning important things that he learned. The history made me think I was reading other papers.

Despite a few errors, the writing has many ideas that support his thesis. Whole flow and rhythm was adequate and some photos were used effectively.

Project 4

Last week we had a class only on Monday. During the week, we prepared the project 4. Based on timed writing, we revised it and added more information. For me, individual conference was helpful. At first, it was hard to understand what I have to write about. Because the writing was not persuading writing, deciding thesis and organizing the writing was difficult. Even though the conference was helpful, I am not satisfied with my writing yet. The writing does not have consistent flow. I think I need more time to modify the writing.

Antonio Gaudi

My third project is about my major, especially Antonio Gaudi. He is one of the most famous and influence architect in the world. I think everyone has been heard his name before, however not his buildings. Even though students in class heard his buildings or saw the buildings, they may not know those are built by Gaudi. So I posted some pictures.
The first one is “Casa Mila” built during the years 1906–1910, being considered officially completed in 1912.
The second one is “Sagrada Familia” that is the most famous building of Gaudi’s buildings. Since 1882 it has been under construction.

Culture Shock

Last Wednesday, my group had presentation about “A Long Way Gone.” We read the last three chapters and talked about it. Even though we had not had much time to find resources and discuss each our member, we had found good video related to the main idea of the three chapters. In presentation, we showed the video and gave a question for writing. The question was about culture shock that people had experienced. I could know very variety experiences. Some people’s experiences were fun. It was interesting that people had culture shock in America not only me because I am from other country but also other classmates even though they are American.

Sierra Leone

Last Monday, we had guest speaker who had been to Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone is the country that is background of the book “A Long Way Gone.” It was interesting that there is someone who went the country because I had never heard the name of the country before reading this book. I heard interesting stories from him. Especially, the most interesting story for me was the way they went to the country. I had known that the less people want to go somewhere, the less ways there are. He had had so much time to go there and difficulties. I think the difficulties he had are similar to that of Ishmael when he had came to New York to participate in the conference.