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.

Writing Center

Last Monday, we visited the Writing Center located on second floor of Robert Bell building. Even though I had known the Writing Center before, I have never used it. We can be helped from it when we write essay and do assignments. Whole process of writing can be checked by writing assistants and we can discuss the ideas of assignment. I think it will be very helpful for me because I am not good at writing.
To use the writing center, we need to reserve it through writing center web site. When we saw the schedules that already were reserved, there were few spaces to reserve in last week. It was impossible to use writing center for our project 2 unfortunately.

What I notice about Beah's writing

Because “A Long Way Gone” is autobiography, it is easy writing. We can read the book easily without much knowledge and experiences. Even though English is my second language, I could read the book without many problems. I think one of the reasons I could read it easily is that the author of the book, Ishmael Beah, is not from the country that speaks English. Because English is not first language to him like me, he can write book easily to read for foreigners with easy expressions and words. It does not mean the book has only simple expression. He describes well the situation that he was in with vivid expressions.
Through reading the book, I felt pain and sadness along the boy whenever he felt pain and sadness. His writing made me feel I was the boy. It is so vivid and detail. Author’s capacity of writing that makes people being addicted his writing was great.

Bracken Library

The visiting the Bracken Library on 2nd October was my second library tour. During the summer semester, my IEI(Intensive English Institute) class visited the Bracken Library. At that time, I learned how to use the “CardCat” and searching programs. Especially we concentrated on how to find books and journals that I want. However on last Friday, we learned how we can get ideas using keywords through the Academic Search Premier. Through the class I checked what I know already and what I forgot.
I think there were many ways to find materials along to the way we were taught. I felt that I needed to find the ways that I’ve forgotten.

Grading continuum

In writing, I have problems to express what I want to write exactly. However, I think the organization of sentences and paragraph is not bad. Because it is not related to the fact that English is the second language for me. In Korean essay, the organization is applied as same way. In addition, I practiced writing for TOEFL exam. It was helpful to write essay. I can maintain my theme consistently through my essay. My problems are several things below.
Because vocabularies and capacity to express my thoughts that are used in writing are insufficient, there are some misconceptions in essay. Therefore the readers have difficulties to understand what I am talking about.
Also, I cannot use honeyed words like American. My simple sentences and essay result from my simple words and expression. It leads the shortage of the essay’s quantity. It is very difficult to increase the quantity of essay.
In researching, it takes much more time to research because of the language. It takes about twice more time than American. So I cannot help being limited by the time.