Journal Entry #13

The movie is taking about an American man, Ian Miller, who falls in love with a Greek-American woman, Toula, whose family is a traditional Greek belief. From the movie, we can see the different culture between Greek and American. In Toula's family we can see male chauvinism and her father thinks the Greek must be married the Greek, so he doesn't agreed her daughter to get married with a American man. But Ian is willing to change his life pattern and accept the life habit of foreign culture and the reverent religious belief, and also willing to be blend friendly to Toula's family life style , indeed overcame all difficulties and gains her father's approval.

Journal Entry #12

Write a paragraph explaining how these three kinds of love are different

There are three kinds of love which are agape, eros, phileo in Greek. First of all, agape means "love" in modern day Greek. It's a on to under love. For example,the relationship between the God and the disciples. Second, eros means passionate love. For instance, the relations between husband and wife. This kind of love focus on the lovers and is willing at the cost of their lovers.
Finally, phileo means friendship. We should make friends true-hearted and help each others.

Journal Entry #11

What dreams do you have? These may be funny or silly. They may be serious or even impossible. Make a list of 10 things you would like to accomplish (see, do, eat, climb, run, have, etc.) before you die.

1. I will speak English fluently
2. I will save my first 50 thousand dollars after two years
3. to create a company
4. to become a billionaire after 35 years old
5. to buy a villa in the Hawaii.
6. to have pirate Boeing 747
7 .to have a happy family
8. to keep tough with my friends
9. let my children have affluent and safe environment
10. world peace

Journal Entry #8

There are several reasons why global warming causes our life. First of all, sea level rise caused the land to reduced. For example, if the global warning continue, the Maldives will be flooded. The scientists predicted "that the Maldives will disappear in the century's end ." Second, the excessive greenhouse effect creates the greenhouse effect in the gas, what is most main is the carbon dioxide, the nitrous oxide, the methane, the fluorine chlorine carbide and the ozone. These pollutant are mainly combustion petrochemical raw material produce. Finally, because the ecology changed, it caused that the running water was not normal changing, and the transpiration rate increased, arid area's soil became drier. So we must find out solutions immediately. For example, planting trees, reducing emission carbon dioxide, and using renewable energy sources. We only have this one earth, so we must take care it carefully.

Journal Entry #10

Although the weather had a little bit hot,I still felt very excited. There were many people in the beach and enjoyed the sunshine. In the afternoon, I played soccer,volleyball and Frisbee. It's total different that paying in the sand and in the ground. Because the sand is soft, we spent a lot of energy moving. After Frisbee , I was too fatigued to move. ALP was considerate of everyone and they prepared lots of drinks, fruits,cookies and hot-dogs that we can eat at any time and enjoy ourselves. When we wnet back the bus , I saw everyone's face was satisfied and happiness.

Journal Entry #9

Who is my hero?

Bill Gates is my hero for several reasons. I look up to him because he is smart, rich, and kind. First, Bill Gates is very smart. He invented the computer which helps people get a lot of information. Therefore, this world became more convenient. And it connects between country to country, let use know what happened right now. Second, he is very rich. I also want to become a rich person. Through hard work and correct plans, his company made a lot of money. Finally, he is kind. He often helps other people. He paid attention to help people and he sat several foundations to support people. For example, he knew that A.I.D.S is a serious disease and it still can’t heal now. So he made a foundation for researching this disease, he hopes in the future the disease can be dispersed. I like Bill Gates because he helps people. He is worthy to be respected. In summary, he is a great man and also my hero.

Journal Entry #7

• Cross arms ..................boring and thinking


• Thumbs Up ..................good and wonderful


• Stomp one's feet ...........nervous


• Raise one's eyebrows ........want to cheating someone


• Shrung one's shoulder .......i have no idea


• Wave one's hands ...........say hellow


• Clap one's hands ...........agree


• Sticking out one's tongue ...make a joke or mistake


• Gets hold of the fist .......angry


• Hold one's nosing ..........smell not good

Journal Entry #6

In the Unite State , the Fourth of July is worthy of celebrating,and it declared that the Unite State would depart from crown colony on July 4, 1776 . Since the event , it became a independent country and American celebrate it every July 4 . This year is my first time to see the firework on July 4. It was started st 9 o'clock . When I arrived the place , there are already lots of people in there. Because the geography of the place is higher than other place, at the same time I can see another two firworks. The sky glittered with firework.

Journal Entry #5

Actually I didn't have special feeling about the number.It 's just a special number. In Taiwan , we think that number 6 is a luck number . If we choose 6,maybe we can get luck things. Oppositely, we also have ill-boding number which is number 4 , because the meaning of it's pronunciation is similar death. Most Chinese don't like the number. Coming back to the subject, on Saturday one good thing happened to me that my friend invite me to B.B.Q with her family. It's a nice experience.