Tuesdays With Morrie

★Title: Tuesdays With Morrie

★Author: Mitch Albom

★March 20th, 2004

★vocabulary
* be intent on(~에 열중하다) : pay great attention to what you are doing
* pronounced(두드러진) : noticiable * pep(원기) : liveliness and energy
* squirm(우물쭈물하다) : move your body side to side because of nervous
* befriend(도와주다) :　make friends with someone who is far from you
* intrusive(방해하는) : to disturb your mood or your life
* hawk(돌아다니며 팔다) : sell them by walking on the streets
* stillborn(사산의) : a baby is dead when it is born
* squint(실눈으로 보다) : look at it with your eyes partly closed
* fret(애태우다) : make you worry about it
* levitate(공중부양시키다) :　appear to rise and float in the air without help
* revel in(즐기다) ; enjoy in something very much
* prop(떠받치다) : support it by putting something underneath it
* snatch(낚아채다) : take it or put it away quickly
* deplete(고갈되다) : a sock or amount of something means to reduce it
* anyhow(어쨌든) :　the same as anyway

"Tuesdays With Morrie", the title of this book was very impressive. I was curios about who Morrie is. Morrie, who is a main character of this book is an attractive person. He is a Social Psychology professor for Mitch(a writer) and other students but he became one of my professor after I read this. The meaning of the title says the contents. Mitch and Morrie have regular meetings on every Tuesdays since they have met each other again. Actually the meetings are valuable because Morrie is seized with the Lou Gehrig's disease. Stories between them are absolutely honest because Morrie is in a tough situation. Though Morrie's body is getting stiff, he still gives a lecture to many people. Morrie has surely wide knowledge not only in his major- Social Psychology but also in the way of life. Thus, there were a large number of things that I should learn from Morrie.
First of all, the most important thing to make Morrie a respectful
person is the ''positive mind", I think. I saw that Morrie feels hardness to accept his development in Lou Gehrig's. Nobody will happy with his death sentence. But the change in Morrie's mind was surprising. He spent only few days to control his distress mind. Although his foot, legs, hands, arms were becoming useless he thought the death and becoming useless are certainly different. Then he decided to spend his last year more specially. To meet Mitch and has a talk with him is one of the way to live specially. And finally that meetings made this great book. His death looked like peaceful, stable and kind of happy. This is all the result of Morrie's positive mind. I think I should be positive in everything to smile at the and of my life, just like Morrie.
Also Morrie's ideas were awful. First, the living funeral was a great idea. It could be thought as a kidding, but it is effective to think back to the past days. If I have my living funeral there will be much refuse. After that kind of ceremony, I will try to live diligently. While I'm regreting, other people will also think who was I to them. Not only for me but also for my people, the living funeral will be a valuable time. Second, his agreement to interview the TV show was unexpected. Most people never like to show there bad face especially the progress of there death. Maybe Morrie wanted to share his emotion and give others a hope. With this interview, his death became more worthful. At last, the making of this book is one of his ideas, too. Mitch, the writer said this book is the last thesis with Morrie. This is a thesis of 'the way of life' , because Morrie's words are the most part of this book. The best mark of Morrie for me was that-Do kinds of things that come from the heart. This seems like the key of Morrie's happy life.
Morrie gave his knowledge to students in his lifetime and he gave a hope to others at the end of his life. Being a useful person in our sociaty is very tough, but with the peaceful mind it will be a little bit easier. Thanks to Morrie and the writer Mitch to let me know that peace.

The secret diary of adrian mole aged 13 and 3/4

Adrian Mole is a pubescent student. He wrote down what he experienced in his secret diary. Though heh is a certain bad situation to enjoy his school days, he also feels something just like other adolescents.
Totality, he worries about hhis identity and have problem with his friends and he fell in love with a pretty girl. So I think this book is talking an usual boy's growth period.

As I mentioned befor, he is in a terrible family. His father is nvere interested in his house and his mother either. They just like the work outside the home and very insensible the inside of their house. It's sure that adolescents in his age really need the love and concern from their family member but Adrian doesn't get any of them.
The worst thing is the divorce of his parents. His mother goes with Mr.Lucas who is a neighbor. Mr.Lucas who is a neighbor. Mr.Lucas broke up with his wife and left alone. Adrian's mother tried to console Mr.Lucas and fell in love with him. Adrain witnessed that many times.
But he regard that just a consolation between his mother and the neighbor, though he visits Adrian's house only in the father's absence. Finally mother require a divorce to his father.
Maybe, Adrian would felt a serious betrayal feeling from his parents and his friend, Nigel, Nigel went out with Pandora.
Adrian was angry that Nigel had known the fact that his best friend Adrian loves her. In the age of 14, it would be a terrible pressure to overcom that betrayal feeling.
With Bert Baxter and Barry Kent, I could know whtat character does Adrian hs. Bert Baxter is years old man who Adrian met from the his health is not so good, and on day he was carried by 911. The Adrian cired. He would be a kind boy inside. And he is narrow minded. I knwe that by the scene that he was menace by Barry Kent.
In the end, I want to praise him because he looks like overcome that terrible environment. This book will also encourage many students in the same situation with Adrian Mole.

Book report

Title : Building Green
Author : Lee Chan Seong
Publisher & Year : (주) 능률교육, 2009.03.01
Vocabularies :
1. architect : a person who designs building
2.take advantage of : use an opportunity, make use for one's own benefit
3.roof top : outside part of the roof of a building
4.recycle :things that have already been used, you process them so that they can be used again

Summary
In recently years, many people intend to grow sustainable developement to protect nature. These called "Green Buildings". There are big 4 examples that follow the green buildings. Making sunlight into electricity with a solar cells, making a garden on the building's rooftop, saving water to meet demand, and use green materials like bamboo and recycled things.

Comment
I really agree with this text. It is so important to protect our environment. We surely need a clean environment thay we will have to leave to our descents. I think developing the eco-architecture technology is the most effective way.

School Uniform

I strongly object to wear school uniform. I think it's too unreasonable and unnessesary to us. Especially, I can't understand why we have to wear them because of 2 big reason.
First, it's very uncomfortable. I've been worn school uniform about 4 years, but there was any merits only the bad things. It is really uncomfortable to move, study and do something. School uniform design never consider student's acute length, wide... Also it doesn't have ability to overcome whim weather. We go school for 6 days a week and it means we have to wear them almost everyday. But we have not much time to launder them and it will be very unsanitary.
Second, many students saying it stress adolescent not to have their freedom of express themselves. People who are for wearing school uniform insist that the rules are definitely needed in school society. But I think to not wear school uniforms don't disturb the rules of school. If we can wear casual, we will keep that rule more easier than the controled situation.
In conclusion, wearing school uniform is unreasonable because it is too uncomfortable to students and just a hurdle for them to build their own personality.