Why should we memorize Scripture?

Today, I am going to Bible camp which is a bit more special than other camps. In the camp, I will be demanded to memorise plenty of verses of Bible. Now, on the way going to the camp. I would like to write 'why memorising Scripture is important. 

 First, Jesus who was a role model for every mankind memorised Scripture. Bible tells us Jesus was always equipped with memorised Bible verses. He chased away the temptation of Satan through Bible. He used to evangelise people, quoting Bible verses.

 Second, it fills our heart as well as knowledge. This generation has everything for satisfying our body. We can eat whatever we want and there are so many fun things we can enjoy. However, people still have emptiness in some part of their heart. Soaring suicide rate, serious crime rate, and the number of people looking for intense stimulus certifies certify that people are suffered from mind illness. Bible says 'Do not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind'. We need to renew our life to fill our heart, memorising Bible verses broaden our perspective from worldly vision to heavenly vision.

 All in all, memorising verses make our life more fruitful and help us to be more resemble with God. (Also, going to Memorising Scripture camp is worth ;p)

Why Study Abroad?

 

Why Study Abroad?

 

Many students choose to attend schools or universities outside their home countries. Why do some students study abroad? Use specific reasons and details to explain your answer.

 

Response

 

As a globalization comes many learners want to study abroad because there are so many great advantages of learning abroad. I believe that going overseas to study helps students have an opportunity to acquire a new language and to enrich their experience.

First, studying overseas makes learners have a chance to acquire a new language. For instance, students who are born in the country where English is not commonly used, need to study the global language. Then, what is the best way to acquire the new language? That is the study abroad. If they learned a language overseas, they have the culture as well as a language itself.

Second, going abroad for study enriches their experience. If students stayed in their own country, it looks like frogs in a pool. This is an era of globalization. Go to the wide world, and don't be locked itself. Learners not only have a chance to gain knowledge and experience from their instructor but also to develop their study, its thinking methodology given by this education system and teachers abroad.

In addition, learning overseas means pupils are traveling, making international friends, and so on. Obviously, students' knowledge about the world will be expanded. Learners can visit many beautiful places, meet many people and try a lot of things. It will be its unforgettable experience which follows until the end of their life. One of my friends thought that going to another country is very hard because there are many sequences to be accepted, but actually, it is not true. As everyone knows, if you are a person, it is easy to go.

Studying overseas has a lot of good things. There can be negative factors of learning abroad, but absolutely, that is without parallel between them. Do not have to hesitate study abroad. Be brave and if you have a chance just run against a situation.

 

 

 

Answer to random questions 2 (Member or Leader)

You have decided to give several hours of your time each month to improve the community where you live. What is one thing you will do to improve your community? Why? 

Response:

It is easy to stay alone and do our own work, but doing something to improve our association will give you not only a sense of belonging but also the knowledge that you are making our neighborhood a better place, Also, as globalization comes, you cannot avoid the group society. Therefore, you need to get involved somewhere, clean up and make your group better, so that everyone wins. Now, there are several things to improve our group.

 

First, you can give back to your association by volunteering. There are a lot of worthy causes, and they could be as simple as volunteering to coach the kid's neighborhood ball team, organizing a bake sale or fundraiser for someone that may be sick or needy in our association, volunteering at a homeless shelter or soup kitchen, or helping or visiting an elderly person who otherwise may not have any family to do so.

  

second, you might clean up your association. Organize a group of family and friends and set aside one day a week or month to get together and pick up the litter and trash on the roadsides or beaches in your community. It doesn't have to be just your street that you clean up either. Take turns cleaning each other's streets or pick a different street or section of road each time. Just be sure to take proper safety precautions. 

   

Third, you could be active in our association by taking part in local activities such as church events, charities, town hall meetings, or community voting. If it affects you and our group, take part and voice our opinion.

Answer to random questions - Do the best ideas arise from a passionate interest in commonplace things?

Present your perspective on the issue below, using relevant reasons and/or examples to support your views.
"The best ideas arise from a passionate interest in commonplace things."

Response
 The statement claims that people tend to come up with brilliant ideas from a passionate interest in usual things around us. Passionate interest always makes people think more deeply and be more creative, no matter they are in the scientific field or daily life. In my opinion, the statement above is true, in that many great ideas which have developed the world came from commonplace things in daily life.
  Generally, a passionate interest stimulates people to think more deeply, and this is likely to strike them. Countless examples prove the power of passionate interest. Nobody does not know the story of an apple falling on the head of Newton. Numerous people have seen a falling apple, but only Newton had a passionate interest in why it falls, why everything falls. Newton developed the theory of gravity, and a whole system of classic physics was instituted based on his work. Another great physicist, Einstein has developed relativity theory. People wonder how such great idea came to his mind. He said he was too stupid to understand the concept of space and time that most people easily understand, so he had to think it over and over again. I did not come from something special but from repeated thinking in commonplace things. In daily life, most people have some creative ideas in things they are interested in, such as how to use their house, car, computer more convenient.  In conclusion, best ideas arise from passionate interests in commonplace things, as well as in the scientific world like the field of physics.

The good of writing journal.

 Journals are good for visualizing and externalizing what I have read. Actually, I have had some difficulties in understanding PLLT. The organization of the book was clear but sometimes vocabularies, structure of English made me frustrated tricky. Above all, the content was terribly difficult. Because this book is introducing so many theories with the summary, not with full explanation, I could not deeply understand them. I had to listen to the lecture of a professor as well as read the book several times. Normally, after all, the steps, I wrote a journal and it was helpful for me to externalize the complex theories by myself.

Writing journal is good!!

My practice on storytelling

My practice on story telling. I was asked to share a story about my experience of a stumbling block in terms of understanding culture, so I wrote a script!!

Let me tell you my story about stumbling block that I have experienced. This happened in the conversation between my Thai friend and me. We met at a mission organization named OM which stands for operation mobilization. First, I think I need to tell you guys who he is. He is one of the members of royal family in Thai. He was a relative of Thai’s king. Okay guys. Let’s imagine what it’d be like if you have same power and authority as a king. Have you ever imagined you become a king or a queen. If so, what have you imagined? Boys, I know what you have thought. Many beauties in your arms, a super car that is crossing through a high way fast without an interruption. How about girls? luxury goods such as Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Hermes, Gucci? Or A shiny jewel such as diamond? it great. It makes your heart beating only by imagining your life as a king or queen.

However, the story I’m going to tell you could be a bit different as you expected. Of course, king of Thai has power and authority and their relatives also have high social economic status. But, also there are so many rules they have to follow. One of the rules is obeying one who is in higher rank such as parents, aunt or uncle. Let me tell you how ridiculous it is. Because In Korea, we also have some hierarchy in our family, but nothing can compare to Thai’s royal family life. My Thai friend has an aunt, and both of them are not poor. They have houses, cars, own shops such as café, markets. However, their aunt keeps saying she does not have money so even she can’t afford monthly charge such as electricity fees and water charge. And, because in their culture one who is in the lower rank must be obedient to the higher one, he cannot resist to it. Even she asks him to pay for her children’s tuition. However, he said he cannot refuse it. So, one day he came to me, and said ‘John I have a serious agony’. And the agony is that I just told you so. So, I told him that that’s so ridiculous. Who does not know she is rich! She has houses, a cafe and a shop, just logically explain it to her and do not get any nonsense charge. However, what he answered to me was ‘thank you, I want to, but I can’t, this is how we live.’ At first time, I had no idea to understand it. It even made me so angry because it was not reasonable and fair. However, after I got to know the history of kings, eventually, I would be a little bit understand why they have that strict rules even though it could be abused and ridiculous. Historically, King’s family has been full of trickery and betrayal even involving murder, so sometimes they needed to be machiavellian. That is why they must have the strong rule to control the hierarchy. So, This is the end of my story telling. Do you have questions?

What are the charateristics of a successful language teacher?

What are the characteristics of a successful language(English) teacher?

     Since the world has made, there always have been learning and teaching. Humans have been studying to find effective way teaching and learning. As a result of the effort to promote the learning process, pedagogy becomes a promising subject.  Philosophy of education, educational psychology, teaching method etc, so many related studies have emerged and have been developing, accordingly. As synthetically considering it, there could be some characteristics of the successful English teacher.
     First, a good English teacher has to understand different types of each student and has strategies to handle those. One of the big differences between the old school of linguistics and a contemporary trend is whether the education is learner-centered or teacher-centered. In conclusion, learner-centered education seems more desirable. Each student has many different types of a learning style, levels, personalities. Therefore, a successful teacher needs to be able to create an ideal classroom environment.
     Also, the successful English teacher should be a role model for their students. Normally at school education field, learners are teenagers or younger. They are at the period when the ego is not firmly set and unstable. In their perspective, the grown-up is the object of envy. Especially, a teacher has a huge impact on their value. Thus, the teacher needs to be a good model for students. It contains not just the English performance of teacher but also the attitude including behaviour, dress.
    Lastly, a teacher must love their pupils. Even though love is a metaphysical word in which standard unit of measurement is ambiguous, it is the most crucial requirement of teachers. Love is interest and motivation, bringing out goodness. Henry David Thoreau once said, ‘be not simply good; but good for something.