Diamante Poem 1

 

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Hello, everyone. I'm Rachell. As you know, I'm in South Korea. And I'm living in the dormitory now, because I'm in GLPS camp. I am really enjoying the camp and dormitory life. I took photos for 7 days. My photos are mainly about my life in the dormitory.

- what we made for Go Ga-heon PA

Last Saturday, It was our last day with our room PA, Go Ga-heon. She was very kind and polite to us for two weeks. So we thought we will miss her and we were sad about her leaving. So we prepared the event for her. We made this (picture) which says "Ms.Go, We will miss you!" And we prepared the rolling paper and the present. She liked it and we were all happy about it. It shows our hard work, so I took the picture. I still hope to meet her again.

 - my friends who are playing with phone

I am living in the dormitory with other students. There are 6 people in our room. And we are all good friends. Our roommates are funny and kind. It's fun to talk and play with them. At first, sometimes we had trouble living together, but now I think we learned to understand each other. I will still miss them after this camp. In this picture, two of my roommates are playing with a phone under the desk.

- My friend in the small room behind the wind-blown curtain

This is my friend, So-Hee, one of my roommates. Almost everyday, it's windy here in Gang won do. So curtains usually flutter. Sometimes, the wind blows very stongly, so the curtains make the space as you can see in the picture. And my friend stayed in that space. If you go in there like her, it's really cool because of the wind. Also, you can find privacy there like her. (I wonder what is she doing there?)

- Friday's delicious breakfast

In the morning, we ate breakfast at 7 to 8 o'clock. Usually, there is rice, Kimchi and other things. You can see bread, orange juice, and cereal everyday for breakfast. I like them all. But sometimes I get a stomachache because of the cereal, so mostly I mainly eat bread, juice and other things. But still I think this camp's meals are very delicious.

- Our arranged shoes

Sometimes Teacher suddenly comes and checks our shoes.  So these days our room members are try hard to arrange shoes very neatly. So few days ago, we got a green card because of our arranged shoes. We were very happy and we will try harder to keep shoes neatly.

- a gigantic moth

On Sunday morning, my friends and I were eating breakfast in the cafeteria. Suddenly, my friend said to me. 
"Look! Look! Look at the window!" So I looked at the window and discovered the giant moth. There were many moths on the window. Compared with other normal moths, it was really really gigantic. I was surprised. You can see the normal moth next to this giant moth in the picture. I am curious to know "How can it be so big?"

- The way to the school

All students get out of the dormitory by 8:20 to go to school. Our class go to Choong Mu building for the adviser time. And we have to go over to hill. I like to walk in the morning to go to school like this. because fresh morning air makes me happy.

The life in dormitory was really exciting and fun. I hope to come back and meet friends and teachers again.

Creative writing - A Door of Time

-A Door of Time

Chapter#1

  "Sally, come here!" I heard my 2 years older sister Cindy's voice when I was reading my book busily. It was our first day in our new house. I was concentrating on my book. "What? Why?" I asked. And she shouted, "Right now!" I ran to her room, and saw my sister in front of the bookshelf. She said, "Oh, I found something, I want to show you". When I looked at where she was pointing, I said, "Ah, It's a bookshelf. It's pretty." "No, I didn't mean that." she said. She pulled the bookshelf with her finger. And the bookshelf moved! It made a space behind it like a door. "Oh, my god!" She explained, "My pencil fell and rolled to here. And it rolled under this bookshelf, so I pushed this, and it moved. Isn't it interesting?" I was excited. "So what are we going to do with it?" I asked. " Um.....I don't know." she said. "This is surely a time portal that we saw in the movie yesterday! Let's go in. It will be a fun adventure!" But Cindy said, "No, I won't. And I won't let you go in. We will be in trouble." I am not a patient person as my sister is. I begged her "Please, please let's go in."  But it didn't work, so I slowly moved to the door and crawled into it. I don't know why, but I strongly felt like going in. I could hear Cindy's shouting, "No, Don't!" But I ignored her and kept going in with Cindy holding my hand. When we finally got into that door, the door closed behind us.There was a long dark tunnel in front of us. Cindy looked like she was going to cry. "I told you not to go in. It's all your fault!" she said angrily. "Let's find a way to get out of here," I said. I walked and she followed me. We walked and walked through the tunnel without talking.

Chapter#2

  When we walked about 20 minutes, I could see a jet of light. Without any words, we ran and ran to reach a light, until we were in a bright world, feeling warm. And there were people! They wore strange suits. And there were merchants selling the goods. I thought I have seen this somewhere. I tried to remember where it was. "Ancient Rome," Cindy said quietly. And I shouted "What? Ancient? How can we be here?" Then I saw many ships waiting for people. I was confused and couldn't understand what was happening. Cindy and I walked and walked. Suddenly, I heard a man's voice. He was a soldier! He ordered us. "Get out of here!! Cleopatra is coming." 'Cleopatra?' I thought. I learned about her in history classes. The soldier yelled, "Get out of here, girls!" Then the beautiful woman came. I knew that she was Cleopatra. "Oh, just let them go," she said. We moved and they were gone. We walked around again. An old man talked to me. " Young lady, are you a Roman?" I responded, "No, sir. We came from Boston, USA. I know it's hard to believe but it's true." And he said, "Oh, I understand. If you want to get out of here, you should get a key which Cleopatra has." "How can we find it?" Cindy asked. "I don't know," The man smiled and when I was going to ask him "How can you understand?" he was gone. Everything seemed like a mystery.

Chapter#3

  We had to find Cleopatra. So we asked people and finally found Cleopatra's house. "Just act like traders from different country," Cindy whispered. We carried our bags as if we were carrying goods for trade. There were so many rooms. "Hey, we can't search all these rooms. Dad and mom must be worrying. We should hurry," I said to Cindy. Then I saw Cleopatra going into the room. "Cindy, that room must be Cleopatra's room!" When Cleopatra and the maids all got into the room, we walked carefully towards the room. Fortunately, there was no people in the hall. "Oh, let's hide there," Cindy whispered. So we got under the table in front of Cleopatra's room. We stayed quietly and stayed there very still. And we heard the voice of Cleopatra saying, " I would go and meet Antonius right now." Then we heard the sound of the maids packing for her. They got out of the room and one of the maids locked the door. But before that, Cindy poked her pencil into a crack between the wall and the door, so it wasn't actually locked. 

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Debate - Cell phones should be banned in school

I was the deputy prime minister in last debate. The prime minister gave first argument, and I gave our second and third arguments. I would like to write my speech of debate here. (only our arguments)    Hello, young ladies and gentlemen. My name is Rachell. I am the deputy prime minister. Our team stongly support the proposition "Cell phones should be banned in school." Let me tell you what I will be doing in this debate. I will rebut the leader of opposition's arguments, rebuild our first argument, and give you our second and third arguments.(I only wrote our second and third arguments.)  
  Our second argument is that there are possibilities of losing.  If the students put their phones somewhere in school or on the way to the school, it is hard to find them. There are much more possiblities of losing in school, because you may lose it in classroom, on the street, and school buses. You move to other places a lot in school. If students lose the cell phones, they will get in trouble and parents will worry about you if you don't answer by phones. Although, students finally found the cell phones, they should spend much time to find them. And I think it's just waste of time. If you just give it to teacher, you don't have to worry about losing.(The prime minister defined 'banned' as 'teachers take the cell phone in the morning and give it back after school.)  
  Our third argument is that students can use public phones as the alternative of cell phones. Cell phones are for communication, but students mostly use them for games. But they need cell phones not for games, they need them for call in emergency or others. Public phones are just for communication.  They don't even have function to entertain. So students won't play games and it will be benefits to both students and parents. Public phones can't move, so it won't interrupt your studying, too. Also, you can find public phones easily in school, street, and bus stop.