Journal 4

Since I was a high school student, I had been as an English teacher’s assistant for three years. My high school English teacher is a perfectionist; consequently, I had to do better than other teacher’s assistants. In the beginning, I didn’t want to be the assistant of that teacher. There were two reasons why I didn’t want to accept the job. First, one of the qualifications for students to be that English teacher's helper was to have strong responsibility and great ability to manage events. Therefore, I was afraid I couldn’t do the job as well as them. Second, they were good at English very well; hence, I though I didn’t have enough ability to be as an assistant. However, after I considered these problems, I decided to accept the challenge even if the job would be a little difficult.

In the period of being teacher’s assistant, I had encountered some frustrations and had much pressure. For instance, I had to get great grade; otherwise, teacher would blame me. Once, I got a fail in an English exam. In class, I was blamed for fail in an English exam in front of the classmates. At the moment, I felt very sad and wanted to cry to vent my emotion. After class, I couldn’t hide my emotion and cry. My friends tried to comfort me. After that I thought it over. I considered that I got the bad grade because I didn’t study hard. After I experienced the frustration, I understand to be an English teacher’s assistant, I should get better grade than other classmates.

To be an assistant, I learn how to manage different events and how to be a leader to lead other people.

Journal 3

What is the labor education? It means freshmen have to clean campus every day. The Labor education’s credit is zero. Although it doesn’t have any credits, we still need to pass it. If we don’t pass it, we can’t graduate from Chaoyang. Why do we have to do the labor education? Is the labor education good for students? We can have different answers from school and freshmen.

For school, they want us to form a good habit, such as good habit of keeping the environment tidy. Maybe they think it is good for us. However, for us, we don’t think so. Now, let me tell you how I hate the labor education.

The last semester, I had to wake up at 6:30 every morning. I woke up so early only for cleaning campus. Although I didn’t have any classes, I needed to wake up at 6:30 every morning. It’s really troublesome. This semester, my labor education time is in the evening. Although I don’t need to wake up early, it’s still very inconvenient for me. For instance, I don’t have any classes on Thursday evening; therefore, I sometimes go out with my friends, However, because of the labor education, I have to return school just for cleaning. The feeling is very bad.

In brief, I don’t like the labor education, it makes me feel inconvenient.

Journal 2

Nowadays, we can make daily life with camera. The saying goes: The camera never lies. Although the camera never lies, photos do. Do you believe pictures can lie? In my opinion, I think the answer is “Yes”. Why do I think so? Because we can use more and more software to modify photos so that we look beautiful. Through it, photos would become beautiful. For instance, a person who is very fat would look very thin by modifying photos or their skin would be looked smoother than before modifying it. As a result, I think some celebrities are not innate beauty; they become beautiful on photos by modifying photos.

On the Internet, many people modify photos so exaggerated that we can’t identify him/her in reality life. For me, I don't want to modify the photos because I think that's not real me.

Paparazzi

Nowadays, we can know more and more love affairs or scandals about famous figure form newspaper, magazines……etc. That news is reported by paparazzi. What is paparazzo? It means reporter take idols, political figure or famous figure picture stealthily. Some people think paparazzi don’t have any contribution for us. However, some people think paparazzi are good for society. There are advantage and disadvantage about paparazzi.

What is advantage about paparazzi? For instance, if an idol is drunk or fights with someone and reported by paparazzi, through paparazzi, the idol may remind him/her to quit the bad habit. As for us, everyone is curious. People want to know anything about famous figure. In order to satisfy common people’s curiosity, paparazzi need to trace in private. When people realize the truth, they issue what they found out.

Nevertheless, what is disadvantage about paparazzi? This job is very difficult and hard. Paparazzi need to spend much time on working. They should be very careful to trace any case. Sometimes, the news may be not true what they found. It is different from person to person. For celebrities, for example, they are intruded into their privacy. It is angry for them.

A person said, “I think the paparazzi go over the top, but who is to blame should be the question asked. The paparazzi couldn't exist if it weren't for the fans desperately panting to get a glimpse of their favorite celebrity. And what about the celebrities themselves? They want the attention when they are new to the business, but once they are established, they cry about it. They can't have it both ways.” by K. Marciano, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

For me, I don’t know if paparazzo is a good vocation, because I sometimes also want to know more things about celebrities. If more and more people don’t want to more things about celebrities, paparazzi may reduce. Therefore, celebrities can have more privacy.

My first winter vacation in college

This is my first winter vocation in college. I knew many new friends last semester and got along well with my friends. As a result, in the begging, I didn’t want to have winter vocation because I didn’t know what to do at home and it was too boring to stay at home. Therefore, my university friends had planed to visit Kaohsiung before the winter vocation. In February 3, we assembled at Taichung train station. Then, we took bus to Kaohsiung. When we arrived Kaohsiung, we felt very hot. Although it’s very hot, we were very excited. We visited a lot of famous scenic spot by MRT. After we played for all day long, we got very tired; consequently, we decided to go back to hotel to rest. In the room, we gave a surprise to Alva and Eric to celebrate their birthday. We played a game until 4:00 am after giving them surprise. Although we went to bed very lately last night, we were still excited next day. When we came back Taichung, somebody suggested going to Yamay someday. So, we went to not only Kaohsiung but also “Yamay”. We played very crazy at there and had a good time. I think I had a happy winter vocation apart from Lunar New Year.

Backpacking travel and tour travel trip

Most of people like to take a trip. They have several options such as backpacking travel and tour travel trip. There are some similarities and some different parts about backpacking travel and tour travel trip.

There are several different parts between them. First, backpacking travel is difficult for you to think where you want to go to, where you have to live……etc. Therefore, you have to prepare schedule in advance. However, tour travel trip is much easier because you don’t think those problems, just follow schedules and tour guides. Second, outlays are much higher if you want to backpack travel. By contrast, tour travel trip’s outlays are much cheaper, because we can get discount on fees. Third, as s backpacker, you can go everywhere and don’t be afraid that you may influence other members because of personal factors. Finally, you can make more friends than backpacking travel if you choose tour travel trip. Not only can you make more friends, but also you learn how to establish interpersonal relationship in a group.

Furthermore, the two type of travel also have similarities. You can realize different culture no matter which type of travel you choose, for example.

To sum up, backpacking travel and tour travel trip not only have some similarities and some different parts but also have advantages and disadvantages. It depends on you to think which one you suit.