this argumentative essay is arduous. especially the part when we have to make up a story for the emotional part. im not good with coming up with stories; i'm gonna have to put up a lot of effort when i do that. i have to admit though, mrs. greene is challenging me a lot with these formats of essays that we've been assigned to type up. in high school you dont really have to follow a certain criterion except for the basic like intro, body, and conclusion. it's more complex in college :S. this is our last essay i must do the best i can on it. the highest grade i got on a writing assignment in english 100 was an 82. i'm going to shoot for a 90 or above on this last writing assignment. i have this weekend and monday to work on it, so i think i can do it. i hope Tia emails me back soon so we can meet and she can help me with my essay too.

I wish people still made music similar to Guy, Zapp & Roger, Michael Jackson, and Lynard Skynard or somethin. i like those old groups and singers a lot. I have more respect for them than today's groups and singers for they influenced today's singers. Especially Michael Jackson, he influenced many singers today such as the young Chris Brown you know the one who sang the hit "Run It" and "Kiss Kiss." I really like that song I like by the young group Guy. I first heard it in the movie Love and Basketball. It has good lyrics and it's just a really good song to groove to. Lynard Skynard ofcourse with his song Simple Man, and Free Bird. Simple Man is about how his mother told him to not seek riches but to seek love and the simple, good things in life. I'ts a really good song.

today's convo: don't quit

i dont know the man's name that spoke at convocation today, but i think God used him in the right time with the right message. It's near the end of the fall 07 semester, final exams are coming up, and i'm sure people are being tempted to just quit. However, the message was to persevere through struggles and to not quit. He gave examples such as Joseph and Abraham Lincoln. A lady tried to seduce Joseph, but Joseph replied no. The lady lied to her husband and said that Joseph raped her, and he was put into prison. Joseph didn't worry that much and wasn't that upset, he realized he can't change the past and looked forward to the future and chose to persevere. Abraham Lincoln was deafted from the senate and congress many times since his early 20s and he finally became president at the age of 51; that's true perseverance. I must persevere and have a desire to not quit just like these two men. May God give me the strength tod o it, because i dont want to quit school quit on love life or anything.

Peer Evaluation

It's kind of hard to write about my peer evaluation, because my peer evaluation didn't help me that much. Her name is Rebekah. I guess she didn't give me that much advice because my outline was good, according to what she said. She just told me to get rid of the personal pronouns. She encouraged me I guess. I evaluated Nathan's outline. Mrs. Greene's comments were more specific than mine. Mrs. G told Nathan that he needs to be more specific and gave him specific details in which he can use. That's something I need to start doing.

tonight i watched half of the Liberty vs. Longwood Bball game. Liberty's Bball team is quite good and has a lot of potential. They are an exciting team to watch. One play one of the guards had the ball at the top of the key, i think it was Jenkins and Mcneal ran around the paint as Jenkins stood up top; Jenkins lobs the ball up for an ally-oop and McNeal dunks it. That was an exciting play, a lot of people in the stands stood up and cheered. Watching them play, makes me want to play again, however i'm a little disqualified too because i'm my knee surgery. wow i just noticed them it happens all the time and i didn't notice it 'till now. When you can see someone truly love something or doing something very well, you feel the same way about it and want to do the samething. Watching Liberty's Men's Bball team made me want to play because they were playing really well, hard, with teamwork, and fervor. My friend read the poem that's going to be put into a book and that made him want to write a poem; in addition, he used to write many many great poems when he did used to write.

my poem

i submitted a poem on poetry.com and they are going to put it into one of the poetry books they're publishing. not only that, they are giving me a chance to win a free ipod if i get 20 people to vote for my poem. i think i have five rite now and i know that i'll get 20 or more. if i get that free ipod, i'm going to sell it and save half of it and spend the rest. is hould save all of it, but i'm going to need some spending money wen i go home. it felt kind of good how my friends complimented my poem and stuff. i wonder though why don't some people give feedback on the not so good things. because the good stuff about my poem is already good so by giving me feedback it's kind of unneccessary because i'm always going to try to do good so that good stuff will be expected. however, some people should give feedback on what was not so good so that him or her could work on their no so good habits.

i went to the hospital yesterday, and it everything's all good i think. I dont have an pain in my kidneys the doctor said, but it's muscle tension that's giving me pain in that area. She knows this from examining my urine. And it seems to be that my skin infection is normal and all i have to do is put some cream on it and it'll go away. I have to keep my body dry so that the fungus won't inflame and increase. I had to buy two tubes of cream which cost $25 and some change. that sucks. I hope i dont spend ne more money here until i go home, because i'm cutting into my savings right now.

11 more school days and 17 days in total (school days and weekends) until my first semester of college is over. i can't wait to go back home to Seoul. My friends and I are excited to go back home and chill with each other. I haven't seen one of my friends for a year that's going back to Seoul the same time I am. It's going to be TIGHT! and i'm excited to visit my high school and just say hello to everyone and catch up with my friends and teachers. I'll spend time with my mom, and try to be an honoring son. i can't wait to eat the food also. i have been eating korean noodles here once awhile but that's just an appetizer to what the good food is in Korea. I can't wait to eat Samgyupsal, Duen JJang Jjigae, Soondubujjigae, and all that other good stuff.

Over the Hedge

I watched the movie Over the Hedge last night and it was really good. I like how a lot of animated movies are like basically fables, which means that they are meant to teach you something. What we can learn from the movie Over the Hedge is the value of family. There are other virtues that can be learned like honesty and leadership. If RJ was honest to others in the beginning, they wouldn't have gone through some troubles such as almost getting destroyed by the exterminator guy. However, the fact that RJ got them to do all of those things and lead them into struggles, made them a stronger family. Vern and RJ have opposite methods of leadership, which comes from their personality. Vern is cautious and strict, and RJ is risk-taking and free.

i'm going to the hospital today. i need a check up on my skin infection. I need to get my kidneys checked out. i've been having pain in my kidneys for 4 years now, and i've never gotten it checked out. I know i must do it now before it's too late. i hope everything goes fine. i just want to take some medicine to fix the problem. and i hope my skin infection can be cleared up as soon as possible....God may your will be done through this.

Road to Perdition

This movie is absolutely one of my favorite movies; i just watched it tonight. Tom Hanks stars in it. He's a hitman for a mafia in the movie and also a father. His oldest son, 12 year old michael, saw his dad, Tom Hanks( character name Michael Sullivan), and his partner kill three people. Michael sullivan and his partner found out that micahel's son saw them kill the threey, people. Mr. Sullivan's partner killed Sullivan's youngest son and mother, and attempted to have Mr. sullivan and michael jr. killed. Mr. Sullivan and michael jr. runs away to chicago to get help from a powerful mafiaman, but he told Mr. Sullivan that he was on his own. Mr. Sullivan and michael jr. robbed banks to survive. Ultimately, mr. sullivan kills the people that worked for the mafia that he worked for, the mafia boss, his partner that killed his family. Mr. sullivan was shot and killed but before he died, he killed the person that shot him. Throughout this whole movie, the suspense grasps you and the perseverance they had to survive and to avenge connects you with the movie. This movie is awesome. It's a sad movie. It teaches you a few things. It taught me that you must take care of your family. It taught me that the ones that may be so close to you, can easily turn against you from the effects of various circumstances. and many of other things that i'm too tired to talk about.

provocative clothing

i'm not going to lie i love to see a sexy woman in sexy clothing. however, i know that provocative clothing is wrong, because it increases my lust and it makes me think of a woman in a impure way(imagine her naked) in other words. Jesus says when u have lust in your heart you're commiting adultery. One of the ten commandments is to not commit adultery. and this same response from a woman wearing provocative clothing is from every man. it may not be on the same level as mine, but it still stimulates them on some level and in some way. i would like for woman to wear that clothing, because i'm not going to lie it looks good but it causes me and many others to sin, so i dont know. i and people like me should change ourselves and woman that dress like that continue doing it. However, because of our culture and how we interpret things woman shouldn't dress like that at all. I mean a fearing, Christian woman may dress provocatively, but that'll put an incorrect image on her. Some may think that she's a prostitute or a promiscuous woman. So...therefore, men that are stimulate by provocative clothing should try to change their heart about it and woman should not dress provocatively.

an individual that's 18 years of age or older should be able to get his or driver's license and being held to obtain a permit for any period of time. i'm upset that in virginia an 18 year old has to hold a permit for 9 months and then get his or her license. NINE MONTHS! why so long? that's ridiculous. one can get excellent driving experience within a month. and within those nine months you have to take a driver's education program. how can 18 years olds in my situation take that program while they're going to college. however, life is always complicated.

waiting until marriage to have sex or kiss

waiting until marriage to have sex or kiss. i didn't really concern this when i first heard it, because i kissed already but the sex part was bugged me. i mean i don't know if i'll get married when i'm 20 or 35 ya know...that's scary. that was how i thought about it when i first heard to do that in which i think i was 15 or 16. i've broken that rule of God when i was 17, which i regret. i regret it because i wasn't being wise and responsible of giving my wife a pure body. And before i get married i have to tell the woman i'm going to marry that i'm not a virgin, i dont know if it'll will hurt her or not but i hope it doesn't.

gun control

i dont think there should be stores where you can freely purchase a gun. we all know that it' snot the guns that kill people, but it's the people that's killing other people. Hence, it would help immensely if we didn't have stores that sold guns. Ultimately, we would have to change the amendment that says that one has the right to bear arms. I wouldn't mind if we changed that amendment, maybe we should change it to make it illegal for one to bear arms. However, if that happened, people would most likely not be able to protect themselves from ones that illegally carry guns. inspite of that less people would be murdered by people using guns if we werne't be able to purchase guns freely

i'm very anxious to get my driver's license and a car. From the looks of it i wont be driving until next fall semester. I dont want to wait but i have to....it sucks that i or my mom has to pay 300 dollars to have my car on campus a semester!!! i want a jetta, corolla, neon, or lancer. i hope i can get either of those for under 14 thousand dollars. i'm going to do my best save up as much money as i can to help my mom pay for it. i want to pay for some of my own car too. and after the downpayment, if the each monthly payment is quite low, i'll pay each one off myself with the job i hopefully have. if i do have a car next fall semester i'm going to visit my family in danville many times, visit my two friends and penn state, and go to my brother's house for thanksgiving in tennessee.

if i got a million dollars i would give as much as my mom wanted to her. buy my aunt and uncles new cars, for theirs aren't in good condition. buy my uncle a house. i would give money to help starving children and to charities. i would help out my cousins, friends, and siblings. I would give to my high school.
i think a lot of money creates a lot of problems though. i'm not saying that giving money to your family and friends is a problem it's just that you wouldn't have as much as of the same obligation if you dind't have a lot of money. you would have to pay more taxes because you have more money.but the ability to do the good things with money overshadows the cons of having a lot of money.

thanksgiving break

thanksgiving break was good. i got to just relax and get closer with my family. i went to danville, virginia where my dad's family is. I stayed with my aunt for a few nights and my uncle most of the time. i love my uncle. he's really cool, laid back, and funny and i learn some things from him. He's my dad's twin brother also. I hung out with my cousin and his friends. We just stayed up and played video games. i stayed up to about 3-4 am every morning just watching tv. i liked watching tv, for i dont have one in my dorm. i enjoyed wathcing BET, the show House of Payne, and different movies that were on. oh yeah i watched Friends too. Thanksgiving dinner was awesome. i loved the macaroni and cheese and stuffing. The yams were awesome. i wish i could've brought a plate back to school, but i didn't want to seem greedy. however i did waste a lot of food. i ate a plate and then filled my plate and ate a third of that second plate. my aunt said it was okay, but one of my cousins didn't like it i think..."sorry." my thanksgiving break was awesome.

i went to a secular school one weekend about a month ago maybe, and i noticed a few differences from that school and mine, which is a Christian school. At the school in the dorms were parties with alcohol and there were boys and girls in there. There was one guy in the dorm hallway that was really drunk; he was clumsy, annoying everyone, and talking crap. As i left the next day, I evaluated all of these cons of this school, and i realized that i was blessed for going to school that i'm going to. I'm glad that there aren't people walking around in my hallway drunk and starting fights with people. It does suck that we can't have girls in our dorms, but i understand the reason why. The reason why we can't have girls in our dorms is because we, as young men, may not be able to overcome the temptation to fornicate. If we do fornicate, it's wrong in God's eyes, and we would want to do it moer and more. If we could have alcohol in our dorms and girls, our dorms would be full of fornication and drunken people. I'm blessed to be at a Christian school for its rules help me to live by God's will.

Pornography? it's disgusting, yet since some people are so disgusting we are able to watch it, and obviously people are disgusting enough to engage in it. what's wrong with it? first of all most of the time the people that are having sex in pornography are fornicating, and God says to not fornicate. Our nation has made it a freedom to have sex, record it, and distribute the recorded sex. We have no shame. And the ones that watch it don't make it any better. One may watch it satisfy his or her lust, but ultimately pornography just makes it worse. You're going to want it more eventually, that's the case mostly. Pornography could exacerbate a marriage. A man that constantly watched pornography in his youth can possibly give his marriage a hard time with himself. Because not only has he saw his wife naked and in a sexy way, he has seen many other women in the same way. And that fact can mar a marriage.

Sleep

i want to go back to my dorm and sleep. i would like to eat before i went back to sleep tho..i'm really hungry..i love sleeping..during those 6-8 hours you don't have to do anything move or think..just let ur body do it's job..you dont have any worries no pain nothing. just resting your mind and body. i dont know where the term "rest in peace" was derived from, but i think it's from that idea that when your dead there's no more pain and no more worries, just peace.

what she be a man's motives for desiring to date a girl? Her physique? her personality? her beliefs? her finances? her lifestyle? i think all of those factors should be considered on deciding to date a girl; however, one or more will outweigh some other ones. for me, her physique and personality will outweigh her finances or beliefs. i know it's sad but i'm working on it. one thing i noticed bout myself is i dont have many girl friends. the only time i had a relationship with a girl was when i was going out with her.you may think our dating relationship was bad, but it wasn't. i adapt easily so that may have been a pro of that situation. but yeah maybe God is telling me to start off with friendship and then go into a dating relationship than jumping right into dating....

my friend and i last night had a discussion. he thought that even though you are saved and if you dont ask for forgiveness of your sins after you're saved, you'll go to hell. i was explaining to him that once we are saved, we are all saved. I mean the key word is 'saved'. saved from the wages of sin, because Jesus paid it for us. I showed him the verse John 10:29 in which Jesus is saying God the Father gave him his sheep and they'll never be snatched out of his hand. I think that verse supports the facts that once saved always saves. We can't lose our salvation. Even after i showed him that verse, for a minute he still didn't believe it. and then he said later that he believed it.i learned a few things forom last night. 1. it's a lot harder to prove a concept to someone without physical evidence. 2. one's arrogance can prevent him or her from accepting the truth. 3. when discussing something, you must define all of your terms and elaborate on things logically and clearly and gently

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there are a few people in my hall that are p***** me off and it's about to exceed my tolerance. they make fun of korean people and purposely in front of me to offend me. they think they're cool and the ***t..they constantly make fun of neone who they see that they think that aren't cool..you can see that these people aren't satisfied with themselves because they make fun of others to make themselves feel better. i'm not one to fight..but ever since this summer my mindset changed and if a fight is neccessary i'm going to fight him or them. they need to learn a lesson, be discipline to respect others and say only good things to people. i pray that God would convict them, and i hope he does because with me if i dont see God working..i'm going to try to fix the problem.

the end of fall 07 semester

the end of fall 07 semester is right around the corner. i'm almost on my way home to seoul, south korea. i can't wait to go, i'm so anxious. it may sound ridiculous, but i'm also anxiously waiting for the next fall semester which is when i'll have a car. i'm excited for my classes in the 08 spring semester. i'm taking Bible 105 old testament and psychology, which i hope i learn a lot in. i'm not excited about math 110. or english 101. I"M ESPECIALLY NOT EXCITED ABOUT COMMUNICATIONS CLASS. I HATE SPEAKING IN FRONT OF A LOT OF PEOPLE I HATE IT. Lord, please help me with that. and yeah, visiting home is going to be great. i want to go back to my high school and just catch up with the people i know there. and my friends that went off to college in my class are coming back, unfortunately not all of them, but some are and that's great. i miss hanging out with them havin fun, chillin, and just doing what friends do best. oh yeah n i miss my mom and she had some kind of surgery on her eyes, so yea i want to see how that turned out.

winter

i get so lazy in the winter from its coldness. i'm so reluctant to go lift weights now and for some reason i feel bad for not lifting weights. im just going to take a week off this week and continue next week. i need a jacket now, especially for the mornings and evenings, that's when's it's really cold. during the day, one can be content with a sweater or a long sleeve shirt. jackets are so expensive, and i can't find ne jackets that i actually like. i dont wnaat to spend a hundred dollars or more on a jacket that i dont like, so i'll suffer throughout the winter looking for a jacket that i'll like if i have to....i like the winter tho...u dont sweat all day while ur walking around. and i like the feeling of walking into a warm room after being out in the cold...

next friday is the starting of thanksgiving break; I'm anxiously waiting for it. i want a break from all of this work and waking up early and getting away from here honestly. i'm going to danville, virginia for thanskgiving break where my american family is. That's going to be really great, just relaxing and enjoying time with them. i think in the future i'll be going to other places for thanksgiving break, because i'll have car next fall semester so i can drive where i want to. i think i'll go to my brother's house first. after we come back to school from thanksgiving break we only have three weeks of school until winter break. and then i'll be going to my home, seoul, south korea, and i'm just excited to be there again and my friends will be there too. and i'll see my mom.

mom

my mom is in seoul, south korea OVER SEAS and she's still trying to control my life. she still talks to me like i'm a CHILD...wat the heck? she makes me really upset. my mom needs to understand who i am now and that i could get things done on my own! i understand where she's coming from though; she doesnt want me to make any mistakes and she just cares about me. So what can i do? i'm going to tell her that she needs to treat me as how old i am. It would be the best for both of us because every time she talks to me like a child, she gets annoyed and i get angry.

procastination

i procastinated the last two weeks on two papers that are due this week in which one today and one tomorrow. if i finished those two papers last week or the week before, i would have enough time to study effictiently for my math test tomorrow and do my english outline. i need to learn from my mistakes. sometimes i procastinate and tell myself that i wont do it again but i still do it. what would help is getting my priorities right. like today i'm doing the right thing and putting aside lifting weights to get my work done.

frustrated with classes

class registration for next semester isn't going smoothly and the way i want it to be. i want to take philosophy with thomas provenzola, but his class is full. i need to take math 110 next semester and the classes with the professors i want to take it with are all full. i asked one of them if they can add me into a class and she said no. which really sucks. i'm anxiously waiting on emails from provenzola and the other math teachers to tell me if they'll add me or not. i hope they do and i prayed. what else can i do now? it's all up to God.

last night

last night, i was walking with two of my friends past the Hill. When we get to the crosswalk to go down the way to DeMoss, someone or a few people behind the bushes on the Hill started to throw eggs at us. my friend and i started to yell at them and we ran up the stairs to find them and fight them; however, when we got there no one was there. my shoes got yulk all over it. my friend got yulk on his hoodie and neck. we were really angry. i hate the fact that people was inconsiderate about other people and didn't have respect.

a little news

my poem, Longing for Her, was published by the company of poetry.com. They read over thousands of poems and they picked mine to put into their poetry book, Immortal Verses. this isn't that great, but it brings to my attention that i have some potential to be professional and stuff. i only write poems to express my heart, so that's pretty cool.