The second post - an exhausted day - final

Sitting at the corner of my room without a chair after blowing dry my hair, I even didn’t want to walk to my chair for a few steps. I felt too tired to do anything now. I did like reading books, but how can I read it after my whole day of full of classes, the golf practice for more than an hour and the long and boring sit down dinner? After I went back dorm finally, I took a bath, and used my final strength to dry my hair. How can you imagine that I have to read 2 chapters of Emma and there were a 500 words blog waiting for me? Fortunately, my laptop was just near my right hand, so I don't have to get up. Then, I grab it and started reading more of the books.

For the last few days, I just finished reading chapter 7. I can’t imagine that the plot goes so fast, and it’s hard for me to get concentrated to all the sentences today. After using twice of the time than I usually used, I finished my two chapters. Thus, I read chapter 9 for now. In those chapters, Emma started to make a match on Harriet, her new friend, and Mr. Elton, the priest in their community. The plot became more important that even I cannot focus on one sentences, I might not understand the next sentence. It seemed to be a major problem that it’s truly difficult for me to concentrate with an exhausted mind.

However, when I finished the task by using 200 percent of concentration, I found that those chapters are described in a exaggerated way in Emma’s side. Jane Austen used too many words to described how Emma thought the two young people love each other so much. Emma's mind is so subjective. It’s fun to see a young couple to fall in love, and I’m sure that Emma in this book couldn’t refuse the happiness when she saw they fall in love because of her. Thus, she might overstate to get more joviality in her mind. Until now, the plot wasn’t seemed to be dramatically, but it seemed like it’s just the bedding of some events’ happening. The descriptions are interesting, but the plots are too peaceful to read, so, a big event must happen soon. By reading the introduction of the book, I guess Emma wouldn’t be a matchmaker on Harriet successfully this time. I’m looking forward to see the turning points of the story.

On the other hand, I wanted to write something about Emma’s personality. I think she was too self-approbation, so maybe a failure in her passionate of being a matchmaker would make her clarify herself better and being less proud of herself. It reminded me that I shouldn’t be proud of myself excessively. I was also kind of self-approbation with the satisfied grade I got in this marking period, however they are not perfect. I think I still need to use more time on my class works and other works to do. However, it doesn’t mean that I shouldn’t be confident, because confident is a important personality for everyone too have, but it cannot be over do. The book helped me to recognize myself as well.

Admittedly, I would like to finish my task even though I was tired, but I wish I would be a better day for next challenge blog post.

challenge 2 - draft (not complete)

For the last few days, I just finished reading chapter 9. I can’t imagine that the plot goes so fast. Emma started to make a match on Harriet and Mr. Elton. The plot became more important that people couldn’t forget to read any chapters or sentences. Each sentence might lead readers to a new event.

I found the things that the main character described were exaggerated. It’s fun to see a young couple to fall in love, and I’m sure that Emma in this book couldn’t refuse the happiness when she saw they fall in love because of her. Thus, she might overstate to get more joviality in her mind. Till now, the plot wasn’t seemed to be dramatically, but it seemed like it’s just the bedding of some events’ happening. The descriptions are interesting, but the plots are too peaceful to read, so, a big event must happen soon. By reading the introduction of the book, I guess Emma wouldn’t be a matchmaker on Harriet successfully this time.

On the other side, I wanted to write something about Emma’s personality. I think she was too self-approbation, so maybe a failure in her passionate of being a matchmaker would make her clarify herself better and being less proud of herself.

How does it feel to have 30-day-challenge?

For the 30-day-challenge, I decide to read one or two chapters of Emma, which is written by Jane Austen, each day. I found it’s not so hard or easy to do my work everyday. I like reading books so much since I was in my elementary school, but I was kind of busy to continue reading everyday. I used to read every night two years ago, before I came to America, but my reading on English works were not enough. As a result, I found the 30-day-challenge could be a good chance for me pick up my hobby and learn about the book.

Actually, I think it’s also good for my English. Jane Austen’s works weren’t that easy to read; to I can improve my English skills by reading them. Otherwise, I can learn the skills to write and to describe people’s emotion and personality by reading her book. Even though there are some words that I’m not familiar with, I can use dictionary to find the definition of them. Then, I would improve the using of vocabularies.

I think reading books as the 30-day-challenge can satisfy my interest on reading the type of books I like and improving my learning skills. I like the challenge and it’s great to finish it.

The start of my 30-day-challenge

It’s the third day of my 30-day-challenge. I chose to read a few chapters of a book for each day as the challenge. Emma, a book written by Jane Austen, is the topic of my challenge. Reading is one of my favorite activities. Jane Austen was a famous British writer and she always wrote about Romantic story. I had read Pride and Prejudice 3 years ago. Meanwhile, I’m been attracted by her story and her ornate terms even thought the English vocabularies were kind of hard to understand. I still remember the time that I read the book as read a dictionary. As a result, I chose Emma as my challenge. I already read 5 chapters of the book.

The main character was called Emma Woodhouse, who’s clever, rich and a beautiful girl. She’s kind of arrogant because of her good family background and her capacity. However, I have to say that she’s always been liked. In the first few chapters, the book told me her friends, her family and her elders. She did have a happy life with her father in their house. Even though her father’s similar as Mrs. Benet in the book, Pride and Prejudice, who was always neurasthenia, he’s still a respectable elderly. She had a sister who had married and Miss Taylor who has just married with her for many years. Also, Mr. Knightley, her brother in law’s brother, always went to visit her and her father.

Her life seemed to be fulfilled. After Miss Taylor’s marriage, her father and herself were bored by the life without their dear friends. Mr. Woodhouse found that it was a pity that Miss Taylor got married and Emma spent lots of time to comfort her father’s weak mind. Soon, she met Harriet Smith and kept focus on her. As it says in the book, she’s not clever but pretty. Harriet needed someone to guide her and Emma needed a friend to take place of Miss Taylor since she got married. The two girls became great friends. Until chapter 5, Emma tried to persuade Harriet from the pursuit of a not noble man and she would like Harriet to fall in love with a rich priest.

For know, I like the ironic language that Jane Austen talked about how Mr. Woodhouse didn’t like Miss Taylor’s marriage and cakes. I found it’s fun to read the book and I liked to see how Emma comfort her father and tried to make her father believed that he was right. The writer described detailed about the feeling and emotions in the characters’ mind when each event happened. I like the way she showed the characteristic of different people particularly.

The book Emma was a kind of different book that Jane Austen liked. The condition that Emma lived in was totally different from Elizabeth had, in Pride and Prejudice, and Elinor, Marianne had, in Sense and Sensibility. I found that even the writer said that the readers wouldn’t like a character that Emma was. However, just as other readers did, I truly looked forward to continue the reading of the book later.

30 day challenge I decide to do

I decide to take a photo of the scenes that I see for each day, or several photos. I want to record the beauty of my life. I'm kind of too busy to stop working and to look at the beautiful scenery in my life. I want to take them down and save them everyday. When I see those pictures, I would know what happened that day, and I would know is that day's a joyful day or not. Otherwise, I would see the changes of season in the campus and the changes of people's life. The scene are changing and people in my picture are changing. The life is always changing and joyful.

30- day- challenge

Three thing to add:
A photo of the scene at school each day
A record of my dream for each night
Read a journal each day
Three thing to subtract:
NO formal dinner (only fruit and milk)
Waking up 30 minutes early each day (6.30)
Give up negative emotions for 30 days