Reading and Improving

The weather was truly beautiful today and yesterday. I could see the bright sunshine and a clear sky with white clouds everyday. All the buildings and houses in our school just stood peacefully every day in the sunshine and gently blowing wind. I played the first round of golf practice for this year, and it wasn’t so bad. For today, even nothing special happened, it couldn’t stop me from having a good mood. The day seemed to be fantastic; it was so fabulous that I nearly forgot to finish my 30 days challenge.

Yesterday, I have read chapter 10 and 11, and today, I have just finished chapter 12 and 13. Actually, in my perspective, there was no exiting things happened. Those four chapters were just foreshadowing the upcoming events. What I supposed might be true in the following chapters, but it hasn’t happened yet. For the last blog, I thought that Emma wouldn’t match Harriet, her new best friend, and Mr. Elton, a rich priest in their community, successfully. That’s because of the exaggerated language the writer used to describe the “young couple”. The big turning point hadn’t happened yet, but I supposed that it would happen in the next chapter. Harriet was sick before a feast in chapter 13. Even though Emma told Mr. Elton about her sickness, he just showed his sorry for noticing the information instead of doing anything realistic for helping Harriet. Otherwise, John Knightley, Emma’s brother in law, thought that the person that Mr. Elton truly interested in was Emma. Thus, I might be right, and continuing reading it might prove my hypothesis.

According to the chapters, the writer has mentioned Mr. Weston’s son, Frank. He’s Mrs. Weston’s (Miss. Taylor) stepson. He lived in his uncle’s house, which was far away, and he chose to come back to Mr. Weston for a break. They talked about him and looked forward for his coming. Besides the concentrating of matching the young couples, Elizabeth, which was Emma’s sister, returned with Emma’s brother in law and Emma’s nephews made her exited. They talked a lot and shared their opinions about different things; it reminded me the gathering of my family. I didn’t have any siblings, but I did have some cousins who had a close relationship with me, and the elders in my family. I studied aboard and they lived in different cities all over China, it’s hard for all of us to get together. Even though they were young, it was so joyful to see them. I thought Emma might have the same opinion with me when she saw her sister, who already got married.

Until now, I have read one fifth of the whole book. The plot didn’t go fast enough as the books I usually read, I think it’s a little bit worse than Pride and Prejudice. However, I learned some language stuffs by reading the book. In the meantime, my vocabulary accumulation grew to a bigger amount. Lastly, I thought I got much familiar with the British literature and British English by reading the book. I hope I would got more improvement after finishing the 30-day-challenge.

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.