Two years of her high school life _____, and she worked well.

In the ____, I usually didn't what's the right thing to do.

The time ____ so fast

For the ___ few years, I learned a lot.

People should't forget their ____.

His youth is ____.

I need to go on!!

What do you usually concentrate on when you are reading a book? I usually concentrate on the plots of the book. But as a 30-day challenge, I focus more on the sentence using and other language stuffs. Actually, it’s because that the plot also went slow… It’s already half way through, with fourteen days passed already. Besides the failure on match Mr. Elton and Harriet, I didn’t really see any important turning points of the book. If I became older, I might say that kind of life should be cool, but for now, I have got bored with their everyday meeting, conversation, the balls and the parties. Their lives were all the same everyday. I still had a young heart, so when could you give me some exciting love stories or exciting movements my dear writer?

Well, this might because of my drawling reading process. How much do you always read? I was a fast reader that I just used a day to read another book called Pride and Prejudice that Jane Austen, the writer, wrote. Definitely, I read it when I was young, and it was translated to Chinese. Thus, the reading progress now might help me with some details, but wouldn’t comfort my curiosity. As what I already said in the previous blog posts, I just wanted to challenge myself to read a simple story, but in a hard version. How could read a book that a person wrote in hundreds of years before seemed easy? Oh my god, I deserved it. Wish I could successfully finish the book… as soon as possible.

Whatever I thought about the book so far, I need to be serious to it. For the last blog post, I had said that I would evaluate Mrs. Elton’s personality when she appeared in the book. However, she still hadn’t appeared yet. Even my curiosity drove me to read chapter 28 and 29 briefly, I cannot find her “charming” figure. Oh my dear writer, can you please wrote it faster? I had been waiting for so long.

Otherwise, another character accidently came out smoothly. Even though the writer claimed that he had lots of reasons that force him to delay his schedule, he finally came to Highbury. He’s Frank, Mr. Weston’s son and Mrs. Weston’s stepson. They seemed having a good life that Frank usually lived in his uncle’s house. He’s been thinking as the inheritor of his rich uncle’s whole family. In the book, he has been described as “a very good looking young man; height, air, address, all were unexceptionable, and his countenance had a great deal of the spirit and liveliness of his father's; he looked quick and sensible”. In fact, the only thing interested me about the book was the information about this young man. Others appreciated him; Mr. Knightley didn’t really like him; Mrs. Weston could stay a good relationship with him as a stepmother; and Emma found his charming. What else can I interest in when I have chosen a romantic book as the challenge?

Can’t imagine that I still finish my task even I found it’s kind of boring. 16 more days and 28 chapters to go!

Citation

Austen, Jane. Emma. New York: Knopf, 1991. Print.

Since until

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I started play piano since I was 7 years old.
I won't leave until you come.
I had nothing to do since I finished my homework.
The meeting won't end until study hall starts.
I have to go to school every day.
I read books every day.
I don't like my everyday wear.
The everyday clothings make me feel bored.

Reading should be precious

Time marches on, and so do my reading progress. There is a lot of information in the four chapters. Actually, I found it’s a little bit hard to read two long chapters. Whatever how interesting the stories are in the book, it’s still tiresome to read the never ended long chapters. Furthermore, those chapters were even written by a profound language centuries ago. Have you had a feeling that you can never paying attention on anything? However, I should know that it’s the challenge that I chose to do and I should never gave it up.

There wasn’t a lot of important things happened in the book. Because of the new part of the book started, the writer was talking about beddings of the following story. The story introduced Mr. Weston’s son, who finally came to their life. It talked about the intersection between Emma, and young lady called Jane Fairfax, who’s an orphan. Meanwhile, the story brought Emma a bad news about Mr. Elton’s new wife. Yeah, you heard right, Mr. Elton quickly changed his loving target and found a wife in a few weeks. Mrs. Elton was described as “to be handsome, elegant, highly accomplished, and perfectly amiable”. Well, it seemed like the people in Highbury would have some new topics to talk about. Since this “perfect” woman have not been seen in the book, let’s leave my evaluation of her to next blog post.

During the reading task these days, I saw the memory. I realized the memory when I had just started reading books. When was that? I wasn’t sure. It seemed to be a normal thing, but I didn’t know how unforgettable that was. I loved eating fast food when I was in elementary school. That were the biggest awarding my dad issued me in my childhood life. Please don’t think it’s not related to reading! Please listen my following story. Every time that I did anything right, my dad would bring me to eat fast food and buy me some books as encouragement. It wasn’t just a motivation to move me to do right things, but giving me an idea that reading books was a “precious”. I didn’t like to read book when I was young, but I had a feeling that I should treasured every book that I had and I read.

Can you believe that the birthday present I wanted the most are books? I ran followed my dad and only requested for those obscure and complex books. Maybe for other families, the parents would feel happy if their child wanted books, but it was opposite in our family. I could only have books when I participated really well. Nevertheless, maybe just because of the dissatisfactory feeling on reading books, I had a huge interest in it. It seemed like people would only know how important foods are when they were hungry. I could only know how valuable books are when I didn’t have them.

The younger me would feel disappointed if she knew I started complained about reading the book. I should adjust myself. Even though I had complained, I will continue reading it; I will try to satisfy myself by reading the book. 18 more days and 32 chapters to go.

Preposition practice

I woke up on a foggy morning.
I slept in my room.
She had lunch at 4 o'clock.
She have started playing piano since she was 6 years old.
I haven't seen her until 9 o'clock.
The letter comes from China.
She's the precious of his life.
I'm leaving for a meeting at school.
I would go there by bus.
She wants play with her friend

What are you learned about you?

It’s already one third of the 30-days challenge went through. I continued working on reading a book. The challenge wasn’t so difficult and I went through it fluently. During the challenge, I overcame my lazy thinking and finally got the every day task done. I think I did a good job on continue doing one thing, and that’s what I had needed to work one before the challenge.

I was too lazy and slack on doing some works for a long time. The 30-day challenge helps me to get rid of this weakness. Whatever what I felt during that day, there were two chapters waiting for me, and sometimes a blog post was also waiting for me. Whatever I felt bad or good, it’s my responsibility to finish all the works, and that’s what I chose to do.

Also, I found it’s good that I started to read before I went to bed again. I used to read a lot of books, but I don’t have enough time now. Also, when I force myself to read books and I didn’t have enough time, I would think reading is boring and not using. However, in these days, I found my hobby back and have time to read what I like again.

During the challenge, I learned a lot new vocabularies and descriptive techniques. If I didn’t do the 30-day challenge, I wouldn’t know that I can continue doing one thing well. I wish I would get more improvement soon.

My weekend 30-day challenge

Even though there is a project for my modern world history class that due on Monday, I wasn’t too busy over the weekend. I slept a lot on Friday; I went to watch movie on Saturday; and I rest a lot and finished my homework today. My weekend was well structured and I did leave some time to my 30-day challenge. Maybe it’s because of the sunny and warm weather, I felt relax and comfortable to read the book. I can’t believe that one third of the whole book has already gone. After I read chapter 18 today, I found that the task that left today is already another part of the book.

It’s not a surprise that Mr. Elton didn’t love Ms. Smith, Harriet, anyway. That’s just the prediction I made last week. Right in chapter 15, Mr. Elton expressed how much he loved Emma and how he’s been encouraged by her. Emma was totally surprised and she didn’t think she did any inspired movement that made Mr. Elton crushed on her. Emma has said that, “"Encouragement!--I give you encouragement!--Sir, you have been entirely mistaken in supposing it. I have seen you only as the admirer of my friend. In no other light could you have been more to me than a common acquaintance.” She thought what he did and what she did are all for Harriet. However, even if Emma was truly surprised, she just made Mr. Elton “loved her so much”.

How can Mr. Elton fall in love with Harriet when he knew Emma? Emma has a better background, a better education and a better appearance. Mr. Elton even said that, “If she has fancied otherwise, her own wishes have misled her, and I am very sorry--extremely sorry--But, Miss Smith, indeed!--Oh! Miss Woodhouse! who can think of Miss Smith, when Miss Woodhouse is near!” Every part of Emma seemed better than Harriet. Even if Harriet would have a better background, a decent background, than she had now, she still cannot be compared to Emma Woodhouse. In my perspective, Mr. Elton might just want a decent and rich wife with lot of heritage, so how can he accept the humble love from a poor illegitimate daughter such as Harriet? Emma did a totally wrong match on them.

So for now, I have finished the first part of the whole book successfully. It’s mostly talking about the dramatically “love story between” Harriet and Mr. Elton. Well, actually, it’s an unrequited love story. Sorry for my acerbity language using, Harriet. I’m not meant to say it. In my perspective, I think I did a good job on reading and understanding the whole story. And it’s not that difficult for me to continue working on the book when I was interested in it. I would encourage myself on the reading process. It’s unbelievable that all the process is working so fluent and joyful. Even though I felt it was hard in some days, it’s great to see my achievement after all. Only 20 more days and 36 chapters left.

Citation

Austen, Jane. Emma. New York: Knopf, 1991. Print.