blog post 7

Let's have fun with the challenge!

The next half of my challenge started. I had said that I wanted to change some plans of my challenge, and I did started the changings. It's a long weekend this week and I had great relax. I wanted to wake up early to finish my blog post this morning, then I woke up and accidentally fell asleep again. There was a prom this weekend, but I didn't want to go for this year's prom and plan to go for next year. Many people left the school over weekend to the prom or to their home, so my weekend wasn't exciting but relaxing and fun.

I've thought about how to do my challenge in some different ways. My teacher suggested me that I can read book on the tree, but it seemed too funny. I've thought about reading when I was eating, but I knew that it's a bad habit for my healthy. I've thought about reading when I walking, but I truly didn't want others think that I had some mental problem. Also, I didn't want to have car accident when I was reading. So lastly, I tried to fill my past time with reading.

During the weekend, I went out with my friend to have lunch. Then after ordering, I turned on my E-book to read. And my friend asked me what did I do. I explained that I did a 30-day challenge about reading a book and I felt extremely bored to read the plots that weren’t changing a lot. So I find some new ways to read. I read when I waited things; I read before I went to sleep; and I even read when I waited for the passing of YouTube advertisement before the video. Even though the plot wasn't that connected in that way, but it made me felt better to read.

There were 3 days in the weekend, so I had finished 6 chapters, from chapter 28 to chapter 33. Mrs. Elton finally came to the plots of the book in about chapter 32 and the plots eventually went through faster. However, the more important event was Emma, the main character seemed fell in love with Mr. Weston's son, Frank Churchill. In Emma's own perspective, she firstly thought that she crushed on him and couldn't stop to think about him. However, I realize that in Austen's other book, Pride and Prejudice, the main character Elizabeth also thought she fell in love with Mr. Wickham and lastly loved Mr. Darcy. Maybe in Emma, the same kind of plot would also happen soon.

It's a lot more fun when I changed my schedule. It wasn't that boring to read the book now. The reason wasn't just the plots became more interesting, also the changing of my attitude. Reading filled my free time, and I still have space to have fun. Then, I understand that the reading never got too boring, it was just what you face the reading. Thus, the better way to finish my challenge was to have fun.

goal for challenge

It's already half way through, and my challenge worked all right. But, it's a little bit boring. I truly regret on what I chose for the topic. I found extremely hard to write everyday blog posts. I finally decided to change some things I'm gonna to write in the following days of challenge. As what I thought about, I'm gonna to read the book faster, so I can quickly finish it, and not feeling that boring about the plot. Then, I could compare the movie of "Emma" and the book, and also compare my topic with Jane Austen's other books. I shouldn't only focus on the plot of the book or things happened in my life, I also need to work on something fun.

Thus, for the next half of the challenge, I would go to watch the movie and maybe find more other informations about the book.

I looked forward the exciting events for too long.
I'm excited by the up coming events.
The movie inspired me to be a good student.
The movie is inspiring.

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.