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.

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.