week#6 reading journal - the crying chair

 Now I am reading a book called “A Cup of Comfort”. This book has many shoot stories. I would like to introduce one of the stories. This story is about a lady who has a special chair, the Crying Chair. When she small girl she had a dinning chair which works pretty well with people who have problems. In her experience, when she had something sad or had problem, she sat the chair to cry out her feeling. It was the place for her to park her emotional baggage so she could get on her life.

 When she started teaching at kindergarten, she put the Crying Chair for students. One student cannot control his tear falling, because if his parents’ divorce. Sometimes it is embarrassing to cry, but when a student sat on the chair he could cry and dried his eyes without being teased by other students. After started using the chair he could control his tear and stop crying uncontrollably and learned that he can cry if he needed. Also, other students learn that if their friend needed to cry they had to pry and tried to give them special kindness and love.

week #4 - homeless in Hawaii

 In Hawaii you can notice many homeless people. They ask you some money of food. They sometimes try to steal money from you. But why there are so many homeless people in Hawaii? There are two reasons. one is the high cost of house. And second is the homeless who moves from other places.

 First of all, in Hawaii the cost of house is extremely expensive. Because lands of Hawaii are limited, and because many people immigrate to Hawaii from other countries, the housing price is getting more expensive each year. People cannot offer money to their house, even they are working full time job.

 Second, those homeless people we see in Hawaii are not all from local. Many of them came from mainland. Hawaii has nice weather and beautiful beach, so homeless people spent their last money for plane tickets to Hawaii.

Week #4 reading journal - health care for....?

 In some countries, health care, like education, is considered a public service that governments provide against their citizens. Most people are vaccinated against infectious diseases, or treated when they are ill, and informed about health problems in their areas. Every day around the world, more than thirty thousand children die from diseases which they could easily be treated. The average American lives into her or his later seventies. But in Bangladesh, average is sixty-three, while it’s fifty in Haiti, forty-tow in Afghanistan, and only thirty-four in Sierra Leone. (in Japanese, average is eighty-three.) Because many countries lack an effective health-care system, some preventable diseases still cause death. Cholera is one of those diseases. AIDS, has struck 40 million people- 28millions are who live in sub-Sahara Africa. In the U.S, people arguing about health insurance for every citizen, I wonder if they will continue that after reading this text.

vocab
  vaccinated  verb
   to give a person or an animal a vassin, especially by injecting it.
   I was vccinated against the flu.

week #3 reding journal - water, everywhere? not puite

In some places, it is difficult to get water for drinking, washing, and farming. Hard to believe, but there are more than 1 billion people have little access to drinkable water. As a vital resource, water has become a major political issue, some countries arguing about rivers and lakes that are overlap on them. For example, in Turkey, Syria, and Iraq, the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers rise in Turkey, where dams built to store water have lowered the water’s flow rate for Turkey’s neighbors. Also water is necessary for farming. People are trying to solve water problem of farming in dry place. Researchers discovered drop system that only use minimal amount of water. In this system vegetables only use right amount of water that they needed.

【Vocab】

   Conflict

    Noun- a situation in which people, groups, or countries are involved in a serious disagreement or argument.

    A conflict between two countries are affect others too.

week #3 reading journal - Mock Mrs mission

 To simulate a mission to Mars, 6 men lived in cramped, window-less compartments for more than 17 months. This experiment was the longest mock space mission ever. They were measuring human responses to the confinement, stress, and fatigue of a round trip to Mars, of cause in weightlessness. The facility was institute for Medical and Biological Problems, Russia’s premier space medicine center, included living compartments the size of a bus, connected with several other similarly sized compartments for experiments and exercise. A real flight to Mars is a distant prospect due to challenges such as creating a compact and relatively lightweight spacecraft that would shield the crew from deadly cosmic radiation.

【Vocb】
 *mock
         noun - a prctice exam that you do before the official one
         You have to do mock before you run in the Honolulu Mrthon!

Week #2 Reading Journal - Project Runway

I read about one of the my favorite TV show call Project Runway. In this show 12 fashion designers who are not famous yet, compete each other and every week one of them leave the project. And last person can create his/her own bland!!!!!  The host of this show gives many tests such as design and make clothes with things that they can buy in the food market or cleat the runway.  Each week, they have to do different tests and famous designer and fashion models estimate their work. It is interesting to watch what they design and show. You should check this!

week #2 Reading Journal - How i study vocab

If there are 50 vobavs that I have to memorise, then I start memorising 6 days before my test. First I divide them in to 5 groups, then I start with group1 on first day. Next day I study group1 and 2. The group 1 is review and I add new vocabs(group2). I continue adding new groups each day, also I review every words. At last, on day 6, i review and test myself with all vocabs. It sounds hard work, but I usualy spend only 10minutes each day before I do to bed. It works for me!

Week No2. Reading Journal - Stereotypes and discrimination

I am taking grobal issuee class and I think the reading from this class is interesting. I think you know the words stereotypes and discrimination. We were tought stereotypes since we were small, and we judge peopele based on that stereotypes or prejudices without noticing. That is the discrimination. This text gave us an example. Becuse African-Americans are considered as violent, people become more nervous than meeting people who have other races. I think those tow words are scary becouse we do them without notising.