A letter to my roommates

  Hello, guys!

  It's me, Eric. I can't believe that we've already lived for 25 days! I still remember your curious, excited faces when we first met in July 24th.
  Ever since that day, we have slept together, ate together, studied together, and most of all, played together. I wonder how am I going to forget you throughout your life! Some of you have the chance to meet me again, but other kids don't stand a chance. Maybe I'll never be able to meet you again. That makes me so sad.....we'll keep in touch, I hope.
  But who knows how things go, maybe I'll meet one of you, maybe 10 years later in the army, 20 years later at my workplace or 30 years later in a vacation! Wow!
  As you will know, we've only got two days until we go home. Then we'll meet our dear ol' family again, won't we? I got all your phone numbers, and I hope you guys got each other's, and then we'll have a lovely talk show! Haha, we'll have company to keep whenever it's the middle of vacation and you're feeling so terribly bored.
  I think it would be very good when we all live next door in a neighborhood, with our families, and able to just visit any of the houses for a play. But I thought of one bad thing too. Haven't you ever felt this thing...?
  I am going to Busan for the Chuseok holidays and meet my aunt and uncle, my cousins, and my grandparents. I wish that they lived closer to Seoul, but whenever I imagine that, then the happiness whenever we meet would be lessened, since we meet often and it doesn't take much effort. I think  it would be similar with you guys too.
  Maybe the only way to feel just like this has only one way; coming here all again and being roommates.
I had great pleasure in meeting you all, and let's spend the rest of our time joyfully.

August 18th, 2011

From Eric

The Confession- The effort of a guilty man to save an innocent person

  How would you feel if you stole your friend's candy bar, but the friend suspected his roommate? You'll feel lucky, but you'll also feel a surge of guilt inside.
  What if you murdered someone? The guilt would be so overwhelming, and you'll not feel lucky, but instead feel sick for that person. The guilt would be so great that you'll want to confess.

  The Confession shows just that. A person called Travis Boyette, who was about to be paroled from prison, watched the news and saw that the execution of Donte Drumm,convicted of the murder of Nicole Yarber,was upcoming. But he had committed the murder 9 years ago, and he was so shocked that for the first time in his life, he decided to confess.
  He visits the local minister, Keith Schroeder, and his mind changes and changes. He wants to go and stop the action, but then he doesn't. Finally, just a day before the execution, they head for Slone, the place of the execution.

  They race 550 miles(885 km) all night and arrive in  Slone with just 6 hours to spare. Do you want to know what happened to those people? Then read this book to find out.

  The author, John Grisham, wrote this novel in a very fast-paced way. It makes the story so interesting that you feel like you have to read on, even though it's pretty long(515 pages). You'll sooner or later find yourself clamoring for more.
  If you feel like spending all day riveted in a very thrilling book, The Confession is the book for you! Find out what happenes in the end. All I got to say is, it's not a bad ending, but not a happy one either. Come on, find out for yourself!

Ode To Pasta

Oh Pasta, Oh Pasta,

How can you make pasta so fast-a?

You melt in my tongue

and your breath is gone to my lungs

Your delicious sauce

Is how I enjoy you, of course.

When the noodle is sucked

And the sauce is mucked,

I am eating you, Pasta.

You are the most delicious

Oh, how precious!

If an alien tastes it,

And then, so says the alien,

'It's too bad

It's just Italian!'

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(Tap Tap Tap Tap)

Now Now Now Now

Throw your noodle

Fry it hard

Wear your apron

Throw in lard

(Make it soft

Remember that!)

Place your sauce

It's done boss!

Teddy's adventure in honey-world

  In a dense forest far away, there was a furry honey-loving bear, called Teddy. One rainy day, Teddy decided to take a walk on the forest path. Teddy bounced along the crunchy leaves for a few hours. Just then, his leg slipped into the leaves , and before he knew it, he had fallen into a deep hole.
Teddy looked up, and he could see a tiny bit of the sky. "Oh, no!" said Teddy.
 He decided to look around the tunnel of holes. He went into a tunnel that looked the least dark, since he was scared of the dark. Just then, he saw a glint of light. He realized that it was a golden vase full of sweet-smelling honey! Teddy lunged forward, eager to taste food,-but just as he stuck his head into the vase, he felt himself falling down a tunnel, and after a few minutes of external darkness, he came face-to-face with a vast field covered with honey!Teddy screamed in delight, he found some honey fountains, and took a swim in the gooey honey.
 Then, he found a car made out of honey candy. He jumped inside and started driving. He kept driving until he arrived at a huge mansion covered with honey. A plump, orange furred bear came out. "Hello, welcome to Honey World!" Teddy held up his hands in greeting. Then he jumped into the mansion full of honey.
 After 2 years, Teddy was now an oversized fat bear, his tummy was as big as 5 pigs put together. He was sleeping  on his bony-brownie bed, when his friend bear Telly, came into his room. :"Hello" he said with an evil smile. "Wuss up?" asked Teddy. Suddenly, Telly grotesquely transformed into what looked like a gigantic bee.
 "Time to die!" said the bee. Teddy ran and ran, out of the mansion, and onto his car, but his belly was too big that he couldn't fit his body inside the car.
 "Oh no!" cussed Teddy. then he saw a honey-fudge tank rushing by. He jumped on, and safely escaped from the mansion. But, a few minutes later, a huge droning sound started coming nearer. He turned around and saw billions of bees, led by the ex-Telly. Just then, Teddy saw a small golden vase, It was the same vase he had stuck his head into, 2 years ago. He quickly tried to stick it himself,but he couldn't.
 The bees were getting nearer and nearer... Then his stomach exploded, and 50,000 kgs of honey came out. Bees rushed closer to Teddy....
 Then Teddy was back to his own forest, and he ran home to his mom. "Mom! Mom! I've been gone for 2 years. Bees! Bees!" His mom said, "calm down, calm down, you've been away for only 30 minutes." Teddy was confused. So he decided to take a walk to the forest again. Just then, he saw a golden vase full of honey...

The watch that is my sibling(almost)

  I got a watch in 2006. March 1st to be exact. Even though I was seven then, I didn't know what it was. All I knew was that they were the things that grown-ups often wear.When I heard from my mom that it cost 180,000 won($171), I hardly wore it to the kindergarten, and when I did, it was for show-offs. But as time passed, I found out that this thing was bought to be worn and check the time. Once I got to school, I wore it constantly.
  When I first got it, it was really shiny and new. It had six modes;the time, stopwatch, timer, alarm, time/day format, and the date/day. It also had a glow-in-the-dark function. It had a brownish green leather strap, a button to change modes and start it, and another button that set the analog clock, or activate the 'glow-in-the-dark function. It showed both digital and analog clocks.
  During about 170 million ticks of my watch, the strap changed twice, and now it's a dark brown color. I think I'll change it again before it gets 180 million ticks. The battery was also changed twice, and now the batter cover has a lot of scrapes.
  But some things haven't changed. The six modes are still doing fine, and the scrapes haven't damaged the insides as well. What's more, now I think of this watch as my sibling(almost). It's lived too long with me!

The two-wheeled bike

  Do you remember learning to ride a two-wheeled bike? Most of the kids learn to ride it around 5,or 6 years old. However, I was very late at starting. I didn't even think of trying until I was 10(korean age). I was in the third grade then, and my mom told me that it was time to learn how to ride a bike(on 2 wheels,not 4), and me, feeling thoroughly excited,followed her.
  We had a 'bikeway'(also called 'bike path') on the side of the stream near us,but mom said I couldn't go there yet. We rented a bike for 2000 won($2) for an hour. I couldn't wait to try, but I did feel a bit nervous.
   Practicing was pretty hard, harder than I thought. On the first day(Aug 4 2009) I was shouting for my mom to grab my backside, and my mom pushed the bike while she ran from the back. The instant she let go, I fell. All the other little kids stared at me,since I was probably the oldest one there, but I didn't care. I kept practicing,even though my knee hurt from the scrape.
  After about two months or 8 practice sessions, I was finally able to go on the road. It was October 2009. I felt tremendously delighted. 7 months later, I got my own two wheeled bike, and we no longer had the '1 hour' limit. If someone told me when I first got on the road I would be doing 60 km in 18 months, I wouldn't have believed it. But it became true. In fact, less than a year later I was doing 50.
  I learned two lessons here. The first lesson is that determination can make anything possible. The second lesson is that once you get the hang of something, you can get good at it as long as you enjoy it, and faster than you think. In August 2009 I was bumping off the walls. In August 2010 I set a record of 56.25 km(in a single day) that wasn't broken until next year.