Eat In or Eat Out

Though many people prefer to have meals at home for the reason of healthy, I prefer to eat out. Because I think it is more convenience than preparing food at home. And if eating out, there will be more different choices and interest, too.

Preparing food indeed will cost you lots of time, because you need to shop, cook, and after the meal, you also need to wash the dishes. While eating out don't have those trouble things. All you have to do is just to order what you like, and then enjoy the food, and then after you finish, you pay for you meal and leave. It’s really convenient and also help you save a lot of time especially when you are busy with other more important things.

Besides, when you eat out, you will have more different choices, too. It’s really common to have this situation that because of having no ideas for what to eat today, you will decide to eat the food that is same as yesterday’s meal again. How boring it is! If you eat out, you won’t have these difficulties. There are so many different kinds of food in restaurants, therefore you can choose what you want easily, and don’t need to worry about that you have to eat the same food again.

In addition, one more important reason why I like to eat out is because I think it is much more interesting that eating at home. Sometimes, when we have some special thing to celebrate, for example, a friend’s birthday or a good-bye party, we will have meals in a restaurant, because in a restaurant, we can invite our friends or family to have meals together. And furthermore, the decoration in the restaurant will always also give us the different atmosphere and feeling.

People always say that it is healthy to cook at home. It’s true, however, in my opinion; I think there are also many advantages of eating out. We can have more choices to choose what we really like and have the interest or the special atmosphere different from eating at home, and we can save much time as well.

What Makes an Adult

There are many factors to make a person an adult, but in my opinion, I think there are at least three certain things that can be the proof of being an adult. The three things include having the right to vote, passing the exam of getting a car license and the last one is having a stable job.

First, to have the right to vote is the most obvious thing to represent a person an adult. Because if one can have the right to vote, it symbolizes that the person had had enough intelligence to choose the right things or what he likes, and also old enough to be responsible for what he had chosen.

And the second one is to pass the exam of getting a car license successfully. I think it is the most common thing to prove one an adult. Because if a person can takes the exam and also gets the car license successfully, it stands for that the person has enough ability of both his intellect and physical vigor to control a car.

Besides, the third, to have a stable job can also signify a person an adult. The reason is that if one has his own stable job, it represents that he will have the economic independence, have enough economic ability that can make he purchase what he needs or wants freely instead of always need to ask his parents or other people for help.

Though there are many different ways to show a person an adult, of my personal view, having the right to vote, passing the exam of getting a car license successfully and having at least one stable job are the most powerful proofs because they represent one’s ability of choice, a certain degree ability to control a machine, and a ability to have the economic independence. All of them are really important for a real adult.

Think About the Higher Education in Taiwan

In the recent years, the amount of the universities in Taiwan increase obviously. According the statistics from the Ministry of Education, if we only calculate the traditional universities, there are totally 95 schools. While in the 1960-1970s, in the time when our parents were students, there are only about forty schools. And because of the economical problem, just a little part of children can go to the universities to acquire the higher learning. It’s really amazing that in such a short period of time, there can be such a great development in the higher education in Taiwan.

Because more and more universities established, the acquirement of in society will become stricter and stricter, too. In the past, if a student attends a university, though it might be the economical ability of the student’s family is not bad, it’s undoubted means the student is excellent, because in that time, attending to a university successfully is surely more difficult than now.

Since it’s so common that a lot of students can attend in to universities nowadays, it’s surely not enough if we only have the education background for university. The educational background of university had become the essential and the most basic one. Instead, the quality of the schools we study in, or the other abilities we also have are more important.

How to Improve English Writing Ability

How to have a great English writing ability? In my opinion, there are main three steps.

First step, we need to learn some basic concepts about the structure of an article. For example, in the beginning of a paragraph, we have to write a topic sentence to show the main theme of this paragraph, and then there should be some sentences relating to the topic to give readers our supporting ideas, and finally, we also need to write a concluding sentence to retell our aspect in this article. It’s undoubted that this step is really important because before we learn the other more advanced skills like how to express our idea well or how to polish our works, we surely should be familiar with the organization of what we want to write first. And the second step is reading more. All the different kind of material is good. For instance, magazines, newspaper, or novels are all great materials. By reading a lot, we can not only lean many good ideas but also increase a lot of knowledge which is really useful for our writing. Besides, sometimes we can also learn some good writing skills that we may probably make use in the future from the authors’ good work. And the last one step but not the least is always making efforts to practice. There was an old but a great saying “practice makes perfect!” It’s really true. Practice is always the most important way to learn anything well. To cultivate a good English writing ability isn’t the exception. So if we can spend some time to practice every day, and then gradually we indeed can have some advance in it.

Having a good English writing ability is absolutely not an easy way, but if we can follow the above-mentioned ways, and keep working hard to practice, we will definitely make progress and even enjoy in it someday.

The Summary of the Song "I Dream a Dream"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jo4FvpN3_g

§ I Dream a Dream (lyrics) §

There was a time when men were kind
When their voices were soft
And their words inviting
There was a time when love was blind
And the world was a song and the song was exciting
There was a time
Then it all went wrong
There was a time

I dreamed a dream in time gone by
When hope was high,
And life worth living
I dreamed that love would never die
I dreamed that God would be forgiving.
Then I was young and unafraid
When dreams were made and used, and wasted
There was no ransom to be paid
No song unsung,
No wine untasted.

But the tigers come at night
With their voices soft as thunder
As they tear your hopes apart
As they turn your dreams to shame.

And still I dream he’ll come to me
And we will live our lives together
But there are dreams that cannot be
And there are storms
We cannot weather…
I had a dream my life would be
So different from this hell I’m living
So different now from what it seems
Now life has killed
The dream I dreamed.


The Summary of the Song "I Dream a Dream"

Summary:
This song is one of the theme song in the opera─"Les Miserable".
It's about a woman's soliloquy. She presented the happy memory she had ever had in the past, and expressed her sorrow, her depression, and her helplessness sincerely after the misery happened.

Situation: A world was so wonderful in the beginning. The people then had the happy life everyday.

Conflict: But some miserable things happened and broke their sweet dream.

Struggle: The people prayed sincerely that the God could listen to their voices and come to help them.

Outcome: Though the people hope it can recover like before, the world had been all changed. The dream they had ever dreamed was deeply killed.

Meaning: It’s really an inconsolable song that describes a changing process of one’s feeling from the happiest to the most sorrowful.

The Summary of the book "Jonathan Livingston Seagull"

The story of "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" is about a seagull which is really different

from the other. He wanted to break the normal rules and reach some achievement to fulfill his real dream─flying free.

Situation:
Near one seashore live a big flock of seagulls. They always do the same thing - searching the food. The thing that all of the seagulls care is just how to make themselves full. But except one seagull, Jonathan, his true dream isn't like that. He wants to fly free and try to reach some achievement.

Conflict:
Though Jonathan tried hard to express his thought with other seagulls, he still failed. The flock still couldn't accept him. So therefore he was exiled.

Struggle: After being exiled, Jonathan flew into another world. In that world, most of the seagulls knew their dream well─ they all have the strong desire to fly. So Jonathan decided to learn from them. Trough thousands of times practice, Jonathan finally became a real excellent seagull. But in the same time, a sound appear in Jonathan's mind. If he should go home or still as same as now─keeping staying here?
Outcome:
Jonathan made his mind to go back and became the most respectable teacher among the flock. To cultivate more excellent younger seagulls.

Meaning:
Never giving up our dream easily! If we always insist it and keep making efforts, someday we do can reach some achievement and make the people who belittle us at first feel shame.

About Myself

Hi~ Everyone.

I'm Caroline. (Take notice that the last syllable of my name pronounce the special sound "lin" not 'line". Many people will speak in the wrong way.) I'm 19 years old. My hometown is in Pintung, Taiwan. I am the oldest children in my family and have two twin younger sisters. Both my parents are cram school's teachers. Mother teaches English, and Father teaches math. I think I have a really sweet family and I also cherish it a lot.

My hobbies are reading and listening to music. About reading, not certain kinds of books I only prefer. As long as the books are intersting and attractive, I will all really enjoy them. While about listening to music, I like classical symphony and the exotic songs in foreign languages. Each time when immersing in the music world, I will always feel very relaxed and sometime I will have more different imagination from it. In addition, in holidays or weekends, I also like to do some outdoors activities with my family. Such as moutain climbing, cycling or go camping by the seaside. Getting together with family and apprciating the beautiful natural scenery are always the most wonderful time.

As I like reading very much, one of my ideal dream in the future is to be a translator. Because if I were a translator, I can read more good books, and also can use my ability of translation to help the people around the world enjoy more good articles or stories.

Roughly saying, so far, I have been enjoying studying English. Especially after attending university, studying more professional knowledge of this field, and also getting more training of English abilities, I found I not only made some advance but also got more interest about English. But despite that, there are indeed still a lot of room for me to improve. For example, the writing ability. To write a good-structure, and also meaningful article in a certain limited time is absolutely not a easy thing. Just like the old saying "Practice makes perfect." I will always keep making an effort to improve myself.

My Newborn Blog

This is the new blog I set in the first writhing class in this semester.
To be honest, I think maybe it is only for doing the assignments in this class, ha...
but who knows? Maybe I will find many its good functions in the future and will love to use it. However do have many expection in this new writing course. :)