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(2011.12.20)The entry below is my entry from the day before yesterday.
I think I`ve made a lot of mistakes.
I just I don`t know which are correct , which are incorrect.
If you find any mistakes, please correct them. Thank you! )

(2011.12.18)
I have a lot of things that I want to write about here.
But I can`t write them right now, so I feel so bad.
Of course, there are all kinds of reasons.
At the first it`s not easy for me caused by lack in my ability of English.
Another reason is that today I got up, at about 12 o'clock in the noon,I overslept.
={Another reason is that when I woke up today, it was almost noon. I'd overslept. }

Therefore a part of today`s time has passed already, hasn't it?
Starting tomorrow I will be busy because it`s the begining of the week.
I took a lot of pictures in Beijing during my stay last week .
Most of them are pictures of daily life in Beijing
I would like to write about those picturs`s story.
haven't organized them yet.
And above all of these things. And more than anything.
Above all things(before everything else; first of all; of all things,
I haven't drawn the plans for "Children's` hobby Chinese class" on this winter vocation, and also, I haven't done the 'teaching plan' and 'a list of names' too.
So, I have to start working on them as soon as possible!
And then, after I've finished them, I have to send an e-mail to the teacher in charge before I go to bed tonight.
So...I have to say "bye" now!

■ I’d appreciate it if you would turn the light off. (불을 꺼주시면 고맙겠습니다.
■• I really appreciate you coming in on Christmas Eve. 크리스마스이브에 이렇게 와주니 정말 고마워.
■ I appreciate your help. 도와주신 데 대해 감사드립니다.
■ I really appreciate this. 정말 고마워요
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■ Rather, it requires a commitment for several visits to fully appreciate the whole establishme. 새 중앙박물관을 제대로 감상하려면 몇차례는 방문해야 한다.
■ appreciate good wine 좋은 포도주를 음미하다
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■Thank you, sir. I appreciate you seeing me. 감사합니다. 만나주셔서 감사해요.
■ I appreciate your blessing, deeply. 축복해준 건 진심으로 고맙구나。
■We appreciate the fact that you have helped us. 우리를 도와주신 점 감사드립니다.、
■ Please, sir. We’d really appreciate it. 협조해 주시면 감사하겠습니다
■ I really appreciate all the pushing, but… 날 다그쳐줘서 정말 고맙지만..
■ We greatly appreciate your helping us. 귀하의 도움에 깊이 감사드립니다.
■Do you really, really appreciate it? 정말로, 정말로 고마운 거지?
■ Well, I appreciate your honesty… 솔직하게 말해줘서 고마워요
■ But I really appreciate it. 하지만 어쨌든 정말 고마워.
■ I appreciate the effort, really. 노력은 진짜 가상하다
■ I really do appreciate that. 그건 정말 고맙게 생각하고 있어

Busmen have decided to go on strike next week. The strike is due to begin on Tuesday. No one knows how long it will last. The busmen have stated that the strike will continue until general agreement is reached about pay and working conditions. Most people believe that the strike will last for at least a week. Many owners of private cars are going to offer 'free rides' to people on their way to work. This will relieve pressure on the trains to some extent. Meanwhile, a number of university students have volunteered to drive buses while the strike lasts. All the students are expert drivers, but before they drive any of the buses, they will have to pass a special test. The students are going to take the test in two days' time. Even so, people are going to find it difficult to get to work. But so far, the public has expressed its gratitude to the students in letters to the Press. Only one or two people have objected that the students will drive too fast!

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There were a lot of intending designers at the site.It was my first time to see those students. I asked them to show their portfolios. Their portfolios were wonderful, and I felt embarrassed because the one I made extemporaneously　was nothing like as good as theirs, but one question arose at that moment. Indeed, their portfolios were fabulous and could express how wonderful their skills were, but they were not conveying what they were. I thought that what we should convey first was not our skills but our personality. As you know, most of the Japanese companies have been adopting a lifetime employment system. Under such circumstances, most of the recruitment staffs pay the most attention to whether the applicants can bring long-term benefits to their company in the future or not. So, they tend to give first priority to what they are. I came up with an idea that if I concentrated on conveying what I was with my portfolio, I might be able to beat other applicants who have excellent skills.
The important thing was how attractive my personality was. At that time I had read a book which said that those who had apparently-opposing personalities attracted many people. For examples, Takeshi Kitano, a comedian always makes snappy jokes, while he is internationally famous as one of the finest film directors in Japan. This apparently-opposing personalities have been attracting many people.I decided to make my portfolio consisting of my two aspects. Generally speaking, those who want to be designers tend to be considered that they have great sensitivity but are not good at logical thinking.
I majored in visual communication design, but since the department I belonged to was technology I decided to show my rational aspect to the interviewer that they expected to see from my background. This was a point to differentiate myself from others.

When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all.
It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is
hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable
childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the
miserable Irish Catholic childhood. Nothing can compare with the
Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious alcoholic father;
the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pompous priests.

(Dec 16th 2010 )-<Sketching today cold weather~>-
• Wow~~~Seoul was a really cold today.
• Yes, it was really biting cold.
• The weather forecaster said it was the coldest day of the year, and tomorrow will be even colder.
• With the below links you can watch and listen to some Korean news videos.

To protect ourselves, to make ourselves look stronger on the outside... In the deepest corner of one's heart, perhaps there is a brick wall embedded within?
As we grow older, the brick wall grows sturdier and more solid as well. This makes it more difficult for us to accept another person. It also makes it difficult for us to be accepted by another person. In the end, we lock ourselves within the brick walls. Will we become lonelier? Perhaps loneliness is more bearable than pain itself?

This is the thing: When you hit 28 or 30, everything begins to divide. You can see very clearly two kinds of people. On one side, people who have used their 20s to learn and grow, to find … themselves and their dreams, people who know what works and what doesn’t, who have pushed through to become real live adults. Then there’s the other kind, who are hanging onto college, or high school even, with all their might. They’ve stayed in jobs they hate, because they’re too scared to get another one. They’ve stayed with men or women who are good but not great, because they don’t want to be lonely. … they mean to develop intimate friendships, they mean to stop drinking like life is one big frat party. But they don’t do those things, so they live in an extended adolescence, no closer to adulthood than when they graduated.

Don’t be like that. Don’t get stuck. Move, travel, take a class, take a risk. There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming. Don’t lose yourself at happy hour, but don’t lose yourself on the corporate ladder either. Stop every once in a while and go out to coffee or climb in bed with your journal.

Ask yourself some good questions like: “Am I proud of the life I’m living? What have I tried this month? … Do the people I’m spending time with give me life, or make me feel small? Is there any brokenness in my life that’s keeping me from moving forward?”

Now is your time. Walk closely with people you love, and with people who believe … life is a grand adventure. Don’t get stuck in the past, and don’t try to fast-forward yourself into a future you haven’t yet earned. Give today all the love and intensity and courage you can, and keep traveling honestly along life’s path.

When she was a teenager, there was nothing Natacha Regnier wanted more than to be a movie star. There was only one problem: She lived in Belgium, which is like dreaming of being a professional snowboarder from an apartment in Port-au-Prince. So as soon as she could -- in her case, at age 20 -- she moved to Paris to pursue acting full time. Her first movie audition turned into her first part. Two short years and a few relatively painless French TV shows later, Regnier shared the best-actress award at Cannes and won a Cesar, the French equivalent of an Oscar, for best female newcomer for her role as a drifter in The Dreamlife of Angels. "It was a good welcome into the business," she jokes. In her newest movie, Poison Friends, Regnier plays the wholesome librarian muse to a group of promising college students. There's love. There's backstabbing. There's unfathomably quick success -- something Regnier seems uniquely familiar with.