This was my first time to have my own blog. This was so much fun and it was actually really helpful for me to practice writing in English. :) I was surprised that I could update my own stories and share them with my classmates. I was a little bit ashamed because I thought that a lot of people might not be able to understand my English, but I guess my English is not too bad. hahah :).
The audience of my blog was my classmates and friends in Korea. I wanted to share my experience which I have been gone through here at BYU with them. Because I am international student, what I have been experienced would be looked different for my classmates. Also my new experience would be surprising and new for my friends in Korea. I hope they would enjoy reading my posts.
I was really happy for having this blog because I felt I was one of my class during blogging. I could read the stories of my classmates and get to know them better. Blogging made me feel I am not a outsider. In every class so far, I felt exhausted and sad because it was kind of hard to get involved in class. However, I didn't feel that in this writing class, especially through blogging.
Thank you My blog! :)
We got a Christmas tree in my home !! :)
This is what I and my roommates made last night!! :)
This was my first time to make a Christmas tree!! :) We also celebrate Christmas in Korea but my family did not have a Christmas tree at my home. I think I am having so much "first" experience after I entered BYU. hahah :) It was so much fun to decorate the tree with my roommates. I really missed Korea and my parents while decorating it. I hope my parent can have a great Christmas even though I can't be with them.
Love mom and dad! miss you guys so much..!! <3
Journalists have a Responsibility to Conscience!
In the book of my journalism class, The Elements of Journalism, I read about the responsibility of journalists.
Journalists have an obligation to exercise their personal conscience.
For journalists to be able to exercise their conscience, managers and owners have to create an open newsroom, an environment that is essential to fulfilling the principles of journalism. However, exercising conscience is not easy. Allowing individuals to voice their consciences in the newsroom makes running the newspaper more difficult. It makes the news more accurate. Journalism is a moral act and know that all of their background and values direct what reporters will do and not do in producing a newspaper.
Since the audiences are looking for information, but they are also looking for validation, for authority, for honesty, and for a sense that the journalists have their interests at heart, journalists need to be more impartial, neutral, and objective and also be more credible and reliable. Linda Foley, the president of the Newspaper Guild, told us, "it's credibility, more than objectivity, that's important for us in our industry.... there has to be a culture in newsrooms that allows a journalists to have a free and open discussion."
Thank you, Professor Olsen!
My professor of Korean Literature class is Leif Olsen. He is really nice and kind. He is a good teacher. I was really surprised at first because he knows very much things about Korean literature. Since I entered the middle school, I read and learned so many Korean literature works. However, he knows more Korean literature works than I know and he can translate all of Korean literature to English.
One of Korean literature works which I liked was 詠井中月 (The Moon in the Well). I translated this poem in my Korean literature class.
One of Korean literature works which I liked was 詠井中月 (The Moon in the Well). I translated this poem in my Korean literature class.
詠井中月
The Moon in the Well
山僧貪月色
A monk in a mountain covets the light of the moon
幷汲一甁中
He raises water from the well into a bottle
到寺方應覺
However, when he gets back to the temple, he will realize
甁傾月亦空
even though he tilts the bottle, the moon is not in the bottle
Plastic Surgery.. ? No, I am pretty enough..!!!
Recently, however, I was also considering plastic surgery because I wanted to be more pretty. I thought that my eyes were too small and I had a flat nose. I wanted to make them looking more great. hahah. Few days ago, I asked my mom to get plastic surgery when I get back to Korea. She was very very upset and said, "Hwajung, you are pretty enough! I am so sad for you to think you are not pretty...". When I listened to her, I was really sorry to her. Sorry Mom..!! Yes, I am pretty enough~:)!!
Christmas is coming!! :)
New experience!! American formal dinner!!
One of my classes which I am taking for this semester is on-campus internship. In this class, we can work for a company and have an internship experience. I am working for a Vineyard which is a LDS church company for translating the English Church manual to Korean.
Last night, Vineyard invited us to have dinner for celebrating our works. Because it was my first time to have formal dinner in America, I was kind of nervous and excited. We went up to Salt Lake City and it was also my first time to visit a Temple Square. It was amazing, so beautiful!
When we started to have dinner, one of my group members told me that I need to use spoons from the very outside one. He said that we need to use different spoons when we eat different food. It was really surprising because we just use one spoon and one pair of chopsticks for while food except for a dessert.
It was my one more new culture experience. It was so much fun to learn new thing, and the food was really delicious! :) heheh
Last night, Vineyard invited us to have dinner for celebrating our works. Because it was my first time to have formal dinner in America, I was kind of nervous and excited. We went up to Salt Lake City and it was also my first time to visit a Temple Square. It was amazing, so beautiful!
When we started to have dinner, one of my group members told me that I need to use spoons from the very outside one. He said that we need to use different spoons when we eat different food. It was really surprising because we just use one spoon and one pair of chopsticks for while food except for a dessert.
It was my one more new culture experience. It was so much fun to learn new thing, and the food was really delicious! :) heheh
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