Before I die...

  At first, I became a little sad because the presenter's way of talking was quiet and emotional. I was moved by her presentation.
 In the middle of presentation, she shared us her project that people write "Before I die I want to..." on  a big blackboard. It's  interesting. I think what people want to do before they die is what people think important, precious in their life, or something that people haven't done yet and regret  not having  done it in their life.
 Thinking about what I want to do before I die, I can notice my sense of value. In my case, I want to tell my thanks and love to people who I met in my life. This is because I have grown up with help of people around me. My family love me and my friends and teachers taught me manythings. They said to me many "Thank you", and I was happy to hear that. By being given many "Thank you", I have tried to do good things to others. So, I want this world to keep happy circle of "Thank you."
 In addition, I want to eat my favorite food before I die:D

News Stories

In the news he mentioned, the news about pig flu interested me the most. Once news broadcasted on TV, it spreads to millions of people at once. News often confuse people. It has very very big power.

One news I remember well is a news about "banana diet." In a TV program, the diet to eat a banana in the morning was introduced and many women went to supermarkets to buy bananas. Then, the problem lacking of banana at supermarkets happened in Japan a few years ago. This news is a example of valualess news.

Mango Street "quiet war"

 When I was a junior high school student, I went to a cram school. The teachers gave students lots of homework everytime. I'm not good at math and I dislike it, so everytime I left math homework till last. Every week, I did math homework the day before math class. I often asked my mother when I had questions about homework. She tried to answer difficult questions and she taught me how to work out. However, I rebelled against her because I hated math and I didn't want to think about math questions. I said to her "Why do you work out that quwstion like that? I don't know the reason. Please tell me more clearly." or "Why do I have to study math? I think I don't need such studying to live." I rebelled her from the feeling of impatience that I take math class and listen the lecture carefully, but I can't understand math.

 After I graduated junior high school, my behavior has changed. (Of course I din't like math even I became a high school student.) Math became more and more difficult, and I noticed that my mother can't teach me math anymore. I stated solving my problems by myself.