Spring Break

In this spring break, I went to have some classes about my drawing. I live in Changzhou, but my mom thought there's no great teacher about drawing in Changzhou, so she found a professor in Wuxi for me. 

Because the place for me is too far away, I almost should spend 1 hour on the way there. That is a Art university. Professor let me drew with the students in the morning. In the beginning, I am very embarrassing because there only me is a high school students. However, after spending one day with them, I found they are also the students. Most of the topic they are talking about I knew and can talk with them. Over there, I have a good time.

However, although I have leant drawing for more than 10 years, I didn't draw anymore when I come to America. Also, I didn't draw the same kind of art. Therefore, I have so many problems when I was drawing. Professor taught me the way to draw that. First, he drew one and give me to see the steps to draw those. Than, he told me how to make the works looks really. Next, he let me draw one for him to see, and he will give me some advice when I was drawing. Finally, when I have done my work, he let me see what should I add. 

I draw 7 works in my whole spring break. In the beginning, I just drew some objects. Then, I began to draw the face of the people. In the end, I drew some clothes, shoes and jeans. I told professor I want to lean fashion design. He gave me lots of materials about fashion. He told me if I want to lean, I will lean well. I thinks  so.,I will spend some of my rest time on practicing drawing.

Pobby And Dingan

Pobby And Dingan

From the book, I knew Dingan is a very pretty, there is a “lovely opal in her bellybutton”. Pobby “had a limp in his right leg”. They speak English and like to whistle. Also, they don’t sleep and shoot. Kellyanna said they are pacifists. By the movie, we can see, Pobby is fat and short, and Dingan has long hair, and she is tall and thin.

I think in the common days, Pobby and Dingan will go anywhere with Kellyanna because they are the friends. When Kellyanna is having the classes, maybe they will also sit beside her and listen the classes with her. Maybe they will tell Kellyanna don’t forget to take notes; maybe they will tell her the answers when she got the questions in the class; maybe they will go to the front desk and make a joke with the teachers. After the classes, they will have a good time in the school. Maybe the other students will feel Kellyanna is crazy, but she won’t care about that. When they should go back home, Pobby and Dingan will go beside Kellyanna. If there are some cars go very quickly, they will notify her and let her go inside.

In the book, her father said he will take Pobby and Dingan to the exercise. I think they are not happy because Ashemol and father never think they are real. However, Kellyanna wants them go, so they go with father and Ashemol. However, when they come to the claim, they find father and Ashemol don’t want to take care of them, so they just come out of the car and play by themselves. They hope the night will come that they can go back home and find Kellyanna, but when they are playing, they forget the time and they cannot find the ways in the claim. They are fearful and wait the people can find them.

I think Pobby and Dingan will be the good friends because they are quiet, they can listen to Kellyanna they what she wants to tell others, but she cannot say. Also, because Dindan is pretty, Kellyanna can wear the clothes like her. By the other way, because they won’t sleep, they can think for Kellyanna what she forget for the next day.

Vocabulary

Claim: n. An assertion of a right.  

"And so Dad couldn’t do nothing except take Kellyanne out to the claim called Wyoming, where he had his drives."

Wobbling: v. Shaking. 

"The noise of a car drove into our ears and a four-wheel-drive police jeep came wobbling down the creamy red track that leads to our claim."

Startled: v. Be surprised.

"My dad turned around, startled."

Figment: n. some thing is not real and imaged by others 

"I walked over to where Pobby was supposed to be sitting and punched the air and kicked the air in the head to show Kellyanne that Pobby was a figment of her imaginings."

Rummaged: v. the event that's not real

"He rummaged through piles of rocks."

Ute: n. a kind of people from American Indian.

"Kellyanne watched him, making sure he helped them up into the cabin of the ute,"

Crackpot: n. some crazy people 

"Lightning Ridge was full of flaming crackpots as far as I could see."

Mello Yello: n. a kind of drink 

"I said, hiding my anger in a swig from my can of Mello Yello."

Mates: n. good friends 

“I still say Kellyanne could do with some real-live mates,”

Opal: n. a kind of stone which is very pretty

"My dad would come back from the opal mines covered in dust, his beard like the back end of a dog that’s shat all over its tail."

Fairdinkum: adj. kind of honest people 

“Fairdinkum?”

Imaginary: adj. something that is imaged 

"but I wasn’t crazy enough to talk to imaginary friends, I’ll tell you that for nothing."

Grub: n. Food. 

"She said they were quieter and better behaved than me and deserved the grub."

Fossilized: v. Change to be the stone 

"There’s rumours going that Lucky Jes has taken out a million-dollar stone and a fossilized mammoth tooth with sun-flash in it."

Mammoth: n. A kind of elephant which has long furs

"There’s rumours going that Lucky Jes has taken out a million-dollar stone and a fossilized mammoth tooth with sun-flash in it."

In Class Writing

In my opinion, I think they are unreal, because Ashmol cannot see Ponny and Dingan. Also, in the beginning of the story, the book writes: "Kellyanne glared at me through tears the way she did the time I slammed the door of the ute in Dingan’s face or the time I walked over to where Pobby was supposed to be sitting and punched the air and kicked the air in the head to show Kellyanne that Pobby was a figment of her imaginings." (Rice, 1) We can see Ashmol just kicks the air, and there's nothing over there. Then, the mom said, "they were quieter and better behaved than me and deserved the grub." (Rice,1) Mom said they are quitter. We can see they don't talk with others, so I think mane they are imaged by Kellyanna. Next, Ashmol's Dad back, he said,"Did I tread on your fairy-friends?" (Rice, 5) That we can see his Dad don't take care about Kellyanna's friends so much, even he tread on them. If they are real, they will be hurt even killed by his Dad. Later, in the middle of chapter one, when Dad asks mom will is Kellyanna, mom said she is playing with her friends outside. Dad is a little angry and thinks Kellyanna becomes so strange. But mom said she just different. By this part, we can see mom and dad have already known Pobby and Dingan are imaged. There also have lots of reasons why I think they are unreal, but I think these are enough. In conclusion, I think Pobby and Dingan are imaged by Kellyanna, but only Ashmol wants tell her the truth; Kellyanna's parents although know they are not real, but they want to keep the balance between family. 

Improvement

In my first draft, there are too many summary, and I don't have enough analysis. Also, I don't have any quotation in my body paragraph to support my opinion. In addition, my first draft's thinking is very easy. Ian my final draft, I think I change a lot that to make my opinion to be harder to broke. I have lots of grammar mistakes in my first draft. Although there are still some mistakes, but that is not as many as in the first draft. In my final draft, have the correct format. 

The Review of Musical

This Friday night, I went to see the musical, Once On This Island. Because I forgot to sign up before, I waited there for a long time. The good thing is I wa still able to get in. The musical is about 2 hours. Although is a very long musical, it is still very interesting at all. The whole musical included singing, dancing and drama, and they combined with each other to make it complete. I think this is a great musical I have never seen.

In the beginning of the musical, I thought it won’t be as good as this because no one is professional to do this, but when the people began to talk, I felt I went to a musical theater. They talked like what that happened on themselves; they act like what happened in front of my eyes. However, when little Ti Moune ran back and the mallow Ti moune came out, I felt so funny because they looked so different. Ti Moune is really good at action. When people were talking, she didn’t look like there’s nothing to do, and she still stood there and looked like seeing the scenery. As we know, when they talked, they will spend about 2-3 min, but Ti Moune just stood there and was not strange.

The musical is talking about the girl, Ti Moune’s love. She was saved by the Gods when she is a child, and two old man and woman took care of her. When she grew up, the began to think about her life. She wanted to begin her life. Although she had a happy family, she still wanted to be rich and married with the person she liked. She asked the god to give her a love. Then, she met with the prince. However, the prince, Daniel will die because of the traffic accident. Ti Moune wanted to save her. She stayed with Daniel all the time and wanted the god to save him. But this time she was not as lucky as before. The Gods said Daniel will die soon; Papa, the god of death will take off his life. Ti Moune could not accept that, she said Papa could take of her life. Next, Daniel and Ti Moune had a good time which Ti Moune have never have. She was so happy and though she will marry with Daniel. In addition, Daniel have already had the Fiancee, and she was a pretty and rich woman. She was sad when she knew Daniel fell in love with another girl, but she didn’t say that. She let Ti Moune dance in front of all the rich people. Ti Moune didn’t know how to dance like them. She just danced like before. Daniel thought they could not love with her any more because they didn’t stay in the same world. In the end, Papa came again, she gave Ti Moune a knife and let her kill Daniel. If she do that, she could save her life. However, she could not kill Daniel, who fell in love with her before.

Ti Moune died. This is such a sad story. However, I felt I am a person in the story, because the actor acted so well. If there are another musical like that, I will go again.

Writing Center

This Wednesday, I went to the writing center for my paper. Ms. Swift told me a lot about how to change my paper to be better. I have so many mistakes should be fixed. Also, there are some advice she gave me that made me think a lot. I think those are very useful for my paper because it really make me feel very interesting. However, because there were too many people there at that time, I could not get all of them.

First, she told me there are some grammar mistakes I had. I knew that because I have a really poor English. And when I wrote my paper, I could not find my mistakes because that’s what I wrote. That’s one of the reasons I went to writing center. On the other hand, Ms. Swift told me I should change my introduction a little. As a result, the summary should be before the thesis. Then the summary won’t be too strange for the people after the thesis. In my first draft, I wrote too much about the summary. In my opinion, I wanted to summary what happened in the book and also in the movie. However, it didn’t work because that’s so boring in the article. In addition, people won’t spend so many time to read the summary about the book and the movie. In my body paragraph, I should also summary the story that I want to have analysis for, so the summary before the body paragraph is unnecessary.

Second, she told me I should think deeper for what the author wanted to say. For example, the name of movie is Frozen. Why it’s called Frozen? Just because Elsa has the magic? She thinks that also because Elsa closed her heart to make her frozen herself. When she knew the love between the family by Anna, she became warmer and knew how to help the people. The similarity between Me And You and Frozen is this I think. Because they both closed their heart and didn’t trust anyone in the beginning; then, when they met their sisters, they became warmer. I think that’s a good point to write this paper. Also, I want to think more about the deeper ideas for my paper. It is a good advice; I think I will think about it and make my paper to be deeper. Summary is a such boring things in one article. That will make reader don’t want to read it. For this reason, I will change my paper a lot to make it interesting.

In conclusion, I think she is really good at helping students about the writing. She gave me a lot of advice that I think is useful. In addition, she told us a book that is for how to write a good paper. I didn’t read that, but she told me some advantages to write a good paper. For example is to think deeper about the event which happened in the story. I think I should go again before the final draft.