The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time

Sorry I forgot to put a post in the previous week, because I was having a triathlon competition in the weekend. It was really fun to enjoy the water, air, and sunshine with my triathlon teammates in Hualien. Although I did not feel satisfied with my time in this competition, but it made me realized that I did not train myself enough. Therefore, I will try my best next time, and the next game will be on 18th June, 2011.



This is the first time that I began to read the book, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time. My first impression of the book was that this book was a really easy book to read, because it did not have many difficult vocabularies and the idea was easy to figure out for me. So, I really enjoyed to read this book, and I finished the first quarter of the book very soon. I felt eased because the narrator, Christopher, is close to our age, and I was fascinated by the way he thinks. He is a straight-forward boy who has a different definition for ordinary things compare to normal people. For example, people may think it will be a good day if they woke up and found the weather is nice and clear. Unlike normal people, Christopher defines it is a good if he saw 4 or more red cars in a row. I loved the way he thinks outside the box.

During our class time, our teacher also discussed a inherited problem with us. "Will you leave any of your wealth to your children? and will you divide your wealth equally to them?" asked my teacher. I found the the question interesting because we had a different point of view between western and eastern culture. Chinese likes to leave their wealth to their decedents, but westerners do not. For me, I will spend all my money on investing my children. I will make sure they have the ability to live on their own before I leave them. Therefore, I will not leave any of my money to them, because I want them to realize that they will not have any inheritance so that they can be lazy. I want to provide them a fishing pole and teach them how to fish but not feed them with the fish that I caught.

Class Discussion - Project

I also like the time when all my classmates come together in groups and discussion on certain topic, either assigned by the teacher or out of our own curiosity. This time we discussion about our project in class. The class time was originally designed for us to put all our presentation materials together into one piece. Also, it was the first time that I saw all my teammates' works, including their own parts of presentation and writing. I was a bit shocked when I saw their works, because not only they done a awesome job, but also they were being very cooperative and supportive, which was the very crucial element for us to have a perfect presentation. Later, we started our discussion. Let me mention this first, we were doing a research project on Asperger syndrome. Mainly, we will each read a part from a book called Asperger's from the inside out and produce a complete reading report on the book. Each of us were responsible for presenting our own reading section. Also, the project consists other two parts, famous people with Asperger syndrome and foundation who helps people with such disorder. That day, we were discussing how we were going to present it and how we will organize our slides, and I really enjoyed our group discussion on the project
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Also, I like to discuss with all my class. I remembered when we just came back form cycling around Taiwan, our teacher asked us to share the feeling and experience that we had throughout the trip. I was thrilled, because I really wanted to talk and share about the trip. I really appreciate the chance for me to go on stage and talk about what I learned and found from the trip, and I liked to listen from others about what they had on the trip, because it makes me feel like we are friends who chat in their spare time.

My favorite author - Anne Rice

Anne Rice was born as Howard Allen O’Brien on October 4, 1941. She chose the name “Anne” when she entered her first grade at St. Alphonsus Grammar School, and she later attended Richardson High School and graduated in 1959. She then attended the Texas Woman’s University in Denton and later transferred to North Texas State College. After she finished her studies, she married Stan Rice, a atheist poet who became a professor of literature and poetry in San Francisco. Later she finished writing her first book, Interview With The Vampire(1978) which made her famous, she gave birth to her son Christopher Rice who is now a famous gay murder-thriller writer
Anne has now written more than 28 books, five of whichwere written under the pseudonyms A.N. Roquelaire and Anne Rampling. The  first 21 of her books had the subject from vampires, ghosts, castrato singers, to colored slaves. However, after she renounced atheism in 1998, and her Catholic marriage in 2002 with her still-atheist husband who also died on the same year because of brain cancer, she concluded her famous 10-part Vampire Chronicles by releasing Blood Canticle(2002) and vowed to “only write for the Lord”. With that firm conviction to never again write about the occult and the outcasts, she released the first book of her trilogy on the life of Jesus Christ, Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt, on 2005. She then released the second part of the said trilogy which was entitled Christ the Lord: The Road To Cana a few years ago. Her recent book is entitled Angel Time from the Songs of the Seraphim series. It is a murder-thriller type wherein an angel gave a murderer a chance to save his soul.

My favorite book - Holes

       

 Books can satisfy reader’s desire of the words, but they can also teach us about life, friendship, and even death. The books can provide us knowledge, no matter they are fiction or not. For example, “Holes” is my favorite book, and it provides us human nature and life principle.

        Holes, by Louis Sachar, the book is a fiction book, but with a completely different story. In Sachar's Holes, the boys show their optimistic and their unbreakable friendship. Although in a abominable situation, they still willing to sacrifice themselves for each other. The book also talks about the society forbids the love between different colors, it paints the book with a little racist. Between love in the past and friendship in present of the book, it takes the book into a whole new level by showing and teaching the reader the mightiness of love and friendship. And that is why I love this book.

12 day away, AWESOME

 Our school has organized a bike trip for 12 days during class time, and I really had learnt a lot during this trip. People might say "Riding bicycle for 12 days, piece of cake", but actually they are wrong. This 12 days were a challenge for both our mind and body. We felt comfortable and happy for the first few days, but as the time of sitting on our bicycle's seat went on, the time started to slow down, and we found out the trip was really an ordeal for us.
From this trip, I found out the importance of friendship, and I made some really good friends. This trip was not about whether you can ride fast or not. It is about whether if you can help others when you have the extra strength. Not only you will be satisfied if you help, you can also lessen the distance between your friends. Take me for example. I was the class leader of our class. Originally, our class was very scattered. Everyone just minds their own business. But after I devoted myself to our class and tried to help my classmates in all aspects of their need, I found out the attitude of them changed. They started to view me as a friend instead of a superior power, and I am really happy about that, and it makes easier for me to lead my class, and  I now view my class with a new perspective. I know this class may not be the perfect class in others' eyes, but I am proud of it and love it, because it is "my class".