Hi, everyone!

Hi, how are you doing everyone?
Spring break made me so happy.
As you know, I was very sick, so I couldn't take the midterm exam.
I was suffering from terrible stomachache caused by bacteria. So I couldn't eat any food for 6 days and sleep at all.
After having taken medicine, I feel much better.
Now I'm taking rest and eating soft food.
I want to see you all this monday.
Have a nice weekends!

Thank You

Good luck to you too, and I hope you will take many pictures and share it with us.
I love pictures.

And when we will find out our test score?:)

Good luck

hi,
Good luck to all on Wednesday and Thursday!!

I love movies

My husband and I went to the movies at Multiplex Cinemas, located in Edgewater, NJ.
This movie's title is "Night at the museum". Being inside the movie theater was a powerful experience for me. The sound was loud and exciting. This is the seventh I have seen at the movie theater. This is my husband's second time in America. We were very exicited.
I think that we want to go to cinema again.(We check next movies "Ghost Rider" and "The Astronaut Farmer)

On the wrong side of the road!

Living or moving into in a foreign country is never an easy thing to do. Not only do we have to adapt with the language, but also we have to get used to the culture and the little things we have taken for granted. For instance, I remember that in my first few weeks here in New York City, I was always walking in the wrong side of the road. In Indonesia, people drive and walk on the left side of the road. The thing was that I knew and was aware in the US that the traffic is on the right, and crossing the street always made me nervous. But what I didn't realize was people also walk on the right side. I could not figure this out for my first few weeks here. I always walked on the wrong side of the road, on the sidewalk, in the subway station, in the hallways, in the supermarket. I was so frustrated! I was always in the middle of other people's way, and I also felt that people were always in the middle of my way. Finally I started to realize it and trying hard to follow the 'American's way'. However, it was not easy to break the habit of walking in the left side. It took me a few months before I finally got used to walking on the right side. Now it feels normal to me. However, I guess when I go back to Indonesia, I will be confused again, because I have to switch to walking and driving on the left side again.

Do you feel the same? Do you have any similar experience?

Our morning exercise @Morningside Heights

Today's class started with a game called 'Last Man Standing'. This game is a whole class activity. The purpose of this game was to review verb forms and Present Perfect Tense.

To start, all participants formed a circle, then they had to respond quickly to the word mentioned by me. In the first round the participants had to respond by saying the past and past participle forms of the verbs mentioned. They took turns in responding. If they mentioned the wrong verb or they were too slow (taking more than 2 seconds), they had to squat. The game went on until we got the last person standing, who is the winner! In the second round, they had to respond by saying a sentence using the verb in the Present Perfect structure.

Well, amazingly we had some tough players. And the proud winners of this game were Sachiko (1st round) and Heui-Kyeong (2nd round). What a fun morning exercise for everyone! Right ladies? ;-)

Litte March Amulet

Every year Romanian people knit two little tassels: a white one and a red one. At the beginning of March, they offer this amulet to the girls they love… In Moldavia, part of Romania, all persons can receive a little March amulet. Red means love for everything that is beautiful and white symbolizes the pureness and health of the snowdrops, the first flowers that appear in spring. That is the first celebration of spring in Romania.

The Legend of March Amulet
Once upon a time, the Sun embodying a handsome young man, got down from the sky to dance a “hora” in a village. A dragon lay in wait for him and kidnapped him from among the people and threw him into a jail. The world got sad. The birds wouldn’t flow and the children wouldn’t laugh. No one dared to challenge the bad dragon. But one day a brave young man decided to go and save the Sun. Lots of people saw him off and shared their strength with him. So they helped him defeat the dragon and save the Sun. His journey lasted for three seasons: summer, autumn and winter. He found the dragon’s castle and they started to fight. They fought for days and finally the dragon was killed.
Powerless and wounded, the young man set the Sun free. The Sun rose in the sky cheering up all the people and filling them with joy. The nature revived, the people got happy, but the young man couldn’t live to see spring coming. The warm blood from his wounds dropped on the snow. While the snow was melting white flowers, called snowdrops, messengers of the spring, were appearing out of the snow. Even his last drop of blood dripped out in the immaculate snow. And he died.
Since then the young people have been knitting two little tassels: a white one and a red one. At the beginning of March, they offer this amulet to the girls they love… Red means love for everything that is beautiful. It reminds us of the colour of the brave young man’s blood. White symbolizes the pureness and health of the snowdrops, the first flowers that appear in spring.

I hope you will enjoy reading about it.