Name Essay

121144 최지웅 (Choi Jee Woong)

Rookie

Kyrie, it feels like a girl’s name. Actually, kyrie has many different meanings. The phrase “kyrie” and its equivalents in other languages is one of the most often repeated phrases in Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Rite Eastern Christianity. Although the Greek words have seven syllables, its pronunciation has five or six syllables. Most importantly, Kyrie is a name of basketball player who plays in the NBA team called, Cleveland Cavaliers. He plays point guard and his nick name is “Mr. fourth quarter” because he becomes explosive scoring machine in the fourth quarter. Kyrie has many meanings including a short liturgical prayer that begins with or consists of the words “Lord, have mercy.” However, Kyrie also means different to me.

To start with, I want my name to be “Kyrie”, because I want to be a diligent person like a basketball player Kyrie Irving. He is my role model in my life not only for the talents that he has in playing basketball, but also the attitude that he has toward basketball. Kyrie Irving is a rookie player in NBA. But, he plays as if he had been playing the NBA court for several years. He is always confident even in dangerous situations in games, and he leads his teammates as a point guard. These behaviors don’t match with the fact that he is a rookie player. I hope for these talents as a member of basketball player in my school. I love playing basketball and the time when I spend playing basketball, I feel the happiest moment in my life. Thus, I want to be a basketball player like Kyrie Irving who has amazing talents. Plus, he is always modest about himself, although he is a great player. I saw a you tube video related to Kyrie Irving’s work out, and he was exercising even as if that moment is the last chance. This is the behavior that I want to learn from him. As he is “Mr. fourth quarter”, I want to work hard as I can until the last moment.

Moreover, the name “Kyrie” has epicene beauty in its name. Many people can think Kyrie as a girl’s name and my teacher also guessed Kyrie as a feminine name. This is what I want to expect from my name. I don’t want my name to be definitely a male’s name. Because, I think the image of myself does not fit to the names with virile appearances. My friends call me “teddy bear” or “caterpillar” due to my chubby body and cute face. The advantage that I can get from my name is the feminine feature which seems like a kind and generous person with soft appearance. So Kyrie is a best name that fits to the image that many other people think about me. I believe name is more important than the first impression. Name must imply one’s image or characteristics. It would be odd if the impression of the name and a person’s characteristics are exactly opposite. I feel like “Kyrie” is my name that is gifted from the sky which has epicene beauty that matches with my personality.

     “Name” is the first thing what people think about others, and “Kyrie” is what I want to be called from others. As Kyrie, I want to take rank with Kyrie Irving and this is my dream.

Debunking the Myths related to AIDS

Debunking Myths related to AIDS 

By Jeewoong Choi, Ri hyun Kim, Gi Won Jung

How did you get caught?

How did you get caught?

    People know what they are doing is wrong. However, they do not change their mind because they are too confident with what they have in their heads. Even if they are not caught right away, they will later be caught due to the evidences they have left. I also had a similar state of mind.

     This is the story when I was twelve years old. I liked watching detective comics and I always thought about perfect plan without a single mistake. At twelve, it was the time when I could feel the gravity. I got fatter and fatter as I ate chicken at night. When I played basketball, I couldn’t run as fast as before, and when I climbed up the stairs with backpack, I had to sweat so much. I minimized my motion, so that I don’t have to move much. My habits started to change and my mother started to worry about my health. I arrived home at eleven o’clock from academy as usual and my mother told me to come to her room. At that moment, I thought about all the possibilities. Did mom know the test score from the academy? Did I do something wrong to her? With many thoughts in my mind, I set on mother’s bed and remained quiet. She opened her mouth with a word that started with “D.” It was a diet that she was planning for my improvement of health. It was a relief for me, since she didn’t know my test score, but a diet still wasn’t a pleasant idea. I said ok to my mother and came back to my room.

     My diet plan began with my mother giving me a vegetable salad for a breakfast. Vegetable was the food that I hated and never wanted to eat even a small piece of it. What I don’t like about vegetable is the crunching sound when I take a bite and the taste that has nothing delicious. I didn’t even want to see the color green on the table. However, my rigorous mother didn’t give up and forced me to eat what she had made for meals. Usually, a mealtime was the moment that I always wait for, but after the diet, it was the time that should never come. I had to starve because I didn’t want to eat meals that my mother prepared. A single day with diet was a hell for me. I didn’t have will to play with my friends, nor desire to study. The happiness that I had when I ate chicken with my friends was gone for a long time. My mother was a devil who took the happiness of eating chicken from twelve year old kid. The only joy that I could make was eating vegetables, which were impossible.

     One day, I made a perfect plan that I always dreamed for, as a six grader. I made a plan like a criminal in a detective story. It was a perfect sunny day to carry out my plan although there were some clouds in the sky. The plan was like this. I ask for money from my mother and I buy notebooks and files that I needed for academy and buy a cup of chicken with left over money. I felt like I was doing something wrong, but this was the only way that I can eat chicken that I love. So, my plan started. I successfully got money from my mother and I arrived at the stationery store. This part was the most important part in my plan. I carefully calculated the money that I need to buy a cup chicken that I eagerly wanted. I didn’t make any mistakes in my calculation, and I could eat the cup chicken. I felt proud because I used my skill that I learned from the academy in order to successfully buy a cup of chicken. When I saw that red sauce falling down on pieces of chicken, I couldn’t wait to put it into my mouth. The first piece came in, and I couldn’t forget how it felt to eat a chicken after eating only green garbage for several weeks. It was a heaven for me as if I was in the world of chicken.

     I had to eat the last piece of the chicken. I was sad due to the thought that I couldn’t eat a chicken for another week or so. With the notebooks and files that I bought, I arrived home with a big smile on my face. As usual, my mother greeted me, and she asked for the change that I had. So I gave her 300 won. But, she didn’t let me go in. She said, “You should have left more than this.” I was standing in front of the door and a single drop of sweat went through my back. I said, “The files and notebooks were expensive!” However, she didn’t believe me. Then, she asked for the receipt that I had in my pocket. I had to say the truth since she will find out that I spend money on other things. So, I said to my mother that I wanted to eat chicken on my way home. I expected an admonition from my mother, but she didn’t. Surprisingly, she was saying sorry to me. She said she was too harsh on making me to study and have a diet as a growing up child. At that moment, I had tears on my eyes.

     I felt the love that my mother had towards me and I was sorry to her that I didn’t realize that she was worried about my health. I was always being angry and mad at her. I thought that I was an undutiful child who doesn’t listens to his mother. But, I couldn’t say what I had in my mind because I never had told my sincere thoughts before. Although, my thought as perfect plan failed, I could learn something important from the phenomenon and love that parents have towards their children.

Life in Executive Council...

Life in Executive Council...

Since the 2012 summer vacation, I decided to become a member of Executive Council. There were assignments in order to apply for it. So I carefully thought and wrote something down that I wanted to say to KMLA students. I successfully ended the assignments that I had to handed in before the summer vacation ends. I was worried about myself whether I could do the works of Executive Council and other things that I had to as a KMLA student. Although, I was not sure if I can handle all the things in new semester, I had a strong will to become a member of Executive Council.

 

The summer vacation ended and it was time for me to electioneering to advertise myself. It was surprising to find out that my old roommate was also wanting to become the same position that I want to sit. We had many friends in common and we were really close since we were roommates for one semester. Still, I wanted to win over him. We had to make posters and pickets in order to make others to know we are applying for Executive Council. Furthermore, more interesting thing was that we had to speak in front of students in the auditorium and dance girl group’s song. It was panic for us because we both couldn’t dance really well.

 

The day after the end of summer vacation, I started to practice my speech and dance that is mandatory for us. It was a good experience for me. Shouting my name in front of the school with my friends and dancing in my room with my friend who is good at dancing. Ten days of same daily life have passed and it was time to make a speech. I almost memorized my speech but, standing in front of 450 people was not easy for me to handle. I was nervous at the first thirty seconds but calmed myself until the end of my speech. I was satisfied with my speech and what I had to do is practice for the dance that I had to perform after two days.

 

After eating dinner, it was time to practice dancing with my friend. It was hard for me to dance and memorize all the movements since, I haven’t danced for three years. I tried my best and practiced when nobody was in my room. The time came to me when I had to dance in front of juniors and seniors. I danced pretty well and many of my friends said that my dance was really cute. Finally everything ended and I had to wait until Friday which was two days from this dancing performance. The result was announced on the web site and I was glad to find my name as a new member of Executive Council. I was actually really happy to see my name.

 

Works of Executive Council was handed over from 13th Executive Council. I firstly thought that there was not much work to do. However, it wasn’t actually. Members of Executive Council had to use our self study time in order to do the works that are required for school. It was not hard for me to adopt into new schedule. So I had hard time managing my time. We planned school festivals, events, and graduation ceremony. There were many works to do as a important members of school.

 

I sometimes had fights with my partner who worked with me for five months. We often had conflicts due to the management of works to be done. However, we yielded each other’s benefits and we were finally able to cooperate well, resulting in a efficient solution. I was sorry to my partner since I play basketball almost every night, and I sometimes didn’t help her complaining that I am too tired. I thank to my partner for all the things that she did and things that helped me to complete the works easier.

 

These phenomena was about five months ago, and it is still vivid in my memories. Now I only have 18th wavers’ Entrance Ceremony to plan. My works as a member of Executive Council have ended and I feel like something is empty in my heart. It was sometimes hard and sometimes fun to be a leader of 17th wavers. I learned so much from the experience and I hope I can become a president of Executive Council in the next semester.

Friends I have...

     Since I was an elementary school student, I made many friends to hang out with. We used to play sports such as soccer and basketball. I still have friends to play with and to talk with. This is something usually for everybody in the world. They all have their friends, someone to depend on and someone to trust. Because, all people have friends, they tend to careless about their friends. May be it’s only me the one who is careless about friends. I realized one day that a friend is someone who follows my life and help my life to get better. I was so happy to realize that I have many friends to took care about me. On the other hand, I was too sorry for them because I did nothing to them.

 

     I have this one friend who is gregarious and always help other friends. This friend tends to be strong and optimistic on the outside but not actually in the inside. I firstly thought that this kind of friend is who I should depend on when I face hardships. But, as I get to know this friend, I realized I am the one who should take care and help this friend to go over all the hardships. I think my friend is too kind and soft to others so always tend to be sorry to others although this friend did nothing wrong. I felt sad when my friend felt sad and I felt happy when my friend felt happy. I never had this kind of friend before and I’m sincerely happy that I have this friend.

 

     I also have friends I always fight with. We don’t really fight like what others think like but we actually degrade each other for fun. As we say bad wordings to each others it is sone times funny to hear about it, however it sometimes really affect other friends feeling. I believe this is also an act of being friendly but not a good way to keep friends for the entire life. I thought I have done wrong to these friends and I momentarily thought I can actually lose these friends.

 

     Friends are so close to us that we never thought about losing anyone. As much as we love our family, we should love and care about our friends. I always thought that I have many friends but I wasn’t actually friends to them. It will be hard to change my attitude in a short time but, I will try to be real friends to them as I promised to myself.

Should China restrain their relationship between North Korea?

Topic: Should China restrain their relationship between North Korea

 

Background Information: “One nuclear test will not make China’s new administration decide to ‘abandon North Korea’ but it will definitely worsen China-North Korea relations,” Professor Zhu wrote in a recent article in the Straits Times of Singapore.

 

Thesis statement:　China must control their relationship between North Korea for the world wide benefit

 

Argument 1: China must restrain their partnership with North Korea in order to keep world peace

 

Supporting idea: North Korea has tested their new technology of nuclear power last Tuesday. North Korea is not afraid of threatening other countries partly because there is a big country China who is protecting them. China should control their relationship so that North Korea will change their minds. Furthermore, China has acted like a blinded in 2009 when North Korea tested their nuclear power. Thus, China must change their attitude.

 

Argument 2: China must restrain their connection with North Korea for the benefits that can occur to Korea and United States

 

Supporting Idea: United States and South Korea is putting efforts in the protection of South Korea from North Korea, They can reduce their finance in military services that is used to keep North Korea from attacking. North Korea will no longer test another nuclear weapon when China is partly against their plan. In other words, they cannot no longer fully depend on China. As a result, North and South Korea and also the United States can save their money that goes into military sevices.

My Grandmother...

<My grandmother>

 

     My grandmother is eighty eight years old in Korean age. She was born in 1925, November 22nd. I had to ask my father in order to know this fact to write down this paragrah. This was how I was not taking care of my grandmother and thinking about her in my life. I thought grandmother is too far away from me and I believed that grandmother is just a person who is my father’s mother. I never thought about my grandmother except when I visit her house in Holidays. Furthermore, I was making excuses for not visiting her house at holidays because I had to study since I am now a highschool student. After I entered my highschool, Korean Minjok Leadership Academy, I didn’t met her or I say I didn’t had chance to meet her.

     When my first years in highschool was about to end, I had a phone call from my mother. My mother said that your grandmother is in hospital and she is in a room where really sick people stay. I said ok to my mom and thought about that situation for a moment. It wasn’t a phenomenon to just say ok, it was a situation when I have to worry about my grandmother. I was just a undutiful grandchild to my grandmother. After that phone call, I started worrying about my grandmother. Whether she will die soon or she will be cured and come back to her house again. But, this worry was too late. For my entire life, seventeen years, I didn’t actually worried or gave a phone call to my grandmother by myself. I was just a bad kid to my grandmother.

     Although, I was not thinking about her for a moment, my grandmother was always giving loves to me and my brother. Whenever she says “Eat more”, “Eat more”, it was tiring for me to say “I’m full.” So I ignored it every time when she cared about me. I didn't know that was love to grandchildren until I heard the news that my grandmother is sick. I phone called my mother back to ask when we can visit grandmother’s hospital. My mom answered me back by saying “We can visit when you come at weekends.” Finally, I could see my grandmother’s face which I wasn’t able to saw for almost two years. It was too surprising to see her face and her body. I was expecting my grandmother to walk out and say hello to me but, she wasn’t even able to speak nor stand. At that time, I started crying. I was just too sorry to my grandmother and what I did was regretful.

     Today is Korean Holiday where we meet out grandparents and other family members. However, since our grandmother is sick, we weren’t able to visit her house and meet other families. My grandfather died before I was born, and I don’t want to lose my grandmother who cared about me so much. I know I wasn’t a good child to my grandmother and I know it is too late to be good to her. But, I sincerely hope my grandmother gets back well and again greets me with smile on her face.

     After I wrote this down, I could sleep with my grandmother in my mind. I had a good night sleep and when I was eating breakfast, I heard a unbelievable news from my father. He told me that we have to go to Pohang city, which is my grandmother’s home town. I asked him why, and he said “Your grandmother died a few minutes ago.” I could pick another spoon of rice since I was too shocked. There was suddenly a tear falling down from my eyes. I packed up all the things needed for my school because Koreans carry out funeral for three days. We left our home at 1 pm and it took us about five hours to arrive at Pohang city.

     At first, when I arrived at my grandmother’s funeral, I felt nothing but gloominess. I could meet my cousins at the funeral. They were also sad but not crying yet. We greeted guests who are related to our family members. It was really harder than I thought to greet other people because many people came late at night. I and my family could sleep only for four to five hours. We were all tired and three days of funeral ended. At the last day, we put grandmother’s body inside the ground where my grandfather is buried. At that moment, I was so sad that I couldn’t stop crying. I could realize that grandmother is no long alive.

     Grandmother’s funeral left me a lot of lessons. During the funeral, I thought about all the bad things that I have done to my grandmother. So I promised that when my parents die, I will be able to think all the good things that I did to my parents rather than bad things. Three days was the most sad days that I had in my life. I hope my grandmother would rest in peace.