Great quotes from confucius about " learning"

"He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger."

"Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous"

The two quotes above are from  Confucius, who is one of the most quoted person ever.
Confucius  emphasizes on the relations between thinking and learning. 

I need to  keep in mind that the reflection of any knowledge which I  learn helps to set a criteria to apply the knowledge. When I try to  interweave the reflection  with the experience of what I  already know and  with what I  am learning now, the learning fulfills its goals.
I should be wise enough to save myself from the misinformation and misapplication through the reflection.

Summary worked by group

Tips on How to Handle Pressure and Stress

A collaborative work by High-Advanced students at Pimmit School

·        Having a Support team

·        Delegating and relying on others

·        Recalling happy moments

·        Maintaining a sense of humor

·        Talking about stress

·        Walking

·        Accepting the stress or Ignoring the stress

·        Thinking positively

·        Drinking and eating

·        Figuring out how to react

·        Staying calm

·        Talking to people who you trust

·        Putting stressors into perspectives

·        Meditating

·        Doing your favorite activities

·        Praying

·        Trying to be confident.

·        Altering your environment.

·        Having hobbies.

·        Pampering your-self.

·        Scheduling your time.

·        Renewing self image.

·        Letting it be.

·        Playing games with people you like.

·        Figuring out something for refresh.

·        Getting into self- hypnosis.

·        Driving and concentrating.

·        Watching the kid’s happiness.

·        Running and lifting weights or doing yoga

·        Staying away from e-mail and phone for a period.

·        Getting up early and running.

·        Working out on a regular basis.

·        Getting disconnected when I take off.

·        Enjoying with family.

·        Sharing the feelings with others trough blog.

·        Cheering up myself.

·        Taking a rest.

Types of SPA and massages

·        Stress relief massage

·        Sauna and steam room

·        Aromatherapy massage

·        Swedish massage

·        Hot and cold  stone

·        Golf massage

·        Half massage

·        Beauty products

·        Heat experience

·        Experience shower

·        Series of cold and hot treatments

·        Therapeutic massage with herbal medicine

·        Thai massage

·        The clothed massage

·        Well trained and experienced therapist is essential

·        Cheap and quick(I prefer long) massage

Foods that might help

·        Citrus –the vitamin C prevent the release of the stress hormone cortical and help to

Make lower blood pressure

·        Walnuts-Many omega-3 fatty acids in walnuts can reduce blood pressure and stress.

·        Dark Chocolate-can reduce cortisol levels as well as catecholamine in highly stressed individuals. Can reduce blood pressure and improved mood.

·        Black tea – dropping cortisol.

Pay someone to do it

·         There are many professional organizers and errand

·          Runners who can help you to plan your schedule

Reboot Your Brain

·        Meditating in the same spot

·        Controlling your inhalations and exhalations.

·        Making your own mantra.

·        Keeping your mind focused on your breath.

Quick Moves

·        Stretching 10 minutes before getting out of the bed

·        Do a spinal twist setting on a chair

·        Lay down on your back with legs up against the wall for 3 to 5 minutes

·        Try putting tongue on the roof of your mouth

·        Taking a moment and getting out of your chair a few times a day to realign your neck and upper back muscles

·        Making shoulders rolls

·        Breath properly

·        Squatting using dumbbell

·        Punching and twisting your hips

Mind Workouts

·        NIA: A lively cardio workout to music, combining dance, martial arts, and yoga

·        HYPNOSIS: An altered state of mind from the waking state where you’re worried

·        ACUPUNCTURE: The practice of inserting needles into points on the body to relieve ailments

·        TAICHI : A series of choreographed poses , turning and extending the body, shifting one’s weight.

·        QIGONG : An ancient Chinese healing art, repetitive movements with controlled breathing to stimulate the flow of QI within the body

·         BIOFEEDBACK: A way to measure the body’s responses to stress and learn to control them

·        REFLEXOLOGY: Points in the feet and hands correspond to organs and glands in the body

Take a Chill Pill

·        Today there are many “benzos” (medication to control stress) that doctors prescribe to treat anxiety.

·        Physicians are loath to use them long term because they can be addicted.

·        Every person reacts differently to antidepressants, but gain weight and low libido are possible side effects.

Psychiatrists caution that all of these medications should be coupled with counseling.

Preparing a performance of last day at pimmit

 Frequently, I'm feeling I returned back to the school days ,almost twenty years ago, while I am learning English at Pimmit.   I was a freshman at university . Whenever  a teacher asked me something, I used to be  too shy and nervous to answer.  I remember how terribly I got embarrased to see my foreign professor's blue eyes.  As  time passes, I have become less bashful  compared to my younger periods  in class , despite I lost some part of my English which I was aware of.  I am trying to enjoy my time in class like a student who first stepped on the school.
  We are planning to present some performances at the last day of school.  We made a flyer draft  for inviting the audiences  and  showed  an advertisement  to  classmates of the other class  asking them  to be  volunteers of the performance.  Happily, many people joined our plan. Whenever I perceive some enthusiasm from those who are active, I feel happy to be influenced by their affirmative attitude to life.  In addition, I was pleased to create  the sentence, "Let's step forward" from the lively discussion . I couldn't help but admit to find their collaborations overwhelming.

After reading "Women's history month"

I became aware of women's month that I had never known before from Easy English News.

They say Americans learn about women's contributions to this country during this month, March. It seems to be a great idea to me that they assign one month  to be remembered and honored

 of the women's contributions to  history. It is the dramatic progress compared to the conditions of the women in the past. They say it is less than one century for girls to get educated like boys.

At that time, most professions were for men only. Husbands were allowed to abuse their wives, take money from their wife and keep the children after divorce.

I felt these referrings are not only the past things but the current issues somewhere on the globe. A lot of women are suffering from  gender discrimination. Although married couples look equal, women are likely to have more burdens of doing house chores and of raising the children than husbands.

I've never seen men whose first responsibility is to cook and to look after the children, no matter what race or nationality they have . I know more serious and tragic cases , such as polygamy, sexual harassment, early marriage, than the examples I mentioned are widespread all over the world. However, I want to reflect on just my experience. As looking back to my marriage life, I've questioned  myself why I had been forced to sacrifice my social career . I couldn't dare  juggling my jobs, my children's needs and my housework like the successful working mothers do. Even though I couldn't expect some help from my busy husband, I hoped to be able to raise  my  children on my own. I should have asked for some support from others,but I didn't trust anyone else such as babysitters. Now,  I realize the  responsibilities that I felt as one of  the parents at that time was too heavy to keep my career.  I hope my daughter would be able to enjoy more gender equality. 

Poems (group work)

Today, our project was writing a poem. Frankly speaking, I was in negative making up a poem by group.

I had a rigid opinion that  poem must be the creative output drewn from deep thinking and passionate feelings of the individual .  Although we discussed the same  topic, our responds  might have varied according to the personal perspectives.  Even worse, we had little time to collect ideas and to create the sentences.Actually, I barely contributed to our group's poem consequently. I needed enough time to communicate with my group members.  Anyway, with the help of my members, stefania, elora,guonse, poem revealed itself successfully!  I thought it's amazing to make  up a well -made poem in spite of the short time.

Was I too concerned?

Presidents day- President Wanted

 (Group Member: Hannah, Wonkyung)

Presidential Job Opportunity

Eligibility
  Must be at least 35 years of age
  Must be native-born citizens of the U.S.
 Must have been residents of the U.S. for at least 14 years.
 Religious beliefs immaterial

    Job Description
* Preferable traits
1. Should be intelligent.
2. Should be honest.
3. Should have connectivity with people
4. Should have persistence
5. Shoudl have leadership
* Duties
Duties include making important decisions in representative of the U.S.,
commanding to the U.S. military, taking all diplomatic relations with all nations.
Duties include explaining all the U.S. policies to the people.
  Job Benefits
1. Could make a $400,000 annual salary,
along with a $50,000 annual expense account,
 a $100,000 non-taxable travel account and
$19,000 for entertainment.
2. White house is serves as the official place of residence for the president.
3. Could be enntitled to use its staff and facilities, including medical care,
 recreation, housekeeping, and security services.
4. Could be protected by The United States Secret Service

Newspaper about my interview

Pimmit  Center   Newspaper

Citizens greet the new President outside the White House. President Hannah Promises to Put Schools First In her first press conference, President Hannah presented a balanced budget to the American people. The first item discussed in the press conference was the President's first priority in the budget. " I know there are a lot of necessities regarding the education circumstances improvement. We plan to catch up with the level of private school system through investing a large portions of budgets to the public education system," the President said. The President's budget called for 39% to fund education; 8% to support the military; 17% to be spent on crime prevention; 17% to fund the environment; and 21% to finance health care. The President explained why less money was given to certain budget items. " We`ve established the storng military system till now. It is the time to chage priority of using budgets," the President explained. President Hannah Names Top AdvisorsDuring the news conference, the President also named her advisors, selecting Francesca Famous, Dr. Teresa Thermometer, and Thomas Teacher. " I need Dr. Teresa and Thomas, for they are all prominent experts in their areas where our countury has to be reformed. I expect them advices for setting up the policies. In case of Francesca, I admire her as  one of my strong supporters. She always helps me not have any financial hardships. I could avoid vending my philosophy while leading policies in favor of her supports," the President announced. On concluding her press conference, the newly sworn-in President of the United States continued to perform her first full day of duties. http://www.scholastic.com/kids/president/game.htm

Reflection about the class on 17/Feb.

I learned  "K W L","K W H  L" today.


(This image is  from google)



My teacher introduced this concept before starting the textbook.

I became aware of this important and useful strategy which I can apply to my study
thanks to her teachings.  I got lack of sleep last night. However, I felt it was
worth participating to my class. Lucky day!


Procedure:

1. K—What students KNOW about the topic to be studied.
2. W—What students WANT to know about the topic.
3. L—What students have LEARNED.
4. K-W-H-L<. The H encourages students to ask themselves "How can I go about finding more information about this subject?" They are encouraged to do additional research, ask an expert, do an experiment, or use the Internet.>

Book "Revolution is not a Dinner Party"--Changing one's destiny

This writing is the result of an assignment, "If you were to change one's life/destiny,

How would you change it?".

I know life is full of hardships. But the main character,  a young girl, overcame her adversaries.

Nonetheless, I  believe the world should protect all innocent children from furious struggles.

Making up her destiny under my imagination, I would like to express my sympathy and love to her.

 A character "Ling", who is nine-year-old girl, is a narrator of this novel. She looks back to her childhood  from
the summer of 1972, when the Cultural Revolution started to flare up(heat up).
Her life had been very comfortable with her parents who were  both dedicated doctors. After Comrade Li, one of Mao's political officers, occupied a room in their apartment, Ling faced a whirl of life hardships. Her affectionate neighbor was forced into jail and disappeared.  Soon, Ling  feared for the safety of her family. Her daddy was arrested and vanished.
Nonetheless, she grew up while enduring her tough destiny in school and at home.  More than four years afterwards, she noticed the world changed back and her sufferings came to end with the return of her father.

(Below is the parts which I changed)

After her daddy disappeared, she was  determined to excape to Hong Kong, which at that time was not part of China.She practiced swimming everyday enough to cross the Han River. She and her mother barely escaped death running away from China. Luckily, they could  contact with one of their relatives.

She kept praying for her father's safety. As soon as Mao died, and a new political party became in power, she came back to their hometown.

Eventually, she met with her daddy, who got freed from the prison. Their tears were flowing down without stopping. Her ordeal ended. Nothing was left but peace to her life!

Reflection about the debate on 15/Feb.

I had a debate on the issue, " If Immigration Authorities opens the door  of  chances of immigration from
the other countries, what area  should be top priority?".
We made three groups which supports three areas, Africa, Asia, Hispanics.
I was a support of Asia, especially, Indian and China.
When my teacher leads out class to debate, nothing did I have in my minds.
My teacher mentioned the rules of debate.
1. Respect other view points.
2. Discuss no argue
3. No rambling
4. Concise reasons
5.Persuade
6. Win over!
I was impressed on this remarks. I felt how beautiful words are.
My first thought after hearing of debate was merely what logic I have to prepare
 and  what strategy we need to compete.
I had a debate while try not to forget " respect, no argue, persuade".
What I learned from the debate is the valuable lessons that I have to keep in mind
when I communicate with the other people as well as my children.

Video clip made of pictures of classmates

Letter planning trip to Sandiego

Hello! This is Hannah. I'm a travel partner with Stefania. 

 I'll continue to explain our travel plan, which is following Stefania's.

We will leave off the Yosemite national park(like as you know from Stefania's letter), 

and head for Sandiego city.

We will keep driving the rent car. The address of  a hotel we booked

is "1380 Harbor Island Dr San Diego". This hotel doesn't cost too much.

 Below Three hundreds dollars per day could be enough.  It is situated on a narrow

spit at the edge of Harbor Island overlooking a marina and San Diego Bay. 

 After checking  in the hotel, we will leave  the hotel towards a famous place for the

tourists. On the way there, we will eat the lunch at the “Barefoot Bar & Grill”, where

we can enjoy outdoor patio dining and live entertainment. We will be served   many  

foods; appetizers, sandwiched, burgers and salads. This restaurant's all menu is  below

40$. We have been looking for some informations on how to get the most out of our

stay in San Diego.  We chose to visit two best places. One is Sandiego Zoo.  It is

known  that More than 4,000 creatures reside at  zoo. The zoo is also an accredited

botanical garden, lavished with more than 700,000 plants. We are looking forward to

seeing many kinds of animals and plants.  The other place is Seaworld. We hope to

have a great time at Seaworld , where we can see the sea life exhibits and the dolphin

show.

Two places that I mentioned don't cost too much, neither. They cost below 500$.

We will have dinner at a food court in the seaworld. We think two places would take

whole day.  I expect your positive response about our plan. I'd like to appreciate of

your suggestion. Sincerely!