Friendship

Friendship

A famous proverb "A friend in need is a friend in deed" tells friendship is required between people. We all need to rely on someone to survive or live in the society.

These days, many people do not make friends with other people. When we don't know someone or we are not friends of someone, it is easy to build up frustration and resentment. It would probably worsen the matter. In order to build up our friendship, first we need to invite other people to know you and make friends with someone in sincere manner. Then we would become friends. Real friends would help each other in many ways. We encourage and forgive our friends. We accept the differences in our friends. We would have less conflicts with our friends. People would live in perfect harmony.

Second, we have to maintain our friendship and not destroy it. So be always friendly to other people and other people will be friendly to you.

Finally, the more friendship in the world, the better wonderful world we live in.

An Event that Changed My Life

Singing a song for someone is one of my favorite moments and it makes me smile. When I was nineteen years old, I started to work as a bartender. At first, I just made some cocktails and listened to our customers’ complaint and settled their stresses. But it was a good opportunity to know about real Japanese society, it means some inside stories. One day, one of our customers asked me to sing his favorite song. The bar had a stage and everyone knew I liked singing. The customer was so tired, and he wanted me to sing to heal his mind. I happily granted his request and sang a song with much feeling for him. Suddenly, the tears were running down his face. His face was smiling but his heart was crying. His smile was so kind as an angel. After I finished singing, I walked toward him and gave him my big smile. When he was leaving our bar, he said “Thank you Aya, thank you so much…” Since this moment, I began to know the sweets of singing and sing at some bars. It was not for money, not for fame. It was for people, for myself, and for everyone.

A person i will never forget

My grandmother is the special person that I will never forget.My grandmother was a "superwomen".She lives in a small village,gas is too expensive to use for the people.My granmother wentto hack some branch instead gas in the hill.It is almost 2 miles far from her house to the hill,but my grandmother could get 500 pounds branch every day,and she didn't use any tool except a pole.You will not belive that she was a 60 years old woman.My grandmoter love us very much.My sisters and me lived with our grandmother in our childhood.She always pay all of her attention to us,protect us;take care our life,but she never take care about herself.My grandmother was a "superstar" in her town also.Everyone knew her and respect her very much,because my grandmother loved to help others,so we always get much help from other people also.I am proud of my grandmother and love her very much.

An Event that Changed your Life

Soo Jung Lee (Jane)

An Event that Changed your Life

I will never forget the day I got on that plane to come to America, it completed changed my view on family. Family did not mean much to me, they were always there when I needed them, and they were there when I did not. They were there a little too much in a way. I wanted to get away from them. But everything changed when I got here, now they mean much more than that to me, and I have realized they can never be there too much; they can never be there enough.
I was having trouble adapting to the college life in Korea, and I was having family problems. I decided that I should leave home for a while and experience something new. I decided to come and study in America. It seemed that was going to solve my problems. Coming here, I thought that I could start a new and happy life. However, when I got here, I things were very different from what I had expected. The courses in school were so hard that I could not understand them. Also, it was hard to get acquainted with classmates because I could not communicate freely with confidence. It seemed like hell. I realized that spending my birthday without my family was not fun, and spending any special day alone was a lot more depressing than I had ever imagined. I needed my family through the sad and the happy times. I realized that I could not live without them. Being alone in America made me realize the importance of family and their support. I started calling them more often. And even though I had never told my parents that I love them before, I started expressing it to them. Now, I learned to see that my family is a very special part of my life, and I am very thankful that I got a chance to change for good. Now I cannot describe what family means to me with words, it is something more than just a definition. It is a feeling rather than just a noun.

An Important Lesson that You Learned

The important lesson that I learned is to be caution and careful. Last yaer I went to Florida alone. On my way back, While I was tranfering domestic flights at the airport, I was hurried when the officer was checking my carry on at the checking gate. After they checked my bag, I forgot my Talking Dictionary in the tray,because I was so hurried to go back home. After I arrived home, I just remembered that I lost my Talking-Dictionary at the checking gate. So this event it made me realize that I should be careful when I have to transportation.

A person I‘ll never forget

There are a lot of people who came to our lives bringing a lot of things to us. Some of these people have a big impact on us, for one or any reason they just came and fill our lives with a new light. Some of this people came and never go from our hearts and make us know the great value of friendship. It is the case of a friend of mine; well really she was my teacher in high school. Her name was Liliana Marin, she was the art teacher I my school. We made a great friendship because we shared the same interest for: music, poetry, literature and art. She was more than a teacher, she liked to share with the students and she found the way to make the classes something really good, her classes were just amazing and everybody loved it. Liliana taught me more that something written in a book or just some theory; she taught me the expression of the life, she taught me to enjoy each moment in my life. Liliana was a great person who loves make people happy and she gave everything that she had to the others. More that teach about an important painters, she taught me how to paint my life with the colors of happiness, she taught me how to taste the sweet honey of life and how to swim in an ocean of marmalade. She was more that another teacher; she was a friend who cares for make her students to wake and enjoy their lives. She taught me the importance of make of my life an adventure. Liliana gave me a new colors to paint my days and my nights , she taught me the way how to liberate my desires, in some way to be myself.
She gave me a lot of moments of happiness. She was a really great woman in my life. Unfortunately she passed away in 2004; she had a heart attack when she was teaching. She gave her last moment doing what she loved to do. To teach was her passion and it is that her passion for everything that makes of Liliana a great person that I will never forget because thanks to her I had learned that passion and how to be myself. Now that I look to the shy it has a new color and everything around me is different. When she died it was painful to me, but I know that she is painting the rainbow whit the color of her love.

changed my life

Importance Of Money

I learned the importance of money after I came here. In China, we had our own houses, car, a steady job and we were able to speak in our native language. So everything was very convenient. I use to think money was easier to earn in China. But after arriving here and finding my own job, I know earn money is very hard. First , I have to take public transportation, live in a rented apartment and learn how to speak English. One year ago, I just arrived here with my family. We could not communicate with anyone in English, so we finding job was difficult. But we had more bills to pay. So living here has made me realize that it is difficult to make money and money is very important. Second, I see that a lot of people in America have good jobs, but I also see that there are many people ask for money on the streets. If these people have money , they can not asking others to give them money. I do not know if they are lazy or can not find a job, but seeing so many of them make me believe that money is very important. Finally, there is a Chinese saying:” Having money does not makes you invincible, but having no money makes everything impossible. Now I understand this saying clearly.

An event that changed your life

Between the fall of 1979 and the summer of 1988 many events happened that changed my life,but it was one particular day which changed my life forever. An icy cold winter night in 1987,I was at my desk studying for the next day exam .My mom's aunt was at our home .They were talking and laughing. "Oh can some one tell them to be less loud , I can't concentrate"; I thought.I looked outside from my bedroom window it was dark and snowing ,and I wondered if school would be closed because of the snow.Suddenly, I heard a dreadful explosion then, everything started shaking. Before I could realize what was happening , I heard another sound of explosion and echo of the red alert : " Attention ,Attention !! The siren you heard is the danger signal . Red alert! Leave at once and prepare to go to your shelters! then , the house went completely dark .It was another black out . I ran to the basement which we were using as a shelter during the Iraqi attacks. This was another air attack on Tehran by Iraqis, but this time was different.They attacked Tehran with missiles . In a period of the few hours, fourteen missiles hit Tehran . After the first day of attacks , my family decided to leave the town. Therefore , we went north towards the Caspian sea and stayed in our summer house for almost five months . On our way to north I witnessed how Tehran was covered by sorrow and sadness. The sky was gray and orange at a different part of city with smoke rising from the fire where the missiles had landed . In one night , the over-populated and polluted city had become a ghost town. I witnessed people who had pity in their eyes . Wanderers like a lost child looking for her mom, they were looking for their families in places ruined by missiles . All I could think of was the lines I used to read by Eliot: " Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future , and time future contained in time past ". Is there going to be any future in our homeland ?! I felt tears running down my cheeks.
Nineteen years have passed since the war ended , but I still can feel my heart shaking when I remember the sad and defenseless faces of my fellow citizens .
I wish for a day that the world sees no person homeless from war and I hope to see the day that everyone lives with love and peace.

Stock

I like to take risks doing some things I believe in. Many years ago, I bought some stocks and lost a lot of money. Two years ago, before I came to Chicago, I risked all of my money to buy some stocks of a company because I believed they were growing. After six months, my investment decreased to about half, but I didn't regret my investment. I believed this company would succeed and my money would come back. Finally, this spring the company's stocks multiplied five times. Last month, they multiplied ten times. I sold all of my stocks and earned a lot of money. Now the stocks I sold have increased to about 13 times, and it seems like the stock value is still growing, but I don't regret it. This risk made me very happy even though I could have lost everything. Maybe I will take a risk again.