Today I am going to talk about the seven deadly sins. The seven deadly sins include greed, gluttony, lust, envy, sloth, wrath, and pride. Greed means wanting too much of something. Gluttony means slightly similar to greed, but gluttony is the action of taking too much of something in. Lust means the need to fulfill unspiritual desires. Envy means jealousy, wanting to have what someone has. Sloth means being too slow or lazy at doing something. Wrath means vindictive anger or angry revenge and finally pride means being too self-satisfied. The seven deadly sin is pride. The seven deadly sins were first introduced by the Catholic Church.

         I think the guiltiest greed that applies to me is sloth. I am a type of person who is very lazy. I just don’t move a lot and sleep a lot. I always look for shortcuts for my solution. Another thing that I am very lazy is when I play soccer. Although my favorite sport to play is soccer, I am very lazy to play. Even during games, I don’t really run a lot compared to my other teammates. Also another way I really don’t like when I am lazy is that when I am asked what to do when I am on a bed or a couch rela

xing, I truly hate that. Its just hard for me to move when I am all relaxed and getting ready sleep. I also tend to sleep a lot compared to other people.

Also when I am in a sleep, it is hard for me to wake up quickly or just cant wake up. Sometimes, I am late to school because of my laziness to wake up. It is just awful for me in morning times. It is just so hard to wake up and I just cant do it.

         Another sin that can apply to me is greed. I want a lot of stuff and it might be okay for my age right now. All teenagers have what they want. I mostly ask for new shoes to my parents but I want other ones too. Even if I get something new, I just feel like I want another one. I don’t like ask for it every day but as soon as the new stuff breaks or if I cant use it, then I ask for a new one. I believe that greed does not apply to me. I believe that it applies to everybody. Most people think that only people who don’t really care about money has greed, but for people who actually do care about money also has greed in a different way. Everybody has greed no matter their age. I bet even my parents and grandparents all have greed. It is not a bad thing to have greed but u cannot over do or have your greed. What I mean is that you shouldn’t get too many things then what you have expected.

         I chose those two greed because I think that those are the most similar to my personality and the most that applies to me. Lazy and greed is like the perfect sin that can go along with me. It is just so perfect that I chose those two right away without stopping out of the seven sins. If I had to choose greed or lazy, I would choose lazy. Lazy is just a little bit more similar to me than greed. Lazy is the word you can describe me as a whole. Wait up for my next blog soon.  

First of all, before i talk about my favorite trip, i would like to say that i personally love traveling. It is my most favorite thing to do whether over the summer time or any breaks. I have been to a lot of places. Most of my travels were with my family but my favorite trip i am going to talk about is the Destino Peru trip with my friends and teachers. I have been to a lot of places. My traveling experience started ever since i was very young. Although i cannot remember when i went to those places, i still know that i have been there with my family. When i was a kindergartner, my parents told me that our family traveled nearly all the West part of the States. But, the sad thing is that i do not remember anything. Other countries i have been to are France, Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, Malaysia, Korea, Peru, and Japan. 

Now what I am going to talk about is Peru, which is my most favorite trip. This year, 2013 summer, our school, SIS went to Pe

ru for community service and to have fun. It is our schools tradition of going to Peru every other year. We do all sorts of things there. We visit other famous places, visit the children hospital to help and to other fun places. I think the reason why this trip is my favorite trip is because i got to know other people and friends in Peru and i went to Peru with my friends. Also, this trip is almost like a once in a lifetime chance, i found out that it would be a fun and a rare trip to do. Before we went to Peru, one of the places i really wanted to visit was Machu Pichu. This trip filled in one of my dreams. When i saw Machu Pichu in real life, it was just so beautiful that it looked like a picture. It didnt look real, it looked like a computer graphic picture in a movie. That was my most favorite part of the trip. Other fun activities that made this trip the best is river rafting, zip lining, sand boarding, hot springs, and visiting the schools in Peru. I got to compare the schools there and SIS. There was a big difference. The main difference i found out was the campus sizes. It was nearly 10 times bigger than SIS. Other than friends, also the funny and nice teacher helped us be entertained and happy.I thanked all the teachers who helped out with this trip and making this trip the best trip. Also, trying out different foods was fun too. Some of them didnt really fit my taste buds, but experiencing different kinds of food is also a great experience, so i found it good. I would love to go again to Peru, but i am more in to visiting other parts of the world where i have not been to and to learn more. In the future, the place where i really want to go is Barcelona, Spain. I also really want to go to Hawaii too. Those places are my future wish list. I seriously do love traveling. I think the reason why i like traveling is because of my parents. My parents love traveling too. They have been to more places than me and they like to learn about other parts of the world and have fun with our family and take pictures.  I would like to thank my parents for giving me all these opportunities to travel a lot with them and helping me out in everything. 

IT IS BETTER TO USE YOUR KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE TO SOLVE PROBLEMS THAN ASK OTHER PEOPLE FOR ADVICE. DO YOU AGREE OR DISAGREE?


I think that it is better to use your  and experience to solve prolems rather than asking other people for advice. I totally do indeed agree with this concept. The reason why i totally agree on it is because i have tons of examples from my personal experience that i can prove to this concept. My main reason would be

that you, yourself is more important than others. What you think is the right answer for you. An advice could be helpful but what you think is the most significant thing and that is the point i want to get across. There is nothing important than your knowledege and your experience in this world. Your knowledge is what you know already, which means that you should be positive if you are in a problem whithout getting any advice or help. Even your experience is very significant. Experience means you have already gone through it, which means you already know what is going to happen the next time and you as yourself would know clearly how to solve it. You would be more sure than what the others think because you have already gone throught that experience. I could tell some great examples showing this concept.
For example, once when i was in eight grade, our school had a policy of giving out detention for speaking other language except for english. I speaked way too muck korean and i just couldnt stop. I mean i did watch out for the teachers but i just kept getting caught. Basically, i just didnt listen. So i started out my eight grade year with some several detentions. It just became a habit speaking korean in my school. The reason why my school only makes students speak english is because it is a english speaking international school. I had a hard time fixing my habit. My parents got mad at me and they wanted to change me. So i tried my best not to speak korean and eventually i fixed my habit. I had this kind of experience. After i had fixed all my habit, and about after a year, my brother finally became a middle schooler. Even my brother had a hard time managing to speak english in school. He had the exact same problem as me. Even he started to get detgention. My parents got mad as the way they use to get mad at me too. This time, my parents asked me to fix my brothers habit myself but i disagreed with that. I do not remember clearly why but maybe i was just lazy or did not like to be involved in that problem. But, eventually, my parents asked me to do it because i am his only brother. By the time i wanted to talk to my brother, I coulnt know what to tell him and what he should do to fix his habit. So i asked my friends for advice what should i do with this problem. Because if i dont solve this problem my parents would get very mad. Even my friends couldnt get me the answer. So i had decided to look for the answer my self. Once when i was laying down on my bed before sleep, i thinked deeply and the only person who could solve this problem was me. First of all, im his brother and secondly, I had that same experience and i have that knowledge. I have already gone though that process and all i had to do is to just tell my brother and pass it down to him. I started to remember the ways I used to fix my habits with my knowledge and i told my brother. I had that experience, which was the reason i could tell him what to do myself, without others help. Since, i had experience and i think what i think is right, so i was positive with the ways i told my brother. My brother eventually fixed his habit thanks to me. Now my brother has that experience too, and now it is his turn to pass it down to someone else. That is the step of helping others with your own knowldge and experience without other peoples advice. The main reason i have for this topic is that yourself is important, what your are and who you are is most important. That belief of your self and that positiveness all comes from your experience and knowledge. Without experiences, your life would be boring and it would feel new. This whole world would look new to you. The character of yourself is made from all your experiences and knowledge. That is how much important a persons experience and knowledge are.

FAVORITE METAPHOR OF LOVE

I believe that love is the most important thing in the whole world. Without love, the world we are living in today would be different or would not even have existed. Love makes up the whole social life of everyone. That is how people get families and that is how people live happily. Everyone in this universe knows how to love and wants love. In love, there are a lot of meanings in it. It could be the love of friends and friendship. True friendship means that you always watch their backs and stick up for you. Love can also mean the love of your parents. People could argue with people with their families, but the main reason why they argue and have problems with each other is because they love each other. They learn and appreciate each other through love. Love basically means true feelings or emotions for someone. Love can make you happy, sad, make you feel pain, and it can make you heal. It is just part of the life. Human are made to love. So, that was just a basic explanation of the love i know about. Lets get in to the main topic.
My favorite metaphor is "Love is an adventure." What i think this mea

ns is that love can be a fun adventure by experiencing love with different kin

ds of people. You might have experienced a bad love and a good love. But it is all okay because you learn through this love adventure by knowing what you hate and like and knowing that everyone has their own personality and that they could think other people are wrong too. So, basically the adventure of love is like a vacation where you go with love or to love. In that adventure, you experience the kind of love you want and if you are planning to find someone who could marry you, this adventure could help you find who could be your future wife and husband. For some people, this adventure could determine your future. What i think about this adventure is that, this is not a once in a lifetime chance. This adventure could occur any time to you until you die. For those who have already married, the love adventure could be a adventure to them too because they learn new things about each other, whether facts or anything could be an adventure you experience. 

Love also can sometimes fall in to the negative side, for example like, fights between the couples. This is a another example of an adventure where you could learn through what you did wrong and get along together with each other. That is how you get closer and attain more love. Fighting with your wife or husband is sometimes useful. You could learn through what you did wrong and fix that and never make it happen. That is how the love strengthens. Love is the medicine to your pain and it is how you heal and just let go all your worries and always think positive. This is how the stress goes away from people.
Love is having someone to rely on at hard times. Your wife, for example could help you out when you are having a hard time. It does not only have to be your life, like i mentioned
in the first paragraph, your friends could help you out, your teachers or anyone you know, but most importantly, your family is the key to yourself. There is nothing more important than your family. They are the ones who made you what you are currently. You should be thankful and appreciate the love they gave you, and now it is your turn to pass the love to others.

DESCRIBING YOURSELF

ATHLETIC

     If i had to describe one thing about myself, I would say that I am athletic. I regularly play lots of sports. The sports that i really enjoy playing are soccer, tennis, volleyball, golf, swimming, and basketball. Among all these sports, my favorite is soccer. I like to play soccer the most and is my favorite sport. I play in my school league for soccer and i also play in a club outside of school. I believe that in order to play soccer, you have to have those basic physical things, like stamina and speed. What I am saying is that soccer is not all about kicking the ball. Your stamina and your ability to run is more important. There are lots of ways where you can improve your physical training and stamina. For example, you can head to the gym and start working out, run or walk outside, and do exercises in home, like doing jump ropes, sit ups and push ups for yourselves. For exercises in the gym, you can run on the running machine and lift weights for your upper body strength. All those exercises i have talked about does not only apply to soccer. It applies to all other sports too, like the ones i play that are mentioned above. All those training can help you in your other sports. For example, every time I do work outs in the gym it helps me in my jumping abilities for volleyball. That is why I say doing physical training is more significant than learning the skills of the sport you are playing. Having those basic physical requirements are more important. I regularly go to the gym a lot. I think that another reason why good athletes have great bodies and have great physical strength is because they control their eating habits. Controlling a food diet is very important in your exercises. That is why people who work out do not eat junk foods, and they eat a lot of healthy food. Food such as vegetables and  foods that contain a lot of carbohydrates and proteins. I personally did follow those steps before i played the sports I am playing now. From now on, I am looking forward to become a better athlete than I am right now by working harder, maintaining the healthiest, and learning other sports. Also, i believe that in order to become a fantastic athlete, you have to enjoy playing sports, and you have to show the commitment that you want to become a great athlete. Otherwise, if you do not like what you are doing and you just being forced by someone else to play sports, that is a waste of time. I believe that doing what you want to do is the best thing to do. I love to play sports and that is why i want to be a better athlete every year by showing the commitment and love. There are a lot of people that I know and maybe around the whole world that they get forced by their parents or friends. I think that is not the right thing to do. Leave it to themselves what they want to do because you yourself is the m

ost important person in the whole world. Also, I believe that great athletes has that ability to learn other new sports quickly because you already hav

e those basic physical requirements i have been talking about earlier. A great example happened in one of my personal experience. I first started playing tennis about five years ago when I was like in sixth grade. Tennis is a very hard sport to play which takes a long time of practice to become good. I had been already playing soccer a way long time ago before i played tennis, so it was easy for me to get better and within a year, i joined tournaments and won some trophies. 

MEMORIZING EVERY WORD IN WORD SMART

Memorizing every word in word smart is going to be my hardest goal ever. The reason why i want to achieve this goal is to first, improve my english, and then to improve my SAT score in the vocab section. The vocab section in the SAT test is my hardest section and that is why i want to improve. To achieve th

is goals, i am going to memorize each section every night and im going to test my self after memorizing the section. When i am finished with all my sections, I am going to do like a final test of all the words all together. Even though you know all the words on the day you took your final review test, you still need to keep reviewing the meaning of each word everyday in order to know it well and to never forget. If you know all those words, it would be very helpful to your vocabulary section or the reading section in the SAT. It can also help you use those words in your essays.




GETTING FIT

My second goal is to make a six pack. There are many reasons why i want to get fit. First of all, i play many sports such as soccer, tennis, swimming, volleyball, and golf. My main sport is soccer. Soccer is a sport which requires intense physical training. Last year, i was not very fit, and i could tell by my soccer performance. Before, i use to score many goals and make assists for my team. Someday, i started gaining weight and this affected my performance. I think the reason why i became less active is because the work load in tenth grade compared to ninth grade was much more intense. I had difficulty managing my time. One of the most important parts of becoming fit is maintaining a healthy diet. Athletes eat foods that contain carbohydrates, protein, and all the necessary food and vegetables. I believe having a good diet plays a big role in having a healthy lifestyle, therefore, putting me on the puts to become a fitter person.



IMPROVING SLEEPING PATTERN


High schoolers these days tend to sleep late due to many reasons such as electronics, videos, studying, and much more. there are many more students who use electronics until late nights rather than studying or sleeping. These late night habits are unhealthy for growing teenagers. Even though studying is important, without sleep, it may prove to be useless. It is because even though you study till late night, you might be tiered the next day which can affect your attendance in class. Also if you are taking a test, it is important to sleep, so you could be alert rather than being drowsy. Sleep also rests the body after a hard day. A person has to sleep at least eight hours a day. It is important to have a good nights rest rather than having difficulties sleeping or waking up in the middle of the night, which will prevent you from recovering fully for the next day. High school is also a time for teenagers to grow, therefore, they should sleep in a set time frame rather than having a inconsistent sleeping pattern.