DISASTERS

Disasters; including hurricane, mudslide, avalanche, earthquake, volcano, tidal wave and locust plague; these are natural disasters. Not only earthquake in Taiwan, September 21 in 1999, but also the terrorist attack in New York, September 11 in 2001 was terrible disaster. The fault caused the earthquake and the terrorist attack by the man-made. According my understanding, the world's worst disaster was the Second World War which caused a lot of people die.

A Serious Illness or Injury

During my childhood, tonsillitis always bothered me. I usually got a sore throat four times or more every year. I remember when I studied in high school, I was absent for one week because of fever due to tonsillitis. At that time my sore throat turned from red to white, which was a painful experience before my complete recovery.
A few years later, one day I felt a sore throat again while I was a freshman at the university. I went to see the doctor at the dispensary, and told him about my stories of tonsillitis. After a minute he said, "Drink more water; that is the only way to prevent it.” Later, when I followed his instructions, I seldom got a sore throat, even until now.

Why Read

"Reading makes a Full man." said Francis Bacon. He was really a wise man who told about reading that it was important and very exact. Through reading, you understand about people, arts, sciences, history, geography and many different things. Reading is a good way to increase your general knowledge. I am interested in reading about famous people. I had read a story about John Alden, which inspired me in every day . And I also read about Jesus in the Bible that encouraged me to do something good. So today I check out a book which is about a person whose name is Agatha Christie. The title is "Agatha Christie, Woman of Mystery." I will enjoy reading it.

The America dream

I had a girlfriend who was my sister in Christ. She followed her husband and son coming to the United States, because communist destroying China in the 1980's.

She settled in California but she didn't even know any single letter of English. She hired herself to a house cleaner to earn money. Her husband became a handyman. They worked very hard, maybe 10 to 12 hours a day in the first ten years, in order to give her son good education.

Now her son grew up, had his own car material company and got married in May of this year. Now she got life better and had her own house and car. She gave thanks for God's mercy.

I haven't ever experienced living in communism community because I was lucky being born in Taiwan. I just wanted to learn English well, so I could travel all over the United States, maybe also the other countries which speak in English.

SUMMER 2009

It is different, great, and fun this summer. I started to play piano and went to adult school to study English. I was very excited every day because I had a lot of classmates who could be my new friends. Then my biological son, Shawn visited me from Taiwan and spent all the summer with me which let me joy and happiness. When the class ended in August 13, my husband drove car with me taking 3 children to go to vacation. We went to Yosemite National Park and met a lot of huge trees, Redwood, which we hadn't ever seen. It's amazing for God's creature. Children relaxed and enjoyed the hotel life, swimming, talking, playing and barbecues. My husband and I were very tired but the teenagers were very fun.