Spring Vacation

Hey,

What is everyone doing for Spring break? I am going to Jeju island I and m sleeping. I am going to sleep more than not this vacation.

I will be getting a tan and building sandcastles. :D That will be fun wont it? When I come back, I will not match my socks white socks.

Wii will also be playing this during vacation. Yes, thats all I am doing.

"Lost Names" climax

The last part of the book. The narrator is now in high school, but is really learning very little. Now, all the "high scholars" are just doing hard labor for the "Empire." His mother comes to see him, and he decides to go home. He is home for a very short period of time before the emperor makes an announcement, allegedly of a new weapon that can destroy the allied forces. The emperor comes on the radio and...says that Korea is free, Japan is conquered, and for all Japanese troops to go to the homeland immediately. The people are over-joyed and the rest of the book is a sum-up of Japanese people leaving, getting kicked out, or (the people we see almost) getting killed.

Caleb J.

Just some fond memories

"Lost Names"

The book "Lost Names" takes place in South Korea around the late 30s to the mid 40s. The Japanese have annexed Korea and they are just getting raw materials and work out of Korea. The Koreans are having hard ships because the Japanese are taking all the good (white) rice. Even though the main characters family is well known and well off they can't even buy the white rice, thats how scarce it is. The last chapter I read, the story was in winter, harsh winter. Thats about all the setting there is on the book so far. I will update soon.

Caleb J.

Lost Names Chapter 1

The "Lost Names" book I am reading is very interesting. The narrator never actually has mentioned his name the main characters name. I think this is kind of a motif, you know..."Lost Names?" So the...boy (main character) is a baby and headed to Manchuria. His family is trying to get out of Japanese terrine. The father in the book is a protester vs the Janapese rule. He is taken and beaten by the thought police. The mother waits for many hours in the cold snow untill the father staggers to the train, house, shack, thing. Then, at the end of the chapter, off the Manchuria!

Norton C

Secrets

Secrets,

We all have them. My older sisters used to say "A good secret is like a sucker. When you first get ahold of it, it's a shock, but the longer you suck on it, the better it gets. Never give them away for free." My friend had a really big crush on this girl at the church. He told me and although I have never told it...to the girl, some how the girl found out about it :-? I really like to keep secrets, its fun to laugh at a couple words, and every one else thinks you've gone nuts :D

Courage

In "Princess Diary's" moive Mia's father had a great quote, "... Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.” That is a good explanation of what courage is. When I do something that takes courage, I am not less afriad, but I know I need to do something else that is more important than my fear. I watched "One Night with the King" it is about Esther and her will to do something that is more valuble to her, than her life. Courage is doing something in the path of fear, and doing it because you need to do it. That is what real courage is.