Letter Translation

I planned three CAS activities for this tem: jumping-rope, translating letter, and making a house. I’m doing jumping-rope and house making and I’ve finished the letter translation.

It’s literary translating an English letter to Korean. There are lots of supporters in Korea who help American kids who suffer from food, clothes and health problem. And those who got helps from supporters are writing letter to them to say thanks. It is quiet difficult to translate their handwritings because they use rough handwritings. The first letter which I translated was from a girl to her supporter, that she felt happy to be born when the supporter actually visited her and take care of her. Due to her mother’s sickness, she had to take care of her 2 younger brothers, and she was happy to be taking cared by someone else.

During this translation, I undertook new challenge. I’ve never done a long translation especially in written form because there are lots of points to consider: the choice of words and vocabulary, the grammar, and most importantly, the meaning of the contents should stay the same as much as possible. Also the hand writing of a child was hard to read so much more consideration was required. After finishing the translation, I realized the translation is such hard job to do and felt happy and proud to be born in Korea. It was about 15 lines in the letter and it took me about 2 hours to translate it because of the rough handwriting and considering how to put the words in Korean. It was hard but I enjoyed it and I will keep doing it for the kids and for the supporters.

House making 2

I continued to make my house project this term as well. Last time I finished my walls and this time I did some furniture. Two wardrobes and one book shelf. It took me about one week to plan them and spend a week to make each of them. And for the next time, I will try to some kitchen equipments like table, sink, refrigerator, etc.

Weather club

On 17^th of February, Yoon Joo and I did weather club. We measured high and low temperature, and cloud cover. It was year 13 mock exam week so what was alone before wasn’t exact as well, but we will try to do it more accurately next time.

As I’m doing this I realized that Moscow has very low temperature but the coldness was similar to Korea. And I did some research on this. This is because the atmosphere is dry in Moscow and wet in Korea.

Valentine disco

On 16^th of February, BIS Moscow had a Valentine disco from 4pm to 7pm. All students were welcomed; we sold some sandwiches, snacks, chocolate bars and drinks. Me and Yoon Joo made sandwiches and sold them. I found my new ability to make sandwiches and serve them to people. We were quite busy so we couldn’t enjoy the party very much but we were responsible for moneys.  

jumping rope

One of my CAS plans for this term was doing jumping rope .Ever since I arrived in Moscow last September, I hardly didn’t do any activities for fun or for my health. This is because of weather in Moscow but also I didn’t force my-self to do some. And in the Sports Day which was in November 2010, on that day, I realized that I need to work on my health heavily. I've only participated in one or two game and rest of the time; I watched and cheered my team up. Yet still it was hard for me to wake up next morning. So I decided to do some activity which could be done indoors. And it’s been a month that I started my jumping-rope. At the beginning of the exercising, when I jump about 300times, I couldn’t jump anymore because my legs were shaking and it was hard to breathe, then I realized that I HAVE TO do exercise regularly because I was able to do about 1000jumps in a day when I was young. And I did twice or three times a week regularly, which made, now I’m able to do more than 500 jumps each time. I also stretched my-self before and after activity. I can feel now that my muscles are used and feel better than before I was doing nothing at home.