recollection of this semester

The semester is almost over, and I am so happy.This semester was another challenging one for me because I took two unrelated courses with my major: the Films of Akira Kurosawa, and Blogs:New Independent Media.

To conclude, these courses were beneficial for me. Though challenging a new field needs some courage for me, it gives me self-confidence and sense of accomplishment when I complete it.

Among three courses that I have taken through this semester, the most hard but impressive one was "the Films of Akira Kurosawa". During the first eight weeks of this semester, (because this is a eight-week long course) I saw 16 movies, read three books and ten articles, and wrote three reviews a week (total 24 reviews) and two research papers. They were over 18,000 words writing totally. This course needed a really hard working.

Other difficulties of this course were its inconveinence of getting the movies that the professor listed. I bought most of listed movies through the Internet, but sometimes late delivery problem happened and made me nervous. Similar unconveinet thing happened when I rent a movie in the video shops,too. They did not have some movies that I needed because the movies were so classic. In short, it was a course that needed a very intensive hardworking, and left a lot of DVDs as a memento of a course. It was hard but I'll never forget it!!

This blog course was interesting for me. I come to have lots of knowledge about "blogs" and learned issues related to blogs or the Internet. I had many opportunities to read others' opinions as well and made my English blog and web sites. What an interesting exprience!

The last one is one of my major courses: Teaching reading to English Language Learners.

I finished a big project of this course recently. It is a kind of field exprience project. It includes choosing a student whom I teach, toturing the student at least eight times, and writing tutor logs. It also involves developing various kinds of teaching materials, games, and resources to teach the student. It was a forty page long assignment. Today I presented this project in the class and finished this course!!

By the way, I got a scholorship certificate in the Nigh Center today. It is for international students and the title of the scholarship is "international honor scholarship". I am sooooo happy to get it.