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-My life in GLPS-

A few weeks ago, I started attending an English camp, GLPS. It’s held by the Korean Minjok Leadership Academy. It's a wonderful camp and I today, I'd like to introduce you a few things about the camp with a few pictures!

 

The GLPS camp!!

The first picture is the overall GLPS camp. It is short for Global Leadership Program for Students. It’s in Kang-Won-Do, South Korea. This camp is 3 weeks long, in the winter and the summer. With teachers teaching different subjects like Debate, Presentation, P.E. and Writing to the students, from ages 5th grader to middle school 2nd grader, live in the dormitory and move from buildings to buildings to listen to the classes. There are five main buildings that the students use. Dormitory, Dasan, Choongmoo, Gym and the English building. The objective for this camp is to improve the English skills of students and to learn how to live with others in a new environment. I think I chose well to come to this camp because it is helping me a lot to improve myself in many sides!

 
 

The devilish E.O.P. paper
 
There are lots of rules and regulations in this camp and one of them is the E.O.P. (English Only policy). You have to use English, anytime and anywhere. If you don’t use English and get caught, you get the evil E.O.P. paper. Basically, what the E.O.P. paper is is a paper with a paragraph from a book or famous sites and you have to memorize it in the 24 hours. Last Friday, I got caught while speaking Korean by a teacher and had to memorize it with the friend that talked Korean too. It was not fun, obviously, and was really frustrated when I could not memorize it fast enough. I hate E.O.P.! It’s really annoying.

 

 

The Gym

 

One of my favorite subject is P.E. We learn it in the Gym. In the first week, we learned Kendo, in the second week Tae-Kwon-Do, and in the last week, we did some activities as a group. There are two male teachers and they’re really funny but when they’re angry, you don’t exactly want to know what happens. Because there is ice on the road to the Gymnasium, I fell a lot of times, and so I do not really like going to the Gym. In the gym, there are lots of sport instruments to play and practice on. It smells musty, like a storage in a school that doesn’t get used a lot.

 

 

Our Sweet Dormitory

This is my temporary home. It’s on a hill comparably higher than all the other building so it stands out. There are 13 floors including the basement. My room is on the 7^th floor at the very end of the hallway. I have 4 roommates, and they are very nice. The twelfth floor is the cafeteria, the eleventh floor is the study floor, and the rest is the dormitory. I personally like this building the best out of all the others, because I can rest here. I do the things that I consider my favorite. Eat, Sleep, and play. When, I come to the dormitory I feel like the warm air is welcoming me to stay. I love my dormitory!

 

 

Snowfighting!!

It is still snowing till now, and it has been snowing for the last two days. Our class is a little bit active and so likes to play a lot. So when it snowed, everyone when out in the snow and had a snow fight. Some of the mean, violent boys poured snow over the girls with a shovel that was lying on the ground. It felt really good to face the snow but on the other hand, I felt really cold with ice cold water dripping on my back. With my bare hands, I made extraordinary snowballs and targeted them at the boys that made me so cold. Snow fighting was so fun and I’d like to have one again!

My life in GLPS camp is very hard, but while I face difficulties I find the enjoyments altogether too. I am learning a lot of things and I recomment you to come to this camp too!

 

 

"Frozen" movie review

“Frozen”

Recently, I watched a movie called “Frozen” directed by Chris Buck.

This movie was an animated fantasy with characters like Hans, the prince of another kingdom, heroes like Olaf the snowman, Kristoff, and the main character, later Queen Elsa.

To summarize the movie, it starts out with a happy family in the kingdom of Arendelle. The family had two daughters, Elsa and Anna. These youngsters contained magic in themselves that froze everything. Unfortunately though, while they were playing, Anna, the younger sister had an accident and had to get her powers taken. After that, the sisters were separated because of Elsa’s growing magic. But when Elsa became of age, the kingdom of Arendelle had a huge party, in which the whole conflict began to arise. 

Anna thought that she met her love, Hans, and wanted to marry him, and asked for permission to marry.

 

However, Elsa thought that it was outrageous and the two sisters fought. While fighting, Elsa lost control of her power. She froze everything when she touched them. Scared and fearful, Elsa ran away leaving Arendele to forever winter and isolated herself. But, Anna found her to bring back summer, with the help of a guy she met along the way to finding Elsa. This time another accident happened that could not be reversed without the true love. And then on, Anna tries to find her true love with Hans, but fails because of the betrayal. However, she finds her actual true love between her sister Elsa, and summer comes back, finally ending the movie with a live happily ever after.

This movie showed that true love is above all. Even though there was betrayal, hardships, and impossible obstacles, the true love between the two sisters made everything possible. Nothing could stop them from saving each other, and in the end, they were all saved.

 Furthermore, I learned that greed can destroy you. Take a look at Hans, the prince that betrayed Anna. He didn’t really love her, but was just trying to marry her because he only saw money, wealth, territory, and his own kingdom through Anna. But, in the end, Anna realized this and made him leave the kingdom of Arendelle. He wanted to get power and became greedy, but resulting with no accomplishments. This movie also tells what kind of qualities a leader should have. In this movie, there is Elsa, who is the queen. The queen faces lots of hardships while trying to go up to the position she was destined too. I think in order to be a true leader that can lead and instruct the others well, they need to have a lot of experience with problems. And learn how to overcome them easily. 

I overall like this movie, but I think if the true love was between Anna and Kristoff, and let Elsa die, then that might have made the story more exciting. I think it was good that they put the conflicts between sisters, because that’s what most sisters’ experience, and the betrayal too, made lots of women empathize Anna and be more furious at Hans, building up more fun. I recommend this movie, to just about anyone, but especially to sisters that fight a lot with each other like me. After watching the move, I think many fighting sisters could get closer more. 

Frozen Trailer

Frozen Trailer

Self Introduction

Welcome to my blog!

I am a student in GLPS camp in South Korea. I was born in the capital Seoul, and am still living there. When I was in the 4th and 5th grade, I went to Chapel Hill, North Carolina in the U.S. for 1 and a half years. There I found my hobby, reading, and came to choose my favorite clothe brand. When I came to Korea, I found school mate and uni as my favorite school supply companies. My favorite color is mint green.
 My favorite food is fruits. I like every fruit especially kiwis, raspberries, and all sorts of berries and tropical fruits except grapefruits. I'm currently 13 years old and now graduating elementary school in Mapo, Seoul. My favorite thing to do is sleeping and eating because it does not require energy as well as thinking. 
I hope you enjoy my blog and have a good day!