My Favorite Korean Girl Group 'Girl's Generation'

Hi! Everyone! My name is Harry. As you Know, I came from South Korea. I like Korean Pop Song(K-POP) which is bright and cheerful like dance music. One of them is Girl's Generation that is the most popular gril group in Korea. From now, I will introduce them and please enjoy it.

Girls’ Generation a South Korean nine-member girl group formed by SM Entertainment in 2007. Its members include Yoona, Tiffany, Yuri, Hyoyeon, Sooyoung, Seohyun, Taeyeon, Jessica, and Sunny. International Girls’ Generation fans usually refer to the group as SNSD, the acronym of the group’s Korean name So Nyeo Shi Dae. Many of the members had already pursued entertainment careers before the group’s debut through music videos, commercials, and others.

Each member was professionally trained in singing and dancing, but some were also selected to be trained in acting and modeling. Many of the members already had made names for themselves in the Korean entertainment industry through their participation in magazine ads, television commercials, and small television appearances.

Girls’ Generation had its spectacular success in the first half of this year with 'Gee'; it released in the first half 2009. 'Gee'ranked first for the ninth consecutive week at 'Music Bank'; the Korean music program, while sweeping album sales, downloads and mobiles in the first half. Girls' Generation has been shining in the local music market since its debut in 2007 with a string of success: `Into the World', 'Kissing You', 'Baby Baby' and 'Tell me your wish'

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writer : Harry(Kwangil Kim)

Jason Yang

My name is Jason. I come from a beautiful island,Taiwan. I live in the main city of Taiwan which is Taipei. The famous structure in Taipei is 101 Bulding which is the tallest building in Taiwan. There is a river in Taipei names Danshui. You can go fishin and swimming in that river. And also many Taiwan movie take there. If you come to Taipai you must go out at night. You can't imagine how lively is at night. There are many snack and food on the street. The most attract thing is the cheap cloth, and the style is very fasion. I live in an apartment. There is a mountain behind my home. Every weekend I will clim with my parents. It's very comfortable to arrive the top. The wind is cool. The people in Taiwan is very friendly. If you want to visit Taiwan I am sure that you will fall in love with Taiwan.

Something about Me

Hi!I'am Grace.I wanna introduce myself in my frist bolg. I am come from China,my hometown is in the northeast of China,there is very cold in winter,if you like snow or skee maybe you could come here to visit.My hobby is listening to music,rock'n'roll is my favor,I'd like to take my ipod with me everywhere.These days i was so busy,becuase i had a lot of plans in my mind and i needed to achieve all my goals.I wanna go to rcc first,so i will buy a car after i pass the driving test.I wanna buy a motorcycle also,but i need to give up.Because it is toooooo dangerous to drive a motorbike in the U.S.I think they are crazy drivers,cause they are driving tooooooo fast!Maybe first time when you meet me,you would think i am not easy to contact,but it is not true,so please don't believe your eyes when you see me~^^.Last quarter i really liked to listen korean music and watch korean dramas,but this quarter i changed.I am nuts about watching japanese dramas,like my junior high school i loved it soooo much.Almost japanese dramas encourage people after you watched you would have a lot of enthusiasm to continue your study or work,you would be very serious,hopeful,and passional to do your jobs.After this quarter i wil come back to China again,i say again because of 20days ago i just came back from China,but i still so happy to back home.Actually,this winter i wanna go to korea and japan,but for some reasons i can not go there,so i changed my plan to go to hongkong,i have never been there before,it sounds unbelievable,but it is truth lol.Right now i am dieting,i need to lose more 20 pounds.And i wanna get a new haircut and a boyfriend also.A lots of my friends can not believe i don't have a boyfriend,but i promise i don't!!= =...|||
Ok,this is Grace,a confused Grace.

From Grace Zhou

About me - who is she?

By Mira Oh

Hi, everyone~ I was really impressed you guy’s stories last week. Today, I want to tell you about me. Actually, I’m a little bit lazy person. Here is an interesting story how I am lazy. Naturally, I had to born in April someday. But my mom says, I never moved very little from her belly. So, my birthday June 6th now, it’s two months behind time. Maybe since then, my laziness has begun. Now I'll tell you about something what I like. First of all, I like cooking. Since my mother has became an university student, I begun to cook. Her major is psychology art therapy, so she usually study on weekdays. And also she goes to some welfare facilities such as orphanages or old people’s center on weekend as a volunteer. She is very busy, so I have to cook myself for survival. But I always want to support her study. I’m proud of her. Also I like watching movies, especially independent movies or documentaries. If someone interested in independent movies call me~ Next thing I like is musical. 'Hedwig and Angry Inch' and ‘Rent’ were very impressive! I’m really want to go to the Broadway. Lastly, I like traveling. Two years ago, I went to Australia alone for one month. It is one of the unforgettable memory in my life. I want to travel all around America(with you). Thank you for reading.

The funny story about me

by Zhang Mengchu(Judy)

When I was a child ,I always want to learn every kinds of skills like riding a bike or something. During my learning time, there were a lot of stories happened and now I’ll tell you some funny stories about me how to learn riding a bike.

That was a sunshine day ,my dad told me that we can went outside and he would teach me ride the bike if I want. Without any doubts, I said yes and felt so excitied about that.That bike is my first bike,which has a white basket on the front and its colour is blue. Everyone know that the hardest thing is how to keep balanced. The first time when I got it, I fall down heavily, then I got up and kept doing that, the lucky thing is that I didn’t lose my patient and didn’t give up.

After fall down many times, finally I can keep balance on my bike, dad felt happy for me too.Then I got on bike again because I was ready to ride in the next downhill.However, I didn’t know how to slow down when I met some urgency. So something terrible just happened, when I got down that downhill with fast speed, I didn’t realize that I should slow down ,because on the front there was a big trash can. “Ahhhhhhh~~~……” , with that shouting, I knocked into that trash can and fall down on the grass heavily. What about that trash can? I let all the trash out of the can and smelt so horrible.My dad laughed so loudly and said: “You should learn everything well before you want to do it!”

This was my first time to ride the bike, it make me felt hurt and know that when you want to do something, you should prepare everything before that.Ha~Is that funny??Although it's so funny, it's the best memorble for me,because I not only gain the experience,but the happiness.

My Unforgettable Memory

By Greta

It is the best memory in my life. when I chose the picture, I looked over all of our picyures and I started missing them again. We have been together since 2004, there were 52 girls in this family; however, some could not continue their study with us due to their family financial crisis, some could not suffer from the stressful study and even someone got a baby. At least, the family remained 40 girls and we just graduated and said good bye this year. Initially, our relationship was started from a kind of distrust, and nobody tried to improve the situation and everyone maintained the relationship without any attention. It can be said we detested each others; we often argued and fought. Be honestly, I have thought that I want to leave the family; nevertheless, our emotion had be linked. There were some problems which forced us have to solve together, such someone has traffic accident, someone has been forsaken by their parents, and someone was broken with her boyfriend, someone want to suicide…; our relationships has been established through struggling every single problem. During the years, they taught me a lot. I know how to be more patient, how to listen to them, and how to pretend be tender even though I really freaked out. In fact, what I got are more than I gave. It seems liked that we just made a move recording my best five years. I want to say I didn’t regret staying with them. At present, it is fate that we come from different countries and study together; hopefully, we also can develop good friendships in the class even we go back our countries.

Leaving Home

By Munif

Have you ever felt sorry about leaving home? My decision to leave home was made on October 2008. It was not easy to decide leaving my home. Sometimes, people come up with some decisions which can affect their whole life. I consider my decision as one of these decisions. My purpose behind leaving home was studying for my second master’s degree in finance. After I made decision to leave, my research for English centers started and some friend told me about UCR-Extension. There are 3 steps that had to be taken before my leaving home.
Applying for a scholarship was the first step in my preparation. Our government had announced on a program for the scholarchip on the media channels and my apply was through the internet. The government has placed some conditions and requirements for the candidates in the acceptance process. Based on my background and my qualification, I was accepted for the program. The acceptance process took me around five months. One of the conditions was that the nominee shouldn’t have worked to any organization. At that time, I was working for a bank and based on the program requirements, I had to quit my job. Quitting my job was the second step to get the final approval for the scholarship. My problem was about my financial liabilities to two banks. I had worked hard for 4 months to allow my self to settle my dues before leaving. Also, I called my father to tell him about my liabilities to get his help. My father discussed my issue with my other brothers ,and they decided to pay half of the liabilities to support me and make me happy. After the clearance of loans, I decided to inform my manager about my plan to quit my job ,and I told him about the reason behind that. My manager met me with another manager from my department ,and they gave me the support and assisted my decision with a promise to welcome me back when I finish my study. My bank was so cooperative in the process of my ending of service ,and it took me only one week. The third step was the preparation to leave. During the acceptance process for the scholarship, I chose the U.S.A as the first option to study in ,and I got approval for my request. As it is known, a visa is the main issue for the students who are planning to study in the U.S.A. Subsequently, I applied for the visa and I got it within 3 days. After the visa, I started preparing my self, getting stuff, reading about the U.S.A and starting research about a city and university. My friendship with some one guided me to UCR-Extension.
In conclusion, my experience can be considered as a short experience because I arrived in U.S.A 2 months ago. I am feeling really good ,and I am excited to get into the university. In addition, my friendship with some American people has granted me a lot of help and pushed me to make more progress in different aspects of my experience. I am not feeling sorry about leaving home at all.

My Personality

by Charlene Chung

Everybody was born with different characteristics. Some people were born to be active; others were born to be passive. That's why everybody is unique. For me,I am an outgoing and easy-going person. I like to make new friends and it is not difficult for me. For example, when I came here in this January, I was alone and had no friends, but after around two weeks,I made lots of friends, such as Koreans, Japanese, Frenches, Brazilians, since I am always the person who talk and smile to people firstly. I don't feel shy to do that and I joined many activies in Extension Center. It is really easy for me to build a common topic with other people.

Secondly,I am also stubborn person. Once I decide to do something, I will insist on it and do my best to finish it even though some people don't support me. I am not the person who give up something easily if I think it is right and good for me. For instance, before I decided to came to America to study, my old brother didn't agree with me. He thinks it wastes money and my time but I still did it. It turns out that my decision is right since I have learned many things after caming here. Thirdly, one of my personality characteristics is imperturbable, especially when I meet some trouble or difficulty. Some people are easy to become panic when they meet trouble or problem, but for me,I am totally opposite. Everytime when I get the problem, the first thing I tell myself is to stay calm, not to be panic, because only you stay cool and then you can really think of the solutions. Instead of yelling, I choose to calm down and figure out the solutions as soon as possible.

In conclusion, I am an easy-going, stubborn and imperturbable person. I am good at socializing and I always do my best to achieve something that I really want to do and also a problem-solving person when I got the problem.

My Hometown

By Kodai Mikami

I'm going to introduce my hometown.
My hometown is Ibaraki, Japan. There are a lot of mountains and the beautiful sea, and people is kind and funny, maybe.Natto is a special product of this district but some people don't like it.I don't know why they don't like it. It's delicious food, kind of ...

There are a lot attractive things in Ibaraki. In spring, you can see a lot of sakura:cherry trees. In summer, you can go hiking to the mountain, and you can go camping any mountains that have camping village. You also can go to the beach. In fall,you can go to the mountains to enjoy the autumn leaves. It's really beautiful.In winter, you can enjoy to go to watch soccer game, if you could get a ticket. It should be exciting. I have been there every year if I'm free.^^

If you have a chance that visit to Japan, please come my hometown Ibaraki.^^

My Hometown

by: Hassan al-Hakeem

Hi,you all probably know my name and where am from(Saud Arabia)well i will tell you were do i live there . I live in a small city named Saihat located in the eastren of Saudi arabia neer the Arabin gullf . saihat weather is too hot,humed in summer and cold,rainy in winter. it used to be named Afan 200years ago but when the portuges tradeship went there to rest they named it (sea hat). after 100 years it tarned to the carent name (saihat).saihat population is 70000.it had a wonderfull sea shore it length is around 10 mile and you can see from there a butyfull viwe at the sunset of more then 600 fishingboat looking all the same made out from wood we call it in arabic (lang). pepole there love to play football and fishing at all times. there is also a sport clup is from the oldest clup in Saudi arabia named (alkhaleej). it had many strong teems im alot of sports like:football,basketball,hand ball.vallyball,Heptathlons,Sprinters,diveing and alot .
well this alittle information abou my city hope you like it