The last journal

Well, finally we will finish our Composition class in a few days.

I spent a lot of time for this class which is actually the best class in ALP. Mr. Cochran, thank you for your well-organized and wonderful class. (You do not need to give me extra credit for this word)

We wrote so much. That made us progress. Even I still make a lot of mistakes in my writin, I really have the confidence about my English.

I really like the class blog. I spent a number of hours to write it and it has made me progress each week. I also like the color paper packets for assignments. They helped us distinguish the goals of each assignment and also inspired us to work. In fact, I have learned many thing from Mr. Cochran. Going back to my home-country, as a teacher, I will create the web blog and colorful assignments as Mr Cochran did.

For the dear classmates, I hope all of you begin to study your Master Degree, or Bachelor Degree from the next Spring Semester. I wish you guys success in the future. May be, some of you become my son’s teachers. My part, I will stay with ALP for 8 weeks more before return to Vietnam. I will always say loud ''Hello'' when I meet you guys.

The traffic chaos

The traffic chaos chapter in the movie Baraka remains me some experiences about the city’s life. In this chapter, we saw a density of sky towers and car traffics in the city downtown. There were a mass of people walking in the street and a huge number of people waiting for the coming train in the railway station. It is  really ’’ chaos’’.That is the urban life, very dynamic and stressful.

These scenes made me imagine if I moved from Orange County to New York or Chicago. It would be uncomfortable. I have strong memories with the similar scenes. In 2000, when I was living in Aix en Provence, a small quiet city of France, I moved to Paris. It is like moving from Newport Beach to New York. In the first few days, I was really scared. I also feel lonely as a stranger; I thought that the traffic may break me down. Honestly, I want to turn back to my small room in Aix en Provence. I also felt tired by walking in the street between the sky-towers like in Singapore. I always think about if these sky-tower fell down in to me. It was a funny thought because I finally adapted all of that.

Finally, the scenes make me think about the urbanization.