THE GIRL WHO CRIED MONSTER

1. I chose Lucy and Randy from my book. All of them are very curious, they never think and ask another people for advices. They often do everything alone, that's very dangerous. Lucy is a brave person, and she also like telling ghost stories. Unlike Lucy, Randy is very shy and faint, but he still like listening to ghost stories form Lucy.


2. I chose Lucy and Randy because they are basic characters, they often attend in the whole story. I'm different from them. I don't care about ghosts or monsters because I don't want to have troubles. If I were them, I wouldn't be curious and think that's a nightmare.


 3. Vocabulary:
+ soak (v): cover with liquid; pour liquid onto.
+ stamp (v): destroy or extinguish as if by stamping with the foot.
+gobble (v): eat hastily without proper chewing.

Kids challenge gender identity earlier — and get support

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2015778687_trankids31m.html

A. Summary:
Aidan Key got a call that: A little boy wear skirts as a girl in school. the administrators and their parents want to help children call their classmates by she or he. That phenomenon is increasing, involve children who are at kindergarten. Then Key told about his story that when he was young, he was a girl. However, he felt that he was a boy, so he go to the dotors. They called that is transgender. "A lot of my adult clients had these feelings when they were quite young," said Jana Ekdahl, a Seattle psychotherapist who works with many transgender people."But 20, 30, 40 years ago, you didn't know why you were feeling that way, but you knew it was wrong to say anything. You just knew it." said Jana Ekdahl. Many parents wanted to solve that problem so Key started supporting them in 2001. The gender conferences are scheduled for August 7 at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle.

B. Personal Response:
In my opinion, this is the most popular problem now. It was popular in adult age, and the rate of transgenders were increasing at children age.

C. New words:
+gender (n): the properties thatdistinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles.
+conference (n): an association of teams that organizes matches for its members.

Hi, my name is Cuong. I'm 19 years old. I was born in Vietnam. My family has six people: my father, my mother, three brother and me!!! That's a happy family although we sometimes have some arguement. I was studying at college in my country and now I am studying at Seattle Central Community College. I want to study at United States because this country has the best education and good environment to study. My favorite subject is Math and I hate Literature. That's a boring subject so it always makes me feel sleepy. My major is mechanical engineering, I want to become a good engineer in the future. My favorite sport is badminton. I like playing computer games, surfing the web and hanging out with my friends in my free time.