Ten Years Later

Imagine myself ten years later will be having two twin daughters, and I will dress them alike. I will buy same shoes and clothes for them. Iwill take plenty pictures of them and hang around our home. I will be working as a nurse and trying to make end meets. I will be travelled many places including Australia, Singapore, and Thai Lan. I will be able to speak English fluently. I will be able to make lots more money to support my family and my parents as they are getting older. I think success is when I can be independent in financial and take care of who I love. That might be mean that when I have a lot of money and can buy things without thinking too much. It is when I have time to go for vacation to see the world, to love and beloved. The most impportant I believe that success is when you achived your goals in your life and be happy, satisfied with it.

Library

I have my Library card because it is in the back of my student ID. I did not know until one of my teachers asked me to borrow some books from the library. I usually spend time in the library to study after class time because I think I can concentrate better in the school's environment. When I am surrounded  by people who were working hard with their assignments, I feel like being one of them. Sometimes, I stay in the library to hang out with my friends. I also went to the tutoring center to seek for help with my mathematic. Honestly, I rarely spent time in the library when I was in Vietnam. I found it interesting to sit in the library just to read a book sometimes. However, students in Vietnam don't have the habits to stay at the library and study. They tend to go to a coffee shop to have a drink, discuss their homework, and review their lessons. We don't have the library in town, but in universities. Vietnamese don't read a lot, they tend to talk more than read, I think. That is why they don't often visit the library.

Reading Habits

I used to read novels every day in Vietnamese when I was in high school. However, it has changed now. I feel like I don't have time to read anything here. I remember reading books before going to bed back in Vietnam. My mom always told me to put off and go to sleep because it was getting late, and I had to get up early for school the next morning. I had so much fun exploring  new stories, newspapers, and teenager's tips  at that time. I had to learn about the changing of my body myself due to my parents were shy to talk to me about that. I thought that was the reason why I like to read at the first place. When I grew up, I found out that the internet is a great way to read. I started using facebook and read the news more often. It's so much more convenient to read on my smartphone instead of books or newspapers.  Because of using facebook, I always have something new to read that comes up every time I check. It feels like I can see the world through my small device. How awesome! Moving here, I don't have much time to read, so I don't check facebook page as often as before. I have classes in English, and that are all sources for me to read in English. Other than that, I don't read anything else. I only read my assignments to do the homework as needed. I thought my English vocabulary is not good enough to read a novel which I like the most, so I feel hard to start reading  that much pages in English.

Writing Feedback

It has been a long time since I wrote my last essay in my native language- Vietnamese. Yet I still remember how good my writing was every time I wrote. My Vietnamese teachers said that I can understand well the purpose of the question and give the main answer. I liked to write because I often get good feedback from my teachers. However, writing in English causes me lots of stress. I had several helpful feedbacks from my professors said I need to eliminate my sentences and check my grammar before submitting.For instance,  I had run on sentences, fragment, and wrong punctuation. Writing in English is differently from Writing in Vietnam in structure and grammar. I think my Vietnamese writing stay too deep in my brain, that is why I always have Viet_Eng essay. Another useful feedback was to write down immediately the ideas pop up in my mind and try to  organize them before writing drafts. The only problematic feedback was outlining because for me its a waste of time. All I need is a brainstorming and that's it. I want to save that time for editing.