Journal#15

I have a lot of places I want to go on Spring Break but I decided to go to Laguna Beach. I think it's going to be exciting and fun. Also I think that I'm going to snow boarding with my Thai friends, I've never snow boarding before, so you better wish me luck!!. Now I'm so excited about spring break. But I also have lots of homeworks to do, so I spare days for homeworks and I think I will finish them. Also if I have time left I will go to disney land and play lots of Rollercoaster eventhough I would make me a little dizzy but I don't care it's SPRING BREAK! and I really hope I do have time left. In the end hopefully I won't lose all my money on this break because if that happen my mom is going to be very angry, So I have to be very careful. Lastly I hope everyone have fun this spring break and see you guys when we back. ENJOY!!

Journal#14 Cultural Identity

I think thing that make me different from others is that I like old fashion stuffs such as clothes, bags and shoes or even songs. Usually teenagers like brand name clothes or expensive bag but I don't. When I was I Thailand I like to go to weekend market that they sell antiques or second hand bag and cheap clothes. I don't mind having second hand bags or shoes as long as they look good on me.

Usually families in Thailand are extended family and grandparents have a chance to take care of their grandchildren, so they inherit old lifestlye values for example you have to respect your elder. In the other hand most of American's families are single family so childen are very independent, they don't have to respect the elder so much like we do in Asia. I have the thai lifestlye in me so when I arrived here I felt a little funny. My host mom and dad always let me be the first one to start eating or bring me water which is usually my job to do. Also we don't hug in Thailand we "Wai" each other. At first I felt uncomfortable to hug people I didn't know them very well but I'm doing better now.

In conclusion I think different countries means different cultures, so if you are in Rome do what the Romans do but the most important thng is don't forget who you are.

Journal#13

Free journal!!! so I'm going to write about things I like. I love to go out and take photos but since I've been here I haven't took any good photos because I didn't have much time and still busy with my new life here. Spring break is a nice start for me to go out and have fun!!!. As we know California is a very nice place so I think I'm gonna get tons of beautiful photos here.Last Saturday I went to the beach here i didn't remember the name but it's beautiful I took some photos and it was great.

Thailand also has lots very nice places too for example temples, beaches,markets and in the city so here are some of the picture I took in Thailand the upper one I took it as the people went up to the skytrain station and the other one I took it in the temple very beautiful gold statues of Buddha. Hope you like it.

Journal#12 Across the Universe

There ara many kinds of movie I like but my favorite genre is a musical movie. I like it because personally I love listening to music and watching movies so musical movie is a perfect combination of the things I like.

My Favorite movie is "Across the universe" directed by Julie Taymor. The story is about a young british man named Jude travled by ship to the States to find his father. After that he met w Max a young American boy who came from a very wealthy family they became good friend and Jude fell in love with Lucy, Max's younger sister. The whole story happened in 1960's so in the movie is also talk about the society back then for example Hippies and the anti-Vietnam War which are very interesting for me. The director uses the Beatles' songs to connect all the story together such as Hey Jude, Somthing, Across the universe, Let it Be and lots more.They remade it with a little different rhythm and all sang by the casts which I think very beautiful and touched. The sences and special effect are also incredible. The movie was nominated for the best musical movie of 2007 academy award so, If anyone who is a Beatles' fan and interested in a good movie I recomended this one!!