Final Blog Journal - Novel's question

#1

Everybody has a happy ending in this novel:
- Taylor and Jax, Alice and Cash are going to get married.
- Turtle now can live with Taylor, but she have to return to the Cherokee Nation 3 months a years during her break time.
- Annawake continue her job, tries to bring her brother back to the tribe
- By the way, my favorite character, the funniest one in this novel, Barbie, she also has happy ending, too. She ran a way with her treasure, and nobody finds or tries to arrest her.

#2

I think the main message of this book is to impart that cooperation can solve a lot of problem even the very difficult and sensitive one such as race in this novel. Most of the time, Taylor just kept escaping, did not try to work together with Annawake, and her situation got worse and worse. However, at the ending chapters, when she tries to cooperate, things became a lot better, and the trouble was finally solved easily.

Another message I realize is that, to communicate with other culture, you have to be very sensitive. Annawake is an example, she didn't know Taylor well, yet, she sent Taylor a warning from the beginning, and it made the situation more complitcated.

#3

The second time Annawake told the myth of the Six Pigs in Heaven, she added the seventh one, and I think, she implied Taylor, the mother who love her child so much. And she and Turtle kind of became a bridge to connect two culture, the white's and the tribal one.

The story of King Solomon is also related with Taylor's situation now. As we know, the adoption of Turtle is illegal, and Taylor would lose in the court, yet, she came to the Cherokee Nation. It means Taylor was ready to give up Turtle for her good, and it proves how much Taylor loves her daughter.

#4

No, I won't recommend this book to my friends because it's pretty long; however, if he/she is taking the class HUM 105 - Intercultural Communication, I will. This novel is related a lot with my HUM class, and it can help students who are in this class see more examples of intercultural communication.
By the way, although it is interesting, but it will not become my favorite book because it does not have lots of actions.

Happy Couple

I have met a lot of people who are in love. One of the happiest couple I have seen are my friends. I've known them for 4 years, the boy is my best friend, and his love was my partner in the computer team. There are lots of couple who seem happy, but I think my friends are the happiest because they can handle all of their problem together and don't make love effect studying much.

My best friend was the captain of the math team in my school, although he had to take care for her, at the final match of the compettion between high schools in Ho Chi Minh city, he was the hero of my school, and leaded them to the champion. His girl friend also did good job in school, she was one of top 20 students. Finally, both of them were accepted to the high school for the Gift of Ho Chi Minh city, and they all got scholarship to England for college. They are going to be in Seattle next year to study at university of Washington, I'm so eager to meet them.

I think, one of the things lead them to success is that they can realize the border of love and future, they know what is best for their love in the future. They were really grown up although they were just 16 years old. They can focus on work and don't pay much attention on each other when the are in class, but after that, no one can argue that they are a happy couple. They spend time together, visit each family, hand in hand wall in school etc. I really admire them.

My best friend taught me a very important lesson, real love is the love that bring real good things for each other, not something flighty that lots of teenagers often do. When saying love to somebody, you have to be serious.

Terrible Quarter - Crazy Summer ! ! !

Taking summer quarter is one of my worst mistakes. My friends already told me to not take this quarter and return to Vietnam for four months, but I just thought that they were lazy, and I was totally wrong T___T

This is my second quarter at Seattle Central, and also, this is such a horrible quarter, I get a lot of troubles.

First, I live in SeaTac; my school-day start at 8:10, and it means I have to wake up at 5:30 to prepare 2 meals, take a bath till 6:30, take 3 buses to school at 8:05. (as the schedule says, but this schedule is useless, the bus driver never come on time) Now, I'm a famous late-boy +____+

Moreover, I am always feel sleepy in class. I have been a night owl for years, it seem impossible to me to go to bed before 1:00 AM. Unfortunately, I am also a sleeping-lover, and 6 hours for sleeping a day is such a NIGHTMARE.

Time is another problem, I mean time for homeworks. As we know, because the length of this quarter is shorter, we have more daily homeworks. I'm crazy of being surrounded by tons of exercises. Weekends are truly terrible, I've been familiar with the spring schedule, so I just have fun untill Sunday; I always forget that I have 3-days-weekend-homeworks, not 2-days-W-Hs +_+

This quarter effects me a lot, it lead to a bi decision. I swear to myself that I will not take summer quarter again, Summer quarter - crazy quarter ! ! !

0(>_<)===o (+___+) < --- summer quarter

Ông kẹ

The picture named "ông ba bị" drawn by H.Oger in the soon 20th Century

As you know, I am Vietnamese, and I'm very proud of my 4000 years culture. Today, I will write about my culture.

First, I want to let you know a little about our people. Vietnamese are people who used to live in North Vietnam today thousands years ago. Our race is austro-asialatique which is the combination of Australoid and Mongoloid. Actually, indonésie (who live in most of Southeast Asia today) is the combination of Australoid and Mongoloid, and we Vietnamese (actually, austro-asialatique) is the combination of indonésien and Mongoloid. 4 thousands years ago, my people lived in North Vietnam, and like other Eastern Asian countries, we were affected a lot by Chinese culture, but, because we lives in the land which is the interference of two culture, one from the North, and one from the South, our culture has a lot of different factors.

There are a lot of things to write about m culture, but the one I chose which I myself learn from watching people teach their children is very simple, and very few people think much about it. That is Ông kẹ (or ông ba bị, which mean Mr. Three-Sacks), an unreal person. In Vietnam, when kids are naughty, or do something wrong, we often scares them by Ông kẹ. Ông kẹ is the person who job is to kidnap naughty kids, put them into his sacks, and they are very afraid of him. I think much about it, why do our forefather have to have one person for just scaring the kids ? One time, when I see a young woman told her boy to go to bed, I realized why. She said "Go to bed now, son, father will not be happy if he see you at this time." Oh, she used the boy's daddy to scare him. Back to Ông kẹ, now I know his role in my culture. My forefathers want to teach kids by a little scaring when needed. But, to use their father, mother, grandma etc would make them have not good impression about their close people. Ông kẹ can solve this problem, he is a tool for parents to teach their kids when need without making a bad impression about themselves. Moreover, Ông kẹ teaches kids that, your parents will protect you, and you'd better listen to them to do right things.

Ok, that's it, I'm done ^^ You guys have a nice weekend, I'm going to join an American wedding celebration, time for getting know more about American culture. thanks, c ya on Monday.

What will I teach my children ?

Although I don't know what exactly I should teach my children, I know there is one thing they have to know when they was very young, I will teach them to finish their meals by their own. One thing I have learned from other parents, a lot of children hate eating, and they refuse to finish their meals. If we accept it for peace, by chance, we send a message that crying can solve every problem. Teaching them that not only lets them know how important food is, but it's also the first lesson about standing in their own. I saw some children who were not taught to listen to their parents; they are so naughty, and I don't want my children to be like that.

I want to teach them how to play chess. We can have fun, and I can also force them to think a lot; that will develop their thought. Maybe they have to know some other sports ,too. To know and have hobbies in sport is good for their health.

Another important thing that they have to do is housework. If they do houseworks, they will know how difficult is that job, and it teach them their responsibility with family.