Assignment 3

      I think that Sedaris wrote this Essay mostly because he wanted to show readers his experiences in the airports. He wanted to give peoples' appearance, living, by showing his situations that he encountered at the airport. He show the saying and behavior of the Woman in 70s with her grandkids, and he described the dressing of those grandkids briefly. He also looked the family consist of 5,  with couple in 50s and three teenagers. He saw people who are complaining about their lives under rule of Barak Obama, blaming his government as communist.

   The author thinks a lot about the true beings of us, which can be shown on "But what if this is who we truly are, and the airports's just a forum that allows us to be our real selves, not just hateful but gloriously so?(277)". He saw each forms of different individual beings in the airport. Grandmother sending her grandkids to san francisco, the boy with orange hair, the man with khaki shorts, the man with mustache are all the feature of ourselves. Author effectively dissolves his thought into his episode in the airport delay time.

  I think that he wanted readers to think one more about what we truly are. Whether or not it is a simple, unimportant thing, the existence itself has its own value. He wanted to inform and review our figure through this essay.





Question1. Why did Sedaris thinks that knowing what we truly are is important?

Question2. Is it righteous to blame things only based on my situation like the man wearing khaki shorts and the man with mustache?

Standing By

This essay is about writer's experiences during the waiting time in the airport. David Sedaris, the writer of this article, takes plane often because of his occupation, when he went to airport he saw many people having inconvenience. At spring on 2003, he was asked to prey for troops in Iraq. At summer of 2009, he was taking plane from Dakota to Oregon, But there was thunderstorm in colorado, so there was 2hour-delay on the departure at Fargo, he missed the connecting flight. When he arrived at Denver, he has directed to the customer-service line. It was very long and many people looked exhausted there. He firstly saw a woman in 70s with well-dressed boy and girl. She complained about airline that they always say they worry because of few people traveling, but because they oversold the ticket, she had to wait to send her grandkids to San francisco with being told nothing from airline until tomorrow. Suddenly, her phone rang and she tried to find thing to write, the author lend his pen&pad to woman. As David looked around he saw a family consists of couple in the 50s and 3teenagers which is two of them are boys and the other one is girl. The girl was holding very young baby. And she also saw grand-mother and she asked him about which person the author vote for. After that Sedaris suddenly fell a sleep. When he got up, he saw a man. He started to complain without asking anything. He said the woman at the gate said she called his name but she did not.
Suddenly there were announcement through P.A. system asked Adulf Hitler to find his luggage, and the man wearing khaki shorts and the mustache started complaining about their life under Barak Obama, who have been his office for only six months at that time. Author keeps saying he don't know how to hate, but that not he truely want to say.



WORKS CITED
"Standing By: Fear, Loathing, Flying" by David Sedaris, reprinted from the New York, recollected from the First year composition book 2011-2013 page 275-277

Assignment 2

         I previously thought this class as writing-only class because I heard that different with my previous class, ESL 117-which covers grammar and writing, 101 focuses only on reading material and writing based on it. But this was totally different one. I should make conversations with my class members and also check their errors in essays.

         I expect two major things for this class. I want to be a good college-level writer by having  many writing chances through this course and by the in-class activities, become more fluent in english speaking as well. I hope that classmates and Ms.Evans gives me concise review about my assignment or essays and encourage to speak more so that I can settle in the "English" and "America" more easily and stably.

         I have a concerns about some parts in the student guide and syllabus. Firstly, at the participation part in the first page of the syllabus, I wonder whether I can actively participate on constructive criticism because my shortest part at English is speaking especially resulted by my shy personality. Secondly, on the evaluation part in page 5 on the class description, It states that instructor will not correct spelling, punctuation, and sentence structure because it is my responsibility. This is a concern for me because I think I need a lot of checkings and advices to become skilled writer&speaker.

      I think that writing several essays here could be the positive experience whatever the career I walk through. No matter which job I get, writing a paper or expressing my thought is inevitable thing. Through Outlining and writing and fixing the essay, I think I can acquire better understanding to myself and ability to develop my career.  I wrote like I love to write, but actually I don't like writing that much till now. However, I think I can feel comfortable and like writing the essays when I finish this course.

Introduction about me

My name is Seungmin. I'm from Gwangju, which is located at the south-western part of Korea. My family is consist of five members, mom, dad, 2 younger sisters one is . I enjoy listening to music and surf the internet when I have spare time. For my wish to myself is that I want to have confidence when I do things even if it is challenging. I'm satisfied with Milwaukee's collaboration of artificial structures and nature. Milwaukee is a big city that has many large, and big buildings and most of the houses are surrounded by trees unlike my home town, gwangju. The Michigan lake- I heard it is one of the largest fresh water lake in the world- is really beautiful and also very big, that I can easily confused it as sea. Beaches near the lake gives me unusual experience because I never show a beach located near lake so I never expected about fresh water beach. My field of study is Information Studies. Because I just transferred my major from economics to IST, I don't know much about this major but I heard it is related to managing information. I chose this major because I was not sure about my major and IST major allows me to try wide range of subjects because it does not require a lot of major courses. My best class was bowling and chemistry. It was because bowling has comparatively low barrier to play it and I can ease my stress by rolling the ball to the pin and also chemistry was really interested because knowing about substances which composes things around us was really exciting thing. During my high school year, my writing was usually focused on entering universities. I wrote the essay based on given paragraph. Naturally, I was far from enjoy writing. I like to read newspaper, especially about interesting phenomena relating to nature and human society. I read books related to human's conscious and books related to economics and some science book that raise my curiosity towards science.  Know, my thoughts towards writing has totally changed. After graduating the high school I started to think writing as the most effective tool to express my thought thoroughly and accurately. For me, writing is effective medium that connects me with the world by enable me to spread my idea into the world. By biggest concern about college-level writing is that cause I am not native speaker on english, I'm not sure about the usage of words and grammar, structure of context. I need comfortable environment to discuss and ask questions about my concerns related to this kind of issues and also I want to improve my english fluency through group projects and writing essays. I hope I can speak and write english as fluent as ordinary Americans who are eligible to finish college education appropriately. To notify to my classmates, I'm really want to be friends with you guys but I'm really shy, so I hope you guys to approach to me first and become friends with each other.