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Spelling bee review

                                                                Spelling Bee review

  The 25th Annual Putnam Country, Spelling Bee is a long one act musical comedy. There are 5 students in the game. Every student has various kinds of styles to preform their special art of spelling. They have different ways to spell words.What’s more, we also have splendidly surprising Spelling Bee drama in our school. It is shown in our school’s black box which is a special place for performance located in gym next to Motter Hall and John.J White building. I saw the Spelling Bee drama yesterday and I felt my body was relaxed from the stress of hard studying, my knowledge was enlarged, my vocabulary was increased, my version was elaborated and my imagination was inspired. 

  

I went there a little bit late, so I missed the very beginning of the drama which was such a huge pity. When I came in the Black Box, there was a big boy who was in yellow jeans and a brown hat in front of the audience sing songs smoothly with dancing elegantly. His vocabulary was astonishingly large which impressed me and I knew he worth me to emulate. Moreover, I had heard of that he won the championship of the Spelling Bee last year so he definitely was a strong rival of other candidates. He gave the speech with strong self confidence and loud voice. However, he left very early with shocked me from head to toes. As far as I am concerned,the reason why he left so early was not because of his English level, he was unfairly treated by the judges. He originally spelt the word right but the judge said he was wrong. However, he lost his demeanor by yelling at the judges which I thought was inappropriate. All in all, I felt sorry for him.

The second candidate was a girl with grey cap and glasses. She preferred to spell the word on the ground and use dance step to represent each letter. I was impressed by her beautiful steps and her creation. Everyone was dancing and singing behind her. The dancing team was great and I recognized many faces of my classmates. I felt very proud of them because I knew they practiced very hard to prepare this event. 

The farewell ‘celebration’ for the lose candidate was extremely sarcastic. They repeated the ‘goodbye’ rhythms with alto and base. It sounded cheerful but I thought that was nothing to be happy about.

There was a girl who was very shy and dressed in pink. She talked very little and always lowered her head. One of the judges came to rise her head but lately she lowered her head again.

In conclusion, I have learnt a lot strategy and vocabulary. I hope in the future I can be brave enough to stand on the stage and enlarge my vocabulary. 

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brief summary of spelling bee

The 25th annual putnam county spelling bee is a long one-act play.Music comedy conception and music and lyrics by William Finn Rebecca feldman, a book by jay, Rachel Sheinkin and additional material.Exhibition center in group a fictional spelling geographically ambiguous putnam valley high school.Six eccentric teenagers to bees, by the same three eccentric adults.

2005 Broadway production by James Lapine and by David stone, James l. Holland Barbara Whitman, Patrick Catullo barrington stage theatre company and the second stage, praise and box office success and was nominated for six Tony award, won two, including the best books.This program has given rise to a variety of other products in the United States, including the national tour products in Canada and Australia.

An unusual aspect of the show are, four stage the real audience was invited to a spelling bee and six young characters.Tony award in 2005, a former presidential candidate al sharpton competition.Show another interesting aspect is that the pronunciation of the official, are often improvisational comedy actor, provide the usage - in - a - what a ridiculous example when asked to use in a sentence.For example, for "gym," he said, "Euripides said, stay in the gym what will happen in the gym." in some programs, adult audience only are invited to "parents," also known as the "adult bees at night."These performances by the sexual references and profane the restricted level improvisation rehearsal.

Haiku poems

John is a sad boy

He is also a student

He likes playing games

She is beautiful 

He is very handsome too

I am so uglily

I enjoy my life

Everything is good to me

So I am happy

Essay of cover image

                                    Memorise just like pearls

 Everyone have their own memories, and sometimes they want to review them or think about them. Sookan who is a Korean international student and studied in America. She also has her own memories, and she collected them together. The college life changed her life, just like pearls. Sookan was an only international student in her collage.When she was in the school, she felt uncomfortable, because she is Korean, and she has very different culture and life habits. After a few month, she got some friends, and her life got better. She studied very hard, and she got sick because of studying hard. Marci was Sookan’s best friend, and she did not listen to her parents’ advices, so she has bad relationship with them. She had some good memories, but she also has a few bad memories. As the cover image shows us, Sookan is picking up one of the pearls, and looking at it. The pearls are just like her collage memaries. She want to review them. This book talks about Sookan's 2 years life in college. These 2 years are very important to her, because it changed her life. The cover shows how important these pearls are to Sookan, just like her experiences.

 First, Sookan changed her minds when she came to college. She was an only international student in her school. There were a lot of differences between Korean culture and American culture. For example, she always obeyed her sister, and she wrote lots of letters to her family. But her best friend Marci did't listen to her parents, and she always had quarrel between her parents and herself. Then, Marci advise Sookan did not need to follow her sister, and told her something that is everyone has their own life. So, Sookan followed herself, and she became a independent person.

Second, Sookan had difficult life when she came to America first time. Because of cultures different, Sookan felt strange and a little bit scared. When she get off the plane, she saw a couple people were kissing. The girl can shake hands with the stranger. When she went to school, she tried get together with American, but she failed. Then, her roommate who named Ellen helped her to make friends and adapt new envirement. She got lots of experience from her roommate. At last, she blend in the new envirement, and got together with American friends. She also was used to enjoy American life. Sookan not only overcome the difficults, but also used American life.

 Third, Sookan studied very hard, and she became a students leader from a bashful student. When she started the school, she studied exceeding and got sick. Because of cultures and habits are differences, she did not like talk too much when she started the school. But she did not keep quiet, she made some friends to help each other. She was very nice to her friends, and she also cooked Korean food for them. Sometimes, she took part in school activities. Then, she enjoyed living in America, studing. At the end, she became a students leader in the collage.

 At the last of the book, Sookan’s mother told her “Though times are the times when one gathers one’s pearls” (Choi 163). I think it means life’s difficulty is not a bad experience, sometimes it might like pearls. Even though her mom was died, she still face to fact, and became to a tough personSookan had a difficult life when she came to the collage, but she got success by herself. As an international student in America, I have lots of things that can learn from Sookan’s experience. Her collage’s life changed her life forever. At last, she review her college, just like she is picking up one of precious pearls.

Citation:
Choi, Sook Nyul., and Sook Nyul. Choi. Gathering of Pearls. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994. Print.

Kaihu poems

Basho Matsuo

Here are three examples of the haiku of Basho Matsuo, the first great poet of haiku in the 1600s:

An old silent pond...

A frog jumps into the pond,

splash! Silence again.

Autumn moonlight—

a worm digs silently

into the chestnut.

Lightning flash—

what I thought were faces

are plumes of pampas grass.

Yosa Buson

Three examples of the haiku of Yosa Buson from the late 1700s are offered here:

A summer river being crossed

how pleasing

with sandals in my hands!

Light of the moon

Moves west, flowers' shadows

Creep eastward.

In the moonlight,

The color and scent of the wisteria

Seems far away.

Kobayaski Issa

Here are three haiku from Kobayashi Issa, a haiku master poet from the late 1700s and early 1800s:

O snail

Climb Mount Fuji,

But slowly, slowly!

Trusting the Buddha, good and bad,

I bid farewell

To the departing year.

Everything I touch

with tenderness, alas,

pricks like a bramble.