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Prewriting:

List 5 events of significance in your life. 1. Being born 2. Having a cute little brother 3. Going to America to study abroad and learn English 4. Going to poor countries to build houses and help out. 5. Having such a great family.

List 5 moments that last no more than 5 minutes where you had an aha or you didn't realize at the time the significance. 1. I met my old friend who used to be really smart, popular, and athletic in PC Room. And there, I saw him smoking cigarette and playing computer games. He was worn out and his eyes were red and tired when I went up and greeted him. There, I realized that I should never smoke and never get too addicted into computer games. Then I left and went home. 2. When I was young, I didn't realize why my parents gave birth to me in America because I didn't really like America at that time, but I think now, I realize that my parents gave birth to me in America for my future goods. 3. I started to like Yuri from Girls' Generation, a girls idol group. I liked her so much that I hacked my iTouch into her theme, downloaded her pictures, watched all the programs she came out, and even dreamed about her. That's when I felt I want to grow up faster and become a successful and nice adult and marry someone like her and live happily ever after.

Choose two events and write about them for four to six minutes. First Event: Having such a great family. As I get to know about more families, I learn that there aren't many happy or loving families nowadays. Many of my friends' parents divorced or even passed away. Plus, there are many families in Korea where the drunken father whips the mother and abuses the kids. Knowing such things could happen to any families, I am glad that I was born into such a happy and loving family. Although our family isn't as rich as others or doesn't live in such luxurious apartments as others do, I am happy to be born into my family which was one of the most significant event in my life.

Second Event: Yuri from Girls' Generation. Although this sounds very silly to most people, it is very serious to me. Even though I'm still a teenager, I was supposed to get married if I was living back in the Josun Dynasty. So I left very lonely that I had no wife. And I started to like Yuri so much that I wished she was my future wife. And I thought about going out, driving by the ocean, saying romantic stuff and all. But I just didn't like her as in the way most men do; I liked her in the way like just liking her presence.

Plus the dialogue and setting: (Second Event) I was lying on my bed, my face facing the front, watching the MBC KPOP Contest, which is the annual KPOP competition. I was desperately waiting for the Girls' Generation to come out because they are the best girls idol group in the world. I was hyped up by the time they came out and when it was Yuri's solo part. They were wearing their marine looks and they wore hot pants. But unlike most guys, I wasn't attracted to the hot pants or the legs, I just looked at her face as she lip-synced the whole time. I sighed as she disappeared into the crowd of other eight members. Then my friend who was sitting on the chair, playing a computer game said, "1Why do you like her so much when she doesn't even know you exist?" Then I just replied, "Why do you even exist?" or something in that line and kept on watching the show.

Event 5: Going to poor countries to build houses and help out. The thesis: Noblesse Oblige The significance: I felt what I had to do in the future and gave me inspirations for further education and becoming successful. The setting: Mexico and Thailand. Write one sentence or phrase for each of the senses (taste, touch, smell...) Taste: I got thirsty as I worked hard to put up the insulant walls and asked for some water; however, the water tasted like a bottle of water seasoned in the flavor of cigarette butts. Touch: Before I climbed back inside the van, I quickly shook the boy's hand, which was hardened and cracked from such hard works. Smell: After we got the main structure of the house done, we smelled something come out from the house; it was burritos and nachos. Hear: As the night approached, I walked outside of the camp and viewed into the stars and the milky way and listened to crickets. See: All I saw in their houses were bottles, plates, broken chairs, and a few torn blankets on dusty floor.

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