Journal #10

Each person has his/her own favorite hoppy, by this hoppy we experience our best feelings because we are doing what we really like to do. As a soccer fan, I enjoy playing and watching it, especially when it comes to my best team which is real madrid. I watch soccer some times to learn new tricks or to get a tacticals ideas, so I know what should I do when I play soccer.
Soccer has many competitions all over the world, each country has its own league or cups, and there are world wide competition that are played. One of the most important competition in soccer is the world cup. The world cup competition is a soccer competition that occurs every four years nad includes all the best national teams in the world, who wins this competition is the world best national team. As a result, this cup is so important for every player, coach, and a soccer fan. What makes this cup unique is that this cup occurs once every four years, so everyone is waiting for this cup.
Last world cup was in 2006, it was very special for me because it was the last cup for my best player Z.Zidane. He players for france, and he announced that he wanted to retire from playing soccer after world cup 2006. He is one of the best playmakers in the world, and a playemaker is a player who dominate the game by recieving passes and serving them to the strikers. he played for many great clubs like Juvents and Real Madrid. He has won many awards and the most important one that he won the best player in the world three times.
When the world cup begun, I was cheering for France, I wanted that Zidane end his career with a huge troophy. France was playing okay at the begining of the cup, after they qualified for the knock-out round, I was so happy that they made it with that okay perfarmance. They play against Spain in the first knock-out round, it was very tough because Spain was one of the nominees to win the cup, but France made it and won 3-1 and Zidane scored the last goal for France. After that they had a huge team to beat which was Brazil. Brazil has always been the number one nominee of the world cup, they have won it five times. In the other hand, France has won it just once. Before the game began, Zidane announced that he would play in his best performance. I was looking forward to that game, when it began I was so curious and I wanted to see Zidane enjoying us with his magic performance. He played one of his best games and finally France won the game 1-0 by Zidane crossing a great ball to Veira who scored it. France reached the semi-final and playing against Portugal which was a tough team to defeat. The game was quite boring and as I wanted, France won 1-0 with a Zidane's goal from a penalty kick. I was the happiest person on earth at that times because France reached the final.
The final was between France and Italy and Italy is known for there defence style. It was a game that no one could expect a result or even the winner. Both teams were great, both had all players they needed, no one was injured. Here it begun, the most important game that was going to indicate the winner of the world cup. After five minutes from the beginning, the referee whistled for a penalty kick for France. Zidane was the player who wanted to shoot the ball. Imagine that situation, All people in your country want you to score and it is the last game for your career and all this stuff, not only that, put in your mind that the goalkeeper for Italy was the best goalkeeper in the world. What a stressful situation. Finally, with a huge concentration, Zidane scored a perfect goal and letting France take the opening goal. But the bad luck came, after 10 minutes, Italy scored their tie goal so the score was 1-1. It was a tough game that no one could score a second goal. The game continued with this tie. Suddenly, one of Italy's defender fall in the ground and no one knew why. A few minutes later, the replay showed everything, As Zidane and Italy defender Marco Materazzi were jogging up the pitch in close proximity of each other, they briefly exchanged words after Materazzi was seen tugging at Zidane's jersey before Zidane began to walk away from him. Moments later, Zidane suddenly stopped, turned around and rammed his head into Materazzi's chest, knocking him to the ground. As a result of that, the referee gave Zidane a red card so he couldn't continue the game. He ended his great career with a red card. I was so sad at that time. What made me more sad was that France lost the game. I won't forget that moment or even that cup. Overall, Zidane won the best player in that cup and that was satisfying.
In conclusion, Zidane announced on the televesion that he was sorry and explained the sitation. One thin that I want to say is that Zidane is one of the best players in the world which France is going to have difficulties to find a new Zidane to cover his place in the pitch. He had make soccer more beautiful and enjoyable, and in the end I want to thank him for everything he has done.

Journal #9

I was worried to death about my future, especially last week when I had to decide which university I'm going to apply for. The problem is that I have a scholarship, and I can't choose any university, my embassy gave me a list of universities that accept my major and those universities are great. I can't apply for other than those universities because my embassy keep updating their list and try to choose the best universities and in which major its the best one. For exaomple, I can apply for Cl State Fullerton only for certain majors like business administration, computer science, nursing, but not computer engineering which is my major.
When I was looking for universities, I found that Cal Poly is approved by my embassy, so I decided to apply their. But I found that they work with the quarter system, and I don't think I'll be comfortable with that. I called my embassy to ask for more universities, they told me to check in the website, thay have all the approved universities there. I looked for them, I found that San Diego State University ( SDSU ) accepts my major and it's approved by my embassy. I was so happy to know that. I'm going to apply there as soon as possibile, and hopefully they will accept me.
To sum up, I was really concerned about my future and where I was going to study, because this is the reason I came here. When I get the acceptance from SDUS, I'll be so relaxed. Finally, I hope that the processes for my application work fine, and I wish for eveyone the best luck in their academic studies.

Journal #8

Writing is one of the most important things that you should know and especially the academic writing. Those who want to get a degree in the US, they have to study and learn how to write academically. For us, ESL students, it’s so hard to write academically right now at this time.
Practicing is the best treatment for us. We know that practicing makes perfect. That’s what we should do in order to be good in writing. For me, I can see myself improving. I still have my papers which relates to the first semester with ALP. I’m improving and that really makes me happy and encourages me to do more writing. About the things that we can do in class to make us good in writing, I have no idea but I'm sure that Having the knowledge of how to correct your mistakes is the best thing.

In conclusion, being great in academic writing is really helpful for academic students. Students Should be patient and work hard in order to write academically. I believe that when we write and practice a lot we can be very good in writing.

Journal #7

There are many tv shows you can watch on tv, and my favorite one is family guy. family guy is a comedy tv show which shows many funny charectaristics, and tells hilarious jokes. Some many people have watched it and loved it from all over the world. I was watching this show before I came here to the US. It's a popular show that makes your time pass wonderfully. Family guy has a great reputation thanks to its characterstics.

The tv show is all about Peter Griffin who is the father of the Griffin's family. He is stupid and his way of thinking is so funny. Lois which is his wife, she is a very good mother who cares about her family. Meg is their daughter, who has not many friends and no one likes. Chriss, their son, he is so unintellegent and a small sample of his father. The last member of this family is stewie, he is the youngest son and he hates his mother and his way of thinking is so violence. They are the griffin's family, and of course there are so many other characteristics like Quagmire, Joe, Cleveland ..etc. When you combine them together, you get the most hilarious show.

In conclusion, family guy is one of the most funny and popular show in the US. I always watch them in my free time. The jokes, the griffin's and specially stewie are the best ingredient for hilarious show.