Last week I talked about my Christmas party. I was a little regretful that I didn’t go to the party and didn’t insist on my opinion. I think I don’t do anything illegal and I know what I do is right or wrong. I hope I could have the right to act on my own. I am an adult already. I think I should learn to be independent and learn to make a decision. My parents decide lots of things for me, for example, the university and the major. I have my own opinion and I want to arrange my own life. I know they are worried about me and they are afraid that I may be cheated and get heart. I think I should face it even if I may get heart. There are a lot of things I have to learn. Since I have a part-time job I found that I am too narrow-minded, I should learn to face the society and open my mind to adapt to the changing surrounding. I have tried to communicate with my parents but it is no use. They still insist on their own opinion and don’t want to accept my ideas. What can I do? I am too tried of communicating with them.

Today is the latest day of 2007; I will go to a concert at Tainan City Hall with my friend at night. I am excited but I am confused about what I should wear at night. My friend sent me a sweater on Christmas day and he asked me to wear it to the concert. It was a little hard to find a skirt to match it because its color was so colorful. I haven’t bought the kind of cloth before, so I spent much time with my friend to find a skirt to match it. When my friend saw me at night, he said:” You are beautiful today and the skirt and sweater match pretty well." I was happy and I told him:” Thank for sending me the present, but please don’t choose such a colorful cloth again, ok? It is hard to find a skirt to match with." He said: "Ok." And both us laugh loudly.
We had a wonderful night at the concert and counted the last twenty seconds of 2007. I wish I could be lucky and happy and everything could be fine in 2008.

I had a terrible holiday of Christmas this year. Two weeks ago I ate lunch with my co-workers and we talked about how to celebrate Christmas. We decided to exchange gifts and go singing on Christmas and make a reservation of KTV just after our discussion. It was hard for me to decide which gift I should choose because I wanted to choose a gift which was not only interesting buy also special, most important of all, I wanted to give a big surprise for my co-worker. For example, I thought I can buy a helmet which had curled hairs outside or an animal style helmet. It was interesting for me to prepare gifts and I was expected for the day very much. Finally, when I told my father that I will go singing at night at eleven o’clock my father was so angry and he told me it was too late for me to go outside and I can’t go to the party with my co-workers. I was so disappointed and sad; I told him it was just a Christmas party why couldn’t I go with them? My father didn’t want to change his mind and didn’t want to listen to me. It was a terrible a holiday for me I just stayed at home and called my co-workers to say "Merry Christmas" for them.

Last weekend I went to beach to grab crabs with my friend. I was so excited because it was my first time to grab crabs. When we arrived I ran to the beach soon and started to find crabs. My friend told me that crabs usually hide near the stones and sea shore. I picked a branch and walked slowly to sea shore and routed many stones. After about an hour, I was disappointed that I didn’t catch anything and I didn’t see any crabs. I asked my friend:" Do crabs really live near stones and sea shore? Are you sure?" He said: " We will find them soon. Just be patient. Ok?" After fifteen minutes, we finally found crabs crawling along stones. I screamed, took pictures, and recorded the process of catching. Finally we took two crabs home to show our friends. I was happy and left a wonderful memory of grabbing crabs.

Few days ago when I got home I saw a new digital camera on the dining table. I was so surprised that there was a digital camera at home. It was because my brother requested my mother to buy a digital camera for him many times but my mother didn’t agree. I went to ask mother immediately: "Do you buy a new camera?" My mother answered:"Yeah….It is because I usually go on a trip with your father recently, so I want to buy a camera to take some pictures." I said: "Ok. Buy why don’t you buy a camera for brother? He requests you so many times, right?" She didn’t answer me and just go away. I was so confused and my brother was a little angry. My mother always said: "You have broken a digital camera before. I don’t want to buy you a new one anymore." to my brother. After requesting my mother for a long time, my brother was disappointed and didn’t dream of buying a digital camera. My brother thought my mother wasn’t fair. I was glad we could have a camera because I liked to take pictures very much.

Today I have lunch with my co-workers. One of my co-workers asks us whether we want to exchange presents on Christmas or not. We all agree that and feel excited and expected t about the coming of Christmas. We decided which person we send for by lot. Besides, we plan to go singing on Christmas and all of us have to wear retro-chic style clothes that day. I feel excited about the party, but I am confused about the clothes. I think I am going to wear a short wig because it matches to retro-chic style. `Ha`, it is my first time to try to wear a wig. Christmas is coming soon. I must consider what kind of presents I should buy and how to dress up on Christmas. I hope the party will be perfect and interesting.

I take a course of Spanish this semester. I am worried that I will be flunked. Until now I don’t know about the pronounce well, not mention the grammar and changes of the verbs. The teacher pays much attention to his teaching, for instance, he teaches the alphabets with CDs and usually use some teaching films in class. By watching the films we can listen to some conversation, the pronounce, and the vocabularies. But every time I see the films I can’t understand the meaning of the films. It doesn’t have the Chinese meaning and the teacher seldom explain the meanings for the students. We have to guess the meanings by myself and we don’t know whether we are right or not. Recently, the teacher teaches about the grammar. I am getting tired about the course because I think just know the basics about Spanish. I think I should practice and study hard on Spanish. I don’t want to be flunked this semester.