"A Pair of Tickets" Jing- Mei Woo's Entry

Hello friends! Welcome to my blog!
I have brough my laptop along with me so that I can post in my free time.
I am now sitting in my sisters' room, typing to you guys! I have just finished eating dinner and my two sisters have convinced me that they were both capable enough to clear the table by themselves and that I should write to my friends. Aren't they nice?
For some reason... my laptop won't upload my camera's pictures. I could've showed you the house that my sisters have and the many amazing sites in China. Oh well... you can always see them when I get back of course!
My sisters and I have been catching up on a lot of things. So many things that we missed! So many years! So many tears that we've shed while we were talking over tea time. Even though we don't really understand each other because of our language barrier, it doesn't really matter to us. As if a language barrier can separate us now of all times!
My sisters and I have been teaching each other our different language. It's so fascinating to learn another language... it's like a whole new world has been introduced to me. My broken chinese have steadily begun to sound like real chinese. My sisters have also been learning to speak english. They are very fast learners. Even though they can't pronounce some of the letters and words correctly, they understand very simple english which is good enough for me. I feel proud of them even though they are both my older sisters, my Jie- Jies. I'm pretty sure that they are proud of me too even though I don't pick up Chinese as fast as my sisteres do with English.
That's about it for now... I'll be back soon so don't worry about me!
Jing- Mei Woo was here~

Echo

I have just finished the book, Echo by Francesca Lia Block. It is a very interesting book. However, it's a little weird at the same time because every single time it starts a new chapter, the narration will change from I to someone else. For example, the first chapter in the narration "I" but then in the second chapter, it was talking about a girl named Eva. It was a little confusing at first but then after I reread the book again, it made sense because all the chapters are connected with each other.
The book is about a girl named Echo and how she feels insignificant compared to her "angel" mother. Her mother was like an angel because she was very beautiful, can cure with just a touch, and she can grow the most beautiful flowers around. Echo has always envied hermother. However, when Echo's father got sick from cancer, her mother said to Echo's father: "Give me the disease... I would rather die than live without you." Echo became afraid that her mother will also leave her. Even though Echo had said that she had evied her mother, she had also loved her in her own way.
Echo then went to the beach to relieve herself of such thoughts. She decided to swim even though there was no lifeguard. When she was in the waves, she realized that the waves were going to take her away from life. Later on, she woke up in a hospital. The doctor said that a boy had rescued her. Echo eventually met the boy. The boy was also like an angel because he had pasted wings on his back to escape from the hurt and pain that he was living with before. At the end of the book, Echo met the boy again. The boy had turned into a man. They realized that they had this connection with each other and realized that they fell in love. In the end, Echo got pregnant.
I liked how Echo wanted to become a mermaid to "swim away all her sorrows and pain".

character profile thing

Character profile for the book --> Marley & Me [life and love with the world's worst dog] by John Grogan
Well... the character that I decided to make a character profile about is the author John Grogan because the book is a blibiography about him and his dog, Marley, a Labrador retreiver.
John is a sarcastic man and seems to blow up at the smallest things. However, he also has a loving and caring side that shows when he is with Marley or his family and kids.
There is a picture of John Grogan in the back of the book. The picture is in black and white but somehow.... I always imagined him to have red hair or something like that. However, I will never know since the picture is in black and white. I find it funny how he lives with Grace, "a surprisingly calm Labrador retriever" when Marley [in the book] is so hyper- active and energetic.

wondering class discussion...

I've been wondering about the class discussion that we had on Monday or Tuesday. I remember that Xavier had said that The Joy Luck Club By Amy Tan was boring. I believe that he thought it was boring because he does that have a daughter/ mother relation. For example, I found that the book is very interesting because of the daughter/ mother relation and the fact that the stories are about immigrants and China.
However, because I am a girl, I would not understand a son/ mother or son/ father relationship... just like a boy would not understand a daughter/ mother or daughter/ father relationship. That is why I believe that Xavier does not understand the book.
Also, when Kevin, Daniel, and Xavier were saying how the book was only interesting when there was "action" in the book, I wonder what kind of action they were looking for. I thought that there were lots of action in the book because there are manhy scenarios and many situations/ problems that had to be solved. I also found the book fun to read because I can sort of see things from the mother's point of view because then, maybe I can understand my own mother's feelings when she's doing or telling me to do something that I dont like. Maybe I can somehow understand why she would do the things that she does.
Well... that's what I've been wondering ever since the class discussion.
I need to go to the library today and borrow a book [ and also because my other books are due ] !!!