journal 7

It is not easy to look for a close friend. And people have different opinions of how to be close friends. From my point of view, I agree with " bird of a feather flock together".

I have a friend who shares with me the same interest in traveling, and we also have many other things in common. We have been for friends for more than 10 years, and live with each other for 4 years during the student life. We liked to go out for dinner in the evening, go shopping and movies at the weekend. Especially, we like to travel a lot. And we often went to a new place every month. It is really joyful and interesting to travel with one who understand us so much. We also can eagerly discuss about an attractive topic, or we can also keep silent to be own in our deep thought. Sometime, we also argued with each other because of disagreeing in something. However, this did not last so long and we continued our new routine.

I also have a friend who often shares with me her thinking. She is my neighbor for 15 years, and we have been friends since then. It can be said that all of my childhood was together with her. We often went fishing, catching butterfly, or played traditional games. As she is at the same age of me, we often went to the class and studied together. Whenever she was sad, she often talked with me and asked for advice. Later, when we were far away from hometown for college, we did not live close to another. However, we still often hanged out together.

Those are my close friends, and we share many things in common. Therefore, I think it is easy to be friends with those who have the same interests with us.

If animals could talk!

I am just wondering how" if animals could talk" could be a journal 6? It is not silly,but it is funny and I laughed a lot when I first read this journal. However, truly speaking it is so interesting and fantastic if animals could talk.

I love pets so much, especially the dogs. Yet, it is not easy to take care of one dog in the US. I just imagine that if one day my dog could talk with me, he would be regarded as one of my best friends provided that he were just be able to talk with me. Every morning, when I wake up, I would ask my lovely dog that "did you sleep well last night" and gave a sweetie kiss on his chin. Then we would happily enjoy breakfast for about 45 mins. Although this dog could speak, he still had to stay at home and look after our house carefully. I would not leave home for work without a request to my beloved dog that" be obedient at home, I will be back soon". Pets are like babies, they need to be fed, and looked after. So it is not simple to have a dog, but what you receive from this funny and lovely dogs are much more which will fades away your tiredness, and loneliness. If you live alone, without your family and friends, when you be back home in the evening and there is a dog waiting for you at the doorsteps, how will you feel? warm and happy? More impressively, this one could talk and of course I would ask him " anybody reach our house and take something out today?"
General speaking, I would talk with my dog the whole day if he could speak, even the simple or small thing. I would love him as much as I will love my future baby.

A favorite song!

People often listen to music when they are both sad,happy, exhausted or energetic. Sometime, song is just about the a simple life in a remote area while sometimes it is an adventurous story of a whole life. I often listen to music when I feel blue. One of my favorite song is "farewell to you" of White Lion.

I just heard this beautiful song 2 months ago for the first time. It was the day I was preparing to leave my beloved country Vietnam for the US. At that night, my friends and I had a "farewell" party. We danced, sung and reminded each other of sweetie memories. We talked to so much till midnight. However, we felt time ran so fast and it did not wait for us. It was a sad and memorable day. Now when I am in America, I often play this song .Whenever I hear it, the feeling of that day remains, not fades away.Its lyrics is very simple but it is a meaningful song. I am deeply impressed at" well its time to say goodbye, I am glad you stayed until the end". And it is always true that "it was easier to say hello than to say goodbye". Yes, "it's hard to say goodbye" but I will be back one day and we will enjoy sweet time together.

weather

Weather is a popular topic people often talk or discuss together. In my country, different countries have different climate. In the North, there are four seasons in a year. It is really hot in summer, extremely cold in winter, rather cool in fall and pretty warm in spring. However, in the South there are two seasons: rainy and sunny one.

Those first visiting our country for the first time are really surprised at the hot climate of Saigon all the time. It seems to be hot all the time and we even need a coat or a sweater. In the rainy season, it rains everyday; but just after a short and heavy rain, it is brighter. And in the sunny season, there is early sunrise and late sunset which is really wonderful for those visiting the beach. Yet, if we travel to the highland, the climate is a little different in spite of 2 seasons- sunny and rainy. Sunny season is cooler ; and in rainy season, it rains softly all the time, from the morning till midnight.

In the North, there are 4 seasons. And it is really famous for fall with cool climate and yellow leaves fall down. In spring, there is soft rain, which we call " spring rainy". This is really romantic for couples, hand in hand, and going around the city.

General speaking, we have different climate in different countries. Whenever, I am far away from my country, i miss it a lot, even a rainy day or a brightly sunny day.

toad- a horrible animal.

Everybody wants to be a hero. And none of them want to face any fear. Surpringsly, they are still scared of small things for no reason.

Personally, I am terribly frightened by the toad just because its skin looks lumpy. When I first saw a toad at my 3-year old, I loudly screamed out and asked my mother for help. Looking at my funny face at that time, everybody laughed a lot. They even did not understand why I was so frightened as in their eyes, toad is a really useful animal. They eat mosquitoes; moreover, it is nutritious for bone growing. Especially, those whose children do not grow up often look for toad and make toad for their children.

As we lived in the country side, there were many toads live in my house. They often slept under the bed and noisily croaked all the night. I hated them, really hated them. Whenever I saw them, I tried to jump up as far and high as possible. Sometimes, I used a stick and heavily poked them away.

I remembered one night, I went to bed without putting my shoes in the shelf. When I woke up, inserting the feet to my shoes and hearing a crying from the inside. I feel disgusted and threw my shoes away immediately, carefully washing my feet. Since then, I never put my shoes disorderly.

Until now, I still feel horrible when I see a toad. I do not know how to overcome my fear. Luckily, in US, I do not see any toad.