Thursday, July 31, 2014

Personal View on Wuthering Heights

When I first started reading Wuthering Heights, I had no idea what was going on, and the story itself seemed very dark. Once I got a little further through the book, I started to become more attached to the story line and wondered about the outcome of the characters. I enjoyed the turn of events and how the author described each scene and the way she chose to tell the overall story. It shows the inner conflicts of the human mind and the importance of choices. The variety and the complexity of the characters intrigued me.This novel is tragic yet beautifully written. 
Briefly About Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights  is named after the key location in which the story takes place, which is a huge old fortress-like house upon a hill. There are two narrators; one is a maid that served the households that the story is about, and the other is a man who meets the owner of Wuthering Heights and becomes engrossed in their history which he finds out from the maid. 
About the author


Emily Brontë


I've been reading a novel by this author called Wuthering Heights and want to introduce some background information about her(I was curious to know as well).

Emily Bronte was born  on the 30th of July 1818 in Thorton, West Riding Yorkshire, Northern England. She was born as the fifth child of six children yet the oldest two of the six children died during childhood. In 1820, Emily Bronte's family moved eight miles away from their home to Hawthorth, where the children developed their literary talents.

In a year their mother dies from cancer when Emily was three years old, and her three oldest sisters were sent to a boarding school where they encountered abuse later described in the book Jane Eyre written by one of Emily's sisters, Charlotte. When Emily reached the age of six, she joined her sisters in the school. Soon afterwards,  a typhoid epidemic swept through the school and two of her sisters caught it, and later on, after they were removed from the school, both died. 

The rest of the children including Emily were further educated by their father  who was an Anglican clergyman, and therefore was very strict with them. The children began to write fiction inspired by a variety of authors. Emily later on became a  teacher at Law Hill School in Halifax when she was twenty years old. But under the stress from her 17 hour long work her health broke and she returned home doing most of the house work.

Though Emily had a very shy nature yet also had a mixture of great courage and dedication. She did not love many people, but those that she did, she maintained loyal and sacrificial tenderness towards them, and though she was understanding towards other people's failures, she did not accept failure for herself, never deviating from what she considered was her duty.

On of Emily's first works was about a fictional world called Gondal, and she wrote many poems and prose about it. She wrote many other poems and many of them were published, yet did not draw much attention from the public. Again, she published Wuthering Heights with her pen name, Ellis Bell, in 1847 and it became her most distinguished work.
"Emily Jane Brontë." Bio. A&E Television Networks, 2014. Web. 31 July 2014.
"Emily Brontë." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., 25 July 2014. Web. 31 July 2014.

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Seo Woo(left), Min Jae(right)
Hi ^^ Last week, from Thursday-Saturday(June 26-28), our church held a Bible Camp for the Korean children in Bucharest.

The Sunday school teachers, and other members of our church, including me, prepared for the event during that week, and the week before, meeting up at church and staying there the whole day. I was given the task to prepare songs and choreographed dances with those songs. I found many fun songs from youtube, and just like I expected, the children loved them.

 Here are a few links to the songs we had at the Programs to those who are curious (they are in Korean FYI). 
성령님의 신호등,
날마다 날마다,
천국은 마치
More, More, More
He's Changing Me

The following are some pictures that we took of the kids. Hope you enjoy. You will recognize many of them. :)
(The following pictures are only few of the many children that participated in the programs)

 Dan Cho  




Ji Woo Park

 Soo A Kim

 

Soo Jin Kim

Seo Woo Park

Mission at Promenada

Picture Time with the 'Faith' team

Snacking at McDonalds

Waiting outside of the Mall

At the Tram Station
On the Way to the Mall






































The Bible Camp Theme was "Q.T. Prince and Q.T. Princess." Kinda cheesy, but very important stuff ;)
It was a time where I realized how precious each soul is worth, no matter how small or big, young and old. Each child was as precious as a jewel. I cannot even start to fathom how much more special and valuable each one of these souls are in God's eyes, but I wish to learn to see people with God's eyes so that my attitude towards each one is of love.


Here is another drop to add in My Cup of Memories :D