I am extremely tired and almost exhausted.

※ My first time ski on 01/24/2009





Recently, I have looked for a house, striven to study TOEFL,



and coped with the CELOP  crazy homework.



I  sleep over midnight almost every day and get up at 7:30 in the morning.



I also reduced most of my social activities because I really need more time 



to finish those heavy work.



I started to find a cheap, wonderful ,and comfortable bedroom to live  near BU



because I wanted to save more time to have more sleep or I could probably fall



unconcious when I walk on the street.



Owing to the insufficient time in which I prepared the test, my morning class 



teacher recommanded me to talk to the director of Celop my situation. 



She said I might start to my master major if the director wants to be my sponsor.



Anyway, I still should study hard because I want to get a high score in TOEFL to 



prove I have sufficient English ability.

The Sacred “Rac”

※ I stood on the frozen Charles River. Actually, it is dangerous.





Under the line, there is my midterm reading exam.

When I first time to reading, I thought it was a serious article.

Today my teacher taught me this is an ironic article.

You do not know! OK, finishing reading it, I will write why it is ironic.

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        An Indian anthropologist, Chandra Thapar, made a study of foreign cultures which had

customs similar to those in his native land. One culture in particular fascinated him because it

reveres one animal as sacred, much as the people in India revere the cow.





        The tribe Dr. Thapar studied is called the Asu and is found in the American continent north of

the Tarahumara of Mexico. Though it seems to be a highly developed society of its type, it has an

overwhelming preoccupation with the care and feeding of the rac – an animal much like a bull in size,

strength and temperament. In the Asu tribe, it is almost a social obligation to own at least one if not

more racs. People not possessing at least one are held in low esteem by the community because they

are too poor to maintain one of these beasts properly. Some members of the tribe, to display their

wealth and social prestige, even own herds of racs.





        Unfortunately, the rac breed is not very healthy and usually does not live more than five to

seven years. Each family invests large sums of money each year to keep its rac healthy and shod, for

it has a tendency to throw its shoes often. There are rac specialists in each community, perhaps

more than one if the community is particularly wealthy. These specialists, however, due to the long

period of ritual training they must undergo and to the difficulty of obtaining the right selection of

charms to treat the rac, demand costly offerings whenever a family must treat an ailing rac.





        At the age of sixteen in many Asu communities, many youths undergo a puberty rite in which

the rac figures prominently. Youths must petition a high priest in a grand temple. They are then

initiated into the ceremonies that surround the care of the rac and are permitted to keep a rac.





        Although the rac may be used as a beast of burden, it has many habits which would be 

considered by other cultures as detrimental to the life of the society. In the first place the rac breed

is increasing at a very rapid rate and the Asu tribe has given no thought to curbing the rac

population. As a consequence the Asu must build more and more paths for the rac to travel on since

its delicate health and its love of racing other racs at high speeds necessitates that special areas be

set aside for its use. The cost of smoothing the earth is too costly for any one individual to undertake;

so it has become a community project and each member of the tribe must pay an annual tax to build

new paths and maintain the old. There are so many paths needed that some people move their

homes because the rac paths must be straight as possible to keep the animal from injuring itself. Dr.

Thapar also noted that unlike the cow, which many people in his country hold sacred, the excrement

of the rac cannot be used as either fuel or fertilizer. On the contrary, its excrement is exceptionally

foul and totally useless. Worst of all, the rac is prone to rampages in which it runs down anything in

its path, much like stampeding cattle. Estimates are that the rac kills thousands of Asu in a year.





        Despite the high cost of its upkeep, the damage it does to the land, and its habit of destructive

rampages, the Asu still regard it as being essential to the survival of their culture.



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Still not realize it.

Asu ----> USA

Arcs----> cars

Get it ?!

Goodbye my friend

※ Kiwhan, he is a smart guy. 

     He is studying in the top of university in Korea and has double majors.





03/01

This is second snow storm I met in Boston.

At this night I got the text message from my Korean friend- Kihwan.

He said he will leave US in Monday morning.

He wanted me do my best in Boston and  hoped one day we could meet again. 

Then we can talk about the memory we had in Boston.





I remembered that days when my Boston friends left were snowing.

It makes the leaving air sader. It also makes people lonely.

Although I experienced the situation many times, I still have this feeling.

Maybe I am the kind of people who are sensitive and take friends as first.

This is why some people told me I put friends in my mind first. 





In this month, not only Kiwhan will leave Boston but Lee will leave to Seattle.

Both them are my best Korean friends, and it means I will have fewer friends in Boston.

anyway,I will always remember you.

All my Boston friends but you are not here.

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