Journal #4

Since I came to the US, I have not visited many places like my friends have.

Journal #3 My Favorite Sport

My favorite sport is soccer and I have loved soccer since I was young. Sometime I am crazy about it. Soccer is a King sport, it is very popular in the world. When I was in Vietnam, I often watched Premier League with my best friend, Hai who now studies MBA in Philippine, at the weekend. I am a fan of Arsenal club and the player I love most is Thierry Henry. He moved to Bacelona last year. He is fast as squirrel and has a lot of skill of a professional player. For instance, he can curves through 3, 4 or 5 opponent’s defenders and score. I bought PS2 to play soccer game. I often challenge with my older brother, a good doctor. I know much about famous player in the world, one of them is Donovan in US team. I, however, have not concerned much about it since I came to the US last year. American do not like soccer, they love football, baseball and basketball. No channel has soccer game. I did not watch any match from Olympic Beijing with my laptop which has TV tuner I can watch TV every day. That has made me feel not good. That has made me more and more keep away from soccer.

Journal #1

Hi everyone! My name is Dong, you can call me Don. I am from Vietnam, a small country in southern Asia. I was born in Cai Be, a small town is far about 100km south of Ho Chi Minh city, the biggest city in Vietnam. Since I was eleven, I have not lived near my parent. I had to go to HCM city to live with brother for my studying. Becasue my father told that moving to overthere my future could be better. After I had graduated university as civil engineer, I went back my hometown and had been working there for two year for. Then I told my father I want to go to the US to continue studying. He absolutely agreed, for he always encourage me in studying. I came to the US last year and this is my third semester in ALP. My persuit is to get master degree at civil engineering. Since I came here until last semester, I had never been out of town. Then I decided to visit my sister in North Carolina after the Sping had closed. I had a lot of fun there. Now my closedest goal is to get a good TOEFL score. All I need is 550 TOEFL. It is not difficult to me. However, a thing I concern most now is my pronounciation, sometimes I have had some wrong with it. I recorgnize it. I have leaned very much in ALP, and I hope they will help me and other students more as much as posible. Good luck to them and Good luck to me.