Toefl Essay #1

Twice a year, a large number of cars fill most of expressways in Korea, causing traffic jam for three days. All train tickets are sold out a month ago, and express bus companies provide additional service. These two mass migrations mean it is one of two big holidays, Chuseok and Korean New Year’s Day. These two are the biggest holidays in Korea. All people visit their hometown to meet their kinships and grandparents. Gathering all relatives has special meaning and role that people from other cultures can hardly benefit. People can appreciate their relatives, keep good relationship with them, and preserve national cultures.

 Koreans can express gratitude toward their relatives and ancestors in two big holidays. The first society that one person met from infancy is family and relatives. All family members including grandparents celebrate his or her birth, and pray for happy and lucky life. They have taken care of a person sincerely since they were very young, and they are willing to become the greatest supporter all the time. Thus Koreans believe it is a right thing to thanks to their kinships and ancestors when in big holidays. Koreans always bow to their grandparents and graves of their ancestors for New years, and they take special memorial service called 차례 in Chuseok. This is one pride of Korean culture because it is a basic and significant morality to appreciate people who have helped us a lot.

  Koreans keep good relationship with their relatives and hometown people. In developed countries, people don’t often live with grandparents. They sometimes keep in touch with grandparents and relatives by calling or short meeting. Many of them even slowly forget the existence of relatives. Koreans prevents this from happening by gathering all kins on Chusok and New Year’s Day. They enjoy many ceremonies and games together in holidays and talk a lot about how they have lived. Relatives and family members are related by blood, respecting the same ancestors. They share the same memory of childhood becoming a best friend for long. Thus Koreans regard Kinships as closest people, and rely on each other when in a big hardship. They believe each other more than their best friend. This can make people’s life more stable and warm.

 Finally, getting all the relatives together contributes to conserve Korean tradition. Many intangible cultures are maintained by people’s life. The existence of certain tradition is usually determined by how well-known it is. By enjoying many ceremonies during Chuseok and New Year’s Day, a number of traditional cultures are able to be inherited through generations. Moreover, many traditional performances such as Tightrope Walking and Pansori are held, which are appropriate for family to watch together. Most Koreans play Yoot, neolttwigi, and dance Gang-gang-sul-rae in Chuseok along with their kinships. Perhaps nobody in Korea will forget these traditions because they do it or watch it every year.

 Gathering all relatives together in holidays has great benefits. People can appreciate their kin once again, and maintain good relationship with kin. Also, it can help to conserve intangible traditions. These three big positive points can be applied to other countries as well. People in other cultures can also share warmth with their kinships. Furthermore, foreigners are able to preserve their own cultures by doing their traditional game in holidays with family and relatives.

In-class essay second version

At the end of the semester in my sixth year in elementary school, I had a difficulty becoming a good class-captain. Most students think of me as a poor class-captain, and my teacher often scolded me for failing to lead students. I was not an active student, and I didn’t fully understand what I should do as a leader.

 In those days, we had a lot of free time in P.E class. Boys decided to play soccer and girls decided to play Kick ball with the teacher. In first day, we could spend very interesting and satisfactory time under the rule: the person who scores should be a goal keeper. It was exciting and appropriate for all students to join. In the other goalpost, class 4 was playing exactly the same game. Some of us made a plan to have a match with class 4.

 However, in P.E class next day, we found out that class 4 already started a soccer match with another class. Although we really wanted to share goalpost, we just watched the game politely sitting on the bench, expecting we would play soccer next time. Without considering other classes, class 4 repeated playing a match again and again, having us losing as much as three times doing nothing.

 Next week, during a break time right before P.E class, we went out rapidly so that we could find one empty goalpost. We quickly started to play soccer being excited and relieved. After a few minutes, class 4 went out with another class, and before long, they started their match. Class 4 had difficulty defending their post because we already have used it. Some students in class 4 shouted at us to leave the playground, and some of us shouted back aggressively. We kept playing under extreme tension.

 Finally, the homeroom teacher of class 4 came to us, scolding our impolite manner. Even though we wanted to talk back, and continue to play, she spoke in authoritative manner making it hard to talk back. We became more and more upset with constant scolding.

 “Why should we go out?” I suddenly shouted with anger.

 “Your class has already occupied the whole playground three times. We haven’t used playground for three times. Isn’t playground the place for every class?”

 The teacher stopped speaking for a second. Her face was a bit flushed. Then she continued to admonish even louder, making us get out. I was worried she would talk negatively so that my homeroom teacher would give some penalty to us.

 Surprisingly, from that on, class 4 didn’t come out in our P.E. class. I heard that class 4 originally didn’t have P.E on the same day with us. We could enjoy soccer, without disturbance of other classes. Some students told me that class 4 had argument with headmaster of having a P.E. class every day.

 Two years later, some students and I visited our homeroom teacher on Teacher’s day. She looked really happy to meet us, asking lot about how other students lived. When we opened the classroom door to have a lunch outside, we met class 4’s homeroom teacher. She recognized me at her first glance, saying hello to me. She talked about that event right away, and I realized that my homeroom teacher didn’t even know what had happened. It was more surprising that my teacher said to me “You did really good job.”

 That was her first time to praise me for what I did as a class-captain. I didn’t know why she said so at the time, but I could vaguely understand the reason. As a representative of a class, a class-captain should protect a just right of a class although it can negatively influence my relationship with some other people, and it can be impolite manner toward teachers.

 After that year, I had two more chances to be a class-captain. Bearing what I learned in mind, I have contributed to my class devotedly. Many students and teachers started to trust me despite some troubles, and I could learn more from those two experiences. It’s really hard to lead a group, but with patient and learning, I will be able to lead others successfully.

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