Great day at BNGL 709

Hi there,

I'd like to congratulate every body for the great semester,  also I'd like to say that is my best class in CCSF  until now. I enjoyed been at the class. Really it was amazing.

I best wishes for success in your education.

Thank you again

Sincerely
A.Toumi

Mountain Top

Here is a cuote. "if you want to succeed as bad as you want to breath than you going to be successful" I took it from one of the videos, it really hit me, sink in, I believe that is true, when you want something so baddly and you're sure you deserve it you going to get it if you don't give up.

Every person in this world had to overcame fears, problems, etc. But that is the point of succeed in something, overcome every obstacle that destiny puts in our way. I've became succeesful ones I make my dream come true. Something that I really wanted. You don't need to be famous, have a lot of money to succeed in life. Most people that have money are not even happy with themselfs. Money can be a indespensable, but it doesn't buy you happiness.

When you achieve your goal, your dream by yourself, without having to buy your place in your job, with your friends,  you're going to be more happier than you already are that makes you a winner, a successful person.

Make something will remind you of ESL140

Hi my great classmates I suggest to make something that will you remind us of ESL140
Bref if you have an idea to enjoy our class for this Wednesday. I'm gonna be on blogger for next 48 hours,

So come up with ideas

( IF WE NEED TO BUY SOMETHING I'M READY TO HELP )

Sincerely
A. Toumi

                                                                           Start from nothing to something.

In general, all people want to become successful.  However, the true is that not all of them can achieve it.  After, watching the videos of Panyee FC, and how bad do you want it, I learned that success is you, so to be successful is something that is up to you.  According to my knowledge people become successful for many reasons.  These are some reasons how  people become successful, they are born with talent, they discover their talent, they believe in themselves, they have the desire to do something, they have dreams, they have goals, they want to show what they can do,  they are independent, they are responsible, they never try to give up, and they work so hard to become successful.  I think this is how people become successful most of the time.  In general, I am not that successful yet, however, I am working on it now because i believe in myself that some day I will become very successful.  So, hope will be the last thing that i will lose to become successful.   When it comes to me I always make many things sure that i succeed in my goals.   For example, I always believe in myself that i can succeed in my goals no matter what it takes.  Second, i make sure that i still have a plan to succeed in my goals.  Third, i tell to myself that it is all up to me to succeed in my goals.  Next, I make sure that I'm being responsible, and working hard to succeed in my goals.  All these I do in order to succeed in my goals and not to fail them.  

Everybody can succeed

   Everybody wants to succeed in life. Having a nice car, money, or even a house is a synonymous of success. But do you think that those material things mentioned before can talk about how successful a person is? Definitely, NO. The video for example illustrate us a way of succeed. You don't need to become a famous artist and neither being rich. The only think you need to do is being yourself and dream as high as you can. Then when you reach your dreams with a lot of effort you can feel proud about yourself and consider yourself successful.

   Personalty, a successful person for me is one who one day, dared beyond her/his minds and got to the top of his/her dreams as in the picture. I consider myself a successful person because I developed a lot of strengths that I even didn't know I had and reached an important thing in my life which was to work in my field in the US. I know that my family and friends are proud of me. But as I say to everybody, if I could what is the difference between you and me that stop you from reaching your goals?

Do Some More

      
        I think success people is no matter on their talent.   Most of the success people spend a lot in their life.  They might just try to achieve their dream in their whole life.  I am not sure they have talent is different to the normal people, but I am sure their achievement is not just couse of their talent.  If they did nothing, they will not have this achievement like the foodball team I saw from the video.  They had no play ground for play foodball, so they made one.  They try to achieve their dream, so they participated the tournament.  Fianlly, they got No.3 in that tournament. 
          Maybe, I have no talent.  I want to have a dream.  I have a goal for my future.  My friend told me: When you was a child, if you want to be ordinary, it is very easy.  When you just grow up, if you want to be ordinary, it is very hard.  I am not trying to be a famous guy.  I just want to bring happiness to my family in the future.  Of course, it is not easy.  I will have a lot of challenge in my future.  I change to be a lazy boy when I came to America.  I didn't know what the reason is.  I will try to do my best to do some more for my life and my family. 
           Finally, I want to say: if you give up in a moment, you always be a loser.

Success is a skill

I have watched the two videos which were uploaded by Denise, tell us no matter how hard the things were, but they tried their best to succeed. The first one told us the story of one of Southern Thailand’s best football club. The boys in the village loved football very much, but they had no place to play football. So they thought out a way that they built a pitch on the water, and they had to face lots of difficulties to play on the water. At last they achieved their goal. The other one told us about a young man did a lot of hard practice in order to achieve his player dream.

    Everyone wants to succeed in his life. If you learn a skill, you can become successful, You should learn from people who already have the skills of success and believe that you can achieve success. You will feel proud of yourself for overcoming all of these obstacles and for reaching your goals in spite of the many things that stood in your way. You will be tremendously happy and satisfied and you will experience the feelings of success. In short, you will receive the reward of being successful. Since I moved to the US, I realized that my English was so poor that I couldn’t communicate with the people from the other countries. At first I felt so sad. Later one of my friends gave me a good idea that taking ESL class in City College, but I worried about that my work schedule conflicted with the class. So I tried to fix my work schedule, arranged my working time, set up my goal, and I studied hard. Finally I made a great progress in my English. Now I have the English skill. I work for an American company, and I can communicate with any people in English. I think if you learn a skill, achieving success is quite simple. However this does not mean things will be easy!




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Just find your own key to be success!!!

               Everybody want to succeed in their goal, even though they might meet obstacle along  distance.  Just find your own key to make success in your own dream.  As I can see the two videos that talking about how children in Panyee Island in southern Thailand  who do not have appropriate environment to be success in their goal, and how a guy makes oneself practice so hard to be ready to be one in a football team.  

           The first thing that I learned from Children in Panyee Island was how to be success in a team group and how to think to be success.  Children had a dream to be a football champion, although they confronted problems, such as they did not have a pitch to play and practice caused by the location they live.  Then the children made their dream come true by helping together to build a pitch up.  However, on the surface of the pitch spread of nails that was hard to practice, but eventually this problem helped the children to have a better movement with the ball to avoid the nails.  Finally, they had a chance to compete with other football teams and became a professional football player and had their own football club.  The point is it does not matter that they was not fully equipped with things that they need, but it matters how to make the dream comes true by cooperating, and change obstacles to be opportunity with optimism attitude.  They just started doing it without blaming themselves for lacking of tools.

             The second thing that I learned from How Bad Do You Want it video clip was nothing can be success without doing anything.  A guy tried so hard to be a better football player and earn more money.  He showed me that he kept practicing as important as he had to breath, like he said when you want to succeed as bad as you want to breath, then you will be success.  I can say that he will get success as much as his effort that he put in for achieving a goal.

           Personally, I am in a process to be success in my goal that I look at my destination in a whole picture and planed which approach can help me to achieve in my goal.  Then I just do it step by step and be happy with a small success, which encourage me to keep trying.  Even though I have to face a obstacle, I am not frustrated to make my dream come true.  I think that a small success will become a big success in advance.  Moreover, I have to be ready for opportunity when it comes, therefore I will not regret if I miss it because I already try my best.   This approach I often bring it to plan with things that I want to succeed.  It does not matter that I will be success or not. I just try it all the best and accept the result.  Just don't give up!!!!

  

Have you seen the brook in the forest?Some creeks gradually dries up, and some creeks are gradually brought together, forming a magnificent waterfall.  Success is also the case, only the persistent efforts to achieve the final success.

I consider success has three factors: luck, hard work and perseverance.We can not control whether we have good luck, but we can do the effort and persevere toward their goals.Each person's life are unknown, I think as long as you live up to their greatest efforts, that is success.

What is success?

           Everyone dreams get success, but how many people can get the true success?   Success is a simple word, in fact it is so complex and how difficult to make it come true.  It  does neither depend on one or two days not a mere year or so, it need to spend the person's life.  Therefore, in  person's life, success is essential.  I understand success =efforts + are not afraid of failure. 
          In our life, we should try hard to do anything.  In other words, if we don't work hard, we can't be successful.   For example, doing a math problem,a student think, "This question is not understand, I wait to ask the teacher." But he just simply read this question at one time.  In contrast, There are some students who try to solve this question.  They read it again and again until they understand it so far.  Because he want to break this question, he always think hard. 
         . Success is not who the word is not elusive. Who every time, but no-one repeated failures. Experienced a failure, to be successful. Be like maintained by the saying goes: "Failure is the mother of success, did not fail without success." Yes, the failures and successes are side by side. Experienced countless failures, you can not be successful because you do not have any experience, so you will mess; the contrary, if you have experienced countless failures, you think you can not be successful, you gave up, then, perhaps success from you step away from it? Therefore, the failure will be successful you must know. If you want to succeed, you must be played by the failure, by starting the test.
            Success is efforts and be not afraid of faiure. It is  we have to pay the numerous efforts to get the result.  As long as we do not give up our goal and continue to stirve.  Success is not far from us, as long as you are always willing to achieve it.

Success Is Holding In Your Hand

    After watched two videos, I begin to make sense of that what is success and how can get success.Success does not means you must achieve great financial success or attain eminent position. Even though you just are a common person such as the football member in the video, if you can break your own weakness, accomplish own goals and make great progress,  then you are a really successful person. But these elements I have mentioned above is not easy to attain. It requests you have to follow three steps to do: make a long term goal and several short term goals,  pay your unceasing effort for success, and have enough confidence to overcome difficulties.

    For me, when I was a high school student, I already made a long term goal and some short term goals. My long term goal is to be a successful business manager, in the same time, I also had made some specific goals such as be able to enter my dream college, to save some money for future. However, after I immigrated to the US, the condition have changed a lot. It force me  to alter my some previous short term goals to new goals. For example, I have to build up my language skill at first, my college plan may extended. But even  something have changed, my long term goal still is constant. Now I am not only struggling for temporary study assignments, but also paying my attention on my manager dream.

    Furthermore,  success does not just depend on your whims. Make a goal or plan only need spend some minutes,  while a long process is more important. Actually, many people have great dreams or proposals,  but if without practice, anything will be nothing. I totally believe one sentence that: practice is the sole criterion of truth. So if you want to get the true success early, you had better stop to thinking, start to do from today.
     Finally,  I cannot omit one aspect about the difficulties you will meet in the procedure. When you confront some huge tough conditions, you may be passive, may want to give up. Nevertheless, if you have confidence to overcome these difficulties, you will have taken the biggest step toward success. If not you are a loser forever.

     In conclusion, success can be said as very easy to get, also can be said as very hard to get. The key  accords to your attitude and if be willing to  practice. In a word, success is holding in your hand.

One Day

What’s the definition of “success”? I check my dictionary and it shows: the favorable or prosperous termination of attempts or endeavors. I see it mentioned termination and endeavor. In my opinion, I don’t agree the whole ideas.

First of all, I don’t think success is the end. I think success is a new start point of another area. For example, graduate from the elementary school is a successful milestone for a child, but that is not the end. He still needs to study hard to middle school or university or find a job. We will never see the end until we are died.

Second, the word ”endeavor” includes two kinds of meaning. One is let us try something and another one is do our best to finish this thing. Having a positive attitude to try every chance is a good habit. If we try something that means we still have the chance of success, but if we don’t try that means we have zero chance to success. I don’t like wring articles when I was a child in China. I need to write three short essays every week. There had an optional writing competition in the end of semester when I was in the grade seven. I didn’t take part in this competition at first because I think final is more important than this game. After few days later, my Chinese teacher asked me to her office and encouraged me to have a try. At the same time, my parents had heard this competition and encouraged me again. I took part in the game and surprised I won the prize. This experience made me have a huge touch. I would not get the prize if I didn’t take part in the game. I thought I could not hold everything, but I did. We have the huge power need to explore.

Success in some parts doesn’t mean you are successful and also fail in some part means you still have the chance to success and you are closer to success. We all faced the challenge and the fail, but we still need to go on. One day, we look back our life, we will happy that we have experience of we tried lots of different things. My nearest goal is to graduate from CCSF and transfer to a good university and I think most of you have the same goal with me. After we find the way to success, we need to do the best to achieve this goal. If you finish your goal of course means you are successful, but if you don’t finish the goal you set at the beginning don’t be discouraged. Follow your own opinion without others interfere.

I’m not as successful as I want, I’m on my way and I will never give up.

I Am Proud Of My Daughter

 

                             Maggie is a wonderful girl.  She has been in the U.S. for five years, and in that time she has done
many things.  She was a salesperson at Lucky and Payless.  She was a tutor in statistics at City College, and received the
John Yehall Chin Memorial Scholarship for her academic excellence, community service, and educational leadership.  She was also president of the International Students Association at City College.  Maggie was accepted at UCLA last year; she is currently majoring in Economics and Japanese.  She makes time to be with her parents, and they often take trips together on weekends.  She also has a strong network of friends.  Maggie has given me great joy as a daughter.

                             Maggie came to San Francisco in 2007.  At first, she was attending City College and working at Lucky.  She was a hard worker who woke up at 5:30 a.m. to take the bus to Lucky.  Her great dream was to go to UCLA, and she worked hard to achieve her goal.  At this time, Maggie was a math tutor at City College, where she gave patient help to students.  One day she told me that she needed to help a young boy with a math problem at Starbucks.  She also had to study for her final exams, but she found time to help the boy for two hours.  Maggie enjoys helping people.  She volunteered to help ESL students at City College, and also helped children at the Asian Art Museum.  Maggie studied hard and worked hard.

                             Maggie has been at UCLA since 2010, and is very exceited to be a student at a top university.  Last year she had an internship at an insurance company.  Last term she volunteered at a real estate concern, where she learned to handle finances and serve customers.  Maggie also planned and organized the Chinese Spring Festival party at UCLA with her classmates.

                          Maggie likes to dance and sing at kaoroke with her friends.  Several years ago she went to Hong Kong to see a performance by a popular Japanese musical group called W-inds.  She also enjoys snow sports and has a good relationship with her friends.

                         Maggie is a great girl and a good student.  She is very good with people. Next month we will attend her graduation from UCLA.  We are very proud of her, and we expect great things from her in the future.

      I am working ESL140, and I have completed 30 units of Child Development Course. One day, when I  finish ESL170, I  will get AA Degree.  I will be seccessful !!!
   

G.P.A.

G.P.A.

Everyone wants to be a success one, and they also know it is not easy to complete. Mostly, they don’t know how being that, and people just have a dream. Even it is the first step to make people be a success, that’s not mean people don’t need to action for their dream. So, I definitely just use the G.P.A. idea; G for goal, P for planning, and A for action. Usually, if people want to be the success successful one in the world, they should follow these three points: make a goal, plan a schedule, and action.

First of all, make a goal is the first step in your plan. According to Martin Luther King, “I have a dream”. Many people know it is a very famous quote in the world. Why did it is very famous? If you didn’t make a goal, what do you can do for your plan? It’s nothing, and you just work, and work. That’s it. Next, plan a schedule for your goal. People should understand time is money, and if you don’t know how to plan your valuable timing that means you lost your any entire goals. The last step is action. People always have a great goal, and have a perfect schedule. But if they didn’t have any action, it’s still doesn’t work. People should do it every time, and follow their schedules. Don’t lose anything for their goals.

At the last semester, I can’t believe I can pass math class. Serious, math is my weakness in all of the subjects. People always Asian people are good at math. Anyway, it is not me. So, when I know I need to take a math class at college, it was made me sick. Whereas I hate mathematics so much, I still need to take it and learn it. I cannot fail any class at college. And then, I made a plan for my math class in the beginning. I also had a goal, a schedule, and action. My schedule is going class on time, do twice homework for math class, and see the mentor after math class. So, I was very busy with my assignments at last semester. I never know I can do it in my life because I always lazy in my high school. When I had the grade report, I was so happy for it. I can’t believe I can pass my math class; it’s made me feel amazing! I trust make a plan for the goal is can work, and it’s very successful idea in my life.



Factors of Success

  Everyone wants to be successful. However, what makes for success? The two videos tell us that there are two ways can make us succeed. The first video tells us that we must keep struggling for our goals, no matter how bad the objective environment is. The second video tells us that we must have the determination, which we want to succeed, as bad as breath. I find some aspects in common in the two videos. They tried their best, persisted to fight for their goal and work hard.

   I had a successful experience when I studied in university in China. There was a 5-person soccer tournament in our university. My classmates and I built a team to participate the tournament. We didn't have confidence to be a champion when decided to participate the tournament. We didn't know whether we good enough to participate the game. When we were playing the first match, we were so nervous. Fortunately, we won the first match. However, we met a strong team at the second match. They were two goals up in the first half, but we didn't give up because we admired them. They had unbelievable technical abilities, high speed, and perfect teamwork. We knew we couldn't win the match, and we just wanted to try our best to fight for ourselves. Finally, we lost the match, and the score is 5:1. We not only weren't disappointed, but also felt successful because we had tried our best to fight for ourselves.

  I prefer the How Bad Do You Want It because it can encourage me pretty much. When I saw the main character’s sweat fell on the ground, I understand his success was built on his sweat. We always admire celebrities because they have a lot of money, beautiful cars, nice house and wonderful lives. However, do we think how much the celebrities’ sweat fell on the ground before they succeed? I am sure what they pay was more than ours. As results, their gain is more than any other one. The people who never concentrate on work will definitely end in failure.

  To immigrant to the US is a huge challenge for me because I have to give up a lot of things, and I will face a lot of problems in the US. English is one of my primary problems. I remember when I arrived at the airport in SF, I totally didn't understand what the custom officer said. I was so nervous and shy at that moment. I know I must overcome the challenge. These videos give me some tips. I need make up my determination. If I try my best, and persist to do everything, I will be successful.

Succeeded in climbing to the top of our life

 

  The two videoed posted by Denise as a blog's reference gave me a deep impression. The "Panyee football club"narrated  a real story that a group of kids lived on a little island in south of Thailand enthusiasmed for playing soccer and they built up "pitch" by themselves. After that, they represented their village to take part in a tournament in Thailand and came in third. It inspires people to start thinking differently with a hope that will start to make the diffetence to their own world. As for the kids, I think "success"meant to change their life and make their dream come true. On the other hand,"How bad do you want it " tell a strong that how a professional football player do workout during the NFL lockout. He praticed playing football to maintain top form over the summer because he didn't want to stay in the same level and earned more money. As for the player, the success meant to be a winner and make a lot of money.
  As we all know, the definition of success is from individual to individual. Some believes wealthy is meant to success. Others think to be famous stars is meant to success. However you define the success, you can't succeed in climbing to the of our life until you know what you want and make effort to do it well. Actually, it is difficult to be successful. First of all, we need to know ourselves and set a goal are right for us to approach to success. Secondnary, we need ot make effort to accomplish to our goal.Though it is hard to take the first step, action speak louder than words. That means we have to do more practice to improve our capability.
  In personal, I think I am not a successful preson, but I am on the way to be successful. In my opinion, Making contribution to the community in some area is successful. And I quit the job in china and made a decision to study in CCSF in order to be a IT engineer. Of course, I need more power, courage and wisdom to adapt myself to the cruel and competived society. Nevertheless, it is worthwhile and I will persistently strive to accomplish my life goal.

the Pinnacle of       Success

Everyone has their own dreams, and keep working hard for their goal. But why do some people make it? Why do others fail? Obviously, to succeed is a long way and need to take a lot of effect to reach. In my opinion, persistence is the key to success.

Life may not have a favorable wind all the way. Everyone is afraid of failure, but you have to have some failures. Only after the failure, success is more perfect. The most important thing is that you still have a persevering heart to go through those problems. Our life need in stumbling in growth, every time we fall,our faith will be weakened. Some people unable to withstand the failure of a curl bow, they choose give up. Some people choose to go one step further step; their persistence will lead them to a closer to success. I think the persistence is also what I lack, saying always much easier than done. After I came to the US, I knew I must get rid of the laziness. I need to work hard to go to a university which I want, and fight for the future. Although it's a difficult way to make the dream comes true, as long as I have persistence to move forward, I believe my efforts will be rewarded.

As I have mentioned above, success need to insist on ideal and faith. Most of successful people, perhaps he or she is not clever, but they all hold on the key of persistence, and opened the door of success. No matter how difficult is,only we uphold this spirit, some day we will be able to fly.

many difficulties eliminate you to be succeed

The two videos, which were uploaded by denise, tell us that how many difficulties in front of their dream, and how much hard work they do to defeat that. The first one tole us that they loved football(soccer),yet they do not have a place to play. At the end, they build up a playground on the water. That is amazing, and creative.
The second one is a man tried to become a football player. During this video, he did a large number of exercises, and we counld feel how hard and painful to do this kind of strong exercise.

All spirits they persent that tell us no matter how tough in a process of our dream, we can not easily give up.  Their perisistence and strong mind that I very appericate.  On my way to success, it supposed to be many difficulties on the way.  I think that are parts of challenges, and also a access to prove how much energy will you devote to your dream, or goal.

All in all, a successful person must have something special,and I think the person have a very strong determination that let them become successed.  We can be successful people as well.  As long as we give up entertainments, parties, or anything that not important, we can also successed.  strong determination,and to do it as same as your schedule, you will successed. Three key words to successed：persistence, patience, determination.


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We are going toward SUCCESSFUL WAY

Are we?

 There are lots of people who have already become successful, or are making efforts to be successful. I like reading books about successful people. When i read that kinds of books, i feel like i can do it. Why not?

There's one thing i have noticed about every successful people. Almost all successful people believe themselves no matter what. Even though they had to go through very hard time, they didn't even think this word "GIVE UP". Honestly as i had to go through my hard time, i felt like i wanted to hide somewhere. I just wanted to get away from the problems. I didn't think that what was the problem is exactly. But ever since i started reading successful people stories, i try to change my bad habits. Every one has their own dreams. Even thought those are not fancy dreams, each of people has their own precious dreams. Of course I have my own dream, and I am trying to be successful people. Even though my goals are not that fancy, like to be a president, or doctor, something like that(HAHAHAHA) i am making efforts myself. I make plan every months. I think almost all people are doing this. But after i make plan, i honor my commitments no matter what. I don't GIVE UP. Even if my plans are so tiny things, like read one book in a month, memorize 3 English vocabulary words every day, wake up at precise time, drink water as much as i can, or review what i learn every day, something like that. You can say that those are no big deal, but for me, it is so helpful, and it makes me spend my precious time efficiently. by doing those things, i feel like i can believe myself. As you watched the two videos Denise uploaded, if we really want to be successful person, we have to make efforts, like give up sleeping for dream. I am so impressed by the two videos. I will have to make efforts for me who are going to be better person than now.

YESSSSSSSSSS 

WE ARE. 

Blogger 5 "All the results are all your efforts"

        Everyone has a differently view of success.  Being successful is who you are, who you wanted to be and being happy with your life goal.  I know, everyone has their own dream what they carry the thing that they think it's important for them all the time.  My definition of success is to achieve my goals with my best efforts.  However, how can we be successful if we don't have a time management?  That's why I try to don't waste the time; make good schedules.  I know I'm successful, because I'm doing everything in my own.  Of course, the first thing to complete my goals are to get educated.  As we wrote the differences between our own country and the US, why I chose the US has a lot of reasons.  At least English is Global language, so I needed to learn this language, also it's a good experience studying in a foreign country: self determination, improving challenges in many different ways.

       Also, the one key that I give the promotion myself is say something possible to myself.  Positive mind gives positive results.  Saying something positive to yourself gives you the vim to stand strong and feel yourself free.  When I do this, I feel the power that nothing can stop me until I reached the accomplishments.  By telling this, it's important to get the success- self confident!

       Thus, it's a good thing that if you found your goals.  As seeing to the past, the results will be your efforts.  It's just like collect the yield.  You will get what you grew.  In fact, it seems easy to say but hard to accomplish, because these things will be the real treasures after your hard working. 

   Smile :)

No Success Without Patient

                                               

                 Everyone want to be successful in his life in general. I'm already successful in many things, but   I want to be successful in other things. The first thing that I want to be successful in is my education in the United State. I already succeed  in my education back home in Morocco, but the style, and language is deferent to the US that why I'm in ESL CLASS to learn English because isn't easy to learn a language, and specially language as English because is mixed with deferent culture, and languages also some of the language don't have a specific rules. For that raison I'm working hard to understand the meaning of the language, and not the translation. In addition I try to think in English so I can make sense to my words because if I thing in my mother tongue the meaning may change in the most of the sentences. SO no matter what I'm not giving up on learning English.
              Learning the language, and other American education is a big challenge needs a big patient. However, I accept the challenge. The proof is I left my home country where I had  comfortable life, good job, and I don't have to struggle, but life without challenges is boring also trying new thing is the sweetness of life, so I want my full of happiness. Although the key of success for success is patience because patience make you learn how to achieve you goal no matter how long it takes, but you get what you want in addition to work hard, and don't give up on the first problem meets you. Patience make you strong, and give you a long breath to success. Finally there is no succeed without patient

Food, Food, Food. I love Food

This is a picture of my favorite dish at Sol Food Puerto Rican Cuisine in San Rafael. Since I came to the US, I have taste a lot of good food, but this one is the best I have ever tried. When I was living in Colombia, I never liked to eat beans. My mom cooked beans once a month, but no one at my home ate them :( I felt bad for my mom that spent time cooking for my sisters, my dad, and I and we didn't eat that. But know, I really don't know what happened to me because I like beans, but my favorite ones are from the Sol Food restaurant in San Rafael.

The dish that you see in the pic is called "Pollo al Horno" or baked chicken. Off course, it has baked chicken, rice, beans, plantains, and its salad with a very good dressing on it. When I eat this food, I feel like I'm eating one of my mom's dishes and that's what I like more.

Since I'm not longer living in San Rafael, I haven't eaten this food for almost two months, but I still like it and it's my favorite one. If you think in going to a good restaurant in Marin county, consider the option to go to the Sol Food Puerto Rican Cuisine restaurant in San Rafael.

I love having lunch..

This delicious plate is "chicken Masala." Indian food was not in my menu of favorites dishes before I moved to San Francisco.   I had this dish in an Indian restaurant last week. In this place they serve buffet every day between 12pm- 2pm.  My boyfriend and I really enjoy going here because of the good  food and the affordable  price.  This restaurant is walking distance from my apartment, so I don't have to drive or take the bus to get there. All the waiters know us in this restaurant  because of the many times we have been there. It is very interesting also that before I moved to the US I haven't tried so many kind of foods or  from different countries. I also never had spicy foods and now I started enjoy them.  I love having a big lunch, and I think it is important to eat three big meals a day if is possible.  Cooking or eating home meals is also important for me.  Even If I enjoy eating out I can't always afford this. But this is fine once in a while.   

Chose a plate, or special food to eat is the most difficult choice for me everytime I want to eat.Somehow  I get confused, and bored because I try most of the food in San Francisco, also I'm tired of  eating outdoor all the time, I just miss family and delicious healthy food cooked by my mother's hands. One time I decide to cook at home, and make one of my favorite dishes my mom used to cock it for our family. However I find the recipe to make my favorite plate, after I buy all the spices, meat, and vegetables I started  preparing my dish. It took  two hours to cook it.After I put everything in the in the casserole the view of the casserole full with peas, potatoes, and lamb looks to me really healthy, and delicious. After the dish cooked I tasted. The smell of food it remind me of my home when i enter from school at lunch time.  The flavor of lamb, peas, and potatoes. I couldn't believe that I made a Moroccan dish, I felt very proud, and satisfied with the dish.

Finally I invite everyone to try to eat more at home rather than outddor, because eating at home is healthy, and you know what you are eating.

Favorite Chinese Food

   Everybody has various tastes for food. Some people like hot and salty while others prefer cold or sweet food. I have a special liking for hot pot buffer, it is a traditional Chinese food. Every time when we eat hot pot buffer at home, the whole house will be filled with delicious smell of this dish. The hot pot buffer has an age-old recipe, which is very unique. To prepare this dish successfully, every material has to be ready. First, we get ready for many kinds of food that we like. For example, beef, chicken, pork, button, tofu, fish ball, eggs and some vegetables. Next, we have to put some water into the pot, when the water is heated to 100 degree, we can put the food that is your favorite into the boiled water for three or four minutes.  The food must not be overdone, otherwise, the meat will be changed harder. Finally, we can pick up and mix some sauce or tomato ketchup, and enjoy the yummy food. In China, I often ate hot pot buffer in the restaurant with my friends because the food is delicious and it was not expensive. The picture was taken at Ocean View Restaurant in San Francisco last Saturday evening. The left side picture was hot pot buffer. It was the first time to go to a restaurant for hot pot buffer when my family moved to the United States. We got some tofu, fish ball, chicken, beef, and some vegetables. There were many kinds of fish balls that we can choose. When we finished, the waiter gave some desert which is the picture on the right side for free. We ate a lot. The food is very yummy.

The hot pot buffer is very highly recommended by my family members and me. It is irresistible and never fails to satisfy my hunger. I hope you will like it very much.

   GUATEMALA FOOD ON WEEKENDS

  My diet and eating habits have changed a lot since i moved to The United States because now i only eat Guatemala food on weekends.  I took this picture at my house over the weekend.  On the weekends my two brothers don't work, i don't have school, and most of our friends are off too, so every weekend we get together at our house or at their house to socialize more, to have a Guatemala barbecue, and cook Guatemala food. So, when i took this picture i was with my two brothers, two Guatemala friends, and three Mexican friends to celebrate ''5 de Mayo''.  This was on Saturday at 11:00am.  This is a dish fish Guatemala style.  So, here's what it is made from; poached wild sea bass, on its side steamed Guatemala rice with carrots, mushrooms, tomatoes, bell peppers, green onions, garlic, and celery, and topped with a roasted spicy tomato sauce with green onions, spicy jalapenos, and cilantro.  My brother Fausto usually cooks for us because he likes to cook and he works as a cook, so we really like when he cooks and enjoy the Guatemala food he prepares every time he cooks.  This dish tastes really delicious because of its spicy sauce and the flavor of the vegetables that are mixed with the rice, that gives this dish a great savor.  I chose this Guatemala dish since Fausto cooked and it was a hot day, and because it is the dish that our mother usually cooks on hot days and on summer.  In Guatemala, i never thought or realized that this dish was either healthy or unhealthy, but now i realize that it is actually healthy since my professor asks us whether we eat healthy food.  And i think food should be healthy as long as you prepare it at home because you know what it is made from.

Balanced Soup, Balance Your Body

Do you agree the saying that " the best dinner always makes by your mother "?  I absolutely agree it. I am so lucky that my mother is really skilled cook, and she is most adept in cooking "balanced soup". As you see, the picture I posed is " balanced soup" which was cooked by my mother today.

Why do I call this soup as " balanced soup"? Its name comes from a Chinese healthy magazine. When I was a high school student in China, because of heavy study pressure, I always caught a cold and fell ill. My mother was so worried it. So she usually looked up the data of  some treatment which can improve my resistance. One day she found a soup recipe in a Chinese healthy magazine that seem  be useful. The soup named  balanced soup because it can balance people body function. The ingredients of this soup is very ample, it includes seven vegetables: corn, carrot , turnip, onion,  lotus root, dried mushroom and ginger. This dish is simple that just needs to chop these ingredients, put them into a pot and boil them for one or two hours. When my mother cooked balanced soup for the first time, I had loved it. It was so tasty and have no any greasy. In addition, it fits all people even you are on a diet or a vegetarian. After I started to love to eating this soup, my mother often cook it for me.  Surprisingly I found my health was better and better. For now, I very rarely get colds. So I consider balanced soup is a magic soup because it is not only delicious, but also good for our health. Even though  there are just a bowl of balanced soup and a bowl of rice, I already feel that is a perfect dinner.

I am so happy there is a opportunity to share this soup to everybody, and I hope you also can try to do it. I think you will also love its deliciousness.

lobster club sandwich

  The picture above is a lobster club sandwich that I ate in The Rotunda with my aunts few weeks ago. The Rotunda is at Neiman Marcus in Market street.  One of my aunt love this place very much, even thought here is a little bit overprice. We knew that it opens at 11am, and we came ahead of time to avoid waiting for a long time.  Luckily, we got a good seat just next to the window.

  15 minutes later, here was packed and had a long line outside of the restaurant. We had stained glass ceiling and open balcony area, and the atmosphere is quite lovely with some great views of Union Square.

  Looked at the picture, in the middle of the dish is the potato chips.  And inside of the sandwich is avocado, lobster, tomato, and arugula. In spite of this one, we tried smoked tuna&escarole salad as well. And they will serve bread too. The bread is very delicious and tender. Everything is perfect in here. They have great decorations with any dish as well. I think a appropriate decorations can give us a good mood to eat and enjoy.

  All in all, the restaurant is pretty good and beautiful though it is expensive. In my point of view, it's good to try some food that we haven't tried or to enjoy the enviroment that we haven't enjoyed. It's a good experience there. Very recommanded all of you go there to try.

The Special Food

         Do you think that these food aren't special?  All chinese people usually eat them. They are usual for chinese people.  They are special for me though i often eat them.  These food were cooked by my father on Monday this week.  I always had lunch and dinner with my family before i came to the United States.  When we came here, my parents got a job and they always are very busy.  They didn't spend much time together with us.  However, we moved to a new house this month. According to chinese tradition, we sould eat a meal with our family. So that my parents spent a day together with us.
        These food are chinese traditional food. One of the food was made from some vegetable and mushrooms.  And the other one was made from some beans and noodles. The third one was made from some tofu,egg and onion.  Because my father is a good cooker,these foods which were cooked by him were very delicious.  If you ask me whether they are healthy, i won't know how to answer them. In my family, we never consider if the foods are healthy for us. We just eat some food that we like. Maybe there are a lot of food we eat is harm for our health, we didn't know.
        I would choose these food because my family and i ate together and i had a happy time in here.  Now i learn a lot of thing about diet, so that i will cook some delicious and healthy food to my family when we have time to eat together. Now let's pay attention our health on the diet.

    This is a kind of sushi which named "dragon roll".  Last week I went to Tokyo House, a Japanese resturant, for dinner with my husband.  A nice waitress recommended this sushi to us. 

    This dragon roll is expensive but very delicious.  There are deep fried shrimp inside and some eel and avcado on the top.  At beginning we don't want to try this one because the price is 12.95 dollars, but that waitress said "just try it, you will love it, dragon roll is very popular in our reaturant."  Then we ordered it and found it's really good.  Also I found this roll very healthy,  the eel is rich in protein, avcado is also very healthy.  The most important thing is it's very delicious. I love this roll.

Wnderful Party, Wonderful Food

   Last Wednesday I joined my Chinese class party. The food was vegetarian. My classmate in the middle cooked. The food was made of beans, and was very healthy. In both China and Ameraca some people are vegetarian. My classmate is vegetarian that she wants us to become vegetarian, too.

  My husbend doesn't like it. He likes meat. I don't care. Sometimes I eat meat, sometimes I eat vegetarian. My classmates  are interested in this food that they are never taste it. We were excited. We talked, we ate, and we laughed. My teacher in the middle was putting some rice soup in the bowl. She was very happy, because she will retire this term.

Do you like vegetarian? Do you want to try it?

Do You Want to Try?

    

    

     All the food you see in the pictures was made by me. I like eating. I will check yelp when I want to try some different styles food. I think if we are hungry and eating is for live, but if we are not hungry too much, then we should enjoy the food.

     Before I came to America, I was like other kids in China. Do everything for school only. I do not need to do laundry by myself and I do not need to cook. We all have housekeeper is our parents. When somebody else helps you to finish everything you need and you will never know you have the nature talent to do some work. For example I cook for myself. I know I can cook a dinner for three of four people after I came to American two month later. I never did this before. At the beginning of I learned cooking. I stood far away the fire and after I dropped the vegetables into the pot I just went away because I was afraid of oil spilled out from the pot. I have no idea for how much salt should I put into the pot and I do not know which vegetables use which sauce better. At that time the food I made just for live because I do not want hungry and I have already done the cook and I can’t waste the food. After a long time exercise, I like eat the food I made and so does my roommate. After that I begin to try the way that I didn’t do before and like you see in the first picture. I put the meet in the tofu and then I fried them with sauce. The second one is broccoli with chicken, carrot, and shelled coin. I pay more attention to the colorful of combine the vegetables. I think looks good will let you want to try and balance the nutrition is good for health. The third one is my breakfast. This is the first time I did so successful. I tried to do some American style, but I found make the egg so beautiful is very difficult. This is only a successful and I took a picture to encourage myself.

     I also will care about the health. I know we should put little sauce, little oil, and little salt in our meal. I think the most important thing is I enjoy the time I cooking and I feel so happy, then probably the food will better than I was angry. The food taste good and the people who eat my food will feel happy too. That’s I want. To the health eating my opinion is you can eat everything you want, but not too much just a little bit. I did like I said. I hope someday the scientist can tell us exactly what we can eat and no one will get disease from food. Enjoy eating and enjoy life.