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Hum… If we meet someone, there is a parting day. I think, no one can be together forever. And that’s sad. I’ve been with Kei for more than five months but I cannot believe that; I think that it is just one or two months. Kei is really good brother. He always takes care of me, and he want to give many things to me.

Sometimes, I feel that he is so cute and pure; He is childlike and he is easy going with other people. That is why, I can easily make a friend. For more than five months, I made lots of memories with him.

This Dec. 8, he will be back to Korea. I know that he needs to go there and find a good job; he leaves here for good. However I feel quite sad that someone who is important to me will be apart from me; that makes me sad.

Yet, I know that I will have our relationship with him continuously till end of my life. That is why, I can let him go. And when the time we meet again, we can show our better changes each other. I will pray for him to achieve his goals.

What can you imagine that if you hear word, “fraternity”? The original fraternity is a group of people who share their certain interests and help each other. However, nowadays, it is changed; usually people have negative ideas of fraternity. Even someone thinks that fraternity is harmful to the students. If It is so what’s happening with fraternity in the school?

The one of AUF student said, “There are some fraternities in the AUF; before when you join fraternity, it is good but now, fraternity are a group of people who usually the gang that does bad.” And she added that some names of fraternities and mostly those which vandalized walls were written by them; even some teachers are members of fraternity.

Most serious problem in fraternity is that there is what people call "hazing" which old members of a fraternity torture the people who are trying to be a member of a fraternity. Another AUF old student said, basically, old fraternity was for good. When there was a new one though they also have hazing, it wasn't as severe as fraternity nowadays. For instance, let's say there is a new one. Since the old members of a fraternity need to test the new one whether they are gonna allow a new one to join the fraternity or not. In hazing, they tell the new one that they are gonna blindfold him or her and they tell the new one that he or she is gonna walk on the cracks of a glass. However, the old members of a fraternity will change the cracks of a glass into popcorns after they blindfold the new one. It is a matter of testing a new one's trust on the old members of a fraternity.

This was done before. But now, it is totally different. The old members of a fraternity REALLY hit and torture new ones because they are doing "hazing." Few people even die because of hazing. Another example for hazing is that we can see it occasionally near AUF. A group of guys run beneath the school with naked body. They cover their faces with some kind of a box or mask.

Also when they want to withdraw from fraternity, which is hard as hazing. The members of fraternity give force to the person who wants to withdraw. Thus they have hardships in the school. As a result, the person hesitates or gives up withdrawing from fraternity.

Therefore, to prevent negative effects of fraternity and protect their students, school needs to do something practical like educate them, what good fraternity is and what they should avoid. If school let them do something, soon serious problem will be appeared. Although we cannot face them usually, surely there are fraternities which give negative effects to the students; School must face them in the right way.

Usually Koreans are not easily show their deep mind to others, because they are conservative and shy to show their emotion to others. Behind of this, there is cultural background. In our past, people believed that they must don’t show their weakness and personal emotion to others to keep their social authorities. People should show only good aspect of life then. That is still remaining some. However, I like to say, “I love you.” to my family. I make a phone call to my mother every weekend; the end of the call, I always to say. “I love you.” However my mother was quite shy, so she didn’t say it; I really want to hear that from my mother so I don’t hang up, if my mother don’t say, “I love you.” After few months later, my mother changed her attitude. Sometimes, my mother is the first one who say, “I love you.” to me. And that time, I am so happy.

 I’m sure that my mother is unlike others’ mother. My mother has open mind and she is pure; she is childlike. My sister is not used to hang with my mother but I really used to hang with my Mom. She is really funny; sometimes I think that she is still teenager. If I stay with her, I can’t recognize time goes. If I follow half of my mother’s step, I’m sure that I will be successful man in this world. I love my family so much. I never imagine my life without them. They are my energy to live. Especially my mom is the a pillar of my life. Therefore I need to study hard. No. I must study hard for my family and I. I want to be proud son and bother. That is my goal in my life.