Good Bye and Hello

Since this is the last blog post that would be counted, I really have no motivation when knowing IB exams are coming up; but at the same time I feel the urge to express my sentimental attachment towards the IB-time to the world and I decide to give it my last try.

When I first joined IB, though I can hardly remember the reason I decided to join (as I have short-term memory loss, if someday I forget your name, please understand that you will always remain in ma heart♡, jk) I was excited because I was surrounded with such amazing people. Now thinking back about it, I think I just wanted to know the feeling of being surrounded by cool people while realizing how uncool I am, and that's why I joined IB. Haha, no I'm serious. I think it was kind of like a mistake but not really. I learned so much from them, therefore I'm really grateful towards...mmmy mistake. On the other hand, I think that I decided to join because I know IB would force me to learn English faster, as to write better (I know my writing is bad but believe me it was wayyy worse and at least I've improved, THANKS TO IB moehe). The benefit that I received from the past 2 years was truly precious and I know the pain, I mean the memory, would remind me that I can always grow to become larger - not physically but I wish I will miracally grow taller.

I realized my life changed so much since I joined IB. It was not my surroundings that changed, but the view of my surroundings has changed. The way I see things and the way I judge them have been influenced by IB, and of course in a positive way. IB has trained me into a critical person as I learned to judge everything that I came across. Though I'm well aware that I have turned to be so judgmental, but I also acknowlege that I was once a judgmental person as well. The only difference that distinguish myself in the past and myself in the present is that I have learned to judge the right ways, to judge for the sense of fairness, for the justice of a being in order to learn more about the thing being judged....
There are new things that are waiting to be discovered and I hope to find myself stumble upon them someday.

I dedicate my gratitude towards the people who helped me through rough times and have been there for me, I love all of you so much!!!! Give you kisses!!! moaz ♡♡ and my laugh of gratitude in different languages  kekekeke háháhá híhíhí ㅋㅋㅋㅋ ㅎㅎㅎㅎ
Here are the list of songs that I'd
 love to have you listen to
 *someday in the near future I will put in the songs---> therefore, make sure to check my blog frequently xD

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c-cOZgaotPY

p/s: hope you will have fun watching this!

Witty Whitman

Step1:
Taking a look at Whitman's journals, his cursive handwriting was difficult to read (seemed like he was jotting down the stream of ideas for his poems), which caused difficulty for me to understand what the journals were really about. However, I was not meant to be judgmental about his handwriting, but it would be much more helpful to the audience if his handwriting were to be clearer...

Through his notebook, I noticed that on page 925, there's written "Two characters as of a dialogue..." and "lesson for President elect". He also mentioned "the Jew the Christ". The presence of religion in his notebook made me wonder if his notes were about the separation between different religions in the nation. That his inner voice was to scream out the liberty of freedom of religion, as he wrote "lesson for President elect" on the page above. On other page, he wrote "Have more throne there stood so low? Does the Queen of England represent a thousand years? And the Queen of Spain a thousand years? And you". The significance of this quote was that he mentioned the two most powerful nations of Europe at the time and they also had great influence on the US. For what he meant about "a thousand years" I could not figure out. The quote "Welcome the star- welcome the trial - let the waves. Why now I shall see what the old ship is made of. Any body can sail with a fair wind, a smooth sea" and he also mentioned "The ship of Libertad" which represented his ideas of liberty. The last few pages included his sketches of an unidentified man who resembled Abraham Lincoln as there was one sketch of him with the hat on. This could link to the admiration of Whitman towards Abraham Lincoln and I think that Whitman wanted to become someone as great as Lincoln. 

Step2:
It was very surprising to know that the journals were about the dream of having a talk with Abraham Lincoln. I can relate this to him as I also sometimes find myself day-dreaming talking to my "favorite idols". I know this and that are different things but dreaming about having a talk with the person whom one admires very much is a very normal thing. In my opinion I would not think that Whitman would be the type of person who would look up to other people because he appeared to be so great himself. His dream about having a conversation with the person he admired, the one who would understand his longing for liberty just as much as himself, represented the worry that he had towards the future of America.