[스크랩] Lesson 6 Miri’s First Trip Abroad

Lesson 6
Miri’s First Trip Abroad

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Topic 1
Trip to Hawaii

Here is a diary Miri kept on her first trip to Hawaii. This was written high in the air!

Day 1   Monday, July 20
Here I am, looking down at the dark blue Pacific Ocean. The clouds look like a cotton field where white cotton flowers are blooming. I don’t know how many hours have passed since I left Korea.
I got up this morning and couldn’t find any words but “good morning” to express my feelings to my parents. For the first time, I was leaving to go to another country that I had never been to!
My mom and dad couldn’t seem to find any words, either. We silently arrived at Incheon International Airport. I boarded the plane and my first trip abroad began.
When the plane was still flying over Korea, I could look down on the buildings and then the fields, and finally the mountains and rivers. Then came the clouds and the dark blue sea.
We soon had lunch. It was delicious, but there was no Korean food. After lunch, there was a movie, but it was all in Japanese. I couldn’t find the English or the Korean channel on the headset, so I couldn’t understand what the actors were saying.

Day 2   Tuesday, July 21 but July 20 again!
Aloha!
Here I am on Oahu Island. This is the island where Honolulu is. Wow! It took more than 10 hours. But, it was still Monday, which was very puzzling. My aunt and her son welcomed me with a lei, which is the famous flower necklace in Hawaii. My cousin said, “aloha” which means “hello.” I was taught the word, “mahalo” which means “thank you” in Hawaiian. I was surprised that their language had some words that were not English.
I went to my aunt’s house on Waikiki Beach. After breakfast, we went out to the beach, which looked beautiful, like Haeundae Beach in Korea. I enjoyed swimming for two hours, which made me very tired.

Day 4   Thursday, July 23
Yesterday, we went to Diamond Head. It took over an hour to walk to the top, where I could see the whole city of Honolulu. Then, we went to Hanauma Bay Beach, where we swam with the different kinds of fish in the sea. I have never seen such clear sea water.
Today, we went to the big island of Hawaii, which is covered with lava rocks and live volcanoes. I wondered how things could grow on such hard rock!
There were some fields for Kona coffee and a funny kind of nut called “Macadamia.” They were very delicious, especially since they were covered in chocolate! The only pineapples I saw were in the grocery store and they were from the Philippines! There were mangoes everywhere; my aunt had a mango tree in her garden, just like the persimmon tree we have in our yard back home!
I will leave for San Francisco tomorrow afternoon.

Topic 2
Trip to California

Day 6   Saturday, July 25
I saw ships passing under the Golden Gate Bridge today. I was told that the bridge was first suggested in 1896 by a forty-niner and opened in 1937. A forty-niner? I asked my uncle who forty-niners were.
James Marshall found some traces of gold in a river in California in 1848. Thousands of people―forty-niners, were on their way to California by 1849. The trip to California was difficult but the rewards were great―at least in the early days. Gold was in the hills. As a result, a miner could get gold simply by looking in the rivers.

The Birthplace of Blue Jeans
Often, the most money was made not by miners, but by those who had something to sell to the miners. To my surprise, “blue jeans” were born here. Levi Strauss, who was a quick thinker, first made his canvas into pants for miners in the 1870s. Miners liked the pants because they lasted. At that time, the pants, “blue jeans”, were not made for young people, but for miners.
I found the state of California was itself a result of the Gold Rush. Forty-niners who went to California by ship passed through San Francisco. Many of them returned to San Francisco to live.

Day 7   Sunday, July 26
My uncle took me to Santa Clara Valley, south of San francisco. It took three hours to get to the valley, which is also known as Silicon Valley.
I was told that in 1939, two young engineers went to work in a garage in the valley. They were the thirty-niners of the 20th century. They developed electronic tools. Santa Clara Valley is the most important center of America’s computer industry.
I entered the company where my uncle worked. The company seemed like a college campus. My uncle told me that he usually went jogging at lunchtime. My uncle and other engineers were encouraged to spend their time thinking of new ideas.

Me As a Twenty-Niner
I live in a wonderful and challenging world!
Tomorrow, I will go back to Korea. I’m dreaming of setting up a new center of computer industry near my hometown. I will be called a twenty-niner a century later! It will be my second trip to an unknown world.

Review - 의사 소통 기능

자신의 의견 말하기
A: What’s the opinion of the boy?
B: I really don’t know what to say.

놀람 표현하기
A: I have done my homework by myself.
B: I am surprised you could do it.

의무
A: Who are you supposed to meet here?
B: We’re supposed to meet our English teacher.

길 안내
A: How long will it take to get to the zoo?
B: It will take more than 30 minutes by bus.

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