Week 2 - 2nd draft

200703360 Choe Byoung bin

How to rent a house in Seoul

Finding a place to stay in downtown Seoul is difficult and annoying since this huge city is crowded with over 10 million people. There are several ways to find a rental house, depending on what kind of house you are looking for. However, the most reliable way of renting a house is to find one with the help of real estate agency. Face to face contract through internet communities or flyers can be risky because you don't know him/her financial conditions well enough to make a contract. Real state agency plays a financial guarantor role so that you can rely on them. Real estate agency workers will offer you several choices as soon as you ask them your conditions and requirements. For the next step, you go with agency employees to see the place in person and decide whether you are going to rent that place. Finalizing a contract with the agency is the only thing that is waiting for you. After filling out identification and financial status sheet, presenting identity card and paying for the commission and rental fee, everything is settled. Real estate agency makes whole process of renting a house a lot easier and effective with 10% commission fee.

 

A good English Teacher

A good English teacher is the one who is generous. I really respect my middle school English teacher because she was open-minded. For example, every two week, she wanted us write a heart-felt letter to her about the class. We wrote what was good about this class, what we learned or how this particular teaching method made us feel. Based on these letters, she tried different kinds of teaching method. For instance, she taught us pop songs and made us to analyze the lyrics. After that, she asked us to write down our feelings about the song. It was very effective way to learn English because not only learning pop songs was interesting but spilling out our own thoughts about particular song made us to think, react and develop our own creative ideas about the topic. After the semester, we even made our own play out of those pop songs and performed during the school festival. Because she respected us and put our feelings into consideration when teaching, she is remembered the best English teacher ever to my friends and me.