Journal 2: Getting Around

I've bee here for 1 year and I always have had trouble going somewhere because I don't have my own car and California driver license.  I usually ask my friends to take me somewhere. However finally I started to practice driving recently. Last time, I drove around Brea. It was really nice, and I realize it's easy to drive in CA if I compare with my hometown. One of the reasons is that the road is wider than Japan. The road of Japan is narrow, so I have to be careful all the time. especially corners. However in CA, I don't have to pay attention too much about it.
On the other hands, there is some problems to drive here. That is some California drivers are dangerous, because suddenly they change the line without signal.  Sometimes I've felt scared, it happened.

By the way, the topic I will talk from now is not related driving in CA much, but I really want to talk about this. It's is "how to get driver license". I was so surprise the way of the U.S. They just take a paper test, and then driving test. That's it!! They dont have to go driving school. People who is going to take a license are taught someone already having a license. In Japan, everybody have to go driving school, and take a rule class and driving lessen. In my case, it takes 3 month to take driver license.  I'm always wondering why American made this system......

Journal 1 Introduction

Hi  Sean and my new classmates.  My name is Jangyoung Kim, but please call me Shoei. It`s my Japanese name. Actually I`m Korean, but I was born in Japan, so I have two names. The meaning of my name is "Be strong like general forever " My hometown is Aomori, part of norther Japan. It's really countryside but, I love it. And I had lived in Tokyo in a period of high school. After I graduated from my high school, I came here to enter cal state fullerton. I like CA, because of weather, atmosphere, food. However one thing i don't like is that I definitely need a car to transfer. Thus I'm practicing drive these days. It's really fun. 

I have a lot of hobbies, watching movie, listening to music, playing sports etc... Basically I don't like watching sports except basketball and tennis, but i like playing any sports. I like all kinds of music, hip-hop, trance, classic. Usually I listen to trance music to get high, to keep my feeling good. And when I want to concentrate on something or calm down, I listen to classic.  I'm interested in many things and I like to know new things. Thus I'm looking forward to taking this class with you guys. Thank you!! 

Next I will introduce my new classmate, Daniel. He is from south part of Vietnam. He has 2 siblings, 1 brother and 1 sister. He has been 5 month in the U.S, and all of the time is in CA. He came here to enter university. His major is engineer. His hobbies r Watching movie, listening to music, swimming, and playing game. He prefers American movies to Vietnamese movies. He hates Vietnamese movies. He likes to listen to American music and Vietnamese music. His favorite singer is Nicke Minaj. He likes to swim in the pool, but not in the sea. This is all about him I know so far.