Birds  sing happily
 ready to welcome the day
of fresh blooming spring.

Birds singing happily
Be ready to welcome the new day
Of fresh feeling spring.

  <Right here waiting For you> is like my friend who has been stayed with me since I was a child. First time I heard of this poem when my father was listening to it. So it could say I was actually influenced by my father a lot, but that time I didn't understand what it tells. The only thing I remember author really expressed his emotion strong. As I growing up I know this is a very good example that can be both called poem and lyrics. It is a nine stanzas poem,but each stanza includes different numbers of lines. I think it is because of the difference between chorus and verse. Richard Marx loves a girl and one day he wrote this down and sing to the girl on phone. It is as expected this girl became Richard Marx’s wife.
  It is about a man gave a call to his lover telling how hard he is missing her. “If I see you next to never, how can we say forever” This man sounds like suspecting if this love can be forever. On the other hand, he promised “wherever you go, whatever you do, I will be right here waiting for you.” I think most of the people are moved by this sentence. He uses parallel construction to express no matter how hard the future will be, he will never give up. He will be right here waiting for her. This is not a complex sentence, but author just used the easy sentence to hit on soft part in our hearts. This poem is not hard to remember because attentive Richard Marx wrote certain rhymes in this poem. For examples “oh,can't you see it baby? You’ve got me going crazy” that baby and crazy are match. “ whatever it takes, or how my heart breaks.”which are takes and breaks.

Poem

Richard Marx – Right Here Waiting Lyrics
Oceans apart day after day
And I slowly go insane
I hear your voice on the line
But it doesn't stop the pain

If I see you next to never
How can we say forever

Wherever you go
Whatever you do
I will be right here waiting for you
Whatever it takes
Or how my heart breaks
I will be right here waiting for you

I took for granted, all the times
That I thought would last somehow
I hear the laughter, I taste the tears
But I can't get near you now

Oh, can't you see it baby
You've got me going crazy

Wherever you go
Whatever you do
I will be right here waiting for you
Whatever it takes
Or how my heart breaks
I will be right here waiting for you

I wonder how we can survive
This romance
But in the end if I'm with you
I'll take the chance

Oh, can't you see it baby
You've got me going crazy

Wherever you go
Whatever you do
I will be right here waiting for you
Whatever it takes
Or how my heart breaks
I will be right here waiting for you
Waiting for you



This is a good example of both poem and lyrics by Richard Marx. This is my father favorite song, so I usually heard of this song when I was a child. As I growing up, I know it is about a man waiting for his lover and he doesn't care wherever she goes, whatever she does, he just be there and waiting for her. I was moved by how he expressed his emotion, and his spirit. It is kind of means never give up what you used to do, holding hope to keep going. There are also certain excellent rhyme in this poem which made this poem easy to remember.

Project reflection

             New Idea, New Experience

      At first, I want to say “ Thank You” to Ms.Guarino. Because she did not required this project must be essay form. I remember last time after we finished <Me and You>, we had to write a long essay. However this time, we have chances to create our own intersting project. So me, johnny and james made a team that we decided to take a film of part of the plot in < Pobby and Dingan>.This is a fun because I never done it before, I really learnt something whether how to act or how to do the teamwork. I think this is a very memoryable experience for me.
    When we heard from Ms Guarinao that we do not need to work personaly. What I thought first is to find partners. Then James and Johnny became my partners. Our project team has the largest amount of people in this class, so I thought it seems like it is our responsibility to creative a fancy and difficult project. There are two opotions came out which were PPT and Making Film. One day extra help time Johnny went to ask Ms.Guarino’s opinion. Ms.Guarino said they both good ideas, but we could see from her eyes that she more liked Making film because she might thought this is more creative. We had a short disscusion about what we were going to do. The result is Making Film.
The first day we started, we just found some dialogues from book’s chapter one and chapter six. Our first step was pretty essay, but we did not want to say excatly same with the book, so we changed some sentences. Another reason we changed is there are certain sentences are hard to memory. For showing how creative we are, we directly mixed two apart things together. In book after Rex and Annie has a row, it takes a long time that annie looks old photos to remember past times. We just decide there is no gap between these events. After annie argued with Rex, she was so sad then she took out pictures to express her emotion. Annie saw those pictures for a reason which made the plot not strange.
   There are two parts in our film and each parts has two mates to act and another one takes the film. I acted father Rex, Johnny acted mom and James was Ashmol. For my part my sentences were not difficult, the challenge is how to express emotion correctly. Rex as a man he has to take care of the whole family,but he carries too tired, and annie lost her job. So Rex has to suddenly be so angry, when I looked at johnny’s face, it is really hard to be angry. We at least tried three times for that. The last time I imagined I was really Rex and Johnny was really annie. What I learnt is when you want to act well, it is important to forget who you are now but put yourself into the character. After we finished taking a film, we felt it was just strange two people were just having conversation. It seemed like not real. For this difficult point, we came out a great idea. Johnny gave me a drink when I entered the room, this made the scene real. This is one of the skill I learnt from acting. There is one more interesting thing during filming is about muscle. We used James Ipad Pro to film which was extremely heavy, lucky I was strong enough to hold for three minutes.
   Post-production was tough work for me, we had to use computer to put in several background music. We combined separately scene into one film. We also communicated with Min, now his music is added in our film. I guess that is kind of a teamwork. After we finished the film, I was so proud of myself. Be honest this is my first time doing big project. I enjoyed when we doing this, it has so much fun because everything was new to me. I learnt things that I didn’t know before, For example how to act and how to process film. This project is a new idea and new experince for me. I like this!

There are two scenes in our film, and we just finished one scene during the weekend. When we were actually acting, I found it was not hard. I don't need to act anything on the second scene, so I am going to edit this film after we finished acting. The tool we are going to edit called IMovie.

  In my opinion Project is a big work that several people put much effort in it. So for getting a good grade, we are going to make a wonderful film. And we decided to change some plots because it will be more creative. Also it is a film, it is a good idea to let audiences see different thing but not just follow what the book tells.We have three people in this group, me James and Johnny, and we have two scenes which is going to take about ten minutes.
    First of all I think it is a challenge for me, I have to memorize what I should say in the film. Then acting needs skills that make people think its true.
   For two scenes, we are going to act after mom and dad had an argument and Ashmol found mom was looking at the old photos. Ashmol will have a conversation with her mom for consoling her. These are going to happen one by one which was a little bit different from the book. ( having argument in the first chapter and looking at photos in the sixth chapter )
   Johnny is going to be mom and I am father, James is going to be cute Ashmol. I hope I can learn how to act through this project. Anyway I believe we are going to finish this project perfectly.
   

1: kellyane was not dead.
2: opal was given back.
3: Kellyane talked more to Pobby and Dingan in funeral.

  When I first see this quote, I was so confused. I checked some unknown words in this sentence,but it is not pretty useful. So I tried to find something connect with the book. It seems like every story has a thing that can be called hint keep appearing in the story, and all the plots happened around this hint. For example this opal, author needs to say story’s theme based on this opal. Opal is beautiful and colorful,but every one in this town eager to find the opal for changing to money. If it is not that valuable, no one tries so hard to find one. So everyone just likes opal’s value rather than opal’s appearance. That is what I understand this quote "The secret of an opal's color lies not in its substance but in its absences." in general.
    I think this opal run through the whole story, and it is also a symbol for every members in the family. Rex as a father is not a excellent father, at least he could not like other fathers that make much money. So from other’s view, he is a kind of loser, having not good relationship with his wife, becoming a ratter. Even Annie his wife sometimes looked at photos that with his exboyfriend, she must has a little bit regret, why I follow this man but not that rich man. Anyway Rex shows many bad sides to others, that is all his substance. However he finished all his daughter dream, for instance looking for Pobby and Dingan in the claim, holding a funeral for Pobby and Dingan. Rex took a heavy responsbility for her daughter and he never complained. That is his absence. Same as Annie, although she regrets, when Ashmol comes to her room, she hides those photos. This shows she does not want his child see her flimsy time. Ashmol looks young, so their parents never think about he is able to do something helpful for this family. The amazing part is he actually does much more things than anyone else to make kellyane better. He is begining to learn how to be a man.I think he knows Pobby and Dingan are not real, he still helps his sister find them and hold the funeral. He just thinks simple that he wants his siter feeling better. He deserved to get that sentence from Kellyane: You are the best brother. Kellyane has no firends in scholl, some children might think she is lonely and strange, but she lives happy when she spending the time with Pobby and Dingan. People think she is poor without any real friends. In fact it is the same, she has someone to care about to cherish. The only difference is others cannot see them.
    This small poor family seems easy to break, but they all have something shining inside of their nature which can save them. Change a word, how they show to others or how they act is not necessary important, what is amazing is their absences personalities must on the same track so that is valuable for the family.

Quiz

It mentioned the land was a sea for making readers believe Pobby and Dingan are real. This evidence proves everything is possible in this world, a land was covered by sea is real. Why Pobby and Dingan are not? Another reason why it mentioned is because it will explain well why a huge yo yo size opal exist in here. So this story become more compact.



Dreams are import even it could not be seen because it could supports one's life. Sometimes everything is already so hard for someone,but he doesn't want to give up. He needs a goal to finish. For example Rex. Rex is a father who had one daughter and one son, he had a heavy responsibility to support this family. However he could not make much money. He had a dream to be rich, so he could get well along with his wife because his wife thought he didn't not has way to make this family be rich. His dream was not only be rich, he wanted to use money to make his children live better and happier. So he had another dream who hope every family members are healthy and fine.