05/28 Journal

Although I think Dodo was trained a little bit by his ex-keeper, he is still stupid. For example, he can sit down and lie on his stomach by his own but we cannot order him to do so. He does not understand the instruction and we are lazy to train him because of his dullness. Not to mention that Dodo cannot shake hands and catch the ball we throw out. I think the only trick he can amuse us is dance, but it isn’t exactly what we think about “dance”. Dodo will lie on his stomach, stretch his back legs, swish his tail happily and tap the ground with front legs to and fro. However, we cannot order him to do the trick before our guests so it is useless to show Dodo’s unique. Frankly speaking, Dodo doesn’t have many things to say but his folly.

05/22 Journal

The small and fluffy animals often give people a cute feeling. It makes people want to get close to them and play with them, not mention to Dodo. His tiny body and long fur often attacks people’s attention when I am taking him for a walk. Dodo always shows innocent expression with his tongue out. Because his head is pretty round so he looks a little like cartoon character, 巧虎 if his fur is cut.

Dodo seldom barks at strangers and that’s the reason my father could pick him up without troubles. Maybe his ex-keeper trained him well or he has no alertness to human beings. However, if someone presses the bell or the phone rings, he will rush to the door and bark or bark at the phone. If he does it, we will joke “Dodo, answer the phone!” “Dodo, open the door!” Dodo does not bite people because he is a five-year-old dog and has no teeth to bite. I think Dodo just swallows the food without chewing.

If any guest comes to our home, we do not need to worry about Dodo’s reaction to strangers and they can also play with him happily.

05/15 Journal

My family is keeping a Pomeranian (博美). He is named 嘟嘟 Dodo by my father because he is covered with fluffy fur and it makes him as round as a rolling ball. Dodo’s fur color is orange and brown and it is a common color of Pomeranian. He is as tiny as a small watermelon and weighed three kilograms. Dodo likes to put out his tongue and we thinks that it is his bad hobby. However, a keeper told me that it seems that Pomeranian often does that because her dog also puts out his tongue but in opposite direction. It is interesting.

Dodo was a stray dog that my father found him on the road. He wore a collar and looked like having a well care from his ex-keeper. As a result, we guessed that Dodo was a missing dog and we tried to find his ex-keeper. However, after few weeks, my father said that Dodo was abandoned by his friend’s friend. Then, we kept Dodo as our family pet. In fact, the reason that my father kept Dodo was that my younger sister was asking to keep a dog. My mother and I thought keeping a pet was a trouble so we asked my father to abandon Dodo again. However, my father still keeps Dodo because of my sister. Dodo is our family pet and my sister is his real keeper.

05/08 Journal

Although the life with part-time job was really busy, I learned that how to manage time more efficient than before. I did not have more time after work so I had to make piecemeal time more useful like reading some texts or doing easy homework in break time. However, sometimes I was too lazy to use this kind of piecemeal time. As a result, a good way for me was division. For example, if I had to write an essay, I would do the research and conception on Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday were writing days. I would revise and type the essay on Thursday, and then my paper was finished. Because I did not have enough time to complete the work totally on short weekend, I needed to divide the work into several parts. Although I had to spend much time doing work, each part was so small that I can handle it in short time.

Besides that, I would prepare the work before many days, especially the examination. I would start to study before two to three weeks. Because of my laziness, the preparation did not work efficiently. Although I could not get great scores, it was satisfying that at least, I had studied all the subjects.

05/01 Journal

My last part-time job had to work till 10 o’clock. After I ate some snacks, read newspapers and took a shower, it was always almost 11 o’clock. If I spent some time watching TV or surfing the Internet, my bed time would be 1 or 2 o’clock. It was fine in the usual but it would be terrible in midterm exams week. I only had two to three hours to study in a day so I had to study harder on the weekend to catch the exam schedule. It really drove me crazy because there were so many subjects need to study but I did not have enough time. Fortunately, my employer would give me a week off to study so I could pass two examinations. Because I had to work after school on weekdays, the weekend was time for me to do homework and study. Sometimes, I needed to refuse my friends’ invitation for “Sorry! I have part-time job after school so I cannot have dinner with you,” or “I have to do my essay in weekend so I cannot go shopping with you.” The reasons were often like this. I would often feel embarrassed when I decline my friends’ invitation but there was no help for it.