Time-lapse, Taipei, Taiwan (2016)

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100 BUCKET LIST of What I Want to Do During traveling in American Continent

I decided to go traveling to the End of the world(Ushuaia, Argentina) from Canada.
I will quit my job when I complete making 100 BUCKET LIST of What I Want to Do During the travel American Continent. And I won't come back home before I check all written in the list.
Blue ones are mine, Red ones are hers.

20150703
#00 Traveling to the END of the world((Ushuaia, Argentina) from Canada.
#01 Taking time-lapse wherever I stop, and making a video with the time-lapse.
#02 Watching Niagara Falls on the both side of Canada and America.
#03 Watching Salar de Uyuni(Bolivia) of rainy period.
#04 Going the museum of Bob Marley in Jamaica.
#05 Making On-the-Rock with ice of Moreno Glacier(Argentina) and Drinking.
#06 Going to Machu Picchu(Peru).

20150706
#07 Spending Christmas in southern hemisphere.
#08 Interviewing over 200 people and posting their stories.
     (at last making books with the stories and giving them a book)
#09 Helping childhood cancer child after growing my hair as long as I can help.

20150710
#10 Visiting Bruce Lee's grave in Seattle.

20150715
#11 Watching at least 2 shows in Broadway, New York.

20150718

#12 Yellowstone National Park

20150809
#13 Feeling the atmosphere of Olympic Games in Brazil.

     (I have to be in Brazil in August, 2016.)

#14 Watching Iguazu Falls on the both side of Brazil and Argentina.
#15 Meeting flocks of penguins in Isla Magdalena, Argentina.

20151003

#16 Aurora

20151114
#17 Guanajuato, Mexico
#18 Seeing polar bears in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada
#19 Grand Canyon, USA
#20 Quebec, Canada
#21 CN tower, Toronto, Canada
#22 Universal Studio
#23 Disney Land
#24 Rushmore Mountain, South Dakoda, USA

20151212
#25 Catatumbo Lighting, Venezuela
#26 Angel Falls, Venezuela

20160327
#27 making my story and pictures posted on HONY page

20161127
#28 Drawing portraits for at least 10 people.
#29 Top 4 pizzas in USA (New York, Chicago, Detroit, Saint Louis)
#30 Trying KOGI, the Korean style taco truck.
#31 Mexico, Palenque
#32 Mexico, Chichen Itza
#33 Mexico, Copper Canyon
#34 Eating Taco in Mexico
#35 Venezuela, Merida (the highest, longest cable car in the world)
#36 Chile, Torres del Paine Trekking
#37 Chile, Santiago
#38 Chile, Atacama Desert (Taking photos of stars at night)
#39 Argentina, Huamhuaca 
#40 Brazil, Barreirinhas
#41 Brazil, Chapada Diamantina National Park
#42 Brazil, Bonito & Pantanal (Snorkeling)
#43 Brazil, Gramado & Canela (Gothic cathedral & Caracol water falls)
#44 Brazil, Trying Churrasco (Brazilian BBQ)
#45 USA, Havasupai Falls
#46 USA, Hoh rain Forest (Magical Forest)
#47 Canada, Banff National park
#48 LA, Hollywood, meeting Bruce Willis
#49 Seattle, the First Starbucks
#50 New York, Statue of Liberty & Plaza Hotel
#51 Miami, Swimming on the beach
#52 LA, Visiting Paul Walker's grave in Forest Lawn Memorial Parks
#53 New York, Reading books, Listening to music, writing stories
#54 USA, Jack In the Box


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+Pretty Noona

Yellowstone National Park
National park in United States of America
Directions
Yellowstone National Park is a nearly 3,500-sq.-mile wilderness recreation area atop a volcanic hot spot. Mostly in Wyoming, the park spreads into parts of Montana and Idaho too. Yellowstone features dramatic canyons, alpine rivers, lush forests, hot springs and gushing geysers, including its most famous, Old Faithful. It's also home to hundreds of animal species, including bears, wolves, bison, elk and antelope.
Address: United States
Area: 3,468 mi² (8,983 km²)
Hours: Open today · Open 24 hours
Phone: (307) 344-7381
Management: U.S. National Park Service

Go here and take a look at the pictures, I have been there it's a very interesting and beautiful place...the pictures don't capture all the natural beauty.

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&ie=UTF-8&rct=j#newwindow=1&q=yellowstone

+Mixtape Heart
If you decide to come to New York City, let me know! Your posts have been very helpful to me and I would like to return the favor. 

+Sirithia Edwards 
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Other Particles-2 (마다, 마저, 조차, 밖에)

마다

The particle 마다 means “every” or “each”, as shown in the examples below:

마저 and 조차

The particles 마저 or 조차 are used to express “even”. Consider the following examples:

The meanings of 마저 and 조차 are similar to that of 까지(even). However, differing from 까지, the particles 마저 and 조차 are in general associated with unfavorable or unsought contents. Compare the following two sentences:

Although the translation of both examples are the same, the second example with 마저 implies that meeting Thomas’ girlfriend was not a favorable event, whereas the first example with 까지 simply indicates “including (even)”. Here are more examples:

밖에

The particle 밖에 is used to indicate “only” or “nothing but” in English. The meaning of 밖에 is similar to that of 만(only). However, differing from 만, the particle 밖에 always co-occurs with the negative predicate. For instance, compare the following sentences:

Notice that although the meanings of both sentences are similar, the second sentence ends in a negative 없어요(do not have). Here are more examples:

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Other Particles-1 (보다, 처럼, 같이, 만큼)

보다

The particle 보다 is used to make a comparative sentence. This particle isㅠattached to a noun that is being compared, and it is translated as “more than” or “rather than.” Consider the following example:

Notice that Tom’s room is the noun that is being compared to Jane’s room. Adverbs such as 더(more), 덜(less) and 훨씬(by far) can be used along with the particle 보다 to put more emphasis on the comparison, as shown below:

Here are more examples:

처럼 and 같이

The particle 처럼 is used to compare one noun with another. It is translated as “as if” and “like”. Consider the following examples:

The meaning of the particle 같이 is similar to that of 처럼, as shown below:

만큼

The particle 만큼 is used to express “as much as” or “to the extent to that”. Consider the following examples:

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Taking Photos & Time-lapse of Stars, 20160826

- stars in the clear sky

- star-trails

- stars and leaves in the night sky

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Sentence-final endings ~군요

Typical sentence-final endings are speech level endings, such as the deferential, polite, intimate, and plain endings. However, sentence-final endings also include various sentence-final suffixes, such as 지, 군, and 네. These suffixes, combined with 요 “the politeness marker” can serve as sentence final endings that convey the speaker’s various psychological states or attitudes. This unit introduces three sentence-final endings, ~지요, ~군요, and ~네요.

The sentence-final ending ~군요

The one-form sentence-final ending ~군요 is used as an exclamatory ending. It is used to express the speaker’s immediate realization to what he/she just perceived. The meaning and usage of ~군요 is similar to those of ~네요 in that both indicate what the speaker just realized. However, there is one subtle difference. While ~네요 indicates that what’s been realized or perceived is contrary to the expectation, ~군요 simply expresses the immediate realization in a straightforward manner.
~군요 is used after adjective and copula stems. However, for verb stems, ~는 “the noun-modifying ending for verbs” is used along with ~군요. Consider the following examples:

After adjective stems

After copula stems

After verb stems

For immediate realization about a past event, ~었/았군요 is used for all predicates.

For immediate realization about a possible or guessed future event, ~겠군요 is used.

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Sentence-final endings ~지요

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Sentence-final endings ~네요

Typical sentence-final endings are speech level endings, such as the deferential, polite, intimate, and plain endings. However, sentence-final endings also include various sentence-final suffixes, such as 지, 군, and 네. These suffixes, combined with 요 “the politeness marker” can serve as sentence final endings that convey the speaker’s various psychological states or attitudes. This unit introduces three sentence-final endings, ~지요, ~군요, and ~네요.

The sentence-final ending ~네요

The one-form sentence-final ending ~네요 is used to indicate the speaker’s spontaneous and immediate reaction, such as unexpected surprise and/or realization. The ending ~네요 is used only for the declarative statement sentence type, and it may be translated as “Oh, I see/realize that . . .” Consider the following two examples:

Notice that the first sentence simply conveys the message in a straightforward manner. On the other hand, the second sentence with the ending ~네요 indicates the speaker’s spontaneous emotive reaction. It denotes that the information which the speaker hears or observes is unanticipated and/or contrary to what was expected. Here are more examples:

~겠네요

The suffix 겠 is a pre-final ending that comes between the stem of the predicate and the final-ending. The suffix 겠 denotes the speaker’s conjecture or inference about what did occur, what is occurring, and what will occur, based on circumstantial evidences.
~겠네요, the combination of the suffix 겠 and the ending ~네요, is used to indicate the speaker’s realization of what will happen in reaction to the surprised or unanticipated information the speaker just encountered. It is best translated in English as “(I guess . . . something) may/will . . . ” Consider the following examples:

~었/았겠네요

~었/았겠네요, the combination of the past tense marker 었/았 and ~겠네요, is used to express the speaker’s surprise or realization about what must have occurred. It can be translated as “I guess that something must have . . . ,” as shown in the examples below:

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Sentence-final endings ~지요

Typical sentence-final endings are speech level endings, such as the deferential, polite, intimate, and plain endings. However, sentence-final endings also include various sentence-final suffixes, such as 지, 군, and 네. These suffixes, combined with 요 “the politeness marker” can serve as sentence final endings that convey the speaker’s various psychological states or attitudes. This unit introduces three sentence-final endings, ~지요, ~군요, and ~네요.

The sentence-final ending ~지요

The sentence-final ending ~지요 is a one-form ending that indicates one of the following four mental states or attitudes of the speaker: (i) seeking agreement, (ii) asking a question with a belief that the hearer has the answer, (iii) assuring information, and (iv) suggesting. The speaker’s intonation as well as contextual factors determines which among the four moods or attitudes the ending indicates.

(1) Seeking agreement (with a rising intonation)

Consider the following two examples:

Notice that the ending ~어/아요 in the first sentence simply asks the message in a straightforward manner. On the other hand, the ending ~지요 in the second sentence indicates that the speaker seeks agreement while asking the same question. Here are more examples:

(2) Asking a question, believing that the hearer has the answer (with a rising intonation)

Again, the ending ~어/아요 in the first sentence simply asks the message in a direct manner. However, the second sentence with the ending ~지요 implies that the speaker believes that the hearer has the answer. Here are more examples:

(3) Assuring information (with a falling intonation)

The first sentence with the ending ~어/아요 simply states the message. On the other hand, the ending ~지요 in the second sentence indicates that the speaker assures of the referential message. Here are more examples:

(4) Suggesting (with a falling intonation)

The first sentence with the ending ~어/아요 is a direct request. However, the second sentence is a suggestion because of the ending ~지요. Here are more examples:

The honorific suffix ~(으)시 can be optionally used along with ~지요 to make the suggestion sound more polite, as shown in the following examples:

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Sentence-final endings ~군요

Sentence-final endings ~네요

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The intimate speech level and the plain speech level

The intimate speech level

The intimate speech level is in general used in the following situations: by adults when addressing children, by parents when addressing their kids, by children when addressing their peers, and by adult friends when addressing their childhood friends (or friends whose relationships are close enough to switch to the intimate level from the polite level).
The intimate speech level ending is ~어/아. The choice of ~어 or ~아 is the same with that of the polite speech level ending ~어요/아요. ~아 is used after a stem that ends in a bright vowel, 오 or 아, while ~어 is used with the stem that ends in any other vowels. Consider the following examples:

As seen above, one can generate the intimate speech level from the polite speech level, simply by removing 요. One exception is that the copula 이다/아니다 takes slightly different forms: 이다 instead of 이에, and 아니야 instead of 아니에.
Just like the polite speech level ending ~어요/아요, the intimate speech level ending ~어/아 is used for all sentence types: declarative, interrogative, imperative, and propositive. For instance, consider the following:

Koreans use contextual elements as well as intonation to figure out what intimate speech level ending ~어/아 is used for a specific sentence type.

The plain speech level

The plain speech level ending sounds more blunt and direct than other speech levels: deferential, polite, and intimate. The plain speech level is primarily used in the following three contexts: When one addresses a child, his/her childhood friends, or younger siblings; when the speaker talks to himself/herself or wants to draw the listener’s attention to information that is noteworthy or provoking; when one writes.
Unlike the intimate and the polite speech levels that use the same endings for different sentence types, the plain speech level has different endings for different sentence types, as shown below.

Declarative
~는/ㄴ다 (for verb stems)

~다 (for adjective and copula stems)

~었/았다 (for all predicate stems in the past tense)

Interrogative
~니/(으)냐? (for all predicate stems)

~었/았니/(으)냐? (for all predicate stems in the past tense)

Imperative (only for verb stems)
~아라 (after a stem that ends in 오 or 아)
~어라 (after a stem that ends in any other vowels)

Propositive (only for verb stems)
~자

Note that the plain speech level imperative ending ~어라/아라 and propositive ending ~자 are used only for verb stems, and they are not conjugated for the tense.

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