Online Class Notes (Jesse) [23]

The girl is my neighbor and she is 17 years old.
Today I will talk about my neighbor, a 17-year-old girl.

We met each other when we were walking our dogs and we got to know each other really well. She seems not happy all the time because she has depression, which is not very serious, though.
We met each other when we were walking our dogs and with the depth of understanding, she tells me she has depression that gets her not happy all the time.
The symptoms are that she cannot control herself to eat and sleep. Because of it / this, she is getting fatter and fatter.
She is getting fatter and fatter due to the symptom of depression that she is addicted to eat and sleep.

Some of her classmates make fun of her，and her teachers even always say something sarcastically to her.
She is so pained by ironic remarks from the teachers and classmates.

Her father died when she was 9 and she has no friends now as her mom is so bossy that she doesn’t allow her to talk to boys.
She always feels helpless and lonely because her mom doesn’t allow her to make friends with boys.

She likes swimming、drawing and doing exercise / working out and she loves exercises like skipping and doing pushups，but her mother thinks these hobbies are kind of wasting time / kind of a waste of time and she has to use all the time on studying.
Her father passed away in her 9 and her mom is bossy and controls her life. For example，her mom doesn’t support her any hobbies, even those hobbies get her healthy and delightful, like swimming, drawing and working out.

In her life，nobody encourages her and supports her and gives her advices. She wants go back to America as she has been lived there for several months. That was a free life and she enjoyed it so much. She told me that her misfortune was brought by her mom，so she has to leave her and get a refreshing life.
She wants to live separately with her mom and to have a new life as in her opinion, all the misfortune is brought by her mom. She needs more encouragement and supports to rebuilt confidence and going to America is the best choice as she lived there for a period of time and enjoyed the life there pretty much.

Every mom and their children are two generations. How to get an update is an important lesson for adults, or else, your children will leave you further and further. Giving them respect and enough patience maybe a good way.
Since being a mom, I can understand moms more. They love their children too much so that they are hurry to share life experience to them but there is no shortcut to children to grow up. Whatever failures and bad experience they go through would be the best lessons in their life. Set them free and set yourself free are the lesson all moms should learn.

The girl is my neighbor and she is 17 years old.
Today I will talk about my neighbor, who is a 17-year-old girl.

We met each other when we were walking our dogs and we got to know each other really well. She seems not happy all the time because she has depression, which is not very serious, though.
We met each other when we were walking our dogs and with a depth of knowing each other, she told me she had depression which makes her not happy all the time. / and as we got to know each other more deeply, she told me that she has depression …

The symptoms are that she cannot control herself to eat and sleep. Because of it / this, she is getting fatter and fatter.
She is getting fatter and fatter due to the symptom of depression that she is addicted to eating and sleeping. / She is putting on / gaining weight due to one of the symptoms of depression which is that she is addicted to eating and the side effects of the medicine that she takes is that she becomes sleepy.

Some of her classmates make fun of her，and her teachers even always say something sarcastically to her.
She is so pained by sarcastic remarks from the teachers and classmates.

Her father died when she was 9 and she has no friends now as her mom is so bossy that she doesn’t allow her to talk to boys.
She always feels helpless and lonely because her mom doesn’t allow her to make friends with boys. / With her mother being so bossy, she constantly stops her from hanging out with boys, which makes her feel really helpless and lonely. / Her bossy mother never lets her spend time with boys, causing her to be really lonely and helpless. 

She likes swimming、drawing and doing exercise / working out and she loves exercises like skipping and doing pushups，but her mother thinks these hobbies are kind of wasting time / kind of a waste of time and she has to use all the time on studying.
Her father passed away when she was 9 and her mom is bossy and controls her life. For example，her mom doesn’t support any of her hobbies, even those hobbies make her healthy and delightful, like swimming, drawing and working out.

In her life，nobody encourages her and supports her and gives her advices. She wants go back to America as she has been lived there for several months. That was a free life and she enjoyed it so much. She told me that her misfortune was brought by her mom，so she has to leave her and get a refreshing life.
She wants to live separately with her mom and to have a new life as in her opinion, all the misfortune is brought by her mom. She needs more encouragement and supports to rebuilt confidence and going to America is the best choice as she lived there for a period of time and enjoyed the life there pretty much.

Every mom and their children are two generations. How to get an update is an important lesson for adults, or else, your children will leave you further and further. Giving them respect and enough patience maybe a good way.
Since being a mom, I can understand moms more. They love their children too much so that they are hurry to share life experience to them but there is no shortcut to children to grow up. Whatever failures and bad experience they go through would be the best lessons in their life. Set them free and set yourself free are the lesson all moms should learn.

Vocabulary

move out with me – move out 

sarcastic = you say the opposite to what you mean
eg. I love it! = I hate it (sarcastic)

ironic = the opposite result to what is expected happens
eg. the fireman caused a fire when trying to put out a fire

Grammar

stressed – feeling
stressful – describes sth or sb and how they make others feel

bored– feeling
boring – describes sth or sb and how they make others feel

tired – feeling
tiring – describes sth or sb and how they make others feel

delighted – feeling
delightful – describes sth or sb and how they make others feel

the goal I rewrite my article – the goal of rewriting my article was to….

once a time when I lived in America – one time when I lived in America 

I need to be responsibility to my family – I need to be responsible for my family

i need to accompany with them – I need to accompany them 

get = ask / become
eg. I got my son to wash his hands = ask
eg2. I got married = became
eg3. I got better = became

rang
let / get / make
I let him play = he wants to and I say OK
I make him do his homework = he doesn’t want to, and I force him
I get him to wash his hands = he should do it / he doesn’t mind

I didn’t understand until I learned Chinese