Personal Statement: Electoral College

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I was so stressed when I came back home that I didn't have any energy left to practice speaking. The reason why I felt so spent was that the attitude of my senior worker. He is a brusk, grumpy type, which doesn't gel well a reticent and gloomy personality like me. I keep making mistakes and misunderstand what he ordered me to do. To make matters worse, there is a serious lack of communication between me and hime, as he is the type who doesn't make friends when sober. I'm a teatotaller, to this relationship is not going to play out well.

I could not help but explaining how ridiculous the Unites State's presidential election is to my teacher this morning. The main problem between it and me is the electoral college system, which evaluates
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The team in charge of the event originally informed me that I will be getting a gift card, which can only be used at a coffee shop and worth next to nothing. But what they gave me has a considerable value. Even if it is a gift card and that means that there's a certain limitation where I can and can't use to pay for items, but there was a notification on the back of the card that I can use it as a payment at my favourite department store or a shopping mall. I already had a plan to visit the place to buy a bag of decaffeinated instant coffee, so I will definitely go there and pay with the gift. As I have to spend a major ratio of money compared to the face value of the card, I have to buy additional things like a winter clothing, toiletries as …show more content…
I had a plan to sign up for an installment account in Canadian dollar, as I get a discount on the exchange rate. But there were several problems. The benefit isn't that great, and unlike what I thought how it works, I won't be able to withdraw the balance at a Canadian branch. So there isn;t that much benefit. Besides, the interest rate is so abyssmal right now, even if that's the reason why the currency is so weak and I can get my hands on it so easily. I really hope that the rate doesn't shoot up anytime soon, as I will be exchange a fortune from Korean won to that. Fortunately, that is not a just hope. I once read about the problem in Canada, as so many Canadians have too much loan in order to afford the highest house price ever, the Canadian goverment might try not to raise the interest rate, to prevent taxpayers from going bankrupt or deliquent.
Nextly, I went to the barber's academy to get my hair cropped again. This time, I headed there in the right time it starts, not to waste time waiting. In fact, I passed some time in a second hand clothes shop in front of the bank, buying an orange bandana. The student took a century to crop a head, and I had to pay for this time. I was corrected that the policy that customers don't have to pay on Fridays applies only on senior citizens, so I had to pay the sevice with my debit card, which wasn't that a hemerhage.
Lastly, I headed to a shopping

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