Luis - 13 - See You Later My Vancouver Friends !!

See You Later My Vancouver Friends !!

This is my last blog and also my last day here in the College. I remember in the beginners of 2012 when I went to expo conferences about studying in Canada. When I looked the opportunity to travel, for me it was delightful, because one of my goals was to learn and improve my skills of English, So, I figured and prepared all the things to come here.

I arrived in Vancouver on September 3th, 2012 and that date is something that I'll never forget, because, it was when the adventure started and the best events came to me. I had the opportunity to meet and make friends from all the world, with different cultures and traditions.We shared moments that are very important for me, for example, my Birthday, Halloween, Christmas, New Year and Valentine's day. And not only those days, we create each moment something awesome. We had traveled and done sightseeing of Vancouver, for example, Deep Cove, Grouse Mountain, Whistler, Lynn Canon, etc. All those moments is one of the best treasures in my life.

Now, I only can say thank you friends for sharing a little part of your life with me. You are very important to me and when I'm going to travel to my country, I will travel with all of you in my heart. Now you are part of my life and you can be sure that you have a friend in Mexico. All the pictures will be near to my bed, and when I go to sleep or when I wake up, I'll see the picture and I'll remember all those moments with you. So, Keep in touch with me friends and see you later.

denise-limit wealth

I don't support the idea that 'there should be a limit of wealth'. There are some other motives which push us to achieve our goals but money is one of the most important one which triggers our needs of being successful. It's impossible to survive without money and when we think about the dreams which come true with money, then we try harder to do our best.

If there is a limit of wealth then economies grow slowly. Rich people make an investment which helps economies to grow and also provide people job opportunities. If businessmen think that they are rich enough and stop investing then there will be economic crises and unemployment problems.

There are different ways to use money. Some companies like Microsoft have charities. It is a good way to thank the people who have helped the company to make profit and also do something for the country. Instead of considering to limit the wealth, society and governments should push the rich people and companies to do something good for the World.

Good bye Luis

Today cooking class: How to say good bye to our friend Luis !

1. Just choose a friend who is leaving soon !

 Friend name: Luis Edmundo Partida Garduño

2. Let's say about ingredients.To explain about the friend. How do you know him ? 

I met him at Pera College for a month ago. He's from Mexico. He always sits opposite to me.

So, I can see him all the time in the class. I think he is a hardworking and outgoing person. Moreover, he is really kind to people. He gave us some candies on Vanlentine Day. What a Gentle GUY ! That's why he has made lots of friends in other places as well as at Pera College. He likes listening  to  music becuase when I see him, he usally enjoy listening to music in class.

3. How to prepare ! How did you make good memories with him?

For me, Actually I just hung out with him once last Saturday. We went to a resturant to enjoy his farewell party. We were supposed to go to a Mexican restuarant. However, there were no seats for 7 people. We just moved to another place. After that, we got some food and beer while talking. We talked  for almost 3 hours. It was good for us and we got close to each other. Furthermore, we took a picture together today and he gave us some candies again ! I'm so sorry becuase I haven't done anything for him yet. So, that's why I've decided to write a letter for him. I'll be really happy if he enjoyed this letter.

4. Let's finish the recipe. To tell the friend what you want to say for the last time. 

Luis, I'm so glad that you were my friend in class. I'm going to miss you so much.

Don't forget me and Please, remember "really?" "Ah-ha?" hahaha I think you know what ! :) 

5. Let's say Good bye,Luis!

Good bye, Luis! Take care and safe flight!

I wish you good luck. Keep in touch ! :) 

Mayra-13- Children & Cellphones

Empowering Young Children

Nowadays, parents have many worries about their children. They are looking for different ways to keep in touch with them; one of that ways is giving them a cell phone. But there are many implications about this. Using a cellphone has a lot of advantages and disadvantages. 

The positive side about using cell phone is that parents are aware that they need to educate their kids and teach them how and when is convenient use it. If they do that their kids can communicate with them easier and faster just doing a call or sending a message, and the most important the kids learn about advanced devices. Also the cell phones have a lot of tools that they can use it such as Internet, games and many apps that can help them to do different activities. For example Internet helps them to search information even if the parents want to know where their kids are, there is an app that helps them to do this. 

However, the negative side is that parents can’t control all that kids do while they aren't with them. The kids can use the cellphone while they are in the school even they waste time doing things without importance; and the most important they are expose to danger on Internet. 

Giving the cellphone to the children is useful but also it gives them the power to do whatever they want when a old person isn't with them.The parents are empowering their young children into a world of technology where they are able to look for bad and good things just with a simple click on the cellphone. 

Cellphones need responsibility and children don't have it at all!

Nowadays we are living in a technological and consumer world, where most of the people in the world enjoy and see  tech items as an  important thing in their life, so they spend big amounts of money to get those gadgets. That's why it is now  usual to see lots of people with their smartphones in the streets and  even in nightclubs or in  restaurants where we're supposed  to go and  share our time and talk with our friends or family.

The truth is that we are caught in the smartphones world and that's why several of us can't live  without our cellphones for a day. I mean,  cellphones have become essential in life as water or maybe even more than that. But have you ever asked  yourself, how   your life used to be before you began to use cellphones?. So maybe it was better in some ways but also less easier than now! ...

Do you realize that we are born when cellphones began their way to become famous in the world?.. so maybe we can remember that in our childhood and also in our youth we spent time playing and talking with our friends, also calling our friends to their houses and having good real moments in restaurants ,but now we can see that children and teenagers use smartphones everyday at all times and for sure that's because they have more availability to access to technology but it doesn't mean that children have to use it how they want and in the moment they want because technology needs responsibility and children don't have it at all and that's because they are in other step of their life where is assumed that they have to explore their ability for talk, for think and also for search by their self and then they can be able to use this kind of technology that makes the life more easier.

The main thing here is that we have to realized that we have to allow the children live as we lived when we were their age and allow them to feel the beauty of live without cellphones because is obviusly that in a moment they have to use cellphones because is part of our life but first allow children know that the life is more than just text a message and find things in a very easy way.

Luis - 12 - Children and Cellphones

Children And Cellphones.

The incursion of the internet in the cellphone, the teenagers are espouse to dangerous information because they can see pornography or they can be in contact with predators in internet. Moreover, in the same time, the application that the children's can use is amazing. For example, localization of things with the use of GPS. They can use to find the department of police or it'll be useful when they are in trouble.

Another thing that you need to consider is, the cellphone can be able to store a huge of quantity of games and music, and the teenagers enjoy with this, is not bad if they use for a few minutes, but the problem is when they spend too much time with the games. That can produce insensibility and poor ability to make friends. On the other hand, they can use that capacity of the cellphones to keep the songs, and also, some classes,audiobooks or podcast. With them, they can learn different interesting topics and develop more abilities.

The controversy of that issue is huge, but I'm need to say that I'm agree.  Some countries in nowadays write dawn in the laws to permit give and guarantee the opportunity  to have internet. So, we can't swim against the fluency. 

denise- Children&Cellphones

Unsocial Society

Nowadays people addict to their cellphones. We can't imagine a life without them. While waiting for a bus, walking on the street or in the sky train it's pretty usual to see people when they're checking their cellphones

Cellphones make our lives easier and more comfortable. It makes to communicate with the people around us easily,  helps us to reach an information that we need to find, makes us updated about the news, and so on. It seems like for an adult having a cellphone is a lifesaver. How about for children? Does it that important for them too? In my opinion, it doesn't.

There are some dangers of having a cellphone for children. First of all if they can whatever they want easily, then its hard for the parents to manage the expenses. When these children grow up they will have a desire to buy whatever they want. Parents should think twice before to meet their children's demands.

Second of all there are some people who are seducing people especially teenagers. Sometimes it's mentally but sometimes they try to get some money from them.

Most important danger is children may have some problem about socialising. Children spend most of their times go online; on facebook, on twitter, or with some video games. It steals the time from them when they need to do their homework, meet their friends or talk with their family.

World is changing. When I was a kid, I was dying to go out to play with my friends. Nowadays kids spending their time at their room while chatting on Internet or playing games. It causes miscommunication problems in their families. Instead of playing with their siblings they prefer to spending their times on Internet via computers or cellphones. They get used to have unnatural way of communication. I'm afraid in near future we will live in a unreal world with our unsocial identities, like a video game.

Wendy-15-Children&cellphones

Why should Children have Cellphones?

In my opinion, children should have cellphones. The most important supporting reason is making sure of their security. There are so many hazardous things in the society. So, they can be in emergency situation anytime.

They also can give parents their location by sending just a message.

For example, when they are in an emergency situation, they can send text to parents."mom, E!" How long does it take? I believe that it might take only less than 30 seconds. Moreover, parents can know their location by using GPS tracker where they are if they don't answer calls.

 

Besides, there are so many  functions in phones. 

That helps their learning in all cases. For example, they search some good information on the Internet as well as using dictionary. It helps their studies. Furthermore, they can learn about how being independent and how keep good relationship. I mean, they will get their own time  by using cellphones. After that, they know how to deal with time alone usefully. As they are responding and calling, they  learn little by little how to keep good relationships. It will be really a good base of experience for the future.

On the other hand, most parents worry about their phone bills each month. However, there are many good plans for children on wireless companies. For instance, parents can choose plans such as limited data, texts and calls. It will be good deal for parents and also for children. 

Bahar - #5 - Children & Cellphones

Children with Cellphones

     Today, we have been witnessing children having cellphones, playing games, texting, using the Internet and spending most of their time on technological gadgets. Besides the advantages, there are disadvantages and risks about these non-real tools they use.

     Firstly, the most recent research show that using cellphones is harmful not only for children but also for adults. Therefore we should keep away from these tools which spread radiation, as much as possible. The brains of children are more fragile and the sooner they start using cellphones, the more risk of brain cancer there would be.

     Apparently, most parents who allow their children use cellphones say that it feels more comfortable knowing where their kids are and what they are doing. This idea doesn't seem to be an excuse to me as I was raised without a cellphone and I am still alive. I would prefer trusting my children and convincing them to spend more time with their family and at safe places. Other than that, I would let them develop the ability to take care of themselves in case of difficulties.

     On the other hand, if we listen to children, they want to have cellphones to mainly communicate with their friends. Because it has become a trend among children and cellphone has become a must for them. They push their parents to buy one and in the end parents cannot resist the pressure.

     Therefore, there is no turning back. It is impossible for the ones who are against children use of cellphones. I am sure there is more to come. I am worried that they will start driving at the age of 10 and parents won't be able to stop this trend as they couldn't stop their children use cellphones.

     Before world starts getting unfairly equal for all ages, I hope a solution can be found. I still have hopes.

Larissa - 8 - Children & Cellphones

 5 good reasons to give your kids a  cellphone.

   When it comes to the education of your kids, there is the controversial subject of whether a kid should or should not have a phone and what age should they get one. Here are some reasons to get out of the stone age without letting the leash of your kids too loose.
 

1 - Teach responsibility

 It's a good opportunity to make them learn how to take care of their gadgets and learn social rules to use the phone when the time is appropriate. Also, you can allocate part of their monthly allowance to pay the bill of their phones so they will also learn a lot about finances.

2 - Be in contact

 The utility of letting your kids have a phone is that  you can always get in contact with them, anytime, anywhere. You might use that to remind them to do their chores or even to do their homework.

3 - Enjoy family plans

 If what worries you most is not the rules but the money, well, there is always a solution because plenty of cellular companies offer attractive family plans so the price is cheaper than having a plan only for yourself. Yes, your children can make you save some money.

4 - Pick the right gadget

 If you concerned what phone is appropriate for your kids, take your time to choose a phone that is appropriate for their age and to your budget and while they are growing up reward them with a better version if they follow your rules. Start with the most basic for  the youngest. For example, a phone that can only text and call with no wi-fi available. For teenagers and young adults try a phone which has a limited internet plan, so they can figure out that everything has its limits.

5 - Be safe

 Parents are 100% of the time trying to figure out where the kids are or what  they are doing but in order to take  advantage of giving them cell phones as much as you can, you can also install a GPS on your kids phone. It gives you peace of mind and you don't need to worry about them and always make sure they are wherever they need to be.

 In the end, a phone for your kid can be a win-win situation because you will have advantages and they will have their independence that they always fight for.

Nataliya-1-Procrastination is the thief of life

Procrastination is not only the thief of time but life!

Time is a very important concept  nowadays. We use our time without thinking about the consequences and we don’t realize that the time spent in vain will never return. Millions of people don’t have enough time to do something or they are procrastinating because they can not properly manage their lives and time. We are wasting our time when  choosing products in a large supermarket or spend the time to select a TV program from the proposed 100 different show, news and film channals: a lot of time we spend on transportation, waiting for bus or just in traffic. We complain that we don’t have time to meet up with friends or family, read a book, or just go out to nature and relax. This comes from the fact that we all leave things for  the last minute.

 We often choose easy ways and procrastinate important things for the best time. People become more lazy than they were many years ago. Now we have everything which simplifies our existence: microwaves, washing machines, cars etc. It seems that everything should be easy and faster but we still don’t have enough time  for everything and for everyone. The only solution in this situation that I can think of  is to plan our time properly and never procrastinate when it comes to important things.

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carmen- 2 - procrastrination

Stop waiting to be motivated, Start what you have to do now!

Do you remember the last time when you left doing something for the last minute ?...if the answer is yes, then you can remember that instead of doing what you were supposed to do, you did many other things, so that situation can describe what people call procrastination. 

procrastination is the act of replacing high-priority actions with tasks of lower priority and leave the main things for the last minute. For example, when you have to do an essay and you prefer to hang out with your friends instead of staying in your house trying to start it. That's something usual when we feel stress about starting something very important.

There are many reasons why people procrastinate. First, people usually think that they need to  feel relaxed to start a thing that demands lots of effort like an essay or homework. So they choose to do other things with less priority because then, they will feel motivated to do what they have to do. For instance, updating their status in Facebook,  continuing  the coffee breaks till lunchtime, watching TV. But what is a good limit for procrastination if any?  Maybe motivation  won't come and that's the problem with procrastination. 

Maybe you are feeling that procrastination is not bad at all, but the problem is that people who always procrastinate think that the important things can be postponed for the last minute.  you have to realized that they are IMPORTANT so that's why you have to do them  in time and with all your possible effort to obtain a very good result. Furthermore, it is not bad to procrastinate sometimes if you know that this  just wasted your time and won't give you motivation. So stop waiting for motivation , try to think that you have to start before you feel the motivation.

Luis - 11 - AI

The Artificial Intelligences , The Solutions To The Humanity Problems?

After to watching these two videos, Do you think our problems can be resolved with Artificial Intelligentce?. I think yes, because, we can see how the humanity receive the benefit of the technology. We are going to take the first step of the new era.  Now we can live and play with robots. Children use the computers and the cellphones in their dairy activities. All those things are possible with the invention of the Artificial Intelligence. That Invention is part of the mathematics algorithm and that algorithm permit robots to learn with trial and error. In the beginning, the the robots needed to do step by step, for example, the robotic arm, first raise the arm, extend the arm, after they need to receive to coordinate the target and they have two options, the human can introduce  the information, or we create something to receive that information by himself. After doing all those steps, we need to recollect the information and make the algorithm. In this way, we need to repeat those steps for lots of times, because the Artificial Intelligence need to learn how to do the things fastter and more efficiently. Now the robots are more efficient and they have the ability to auto-change the program, have new sources to learn and the capacity to do more movements. With those abilities the humanity can have a better life. Some people with disability have the opportunity  to follow with her life without the help of somebody.

However, some people think that is dangerous to permit the robots to learn, because they can't have the ability to understand some feelings, and they can make mistakes and their decision can affect the humanity. 

denise-Good riddance

SICKstressNESS

I believe everybody has some things in their life that they want to get rid of. Yes, life is beautiful, we should enjoy it but some times it's hard to deal with the difficulties and to face the problems. If there is a chance to change or get rid of them, let's do it then.

I'm not afraid of challenges. I can stand difficulties. I'm a problem solver, so I can face the problems. Although I find myself a strong person, there is one thing in my life that I want to get rid of: Stress! If I can put all the stress out of my life, I will say: Finally, good riddance!

In our competitive world, we have to play our roles simultaneously because people around us have different expectations from us. Of course we want to have smooth relationships; that's why we try our best. At our workplaces we have to be almost perfect, otherwise we may lose our jobs. That's why we have to make effort as much as we can. These obligations, either created by us or our environment,  make us stressed out.

Stress may make a person sick. Actually it's a pretty common reason in the last decade. It can be both mentally and physically. There is no cure for an illness which is caused by stress. Doctors may give some antidepressant pills but they have some harmful side-effects. The only thing that we can do is trying to be away from it.

I've found the cure of stress. Here is the recipe, if we accept that we can't be perfect also if we can see that everybody has mistakes, then we will realise that there is nothing wrong making mistakes sometimes. We just need to try not to make mistakes on purpose and try to do our best then there won't be any reason to get stressed out. It just takes time. Be patient like me, don't give up and fight back.

Jude. 9. Good riddance disorganized Jude!

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riddance

disorganized Jude!

 Every new year's day Jude decides and promises to get rid of bad habits and be a brand new person. But three days after the new year's day he decides not to give himself too much stress  and be satisfied with the way he is. Yes, that indecisive guy is me. Now it is time to say 'good riddance' to many bad habits of mine. 

Laziness, impatience, disorganization, justifying myself, are some of the bad qulities that I find and bothers me when looking back at myself; the first among these that I want to get rid of is disorganization. 

 The ways disorganization made me nut are so cruel. Here are some examples; I misplace red pen, used when correctting answers but seemingly not really necessary, and look for it for an hour. Because of that red pen I can not study. I forget what to do because I never take notes of to-do list. What I forgot was birthday of my mother and what I forgot led to no allowance for a month. I picked one of randomly piled up files to take an important interview and what I picked was a resume for an competitor of the company that I was sitting in. What this accident led was bitter smile and silence and no phone call back.

              

Seriously, good bye disorganized Jude. In Vancouver, where I started new life, I strongly ban this bad habit from my life. Sorry but you are not coming with me anymore. By doing my best at every moment, taking notes, never forgetting appointments and schedules, and organizing files I will be the model Korean. Before being organized person, let me take a nap first.. zzZ

Bahar - procrastination - #4

PROBLEMS WITH THE TIME MANAGEMENT

     I have never been the one who finishes the projects on time or early. It doesn't mean that I did not try to change this behaviour. I took a notebook, set the alarmclock, limited myself from the things I love doing the best, but none of them has worked so far. In the end, I have stopped dealing with this problem. I am a last-second person to tell the truth.

    Besides the fact that the things that I have to do are usually boring or unpleasant, it seems that there are two people living inside my body and they are fighting with each other all the time. The evil one is always the winner at the end. My logical part is so patient that she is always trying to explain the positive parts and advantages, while my unreasonable part refuses it and does the opposite. But the problem  with me is that I cannot avoid the lazy me, and just follow what she says.

     It is so painful sometimes that even when I complete the things early by mistake! - because this happens only when it takes shorter than I expect - I try to keep myself busy with trivial things and wait until I am late. This means, I am not used to being on time. Therefore I am trying to be myself who always procrastinates.

    
     I am in the process of accepting myself as I am but then it seems to be irrespective of me. I hope in time I will become a punctual person and be proud of myself about this punctuality.   

       

            

Mayra-12-Procrastination

Who is not procrastinating???

Many people around us  procrastinate at different levels, and they don’t even realize it because they are looking at people who are in the same stage. They don't understand that procrastination could be an emotional problem if they don't control it. Almost all of us have this issue and we live it at different intensity levels.

Some people experiment many attitudes that can show their level of procrastination. even I guess this happens, because we find more interesting activities to do than others and we spend more time that we should. we leave some important things to do for some later time and stick tounimportant matters. also when we  make a decision, we spend a lot of time thinking about if it will be the best for us, but we don’t make a decision, because we don’t want to know the result. This is really easy for us, it’s a part of our behaviour that we can’t put away. we have this behaviour without being aware,  because we think that doing that is common, but that’s not true, everybody procrastinates, just with a little bit of difference. Can you find out if you are  procrastinating or not? Now you have another thing to think about, just don’t take a long time to think about this…

Only remember: “Don’t leave for tomorrow what you can do today”, if this sounds familiar to you, you can be sure that you also are procrastinating….

Wendy-14-Procrastination

 

How do we deal with procrastination ?

Have you ever heard the saying "Procrastination is the thief of time"? I totally agree with this expression. You can say it again ! Everyone knows that time flies. So, we want to spend time more usefully than we did. If we don't make  plans before we start something new, we might take the wrong direction. 

However, I didn't mean to make plans all the time. You just need to realize where you are and what  you are doing. For me, When I'm in trouble, I usually get lazy. That time, I just stay up all the time, and don't do anything. I don't even know what to do. So, I always regret about that later. I tell myself "Oh, I should not just stay up all the time without any thinking. Time is gold".  

Nowadays, I'm trying to make simple plans before going to bed.  Don't trust yourself  for sure.  It is really difficult to know what human beings  exactly  think about and what things are on their mind. What makes you happy? What makes you get more passionate? Make sure that what you really want to you do. After you realize that, go ahead!

Time never gives unfair treatment to anybody. Keep in mind, time doesn't wait for you. Where are you going on your life? How is it going?

If you are worried about past happenings that you made mistakes, simply forget about them. Just let it go and let's not put them off one more day. 

Don't hesitate, but also don't rush it.

Larissa - 7 - Good Riddance!! :)

Say good riddance to the bad feelings!!

Once in a while we caught ourselves so busy with our own feelings that we cannot even deal with other's feelings very well. So, i what i wanted to say to my bad feelings: GOOD RIDDANCE!! Yes, get rid of it.

Some feelings don't enrich yourself in anything, they just keep there, taking your time, making you always a step back instead of moving forward, so, bad feelings, good byeeeeee! UHHHHH SO GOOD! Live a fully life, forget the bad things that people had made to you. As mommy says: It doesn't worth to cry over the spilled milk. 

It means that keeping that old feelings of anger, anxiety, sadness will not take you anywhere. If life is not good right now just live each day without thinking about the past. Live the present. Live now. 

Yesterday is gone. You have a new chance every second to make your life better and create a new opportunity to maybe find your happy ending. Nothing is permanent. Even the Bible says: "weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning". (Psamls 30 - 5)

Change your attitude, your life will be changed. Good Riddance, hope never see you here again, bad feelings :)

Luis - 10 - All The World Is A Stage

All The World Is A Stage...

and we are merely players....

I'm interpret that sentences with this meaning. We are part of a big show, We borned when the curtain was open, and all the plot is our life, depend of us how acting. We can make with our play wherever we want. We can make a good paper in our part with entertainment, happy and excited. Or we can do nothing and only spend the time. Sometimes, when have difficult situations with our family or friends, or issues that happened, the plot show more interesting, we need to pass for that stage before, to see the first actor in the best moment, like a super start of the play.

Sometimes in the play, have a special guest, maybe your friends, girlfriends, or people near to you, and we pass part of our play with them. We can smile, laughter, cry and show our feelings. But, in other moments, we have to pass moments alone, with yourself, wander about that you learn and try to obtain feedback of your life, because sometimes we need to make a break with the play, and prepare for the second chapter.

 

Well. In the final, doesn't matter what are you doing with your life. We always have the same end, when the curtain close. So, try to do all the things that you want to do in life. Try to have the best memories, and do your dreams reality. Because, the people might remember you, if you have a good history.