Learning Swim(Andy)

  It was a hot summer vacation in 2006 Hot summer is nice swim time, and I had just graduated from elementary school, so I had a long summer vacation. Staying at home, and doing nothing is the most boring thing, so I thought I must to do something which could make my vacation more interesting.
  One day I were watching TV. I saw the geographic channel, and there are a few geographers and photographers who went to the beautiful island. The beach was so beautiful that attracted me a lot.
I dreamed one day I can go island which view just like that. I could image that I swim in the sea. It was so awesome,but I couldn't swim,so I signed up for a swimming program. I wanted to learn Breaststroke first. Coach agreed, and we started practice. I couldn't float very well, so coach asked me to put on a kickboard. It made me learn easier. First time, when I came into the water, I feel so scared. My coach told me some tips to relax myself. For example, I could  make a deep breath to keep you calm. Second,I could think about the wonderful memory. Third, count "one to three" then jump into the water. It's really useful to me, so after few days I won't feel nervous at all even if the deep water in front of me. It's just a beginning of swimming.
  The coach always warn me I have to warm up myself, before swimming. I didn't follow my coach's order because I thought I had already swum by myself, but I failed. I pulled out a tendon. It's scared to me because I could not take a breath in the air. At that time, there was a pull my hand out. That's my coach! When I left the water, he scolded me about ten minutes. I didn't feel frustrated and I feel pleasant, instead. Hence, I remembered the lesson from then on.
  After few months, my swimming skill got better and better. It all attributed to my effort everyday. Thus,my mom proud of me. She told me that ''Everything is worth it.'' Eventually, I was graduated from swimming course. I would always remember the coach who taught me.

Cars and Pollution

By: Abdulaziz Aldyaf

         There is no doubt that cars are the most comfortable and convenient method of transportation. However, with the increasing numbers of cars in the cities nowadays, the problems associated with cars are not to be taken lightly. This matter has several factors behind it and it’s causing our communities health and safety issues. And we must take serious actions to contain it as soon as possible.

         Major cities around the world are continuously expanding. With this expansion, the number of cars is growing continuously. This is putting our Health and safety under risk. Cars smokes’ are increasing the pollution percentages in major cities especially residential neighborhoods. They are not as safe as they used to be, where you can’t let your kids go outside to play without the risk of being hit by a car. Moreover, we are consuming scary amounts of our precious fuel.

         That is why a series of actions must be taken to minimize the effect of this issue. To begin with, governments should mandate a toll for any car that enters city center to push people towards using public transportation  decrease the pollution percentages. Then use the collected funds to improve the public transportation’s infrastructure. In addition, cities should adopt green zones approach that mandate cars no to enter specific zones such as schools’ areas to provide these zones with clean breathing air. Furthermore, I believe that every one of us should take responsibility and try to use the public transportation as much as we can.

         In conclusion, there are countless issues caused by the large number of cars used nowadays. And I believe that governments should start initiatives to decrease this risk in order to provide our communities with better living conditions.

My Favorite Baseball Team

by Yeobin

  My favorite sport is base baseball, and my favorite sport team is Nexen Heroes which is a member of Korean Baseball League. The reason that first time I had interest in this team is that just this team’s home stadium is in near my home. All of Korean baseball teams have Mother Company, and the company supports their own team, except our team. Our team earns money by ticket sell, advertisement and so on, so our team is always poor, the weakest team in our league. Now, some people think why this team is my favorite team. First of all, our team is weak one, but I can see that rookies, new player in league, grow up. It is very interesting. As I said, our team is very poor, so there is only one star player, so many rookies can play on our team. Some are just rookies, but some show me incredible play! Actually, last year, a league rookie king is our team member. In addition, he has an interesting story. He is poor, and he has only his mother, so he’s to earn money when he graduated high school. Because of this reason, he entered a pro league team, but his play didn’t be satisfied his team coach, so one year later, he was removed by his team.  After, lost his job, he enlisted in the army because he had to earn money, but he never gave up baseball. Two years later, after he was discharged, and he had a test to join our team, and he was only one who passed that test! Now, he is our key player. With this, our team has many players who were not major players or who removed players, but now, they are our key players. Their stories always move me. That is the main reason that this team is my favorite team. Finally, this team becomes much stronger. Our rank increases then last year. I think that we can win the championship this year or next year. This team taught me about sports, and I was moved by sports, so I love this team.

Scientists discover depression molecule (Chace)

   Scientists say they have discovered the part of the brain that is responsible for us feeling miserable, anxious and stressed. A UK-based medical research company called Heptares Therapeutics said it has located the molecule related to depression. It is a protein found inside the brain called CRF1. The company said the protein, "is important in regulating the body's response to stress and is implicated in stress-related diseases such as depression and anxiety". The team used one of the world's most powerful x-ray machines in its research. Lead researcher Fiona Marshall said a greater understanding of the CRF1 protein could lead to ground-breaking drugs to control depression.
   Britain's National Health Service (NHS) warned anyone suffering from depression or related illnesses not to get too excited about this research. It questioned whether a single molecule could really lead to depression, and said the condition actually resulted from a complex interaction of chemicals. An NHS statement expressed surprise at the way two of Britain's biggest newspapers have built the story up – "The Daily Mail" and "The Sunday Times". The latter reported that researchers had found the "miserable molecule," saying it was "the protein involved in all our feelings of stress, anxiety and even depression". The NHS said: "It's a great headline, but a hugely sweeping claim."

site link : http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1307/130725-depression.html

Dangerous of Obesity (AMAL)

 

By: AMAL

 

Dangerous of Obesity

                   Do you know that obesity is ranked after smoking as the primary reason of deadly illness? If someone exceeds the average Weight will be classified under obesity. Obesity causes negative factors. The two main effects of obesity are health and social life.


                 Obesity causes serious health issues which result on heart diseases, cancers, and physical movement. Firstly, heart works to pump blood throughout the body. An obese person has more fat which results on high blood pressure. The increases of high blood pressure make heart diseases. After that, any fat person suffers from the cholesterol which is a reason for cancers. The cholesterol average in the body rises up by the fat and the hydrogenates vegetable oils which cause obesity. Finally, the physical movement is so difficult to the obese person. Overweight people suffer from back pain, knee pain, and joints pain. These pains make their movement difficult.


            Obesity can negatively affect the social life for an obese person especially in finding job, partner, and transportation method. If anyone wants to get a job, there will be many processes for the assigned job. Medical fit is one of those processes. Most companies in the world have special specifications for body fitting in each job, so there will be difficulty for an obese person to find a job. Then, it will not be easy to find a partner. For example, if someone is overweight and wants to get married, he will not find any girl accept to be his wife because he does not have a good look impression. Next, fat
people have a problem in finding a suitable transportation method. Trains, airplanes, buses, and cars have regular seats which are not fitting for fat people.


         To conclude, the effects of obesity still making everyone unhealthy, and unsociable. In my opinion, everyone should watch out their food and do exercises to prevent their health. Also, everyone has to check up regularly by medical tests.

What I like the U.S.-Keisuke

         Hi! Guys!

         Almost 4 months have passed since I came in the U.S, and I have experienced a lot of  things that I couldn`t experienece while I was living in Japan. Before I come to the U.S, actually, I was afraid of  U.S. because almost everyday, it occers crime and be killed people. Of course It happens In Japan too, but the percentage of crime is higher than Japan.
         
        When I got to the U.S.,  then spent few weeks in the U.S. After that, I didn`t find what bad point of U.S., I found few good point of U.S.
      
        First, weather is very good. Jaapan has a lot of rain day, and much humid. But, there is almost no rain day and no humid, so living in U.S. is more comfortable for me.

       Second, Peple in the U.S. are very friendly to me,  when I was in Japan, most of Japanese are not friendly with person who don`t meet before. But, even though I was buying some food in grocery store,  one person talked to me that "Hi! What are you going to make today?" I was so surprised at first, but guradually, I felt happy because she taught me a lot of things that cheap food,  her recommendation food and so on! So, I like American people!

       Now, I have no bad image to U.S! And i want to enjoy rest of American life!!

Why I feel difficult in writing(Yeobin)

           People have a field that they feel difficult. Some people feel difficult when they study math, or some people feel difficult when they doing exercise. For me, writing is difficult; moreover, in here, I have to write in English. Many times I think about my problem, and I think there are several reasons.

           First of all, I wrote few essays in my whole life, so I don’t know how to write. Moreover, I had never learned about writing before I came here, so I don’t know about essay’s frame or how to description. Actually I don’t like studying language, so I didn’t try to study about that. These things mean that I don’t know how to add more detail in essay, and don’t know how to gather my opinion. So, I can’t write a good essay, so I can’t feel interesting in writing. It came to be vicious circle, and made me felt more difficult in writing.

           For write a good essay, it has to have many details, but it is difficult for me. Many detail help readers to understand what writer want to mansion in essay, but it means writer have to know what can help readers. Writers cannot know who will read essay, and they cannot know that they think about essay, but good writer’s essay has many details that help readers. Moreover, I am not good writer, so I don’t know what should I write and what can help my readers to help understand.

           Most of all, I am Korean, and I write essay in English. As I mentioned, I am not good writer even though in Korean language, but it is not big deal. Real problem in writing in English is I feel difficult when I chose a word. If I write an essay in Korean language, I know many words and what it means exactly, but in English it is impassible. I don’t know many words, so every time when I write some essay I always use dictionary, but it cannot explain about word’s feel. Every word has own sensation, and when we in conversation situation we show can that like rhythm or accent, but dictionary cannot show that.

However, studying in here, I wrote many essays more than I had written before come here. It was difficult, but it made me getting better, and writing class in here was made me know about essay. Moreover, I read more books in English in here, and it helps me how to description or let me know right word in context. Four month cannot make me perfect, but it made me better than before.

For this reasons, I feel difficult in writing. However, I know I am better than before, and I know that more reading and writing can help me to write better essay. There is no royal road to study. Write again and again and finally I can write good essays.

            

 

 

Vacation in San Fracisco-Keisuke

 

 

 

           Last month, I visit to SanFransisco to spend my vacation. I used Megabus to get there. do you

know Megabus? It`s super cheap bus, in fact,  I could get San Fransisco just $33 dollars. I

recommend it as a bus strongly!! But, the only problem is time to get there. It took 7 hours, and just one stop as a break, so it was so tough!!
         
           The porpose of vititing San Fransisco is to meet with my cousin, buying Apple device  and visit to University of Califolnia Bercley. After I get to my cousin`s house, I went to UC Berkley because my cousin graduated that university, and he knows that very well. When I get there, I was so surprised that alll of building are totally different from UC Riverside. Each building looks like museum and very beautiful. And UC Berkley has tower called Cyser tower, it`s  kind of similar to Bell tower in UC Riveside, but Cyser tower is much more beautiful. Actually, in the future, I want to go to UC Berkly because that is very intellligent university and environment around university is very quiet, so I can focus on study.

          At dinner time I could eat real Japanese food made by Japanese my cousin never eats American food as a dinner because not healthy and taestless. I could eat Miso soup and Teriyaki chiken, it was so good!!

         The next day, I went to main Apple company to get Apple device. I went there with my cousin that graduated UC Berkley because he works at Apple, and if I buy it with family who works at Apple, I can get Apple device discount price. Eventually, I bought I Pad, I could get that aimost $100 dicount!! I could save much money!

        The trip tp San Fransisco was great, and I`ll go there this Christmas again, until then, I`ll study hard to improve my English!

         

         
           

 

            

 

 

 



Experience In California (Andy)

  California has the hot  weather , but I really love this place. I have already lived in California for four weeks, and I came here for studying English in UCR Extension . I signed up the IEP program. That is why I came here! I met so many difference country people. They are all international student.  I had also met a few Americans here. I am so glad that I could meet a lot of people. They are all come from difference country, and have a  difference culture like Japan, Korean, French......  It made me grow up. I could even learn the difference languages although it just a few words.

  I met the people as same as where I come from,too. Most of them are college student. Some of them live in home stay and same of them live in international village. I live in  international village,too, so we cooked dinner by ourselves. We often went to the supermarket ,and prepare food  together, so we also cooked  together. We argued about how to cook sometime, but it didn't mind. We always can figure out. Besides how we cooked dinner we also did homework, and hung out together  It was so nice that I never had this kind of experience, and it just like a family.

 California is the great place for traveling. On the weekend, I usually hung out with my friends. It was too expensive to go out with school, so we often rent a van, and went by ourselves.  We have been to outlet, Universal Studios, Disneyland, and Six flag ....... It was so interesting that you deal everything with yourself with my parents. I could learn many thing in the process. I really love here and I will miss California forever.

Self Introduction (Rami)

by Rami

My name is Rami Alsharif , and I am 28 years old. I have been married for two and a half years

 now. I am from Almaddinah Almonawrah which is a city in the west of Saudi Arabia. I finished my high school on 2002, and I studied diploma in emergency medicine. Also, I worked at Yanbu Steel Company for almost 3 years as an administrator in human resources which was a great experience for me. I have many hobbies, but I prefer soccer and swimming. Finally, I came to U.S.A to improve my English to join the university to get a bachelor degree. 

'Momentos' ( a short video clip on YouTube ) by ( Rawan )

By: Rawan

'Momentos' ( a short video clip on YouTube )

In a quiet street, a white van had stopped, and two men came out of it holding televisions to put them in a shop. At the same time, there was a homeless man lying down on the ground next to the shop's window trying to get some sleep. After putting the three televisions by the window inside the shop, one of them came out the place and left by the same white van. Suddenly, the screens turned on, so the homeless woke up and sat to watch what was on. As well, some of the homeless men who were in the area joined him and sat to watch what was showing with him. While they were watching, they were eating food and laughing, yet the first homeless man didn't like them. Therefore, while the two homeless men were handing each other some chips, he pushed their chips harshly to the ground. As a result, they understood that he doesn't want them to set with him, so they left .

                In the meantime, there was a man sitting in his car watching all of the actions and seems like reporting everything to someone on the phone. At the same time on the street, the homeless man was wondering about what's happening when the TV's channel was changed to a live show of him. Once again, the guy in the shop changed the channel, but this time it was a video record from 1995. The homeless man saw a small girl runs to her dad, walks with her mom, gives her dad some flowers, and have a teddy bear as a Christmas gift. A lot of memories flashed in his mind because he was the dad with the happy girl on the TV.

                Once again, the white van came back and stopped in front of the shop. Then, the man who was in the shop changing the channels came out and rode the van. After the van left , the homeless man saw two women were standing behind the van. One of the women was holding the same teddy bear on the TV, so she is his daughter. That's mean the other one is his wife. He was so surprised and scared that he couldn't move. Yet his daughter took the first step and moved forward approaching to him in small steps. At that time, everyone was watching them, the homeless men, the man who is in his car, and the wife. When the daughter became closer to him, he wasn't sure what he must do, so he retreated one step back , but she didn't gave him any choice and hugged him directly. While they were hugging each other, his wife came and joined them by hugging them as well. Finally, all of the people in the scene were relived and satisfied.

If you are interested in watching it, just open the link below

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHrnTgpbiLo

My favorite place(AMAL)

 

By: AMAL

 

LOS Angeles

There are several reason why Los Angeles, my favorite place. First of all, Los Angeles is located south west of the United State of America. Los Angeles called LA. It is the second largest city in United State of America populous after New York City. Second Los Angeles one of the most important cities in the field of trade, culture and technology. Los Angeles is the most famous place because there is Hollywood Street which is home movies and soap

operas television programs and video games. There are stare and names the famous. Also, there are many shows in the street. There is complex Hollywood Highland. In addition, there is in Los Angeles city of Santa Monica . There is the third street. It is the beautiful street because there are many shows, lots of shops for shopping and restaurant. I like Los Angeles because there is Venice beach Boardwalk’s

 

I can do many activates. For example, ride the Bick in front of the beach. There is in Los Angeles the best place it is name Beverly

Hills. It’s the most of famous live there. Next, there are lot mall in Los Angeles. For example, name of the mall The Grove

it is the best place for me because there is many store for shopping, restaurant and cinema. There are in Los Angeles big Mall .It is 

name Beverly center  , and Anther Street is Rodeo Drive .It is famous in the world. Finally, I love Los Angeles because it’s the best place for my in the world.