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Senbazuru is made from a thousand Origami(colored paper for folding) cranes bundling by string. By making it, there is the popular belief it brings longevity and healing from disease, because the crane is the symbol of longevity. So it is sometimes sent to the hospital patients.

And it is also the symbol of peace. Because it was made by Sasaki Sadako who hoped to lengthen her life. She is a woman who suffered from the radiation effects of atomic bomb on Hiroshima and died from atomic bomb sicknes

Some things just happen. Life doesn't ask us, what we want because life actually doesn't care. What counts is our attitude and decissions we make. They are like a huge arrow, which shows us the direction. No matter if we choose easy or complicated way - eventually we end up somewhere. All the slaps and backstabs are without doubt painful but after all... going through the burning hell makes us much more resistant. Unscounsciously we push ourself one level higher because we all long for being our

It has been 365 days since her birthday in last year

Many things had happened since that day

She was just a little innocent cheerful girl

Until one day, a big problem came to hit her life

She was very shocked, upset, and miserable 

She thought that she had lost her life

She locked herself in a secret chamber within a few months

No one could see her tears and anger

She acted so insane

No one knew what happened to her

The sunbeam came into the chamber

She stared and took a deep breath 

While she said to herse

MEGAEC City had been covered by a huge wave of atrocities this weekend. Many dead discussions were dug from the discussion cemetery. Many people were stressed out because their mistakes had been pointed in a rude way. Panic began in the city. Many reports were written to the police department. That is why Special Agent Roman Squirrel (not clumsy one) had been appointed in order to investigate this case.

The traces of a cat claws were spotted at the crime scenes. Also some parts of the black hair

Teach elementary students lessons about word choice through children's literature.

Look to your classroom library for help with various Language Arts lessons including vocabulary and different word types such as onomatopoeia and alliteration. When teaching with literature, you will encourage students to not only learn your lessons, but to learn to enjoy reading as well. For students who are too young to read the book choices, take the opportunity to read aloud to them.

Teaching Vocabulary Words wi

Idioms or phraseological units are exactly those designs that adorn any language, make it vivid and unique, and most importantly - confusing and incomprehensible to foreigners who are trying to learn it. Idioms are a headache for interpreters who do not miss the opportunity to amuse native speakers with a verbatim translation of each word.

1. Pop one's clogs

You won’t find the phrase "more British" than this one. To pop one's clogs - euphemism for the purpose of determining death or dying.

Example

Fake… Yes, that’s what you are.

You pretend you’re the most interesting person in the world.

You speak as if everybody is interested in your stories.

But in reality, you’re a pain in the neck.

You mock weak people because you think you’re untouchable.

Haven’t you remembered when you mocked me in front of your friends

just because I’m different?

That as if I could barely hear the unpleasant words you’ve said.

I can still vividly remember each of them in case you’ve forgotten.

You stabbed people behind t

I read Onee’s comment she posted on her own recent blog addressing to me, she commented: ““C'mon.... You just need to make a news report. How about a news report with the theme of 'LOVE', this is my personal challenge to you. I know you're expert in this matter.”

Since then I was thinking what to do, I tried to recall my imagination, tried to knit a scenario based on love.  There were number of thoughts, number of faces before me coming out of my subconscious to conscious, asking, “write about m

This is in response to Onee's Writing Challenge "A News Report"

WEATHER FORECAST

Here is the forecast for next 24 hours. 

This is not good news for those who are planning ‘dating’.  The weather will be pretty stormy, so the indoor dating will be too crowded for those who have some secret planning for their partners.  Outside in daytime, the weather will be pretty hot, may affect the temperature of the caring parent for their daughters, so I have to warn all the boys to be careful with their girlfri

Thundering

Thunder is a stream of electrons flowing between or within clouds, or a cloud and the ground. The air around this electron stream is hot around 50,000 ⁰F, which is three times hotter to surface of the sun. When this hot air becoming cooler it produces a resonating tube of partial vacuum surrounding the lightning's path. The nearby air expands and contracts in short time. This makes a column to vibrate like a tubular drum head and produces a tremendous crack and the vibrations gradually

Breaking news!

Two robbers were arrested a while before. At this moment they are in the police station of the town where they are being interrogated. Earlier in the day, a bank was robbed by them. The amount that was grabbed under the gun threat was large. There were three other robbers who managed to get away with a car which some days ago had been reported to the police as stolen. They were prosecuted by the police but so far nothing has been announced and it is believed to have escaped. As has

                               Brutal Attack reported on EC main chatroom

46 minutes ago

Virtuality - The English Club main chatroom was attacked by the organized group called "The Devil's Chatters" during the peaceful - almost boring Sunday evening. The professional group was consisted of seven members and was easily recognized by their nicknames Devil No 1 - Devil No 7.

After entering the main chatroom, they greeted the members with words such as Olleh and Ih. Luckily the chat moderator Pa

Are you looking for a few high school scholarships to help you pay for your college education? You're certainly not alone. There are many students competing for the same scholarships, but luckily, there are a few out there that are easy to obtain. The easiest of all may be community-based scholarships for high school students. 

Community organizations, service clubs, and local businesses often offer scholarships for local high school students who are college bound. Sure, the scholarships may not

This is a true story that happened with my mom one year ago.

One day, it was October or November, at 8-9 pm o`clock I was coming back from the city to home in the village. And as always the way to home was going through the forest. It was dark there. And in each hand I carried a bag, so I could not use a flashlight. It was very quiet inside forest, because of absence of wind.

And suddenly, right in the middle of my way to home, I heard the steps of 2-3 creatures behind me... I started to walk fast

Oh precious,

 Ask people; from my hands,

 you drop and drift away!

Oh precious,

If you come, I might take some failure

I feel the secret of wanting

If only you know my longing to you!

The story of love will go away

They are just seasons of spring.

Moreover, there will be no drought or dryness.

I will round up all those failures.

Oh precious, can you feel that?

A 50cm-wave Killed 10 People

Onee, Comedic Reporter

Sun Oct 22, 2017

GONESIA - 10 people has been reported died two days ago by a 50cm-wave on Croco Beach. Twenty people had been taken to the hospital before they finally died in the hospital room. The victims have not been identified yet, but six of them were ascertained as foreigners.

"The wave is actually not a dangerous one. It is presumed that those people had never seen such a wave in their whole life," the police explained.

Lots of people were

Hi bloggers and everyone who likes writing. :)

I’m sure all of you know what passive voice is. Passive voice can change the focus of interest by placing the object at the beginning of the sentence. Subjects are often omitted in the sentence as they are usually unimportant, unknown, or obvious.

Passive voice is commonly used in news report. Hence, for practicing the passive, I challenge you to write a news report. :)

Here is your task:

1.  Choose a topic of your interest, then make a title of your ne

How to beat stress? That's the question, right? Recently I posted here discussion on this topic and I was really very excited to see so many people participating and sharing own experiences. On the basis of it, I decided to write this blog, which will be focused on                                                                   Y   O   U   R

Whether you like it or not stress is a part of our life and I would say it has always been here. Looking back into the ancient times and the way people liv

Dé.jà vu

I was waiting for her in the hotel lobby, where I had to have a short stay as a transit passenger.  I did not give her the time, but I e-mailed only the name of the hotel in which the airline was going to provide me the lodging. I had nothing to do specifically there in the hotel, so I came down to the lobby restaurant made myself comfortable in a sofa from where I could keep an eye on the entrance of the hotel.  The contents of the e-mail I sent to her were echoing in my mind:

“I am trav

We all are working for reaching comfort zone. Is itn't? 

Yes. somebody want to have good house. somebody else want to buy car? the list will go on.....apart from the basic needs of food, shelter and cloth. 

Other words, those are not in comfort zone working towards to reach comfort zone. 

The biggest challenge is once we reach a comfort zone staying there for ever. we should always come out of the comfort zone and trying to conquer next level. Then we will be always in a improving journey...

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