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RESILIENCE: JAPAN

On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck the Island of Honshu, Japan with its epicenter in the Sendai province.  This earthquake triggered a 12 meter high tsunami event along the eastern coast of Honshu.  The combined force of these two catastrophic events and further exacerbated by a continuous cycle of daily noticeable earthquakes that have measured between 4.5 and 7.1 in intensity as defined by the Richter scale has caused significant damage throughout the nation

Today in Ecuador we remember the birth of Juan Montalvo, one of our most famous writers. He was born in Ambato, place of birth of Juan León Mera, author of our anthem's lyrics, and also Juan Benigno Vela. All of them well known writers, reason for which Ambato is also known as "The cradle of the three Johns".  

In 1920, President Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno decreed this day as the day of the Ecuadorian Teacher.

So, a happy teacher's day to my fellow colleagues. :)

God bless us all.

RESILIENCE: JAPAN

On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck the Island of Honshu, Japan with its epicenter in the Sendai province.  This earthquake triggered a 12 meter high tsunami event along the eastern coast of Honshu.  The combined force of these two catastrophic events and further exacerbated by a continuous cycle of daily noticeable earthquakes that have measured between 4.5 and 7.1 in intensity as defined by the Richter scale has caused significant damage throughout the nation

NOTE: This blog for who wants to join our challenge in A New Word Daily's group. If you are interested and wants to know more about this challenge, please read this blog first!

Hint:

The word of the day begins with the letter “U” and has 4 letters long.

• He u_ _ _d employers and trade unions to adapt their pay settlements to the economic circumstances.
• We shall continue to u_ _ _ for leniency to be shown to these prisoners.
• Police u_ _ _d continued vigilance in the fight against crime.
• The dogs are u

Hi Friends,

Just want to share you something about Love and Time. Sometimes, we ask ourselves, what is Love? What is Time? We come up into defining love and defining time, and by defining them, we come up into realizing that, hmmm... yes, I love my family, my friends my colleagues, my pets, everything around me that God has given me and we say, Time? ohhh... time is important. Time is Gold.... Time plays an important role in our life. And, most of the time we LOVE most of our TIME by saying;

" I'

NOTE: This blog for who wants to join our challenge in A New Word Daily's group. If you are interested and wants to know more about this challenge, please read this blog first!

Hint:

The word of the day begins with the letter “H” and has 9 letters long.

• She had been beaten and h_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _d by her husband.
• His teacher continually h_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _s him.
• I knew that if I sang the song and hr recorded it, he would keep the tape forever and use it to h_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ me for the rest of my life.
• How

At my first lecture on my first day at University I saw some girls from another group at the first desk next me. One of them was really beautiful.

One day I was standing in the corridor with my friend. When my group-mate introduced the girl to me and asked if I would help her to solve her tasks from Math. I said "sure if I can". As with other girls from the capital she spoke in Russian. I helped her to solve tasks in Math, Informatics and Physics, and she helped me improve my Russian and English.

What kind of people do you want yourself to be? A kind, passionate, and adorable girl? A smart, outstanding and confident girl? Or the quiet, introverted, and shy ones?

I have been hoping that I would be a tolerable and patient girl, who would just take everything with ease and would never be frustrated. However, I just could not endure those smearing and humiliating made by my own friends or relatives. I would just exploded in depressions but I would not shout or scream to voice my anger. I woul

In modern society, particular ,in modern urban society, plastic packaging has been widely uesed as far as possible in the early years, there seemed that every daily necessary had been made of plastic materials.In conclusion, we have to face the harmful impact (even 'white polluted' disaster) which was caused by too many plastic manufatures on our evironment and health.

In my opinion, it is not justly to attribute all the faults to plastic manufatures though it seems truth on the surface.How to mo

Hi Anele

nice to meet u dear

It was not untill the moment when i was looking back on my school life  did i noticed  how time flies. 

Nearly a month later,we folks will  all be graduated .Sometimes we are all wondering how we could spend our life so fast.Haha,but seems there is no need to have pity on that,cause we all know that big day will come sooner or later.The only thing we need to do is to make good preparations for our future.Both for excerlent jobs and futher study.And the most important ,cherish the time you are spe

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Hello friends,

Today I start to create a short comic with the aim of how to learn english with fun, I did adventure to MyEC photo gallery. And, I have chosen the first photo which is from Shalva Mamistvalov's photo : Soldier.

 
Why am I giving this game the title of "Short comic"?  the photo is able to give an illustration about a story or event based on the imagination that we have created it. Isn't it so fu

April 12 has been celebrated as Cosmonautics Day since 1961 when Yuri Gagarin, a regular Russian guy who had been born in a small village near Smolensk, became the first human being launched into outer space. 68 minutes spent by him in cosmos changed our life forever and opened the new era in mankind's history and development.

Yuri Gagarin was  major of Soviet Air Forces. In 1961 he was only 27. His charming smile, his simplicity and his last phrase before the launch "Here we go!"  will be never

Watching movies is one of my hobbies, whenever I have a spare time, I turn on the television and check out the best movies available. One particular channel is Starmovies. It shows or airs movies that has subtitles. My viewing habits became more interesting because I can fully understand the dialogue of every actor. Did you know that through the subtitles, we could practice our reading and listening skills? Yes, you heard me right. When we try to read the words shown as subtitle, somehow our rea

Each month I post a new writing challenge for English learners. Everyone is welcome to join.

Here is a reference list of the first 30 writing challenges on MyEC. Teachers can use these ideas on their own blogs or in their classrooms. Students can review the archived challenges and try out any that seem interesting. It is always fun to revive an old writing challenge! Teachers are welcome to join as well. The more examples we have, the better!

Writing Challenge #1: Uh Oh What Happened?

Writing Ch

Today is the day I celebrate one month off work ^^ hi hi, I don't know if anyone do the same thing like this. Stay home, go out sometime, do what I have to do, finish almost the goals I have made before - all done well - like what I want it to be, now I can say for sure that "Life is what ever you want it to be".

My life not too much complicated, it's just a normal life with 24 hours per day and seven days per week. everyday is the same, and sometime I wonder if is it too quiet for a 26 years ol

This is the last latter to you...

First of all I appreciate that you finally told me the truth.

If you keep hiding from me I would be mad, because I can’t take it any more.

I Just feel like the last time you left me.

I hate the fact that you ignore me for so long, then you start talking to me like nothing happened.

I just wanted answers, and wanted solutions of what that had happened between us, because I do care for you. You will never know how I’m feeling…

Actually I knew that I am not the person wh

Has blogging given me confidence and encouraged me? I would definitely say YES loudly! Blogging has been changing me day by day that I never expected. Before joining to blog MyEC, I was a kind of person who was quite timid to speak in public as well as worried about making mistakes while speaking or writing. However, things are were different after I keep kept blogging on MyEC by taking part in many intriguing activities for a long time. I myself found I could be able to come out with what I wan