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Writing Prompt ~ Holiday Capitalization

Hi Michelle,

I'm planning to spend the Christmas Day in Berlin because I've been away from my family for six years. They are desperately to I visit them as soon as possible! I know you intend to land this time in Germany too. I hope we can get together at least on New Year's Eve at the Brandeburg Gate. Me and my family always spend New Year's Day and Christmas Eve there. There's always a special firework show iluminating the sky in every New Year coming. It'

Years come years go, you never respond to my mails, my greetings, Christmas, New Years’, Eid Days or the Independent Days. I never missed the chance to have a contact with you with any medium or occasion available. I am once again sending you my Christmas wishes. I am sure it will reach you before New Year's Eve, because of the vacations. I will also be sending you New Year’s greetings through electronic mail. And if you open your mail regularly you will find my best wishes for Christmas and a c

Expector's Writing Challenge

My History teacher is Anne. She's a middle-aged woman, even though, a high-spirited person. She has  taught me several curiosities about world-famous figures in her thought-provoking classes. In the last class she played a full-length film about Napoleon Emperor's life. She explained to me that most of people are mistaken as to the real physical features of Napoleon. She told that he was an egocentric, small and fat French general. However he's remembered for his brav

Every month several members are featured as star members. Then, who will make a star member?

Some members are so active but have failed to be featured as star members, while those who are not so active were featured - some star members may have published just one blog. Here's the link to the "frequently asked questions" where you'll find the answer. 

According to our admin Tara, those members who have private pages can't be featured, even though their content was featured in the monthly newsletter

I have been missing you... Guys, this sentence thanks to the modern technology might be in the near future vanished out of our life. I realized it a couple of hours ago, was thinking and thinking and decided to dedicate this blog to this issue, sooo here I am with some interesting views. First of all just dont think I'm freaking out, ok? I will show you right here and right now that I mean it.

Don't you think that the world we live in is overtechnologized? It isn't a big deal to buy a new smart p

Well, we should do some extra works if we are parents or teachers of little kids. Specially, when we try to help them to learn spelling. I have found some  helpful tricks . So, want to share with you.

1. Teach them with rhyming words, e.g. book, cook, look. And, try to make more.

2. Tell them similar words, you may ask them to find out/ write down some similar words, e.g. far, fur, see, sea, to, two.

3. Putting a letter before a word, e.g. table- stable, high-thigh.nail-snail, ear-hear.

4. Put one/t

Dear Noaspls,

I hope you are doing well and as I know you, I bet you are in a good mood unlike me. Let me share what's new with us. You know a few weeks ago our family won the lottery and some people can't stand it. They evny us a lot because as for financial situation our life is now pretty good. I don't want to show off but we bought a new house, good car and many other luxurious things. First of all we were so happy but now we are just desperate. Well, to sum it up, I can't more agree with say

Thank you dear friends for all the words full of concern.

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For the past 3 days I was in communication with Dim through his blog "Pray for Philippines."  I like to grab this opportunity for keeping in touch with friends who are truly concerned about my status.  Let it be known that I truly don't feel alone especially when words of concern reached me through Dim's blog and through skype.  You are indeed a bunch of caring friends!

Nowadays EC bloggers has been sprouting like mushrooms. This is good news for EC. It means so many members are sharing their views, stories and just anything on earth. I love reading blogs in EC, well except maybe poems. But it peeves me when I read a very interesting blog and found out it's taken from another site(s) and written by someone else without proper citation by EC blogger(s). 

When I read a wonderful blog, I would feel amazed that such blogger could come up with fantastic view/writing.

Hello, everyone! 

Winter has come here and very soon we are going to celebrate the beloved holiday by all people known as New Year. I suppose that every nation has its own way of celebrating and I want to present you our New year style of celebrations. 

At first, I want to mention that we have a real new year with tons of snow and icicles here. If you look at the window, you'll see this: 

It depends on the family traditions but by the 31st of December all Christmas trees in the houses are ready to

Thanks for your intimation; you will not be seeing me anymore, just because you saw me admiring the beauty of another girl. You aren’t doing well, because what you saw on the culture page happened years ago even well before I met you. I am not feeling well right now. It isn’t good of you that you judge me on the basis of action done well before in the past. I will not be able to cope well without you, try to understand me. It wasn’t love I showed to her. She was a good friend. I admired her beca

You may have learned English for years or ages or even decades, and already learned all the basic grammar rules, but when you're trying to write something in English, you'll find it more difficult than you may have thought. You can understand or even enjoy what other people wrote, but you find it so hard to write something yourself - even when you did manage to write a blog or comment, you may have failed to properly express yourself, or other members can't understand what you were trying to say

This is my second attempt in writing a blog based on Expector's Writing Challenge. I was not too happy with my previous blog; A Weathered Old Lady which I think I didn't answer the challenge properly.

The bespectacled, studious, reed-thin young man was so absorbed in his writing that he seemed totally oblivious to the fact that the balmy weather was turning into one big, vicious thunderstorm. He has been writing non stop since that day. It was like his very existence depended on him finishing the

Maybe you have already heard that Japanese people are hardworking, Germans are punctual, Englishmen are reserved. Can we apply something like this on the whole nation? As we know every nation is created by the people and their characteristic features, customs, habits, atmosphere in the society, historical development etc., in fact all these aspects from my point of view form typical national character. Since everyone of us belongs to some nation, it is obvious that sometimes we might be not awar

Yesterday I took part in an awesome, traditional event, which is related to Christmas. It was the first of four Sundays of Advent and it means we should have lit the first candle on the traditional Christmas wreaths. For better imagination have a look here:

Anyway back to an unforgottable, magical experience. A huge, coniferous tree was standing in the middle of the crowded square and was planned to be lit up exactly at 4:30pm. Yes, so early! However, here it is already dark at this time so I kno

Hello pretty girl,

Let me ask you first, how are you in such a lovely winter morning? I think, you are passing a very busy time with your study. But, why you are not writing me, are your days  hectic? Here, I am also too busy, of course, with my usual duty. Anyway, do you want to hear how did I pass the last two months?

Then listen, I went to a rocky mountain area with my close friends in last month. In a sunny-Autumn morning we started our journey. We didn't book any cottage or hotel but we were

I used to watch the white haired old lady sitting on her rustic rocking chair with a vacant look on her face. Her weathered and wrinkled face looked so sad. Sometimes I noticed her gnarled hand would tremble ever so slightly. Other times, I noticed that she would grip the rocking chair as if her life depended on it. Once in a blue moon, she would break into a little smile. Her little chuckles were so rare, as rare as hen's teeth. 

I wondered what her story was. I bet she had endured so much in he

Are you ready for one more writing challenge? I hope so.

You could always add one or more adjectives before or after every noun to enrich the sentence. You usually do so for a colourful sentence or a vivid description.  Let's compare these two sentences:

-- A man in the village was sitting in a chair.

-- A white-haired old man in the peaceful village was sitting in a black wooden chair. 

It can be so challenging to make such a sentence. Here are some tips for you:

1. You need to find the proper adjec

Today, I am going to share one of my experiences with you. Then I just completed my S.S.C examination. That day one of cousins came to our place so my brother and I had a great day. After passing a busy and joyful day I felt tired. So, I said goodnight a bit early and went to my room to set up the mosquito net. But, when I was tucking the net, suddenly a flying insect (looked like a grasshopper but small in size and color was light ash-black) caught my eye-sight. And, without thinking, I Hold it