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"Today I received an email for a friend, a sad story about a tradition that takes place in Faroe Islands (Denmark).

Every summer people of the Faroe Islands hunt pilot whales when they are near to the coast; the main participants are young teens and the reason they do it is to show that they´re adults...

I don´t understand this kind of traditions (and I don´t want to), but I´m sure we can change things when they´re wrong.

Does anybody know a way to stop this tragedy? Why do humans think the planet

At last i am going to back to home...:)

But i will miss every thing in here..my great freedomee :))

i was awake till morning and sleep till lateeeeeee

i will miss that snowy night,and my ugly little snowboy loooool

Thank you EC members you never left me alone in my loneliness ,

I had great time with you guys..and will miss you

i will miss our food ,coffe party at midnight :D lol

Now i am preapering my things to go to home...

just loged in to writte this text

i know it has many mistakes,lol i am in a hurr

Hello friends, have you heard the latest news (or the latest media hype)?

The latest news (or the media hype) is that now suddenly your zodiac sign has changed!  According to astronomer Parke Kunkle, this all has happened due to a change in the alignment of Earth. Now we have 13 instead of 12 zodiac signs.

The new 13th sign is named as Ophiuchus (the Serpent Bearer or Snake Holder or Serpentarius). Ophiuchus is  not a new sign in fact. It has been around for ages.

Not only the number of zodiac

Dear Atika,

Your letter to me was a joyful surprise and  linked as a very special present from a special person from Algeria ...

It was a letter and very special as it was not the usual e-mails I get regularly. In fact  few days prior who this loving present I dreamt we were enjoying each other friendship and made me wonder whether it was a good sign that we will meet one day in the near future?

I smiled broadly and I wanted to share my happiness with all our friends at MyEC.

This's Atika's lette

The popular sayings have a good attendence till our this time ....

Usually it coming out from the oldest age people and dressing in a cover of wise ;) 

By these sayings ....

U can explain a subject or a case or advise for the generations.......

In EGYPT :

* The house of idler is destroyed before the house of unjust.

* The hapless who a dog bites him in a festival.

* Who his house from glass , don`t throw people by bricks and s

If not for emotions life will be dull indeed.

  When we are sad we pour our heart out, angry yell , when one is jealous  being sarcastic , trying  to hurt people does it work  in the long run no, Battered feelings of remorse and prejudice is the result.

Beauty of emotion is  we hate  some one it does not  last .

We love  some one we get  hurt...and be loved  where least expected,

We may try to show reasonoings in good interest and  get misunderstood

Life  oh life ! it so uncertain , one can only tr

I do not have enough time to do what I really like. I have to do all my chorse and then, do what I really enjoy. So, I tell myself if I finish my works, my gift would be jumping on my chair and diving into English Club to read friends' blogs, comment and study English. This is my gift to myself.

    If you like to visit Sri Lanka, we invite you to visit our school. I try hard to improve my student's skills in English. I'm not an English teacher but, I'm a teacher on Information & Communication Technology.

   My students were very poor in English. Then it was some difficulties to teach ICT. We stared an English club in our school and did many activities to improve English. We had a good support from an another school which famous on English. It is "Ketawala junior school" in Kurunegala. M

2011 is the European year of volunteering in the European Union.

According to the wikipedia(the free encyclopedia):volunteering is the practice of people working on behalf of others or a particular cause without payment for their time and services. Volunteering is generally considered an altruistic activity, intended to promote good or improve human quality of life, but people also volunteer for their own skill development, to meet others, to make contacts for possible employment, to have fun,

January 19th 2011
Wednesday

The first week after his birth, on a lumber wagon as a bed, Paul Bunyan takes a nap. But, he suddenly rolls and destroys four square miles of a significant timberland. His parents are at their wits end. Not to cause more difficulty, his parents start building a raft and put it on the coast of Maine. Every movement creates a 75 feet tidal wave. Thousands of British sailors are needed and it takes seven hours straight to wake him up. Again, while he tries to stand up, f

Advice for students of English in their teens:

Not necessarily in this order!

1. Don't be shy: most of Brazilian students are very shy in the classroom when learning English, and feel insecure because can make mistakes. Be sure that even teachers make mistakes. So, just relax and let's talk!
2. Read and write in English: try to read and write as much as possible in English. E-mails, invitations, news, story books, novels... if you try, you're gonna have good results.
3. Listen to music in English: teens love

Since we have an audio group in MyEC, many members face a problem using Vocaroo to record their voice. I suggest them to record their voice by computer then upload it here. To do so, there are just 2 steps:

  1. Record your voice by computer. You can see this blog to know How to Record Voice Using Your Computer.

  2.Upload your voice as a comment in two steps.

         A. click on the fifth icon from the left.

        B. Browse your file and then title it.

Ps. The icon above appears in creating b

I didn't write blog post during these three weeks, because recently I am reading EC members blog posted and studies grammars which was sent by teacher Anele.

I was feel very clear a part of grammars, thank Anele.

All EC teachers and Anele, can you share with me others grammars links, this is easy for my to do revision and improvement.

Please correct my blog post. Thank You!

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
`'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, `tapping at my chamber door -
Only this, and nothing more.'

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to

this's my voice

-Nadiyah-

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Salim's photo : A father's gift to his restless son...

January 17th 2011

Snowy Monday, -17’c


“English learners do not need to study grammar.” I have seen this sentence quite often on English club and some other English-teaching websites. In my view, English learners need to know grammar. First, imagine you are talking among English native speakers and are making many mistakes grammatically. Don’t you feel humiliated? Second, what would English speakers think? Don’t they think we are destroying their language? Do we like someone ruin our mother tongu

Seeing the topic of the writing challenge of this month,I was very enthusiastic at first,but I have to admit,that later on I was pondering over a lot:what to write?

To tell the truth I don't really feel myself confident and experienced a lot,to give good advices to anyone.

As I am in my thirties now,looking back on my twenties at the moment,I wish I had done a lot of things differentely.

Of course there are a few things too,that I am satisfied with as it is presently,the most important of them is b

Hi All EC friends I wanted to share with u my experiance on skype conference as tara asked me to talk about it , it can maybe helpful for some friends who want improve their english speaking ,

first i was so shy to speak english as many members here who dont feel confident when they speak english with foreigners but I rememberd once when Teacher Nadira encouraged me to speak with her on skype ,

it was my first time i speak english on voice chat , it was great because we started to add some friends

Day by day I float my paper boats one by one down the running
stream.

In bid black letters I write my name on them and the name of
the village where I live.

I hope that someone in some strange land will find them and
know who I am :D

Do you love and appreciate yourself?

Appreciating ourselves helps us to be focussed with a positive direction. We have to love ourself by giving reward and praise for our each success.

Stan Goldberg Ph. D., Professor from San Francisco University USA concludes in his observation the past twenty five years, the 10 important principles for one to have success! One of the 10 principles is giving reward,  like the celebration of success by treating or giving gift to one self. If it is done correctly