October 20th is a special day for writers! Writers around the world, including English teachers and students, will be sharing how they use writing to connect with others.

I would like to invite all MyEC bloggers to join this month's writing challenge. Let's show the world how we write to connect with other learners and teachers from around the world.  

Your Task

1. Create a new blog post. Use the title: Writing Challenge: Write 2 Connect

2. Write a few paragraphs to answer this question: How does wr

At that time I did not know that it was the last day I spoke to her.She was uncharacteristically, she hided her smile, her laughter and jokes. I came to her when she asked me .

" You know, she started talking, I felt this was my last day to see you". She looked at me .

I gasped how could she say that. I tried to tell her that she would definitely be okay.

She said,"You are a friend that I like most among the other friends, you most understand me ".

I tried to understand her grief, understand her fea

At night, Yiyi's mother finally came back from office. Yiyi filled a bowl of rice and passed it to her tired mother.

She told her mother that her brother had a fever while massaging for her mother. When her mother went to Tutu's bed, she caressed him gentlely and covered the blanket for him. Yiyi was standing outside and leaning herself on the door when a bitter feeling came to her mind. It's true that her parents loved her and they worked hard for saving money to cure her. Yet how she wished the

ONCE upon a time a peacock and a tortoise became great friends. The peacock lived on a tree by the banks of the stream in which the tortoise had his home. Everyday, after he had a drink of water, the peacock will dance near the stream to the amusement of his tortoise friend.
One unfortunate day, a bird-catcher caught the peacock and was about to take him away to the market. The unhappy bird begged his captor to allow him to bid his friend, the tortoise good-bye.
The bird-catcher allowed him his re

Yiyi was born to carry congenital heart disease. The disease burnt through all their family savings, and her father gradually lost his faith to cure her. But her mother would never give up and worked hard to gain money so that Yiyi could have a new man-made heart.

When Yiyi was 12, she got a little brother. Since then her parents almost became workaholic. She had to drop out of her loving school and take care of her younger brother. Life hardship and her disease made Yiyi a strong and caring gir

       I am Veraerida Wiwin Subarto. You can call me Erida or Wiwin. I am a student. I want to learn English through writing. Would you all help me? This is my first blog. I used to go online in "Net Cafe" but only for doing my tasks from my lecturers.I never get time to visit or become a member of any Social website. I am so poor and I didn't have any computer at home until about 4 days ago I got a lap top and a few things as a will of my best friend who has passed away.And I know this site fro

Please give a caption or comment, thank you.

" Come dude, let's have a wild music feast! "

The winning caption is submitted by ⊱ Mickey ⊰.

Learn more about Wordless Wednesday and how to write an interesting caption please click here and here. 

I’ve been with him since September, 2003. Ten years has passed, yet we still haven’t found our smooth way and have to bumble along.

I am not sure if I will stay with another him for ten years. But still I feel tired and confused once in a while. How can I catch his heart tightly? I ask myself sometimes.

Maybe I am not an eligible girlfriend? I looked into myself and found some clues.

Nominally speaking, I have been with him for ten years. Yet, I was immature and lazy; the real time I spent with him

Hello my friends 

Every country has it's flag which refers to something  in this country .

This is our flag In my country Egypt

The description of the Egyptian flag 

Three equal horizontal bands of red ( top ) , white and red .

White : peace and honestly .

Red : hardiness , bravery , strength , and valour  . 

black : determination 

 can you tell me what is your flag ?

what does it refer to ?

thank you .

It was happened to my neighbor. She is in Chennai. She has a daughter of 4 years old. The girl is so cute. The accident took place at her when she was one year old. She (the mother) cooked rice using pressure cooker and kept it in the kitchen self. Baby was walking to the kitchen and pulled the cooker. It opened and the heat rice poured to the child top to bottom. Then she started crying. The mother took her and rushed to the hospital. The girl was severely injured but saved. She recovered after

There are five characters in this story, 

Anybody = boy
Nobody = girl
Somebody= friend of Anybody
No one = chief of Nowhere
Everyone = chief of Somewhere.

      There were two villages, SOMEWHERE and NOWHERE, inhabitants of which, were great rivals. One day what happened, Anybody, boy of SOMEWHERE, fell in love with Nobody, girl of NOWHERE. Everyday Anybody went to NOWHERE to meet Nobody. As a matter of fact, Nobody loved Anybody too. When Somebody, friend of Anybody, saw that Nobody loved Anybody

The Wine-Song (al-Khamriyyah)
of ‘Umar Ibn al-Fârid

(Translated and annotated by Martin Lings)

Source: Studies in Comparative Religion, Vol. 14, Nos. 3 and 4 (Summer-Autumn 1980) © World Wisdom, Inc.
www.studiesincomparativereligion.com

The Egyptian Sufi ‘Umar ibn al-Fârid (1181–1235 A.D.) was revered as a Saint already in his life-time, and his much visited tomb at the foot of the Muqattam range of hills is held to be one of the seven holy places of Cairo. He ranks unquestionably among the greates

I was mourning for my lost money in the busy metro this morning. What an unlucky day, I talked with myself. To my chagrin, it was the second time for this month that I lost my money. I was annoyed with myself.

"Morning, Mickey!" Mr. Armous smiled and greeted to me when I walked out the metro near my company. Last time when I lost myself on the way to his company to give back his stamp, he happened to come back from outside and picked me up.

"Morning, Sir." I answered in a languid tone.

"What's up,

For the past few days, I have been reading various articles about this remarkable young lady, Malala Yousafzai. She was feted to be a Noble Prize 2013, but she does not win it. However, I think she is still a winner to many children especially young girls. I think when you read her name, no futher introduction is necessary about this brave young lady. But, give me a little leeway here, I still want to say a few words about her.

Malala was a student in Swat Valley, Pakistan. She was an advocate of

Hello my  friends in English club

My congratulations from my heart for you 

wishing you all  a very happy Eid. and hopping that all the things you wish.will be yours throughout the year ...

Eid Mubarak

Listen To News: Tokyo To Host 2020 Olympics Games -  10 September 2013

Discussion Question: While people in Tokyo are overjoyed by the news, many Japanese residents who have been displaced by the Fukushima nuclear disaster think Japan's money and effort should be spent on the tsunami damage. What are your thoughts  on this argument?

  Great question to think over.  The tsunami-shaped massacre whereby Japan population went through in March 2011 is not forgotten in our minds yet. It was a  unpredict

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OINa46HeWg8

(This voice recording is done by Len, who is a native English speaker with British accent. He helped me to correct and recite this post and gave me permission to share his recording with our members. This helps me to practice my listening and speaking. I hope you find it useful, too.)

Perhaps you have watched this video before. It is a two-minute film that describes a girl who is ignored all the time whatever she does with her

I was so excited when  hearing the electropop English band Fenech Soler was coming to my hometown on a television advertisement. I listen to the Fenech Soler's sound for the first time on a internet radio last year. The band released the debut album in 2006 and comes from Kings Cliffe, Northamptonshire  in England. It consists of four members namely: Ross Duffy, Ben Duffy, Daniel Fenech-Soler  (whose name entitles the band) and Andrew Lindsay. The sound of the band blends synthpop, indie pop, an