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Dear friends and teacher,

Years ago I wrote this text in my diary; of course I wrote it in French which is my mother tongue. I decided to translate it into English so I could take part to this fun writing challenge Tara gave us. It was not easy at all and my biggest challenge was to use the right tenses. Written in red my new vocabulary.

Wandering around Istanbul.

It has been one month and one week since I dropped off my suitcases in Istanbul, it was the month of May ... the best to get lost in the

    On a hot summer night, I was taking a ride for fun with my family , as we drive to the Dong Ting Lake bridge, the air grew cooler and fresher, I was looking acorss the Dong Ting Lake which was one of the big largest freshwater lake in China. Liu Yuxi, a poet of Tang dynasty, once wrote a poem, it described the "Eight hundred -mile Donting Lake", but now i can hardly feel the grandness of it, the area of the lake has dropped by nearly 50% in the past 70 years, because of the reclaimig farmlan

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Linking

-listen to_it

-master_it

-I recognized_ it

-come_out from our mouth

-we have to stand_out

-we have to single_out

-How_is_it goin'?

Pronunciation

-material (məˈtɪriːəl)

-posted (ˈpoʊstɪd)

-some (ˈsəm)

Contraction

-We should not be rigid in (with,on??? preposition) our method.

(We shouldn't be rigid in our method.)

How was the voice/speech?

-Sleepy

-Lazy-like

-a bit gloomy and no energy (LOL!)

-the most important thing...haissst, it was very longggg (giggling!). Gosh! 11 minutes somethin'!

P

ithink many people in the world spent their time and their eforrts to discover treasures iside mountains and in cave or in archeoligical site but they ignore there are big treasure exit in ourselvies .how agree with me ?

China's first woman astronaut

China's spacecraft returns to Earth

Dear Raj,

I have had the happiness of receiving my first letter from EC’s sweet member, you. You know I wasn’t here for a while, that’s why I asked one of my neighbor’s to keep it till I came. I almost lost my hope in getting it in my hands and reading it. But, thank God now I have it.

So, when are you coming here? When you come to Turkey, I will take you to a very beautiful place called Amasra, in the west forests of the Black Sea in the north of Turkey. There, the greatest charm of foliage is ne

Dear teachers and friends, could you please leave your comment on  my first essay below? Thank you.

In this century, most people in many part of the world have mobiles phones. It is important to have one in their home. Nowadays, it is hard for people to live without mobile phones. Even though some people say, mobile phones should be banned in public places. In my opinion banning mobile phone does not make sense. What if some emergency occurred? People cannot call for help because the mobile phon

I always do  calisthenics in the Friday morning. I do it together with my friends at my office. Normally, we've began since  06.30to 07.30.

this is An arabic poem translated into English.  many things really deserve to be contemplated. 

This is the path to Allah Juniad spoke about.

Stop! repent! intend never to return! call out

To Allah and ask him to forgive, fearing him

By doing what he wants, not disobedying him,

Outside with your body, inside in your heart.

So, that's a total four, they help you do your part.

Guard your senses, your belly, and your private part.

Guard your mind from the bad thoughts, just stop them.

Learn this art, low

Dear Mark, 

We had a talk about visiting Indonesia this morning, my time. Just do whatever you can do so you can come and visit us, Ananda and I here!!! I know it sounds like I am so desperate to meet you :D But I am! I always wanted to take you to our places where we use to hang out together. Well you know, none other than... Pizza Hut! :D :D Please don’t stop reading and puke :D

Listen, I have an idea. How about we all go together to Karimun Jawa? You know we had to cancel our plan to go there

You don’t know how strong you are, until being strong is the only choice you have. 

Familiar with that sentence? How strong do you think you are? 

Last week, we had guests at home. My old friends came to our house. We had a good time though their 20 months cute daughter couldn’t come. We talked, we laughed and we ate. It was lunch time so of course we ate. It was a memorable moment, but there was something that I will always remember. It was my dad. He has glaucoma since 2005. Had a surgery, but t

         My babies,

       First, I just remind you , don’t laugh at my mistakes. Although, I am your sweet mom but it’s not mean : I’m smart. I know, my English is still poor and I’m trying to be good in it day by day. I want you to feel proud of me. And if you find some mistakes, don’t shout them in public, I will be ashamed..ehehe….

       Next, remember, this letter is for all of you. So don’t be jealous of each other. All you are my  kids. I love you equally. No one is much more than other. N

how can we change our threats to opportunities in life?

Dear Muge (Mommy)

We have not kept in touch for  a long time and you may be wondering what  I am up to . I got a letter from you in Turkey , dated October 15th 2011. Much to my dismay , thanks to the crawling  postal service here in my country , I got it only today!

At that time I was not in Sri Lanka as I was in Australia for my daughter's graduation . I was  fortunate to make it with my husband  and share some  beautiful memories.

We left to Melbourne on October 7th,  very excited like two kids;

May kachin get independand

It was March 15th 2012 when our instructor asked me to give my impression concerning the novel “The Return of the Native “. When I finished ,I noticed most of my colleagues moved to tear. I melted away in the sight of their eyes’ tears. I felt gladly the effect of my oral speech on them, and their great admiration overflowed from their eyes . That was so warming feeling to my heart. Then I turned back to my seat.

O Anele , The tape of memories starts to run . It backs to my early months in My EC

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