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Hi, I'm Salma. I'm not new here but I've been away for a long time. I love to write and it's too bad Tara is no longer here with her writing challange. So, I chose this topic from the writing prompts in the "Learn English" section, hoping someone will do the editing for me.

I'm from a huge family of 15. You may not believe it but all fifteen of us are from the same mother. Yes, the same father, the same mother. We have 10 boys and 5 girls. I'm the tenth child of the family so, I have five younger

By Molly at Gold Star Teachers 

How to Make Friends in China

No matter where the move is to, one of the hardest parts about making a new place home is finding friends there. Of course, when the place you’re moving to is a country across the world with a different culture and language, that’s only truer. But a little perseverance and the right attitude will get you far. Of course, so will looking in the right places. So, where are the best places to find friends in China? That all depends on you, b

"Hello everyone!"

Does this phrase look useful for you? You can answer to this question in the comments, but I want to say that for me, it does. Well, not exactly this phrase, but it's variations. You can easily start any conversation with it. And for the last 365 days I used this phrase a lot!

I joined this site one year ago (actually one year and one month ago) and since that time I have faced either happy and sad moments. Oh my, there were so many, that I can't even recall all of them.

I know, t

Okay, this is a short message for everyone who are going through tough times:

It doesn't matter if the weather is awful and cold, or if people around are in a bad mood or grumpy... keep faith and hope in your heart, then move on. Bad weather and bad humor are temporary...may your will and fancy to live persist until your last breath.

Good luck everyone!

Student.

When there is Faith

Michelle Regno

Things go wrong, yes they do

Sometimes you think it's all about you

You look at the sky for answers

But most of the time it's in closed eyes in prayers

The travel sometimes goes long and wide

Seems endless no matter how fast the stride

But if you slow down and watch inside

It's in the silence that our hearts confide

There are battles we choose and ones we ignore

We sometimes stop sailing to go ashore

The halt does not mean we wish to quit

The choice to fight we see deem

No english dictionary has been able to explain the difference between the two words COMPLETE and FINISHED,some people say there is no difference,but there is.When you marry the right woman,you are complete!when you marry the wrong woman,you are finished!!And,if you marry a wife who likes shopping you are Completely finished!!!

A little dirty spot on the floor,

It’s daunting, right?

You managed to sweep the dirt from all over the floor, except that little spot, despite the fact that it’s just a little one plus sometimes it takes much less time to clean it, so why don’t you complete your job and clean that one too? It’s easy to say but hard to perform, I will tell you why.

Once you realized that you’ve done 99.9% of your task whether it’s accurate or not you tend to turn away from completing the little 0.1% why?

Because, ac

By Jordan at Gold Star Teachers

If a word or phrase is spoken more than it is written, the correct spelling can be difficult to remember. This is a common problem with exclamations, e.g., whoa, aw, whoops, etc.

As you might imagine, these exclamations don’t find their way into written prose all that often, and when they do, writers forget how to spell them. Whoa, for example, has at least two misspellings that pop up in printed works: whoah and woah.

In this post, however, I want to cover five Engl

Normally at first glance, a classical couple looks similar, sometimes they have sames tastes, same careers, same style of clothes, same musical preferences or even same political party or religion, but in essence, they are particularly different and unique. A couple is like two completely different worlds who decided to spend time together having a great time creating something new and learning important life lessons during their time as a couple. Differences and similarities are blended in a wo

Hello everyone!

Sorry for making you wait for so long. Some things went awry and I had to take another picture.

So, please leave your captions for this picture in the comments:

I will choose the winner in a week, on Monday 25 of June.

I am sure, you will surprise me with the lots of creative captions!

Good luck! :P

All the captions at this moment:

Mary:

1) The Umbrella Pride Parade

2) It's Raining Umbrellas

3) Rihanna looking for her umbrella, ella, ella, eh, eh...

AG:

1) shaded with Beauty

Svitlana:

1) Let's

I want to dance

Like the sun is shining

My heart remains yours forever

I want to keep shining

As my remembrance will withhold me from my fears

And conquer all the adversity

My faith 

Views on guns are various and depend on the country and person. In Japan, people aren't allowed to have guns except for policemen, soldiers and hunters. In the case of hunters, they need to apply to the Japanese government for a license and be examined thoroughly. Japan is one of the countries that control gun ownership most thoroughly. So gun crimes in Japan are less than most other countries.

On the other hand, I think the U.S. is one of the countries that are most tolerant of having guns. Am

Wishing every Muslim From the heart core a very blessed Eid!

May your worships be accepted!

This story is about a typical couple that is having problems of communication and what happened when they talked about it.

Diego and Priscilla.

A month had passed since they started a romantic relationship. Diego truly loved Priscilla and she started to feel something special for him, they decided to become a couple because they always had had a good and supportive friendship and they got along well together.

One day, Diego called Priscilla and after a few minutes, Diego felt that Priscilla wasn't

Since nowadays some useful riddles as well as equal sounding words are published, I wonder if someone could help out here. Is the below given claim possible?

John while James had had had had had had had had had had had a better efect on the teacher.

or is the next one likely?

I like like, likely like you like likeliness and the other one likes likelihood.

Darn foreign languages can be this confusing.

Sometimes fear appears in moments when the unexpected happens. Yeah, we would say that now we are adults and therefore have a lot of experience and there's nothing to fear and so on...but the truth is that most of us still have fear hidden in some nooks inside ourselves.

That night, I was walking alone on the sidewalk of a big avenue named Tlalpan (this avenue belongs to one of the main boroughs of Mexico city called "Delegaciones", it is important because of its conservation as a forest and also

So, you have asked me with such a love whether I know you.

Listen, I must say that the pain and torture you are seeing in my eyes is the very gift given to me by you.

I will also say that this was the very story in which you were considered the master and I was your subject.

You were the conqueror and I was the defeated.

This was the story in which the ego was supposed to be the winner and LOVE was the loser.

Having my own garden is not a bad idea. But I can go further. I imagine myself living on a very large piece of green land surrounded by apple and peach trees and also living by a big lake around like those luxury houses around of the Kalamalka lake in Canada, where I can go fishing or swimming. Oh yes, I know... I am daydreaming again. The funny thing is that my reality is totally different.

I live in a tiny apartment in the city, and having a garden could be a little difficult, but not impossibl

We stand up on the same earth. Feel the same atmosphere. Inhale the same air. Taste the same water. See the same stars and sun. You are living in the West, while I’m living in the East. You showed me how the stars appeared in your sky at night, when it was my afternoon. You never got bored staring at my face. “Beautiful”, you whispered.

You would never forget me until your last breath. You would not find the same girl like me. You felt close to me. You always complained about the distance. I was

Without any further ado heeeeeeeere's part two.

Part one

Bye now!