The Difference Between Study In ELI And China (Wenan WU)

Before I came to Canada, I was studying in China for a long time. I could that there
was a big difference between study in ELT and china. Which one is better, in depend on

you. I have two opinions about it.

First, it is cost. Of cause study in ELI must be more expensive than China; also it has a

better environment. You can use the computer in ELI when ever you need. Students study

in a small group, so teachers can pay more attention in every student.

Scent, you have more pressure in china compare in ELI. You just have 5.5hours class
time and you have 2days for holiday every week. In china, you have 7hours every day

and you just have a day for holiday every for most middle school and high school

students.

They have their different advantages. It is more fun and relaxes study in ELI. It is

difficult study in china, but you will have more motility. Even it is expensive, Whatever;

I like study in ELI than China.

Study at 420W

so far, I have been study at ELI 420W course 3 months, there were a lot of funny things in our class, but the most important thing is that we learned how to writing an essay in English. That is very useful in our life.

At begining of class, teacher teach us what is the different between paragraph and essay. That's let me konw what is the real essay. When I was at China high school I have been written many things in English what I think was essay, but after that class I find that's just a long paragraph. In our class we also talk to each other, change our ideal and make the essay more and more clearness.

Also I want talk sometings about our textbook. This book is very useful book. There are 6 units in the book. You can learn how to writing a good essay. For example in the unit 4 opinion essays we learn which is fact or opinion. When we enter the University, writing essay is a indispensability thing. So we learn it not only for examination but also for our life.

Difficult Decisions To Study English (Yayoi)

I spent almost a year on deciding to study English at the ELI. I was working as a physiotherapist in Japan before I came to Vancouver. I had to decide various things to change my life. Some decisions were easy, but most decisions were difficult for me.

The easiest decision was to decide a study place because some friends who had lived abroad recommended me go to Vancouver. After I visited Vancouver to see the sights last year, I decided to come here. I convinced that Vancouver was the best place for me to live abroad for the first time because it was safe and not busy city and also people were kind.

The most difficult decision was to make my goal clear. At first, my purpose to go abroad was enjoying living abroad as I was a little bit tired from my job and wanted to do another job for a while using working holiday visa; for example, I planed to go to the ESL school, work for a farm and travel around Canada. However, as a result of thinking again and again and talking with people with experience of living overseas, I changed my mind and found another purpose to focus on improving my English skills. I have a dream to take a doctorate in physical therapy overseas in the future. Finally, I made up my mind to study academic English and applied for a student visa for Canada.

The last decision was to choose a school. I decided to go to the ELI promptly for two reasons. The first reason was that my friend recommended me strongly. Most students studying abroad go to private ESL schools downtown, but I think that the ELI has some advantages which they do not have. For example, we can study with a well-balanced curriculum, always talk with English speakers, who are CAs, and relax on UBC campus surrounded by wonderful nature. Another reason was that UBC has the department of physical therapy, which is my major. I wanted to know Canadian education of physical therapy. I have visited the building once, but I have never asked people in the department. I am thinking to visit the department again and ask someone by the end of this session. Unfortunately, I do not continue the next session at the ELI because I have the next purpose. I will change the school which has medical English course and internship course at hospital or rehabilitation centre.

Now, I have a great time, even though it took me a long time to decide my plan. I study hard on weekdays while I hang out with my new friends on weekends. I am satisfied with my new life. I have only three more weeks at the ELI, but I hope my English skills will upgrade as much as possible.

different types of learner (Phoebe Chang)

There are many different types of learner. When we study, we all chose the one that we like. In my opinion, every way about learning is sensational. If we are hard, we can get the good score.
I like to study alone, and I like to take note during the lecture. I always spend lots of time to study at home and deliberate. I think it is homey way for study. To be honest, this is a very slow way to study, it’s hard, but it work so slow.
I have some friends, they told me about their method of study. One boy told me he doesn’t work hard in normal times. Before exam three or four days, he would like to study without sleep. He always gets a good score, but I think this way is not for everyone.
One girl told she doesn’t study after finish class; she just studies hard in the class. After class she usually watches and plays computer games. I think this way is better for study.

A Special Meeting ( Samar)

Everyone has an embarrassing moment in her/his life. Sometimes we need to remind this moment and tell to your children about it. I believe that moment keep you in a fantastic memory. I would like to tell you about my embarrassing moment, I have never forgotten it. On October 10, 2008 a fantastic thing happened to me. I had a wonder moment, the first time I met my future husband. This meeting happened in my family house with my father. When I waited for my father to ask me to see my future husband in guest room, I was nervous. A moment later, I walked to the guest room. I was afraid because this my first time I saw strange men. A moment, I brought apple juice for him; I didn’t give it to him. I drank it, so my father laughed a lot. A moment later, I sat beside my father, and Mohammad couldn’t see me because I tried to cover my face behind my father. After a moment, Mohammad tried to look at me, but I was shy. After that, my father told my future husband to talk with me. He asked me how are you. At this moment, I was shocked because I forgot how to speak. When I tried to speak, I was embarrassed from him. After that, I whispered to my father to leave. After I left the guest room, I felt at easy with him. May be this is my love. After I talked with my mother, she asked me a lot of question. Therefore, I told my mother, I need to relax in my bedroom I thought about Mohammad. I was glad. I want to keep a first moment, I saw him in my heart forever. Did you have embarrassing moment you like to tell us about?

Renewable energy (Risako)

In Vancouver, we have a lot of kinds of weather. Sometimes it is too hot or too cold. It can be watched in all over the world, not only in Vancouver. One of causes of these violent weather changes is global warming. Global warming is the terrible matter for human. For example, temperature is becoming higher and higher, and snow of the mountain top is melting, because of global warming. CO2 is the one of the biggest factors of global warming, and using a lot of energy causes CO2 that can contain heat easily and make global warming to be worse. People have to save the energy and CO2, and try to solve this problem as soon as possible. There are two good solutions of global warming. First is using renewable energy, and second is thinking how to use some energy. These two solutions could improve temperature condition.

Renewable energy is energy that can be taken many times. It has no limitation, and using it doesn’t exhaust so much CO2 compare with using usual energy. Solar energy, wind energy, and water energy are renewable energy. Some country has already started to use this renewable energy, but not so many amounts. In fact, using renewable energy has a few problems. For example setting a solar panel takes a lot of money, and constructing a dam sometimes causes a flood. However, we can improve the way of taking energy from renewable energy in the future to solve these problems. Some scientists have already started to improve the way of taking renewable energy. Human should do it. In addition to this, people have to think not only how to get, but also how to use some energy. Many productions that surround people cannot existence without energy. Most of them made by robots in a factory and robots use a lot of energy. Bringing these products to markets also use gasoline because of truck. Saving products also means saving energy too. People should not waste products even if that is a very tiny thing.

Now, renewable energy is not so major, and many people waste a lot of products because most of them don’t think so deeply about energy when they throw it away. However, in the near future, people notice how serious the global warming problems are and try to change their way of thinking, try to use renewable energy instead of gasoline, fissile and the other not renewable energy. It may become a key to solve the global warming. Human have to do something for earth as soon as possible.

Cheating at school (Haruka)

Have you ever seen someone who cheated during the test? I think they cheat because they want to be looked better. Many elementary school students cheat during their test and this bad habit will create nothing. I will talk in detail about this opinion.

First, when I was in elementary school, I had to study a lot for the entrance examination of private junior high school. Therefore, I went to cram school every day after school when I was in sixth grade of elementary school. In cram school, many of us wanted to go to the same prestigious junior high school. Some of us cheated on the mock exam to be on the list of a high scorer. However, many of them who cheated during mock exams could not go to the prestigious junior high school. Some of my friends and I,which did not cheat in mock exams, could go to that school. I was so surprised at this results because some of the friends who cheated in mock exams are smarter than us. In this experience, I felt that bad behavior will be punished in some way even if it is not seen by anyone.

In conclusion, cheating create nothing. Therefore, parents should teach their children not to cheat using good examples or stories. Children do not stop cheating just say do not do that.

Different Culture, Different Thinking (Thanisa)

The word “Culture” means all the knowledge and values shared by a society. People who come from different countries have different knowledge and value. There are three Thai culture which differ from Western culture

First of all, when Thai people greet each other, they hold their hands in relation with face and bow their bodies. It is called “Wai”. When they greet, another person don’t have to answer them. For example, there might be young people who greet their relations. Their relations don’t have to answer them, but Western people have a different greeting. They use handshaking and talk to another person who greet with them. The difference between these cultures makes people have a different thinking. Thai people have to respect and obey other people who are older than them, but young and old Western people are equal. For instance, when Thai people want to do something, they have to ask older people, but Western people can do everything by themselves.

Secondly, Thai people bring up their children from infants to adulthood. Thai parents pay money for their children food, tuition, tutors fee, but Western people bring up their children from infant to grade 10. For example, Thai parents pay the tuition for their children who study at university, but Western parents don’t pay for their children. Their children have to pay for themselves. As a result, Thai families are different from Western families. Thai families are an extended families which have a father, mother, children and grandparents. The children take care of their grandparents until they die, but Western families are a nuclear family, which have father, mother and children. Their grandparents live in a separate house.

Thirdly, Thai people follow Buddhism. They believe in the Buddhist religion, which makes them believe that if something is going to happen then it happens and we can’t change it, but Western people believe they can control their own destinies. For example, Thai poor people believe they are poor because they did something bad in the past and they can’t change their status, but Western people believe that if they are working hard, they will be rich.

Although, some Thai people take care of their children in a western manner, many Thai people try to preserve their culture and want their children to retain their culture forever.

Watching TV is good for us (Mamiko)

Hi! I’m Mamiko.


In my opinion, it is good for us to watch TV. I have 2 reasons about it. One of them is that we can learn many things through watching TV. For example, we can watch cooking program, education for children program, fitness program, news and so on. There are many channels and programs, so we can choose them and watch whenever we like. It is good things for us because if we can know some TV programs affect violence, we can change the channel. Another reason is that it is a good way to keep ourselves occupies. If you have a lot of free time, you can turn on TV and watch movies or drama. It is benefit for us. Also, children can watch TV when you are busy at home working.

However, some programs can affect violence or something else by children; for example, the boy who was 3 years old was watching Superman. He really likes hero programs and he wanted to become a hero, so he wanted to fly the same as a hero. After that, he fell downstairs and he died. There are many opinions about that, but it is fact and this is one of examples that TV program affected the boy. Therefore, the parents should restrict on watching TV for their children. It is important rule when children watch TV.

In my case, I like watching TV. There are a lot of useful programs and entertainments. I like watching drama and comedy shows. It is funny and I can be relaxed. Also, we can acquire many things through TV programs and can catch many information speedily. Most important thing for me is giving some information. In Japan, we can know a tsunami warning, an earthquake and much important information if something happen. Therefore, we can run away speedily if tsunami or earthquake is happened.

Wearing Uniforms ( Abdulwahab )

As we know students must follow the rules of school and I agree that high school students should be required to wear uniforms because of the age and their life style. Also, when someone saw any student direictly, he knows this is a student. Moreover, the uniform mut be clean because the uniform reflect the student's behaviour. I know that sometimes wearing uniforms is not enjoyable because teenagers like to change and wearing uniforms come under the rules of school but for me when I was in high school, I wasn't like to wear a uniform very much.
The second reason for the equality of students. As we know from nature, there are difference between students in physical condition. forexample, students from the high class, and other from middle class, and other students of the estimated on the living. Because of this situation, all the schools want to have a uniform dress in school to show all students look the same and there is no distinction between students. Finally, all school systems in the interest of students.

How to Be a Good Learner? (Samar)

Choosing the right way to study can be stressful, but you can reduce your stress by following these steps. First of all, is scheduling study time and schedule breaks. This means after you finish your school you should organize your time. For instance, after I finish school, I take a break for around one hour. Then I start to do my homework and review. Next, you should choose the right place to study and consider the atmosphere, so you must have a quiet place, well-lit with enough space for books and comfortable but not too comfortable room.
The third step is important. Choose the person who you want to study with. I mean if you like to stud with your friends, this can help you to understand and catch the new information. On the other hand, it isn’t good idea to study in a romantic place.
Brief suggestion on studying a foreign language is learning a skill and practice. Studying with loud voice this way makes your mouth or your hand do what your mind is learning. There are three types learning styles. The first is visual learning means learning by listening. Secondly, is tactile or kinaesthetic learning means learning by touch and using your hands. Finally, is auditory learning means learning by seeing.
In my opinion I think the best learning style for me is kinaesthetic learning style. Therefore, I use this style to improve my English skills. I hope everyone know his/her style to help them to be a good learner.

The Drought in Northern Parts of China (Kenny)

In recent years, drought has prevailed in northern parts of our country. There is no or only little rain in spring and summer in the noth and northeast of China.
The same is true of snow in winter. Consequently, big cities such as Beijing and Tianjin are short of water every year, which affects the life of the urban people and the production of factories. And the drought is most felt by crops in rural areas, of course. It is said the drought has much to do with the "green house effect" and the "greenhouse effect" is caused by the pollution of the atmosphere. In the final analysis, it is brought about by ourselves. Faced with the terrible drought, we should stop polluting the air right away.
We should try all means to decrease the amount of poisonous gases which our factories and cars give off. Besides, we should take measures to protect the forests and plant as many trees as possible.

school uniform (Phoebe Chang)

When I was in high school, I need to follow school regulation.I was really disagree and also I was annoyed with them, but now I changed my mind with some of rules.
School uniform made a deep impression on me, because when I was in high school,I had to wear school uniform everyday. It looks so sloppy and unpleasant. I thought it was a stupit rule. However, when I graduate from high school, I realized when other people wear a beautiful dress, I'll want to buy it. We always want to wear the most beautiful clothes and take the most expensive bag. In the other hand, if I have a poor classmate, when other students wear everything expensive and flashy. How does the poor classmate feel?
When we were children, we usually think there are many things wrong in our school, home, we side it's stupit. But when we grow up, weknow a lot of knowlage, we know more about this world. So we know teachers and panents did a lot of things for us , even though we couldn't understand at that time.

Footprints of Memories (Yayoi)

In my case, writing means leaving footprints of my mind such as feeling, opinion, and experience. As time goes on, records which I wrote become memories. I have written various kinds of records. For example, there were lyrics, diaries, letters, notes, poems, reports, thesis, and studies. I keep most of them in my closet. I write in order to leave a message to someone or future me.

When I was an elementary school student, writing was enjoyment for me. I especially liked to write poems. I often competed with my classmates in composing poems. One day my teacher chose one of my poems, and it appeared in local newspaper with a photograph of my face. When I look at the newspaper clipping, I feel proud, and also it warms my heart. That’s why the poem was about my father, and I remember I loved him very much at that time. It is one of my favourite memories about writing.

Before I came here, writing was my duty because of my job. Every time I had to write each patient’s medical records for medical insurances. It was important to put patients’ condition on records but just a routine work. I didn’t have enough time to focus on my impression or thinking in daily life after work. Unfortunately, I don’t have any records while working. Memories in my brain will fade out in the future and I won’t be able to look back on my years of working.

Luckily, I have a lot of opportunities to write now. I try to write anything in English, but it’s not easy. Writing is my discipline for two reasons. The first reason is that I don’t get used to writing in English. I had never learned how to write a journal or an essay in English in Japan, so writing class is interesting for me. The second reason is that I am not good at expressing my ideas. I think writing has an advantage that we can revise mistakes before we make my writing known. However, it takes a long time for me to write and revise my ideas. Therefore, I need much more practices in order to enjoy writing in English more than now. I want to become getting my ideas in order quickly and accurately. I wish it won’t be long that this discipline of writing will change into a good memory.

Learning English in Vancouver is the best! (Mamiko)

Hi! This is Mamiko, and this is the first time to write journal.

Learning English in Vancouver is better than in Japan because we have many chances to speak English. In my opinion, this is the most important thing to learn English because most of Japanese have writing skills and reading skills. However, they cannot speak English because they learn mainly English to write and read, not to speak. Moreover, most of English teachers in Japan cannot speak English with correct pronunciation.

Almost Japanese study English only for entrance examinations. Therefore, they think that English is one of subjects that they need to study like math, and they do not think English as one of the communication tools. However, they realize that English is not kind of subjects. Nowadays, Japanese think English as a communication tool; and we have to study English. Therefore, a lot of parents spend money for their children studying abroad.

I think the best place to learn English is Canada. Canadian is kindly, honestly and friendly. Moreover, Canada has been receptive to immigrants, so it does not have any racial discrimination. I think only English policy is also good because we have to speak English in the building, so I can acquire many English words, idioms and so on. I am happy to learn English in Canada and ELI!!!!

Study English in their own countries or study abroad (Thanisa)

Someone said knowledge is knowledge by itself that means knowledge has its own value. The only different is how we learn from the knowledge and make use of it. In a way to learn English, some people want to study in their countries, but some people want to study abroad. In my opinion, I want to study abroad. There are three reasons, which support my idea

The first reason is speaking English all the time. If students study English in their own countries, they speak English only in their school, but if they study abroad, they have a chance to speak English all the time, and their English skill will improve significantly. For example, there might be some students who have an opportunity to study abroad for a year. His or her English skills are better than his or her friends who study in their own country.

The second reason is having a chance to speak English with native speakers. If students study English in their own countries, they speak English with teachers who come from their countries, and their teacher have the same accent as them, but if they study oversea, they study with native speaking teachers who have good accents. Also their teachers teach them to spell English words correctly

The third reason is considering about western people’s thinking and their culture that helps you to understand essays or paragraphs in the English language. Students can gain extensive knowledge about social studies in other subject though learning about English and writing essays and paragraphs

These are three reasons I want to study abroad. If students have a chance to study oversea, they should use this opportunity. Studying aboard give a lot of knowledge and experience which they can’t find in their own country

Difference of Coulture (Risako)

Have you ever tried to eat sushi? Even if you have never tried to eat sushi, maybe you know this food. I arrived at Vancouver only 10 days ago, and this is my first visiting to another country. So when my host mother took me the sushi restaurant on the first day, it is also my first eating sushi which made by another country. When I took the sushi, I was very surprised.

Row and thin fish meat is on the rice. It is most typical Japanese sushi. Rice is rolled by seaweed. It is typical Japanese roll. In Vancouver, however, almost all of sushi is roll, and that roll is a little different from Japanese one. Seaweed and ingredients are rolled by rice! I was very surprised to see this roll, and touched by its taste. Its taste is a little bit different from Japanese one, but very good.

Through this experience, I can find the good difference of culture. There are a lot of cultures in Vancouver. However, they don’t resist each other, and they melt into the Canadian culture.

Different types of people I met since I began to study here

Haruka Morita

Have you ever experienced culture shock? I have been experiencing a lot of culture shock since I came to Canada in a good way. I am going to talk especially about different types of students I have met in UBC ; humorous people and active people.

First, I met humorous people a lot in UBC. I found out that many people in the world say jokes. However, Japanese do not often say jokes and we communicate from empathy with each other. This happens because Japan is geographically limited but have huge population. In the past, Japanese people had to live in a house which is really close to others and we lived permanently the same home. This means that we cannot make conflict. Therefore, we do not say something bad to others and we speak in a neutral, harmless and inoffensive way. We use a lot of energy in this way, so we do not often say jokes or something.

Second, I met many active people. I was surprised to see people participate in class so actively. In Japan, many students sit politely and listen to what the teacher say. Furthermore, we do not say anything in the class, this means if teacher ask something to students, sometimes we do not answer to it. However, teachers feel nothing by that behavior because they know this often happens in Japan. Therefore, they are different from Japanese.

In conclusion, I found out two different types of people in UBC and I feel that I should change my way of thinking and attitudes.

Submissions now closed for Journal 3

Hi everyone,
Thank you to those who submitted in a timely manner! It is a pleasure reading your work. Seeing as we are now three days past the due date for Journal 3 (Blog Entry 3), I am no longer accepting work that is posted. I welcome your entries for Journal 4 (Blog Entry 4) starting today onward. Remember, this blog is due on Monday July 12th by 8:30 a.m!
Have a great weekend - Happy Canada Day!
(Janelle)

My Impressions of this class (Phoebe Chang)

This is the first time to write a jounral about my impressions of a class. Honestly, I didn't work hard in the class before, and I always go to school late. Eilidh tought us many concept of writing, and join sentences together. I think it's prctical. We also studied how to writing a paragraph and general writing. It's boring but it's useful. I'll try my best in the last few month.

Internet in China

In recently, the Internet in China was a hot topic talked by a lot of people. With the arrival of knowledge economy age, Internet, as a new media, has come into our life. Nowadays, getting on the line and using Internet has become popular in China, especially in some big cities. Why is Internet getting so popular in such a short time?

The popularity of Internet results forms its great utility. With Internet, it is convenient and fast for people to get a variety of information and what they need is just to press the key buttons. Email is another popular use. It can transmit your letter quickly, safely and accurately. Besides, Internet can have some other uses. Doctors may use it to diagnose and treat their patients by discussing or exchanging experiences with doctors in other parts of the world. Finally, businessmen can conduct e-commerce or E-business on the net.

With so many uses and advantages, there is no doubt that more and more people will be wired to Internet-the information expressway. In short, with its high speed and efficiency, Internet will be more popular in China in the future.

Studying and living in Vancouver (Wenan)

I consider that studying and living in Vancouver is a very useful experience in my life.

It was a mystifying experience from Beijing to Vancouver by airplane, as low hanging clouds prevented me from seeing the true colors of this city. As I made my way out of the airport, a multicultural crowd enveloped me. The city is truly worldly even in its composition. I find Canadians are very friendly. They can get along well with other countries’ people.

The second thing I learned from Canadians is that I find Canadians are full of passion. During the Olympic Games, Canadians were very happy and they held pageants in downtown Vancouver everyday. They held up Canada’s national flag and song Canada’s national anthem. They felt very happy and yelled to the passersby “Go Canada Go! Give me a five! ”

The third thing I learned from Canadians is they respect and contain other countries’ culture and try to find the good of other cultures to improve themselves. It is different with Koreans. Koreans always think good culture and the best things are all from Korea. Koreans said that all of the Asian culture came from Korea. It is very stupid!

Overall, studying in Canada is a good experience for me. I learn English from Canadians and learn their culture. It is very useful for me to live in Canada.

I like Vancouver. I like Canada. I like Canadians.

The Effects of Moving to another Country (Samar)

New life, new people and new challenges are important things. A person who wants to move to another country, who thinks in all of these things. On other hand, you should take the effects of moving to another country into consideration. There are many effects of moving permanently to another country. First of all, change your custom because it is easy way to talk with new people. For example, I come from different culture, so in my home town I cover my face. Nobody can see my face, but now I change that to cover my hair because I am in Canada and Canadian people don’t look at me as strange person. Another effects to move to another country, it change your life style. For instance, I used to wake up at 1 PM, but now I wake up at 8.30 AM. Moreover, my mother didn’t allow me to eat fast food, but now I have eaten fast food many times, so my weight has increased than before. As I believe that the person can take something new and useful wherever he\she found the benefit, but leave anything will change your culture.

Sunny to cloudy（Bonnie）

There are many funny things happened to me when I studied in my university. So my life of university is an impressive experience. I remembered clearly one thing is that I have ever been to the male’s washroom twice a day, and it became a classical joke that my roommates often told nowadays.
That was a sunny day and we just finished our final exam. On our way back to dorm, I wanted to go to the bathroom, so I entered a building alone. I was so happy that not only forgot to look at the symbol of the washroom, but also forgot that my university is a military school, and that building was only for the male soldiers’ studying. When I was about to close to the washroom, I saw one guy coming out from the left hand door, then I pushed the right hand door without any denying. The washroom was quiet that I have not even realized I was in a totally wrong place until another guy pushed the door heavily and stopped at the door. He was staring me with the surprising and curious eyes, then he said to me calmly,” this is the male’s washroom.”
“What?” I shouted. I could see that the laugh was leaking from the guy’s eyes even if he was trying to keep calm. I was so ashamed that I wanted to dig into a hole. I rushed out of the washroom and ran into the opposite door. Again, I blushed when I raised my head because I saw three guys standing in front of me with the frightened appearance. I was confused and stood there liked a sculpture. After a while, I heard someone saying,” There are no washrooms for ladies in this building.” That’s the point! I understood finally. As I went back to my dorm without any happy emotions, the weather tended to be cloudy. What a magical day!
It was an interesting and unforgettable experience for me, and since then, my roommates always talked about it as a joke.

What Inspire Me to Live For (Thanisa)

What inspire me to live for? This question is easy, but it is hard to answer. Some people have lived for love, for study, for playing games or to see a favorite series every Friday night. In my opinion, there are three things that inspire me to live for
The first thing is living for my family. The word “family” is an important word for me. My family has five people; my father, my mother, my two younger sisters and me. Although, My mother and my younger sister live in Thailand, my father and my youngest sister live in New Zealand, and I live in Canada, we are one. When one of us has a problem, other members help him or her to solve this problem. For example, I have lived in Canada for one month. I felt homesick and called my father and my mother. After that, my mother flew by plane from Thailand to Canada and lived with me for one week. I feel very lucky to born into my family
The second thing is living for success. I believe that everybody has a dream and wants to follow their dream. In my dream, I want to get a fabulous job. First, I want score 7.00 in my IELTS test. Then, I will study a master degree in Human Resource Management. After that, I will work in an international company. I know that my dream is very hard, but I think this is a challengeable goal, and I will succeed in the future
The third thing is helping other people. In our world there are many people who have problem such as crimes, drugs, or not enough food. I am a part of this world, so I should help other people to have a good quality of life. That is the reason why I choose to study Human Resource Management because I want to help co-workers in the same company to have a suitable compensation, incredible training and awesome regulations. Now, I am joining volunteer club in the English Language Institute. Even though, I am only one person and don’t have enough power to do big things, I can do small things to help other people such as cook delicious food for poor people or give toys to children.
These three things are significant things in my life. It can help me to have inspiration for a wonderful quality life. What about you? What inspire me to live for?

Different Communicates Between Male and Female（Wenan Wu）

Wenan Wu
420W—in class academic writing 2
June15th, 2010.

Different Communicates Between Male and Female（Wenan Wu）

There are many different communicates between male and female. Event thought they grow up in the some culture. We can find the difference since they are in the first, when they grow up, we can see more and more dissimilar.
First, when they are in the school, boys and girls usually play in the some-sex groups. The boys like playing in the big groups. They like to compare to each other and get more attention from them classmates. While they are playing games, they try to their best to win. They like to show how better they can do. Otherwise, the girls prefer to play in small groups, maybe just one or two best friends. They do not like to be bossy, they do many things for let their classmates like them. When they play games, they just play them for fun.
Second, different sexes use language in different ways. Male often use commands when they talk to each other. During them playing games, they like to say “You go first, don’t wait for me, I will catch you soon.” It sounds like they are leaders. When they needs help, ladies would like to say “could you open the window” or “may I ……” but males they just want people do what they say. Such as “open the door.” For me, I will feel more comfortable when lady ask me for help.
Finally, in my country most men need to work more hard women. They have liability to protect and make enough money for their families. When people have problems, men like to think how to solve them by themselves. Women usually have no ideas and they would like to ask people for help. I think men’s ability of service are more strong.
These differences seem like male and female can not live together well. Actually not, they need each other. Just like women like to listen to men and men like to order women. Why does it strange?

Five weeks in 420W class(Jordan)

Until now, I had studied in 420W class about five weeks. I studied how to brainstorm, write a outline and find main idea and some other skills for writing a essay, however, I still confuse to write a outline. I always feel sleepy in my class, may be it because of I go to bed late everyday. I am not good at manage my time. Every day I try to control myself, but my mind can not follow me, and I can not pay attention to learn in class. I hope I can kill this bad habit, because I think it is not good for me and my classmates, it also not polite for my teacher. This journal likes a self evaluation. I hope you can give me some idea about my problem, thanks.

Who Knows Your Marks? (Vanessa Bo)

A rule in my high school I really dislike most is students’ marks are ranked and posted for the whole school to know. In traditional education in China, the administrations are convinced that the students achieve a low score can be drove to learn from the ones of high score. This phenomenon has become a controversial issue in Chinese society.
It is undeniable that publicly announcement of test results has several benefits in some aspects. On one hand, students are easy to find out whether they have improvement or not. At the same time, they come to understand their weakness, and get good results in next exams. On the other hand, suffering some frustration, young people tend to be more inner-strength and more competitive.
However, the disadvantages of opening results are much more significant than the advantages. First, it only encourages few successes do excellent jobs in tests, but hurts other students have unsuccessful experiences. In addition, the high-mark students are always worried about being caught up with by their classmates. The result is everyone in class is under enormous pressure everyday. Second, on the surface, the students accept their marks to be posted publicly, but it is a severe hurt to their pride. Adolescents may be passive and lack of self-confidence when they grow up. At last, it leads to a troubled relationship between children and their parents or teachers. Most high school students regard their teachers as adversaries because their teachers announce the scores and rankings which makes them embarrassed and humiliated.
In my opinion, the value of students cannot be weighted by examination marks, because every student has different interests and talent. Parents and teachers should be their guides, counselors and friends to help them acquire knowledge of life but also academic.

Is It a Interesting or Frightening Thing? (Will)

When I saw this composition title，a lot of memories flowed. But just one thing let me feel it just like happened on yesterday. That is when I was little，I was a naughty boy. I had used to climb the tree or grasp firefly in my hometown. I’m good at having fun. So actually I had a happy childhood, but sometimes we not aware of the danger.One day, my friends bought a new refrigerator. The outer package for the refrigerator has so many polyfoam. Then I suddenly had an idea, I thought the “polyfoam boat” maybe had enough buoyancy to support us. So I wanted to make a boat by polyfoam, because the stream is near where I lived, I can took a trip with my friends by boat. After what I think, I decided to make my boat. When we finished it, I just leave a letter for my parents, I say“Don't worry about me, the stream will make my dreams come true”. I was so naive, isn't it? My best friend decided to come with me, so we went to stream together. Before We tested the boat for its buoyancy. “Will！Will ~!!”just then a familiar voice came from very far away. Who is calling my name? I turned around I saw my mother was crying and running to us. “Why she was crying?” I got another question! I thought maybe she read my letter and proud of me. Before I wanted to talk to her, “Do you know how dangerous you did that!? How can you have this crazy idea “My mom said? My mom took us to homes so we needed to stop our plan, the journey ends in this way.
After I arrived home, I have no idea why my mom did this. While I’m growing, now I finally know what dangerous thing I did. Did you also have anything happened like me in your childhood?

The Amazing Way to Express Your Thought (Samar)

Sometimes you need to talk to someone, who can listen to you, but everyone is busy with their lives. I believe that it is better to talk with your pen than to talk with people because people have limit to listen to you. However, writing is the best way to improve your knowledge, run your brain and express your feeling.
Everyone wants to be a good writer. However, if you read a lot, you will improve your writing and your knowledge. When you start thinking and using your back ground knowledge, you encouraging your brain. Even thought, you are writing by your first language or English.
Writing makes space for people to express their feeling and give them free dame to explain their opinion. On other hand, some people enjoy to write about their daily lives. I think writing is important for everyone to communicate such as people who can’t spoke. I enjoy writing my daily life to remind me every moment in my life. Now I have to learn writing by English language to achieve my goal. Writing is amazing way to talk about every thing without voice.

about movie (Phoebe Chang)

When a new movie coming, of course the movie that I am interested in, I always think about: do I need to get a DVD or go to a theatre? Actually most of people thought about this question before. And also depend on who you are going with, and what kind of movie do you choose.
I always like to watch documentary film or comedy at home with my friends. because I think it have more fun. I can eat whatever I want and I can stop the movie when I go to washroom. It makes me feel relaxing. If I go to a theatre, It must be a action or science fiction movie, because I want to feel an ambience of movie.

Theatre or DVD (Kenny)

There were many people talking about watching a movie in the theatre or watching a DVD at home? For me, I'd like went to theatre for watching a movie, especially action movies. Because I thought watching a movie in the theatre the visual effect were better than wathcing a DVD at home. At home your audio were smaller, and the screen was smaller too. Imagine, when you look at war movies, in the theatre you will feel like in that environment actually, however, if you watching DVD at home you will not feel like this. Someone said that watching a movie in the theatre was very expensive, therefore, I have done some research in the Bestbuy. The new DVD's price were between 10 to 20 dollar, the used DVD's price were cheaper just 5 dollar, but that all the old movies. So as the result, the price between watching a movie in the theatre and watching a DVD at home were same. However, there two reasons I thought watching a DVD at home was better than in the theatre, first,if you really like the movie you can watching it again and again. Second, when the movie was released in the theatre but you didn't had time to went to cinema, and when you had time the movie was finished you could bought DVD. There are some my own opinions do you agree with me ?

Similar or not（Bonnie)

Two of my friends, Xin and Yan, have the similar personalities while have big differences. We feel interesting about their similarities, but also feel surprising about their definite diversities.
They are both outgoing and short-tempered. Even though they are best friends, they have the most contradictions comparing with getting along with us. Doing the exciting things are their hobbies because they are active and can not stop playing anytime. They do not want to be controlled and do the things that attract them by following their hearts. Moreover, Xin dose not only have the short temper, but is also modest. She sustains her own opinion meanwhile she accepts other people’s suggestion. However, Yan is more willful because she only depends on her own viewpoints without anybody’s advice.
My two friends are the smart ladies and the great debaters. They are good at arguing when they try to obtain their rights. Of course, there is a difference between their arguments. Yan is a clever business man; she operates a shop selling cell phones that can make her be stronger because of her quick reaction. She persuades the people by using the intense arguments to buy her products. But Xin always argues with the person who is the leader of her company. She often feels unfair when her leader does something. That is the reason why she has quitted from five companies. In my opinion, they are so self-confident that they are not afraid of all the difficulties. They will defeat what they do not agree with.
Xin is sensitive, but Yan is more realistic. On one hand, they both love making friends, while Yan will consider that which type of friends she should get along with. However, Xin doesn’t care about these things, she just dose what she loves to do whatever how awful the situation is. On the other hand, Yan prefers to spend more time on staying with her families. On contrast, Xin would like to travel everywhere if she has time. She has travelled to Tibet lonely, but Yan does not have the brief. So Xin is more independent than Yan.
To conclude, they are both deeply impressive people because of their bright characters. But none of person could be same, they are individual.

Watching TV or Listening to the Radio (Thanisa)

In the 20-th century creator invented many different kinds of technologies. Television and the radio are two kinds of the greatest 20th century inventions. What kind of technologies do you like? In my opinion, watching television is better than listening to the radio. There are three reasons why I prefer watching television.
The first reason is that TV media can spread information widely. People can receive words and pictures quickly; moreover, it attracts more attention and replaces both newspaper and radio.
The second reason is that it helps parents taking care of their children. They can do activities with their children; in addition, it helps parents to teach children visually and verbally. The children may get a good example of better language .For example; on television they can see a picture of a cat, and a host can say that is a cat. Children can learn the word “cat” form this picture. The third reason is that you can get a lot of different information from television such as news, history, and geography
On the other hand, listening to the radio has some advantage too. Radio can help you improve your English. If you always listen to the radio, you can pick many new words, and your listening skill will get better; furthermore, radio is a cheap device. You can pay little money and get a new radio of a good quality.
Both television and the radio have some advantages. I would advise people who are good at art listening to the radio more. But for those ones who would like to learn fast use TV.

Several reasons for choosing to study an academic english langauge ( Sahar )

The most important reason that made me to decide an academic English language program to study is to complete my Master degree in one of the best Universities in Canada, so I study now in ELI at UBC this academic program which is very tough. Even though I took a University Foundation program which is helped a lot of student to improve their English language from the academic aspect, I planned to study the similar program in ELI to improve my academic English languag. Therefore, I can apply for different universities easily based on my good experience, so another reason for studying this program in ELI now that I want to improve my academic English aspect. Actually, I didn’t find any difficulties to take my dissection to study in ELI while it was very difficult decision when I was in the previous school because it was very new program in the school. On other hand, I chose an academic program to study in ELI that my husband chose this program to study in, so this is another reason for choosing an academic program to study. Eventually, I hope to get a lot of benefits from studying academic English here to upgrade my level.

Short Story ( Abdulwahab )

A one day there is famous couple of man and woman. They love each other very much. They were studying together in high school but after high school everyone has special life and far from each other. Then , after many years the man wanted to come back to marry from the woman who he loves. He called her and told her: I will come back tomorrow. Next , when he came back they met in the train station and hugged each other because everyone missed each other. After that , they went out and talked about what they did for many years a go. Then , the man asked her to marry him but she told him: I'm sorry , I'm married from two years a go and has a son. Also , she told him we are best friends but he was very sad. Then , he has gone far a way to go on in his life and to find another woman to love her and marry her.


I hope you like this story:
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Journal #1

Hi everyone!

I have just finished reading your first journal, and I enjoyed reading all of your posts. You have done a good job of this first journal- well done! I also thought you did a good job of commenting on each other's posts. I do have one suggestion - I recommend not commenting on specific grammar points. Remember that the goal is to get lots of practice with writing fluency. There is lots of time in class to focus on other aspects of writing. It is great when you ask questions of one another, as that means you have to look at your readers' questions and try to answer them, which will help you to think about and develop each piece of writing. Well, that's all for now. I hope that you have a great weekend, and I look forward to seeing you all on Monday!

Eilidh

My first bloge about my dream ( Sahar )

I hobe to get my Ph.D in a flash! Because I want to go back to my country as an important and effective person in my society, especially in my family, I plan to become a professor in Microbiology. My family is waiting for the good news which will tell them that their daughter got a Ph.D with honors. They will be incredibly happy, so my job is to keep their smiles on their faces forever.

School Uniform (Wenan Wu)

When I was in high school, I thought a lot of rules were rules. Like we couldn't change our hair color, make tattoo, smoke and so on. The most dislike is we must be required in school uniform. I thought people could choose clothes by themselves, even though we were student. I thought uniforms were too general, they can't let me special, because I hoped people could pay more attention to me. Sometimes, I broke this rule. I would wear clothes that were bought by myself to go to school. When I was in different clothes and went across the playground, classmates all looked at me. I felt so good. After that, the teacher asked me to his office, than something happen……….

From where I see now, students must be required to wear school uniform. Student is a special rule in the society. People can surprise them if they are in school uniform when they leave school. You can't go to bar, Internet bar and buy cigarette if you are in the school uniform. Like me in high school, students like dressing themselves. Every morning, they will spend many times to choose their clothes; it will influence their studies.

Nowadays, students in high school they all don't a lot of rule to limit them. But I hope they know, school make these rules is for protect them.

The most funniest thing that happed to me (Sahar)

Once a day, my husband made the most delicious burger that I have seen in all my life. It contained everything that you can find in your fridge, such as, lettuce, tomato, onion and all kind of vegetables, so I thought that it might be a new kind of burgers and sandwich’s world. Unfortunately, the main content was burning beef which was look like grilled, so this content was hidden by mayonnaise and ketchup which was very good idea. Also, he prepared nice decoration for the table; it has glasses on the table filled with fresh juice and nice dishes that it has mash potato, so everything was gorgeous and attractive. Then, I faced this meal with all my brave and I can’t forget that I was starving. Even though the all decoration and the nice looking for dishes, the beef was burned which was hidden. However, I was starving, so I kept eating, and then my husband asked me about the taste how it was. “Look, I am starving but to be honest I don’t like this burger”, I said. Then, he was laughing and I was surprised about his feeling about his cooking. “Me neither, I don’t like the taste of burger but actually I am very hungry too”, my husband said. Finally, I want everybody try my husband cooking, he is a good chief, and if anyone want to be like him just sine up in his website which is explained his funny meals.

We want more freedom. (Will)

Have to be honest to say, I very enjoying the time that I was a high school student .I made a lot of new friends and the school life was interesting. But I always angry about two things, because when we finished the classes we also need to study in school in evening and have to live in school in week days. For example, we need to do homework and review lessons in school until 10:30p.m then go back to dormitory. We don’t have much free time to do anything what we want to do. We just can have a rest in weekend, but we also have so many homework need to do.
I always think it’s very unfair. Sometimes I really want to break the rule but my parents and friends always give me comfort. Why we have a home but we can’t go back? Today, I finally understand why the school needs us to do this. The school just want us have a good study environment and want to improve us. On the one hand, they want students have no reason to explain why they didn’t finish their homework, because students need to finish the homework in classroom. On the other hand, when the students have some questions they can ask teachers at once. One day I ask my friend, what they thought about this. Their opinion are same as me, they also think it’s a good way to study. At last, I accepted this life style.
I very appreciated what my school done for us, but I also want to give some advices to them. The school shouldn’t give students too much pressure; they should like western schools just give students more freedom, let students to find out what they should to do.

I have met many kinds students in the ELI (Jordan)

I have studied in the ELI about 4weeks. I have met lots of students since I began to study here. There are lots of people from different countries, such as Korea, Saudi Arabia, Japan, China and local. They are different to me, because they have different accent when they speak English. And their face also different to me, however, Asian have similar face. One of the difference is there are many different ages people in same class. In China, I studied with coeval. Now, I study with different ages in same class that make me feel a little bit uncomfortable. I also changed my studies’ style; I am trying to learn independent learning and independent study skills.

Everyone is on the Way to Dream（Vanessa）

I meet lots of friends who are from different countries and areas at the ELI, and they have different culture and religions. I would like to describe four types of students according to their different goals for the future in this paragraph. The first category are students who are interested in studying English as a language. If they speak English with great fluency, they can communicate with others when they travel to foreign countries and make new friends. English is an international language and it plays a significant role in the world. I have a Japanese classmate who is a retired lady. She begins to learn English at the age of 50, because she has a passion for English. Next, students from other countries that want to find a job in Vancouver and then immigrate here. In their opinions, the environment here is comfortable, social welfare is good and residents are kind-hearted and hospitable. You can find some couples both study at the ELI in order to seek better quality of life in Vancouver. Another category of students are the ones who intend to find a better job and get a higher salary in their own country. It is a good opportunity for them to join an international company which will provide with a good position and excellent career advancement. Finally, perhaps the largest group are students who are planning to apply for university or graduate school in North America. In this group, Chinese students account for the largest percentage. it is difficult for Chinese to go aboard to study. Specifically, not only is the process complex but also high English marks are required to get a visa. As a member of the last group, I treasure the chance of studying abroad. The active and flexible methods the teachers use in class are helpful and useful for me to improve my English efficiently and quickly. It will fulfill my goals I am working on, and the dream I am aiming for. I am putting all my effort into my English study in order to make my dream come true. So I wish things are going to work out just the way I want it to.

The Big Challenge for me (Samar)

Sometimes you will make a difficult decision to improve your life; however that decision you made will change your life. Last year, I decided to continue my education, so I applied for king Abdullah program to take scholarship. After that, I prepared myself to go Canada, but it was a hard decision to leave my family for a long time and I have the responsibility of myself. I believe this my chance to reach my goal. Then I have to learn English. There are several reasons to learn English. First of all, I want to take master degree in medical physics in Canada. Therefore, I never find reference about my major by my first language. It is only by English. The important reason is community with international people. I wish to meet different people from many countries, so English gave me a way to talk with them. Moreover, I plan to travel around the world, and I can use my English as communication with people. Finally, I hope to find a great job in my country. It also is my dream to talk English as a second language, but it is a big challenge for me. I think English is easy way to achieve my goal.

Learning From Other (Phoebe Chang)

This is my third session study in ELI, and I already stay in Vancouver for seven months. I still remember when I just came here, I saw everything strange and I was really anxious to talk with other people. I was quiet and lonely, that’s why my speaking improved so slowly.
One day, everything seemed as usual. After my last class, I brought my backpack and prepare to go home. Accidentally, My Japanese classmate who had never talk with me at break time. She was smile and she asked me about the CA’s activity and she also invited me to join together. So after that I went to the aquarium with many people from different country.
That Japanese girl is my first friend from other country. Since I went to the aquarium with her, I became happier. She smiling all the time that make me feel worm. I know that when people get alone, they need something that keep them worm. I was learning lots of things from ELI students. Different cultures, different languages, different majors, that all of thing made me learn something without books, and I think that knowledge can get me into the University more easily.

The reason for I choosing ELI(Kenny)

Learning English in an English speaking country has many advantages. It is, therefore, a good idea to learn English in Canada or America. However, I believe it is not the only way to learn the language.To begin with, I am in non-English-speaking countries learn English in high schools or universities. Although we spoken English are not usually of a very high standard, we knowledge of grammar are often quite advanced. This is certainly useful when later we come to an English-speaking country to perfect the language.However, it is obviously advantageous to learn English in English speaking countries every day, I will have ample chance to practise listening and speaking. In addition, I also can experience the foreign culture, which greatly helps understand the language. This is especially true if we choose to live with an Canada or American family. Still, since we are taught by native speakers, our reading and writing skills will improve as well.


Topic: Explain, in a well-written paragraph, your different reasons for choosing to study English in the language program that you are in now.

Cheating On phenomenon(Elvis Li)

It is a not honor word, cheating , which attract so many people to do this. The reason why a great deal of people make a decision to risk is that cheating can help people get good grade, but it cannot need them to pay their effort.

With the development of the society, people pay increasingly attention to education. As a result, thousands of students take part in various examinations. However, some students have been found cheating on their exams. Some of them copy from each others, some took out their textbooks or reference books to copy, some copied from small pieces of paper on which they had prepared for the exam, still some used the modern communication tools such as BP, mobile phone as a way to cheat on exams.Then, what’s the effect of cheating on exam? There are three factors for this. First, it results in an unfair competition and will destroy the creativity of those bright students. Second, it will ruin the students’ self-confidence in the long run. Third, under that kind of circumstances, the students graduated from the schools will not be the one who can meet the need of the society.

However, how to stop cheating on exam? In my opinion, there are two ways we can adopt. First, a severe punishment should be put into effect to prevent students from cheating. Second, great effort should be made to make students understand what kind of person the society needs and try to improve their self-confidence.

My Experience in high school (Thanisa)

We all as students got some kind of experience in our high school. Some students disagreed with many rules. Here is one of my examples. Now, I would like to share some information about my school. My high school’s name is Saint Joseph Convent School. It is a private and Catholic school. There are three rules, which I don’t like. The First rule is that getting to school on time. My school starts at 8 a.m., but I should be there at 7.40 a.m., because you need to stand up in front of the flag and sing a Thai song everyday. One day, I was late for school because it was raining, and it was a traffic jam. My teacher made me to run around the sport stadium and recorded my name on attendance sheet.
The second rule you must wear school uniform. My school has uniforms consisting of white shirts with a blue tie, dark blue skirt and black shoes. I don’t like this uniform because I don’t like a uniform policy. You have to use a long dress and button up a collar button. I think this is a horrible policy.
The last rule is the rule I dislike the most in my school. You must have a straight and natural hair with no artificial methods, not curly hair or bob hair. If you have a straight hairstyle, you must make a ponytails hairstyle. In Grade 12, I had cut my hair in bob style. My teacher got angry. She recorded my name on her notes and ordered me to stay at home for 3 days
I think everybody disagrees with one rule or the other, but my experience was quite a bad one. It is very important to remember good things and to forget the bad ones, only turn them into something positive

Big screen and small screen(Bonnie)

Whould you like to enjoy a movie at home or in a theater? Both of them have the benefits and the drawbacks. It is difficult for people to choose between the big screen and the small screen.
Wathching a movie in a cinema can enjoy the movie better. All the theaters are established the good sound equipments that make people been in the reality of the movies. Especially for the films which are about the famous wars, immagination, and the musics. People will feel they were in the very surroundings. However, the small screen of TV in your house may not reflect the effects of the movie. In addition, you cannot enjoy the fatastic music freely because you are not allowed to turn up the volume in a quiet living community.
If you want to date with your friends, inviting them to go and see a movie in the cinema is a nice choice. The cinema is a romantic and high quality place, and it is also a situation of enjoying life. Further more, verious of new movies which are directed and acted by the well-known directors and the popular stars will only be showed in a cinema first.
But watching DVD at home also has advantages. On one hand, you can save money. The money that you spend on watching movies in the cinema can buy over ten pieces of DVD. It is a luxurious method. On the other hand, you can spend more time to stay with your family when you see the film at home. The elders will prefer to buy DVD than to go to the theaters because they understand the difficulties of earning money. Thus share a movie with your parents in the weekends is not barely a way to relax, but also a opportunity to chat with them.
When it comes to watch a movie, there will be a contradiction for people because either seeing a movie in a theater or seeing the DVD at home has the advantages and the disadvantages.

The first blog post

Hello everyone!

I hope that you are enjoying/ have enjoyed the long weekend. I am writing this on Sunday afternoon, and it has been a cloudy morning, but I am hoping to see some blue sky and sunshine this afternoon.
Thank you all for the first blog post. I enjoyed reading all of them, and have left a short comment on each of your posts. I have a couple of reminders in advance of your doing your first journal post. First, please remember that you have to comment on at least TWO posts. I will be keeping track of these comments. there should have been 22 comments, but there were only 19, and 3 of those were not signed! Secondly, when you comment, please write your name at the end of each comment, so I know who you are! Finally, I hope that you continue to make your comments meaningful, as you have done with the first post.

See you all soon!
Eilidh

My favorite person ( Abdulwahab )

His name is Abdulwahab Halabi. He was born in 1989 in AL-Khobar, Saudi Arabia. He is the youngest in his family. He likes to do many things when he has free time such as go to the gym, or sometimes go swimming, or stay at home play video games. Abdulwahab used to play soccer for the team of his city when he was 13 years old, but he stopped play soccer when he was studying in high school because the level of studying in high school was hard. Then, he decided to study and just play soccer for fun. Moreover, He likes riding horses when he has a lot of free time. Also, he likes to travel to different countries because traveling teaches him abound the other customs and tradition and gives him the experience of living abroad. After he finished high school, he worked as a cashier in a coffee shop for a few months. After that, he chose to go to Canada because there are many universities which are the best universities around the world. Now, he is in Canada studying English and after that he will apply to university. Abdulwahab wants to get a higher education and I wish him all the best in his life.

My Classmate, ABO (Thanisa)

I have a lot of friends who come from many countries. One of them comes from Libya. Here is a little story about him. His name is Abo, and he graduated with a master’s degree from his country ,with a major in statistics. He is interested in chess and poetry. In his freetime, he writes many stories. He has already started a story about love. In this story, he wrote the word “love” more than 1,000 words in many situations. Football is his favorite sport. He played football after finishing class in his university. His favorite place in Vancouver is the Rocky Mountains. Last February, he went to the Rocky Mountains with his friends. He enjoys skiing on these mountains. Now he is studying English at the English Language Institute. He studies English because he wants to improve his English language skills for admission to university in Canada. He lives on the UBC Campus. After finishing this ELI course, he will apply to do a PhD degree in Canada and get married. When he finishes his PhD degree in Vancouver, he wants to be a teacher in university.

This is My Partner Bonnie (Will)

My partner is Bao Xiaohuan and her English name is Bonnie. She was a university student in China and her major was journalism. She had a part-time job in China so she has some job experience that will help her to find a job in Vancouver easily. She is already planning her future. After she finished the ELI courses, she wants to study in UBC to get Master’s degree in journalism and she wants to work here and make a lot of money because she wants to take care of her parents better because she was awared her parents have spent a lot of money for her studying. She also thinks studying is to make lives more comfortable in the future and money is a very important thing for living well. I agree her point very much because our parents want us to get the best education and want us to have life skills to make us have a good future, so we have responsibility to look after our parents.

Myself(Wenan)

My name is Wenan Wu. I come from China. I graduated high school two year years ago. I like swimming and running. Also I like making jokes to make every one happy. Maybe sometimes it is not funny.I like summer. I often enjoy sunshine durning the summer.
Now I come to Vancouver to study. I have been here 5 months. I am studying in the ELI now. I hope I can go to UBC. It is too hard for me now, but I will work hard.

My Partner (Phoebe Chang)

There are many reasons to let a person go abroad. My partner Vanessa has the same reason as me, which is to find our dream job, and we both like school life. However, we also have lots of differences. It’s a good thing to make friends with her. She is a Chinese girl and she is the only child in her family. She has lots of hobbies. She also likes pets. She has a cat called Mimi. She has already finished her University. I hope her dream will come true. That is my partner, who is my friend Vanessa.

Phoebe, You Can Do It (Vanessa)

My partner Phoebe, who comes from China, is a quiet, sensitive and talented girl. She is good at drawing. She has already studied painting for many years. Therefore, she always prefers staying at home and drawing pictures instead of hanging out with friends in her leisure time. When she is drawing, she is enjoying herself. Drawing is beneficial for her to cultivate her temperament, as it relaxes her, releases her stress and makes her calm. She also spends her spare time watching movies and improving computer skills. At the same time, she is interested in Psychology. She is planning to get a bachelor’s degree of science in Canada. Her sensitivity and thoroughness in character contribute to her doing well in her studies. Now, she lives in Vancouver alone and she is far away from her home and family. When she feels lonely, drawing is often her company. She has to be independent and take good care of herself. It is really an invaluable experience for her to go abroad for education. With her hard work, Phoebe will be successful in getting a bachelor's degree.

A New Friend (Samar)

Jordan is in my ESL writing class this semester, and he has an interesting life. He comes from Chang Zhi, China. He lives with his parents and his brother in his hometown, but now he lives in a homestay near SFU. He always spends his free time talking with his friends, and searching for news online, so he likes to know what happening in the world. He also has a lot of friends who study at UBC. Therefore, he chose Canada to learn English and complete his major. He wants to get a great job in his country after he finishes his education. He also visited Australia when he studied in high school. I think he compared Canada and Australia. However, he wants to try a new country and a new way to learn English. This is the first time I have met someone his age who is interested in the news and journalism.

A New Friend(Yanhan)

My name is Li Yanhan. My English name is Elvis. Today I am glad to hae a conversation with my new friend who is from Korea. His Korean name is a little difficult to get the correct pronunciation in English, so I called him Peter. He lives in Seoul, the capital of Korea,Where he grew up. There are four members in his family. He loves his sister and respects his parents very much, because he thinks the family is the most important part of his life. I agree with his opinion. I think Peter is a grea language commander. He can speak chinese very well. He is almost anative speaker. The reason why he is good at Chinese is that his major is business in China.He came to Canada to study English. He wants to practice speaking and listening to improve his english skills. He need to be an advanced speaker to achieve his purpose. He is a very kind person. He thinks people should get peace for each other all over the world, and he considers the freedom which si a kind of basic rate is an important thing for him.
I am very happy to meet him and honored to make friends with him.

My partner, Samar (Jordan)

My partner's name is Samar. She comes from a nice country, Saudi Arabia. She is interested in walking and watching new movies. There are just two members in her family. Her husband and herself. She always cooks for her husband, and she likes healthy food and Chinese food. Now, Sarmar studies at the ELI, because she wants to get a higher score in the TOEFL test to complete her major in Canada. She wants to get a Master's degree from UBC. When she finishes studying in Canada, she will go back to her hometown to get a great job. This is her first time to leave her family for a long time, so she feels lonely in Vancouver, but before she came to Canada, she had been to Australia and Egypt. Anyway, I hope she can enjoy studying at the ELI. I believe she can make lots of friends at the ELI, and forget her loneliness.

I Will (Bonnie)

My partner Will is a boy who believes in the hope and the future. Will has an experience studying in Sydney, which was his unforgettable life of high school. The weather in Sydney is so nice that he just needed to wear the T-shirt all year and he loved this city. He likes the comfortable life and He thought his name means the future. In addition, the popular star Will Smith is also his favorite well-known star. He came to Vancouver because he plans to graduate from the famous university, UBC. There he can get a fabulous education in Canada and that is why he chose this city. At the same time, he believes in that graduating from UBC can not merely bring him knowledge, but also help him for doing business in the future years. Therefore, Will will do his best and will always say “I will”.

My genius friend, Peter (Kenny)

Peter, who comes from Korea, has cheerful view of his life. Do you know what a genius is? I think Peter is. He is not only good at playing guitar but also good at I-go , which is a kind of game. I have to say that he is among the most intelligent guys I have even seen. There are lots of people that are only good at one thing. Peter is 25 years old. His sister is studying at UBC campus too. His mother was coming with them together. Only his father is working in Korea alone. Another important piece of information which is missing is his girlfriend was an ELI student last semester. During studying in Canada he would like to go to other cities for traveling. I must admit he is a great guy! He is a very friendly guy. He likes animals, especially dogs. He is also a lovely guy. When he see some people are in trouble he always try his best to help them. He said if one day there no troubles in the world that would be wonderful thing.