It is My NEW Post, please don't read it!!

My post at this time, ofcorse has no meaning, I am almost sure that no one will view it, even no one will feel its presence.
Well, I have no problem to put that post even it has no meaning ( ofcorse it has a meaning to me).

I am feeling very tired , of being away from home, I feel that am wasting my time away from my family, I miss the target of my presence here.

I don't have any target of writing that post, except I feel that I am fully charged with various feelings& all of that feeling are from the type which disturbs any normal person.

Some times I am feeling lost, am in a place which no one is knowing exactly who I am, I don't have any memories with the places & persons around me, every face I meet is totally new to me, in the beginning it was amazing, but now came to be very boring.

After all of the new people I met & staring in each face to try to relate it to one of my memories, I found that I am almost going to forget my self, my person& personality, I feel no presence for me even, same as you are watching a very exciting movie, you live with the events& scenes, but you never be one of the movie characters.
Actually I was trying to convince my self, that I can make my own memories, friends, society, but seems that I failed& all the relationships came to be a big fake, why it came like that ?? what is the problem I had ??

The problem that all the faces UI met were not real, all the people out of their home are wearing false musk, I was wondering I feel I am different, unique some times& I discovered that I am the only one who is walking in the streets with his real face, no musk.

Masks that I met were two types; a mask which is a copy of the real face & the other one was a musk with various shapes different from the true face.

let's blog

Dear friends,

How are you? I am not sure whether anybody is still reading the blog.

Anyway, I've decided to share a few thoughts with you. I've printed the whole blog out, it's more than 100 pages (can you believe it) and have been reading and re-reading our posts and comments.

I can't explain how many memories and smiles they brought back to me. I really hope that we will return to this space again.

Perhaps we can discuss some guidelines on how to manage the space better, some basic rules, all the rest is open to a dialogue and negotiation.

So, what are you doing?

Warm regards,
ralitza

to free pharaoh

Hi Ashraf,

Sadly, I realised today that you have deleted all your posts. Why did you do that? I really don't inderstand?

Your posts made our blog different. Please,can't you resend them, or are they forever lost?

You know I am writing my dissertation, which is based on my experience of the class blog. Do you mind if I interview you or I can post the questions on the blog for you to answer them?

I can't make sense why so many emotional decisions were taken regarding the blog.

Can I ask the students who are still reading the blog to write and tell me how they feel about the blog now, a month after the end of the course.

Warm regards,
ralitza

something left from the week

Hi,

These are some of the questions we asked on Wednesday. Can I ask the students who haven't posted their answers to do so? It will help me plan my next blog with students better.

In the meantine, we'll keep this blog as long as we want to keep it and find it useful. We might have to agree, though, on how to go about it in the future. By answering those questions, I hope we'll be able to evaluate the experience and decide on the way ahead.

Evaluation of the experience

1. How would you describe your first blogging experience now after 8 weeks of blogging?

2. Did you find it useful? Why/Why not?

3. List some of the benefits of blogging for you.

4. What might be a reason for the lack of participation on the part of some students?

5. Did the blog manage to address your specific student`s needs?

6. Do you think blogging should be intergrated in the language classroom? Why/Why not?

7. How do you see the role of the blogging teacher. How can she/he encourage students to write?

8. What suggestions for the future use of students' blogs would you like to make?

Regards,
ralitza

a message on the BC intranet

Hi everyone,

Thank you for going along with me and showing involvement and commitment to our blog.

It was an extremely enriching experience for me as well. I hope it has showed us the way ahead.

And ....

This is a message that I just read encouraging teachers at the British Council to invite students to check out the podcasts on the British council website.

The message reads:

Are your students having a break from English classes this summer? Suggest that they practise their English in a fun way with LearnEnglish Podcasts - they can listen on their computer, or download them to their mp3 players. They're free, and there's something for everyone - from kids to adults and from elementary to advanced level learners. New materials will be published each week.

You and your learners can find LearnEnglish podcasts at:

http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-podcasts.htm

The following podcasts are available:

LearnEnglish Elementary Podcasts are magazine-style programmes for learners at Elementary level. Each programme has got many activities that your learners can do on their computer while they listen, or print out and do when they want. Each programme is accompanied by many hours of support materials that can be printed off or done online.

LearnEnglish Stories and Poems Podcasts are for learners at Intermediate to Advanced level and contain stories by our resident writer, Chris Rose. All stories are accompanied by support materials that can be printed off or done online.

LearnEnglish Themes Podcasts are for learners at Intermediate to Advanced level. There is a recorded article which is accompanied by support materials that can be printed off or done online. There are also links to many other activities on the same theme.

LearnEnglish Professionals Podcasts are for learners at Intermediate to Advanced level and cover a wide range of topics of interest to the business person or professional. Our weekly podcasts are accompanied by an audioscript which includes a comprehension activity and often tie in with the magazine articles on our site.

Enjoy the podcasts and enjoy your summer!

Warm regards,

Ralitza

evaluation

Hi everyone,

This is our final week. I’d like to invite you to reflect on the whole experience of blogging and decide on whether you'd like to continue with the blog or not. There are three tasks for you to do this lesson:

1. Do the surveys. The questions are: Do you want to continue with the blog? Do you want us to open the blog to a wider audience?

2. Do the evaluation questionnaire.

3. Read how the other students have answered the same questions and comment on their answers.

Here is the EVALUATION QUESTIONNAIRE.

A) Reflection on your posts and participation on the blog.

Look back at your posts and write a short paragraph evaluating the quality and regularity of your writing. Consider the following ideas:

original idea (no copy paste from internet resources)
target reader (how easy to read and of interest your post might be for your reader)
organisation and paragraphs
range of vocabulary and grammar
spelling, puntuation
use of enhancement: pictures, videos
regular posts of average length

What do you need to work more on?

You can use the scale from 1 to 10 ( 1- very poor, 10- excellent)


B) Evaluation of the experience

1. How would you describe your first blogging experience now after 8 weeks of blogging?

2. Did you find it useful? Why/Why not?

3. List some of the benefits of blogging for you.

4. What might be a reason for the lack of participation on the part of some students?

5. Did the blog manage to address your specific student`s needs?

6. Do you think blogging should be intergrated in the language classroom? Why/Why not?

7. How do you see the role of the blogging teacher. How can she/he encourage students to write?

8. What suggestions for the future use of students' blogs would you like to make?

Thank you.

Regards,
ralitza

oO Japanese Culture Oo

Each country has diffrent culture and taditinion from one to a nother, so because I like Japanese language I would like to Know more and more a bout "Japan"..

JAPANESE LANGUAGE…

Japanese Language: Japanese (nihongo) is spoken in Japan, and essentially nowhere else. The Japanese language is distinct from Chinese and Korean, although the written form uses Chinese (kanji) characters, and is not known to be related to any other language.


JAPANESE FASHION…

The modern and traditional styles of Japanese fashion including Japanese street fashion, (Tokyo), Kogal and traditional Japanese fashion (kimono).


Japanese Food…

The Japanese cuisine offers a great variety of dishes and regional specialties. Some of the most popular Japanese and Japanized dishes are :
•Rice Dishes
•Seafood Dishes
•Noodle Dishes
•Soya Bean Dishes
•Nabe Dishes
•Yoshoku Dishes