The Feast of The Sacrifice...

Every year we, Muslims, celebrate a feast which dates back to the period of Abraham prophet. Muslims believe that Abraham prophet had a son whose name was İsmail and Abraham had to sacrifice his son to God. While he was doing the sacrifice process, his son, to be killed ''sacrifice'' turn into an animal and from that day Muslims have had sacrifice feast and have been making sacrifices to the God. And after killing the animal they hand out the meats of the animal to those who are in need of meat according to Islamic rules. I think it is a good thing because we learn to share our belongings with the others. and it strengthens our relationships with one another. but in our country while killing the animals for sacrifices, people are so crucial to animals and make them run away because anımals are afraid of being killed and they run away. so very interesting scenes appear every year. we see them in the news and sometimes some of them can be comic. because people in our country don't know how to behave against the animal while the animal run away. I think people who will have an animal to kill it must be knowledgable to fulfill the ''task'' properly and with the least hurt which will be suffer by animal...

ISSIZ ADAM :)

Last thursday, we, me, mert, şerafettin, nihan ,elif, hande (demirel), mesude, sümeyye and betül, decided to go to cinema in cepa- a mall opposite of METU- but we had to come back by 15.40 because we had trkish lesson and had to participate in it unless we would have non-attendance and would fail from non-attendance for serafettin it was too important 'cos it was his last chance to attend the class and for me and mert it was important 'cos we will go to our hometowns at coing thursday and wont ba able to attned the class so it will be a right not to attend the class. So we had to attend the class. Well we went to cepa by Mert's car and all of us ,9 person!!! Serafettin was in the boot of the car:) and betul and hande were on my,nihan's and elif's legs, mesude and sumeyye, Mert was driving the car. after ariiving (thank god for not having an accident) we had to decide the film which we would go. Firstly we said ''Osmanlı Cumhuriyeti'' but Mert said '' I watched all the films on view except ''Issız Adam'' and also I wanted to watch Issız Adam because it is said it is a good and moving film which I needed to. In the end we bought the tickets for 9 person thanks to ''gnctrkcll'' then we ate something before film 'cos we were hungry. after eating, we went to a market to get something to drink in the film then time of the film came and we had to run it was the first running of the day. We entered in the cinema palace and seated our seats. then film started it was good for me and soundtrack is also good and I cried in the end of film and I threw myself out and then sümeyye came and I hugged her and continued to cry then Serafettin came and said '' Time of crying is not now! after you fail the course of turkish you can cry!!!!'' and then I started to laugh and Mert said ''Hurry up!'' and then we started to run again to catch the class and again we seated in the car as we came and went to school. And while hurriyn up for cathcing the lesson we were thinking about a lie to say the instructor but we couldn't find anything to say. And I said '' we will say only ''sorry'' to hşm and seat uor places ok?'' they said ''ok'' and we interrupted the lesson and sat and the instructor continued to his lesson and I was breathless because that emotion intensity mixed me. Blues, homuor, fair and hurrying up were too much to catch in a day! But film was good, friends were soo good and so the day was so so enjoyable and good!! I thank all of my friends that made me be happy that day :) :)

the most elastic creature in sea...

the octopuses.... when this word is said, you think it is and eight armed animal but it has some interesting features...they are the most elastic creature living in the sea. they are so elastic that they can get through a hole of two cms because they have no bone or spine in their body. so they can pucker in so small sizes.But unfortunately these animals' lifespans are so short. The reason of this situation is that they don't take nourishment for a long time after they mate. Male octopuses die in a short time, but females die after they spawn. This feaure enables them tohave some abilities. one of them is to learn quickly. because of having short life expectancy, parents can't teach their baby octopuses to do things so babies have to learn some behaviours on their own. According to their body size, they are strong animals and can do some interesting things. the stories of octopuses getting out of aquarium to go to bathtub or getting into fishers' vessels to eat something are widespread. And also it is proved that they have both long-term memory and short-term memory. In additon, one type of octopuses has an interesting feature. It can imitate shapes of so many animals easily!!! it is so that they can exactly copy the movements of animals which they imitate. It can copy lion fish, eel, tongue fish ... and so on. As you can understand for doing tihs imitaion it is necessary to have intelligence and so they are intelligent animals!

work and travel!!

what is ''work and travel''? It is an cultural exchange program which is under the control of USA government and which enables students around the world to come to USA for improving their english by working and also enables them to learn about different cultures and societies. With the help of this program you can live in USA not like a tourist but like a person from USA and also with a little money you can come back your country. It is the dictionary meaning of ''work and travel''. I think it is a beneficial program because you work there and you can see what is happening in daily life, how it is diificult to make money and also you can learn daily language, slang, some informal usages of english not only we were taught in our schools! ( for example; this is a book:)) By the way, you go there for improving your english but at the same time you learn some tricks, experiences about working life and when you come back your country, you have some stuffs about business world when necessary to talk about. In addition, you learn not only about American culture but also different cultures because in this program there student from all around the world and you will met them and learn something about their cultures or countries and you can have the opportunity to introduce your culture to these students. I think you can also feel the excellence of being on your own feet and live on yourself. So after thinking so many good features about this program why are we waiting? I hope I will attend it!! ( but of course if my mum let me goo...)

I am so glad to be his :)

From looking at title you can think what it is? but it has a story. Well, I was going to write about another topic but I asked our instructor, Mr. Sakayoglu, '' what can I write to blog this week'' and he said '' you can write about Vandalism'' I know what Vandalism means but I need to research about it and in the middle of night I was so tired and couldn't find the strength to do that job and I asked again instructor ''I can't write about it now is there anything else I can write about?'' he said '' you can write a writing which starts with '' I am so glad to be his'' ( By the way, on my msn nick it is written that I'm so glad to be his:)) he gave me an idea about what to write. So I decided to write about my love:) and didn't want to break my instructor!

Well I don't know where and how I can start. Maybe it would be to start from beginning. I don't wanna bother you by telling every detail about our relationship 'cos it is too complicated. But I can say that it started with his seeing me -as he always says ''love at first sight''- he loves me for two years. We first met in our language course. The days when we were together were so nice. He always made me laugh. He is an interesting person. Sometimes he can be so humorous sometimes can be so emotional like a child ( but never romantic :p) I am learning anything different about him day by day. Like us, he is studying foreign languages department but in Akdeniz University and so he is in Antalya now:( Missing sometimes is too difficult to put up with but there is nothing to do. Because it is our choice to go these unis and we knew we would separate one day. Anyway despite these distances, to be his beloved is so excellent. Because I can say he could do everything for me and in summer, one day he called me and said '' honey I have a surprise for you!'' I said '' what is it?'' he said '' on my right arm your name is written!!!'' I was shocked because he tattooed my name which is permanent. So I know how much he loves me and I love him too. Thank god, he is mine and I am his...........

my first love:)

Leonardo Di Caprio is my first love. I saw him first like many girls in the film '' Titanic'' and it was love at first sight. Maybe you can think how ridicolous it is but it was a real love because when I was 15 I thought only about him and all the time I was collecting his pictures, his poster and I was following magazines to get news about him. He is so cute and handsome for me.I think there were nearly a hunderd photos and posters of him in my files. I was so much in love that I put his photos in files and arrange them all the time. One day I hung his all poster on the wall near my bed and my mum came and looked at them surprisedly and only said '' you have to put them down!'' I was shocked because I hanged them in such a happy mood that I was depressed but I put them down and put in files again. In my class my friends knew how I loved him and they gave me some pictures of him or news about him which they cut from newspapers or magazines. I was trying to watch his all films. Even I wrote my names as '' Helin Di Caprio'' and also my msn account is ''fan of LEO'' But after I fell in love in a boy around me really, my love of Leonardo started to reduce but when I see something about him, I still get excited and wanna know what it is. Even when I was writing this writing and looked at his pictures, I felt something inside me like seeing an old friend of mine. Because it is said that first loves are never forgotten!!!

ADOLESCENCE...

Adolescence… one of the hardest problems of these days. Well it is not a psychological problem but it is a period of transition. It is so important for teenagers. Because in this period they start to grow, they have some changes in their body, their physical apperance becomes important for them and also they start to rebel against their family and the rules that they have to obey. They may be affected so deeply so in this period their parents must be more considerate against them.In addition, they wanna make their own choices about their future. Well you can think it is their right to give them the chance to choose their future but you mustn’t forget that they are not adults but not children,too. You can give them freedom but not completely, you should balance it. not too strict and not very relaxed. because they are in a period and can’t decide properly. For example they can decide a vocation and they can regret it after years pass. So you must take the control.In my family adolescence was not a big problem for me because for my mum I was not a” problematic child”. And she was always considerate to me and for my emotional development and for my school and lessons she could do everything. Because I was already a wounded child and she tried to everything for me and my brother. So it was not difficult for me to pass that period.To develop a positive relationship in this period of child, parents and children must respectful to each other. They can create a positive environment by doing this. For example; if a teenager wanna do something, he/ she must share it with his/her parents. Because it can be dangerous for him/her. It is a sign of respect. And also a parent can say reasons why she/ or he bans something and must try to explain the reasons that she/ he gives.Of course, there is a generation gap between me and ny mum. because she is 44 and I am 18. Sometimes we can’t agree on some issues. For example my pants! well you may not believe but it is true while I and my mum go to the shop, we nearly argue ‘cos she doesn’t want me to wear low-waisted pants and I like wearing them!!!!! apart from this we can!t agree on something generally unimportant!And to brigde this gap I sometimes do what she wants. Especially I do this not to argue with her because she is all my life and I don’t wanna upset her.Well like every child the gap affects me. but it affects me sometimes in a bad way. The gap between me and my mum originates from her being a little big old while comparing with me. Because she has lived in different ideas in her mind so far and my ideas are different from hers. And so we can’t agree. So sometimes I think it can be painful to me accept her ideas and it can be bad….

The first African American president!

Nowadays, he is the most spoken man around the world. Barrack Obama, the first negro president of America, is eventually the president after a looong election campaign. His being an candidate was very polemical 'cos this was the first time one negro was an candidate for presidency. Well, because nearly all of you know what's happening about him politically, I wanna talk about his other side.

Who is he? Obama was born on August 4th 1961 in Hawaii. He was raised by his mum and grandparents. Because his parents met when they were students. But his father eventually returned to his hometown and so Obama grew up with his mum in Hawaii and for a few years in Indonesia. His family didn't have much money but they taught him values from the Kansas where they grew up. He took out loans to put him through to school. As an adult, he admitted that he used marijuana, cocain, alcohol which he described as his greatest moral failure. he is a graduate of Colombia University and Harvard Law School where he was the first African American to serve as president of the Hard Law Rewiew. He also taught constitutional law at the university of Chicago Law School. he met his wife, Michelle Robinson, in 1989 and she firstly didn't accept his offer of dating but then they got married in 1992. The copule's first baby, Malia Ann, was born in 1998 and the second one , Natasha (Sasha), was born in 2001. So far he has done so many good things and worked so much to do this. But above all his accomplishments and experiences , he is most proud and grateful for his family.. His wife, Michelle, and his two daughters, Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7, live on Chicago's South Side.

smiles in life... (photo description-2)

The environment is as bad as the environment you can think. There is a barrack which is about to fall down and in it there are negro children. you can guess where it is. Maybe an undeveloped country, an area after a naturel disaster or a battle field... Everything is broken and dispersed around. The barrack the children are in is made up of some broken woods and is as big as including just five or six children. We can only see childrens' smiling faces.In the children's eyes you can see the hope, curiosity amd maybe happiness as if they are in a funfair but unfortunately they are not. Although they are in a terrible situation and there are awful things around them, they can smile. You can see how hard they live but they are smiling. They are smiling 'cos they have their photos taken. Children must be something like that. only having a photo taken can make them happy. And I think this is the one of most moving things in life '' a innocent child's smile''.........

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Just think... One of the most lovely animals of the world and the most innocent creature of the world... a dolphine and a small child.. They are in blue water. The child is wearing a black short and a scuba mask. The dolphine is a little bit huge while comparing with the child. The child tries to hug the dolphine with his little arms and kisses the dolphine from the lips. The dolphine is pleased 'cos a human being loves it and the child is happy 'cos he thinks dolphine is his friend and not afraid of him... And there must be a strong friendship between them and also we can know they love each other...