End of Spring Semester

Okay, so our last 'in class' class is over for Spring and I will take off Summer class.
For those dedicated students who frequent the blog, I will be available for questions via blog or email and I will experiment with an online course through the blog. Jiri is going to work with me on some teaching videos. Those who would like to keep in touch with the fellow ESL bloggers please carry on. We all love to hear how you are doing and see the progress of your writing skills. Whenever I have time I will let you know what corrections you need and please bloggers help each other when you can with corrections. It all leads to better English language skills. Thanks for sharing your time and yourselves with me.
Chris

How sweet to be back to Seattle

Hello everyblogger,

How are you all doing? Yessss, I'm back to Seattle. Alex and I were traveling around with my parents who came to visit us. They stayed 4 weeks with us... We rented an RV and planed to visit the Southwest! So, our first stop was San Francisco. We all fell in love with this city. Then we saw the biggest, largest living thing in the world, that a sequoia, a giant tree. After that, we arrived to Las Vegas. This city is completely crazy. We managed to loose only 50 bucks and not to be drunk, not as many many people there. Really, that's crazy to see how people can loose their values and think that money is the best thing in the world. They spend, spend, spend until they have (almost) nothing left. Well, one night was enough. I'm happy to have seen this city, and actually, it was my second time there, but I don't feel the need to go back again.

The madness gave way to the beauty. We went to Grand canyon (it's very big), then to Monument Valley (it was like in movies) and then we left Arizona to go to Mesa Verde NP, in Colorado. We saw Native Americans' houses built in the rocks in order to protect themselves against the enemies. Gorgeous.

After that, we spend 10 days in Utah. Utah is likely the most awsome State in the US. Arches NP, Capitol Reef NP, Grand Staircase Monument, Bryce Canyon and Zion: all these parks and monuments are great. My favorite is Bryce Canyon. We went down the canyon and hikes a little bit. We hiked in Zion, too, and the vultures (kind of big eagle) were flying above us. Obviously, we didn't die and they didn't have a nice dinner...

We also spent one hour in Salt Lake City. Here again, we can use a superlative: the saddest city in the world. Downtown was gloomy, we barely saw one guy walking in the streets and it was impossible to drink a beer, a glass of wine, even a coffee. It's banned by the Mormons. There was no reason to stay there, so we pursued towards Grand Teton and Yellowstone NP. Great idea. In Yellowstone, we admired not only the geysers, but also the wildlife. We saw a young grizzli bear, some white pelicans, a wolf, a coyote, tons of buffalos, some elks, a marmott, even two snakes! I can say that our trip was successful!

And what about you? What happened in your life during this time? plenty of good events is that right? I hope to see you soon,

Stephanie

PS: Chris and Jiri, I posted a comment for you on Jiri's hockey writing (do you see what I mean?)
Well,

Experimental music concert

Dear friends,

I am sending this email to invite you to our next concert the next Friday at 8 PM. Is gone be a pefect concert to go after or before adrink-dinner with friends, I am sure that you will have a lot of things to comment after to attend the concert.

The concert has been prepared with the intention to offer a travel into differents styles of contemporary music by our assimilation.

I hope to see you there. To see the place, please go to the site

http://duojuum.net/node/26

Cheers

Gaby

Hockey

Czechoslovakian National Team beat Russians in a final game of The World Championship in Ice Hockey in 1972. Games with Russia hasn't been just about sport for years. We won a tournament and all nations became to celebrated a great victory. In my family my father and his friends celebrated also my birth. They said he has to play a ice hockey.
Yep, my lifetime sport number one is hockey. I started to played hockey when I was 6 years old. I trained three time of week with my town team and we played a game against another hockey club during weekend. This had become my schedule for maybe ten years, until I quited. Since that, I played occasionally with my friends. I had also joined Town Pub League for three years before I left to USA.

The power of the intention

The power of the intention is a new tool in creation realities that has been used for many people today. It can be reached by anyone and is so easy. Nobody need a special and expensive material or resources for do it, because everything is in your thoughs and inside your mind are all your answers. This technique can modify your reality which means your health, career, your world etc.


How can people control their way of thinking? Muhammad Ali spent much of his training time learning how to be the best boxer in the ring also he learned how to make the fight in his head. He used the focused intention and developed a set of mental skills such as affirmation; visualization; mental rehearsal; self-confirmation; and perhaps the most powerful though in his life “I am the greatest.”
Like as Ali with mental intentions you can do wherever you want, first you have to choose your goal and used mental pictures of it to create a new reality, second it is really important to practice your visualizations regularly. Finally, when you visualize in your mind’s eye something that having already occurred, you are creating your new future. Some people prefer to focus their goals when they are in a state of concentrated focus and can see them as a mental picture, imaging the details and feeling how they would be living that moment.


If people can change their realities in consequence human intentions might be powerful enough to affect and change our surranding However people might have the responsibility when are generating their thoughts because they can change others people lives.






Marianna, This is really good, please continue with it. Chris

Movie from a library

During my last weekend I saw a movie "The Usual Suspect". The movie is from 1995. Kevin Spacey, who stars in the movie, has got an Oscar award as best supporting actor. The movie is about corruptions in the NYPD and a Hungarian gang in California. I especially like the final part of the movie, when a police inspector had some inkling and figured out, who he just talked to and let go. My rating is three and half stars.
I borrowed that movie from Seattle Public Library. I like that institution a lot. They lend a free movie for two weeks. I usually find a movie which I want to watch on a library catalog, put it on hold and next I wait until the order arrives. A good system! I have been waiting for that movie for three months, but we say in Czech- Kdo si pocka, ten se docka- Who has waited, he has got it.
Jiri

firts post

I'am carlos noriega . born in mexico city 0n 1963. en mexico endig the high school , after estudi tree years on the coleguio de bachilleres and gradued, afteer maqued a test for enter the univercidad autonoma de mexico on the eschool of architectur. for tree years....after that becoming to literal surce.