A story from Greece

Dear Persephone,

  My love, my queen, I miss you so much that I do not know how to express. I believe in my heart and soul that we were meant to be with one another. I think about you everyday and night. When I am with you, you light up my life. You are the best thing that has ever happened to me and I wish up on a star for you to return back by my side. The love that I hold for you in my soul is greater than an ocean or the sky above. I love you, and I always will until the day that I die. Hopefully, when that day comes, I will still have you by my side and you will be the last angel face that I see. I will be able to hold you in my arms one last time, and tell you how much I love you and how much you really mean to me. I love you!

Your Hades

A different way of life

A different way of life

 The Amish are a religious community who live in United States of America.  We say that they are different because they do not want any link with technology. Some of them are more radicals than others but most of them do not use the phone, the electricity or even cars as shown in the text « These old order groups do not own or operate automobiles ».  They prefer using horses or buggies because they believe it can keep them from being close to God. I do not really agree with the fact that they follow every single thing written in the Bible. To me, it means that they do not have their own opinions and it is like they were following something without trying to understand that they should evolute with technologies. However I find very touchy and sweet the fact that they love their family that they all work together and help each other. If we have a look at our world, we will rarely see this kind of behavior especially with foreigners or neighbors we are not familiar with.

The thing I found the most interesting and the scariest at the same time is the fact that they live without any technology. In my mind it is something impossible, but surely because I have grown with all these new things coming up every year, every month. I guess they do not go outside their village so they may not realize how our world grows but it is quite intriguing to see that some people are still capable to live in these conditions. They are able to live without a car with is the most important thing to me, I cannot go anywhere without using it, but if I deeply think about my life it is true that it would be better for me to walk or maybe use horses instead. 

As we can see in the video, a group of people, probably an Amish from another area of the town attacked another Amish community. This group decided to cut hair and beards off of some men and women which is a symbol for the community. They usually grow the beard once they get married and the women must leave the hair growing. No reason has been mentioned for this attack but it is quite cruel. However a man had been arrested but as he has denied any involvement in the attack, he was released.

  

What's wrong with our education system?

1. Katherine Birbalsingh believes that there is a problem with UK's education system. Can you identify it within the first three minutes of the video? What is the problem?

Yes, I can. According to Katherine, the education system in Britain is broken and the students have formed a excuse culture. It's not only the responsibility of the teachers or the children. But what I got from the first three minutes of the video is only one of the aspects which exist in UK's education system.

2. Why does this problem exist according to this teacher? (from 3 min to 4 min 26 sec)

The country forget to give the freedom to teachers because of the criticize system. Though the majority of the public have realised or understood what the teacher, the teachers still feel unfair and not be respected by the public.

3. What do the government ministers think about this problem? Who is to blame for the condition? (from 4 min 30 till about 6 min)

He strongly agreed with what Katherine said. However, he also stated that the government did try their best to support the education. The ministers thinks the teachers play a big roal in this issue.

4. Which suggestions does Katherine make to improve the system? (6-7 min)

The teachers should be responsible themselves. Give freedom to teacher and the people should trust our teachers more.

5. Which changes would Katherine make in the education system if she were given a choice? (till the end of the video)

The first thing is to impower teachers and headteachers to be able to do what necessary bring about the discipline in their schools. The second thing is to give freedom to the teachers and trust them more to get rid of the complain culture. And then is to improve the quality of the exams.

China’s education system

As a Chinese student, that’s enough to have an opinion with the problem of the education system of my country, (specifically high schools)

- Too many students in one classe

- Classe division according to overall, as opposed to subject-specific, test scores

- Overworked students, no time for anything but studying

- Overly high emphasis on memorization

According to me, It's necessary to improve the discipline in high schools.

The bad word that starts with an E

Mr Bean writing an exam

At the beginning of the sketch, we can see that Mr Bean is in a good mood and childish as always. Indeed, Mr Bean starts mocking his partner because he thinks that the latter didn't do the proper revisions, then they challenged each others to see who has the most pen in their pockets. In this ludicrous challenge, Mr Bean turns out victorious thanks to his ton of pen, an alarm clock, a pink panther and a plush.

But the taste of victory doens't taste long, as the teacher told the students to open the envelope which contains their examination papers. While opening the envelope Mr Bean seemed confident, but as he was reading the paper his face started to distort, going from confidence to fear and anxiety, because he realized that there was only one subject, and that he knew nothing.Desperate and seeing that his partner seemed to know what to write, Mr Bean intended to have a peek at his partner's sheet. He first tricks his partner by making him look away, which grants Mr Bean enough time to look at the sheet. However this sheet was a failure, and his partner threw it away. But Mr Bean didn't give up. He then tried to slither next to his partner to get a glimpse of the sheet, but once he was noticed, he slithered bac to his place. Aware of his intention, the partner turned over a sheet he completed in order Mr Bean not to have a look at it. Plus, he put his elbow on it, preventing Mr Bean from seeing anything. Nevertheless, the latter is not done yet. He layed down his head on the desk and start blewing, making the sheet getting off the table. This trick allowed him to see once again what his partner wrote. Mr Bean's breathe finally disturbed his partner, which gave him a short window to take the sheet et copy it. But he was soon discovered one more time, and his partner then put his sheet on the other side of the desk, but Mr Bean still have something up his sleeves : He let a pen fell on the ground, and while retrieving it, he sneaked to the other side of the desk to peek on the sheet. Once detected, he pretended only to be picking up his pen, and while getting back to his place he looked again at the sheet. As he ran out of ideas, Mr Bean began crying.

At the end of the examination, the teacher revealed that there were in fact two subject in the enveloppe. Mr Bean didn't know that and mastered the other subject. Because time was running out, he started to panic and writing as much as he could. But it was already too late.

Me and my exam !
I'm always under stress before an exam even if I study a lot! But once the exam starts, it gets better. I have a habit of chewing gum to relax. Usually, I'm pretty quiet but if a question is too difficult I begin to worry, and if several questions are too hard, I freak out and I can't manage to do anything, until I regain my composure. Then I try to do my best to pass the examination. When comes the time to hand in the exam sheet to the teacher, I feel a little depressed because I think that I wasn't successful at all.

Introduction

Hello everyone! I am a chinese girl, my name is Han Zhou, I'm 23 years old.  I was born in Hunan.  As my major in China is french, I chose France to continue my studies, that's why I am here. There are four members in my family, my parents , my brother and I.
Generally speaking, I have a cheerful personality and on top of that I am a hard worker.  Since I especially do the thing I am interested in, I don't have any trouble to focus on what I do. I like to chat with my classmates, almost about everything. My hobbies are basketball, cooking asian dishes, swimming and surf the Internet. Through college life, I learn how to balance between study and entertainment.