Book of Memories

All the live is book of memories. We remember what happened to us in the past. Some of these memories are good and some of them are bad. We remember the good part of our live and the bad. It is good things for us to remember who you love. Memories are related to many things. For me I have memories that remind me for many people. First, usually when I think about the graduate I remember my father. When I graduated from high school my father bought to me new car. When I ask him I want to by for you gift he told me my gift is your graduate. So usually when I think about graduate I remember my father. Also, some song when I heard it I remember my cousin. There is a specific song that he likes it. Usually when I go with him in his car he play this son. So when I listened to this music I remember him. There is some words when I heard it I remember my friends his name is Ahmed. He is funny guy and he usually said if I argue with him “please don’t touch”. So when I heard these words I laugh. The bad memories for me is that some one call me in the midnight because I remember when my brother call me and told me about my uncle when he died. So I heat the midnight calls because it was a bad memories for me. Memories live with us to remember the people who we love them.

ABHA

F. E # 7
You want to spend beautiful vacation in a very nice place. You should go to Abha. Abha is the best city in my country to have a vacation. This city is in the south of Saudi Arabia. People from many countries come to spend their vacation in this city. Abha is famous for its nice weather and the natural places that it has. I like to spend my vacation in Saudi Arabia in this city. It has many mountains and very good sightseeing places. There is a famous park there called Alsouda. This park is very good for camping and barbequing. This city is a green city and the weather is very nice in the summer, so people from all the counties like to go there and people from the proximate countries. What is not good about this city is it too expensive in the summer. The prices of the hotels jump too high, because of there are a lot of people coming and it is difficult to find a room in the summer. Finally, Abha is very good city to spend your vacation and relax after a year of working.

winter sports

As we know it is difficult to play outside in the winter, so people find indoors is the best way to keep practicing their sports. For me I like to play soccer, but now with winter I cannot do that anymore outside, so my friends and me like to play indoors. We join together in the Rec Center and play indoor soccer. It is not nice like outdoors, but still we can play our favorite sport. The problem with indoor sport is that not many people can play, because we do not have enough space. So, we divide the players into many teams to let everyone play. We play a match for ten minites and if no one wins both teams play penalties to see who is the winner to continue playing with a new team, so that is fun for us and we enjoy playing with these roles. Also, the Rec Center has a tournament for indoor soccer, so we have many teams playing in this tournament and having fun. Indoor is good in winter to us and to other people who like other sports; everyone can enjoy playing his favorite sport without worrying about the weather.

Time to Relax

People need some times to have free time to themselves, specially if they have problems or stress. Free time is good to think about what you did and what you want to do in future. Free time give you wider space to think about your problem from many different area. I like some times to sit alone and think about myself what I have and what I need. In this time I do not like to talk to nay body. I like to be alone. Some times I like to drive my car and go at any direction and drive and go until I relax and be in good mood then I came back. Some time I listen to music. And some time I wrote the problem that I think about it in paper after I finished writing I burn the paper and I feel great. I need some times free time to think about myself and rethink what I did in the past and what I should to do in future. Some times when I thought in the past, I blame myself and I wish I did not do that, but what in the past is staying in the past. I take lesson from that and look to the future. This way helps me to Reevaluate myself and this what I need to improve myself.

Election

Fluency Exercise # 5

Do you want to know the meaning of democracy? Look at the American election; it is the true meaning of democracy that we saw it yesterday. The nation voice decided who will be the president of the country. People from all races have the same freedom to vote for whomever they want. What I like about the American election is how a person with no sources or power can run for president of the United States of America and work hard to get his dream and do it. It was not only his dream; it was a dream of all African Americans and Martin Luther King. Last night was a night that will not be forgotten from the history of the United States of America and the world. All people from many countries around the world looked to the American election because he will be the president of the most powerful country in the world. People need the change and that is what Obama promised, so that is what makes the election so important for all people. The election was hard for both candidates, and they did a good job to convince people about their ideas. But finally Obama won, and we are looking and hoping to see the change that he promised to do.

My Dream

Anna 4
Every person in this live has dream and this dream is depend on what he likes and what he prefers. This dream may change with the time because of some reasons affect it and let it impassible. when I was a child, I have a dream to be doctor. This dream change with the time because I did not get a good grade in the high school. I was so Frustrating with my high school grade. I did not get high grade in high school because I was sick in that time. That affects my grade and I could not to do better than that. So, I start to looking about some thing related to the medicine. I decided to go the medical hospital management because it was close from my dream. I accepted in this major, but I was not satisfy on myself. I studied hard and I get good grade. I worked with hospital before I graduate from my college because I was doing my internship with them, so they decided to hire me before my graduate. I worked in hospital and with doctors, but it was hard to me because I want to be a doctor and I could not. I accepted that and I looked to the future. I know that will not help me if I stayed to look to the doctor and Blame myself. So I decided to continue my study to get bachelor and master in my major. I worked hard to get this scholarship. I get it and now I'm in the first step to reach my dream. I will work hard to let my dream to be truth. I do not know the meaning of fear because if I want to do some thing I will do it without having any kind of fear.

Haloween

Anna 3
in may country, we have two holiday in the year. one is after Ramadan, we selabrate after finishing ramadan. the other one is called eid alhej. these holiday is not similar to Haloween.we do not have a holiday concern about dead. we remerber the dead people by visit the Graves. this week i went dress like gangster and i have fun with my friends. we do a party and we had a lot of fun.it was nice weekend we just dressed up and have fun.

Endangered Animals

Khalid
EAP 2
Summary & Response 2

In Gene Mueller’s 2007 article in the Washington Times titled “Nation’s symbol at risk no more,” the bald eagle is not on the endangered list anymore, so he is safe now and we do not worry about him. First, the author states that the Americans’ concern and conservation of the bald eagle was a successful job to bring this bird from the extinction to the wildlife. Then, he mentions that in 1940 the bird had disappeared from many states. After that, the author says that the pesticide DDT has a direct effect on the bald eagle when the pesticide entered the fish body. So when the bird eats the fish the pesticide goes to his body. In 1972 DDT was banned by Congress, so the population of the bird has increased. Next, he claims that fish were having a virus that was kill’s them, so that has reduced their numbers. Also, people who hunt the fish to sell it or just for fun is another problem that affect the fish population. Finally, he states that they sell the Virginia waterfowl stamp to help to clean the water and help fish.

I agree with the author’s idea that the bald eagle is not at risk anymore because of the ways that Americans use to protect him. So we should take from that lesson to protect the other animals that are endangered by publishing the American way, finding new ways, and studying the factors that affect them.

First, to succeed we should study what the others do and where they stop. So we can learn from what was started before us what the good things and the bad things they do. Then, we can avoid the wrong way and develop the good way. Actually, what Americans do for the bald eagle was a good story that the other nations can learn from to protect the animals that are endangered. Americans should publish that to make the others to study and learn from that. So it helps the others to protect animals. This bird was lucky because they choose him as a national symbol. So, why do we not choose all animals as the national symbol and protect them? People cooperate usually with the law, so we should have a law that prohibits shooting or killing them. We should help these animals or we will lose them forever.

Second, to protect endangered animals or birds you should find new ways to do that. In the case of endangered animals there is no time to waste because we have only a small number of that animal. So, we should find new and good way to do that. There are many ways to protect endangered animals, for example, doing hybridization with other animals from the same species. Also, we could make some refuges to protect them and put them in an appropriate environment to live. We should put splints on them that connected with computer so we can keep tracking them. All these steps could help us to protect these animals and bring them back from extinction.

Next, to protect endangered animals we should know the factors that lead this animal to extinction, so we can help him easily and protect him. Knowing what lead this animal to extinction is the first step to protect him. So we should study everything about these animals, what he is eating, and what environment he likes to live in. So with research we can know what we should do to protect these animals and return them to wildlife.

In conclusion, studying, finding new ways, and publishing the other experiences are very important things to protect endangered animals. All people should participate in protecting these animals to have a good result. Wildlife is part of our life cycle so we should protect instead of destroy it.

Reference:

Mueller, G. (2007, July 4). Nation’s symbol at risk no more. Washington Times.
Retrieved October 28, 2008, from LexisNexis.

Soccer

F E # 4
My favorite sport is soccer. I like it so much and I enjoy myself when I play it. In the United States soccer is not popular so much like other sports, but you can find people who like it and most of them are international students. Actually, I have started to know many people because we play together on the weekend. So we have started to be friends quickly because of soccer. If someone does not come or comes late we call him and ask him what happened with him, is he coming or not? We are close to each other and we are from all ages. In fact, soccer here in United States is different from my country in the way of playing. Here they are playing more physically. Also, they play as a team sometimes, and sometimes, you find one player finishing the game. In my country we like to play more with skills and speed. In my country you can see a soccer field in each neighborhood and all people like soccer very much. So in the afternoon we just go and play soccer with other people who live in the neighborhood. In my country most of people watch the English, Spanish, or Italian soccer leagues. We know everything about clubs and players. Now some Europe clubs have opened stores in Riyadh to sell their official t-shirt and some stuff for the club. In the United States people do not know many things about soccer or about the players. For example, the best player in the word in 2007 was kaka; no one knows him for among most of the Americans who I met. Finally, I enjoyed playing here in the United States more than I enjoyed it in my country, because the weather is nice and I’m playing with people who come from different countries.