Journal 3

HERO AND LEANDROS

      There are two ancient cities ,facing one another, Sestos and Abydos in Çanakkale.Anadiomene  ,the goddess of pure love, and her daughter Hero live in Sestos.Leandros  who is famous for his courage,strongness and mercy lives in Abydos.Hero and Leandros meet at the festival of Adonis( hello spring) and fall in love with at the first glance.Leandros is fascinated with her beauty.But they can’t marry.There are two possibilities.She may be  a nun or her family don’t want to their marriage.So  they decide to come together  in secret.Leandros swims from Abydos to Sestos every evening before sunset to reach her.Hero fires a torch everynight so that he finds his way.This method provide them to see each other.

     One night, Leandros starts to swim as always but the weather is so bad that they can’t reach the shore.Furthermore,Hero can’t fire the torch because of the rain.Unfortunately, Laendros dies by hitting rockies in the sea.Hero waits her lover all night.When the sun rises,she sees his dead body on the shore and she can’t bear his misery and she throw herself into the water from the cliff.They dies but their love lives forever…

PARAGRAPHS

EXERCİSE 1.

   Our hunting dog likes to pursue for the purpose of catching and killing an animal.When someone opens the door she knock over all the barrels in the yard and she runs rapidly.She runs for her liberty to greensward with hilarity.Her nose looks for an odour of cats, rabbits or other animals that humanbeings can’t perceive.She smells and twisted her tail swiftly.She changes her direction of her tail twisting.Maybe these actions make her gains to speed.

EXERCİSE 2.

    The Government Printing Office in Washington D.C keeps very important informantions that most of the people don’t know.It is the official publishing house for the federal government.It puts in the circulation a lot of books and small books consisting of a few paper about a discussion or something like these.There is a wide variety area of subjects in these books such as the dangers of X-rays from home TV set sor the identification of mushrooms.Superindented of Documents provide approximately 27.000 puplications many of which are cheap and some of which are free.

EXERCİSE 3.

       The first rich in America is John Jacob Astor who was a German immigrant.Actually he was born in low condition and he was deprived of proper education.He never couldn’t speak English as a native speaker.He started with trading Indian furs and then his money was growing ang growing.All problem of him was his Accent because his Accent make people remember to the Hamburg Street-boy which was the end of his career.

VİDEO REFLECTİON

1. There are a lof benefits of studying in America

-The chinese girl thinks that she needs more scores  to study in China so Ohio Northern  University provides this to her and it provides opportunity for pratice.

-The Netherland girl says that American education  system  different  than  European  education  system  and  the biggest difference American education system based on creativity and team work which she most like thing about it.

-The Japanese  boy says that he studied in England and Canada for highschool.So he is used to living a foreign country.This is a kind of habituation for him.

2. In their own country, once you choose a major  to study you can’t change it after and education system so straightaway and strict it don’t let to flexibility.They don’t like these.

  In ONU, they have small classes which is getting easier to communicate with each other.This is supportive.And there is really flexible system.They like these.

3.They are paying 29-34 thousand dolar for year which includes meal pan, boarding and room but it changes according to their needs.

4. It’s quite normal that living some difficulties to get used an another country.They experince a lot of weird things according to them.One of them is burping someone around you an the other one is communicating directly.

5.They lived culture shock which is quite normal,too.But one of them thinks that culture shock is useful and inescapable.Everyone experience this that is very naturel.Because everyting is different than your lifesytle.

      According to me, studying in America would be priceless experience.Because there are a lot of ethnic groups in America and this provide to see many culture at the same time.If i find a way to America or another foreign country i want go.Knowing new people and places change the individual’s vision.So it would be awesome  studying in America.

    Surely, it will be hard at first times.Because you don’t know how you act when you are together with people and you will be surprise their foods, clothes, behaviours  etc.But after getting used i’m sure that everything will be okeyJ

BEING A METU STUDENT

     First of all being in metu is wonderful for me.Because metu is my  childhood dream:).And finally i could reach my dream.First days in here, i couldn't believe that this is true.A lot of people in turkey wants to be here but few of them can come here so i'm one of that minority.We are one of the best.Actually i proud of myself :)

    Metu is a perfect place.It's the only university in our country to take place in the list of the best universities in the world.Sometimes i hear that someone around me says here isn't her/his first choice.The first one is bosphorus.But i'm sure that they will see the best university in turkey is Metu.Because of it's huge campus, with over 20.000 students, gigantic library, sport areas, various activities etc.We didn't use all of them yet but there is lots of time :)

     I feel lucky to be here.And sometimes people around me especially in my hometown ask me "how could you go metu?"Metu has so prestigious place that they can't believe.And i'm just saying them "i believed and i wanted so much" If you want something so much i'm sure that it happens.When highschool students who want to be here ask me advises about what they can do i tell them "study hard, have a regular plan, be careful about your psychology so on but first of all don't give up wanting."And metu is full of something that done by wanting.

     It's hard to get used somewhere else actually.But metu provides so many facilities especially "news" like us :) so we didn't have difficulty in to get used.I feel i have been here for years.Of course i miss my home my birth place but metu make us forget most of these with it's facilities.And it has a huge area which is full of different kinds of trees, which is relaxing.Especially stadium of Devrim effect me in depth.When i go there and climb up at the top of it's stairs i feel i'm in a high status :) because the place i'm looking at is ankara which is capital city.Maybe it sounds like laughable but feel like this :)

     To sum up, Metu is really perfect place to study, to enjoy, to know new people ,so, TO LİVE.I never won't be regret to be here and I LOVE METU :))

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