See You

Integrated Skills 2009 blog is my first blog. It is a good and special experience.
I am a little sad but I hop we will keep in thatch.

With good wishes
Sultan

I will not say goodbye~~~~

I will still here in next section, so I will not say goodbye to you guies~hehe~~~~
I think I will continue to use my blog and keep tough with everybody~
~ see you ~~I just have one week vocation~~

Integrated Skills

Hi, everyone! Today is last class day. I am enjoying but I feel sad....

At first, I was under extreme tension, but our classmates helped me many times.

Thank you so much!

Kiyoka

I miss you guys...

Hi,everybody! I want to say Goodbye and I wiil miss each one of you. I enjoy this class and met wonderful people.

Good luck!!!

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GOOD BYE!!!

I am glad for have ending this course, because I learned to much. This course was very fun and was moments of a lot liking, also homework were entertaining. Thank you all my classmates for your participation in every class, for the joy, patience and motivation. Thank you Claire and Kate for teaching many thinks.

why !

actually we had a great time in this blog
I hope we still contact after this section

I say: Good by!!!

Hi everybody!

I enjoyed this class, maybe I will write the next semester. Thank you very much a lots of new and interesting information!

See you in the next semester!

I will miss you

I can't believe our class is closed soon.
I enjoyed preparing my blogpostings and reading my classmate's.
I had a chance to know my classmates more such as their hobbies and interests.
I will miss you.

Last class

I'm so sad. This is last posting. This class was so fan. I can't stop cring. Thank you very much.

Bye Bye. This class is forever.

See you everybody in another life~

I will be missing this class

I feel so sad.............im cring now.....

bye bye~~~

BYE, SEE YOU

Every vary, thank for this time, the 8 weeks were very interesting for me, special for knowploge you. I wish in the futuro wil comunicate, thank the teachers, they have many passon for us God bless you in your life. Enjoy

The last hour with this class.

Dear friends,
First of all, I would like to thank all of you: Teachers and classmates who are my companions during the time I spent with you in this class and other classes. I love each of you.
By the time we are going to say goodbye to each other, I would like to wish each of you all my best wishes from the bottom of my heart.
I am going to leave this school for Stockton next week. I want to say goodbye to Kyoka who is going to be back Japan. I wish you a safe trip back to your beloved country.
I want to wish all of you well in the future: for your jobs, your life, your ministries, and also your studies.
Once again, I also apoligize to those who I did something wrong to you.
Thank you and thank you.
I will miss you. Please, keep in touch.
Take care my friends!
God bless!
Paul Thanh Tien Nguyen.

Our Last Class...

I have enjoyed co-teaching this class with Kate. Our students have picked so many interesting topics to write about and everyone has worked really hard to make their postings creative and dynamic. I really learned a lot and enjoyed having all the wonderful students in my class. I wish everyone well!!!

Claire

'''Happiness'''

If you have good relationships with your family, and your friends and do all the activiteis,enjoy the moment, and produce relaxation.


I think this is the meaning of happiness.

Miguel & Abdul

Happiness~~~

Elizabeth, Larisa, Suk

-I like to be happy

-I am happy when I have good luck

-I love my family

-My wish comes true

-I love money

-I am healthy

-I spend time with my family, cooking, working in my company, going to church, using my spa,
eating interesting food and traveling

Our definition of Happiness.

Happiness is laughing, talking to best friends, enjoying life, having a good emotion, improving ourselves, helping each other, overcoming hard or difficult situations, doing or eating our favorite things and communicating or understanding English native speakers fluently.
Posted by Kiyoka, Chan Li, Paul Nguyen

Happiness Survey

Click Here to take survey

Old partner.

I will tell about so sad Korean movie.

Named Wa Nang So ri. American named old partner.

An old man works with a female cow over 30 years.

Usually cow life is 20years.

But this cow live 40years. Always work on farm.

Old partner, this movie is about the story about the old man and the 40years-old cow.

This movie is a documentary of Chung-ryul Lee director.

The legs of both man and cow are not very strong but he climbs the mountain with holding the

bridle everyday and comes back with huge firewoods.

The story describing the relationship between the old man and the cow, give all the

audience tranquil impression.

It impresses more especially on the people who used to live in the rural.

The old man and the cow lean on each other making us very touched.

I think it is the wonderful story.

Even tough being made on a small amount of money,this movie is just as impressive as the big

scaled one.

LEARNING ONLINE

LEARNING ONLINE

Many people take classes through the internet. I have a friend that wanted to study at a school, but he couldn’t because he worked, and his schedule did not permit him to go to school. Now he is studying, but he doesn’t study at a school, he studies at his house through the internet. He doesn’t do homework everyday only on the weekend. He takes test and writes compositions at the school every Saturday from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. The teachers correct the work, and return it, also they speak with him, and explain the exercise of the next week. He is very happy, because he can work, and study. I think that distance learning is helpful and helps many people that want to learn.

The lies in the Media

Is the meaning of media lies?!
Is there any control for the media?!
Is the lies so easy now?!
Will our children be liars?In the future the media will be for adults?!
In the future everybody will search for the truth …. And we can’t find it?!
Is money the first goal of the media?!

You can fund my answer inside my questions!

I wrote about this topic because I think maybe 50% of the news from the Media is not the truth

Do you agree with me or not? Why?

Black Drink

I like coffee. It is the drink that you find everywhere but with different ways to make it. In Saudi Arabia for example we make it brown and with some special flavors like saffron and cardamom, in Italy they make it with milk and here in America they drink it black and sometimes with milk. I like all kinds of coffee but I don't like it very sweet. The thing I like best in coffee is the smell for me if I just smell the coffee I feel refreshed.

SANTA ANA, EL SALVADOR

I am from El Salvador, I live in Santa Ana, is the second city of country. It is the El Salvador west, in the area cultivate the coffee. The native name is SIHUATEHUACAN in Nauhuat, in english is ”Biutiful women Place”. The name changed but in July 26, 1569 the Guatemala Bishop Bernardino Villalpando came the pastoral visit, and celebrated the Mass in the central church, this day changing the name to Santa Ana la Grande (Saint Ann, the catholic tradition is the name the Holy Mary). In the 1913 pope Pio XI gave the title of Diocese.
The city has the title La heroica, but in 1898, a men group, they stop a invasion from Guatemala.
The downtown is older, have Litter Street, in the city center have three monuments, divide for for one park.
The first is the Theatre, is very nice, and was building in the 1910 year. The money for construction came from a special tax, all coffee cultivated pay 0.13 cents for each coffee bag, the community didn´t use money from the government.

The second is the Mayor Building, is material is the mud bricks, the second floor was formed for wood. the construction staring in 1871, after 8 years was use for Army Base.
The Cathedral of Santa Ana, is a monumental building, the front is Barroco style, is color white, did not panting, the texture was the cal, hone, and other material. The Cathedral inside is Gotico style.
Santa Ana has many places for visit, Coatepeque lake, is to 20 minutes, Cerro Verde, 1 hour, have a nice vista point.

The Arqueology has Tazumal, it is Maya tample in this area. The people is conserve, friendly.
Construction

Homework for Thursday, 3/5

1. Post your third blog posting (if you have not yet posted your posting).

2. Respond to the third posting of SOMEONE ELSE'S blog post. Write 3-5 sentences. Why do you like it? What do you think about the topic? Why are you posting?

In the movie "Mama Mia" Donna's daughter is Sophia, who has just one wish to make her wedding perfect:to have her father walk her down the aisle.Sophia found her Mom's diary,when she was younger,and she found three guys(Sam,Harry and Bill),who could be her father.....Now she just wants to find out who he is.....

You can have a perfectly nice time watching this musical. This movie is full energy,and Meril Streep, she is excellent.There is powerful film!!!!!!!!! I love it!

Have you ever been in Mauritius?

When I got married we were on the island (Mauritius). The capital city is Port Louis, and every body speaks English and lots of people speak French.
We rented bicycles and went around the island. The people were very kind. Some people were french and chineese, and most of 70% population was hindu.

The people were very poor and they worked in agriculture. They produced is sugar cane. Mauritius has developed. We were in a Buddhist temple, it was interesting for me. The believers gave food to their own gods. I saw a lot of pagoda, mecset, temple, that is "mix" religion.

On this island Dodo birds used to live. Dodos had been killed, today they are just symbols. I bought some T-shirts with this symbols on it.
The local folklore music name is: a sega. Men usually play instruments music and women dance. This dance is very nice. They asked me for a dance…

The weather was wonderful! Better than Monterey … The sun was shunning and every day was raining but not for a long time. A saw giant turtles and bats, they were eating fruits. They live in the Back River Reservatum. Since 1968, Mauritius is independent.

Holiday- A New Year's Day

My favorite holiday is New Year's Day. We follow the lunar calendar so this year starts on January 26. In my country, this is one of the most important holidays that people have celebrated for long time.

Personally, I like this holiday because my family gets together. This also means that I can get to meet relatives who live far away. Moreover, there are many special activities we do on the New Year's Day. This day people wear beautiful Korean traditional costumes. When children wear Korean costumes and then perform a New Year's bow their parents and realtives give them the New Year's gift money.

Also, we prepare many different kinds of traditional foods to have a feast with families and friends. Especially, I enjoy eating rice-cake soup "Tukguk"(prepared with slices of rice cake, beef, eggs, etc.) Tukguk means a rite of passage as we grow a year older. After that, we play some games that Korean people used to play long time ago.

Relax and enjoy your weekend.

What do you often do on your free time? or what do you usually do on the weekend?. I think this is an exciting question for each of us as a student.
We have to study from Monday to Friday, so we try to invest all the time on learning English. That is why we should reserve sometime to relax or to enjoy our weekend.
Relaxing is one of an important part of human's life. The more we work hard, the more we should reserve sometime to relax. According to the psychology experts, nowadays there are a lot of people becoming stress, because they do not have enough time to relax.
We have many different type of ways to relax. For example: listen to music, go eating out, go the watch some films, go to the gym, or go jogging...ect.
When we have enough time to relax, we not only push out of our mind all depresses which we had from our works, but also creating the new ideas for our works or studies. it is truly a positive idea need to be known.
For me, I just want to relax by listening to some of my favorite music or surf the internet or chatting with my friends.
I really want to go out but I can not because I do not have a car. Why do not I take a bus to go out?. Because I tried to take a bus to go out before, but the price of the bus ticket was not cheap. I had to pay 70 usd for a round trip from Monterey to San Jose. Finally, I decided not to take a bus to go out. Instead of going out I stay at home to watch TV or hang out with my host family as practicing my speaking skill with them.
Each person has their own hobbies to relax or enjoy. My advices to you are to try to create some types of relaxing for yourself, in case you do not want to be in trouble with stress problems. Have nice weekend and enjoy your relaxing. How do you think about this?.

Well, this time I want to talk about music, this is a very important part in my life.

Now my major is interior design, so it proves that I have to learn how to paint before I enter my college. Actually, I planed to choose the major what about music at the first. But some reasons let me gave up the plan.

If I choose the music at that time, may be I am a music teacher now or a singer, who know it ……He he ~~~

However, the music still help me a lot, sometimes when I feel upset, I will listen music, When I am angry I will listen music, When I am thinking I also will listen music, definitely ,there is another important way is that the music could help me to improve my English listening and pronunciation.

So, I could get the happiness, peaceful emotions, creative ideas and
perfect English practice. I want to ask myself that how could I live without the music.

A little window

I am from Wisconsin. Do you know where that is? It is in the middle of the United States. Wisconsin is called the Dairyland State because we are known for making a lot of dairy products. There are a lot of farms in the middle of the state that make milk and cheese. But, I don't live on a farm. My family lives in a city an hour north of Chicago. We live in southeastern Wisconsin, right near Lake Michigan. Lake Michigan is one of five Great Lakes. People in Wisconsin are very nice. But, there are different lifestyles of people in Wisconsin. I live in an urban area, but some people live in rural areas.

The lake is so big that you can't see the other side - it's kind of like looking at the ocean. The last time I went home to Wisconsin was in December and January. I was lucky because I got about two and a half feet of snow. It was very beautiful, but it was also very cold, and I did not go outside a lot.

After living in California for two years, it is difficult to go back to the cold weather because I am not accustomed to it. Do you like the cold weather?

JAZZ

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions. The style's West African pedigree is evident in its use of blue notes, improvisation, polyrhthms, syncopation, and the swung note.

Yesterday I went to Santa Cruz and I bought 6 jazz CDs,

Weather Report 8:30 [LIVE]
John Scofield Up All Night
Miles Dewey Davis I forget title(this cd is bootlegged)

etc I will introduce the one of the my favorite band.



Weather Report
Weather Report was an influential jazz fusion band of the 1970s and early 1980s combining jazz and latin jazz with art music, ethnic music, r&b, funk and rock elements .


8:30 [LIVE] this is my favorite album.

"Black Market" – 9:47
"Scarlet Woman" (Alphonso Johnson/Shorter/Zawinul) – 8:42
"Teen Town" (Jaco Pastorius) – 8:01
"A Remark You Made" – 6:55
"Slang" (Jaco Pastorius) – 4:45
"In a Silent Way" – 2:47
'"Birdland" – 7:13
'"Thanks for the Memory" (Leo Robin/Ralph Rainger) – 3:33
"Medley: Badia/Boogie Woogie Waltz" – 9:32
"8:30" – 2:36
"Brown Street" (Zawinul/Wayne Shorter) – 8:34
"The Orphan" – 3:17
"Sightseeing" (Wayne Shorter) – 5:34

About Blog

This is my first blog. Untill now I have never have a blog, just read. I am learning how to make blog in Integrated skills class, it is interesting! I can improve reading and writing skills, and communicate with my classmates by blog. I am glad to receive from them. Soon our course is coming to a final session (Graduation on March 20th). If we have to say good bye, we can meet again through our blog. And when I go back to Japan, I want to renewal my blog.

Homework for Tuesday

Part I:

DRAFT (first writing) of posting #3.

Do not post the draft of posting #3 on the Blog.

The length of your posting should be one paragraph - 5 sentences

Ideas for the draft:

1. Someone else's posting topic (like the Galapagos Islands, hobbies, Socrates, or movies)

2. Your opinion about Blogs
(This is my first blog. I like/don't like it because...)

3. Your original lists with three ideas...

4. Your favorite something...movie, or music, or car, or food, or friend, or president

5. Monterey, 17-mile drive

6. Your favorite holiday

Part II: Post one comment on a survey or an old posting. Write 5 sentences.

Movies Survey

1. What kind of movies do you like?

2. How many movies do you watch every week?

3. Where do you like to watch movies?

4. Do you like old movies or new movies?

5. Who do you like to watch movies with?

6. Do you like to eat something while watching movies? If so, what?

7. Are ticket prices too expensive or cheap in USA ?

8. How do you buy tickets for movies?

9. How do you choose the movies?

10. When do you watch movies?

11. Who is your favorite actor or actress?

12. What is your favorite movie?

Music Survey

Hi, everybody
How are you today? We have a few questions:

1. How is your favourite singer?

2. What kind of music do you like?

3. Do you know who Strauss is?

4. Have you ever heard Hungarian Csardas?

5. Do you play an instrument?

6. What kind of instruments do you play?

7. Why did you choose this intstruments?

8. What is your favourite group?

9. How do singers influence your life or child life?

10. When do you listen to music?
For example: at work at school driving others

Music Survey

1. What kind of music do you like best?.

2. Which singer do you like the best?.

3. How much time do you spend listening to music?.

4. How do you often listen to music?. On television, radio or CDs?.

5. Do you know the history about Music Grammy Awards?.

6. When and where the 51 st Grammy Awards was held?.

7. Do you know who won the Grammy Awards and what songs did they win?.

8. Which do you prefer: R&B or Hip - Hop music?.

9. Do you like the film music, for example: The song: "My heart will go on" on" Titanic" film?

10. It is good for some famous singers to do philanthropic?. Why?

COOKING

1.What kind food can you cook?

2.Have you been to eat sushi in Monterey? If so, what restaurant did you go?

3.In your coutry, do you have a specific food which do you eat every day?

4. According to media reports, it's healthy to eat colorful fruit
1)grapes-violet 2)bananas-yellow 3) strawberries-red

5.Which food you can't eat and why?
If so, do you have allergies?

6.Have you been to pick up dishes with chopsticks?
Is it conveniet for you or not?

7. In your country, do you have unique cooking utiensils like chopsticks?

8.During mealtime, do you prefer to talk with other people or to keep silent?

9. Since you have lived in USA, how often do you eat your countr's food?
1)Three times a day 2) once a week
3)once a day 4) once a month

10. How many times do you eat meals in a day?
which meals do you eat often?

Movie survey

1. What are your favorite style of movies?

2. Who do you think the best actor for you?

3. What is the movie you like most?

4. How many hours do you spend in the week for watch the movies?

5. Where are the movies you watch from?

6. Do you like classic movies?

7. Do you analyse the movies?

8. What is your worst movie?

9. Do you agree with top 10 every time? Why?

10. Where you like to watch movies?

Plastic Surgery
Somebody do you want to know:
How much it costs?What the potential complication are?
That interest for me, but I think I never try it.
This is very popular in my country. Lots of famous people are doing it ......
What do you think? Good or bad?
Would you like try it? Yes, or why not?
I think sometimes is very good. For example: your child was born others body problems, or burned her body: why not change her life?

Homework for Thursday, February 19

Find a blog you like (look at the side of our blog for ideas!)

Complete the blog worksheet - answer all the questions!

Be prepared to do a little presentation about the blog you read!

9 Months is More Then 25 years

For 25 years all my friends from my country Saudi Arabia or from Arabic country. I have friends from different cities in Saudi Arabia. I have friends from school, university etc…
In that time I feel I have friends form every where but since I came to USA I have friends in 9 months more than what I have in 25 years. I have friends from USA, Japan, China, Korea, Mexico, Hungary, Russia, El Salvador, and Brazil. In 9 months I learned different cultures. In 9 months I heard different languages more than what I heard in my life in 9 months made believe more that the same level that we are different we are same. Same things make us laughed and same things make us cried.

Thu. Feb 19th, 2009Santa Cruz

Hi everybody. Today I introduce an event about reggae concert this Thursday at Sant Cruz .

I think this is expensive concert ticket in Sant Cruz. It's gonna be so much fun.
Stephen Marley, he is son of Bob Marly.I hope every body knows about Bob Marly. If you don’t know about him, please you can look for his information by your self.

I like many kinds of music, but I’m not a super reggae fun.
If you don’t know about reggae, that's no problem. Because I don’t really know it either.
Anyway, If you are thinking little bit to go to concert. You should go.

Thu. Feb 19th, 2009Santa Cruz Dayz '09 - Stephen Marley Santa Cruz, CA Presented by Moss Jacobs and Good Vibez.Ticket price is $28.
The Catalyst
1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz, California; Tel. 831.423.1338Most people know the Catalyst primarily as a music venue. The smoke-filled lounge is not for the weak of lung, but the cheap Budweisers and multiple pool tables sure make it a good late-night option.

How we can help poor people by Marketing?

Last two years I was working marketing specialist in my country “ Saudi Arabia " in Albabtain power and telecommunication co. I loved my job, we was do some thing to help poor people we have contracting with UNICEF,



when want do some advertising abut our project like we do some expiation in another country we use there logo in our board and also when we do any advertising in TV or magazine, and if we need print any brochure or grating card,

we do it with hem they are more expansive than another but we can support them to help poor people in the world rely I like it.

* I think we can do that in any department in the company,

but don't forget the 1st objective for the company! "the money"

traveling

My interesting is going to Korea in March. I miss my family, friends and a lot of my fans.
I will meet other country friend in Korea. My friend wants to meet me and want to travel in Korea. Actually now I am making a Korea travel plan. It is very difficult. I did not know Seoul has many interesting places for foreigner. Next posting my topic will interesting places in Seoul for foreigner. I hope my friend likes it.

Galapagos penguin.

This is about Galapagos birds. The Galapagos penguin is found on Femandina,Isabela island and is an endemic species. This is the only here because of cold currents of water that flow around Fernandina and Isabela islands. The Galapagos penguin is flightless, like the rest of the penguin species,and is only 35 centimetres tall,which makes it one of the smallest penguins in the world.

Answer for you:

This is a wonderful place, I never been this island, but I will go in the future. (Maybe…)

My speaking partner

I met my speaking partner last week. Kate, my teacher, introduced me by email. Her name is Tomiko. Whose mother is a Japanese. At first, I thought she was a student, but it was wrong. She works as the army! And she is mother who has two children. Her talks relaxed me though I was wound up before a meeting with her.

THE PEOBLE NEED BELIEVE

The Faith is present in the history of humans’ lives. All cultures had faith in the Divine Being. The modern society declares It isn't necessary to have faith to encounter happiness. The society said: We don't believe in one God, and don’t need the religions for the happiness and they search parallel ways to find the happiness. Today, if we watch the society search in the scientology, or Yoga, or many others theories, there aren’t necessary bad theories, but help the person’s encounter the peaces in them mind.
The final of way the Human people believe, the question is: what do you believe?

How to create a happy life for our own life.
Nowadays, people are facing with many pressures especially when they are living in a bad economy.Two days ago, I read an article on the internet about a Vietnamese-American family who is living in California. The wife committed suicide. They lost their jobs and in addition her eldest son is a mentaly ill boy, another son is in a secondary school. She did not have money to pay for all the bills, that is why she killed herself.After reading that article, I thought a lot about my life as well as others lives. Why do some people look for a death instead of looking for another positive way to create happiness for their life???.I am obsessed with that situation and many quetions came to my mind.For me, when I am in a difficult situation, I often go somewhere where I can be alone. At that time I am not worried about anything. I can live with myself and I pray to Whom I put my belief in. After that, I can look for a good way or a good solution to solve my problems. Or I came to see someone that I know, like my professors or elderly people or my friends to share with them what I am worrying about. With my experiences I could leave out a lot of bad thoughts out of mind. I could feel better.Do you agree with me?. What should you do when you are in a bad situation?. Please send me some more information to fullfil my opinion. Many thanks.

Grant Writing

This weekend I took a class called Grant Writing. This was an elective class that I took for school credit. I got one credit!! This class taught me how to write grants so that maybe I can get money for an educational organization in Salinas. The organization helps women in the Salinas community learn how to speak EnglishMost of these women speak Spanish and they have a hard time finding work in the United States because they can not speak English. Now, these women are working in the fields of Salinasbut after this program they will be able to find office work or other higher paying jobs.

This class was very interesting because I learned a lot about how to write a grant, the information I have to include in a grant and how to find an organization who wants to give me a grant. I learned how to write a letter of intent, a needs statement, goals & objectives, and a budget. There were a lot of students in this class, approximately 30 students from different degree programs at MIIS. Usually I only take classes with other TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) students, but this course had T&I (Translation & Interpretation) students, IPS (International Policy Studies) students, MBA (Master’s of Business Administration) students, and TESOL students. It was fun to hear all my classmates’ opinions and ideas because everyone was from such a different background that they all had new and exciting ideas. The only bad part of this class was that it was also very long.I had class Friday night from 6-9pm, Saturday from 9am-4pm, and Sunday from 9am-1pm. I was very tired at the end of the workshop, but I think that I learned a lot.

The devil wears Prada

The Devil wears Prada

Story board:

In New York, the simple and naive just-graduated in journalism Andrea Sachs is hired to work as the second assistant of the powerful and sophisticated Miranda Priestly, the ruthless and merciless executive of the Runway fashion magazine. Andrea dreams to become a journalist and faces the opportunity as a temporary professional challenge. The first assistant Emily advises Andrea about the behavior and preferences of their cruel boss, and the stylist Nigel helps Andrea to dress more adequately for the environment. Andrea changes her attitude and behavior, affecting her private life and the relationship with her boyfriend Nate, her family and friends. In the end, Andrea learns that life is made of choices.

This film show a mere beginner's experience to complete a lot of hard missions. Sometimes she cried when her boss did not acknowledgde her efforts. Even if she made a little mistakes, she can not avoid another more difficult task. She puts up with the eccentric and humiliating requests of her boss because, she is told, if she lasts a year in the position she will get her pick of other jobs, perhaps even the journalistic position she truly craves. I firmly belive that a large number of people sympathize with this situation.

In addition, there are a great of side attractions, we can enjoy beautiful and gay costume that a million girls would wear.