Thursday, September 29, 2011

My hero.

The hero is not the person how takes down three men in the same time, not with his muscles. For me, the hero is a person who does something without expecting anything in return to save lives and help others even for a cat. Maybe he does something completely foolish and maybe something could cost him his life, but without thinking what is the right thing or what could be the consequences. He just responds bravely to prevent disasters.
 One day before many years, the weather was rainy and there was flood, it wasn’t very heavy. My father in that day decided to go on a picnic. We were very happy playing together and having fun. My father warned us from a kind of mud which drags people until the person disappears sinking inside. While we were having fun and enjoy our time, we heard screams grabbed our attention. We were surprised and wondered what that screaming was about. It was coming from a frightened mother because her son was sinking in that dangerous mud. His father was in shock and stood still staring to his own child and not doing anything to save him. When my father noticed the situation he directly jumped very fast into that mud to rescue that poor child. We were very scared and didn’t think that he is going to make it. However, my father moved with very light and fast steps to avoid getting his feet sucked inside the mud just touching as if he was flying. He pulled the child and took him to the safe area. Everybody was surprise with his bravery and fast reaction.
Many thanks were delivered to my hero from the other family for being a reason to give the child another chance and new birthday.
 But I kept asking myself, what if he couldn’t make it? What would happen to us? And many other questions occurred to my mind later.
                     As I mentioned before, to be a hero you should have a mix of courage, humanity and a little of foolishness. My father was and still my hero.

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Royal family

          There are different systems of ruling a country and mainly two, monarchy system and presidential system. In my country it is monarchy system and in this system one family is the ruler. They are called the royal family and they all under one ruler called the king. In this system the second person is either the son of the king or his brother and called the crown. The crown is always a brother in my country.
            There are many questions usually comes to your mind when you think about royalty and royal family like their life style, how many they are, how rich and more. In my country, any member of the royal family is born with a golden spoon in his mouth. They all have salaries for being part of the family some are by blood and some are called royal because they helped with uniting the country but all have salaries forever and annually increasing. This salary differs based on how close a member is to the king and wither he is relative by blood or just shared the wars with them. They are huge in number and all are rich. Most of the royal members own palaces in many other countries and spend millions of dollars when they travel because they have too many people following and serving them.
            Talking about such a thing will go on and on to describe their life style, systems and other information. Anyways, being a part of royal family is a privilege and everybody wishes to be part of them.  

Friday, September 9, 2011

My favorite dish.

 In the Stone Age, people was satisfied with just little food that make their tummy not really empty, it was something just to live. In our age, there are various kinds of food or we can say food cultures. It became a human nature, to always think about what we are going to eat and what we already ate. So, food became something make us happy to talk about, ask or just smell, It became something to enjoy.
            I would like to start with one type of food that I like and makes me very relaxed. It’s the Italian food especially the macaroni with vegetable and chicken. It is not just a normal dish; it is considered as a main dish and really yummy when mixed with red and white sauce. We can choose any kind of vegetable to be added with it. It is healthy because of the starches, chicken and vegetables it has all combined together.
            In fact, I was excited to cook macaroni to my family for the first time, I enjoyed it. When I did, they said that it was more delicious than the restaurant’s. It is easy to make, just boil different shapes of macaroni and vegetable, fry small pieces of chicken and after everything is done, prepare the red sauce with tomato paste and the white sauce which is just liquid cheese with mayonnaise and cream then you can mix them together. After that, mix everything together and leave it for few minutes.
             We all have favorite type of food and easily can have it. So, we should always be thankful to our god for his blessing on what we have or will have and wither it is a lot or few.

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Teaching methodology.

Teaching methods is the key for countries to success. If the education has a solid base, the generation will grow up with the country.  For example, I’m here in a foreign country to study, improve myself and adopt different and new thoughts to my country. This thing will not be only reflected on me but on my family too.
Because of the high qualifications I dreamed of for my kids, I chose a privet school in my country. In there, my son spent the kindergarten and the first grad crying each day. It was very difficult on me and him but I thought maybe the reason was that he is very attached to me, so it was hard on him not to see me during the day. Also, he was whining all the day because of the dozen homeworks he gets, too many memorizing he is supposed to do and heavy back bag he carries every day. One time, his teacher hit him on his back because he was writing on his desk, so it was a problem to go to school on the next day.  This kind of behaviors can destruct the relation between the student and the teacher.
When we came here I was concerned about what my son is going to do, is he going to cry a lot? Also, different language would be huge obstacle for him. However, he surprised me with the way he adapted. He liked the school so much and kept saying that the school is beautiful and we play a lot. This is because of the different teaching method he receives here.  He is receiving reasonable number of books and homeworks. School is not depending on memorization but practice. In addition, teachers are being very careful in the way they deal with kids. Also, giving children with other languages daily lessons to help them was really helpful. One funny thing my son mentioned is that he likes girls more than boys and says that they are very cute and not aggressive.
I think this is the right method to make your kids like the school and be a successful and productive person in the future and I hope I can change something back in my country to improve our teaching method.