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My mobile Phone

My mobile phone is Nokia Lumia 710. I am a loyal user of Nokia. I prefer Nokia phone because Nokia’s phone is solid—I sometime drop my cell on the floor, a solid phone won’t broke after it was dropped on the floor.

Lumia 710 is not the latest type of Nokia phones. It has Windows operation system. So it has some Microsoft’s software for users. It can connect Hotmail quickly, and I can check my e-mail box conveniently. The windows office software can help me to do many works. It includes Word, Power Point and Excel. For people who are familiar with those softs, it is quite user-friendly. As a smart phone, it also provides GPS service. I usually use this function to locate my position and find the way to my target when I was in Vancouver. I often use Wi-Fi and 3G to surf internet, not only to read some entertainment news but also check my mark and blog. Not like others, I hardly use my mobile phone to check new words because I have an electronic dictionary. I usually check new words on that. But, if the new words are not in my electronic dictionary, I will use my cell phone to Google them.

Portable electronic devices make our study and daily life more convenient. I hope more students could use those helpful devices to improve their learning efficiency.

Iphone and Ipad----By Pirlo

Iphone and Ipad

            I am a user of Iphone and Ipad. I recommend these mobile devices to some other people because these products are very convenient. Iphone and Ipad almost can meet my needs of all the digital products. I often use Iphone to take some pictures and record some important information. Furthermore, the map in Iphone is very useful for me. When I just came to Canada, I often used Iphone’s map to find the bank, supermarket, and some other places. Ipad is used to watch movie or video, and sometimes is used as notebook, it is very convenient.

            Iphone or Ipad is a very good tool for me to learn English. I downloaded some studying software to my Iphone and Ipad, such as Longman Dictionary, Total Recall. One advantage of electronic dictionary is it can help me to find a strange word’s meaning instantly, so it improves the efficiency of my studying. Another advantage of electronic dictionary is it can record what words I have researched before, then I can review them anytime, it is good for me to learn some new words. My instructor, Les, recommend us to download Total Recall to our Iphone or Ipad. After I downloaded it, I found it was very useful. I can record some information expediently by Total Recall; especially, when I did the group discussion, Total Recall could help me to remember our group opinions clearly, and used the mind map to organize these ideas was very easy. Total Recall is definitely a perfect tool for recording and organizing information.

            Using modern electronic produce reasonably can improve our learning efficiency effectively. I hope that more and more students could learn how to use electronic produce for helping their learning.

What we learn from James Cameron

What we learn from Lames Cameron

James Cameron, a great movie director, who is famous by “Tantalic” and “Avatar”. He is also the director of “Alien”, “Terminator” and “The Abyss”. How can he make such great movies? The answer is curious.

When James was a boy, he loves science fictions. Science fictions gave little James a lot of new thing to image. Also, James likes sea. He and his film production team got deep-sea diving certificate during the movie “The Abyss” was filming. After that, he put his attention on computer graphic. Then he made “Titanic” and “Avatar”. James always keeps his curious from one thing to another. That makes his brain full of imaginations. Curiousity makes him confidence. He knows what he wants and how to get it. James also knows how to respect his team. He knows he won’t successes without an outstanding team.

Just like James said “Curious is the most powerful thing you own. Don’t put limitations on you self. Other people will do that for you—don’t do it yourself.” Don’t be afraid of failure. Don’t stop our steps to forward. Keep curiosity in our heart. If we do so, we will successes.

Learn from Fear (Pirlo&Peter)

Learn from Fear (Pirlo&Peter)

            In Karen Walker’s presentation, she told us a true story about a marine peril. In this case, these crews who survived in shipwreck faced three choices: go to the nearest islands, go to Hawaii, and go south and back to South America by wind. However, each choice comes with a fearful consequence. Therefore, how to choose them will be an important problem. In telling the story, Karen Walker talks about how fear propels imagination, and fears make us to imagine the possible futures and how to cope with fears.

            Karen Walker provides out an important point about exploring ones fear, and where the fear comes from. Much of the trouble in the world comes from the avoidance of understanding ourselves and our fear. When fear comes to look into the future and making long term decisions, people have to make their fears transform into their concerns because if it remains people’s fear, people would take the wrong decisions as the sailors took in this example. Therefore, people need to conquer their fears and transform them into concerns, then make logical decisions.  People can let fear kill their minds, but people can also use fear to make more careful decisions about the future. The key point is to be able to keep a cool head and rationalize before making those careful decisions.

            Fear is not only our troubles but also is a chance for us to decide our future. For some pessimists, fear can make them to loss heart, even give up their future. However, for some optimists, fear is a kind of chance of success; fear can let them make a careful and logical plan for their future. Therefore, people should not to avoid fears; instead, people should try to face fears, and find out the solution for the fears. To be a success survivor in fears, and do not die in fears.

Pirlo and Peter's Blog Report

The picture is from the blog

Today, we have seen some blogs. We found that blog beginners like us can learn a lot from other successful blogs. the blog that we interested in is http://mypreciousconfessions.blogspot.ca/2012/11/top-10-fashion-bloggers-from-london-and.html. This blog' style is clean. it doesn't have too much color, that makes people feel mess. Less words and a lot pictures let readers can know the messages clearly and directly. The blogs topic is also awesome. Fashions! Fashions can always attract people's attention not only ladies but also gentlemen. That doesn't mean we will do fashion blog but we should make our blog with some attractive topics. Also, this blog provides many links to different websites. that can help readers to know more about the topic or other news that attract them. We are the beginners of making blog, but we believe we can make some great and attractive blog in the future.

Peter-New AP5 semester

This is the second week of AP5 semester. Compare with the beginning period of AP4, the study life is busier. With this time, I had move out from the home-stay and rent house with friends. That also cost me a lot of time to adapt new home and the new environment. Fortunately, I saw some of my AP4 friends study with me in the same class. That makes me more comfort, because it much easier to adapt new class with friends. Also, it is a good opportunity to make new friends. For my AP5 plan, the most basic plan is to pass AP5. Base on this plan, I need study hard, finish homework and teamwork on time. AP5 is an essential part to learn how to finish my work in an academic way and get better prepared for pr-MBA. The weakness in my English learning is vocabulary and grammar. Through the vocabulary quiz on Monday, my academic words are insufficient, so I need to remember more academic words.  Another part need improve is writing. After last semester’s study, my writing skill had improve a lot, but is still need more practices to make it better. Presentation and speech takes important parts in MBA course.  That is another hard part for me, the most problem for me in a presentation is nervous. Nervous cause me forget words and strange pronunciation of the word. But I think I will make my presentation much better. As the saying goes, practice makes perfect. ESL is a valuable experience for me before MBA.  I believe I can improve all of my weaknesses during my AP5 learning and face MBA with confidence.

Pirlo-The second week and study strategies

Today is the first day of the second week. What a nice day. When I wake up this morning, I feel I have a good energy because I had a good sleep last night. Last week, I came back to Nanaimo from China; I feel a little upset because Nanaimo is not my hometown after all. What was worse, I could not adapt the time lag; I could not fall asleep at night, I only slept about three hours per day last week. In the daytime, I feel too sleepy; I could not pay attention to anything. That was too bad. Luckily, I feel much better today. Actually, I am a little worried about this semester because some of my friends said AP 5 is a very difficult semester, and a lot of students failed in this semester. Therefore, I think I should work harder than before in this semester because my English is not very well. My goals for this semester are I can learn more academic skills, such as how to write a good essay and do a good presentation. Then I can learn some knowledge about MBA class. The most crucial goal is I can pass this semester, I think almost all the students in AP5 have this same goal. In order to I can study well in this semester, I will work on some strategies: cooperation, time-management and correcting my mistakes. At first, the cooperation will be the most important in AP5 because in this semester, we will write some long essays; and writing essay need some ideas. Therefore, studying in a group can help me to get more ideas because one person’s idea is limited, and study with other people, we can help and study each other, and it is also easy to find out more good ideas. Secondly, time-management can help me to schedule time reasonably. I do not want to waste any time now because I have come here about sixteen mouths; I hope to graduate as soon as possible. The last but not the least, I want to find out the mistakes during my studying time. I am not afraid making mistakes; instead, I want to know my mistakes, and correct them to avoid make the same mistakes again. To find more mistakes and correct them, this means I will be better in the future. I will try my best to study in this semester, I will be success, I have confidence.