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Each country has their own favorite sport. Last Sunday, the USA was extremely excited for a big game: the Super Bowl. The Super Bowl is an annual American football game that determines the champion team of the National Football League. In the end, the New York Giants won the Super bowl. It was a really [...]
Last Sunday, I went snow-tubing with students from the ELI and CAs. Before our departure, I didn’t know much about Cypress Mountain. When I asked my home-stay family, they said that it is located near Whistler so it takes about one and a half hours to reach it. I was worried, since the schedule for [...]
Don’t spend too much money on clothes at home. The best option is to buy them here! When you leave Brazil, bring multiple suitcases inside each other, and believe me, you will still need extra suitcases for your return! In Canada, December 26th is known as Boxing Day. On this date, each store could give [...]
I don’t like sports. No, I didn’t like sports. A number of my physical education grades were bad and nightmarish. Indeed, when I was a middle school student, I couldn’t get a single goal in my basketball class. It was terrible. I was really bad at every kind of sport. Also, I didn’t like to [...]
Last Saturday, I went to Grouse Mountain with my friends Andreas and Tomomi, the Swiss man and Japanese woman respectively. Since the weather had been pretty good since last Wednesday, I organized a travel group to go for a trip. The reason why I went to Grouse Mountain was because my host-family recommended it, as they knew [...]
Success, for me, is to make a goal, achieve it and then finally build self-esteem. When I was young, I thought that only achievement could define success. If I could not achieve a goal, then I thought I was a total failure. At that time, I did not have much life experience. I could not [...]
There are many differences between American and Colombian cultures. Americans have been taught to consider themselves independent and responsible for their own actions and destinies. For Colombians, family is way more important than personal matters. Colombian children are taught to be interdependent, and team work is often encouraged by teachers and parents. Moreover, families share [...]
When comparing the quality of transportation between Vancouver and Beijing, the transportation in Beijing is approximately the same standard as that in Vancouver. The transit systems in both cities provide a comfortable environment, good service and a human focused design. However, when comparing crowd levels, Vancouver’s transportation is substantially better than Beijing. Due to [...]
When I was a 10th grade student in high school, our class was the best. It was the dream team class. Even though it was a girls’ high school, we were so funny and naughty. (This doesn’t mean we were bad at studying. Our average scores were the highest of all the classes. It was [...]
It is an annual tradition for my family to celebrate Lunar New Year. Lunar New Year is based off the lunar calendar, which uses the shapes of the moon to determine the solar year. Lunar New Year is celebrated in many places other than China, including Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, Vietnam, and more. Each [...]
