April 2, 2021
Writing Challenge: Day 1
Thursday, April 1st, 2021
There's a defining moment in every film we watch.
For those of you who remember the movie Spanglish:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanglish_(film)
Do you remember what was the defining moment in the film? 🤔
Of course to each of us a defining moment in everything in life including the films we watch, so it's not a one-answer-fits-all kind of thing. I remember liking Flor's attitude in the film and the way she insisted that she's Cristina's mom to stop those who tried to interfere in the way she was raising her daughter. None of this though was the reason that made me remember "Spanglish" always.
The real defining moment of the film was when Cristina was upset over something and her mother stopped her from being sad or shedding tears. She only allowed her to shed that one tear she had in her eyes already at that moment and that's it 🍀
That scene reminded me of every hardship we passed in life and how important it was to let go of it as fast as we could. Constant dwelling on the past especially tough and sad situations would only bring sadness and sadness brings physical and mental illnesses.
Last time I was really stressed in my life, a wrinkle was formed on my face, so I've learned my lesson :D Never again! Seeing that one wrinkle in the mirror was another defining moment as well 🙆🏻♀️
What I'm trying to say is that if you are passing a real hard situation and thinking about it won't help you solve anything, the best thing to do is let go of it and anyone who is reminding you of it. Surrounding yourself with fun things to do and people with good attitudes in life can be contagious and this is exactly what I think we all should focus on. Along with positive thinking since most, if not all, the things happening in our lives are products of our own thoughts.
I love to laugh and I keep some silly stuff where I can constantly see them because they make me giggle and lighten up my mood no matter how awful is the day I passed 😂
April 2, 2021
April 2, 2021
April 2, 2021
I am an active person and hobbies have been always present in my life. I never feel like doing nothing.
My oldest hobby is to read, I like because I learn new things and I find it relaxing. I do it since I was a child but my preferences have changed over the years. Initially I tended to read science fiction and adventure novels. Historical events books came latter. Nowadays I switch between Japanese literature, graphic novel and profound themes (religion or psychology books.). I guess it’s a consequence of getting older.
Another indoor hobby that I enjoy a lot is crafting. Specifically, I like to sew presents for my relatives, using colorful fabrics. Because I work all day bored in front of a computer, using my hands during my free time to create these objects releases this creative part of mine.
Finally, I like to travel and hike. I love nature and I sometimes practice outdoor yoga. Maybe because, I am a curious person I feel like an explorer, every new place is a discovery.
April 2, 2021
April 2, 2021
The layoff was a blessing in disguise as my new job is a lot better than the old one.
He went to Siberia with only shorts and t-shirts. He is really a sandwich short of a picnic.
Our new home is just a stone‘s throw away from our old one so moving was really fast and cheap.
April 2, 2021
April 2, 2021
子供の頃から趣味は多くてきた。最も好きなことは芸術的だ。でも、大人になると好きなことは変えている。例えば、体育授業が嫌いだったが今は運動するようにしています。
祖母は「筆を取った途端、絵描きをしてきた」と言います。毎日絵描きをしていて、中学の時は他の生徒と比べるとレベルは高かったが、高校が終わった後で、絵描き時間が少なくなっちゃったので私はそんなに上手じゃないになったと思う。芸術についての仕事は無理と言われたので、文学と語学をしています。ちょっと悔しいです。絵描きは、一番好きなことはキャラクターを描くが、空想的の景色を作るのも楽しいです。水彩画やインクや色鉛筆を使います。ペンタブレットでも絵描きをします。私の彼氏はプログラマーの学校で勉強しているので、一緒にゲームが作りたいです。
私は少し書きますが、書いたものは恥ずかしくて嫌いです。(汗) 文学を学んでも、完全な作品を書くのは難しいです。あの日、小説を書くかもしれません。実は去年の学校・短編小説のコンテストに参加したのに私の「作品」はおかしすぎたと思います。近代的な文学の中はこの文章で書いている作品は珍しくないですが、先生たちが私の短編小説が好きじゃなかったんです。(笑) 物語が書ければ、漫画を描きたい。
音楽も趣味です。六歳はバイオリンを始めた。はい、始めたばかりは耳が痛い音である。でも頑張りました。だが、中学校は休憩してた。確かに、飽きました。
後で、オンラインの友達を作って、彼はピアノが好きだって、あの日彼と弾きたかったから、もう一度バイオリンを習いました。バイオリンは借り物だったから、高校が終わったとき、大学のためにパリに引っ越ししたし、勉強のせいで音楽をするための時間がないと思ったし、バイオリンを戻した。大変泣きました。でも!他の曲折がある(笑) 一昨年はこのオンラインの友達を出会って彼は「バイオリンを弾かなければならないよ!新しいのを買うように手伝う。」そして、お金をくれた。
「無理無理」を繰り返したのに彼は聞こえないふりにしていた!お金にとって、彼に義理を立てなければならないのでバイオリンを買うことに決めました。今は、他の人と弾きたいんですが、まぁ...
コロナウィルス感染拡大のせいで、難しいですよ。音楽するのが好きですが、先生と授業がなければ、あまり上手にならないね。これもお金がかかっても、来年は授業を受けたい。
オカリナやレコーダーも弾きます。笛の楽器は面白い!和風の楽器も弾きたいです。(太鼓など尺八など琴など) 語学のようでしょうか? 音楽は国際的な言語だと言われますね。
歌うのも好きですが、カラオケをしたことがないです。日本に行くときは、友達とカラオケをやりたいです!パソコンの一人でカラオケは寂しすぎる(笑)
他の趣味は野鳥観察ということです。子供の頃はやく200名前を暗記してた!今は忘れた名前は多い‥他の趣味のように、学校のせいでやめた。
鳥たちはとても可愛い生き物だと思います。春が来ると自然で時間を過ごしたくて、鳥を観察します。先週は日本の野鳥図鑑を買いました。とても楽しいです。フランス語も英語も日本語も(ラテン語も??)の鳥の名前が覚えたいです。旅行が出来ると野鳥観察したいです。特にタンチョウとヒレンジャクを見たいです。
今は過去の趣味に戻りたいです。もっと描きたいし、バイオリンを弾きたいし、鳥の名前を覚えたいし。
高校と大学に巡って、語学も趣味になりました。語学の中の一番好きな二つのことは翻訳と発音である。言語学も勉強したい。苦手なことは文法のルールを暗記することです!でも教師になりたいとショウガナイですよ。
つまり、好きなことは多すぎるので、いつも「時間がない」と言う。でも、命は一つだけだから、やりたいことをやらなければならないですよ!色々なことが好きでも、大丈夫ですよ。好きなことは皆と共有したいです。
April 2, 2021
I guess playing videogames is a Hobby, it's first in my list.
I'm playing videogames since I was a child, one of my firsts memories is watching the tv while I was playing Spyro in Playstation, I enjoyed it a lot, even now I still loving that game, probably I had 4 or 5 years old then, at 7 y. o. (if I remember well) my family bought the first computer, before that I played in computers just a few times, it was a big change because I had the possibility to play everyday, I remember: Diner dash (1, 2, 3, 4 and many more), sims 1, solitaire spider, crazy taxi, gta vice city, some games of Barbie, and some collections with boring games. At that time cell phones wasn't the big deal, anyways it was funny, old nokia was the first that I remember, some sony ericsson (I remember that I wanted to select a wallpaper for the phone, but I didn't know how to read, so I selected the "delete" option withouth know what I did, absolutely confused haha), many simple and forgettable games, except: Grim Oak - Darkest Fear, a red ball to pass levels, some space shooter, snake, a dance game and a game of Alice in wonderland. I'm not talking about a specific age, my remembers are mixed, just I know I was a kid.
Technology advance changed my life, the incorporation of touch was amazing, I was so happy with my first tablet at 14 years old. My first notebook, everything was something great, the possibility to play whatever I wanted.
Note: My family was the typical poor that buy useless things while they don't have good food or clothes.
This gives me a strange feeling, is sadness, my past is traumatic, videogames was my refuge... I played to ignore, to control, to distract from a sad reality...
And now, I'm here, I still playing videogames, but now is only because I like it, ocassionally if I'm too sad or angry I use it as a way to calm down, but isn't usual.
I like: RE (1, 2, 3, 4), sims (1, 2, 4), beholder, zoo tycoon 2 (old and nostalgic), gta (vice city, san andreas, I want to play the V some day), Spyro, Oxygen not Included, crash bandicoot, legend of zelda (Ocarina of time, A link to the past, Majora's mask)
Another possible hobbie is watch anime (I'm not otaku... I guess... haha), anime was present in my life since my childhood with pokémon, ranma 1/2, digimon (1 and 4), inuyasha. It continued when I was teenager, something more absurd and empty: gore and toxic lovers (terrible, I know). Now I still watching it, is part of my life, but I'm a bit more reflexive with it: thinking about characters development, elements, dialogues, etc. I loved Full metal alchemist:Brotherhood, I liked beastars, shingeki no kyojin, boku no hero. Yakusoku no neverland wasn't exactly what I wanted, I read the manga, I ended it, honestly it wasted a lot of potential!
It was so great with gold pond arc, but then... Just a simple and "happy end", they wasted the potential of Isabella and Emma in this. (I'm talking about the manga). And the anime wasn't a big difference, I had a higher expectation: "surely they will make it better", and I was wrong, a big deception.
I wans't interested in Naruto when I was young, but my boyfriend saw it many times, and that's how I watched it (not all, but the most part), I really liked many characters (except Sasuke and Sakura, with S of Super-unbearable) specially Lee. About Boruto, I can't like the protagonist, is so... Boruto, Himawari is a thousand times better than him (at least for me, sorry if I wasn't nice with that comment about the anime)
As I beign said, I read manga too, that's another hobby. And I guess here is included read comics, although I don't do that for a long time, I was interested in DC comics, even I bought a comic from Spider-man (the paper is so nice, the draws too, but too expensive...), but with rebirth everything got mixed for me and I lost interest.
I used to read a lot of books while I was teenager, so much that many consecutive years I was the best reader in the school (although I didn't had so much competition...). I remember how people talked about "the weirdo that reads book in the library", well kids, library is for read books not play and scream, neither use it as a personal room. But there was too people that admired it, above all because I was really faster reading. Sometimes the school did some speed read tests, so they gived to you a paper with words and estimated how fast you read per minute, I ended the paper many seconds before the time was over, even I had enough time to say "I finished" and see how the teacher was impressed. But it wasn't the big deal, faster isn't better, my comprehension and memory for books is terrible, I just read because it was a funny way to distract from the world withouth a computer. I still enjoying reading, but I try to don't buy books (better a PDF).
Write is another hobby although I don't do it daily, only if I'm "inspired" in some way. But in general are sad and tragic histories, marked for my past and my sad vision of the world. Yesterday I wrote a poem in Spanish, I'm gonna put it in another post because this is too long, I don't think someone will want to correct this...
And I like to draw, I'm not the best but I practice sometimes, I learned from videos and taking photos of myself in a specific position to know how body and clothes are in that way. I want to found my personal style some day, maybe publish.
So, my principal hobbies are: 1) Videogames 2)Watch anime 3)Read (manga, books, comics) 4)Write 5)Draw
Honestly, with all my hobbies I want to do something, I mean I want to write a book, make my own comic, work in videogames development. I want to be someone recognized, a person that gived a good history, a good style, something that people liked and shared because is good, is nice, is enough to be enough. (Yes, "enough to be enough" was intentional, not a error)
If someone correct this, thank very much for your time, seriously I appreciate it.
April 2, 2021
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April 2, 2021
Esse mês, penso que posso escrever algumas entradas de diário sobre a tradução aproximada e o sentido de alguns provérbios em ingles. Por exemplo, “você vai apanhar mais moscas com mel que com vinagre”. Obviamente é mais de um conselho sobre a maneira de reduzir o número de insetos em casa! Quer dizer que agindo, falando, etc., de uma maneira clara mais ainda gentil e agradável, você terá mais succeso conseguindo o que você quer, que se você age com ameaças, insultos, queixas, etc. Você pode pensar em um exemplo específico de como esse provérbio pode fazer a diferença?
April 2, 2021
Ik heb niet zo veel hobby's. Om meerdere hobby's te hebben, heb je gewoon vrije tijd nodig. Maar met eens ga ik nog steeds sinds jaren door. Naamelijk - ik houd van beeldende kunst. Voornamelijk schildere ik. Soms denk ik ook, dat schilderen nog belangrijker voor mij is, dan geneeskunde. Ik schilder vaak mijn dromen en sommige dingen, die me niet met rust laten. Vaak gaat het helemaal niet, maar wel zijn er ook tijden, wanneer ik dagelijks schildere. De technieken, die ik gebruik, zijn er meerdere: ik tekene graag met een potlood of een liner, ik verv ook graag met olieverf. Soms neem ik door me gemaakte fotos en bewerke deze. Het collageren doe ik ook soms graag. Ik probier nu ook meer digitaal te tekenen, want ik heb er een werktuig voor. Toen ik naar een kunstschool ging (tijdens middelbaare school), hield ik extreem van het beeldhouwen. Maar dan verboden mijn ouders me kunst te studeren en ik had problemen met normaale school (geen belangstelling of vrienden daar), dus hield ik met de kunstschool op. Nu ben ik bijna een arts en mijn specialisatie heeft wel wat met beelden te maken. Ik houd van celen en wefselonderzoek! En ik houd niet met tekenen op.
Een ander ding wat ik als een hobby van mij betekenen kan, is het lezen. Ik lees dagelijks en ik vind, dat het een van de beste soorten escapisme is. Er zijn meerdere talen, warin ik lees en namelijk: Russisch, Engels, Duits en Nederlands. Ik kan er heel goed van genieten, om een book in de originele taal te lezen.
Wat ik niet leuk vind? Ik ben bepaald geen juiste mens voor uitgaan (is dat een juist woord?) en feesten. Ik ga wel graag wandelen, maar ik vind drukke pleken helemaal niet leuk. Ik houd ook niet van concerten.
April 2, 2021
April 2, 2021
Ich werde euch heute erzählen, was für Hobbys ich habe. Seit ich ein Kind war, mag ich das Lesen. Ich lese gern, aber komischerweise ist das Lesen nicht ein regelmäßiges Hobby für mich.
Ich kann mich nur an bestimmten Zeiten erinnern, in denen ich viele Bücher hintereinander gelesen habe. Als ich elf oder zwölf Jahre alt war, habe ich die ganze Buchreihe von "Der Herr der Ringe" gelesen und auch sehr genossen. Auch in dieser Zeit las ich alle verfügbaren Harry Potter Bücher.
Bücher auf Deutsch lese ich auch gern, obwohl ich selbstverständlich immer noch Schwierigkeiten mit der Sprache habe. Das ist mir am Ende egal, weil ich beim Lesen die Zeit gut verbringen kann bzw. Spaß habe und gleichzeitig mein Vokabular verbessere.
April 2, 2021
April 2, 2021
趣味趣味趣味趣味趣味趣味趣味。多趣味。私は多趣味だ。
こんなに大変になると思わなかった、本当に。未知なことを知るのが好きだから勉強が好きだ。勉強が好きだからなんで知りたくなる。それで困っているわけ。何を勉強するのか選べないといけないけど、選びたくない。勉強の好きじゃないところはこの欲張りだ。勉強はきりがないから、暇な時間がえぐい。
たとえば、日本語の勉強をたとえにすると、日本語のことが面白くて知らなかったから勉強をし始めた。そのわけで、漢字を勉強した。漢字を知ったから、習字が好きになった。だんだん日本のことを知り、音楽が好きだから尺八のことを知った。それで吹けるようになりたかった。尺八はますます好きになって尺八作りも気になった。尺八作りだと物作りの枠に入るわけだから、物作りが好きになった。物作りが好きだから大工にも興味を持った。
などなどなどなどなどなどなどなど。永遠に続く。きりがない。だから、勉強が好きだけど、嫌いだ。勘弁にしてよ、お前(勉強くん)。でも、やっぱり好き。もしかして、私ツンデレ?
はい、今日の放送(投稿なんだけど?)が終了です!
それでは
さらばでござる、諸君
p.s. (追記)
もう少し笑わせような書き方をしてみた。成功したか、そうでもなかったか教えてくれば嬉しい
April 2, 2021
I don't have many hobbies. I'm lazy and easily distracted, which doesn't help to maintain an activity. I read a lot, online and on paper. I write a lot too, both fanfictions and original works. I am a youtube addict, I watch mostly cinema critics, stupid lists and vlogs. What interest me is always changing so I'm rarely bored. I'm really not good with my hands so no art, I'm an introvert (also containment) so no group activities. I'm very boring, actually! And I don't really know what to say.
I engage in short stories competitions because it motivate me to continue working on texts (I write easily but don't always persist.) I write fanfiction to destress and also because it's fun to write what you want how you want it. I'm getting better. But it has been years. I used to tell myself long, interesting stories to get myself to sleep. But now that I want to write them I get lazy and endings are always a problem. Which is annoying, because as a reader, I despite authors who never finish anything! Oh ! When I write, I often hear the voice of my inner-reader. She's my hardest critic. "We already saw that million times." "Can you get more boring?" "Wait, didn't we read that in Hannah?" She's my first beta-reader, truthfully. So I feel obligated to make an effort, to push a little more. I can't go easy with my writing: I read too many excellent books, the gap saddens me.
In the end, I would say that I read a ot of really good books along the years. I also wrote some excellent things, or so I think. I publish fanfiction on some sites.
I also am present on Goodreads and Habitica.
Wow, that was harder than I thought.
April 2, 2021
Me encanta la pintura en tinta al estilo de Asia Oriental. De hecho no sabe pintar. Por eso busco motivos en internet y los copio en mi propio estilo. Me gusta pintar animales, plantas y paisajes. He comprado algunos cursos de pintura en Domestika. Espero mejorar mi habilidad de pintar.
April 2, 2021
La primera actividad que me gusta es leer.
Me gustaría leer desde pequeña, pero empezó a leer menos en el instituto porque no tenía tanto tiempo. Ahora sin embargo he empezado leer libros de nuevo y me encanta. Hoy, ya que es el Día de los Libros para Niños, quiero leer "The War With Grandpa" de Robert Kimmel Smith. Me gusta leer porque es una actividad calma que estimula la creatividad, y puedes hacerla en todas partes. No creo que tiene aspectos negativos, pero desde la pandemia mi atención ha sido muy pobre, entonces es dificíl a veces de ser bastante concentrada para leer mas de dos páginas por día.
La segunda actividad que me gusta es aprender otros idiomas.
Ahora estoy aprendiendo el español y el ruso porque he sido estudiar el español por seís anos, y el ruso me parece muy interesante con su alfabeto diferente y sus particularidades. Es muy divertido aprender estos idiomas, pero es a veces complicado de encontrar personas con quien puede practicar para ser mejor oralmente.
April 2, 2021
Me gusto mucho levantar pesas. Competí en un concurso de powerlifting (? no sé cómo este deporte se llama en español) y tuve el tercer lugar en mi clase de peso. No he podido levantar pesas durante covid, así que ahora estoy aprendiendo a patinar. También, me gusta hacer fotos con una cámera manual (no digitale) y ir a mercados a encontrar unas cámeras viejas. Antes, me gustaba cocinar, pero ahora estoy cansada con lo.
April 2, 2021
I'm aiming for scoring 4.5 in the GRE analytical writing session. Please make a judgement of my essay and teach me how to revise it. Thanks a lot!
Prompt
Governments should place few, if any, restrictions on scientific research and development.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.
My Essay
Scientific research and development have played an increasingly important role in modern society. The prompt suggests that they should receive few restrictions from governments, while I strongly disagree with this idea. All the scientific research and development should under strict restrictions and supervision. I hold this view for three reasons, which I will elaborate on in the following essay.
To begin with, science is a double-edge sword. It is not all about improving our lives but can also do harm to, or even destroy our society. For instance, genetic engineering can be used to increase agricultural yields by making plants more productive and more robust to environmental disadvantages. Nevertheless, terrorists can also use such technology to produce deadly biochemical weapons. The pandemic of Covid-19 has already shown the fateful power of some viruses. Therefore, there must be enough restrictions and supervision on scientific research and development to prevent them from producing harmful results.
Moreover, without restrictions, some researchers may turn to dirty ways to simplify their research. For example, during World War II, Nazi and Japanese scientists carried out numerous human body experiments on prisoners since no one cared about their rights. These experiments caused extreme misery on the prisoners though. Thus, if there aren't enough restrictions on scientific research and development, we will whiteness more human test subjects suffering from incipient experiments. Thanks to modern restrictions on medical research, it is commonplace that products like drugs are strictly prohibited for tests on humans unless they have been proven safe by multiple tests on animals.
Last but not least, some researchers may try to adulterate their outcomes for their own interests. This can cause disastrous consequences if there isn't enough supervision and restrictions. For instance, if researchers who invent a novel nuclear reactor have concealed all the security risks within it, power plants which adopt it will be enormously dangerous. In order to prevent researchers from potential academic misconduct, there have to be strict restrictions and supervision on scientific research and development.
In conclusion, scientific research and development shouldn't take place unless there are enough restrictions and supervision. Because without them we cannot prevent researchers from producing deadly results, use inappropriate methods in their research, and indulge themselves in academic misconduct.
April 2, 2021
Detta är för att rädda min strimma. Tack Sora! Jag hade förlorat min strimma efter jag raderade en journalpost. Min 90-dagar strimma stoppade då! Jag var sorglig och deprimerad, men någon från LC Discord sa att jag kunde skicka ett meddelande till en moderator, förklara situationen och kanske få tillbaka min strimma!
Historiens sensmoral: radera ingen journalpost någonsin!
April 2, 2021
Ich habe Aufsagen und Tanzen gehasst, daran ich erinnere mich noch aus meiner Kindergartenzeit. Ich mochte das Aufsagen nicht, weil ich es nicht mochte und nicht gut im Auswendiglernen war, und nach dem Unterricht von meinem Lehrer zum Auswendiglernen verlassen zu werden, war ätzend. In der Grundschule habe ich angefangen, Go zu lernen, ich übe jetzt weniger, aber ich arbeite in Teilzeit als Go-Lehrerin im Kindergarten und in der Grundschule. Von der Grundschule bis zum Gymnasium habe ich kein wirkliches Hobby entwickelt, weil alles um mich herum mir sagte, dass die Aufnahmeprüfungen das Wichtigste bis zum Erwachsenenalter sind. Aber jetzt denke ich, dass mich die Aufnahmeprüfungen in gewisser Weise ruiniert haben. Als ich aufs College ging, fing ich an, Skateboard fahren zu lernen, aber nur wenige Leute um mich herum spielten und mein Fortschritt war zu langsam. Ich hoffe, dass ich in einer anderen Stadt weiter Skateboard fahren lernen kann. Ich mochte Musik sehr. Dann habe ich auch Gitarrenunterricht genommen, den ich jetzt nur noch selten praktiziere, weil ich gemerkt habe, dass ich Musik lerne, weil ich meine eigene schaffen will. Dann habe ich mir FL Studio 20 gekauft und wollte lernen, Musik zu arrangieren. Ich habe ein bisschen Musiktheorie gelernt, aber meine Kompositionen waren immer sehr unbefriedigend für mich. Später wurde mir klar, dass ich Sounddesign sehr schätze. Ich plane, mich im nächsten Jahr offiziell für Kurse einzuschreiben. Ich habe die Botanik schon immer geliebt und hoffe, Botanikerin zu werden. Aber ich finde, ich studiere lieber die Beziehung zwischen Pflanzen und ihrer Umgebung. Ich interessiere mich auch für Philosophie und Gamification. Also werde ich dieses Jahr die postgraduale Aufnahmeprüfung der Kommunikation absolvieren, weil es die einzige Disziplin ist, die diese Interessen für mich abdecken kann.
April 2, 2021
Eu tenho uma paixão pelo desporte. Já quando era criança gostei dela escalada. Com o tempo me desenvolvi uma acrofobia, então comecei fazer jogging. Uma outra coisa que gosto são as viagens, descobrir coisas novas, encontrar novas pessoas,... . Por isso viajei no 2020 pela Espanha e passei 5 semanas perto do Atlântico. Para refletir e me acalmar faço "Journaling". É uma excellente maneira para ver claro as ideias e os pensamentos sobre um assunto.