Journal Entry#27

LAS VEGAS

I have not been Las Vegas before, but I have some information about there. If I were going to Las Vegas, I would join the city tour. Firstly, I would go to Bellagio Hotel because its arthitecture is very famous and different. Also, I heard the other hotels and gazinos have really exciting arthitecture. After I finished the city tour, I would go to gazinos ofcourse. However, I am not good at gambling, I would try to earn some money. For example, I really want to try black Jack in Las Vegas. On the other hand, I think machines are better for me.Since, they are easy and cheap. I did not try gambling before in Las Vegas thats why I have no advice. However, I think luck is the more important thing for earning money. For example, you should cary your special lucky things in your pocket. I have lucky dice and whenever I cary this with me, I usually earn money on Black Jack. In conclusion, If I were you, I would join city tour, choose cheap hotel and save money for gambling because Las Vegas means gambling for fun.

Journal Entry#25

DIFFERENCES OF MC DONALDS AND JACK IN THE BOX

Although both Mc Donalds and Jack in The Box are fast food restauants, there are few differences. The first difference is that Mc Donalds is more common than Jack in The Box. If you want to eat in Mc Donalds, you can easily find every corner of the street nearly. Also, Mc Donalds multinational company and all people in the world know them. On the other hand, Jack in The Box is not common outside the U.S.A. The second difference is that Jack in The Box restaurants have a fresh fast food whereas, Mc Donals restaurants prepare always unfresh french fries and hamburgers. Thats why some people prefer to Jack in The Box these days. All in all, they are two major fast food restaurants, they have some different properties.

Journal Entry#26

DIFFERENCES OF TENNIS AND SOCCER

Although soccer and tennis are very famous sports amoung the people, there are some differences. One difference is number of players. Soccer is team sport and each team should have eleven player during the game. On the other hand, tennis is indivual sport and each player plays for theirselves. Second difference is supporter profil. Supporters of soccer team are genarelly very agressive, wild, crazy, fiery, and they are not silent during the whole game, whereas supporters of tennis are calm, quite. Also, all economic class of people prefer to play or watch soccer games, but tennis is genarelly preferred amoung high economic class people because if you have ball, you play soccer everywhere but if you want to play tennis, you have to find tennis field. Third reason is responsibility and stress. Both tennis and soccer players have some responsibility and stree during the game. Soccer players just responsible for thier position. For example, if players position is in defence left side, player just responsible for this area.This example means that soccer player can share their responsibility so they share stress. On the other hand, tennis player responsible for all field so they feel stress more than soccer player. In conclusion, though these two sports have some differences, people likes both of them.

scary story

Ozgur Bas
Sam
October 24, 2007




DARK FOREST

Last summer, a group of teenagers wanted to go to Van Lake for vacation. They were very wild. Their names were Martin, Kenny, Deniz and Jale. On Saturday morning, they left their city. Firstly, they had to pass through the forest to get to the lake. However, they did not know the way around the forest. For this reason, they stopped their car before entering the forest and they searched for someone to ask how to get to the lake. Finally, they found a house, and they walked toward the house. They knocked on the door, but nobody answered. When they turned back to the car, they were surprised to see an old man in front of them. He had long hair and a long beard, but he looked very kind. They asked him how they can pass through the forest. He explained the way. They understood and they wanted to try this. They thought that they would find the way very easily. However, they lost their way a few hours later. At this time, they wanted to separate into two groups. Martin and Deniz went to left side and the others went to right side because they saw two paths and they had to try the two ways to find the correct way. One hour after separating, Martin and Deniz met a strange man who was a ranger. They wanted to ask something about the way but he did not want to answer them. He was a young strong man and he looked very nervous. He just told them to get out of there immediately. They were really scared because he looked very scary and he had an axe in his left hand. After they left him, they continued on their way for a few minutes and suddenly they saw two death people. They recognized them easily because they were their friends. For that moment, they heard a sound from their back side. When they turned, they saw the ranger in front of them. They tried to escape from there but they could not because after few minutes running, they met the old man. They tried to explain the story but he looked very strange and he carried riffle. He pulled his gun to teenagers, and this time everyone heard a metallic sound like an axe voice. Suddenly, the old man dropt to ground. They turned their head to back, and they saw the ranger. He helped them and saved their life. When they tried to say thank you to him, they did not see him. He disappeared suddenly. They did not understand until they arrived to the lake because they arrived to the lake they went to police station. After they entered through the door, they saw a picture. This was ranger’s picture. They were surprised because under the picture it was written a date. This date showed to 100 years ago. He died 100 hundreds years ago but that day he saved their life.

Bonus Entry

Parrot imitated the Fire Alarm

This story is about a parrot that saved a family. Shannon Conwell and his son was sleeping at 3 a.m Friday night when they heard their parrot voice. They had slept on the couch when the fire was started. They were suprised because their noisy parrot imitatited to smoke alarm. Therefore, it saved their life. After fire finished , thier kithchen, dining room and bedroom was destroyed.He said '' If we are in bedroom, we can not hear the voice of parrot and maybe we can burn but that day we slept on couch''.

Journal Entry#23

How to Cook Spaghetti

Spaghetti is my fovorite dish because it is very easy and delicious. Morever, whenever I want to eat spaghetti, I eat it with salad and white wine. Also, spaghetti is very impoartant for me because, I can only cook spaghetti. First, you need to find correct size pot, it depends on how many people they can eat with you. Then, put some water in it and you open the fire. One or two minutes later, add one teaspoon salt in the water. You should wait until the water boils. After the water boils, put the pasta in the salty water. Next, mix the pasta with fork and check. You should check the pasta to determine for ready or not. When you feel it is ready, you close the fire. Then, take the pot and bring to sink. After that use colander and drain the water. You should not wash the pasta in this step. Next, put some butter in empty pot and opent fire again. After the butter melt, put the pasta in it. Then, wait at least 2 minutes. You can put it in plate with some salad and you can can use different kinds of sauce whatever you want. You should serve with white wine and invite your friend.

Journal Entry#22

How to Lose 10 Pouns in Two Day

Nowdays, obesity is a very common problem in some highly developed countries. This is very dangerous health problem amoung young people. Thats why, a lot of people wants to lose weight and wants to be healthy again. There are two useful method for lose weight. If you can use this methods very well, you can lose 10 pounds in two days. You should use these two methods in same time. First way is diet. If you really want to lose weight, you must control your weight. For example, vegatable is more healty and they do not cause to gain weight. Thats why, you should prefer to use vegatable diet in two days. Also, you drink only water during these period. The second way is exercise. Some people think that if they do not eat anything, they can lose weight quickly. However, if you do not exercise with diet, diet does not work for losing weight. Genarally running is very useful exercise for losing weight. If you try to run one hour, it is really effective way. In conlusion, according to these two ways, losing weight in two days is possible but you should use the two main method for this.

Journal Entry#21

How to Find a Marriage Partner

There are many ways to find a marriage. First way is dating agencies. Nowadays, many people prefer to go dating agencies because it is very easy, fast and reliable method for dating. Firstly, you should prepare your profil and determine what specialities do you search. Then, the agencies determine the suitable candidate for you. After that you should try to understand he or she is really suitable for you. For example, many American people use this method for finding Russian wifes. Second way is taking help from relatives. In this way, some of your curious and excited relatives want to meet you with girls. These girls are selected from close neigbourhood. For instance, this method is very common in Turkey. Third way is meeting many girls. In this method, you should meet a lot of girl and you spend time with them. You must not be hurry and you should wait the correct time. Sometimes, this may be continue very long time. After you meet more than one hundred girl, you can decide what type of girls are suitable for you. In conclusion, if you want to marry with someone, there are a lot of way for this.

Journal Entry#24

A Person Who Has Made a Difference: Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Ataturk is very important leader for Turkish people. He is the founder of the Turkish Republic. Also, he is my idol. He was born in 1881 and he died in 1938. He was a soldier and he fought for his country after the World War 1. Furthermore, he saved his country from occupier countries. He always wanted to raise Turkey to the level of other modern countries, so he worked on this area and he made a lot of projects for materializing his idea. He followed some steps and when he had finished one step, and then he implemented the other steps. First, he started to change of political system and he brought a new system. It is called democracy. He was first president of this system. Secondly, he made a lot of reforms. For example, he changed clothes, family names, calendar, hours, measures and he brought modern type of systems. Turkey communicates with other country of Europe very easily now because we use the same type of systems. Moreover, he regulated to Turkish economy and he legislated for farm and stockbreeding because he wanted to reinforce the Turkish economy. Because after war Turkish economy was bad and he solved this problem. He established to modern time and he was an encouragement to farmers. Thirdly, he changed the alphabet from the Ottoman alphabet to the new Turkish alphabet. He made this change because he believed the Ottoman alphabet is very hard to learn and he wanted to bring new easy Turkish alphabet. Also all Europe was using this alphabet. He regulated university education and he opened a lot of universities because he always believed to Turkish generation and he thought generation will increase to Turkey over the modern countries. Also he gave a chance for women to attend to elections. The first time one country gave a selection chance for women. In addition, his life was published in Time magazine one of the biggest leader of last one hundred years. He was a soldier but he always preferred peace. He once said, “Peace at home, peace in the world”. This shows how important he is. In conclusion, he was a good solider, good politician, and he is a hero for the Turkish people.

Journal Entry#20

DIFFERENT KINDS OF PEOPLE

There are three kinds of people on the world. First kind is famous people such as musicians, sport players, painter, actors ect...Everyone knows them because they have special skills and they use this for earning money. Second kind is more than rich people such as Bill Gates, Sabanci, Hilton ect...They have too much money and they can do whatever they want. Third one is normal people such as me and you. Few people knows them because they have not any special skills, or they have not too much money as much as Bill Gates. They need to work and earn money for their daily activities. In conclusion, If you read these paragraph, you must be normal kind people :)))

Journal Entry#19

ADVANTAGES OF BEING SINGLE

I can give two main reasons for advantages of being single. However, I can not be single more than two months. Also, I want to explain my oppinion for men side because girls are very complicate for me, so I do not understand them still. First of all, if you are not connect to someone, you feel free. For example, if you want to go somewhere with your close friend, you have two problems. The first problem is your close friend because girls are never like your close friend.The second problem that they usually do not like men activities and they do not want to come with you. Furthermore, they do not want to permit to you. Second of all, you can find enough time for your hobbies. For instance, girls usually waits so much interest from you. Therefore, whenever you want to interest another things such as cars, soccer games and girls, they always make a problem. In conclusion, you want to be free and you want to enough time for your hobbies, you can try to be single.

Journal Entry#18

ADVANTAGES OF PLAYING SPORT GAME

There are some reasons for advantages of playing sport games. First advantage is health. Regular exercising is very important for humans health. Experiment shows that if someone do exercise everyday, their immune system will get stronger and they will not be sick easy. For example, soccer player, runner, basketball player usually be healthier than other people. Second advantage is appearence. Nowadays, everyone wants to be fit and they try different type of diets. However, the best way for keeping weight is regular exercise and you can do this with playing sport games. Moreover, If you like your appareance on mirror after exercise, your confidence will get higher and you feel better. The final reason is spending enjoyable time. People generally prefer to play sport game when they feel boring. Also, they can meet their close friends and they pass good time together. They forget their all worrying about during the game. This game is very effective way to escape the real world. In conclusion, playing sports game have very important advantages on humans life such as health, appreance and spending nice time.

journal group work....:)

Importance of Exercise

There are three reasons for exercising. The first reason is good for health. If you do exercise regularly, you can have a strong heart and lung. For example, runner never get heart attack. The second reason is appearance. Nowadays, people want to be thin and pretty. For example, if they do exercise to strength their muscle and keep their body under weight control, you can get good body shape. In addition, when you do your daily exercise, your self confidence will be increase and you feel better. The final reason is relaxation. During the exercise, you feel comfortable and calm. For instance, you forget the things that you worried about. Moreover, when you do exercise, you spend enjoyable time such as playing sport.

Journal Entry#15

HALLOWEEN

In my country we do not celebrate halloween, so I have not enough information about this topic. However, I will celebrate Halloween first time in Usa and I am so exciting. I like horror movies and scary things for this reason Halloween is very interesting for me. I searched internet and found some information about Halloween. Halloween is celabrated 31st October and has special activities. Halloween orginally was a pagan festival among the Ireland and Britain. After that, Irish and Scottish people carried this to North America. Halloween's special symbol that are pumpkins. In Halloween, people carve pumpkin and they try to make human face on it, then they can put candle in it. Also, Halloween is related to death, magic and mythical monsters. The common characters of halloween are skeletons, ghost, ghouls, witch, vampir, bats, haunted house, zombies, black cats, goblins, demon. The traditional colours of halloween are genarally orange and black, but now some people use purple, red and green. Furthmore, in Halloween people do some activities fo example trick-or-treating, costume parties, bone fires, ghost tours, visiting hounted house, vieweing horror films. Halloween's traditional foods are candy apple and fruit cake. In conclusion, Halloween is very important for people communication, people come together and spend scary time.

Journal Entry#16

My Embarrassing Time

People sometimes can fall down to embarrassing situation, but I think If you can take some lesson from this situation, it is not important you are embarressed or not. When I was in elemantary school, I played basketball in my school team and I lived my most embarrassed time. We had very important game and we did a lot of exercise before this match. We had not any problem for winning this game. We were better than other team and everyone was thinking that we will win this match. The match day, everything started beautiful, our supporters came to stadium, everyone was trust to our team. However, after match was started, our opponent team played vey well and we suddenly lost our self confidence, because we did not suppose to this. We always thought that we will win this game easily, but now everything had turned to opponent team's side. That was very hard game and two minutes ago before the finishing time,the score was equal and I made the historical mistake. I want to describe this moment. I put the ball from my field and when I was crossing the other field with the ball suddenly, I looked the time. I saw only two seconds for finishing time and I threw the ball for score. It was not score and game did not finish. All stadium was very suprised and they were looking at me. Immidately, I understood my mistake, because I saw the time wrong, and this time I felt the cold wind around my body. I thought the wall were coming toward to me. Finally, we lost the match because after my mistake our team plan broke. After the match day, everyone from my school kid with me and if I see someone from my school, they still remmeber this and laughing to me. It was very bad experince for me, but I learned something for this experience. Whatever you meet in this life, you should be careful.

Journal Entry#17

My Big Greek Weeding

This movie has a funny story about a Greek family and their strange girl. This family wants to live in U.S.A. with their extraordinary Greek traditions. In Greek traditions, Greek women should be married with Greek men. Therefore this family is called Portkalos want to their girl marry with another Greek man. However, girl does not want to marry with Greek man also, she does not like her traditions. She always wants live with American traditions in U.S.A. One day she met an American man in own restaurant and suddenly fell in love. After that, she changed her clothes and her hair style. Then, she started to university for learning computer because she wanted to work in airplane office. When she started to working in the office, she saw the same man on the street and they finally met in the office thus, the funny story had started. Thy started to go out and man realized her strange Greek tradition, but he accepted to this culture. However, girls family especially her father did not want this relationship at the beginning. After they realized, this couple really love each other and they permitted to the marriage. Also, man’s family did not use to Greek tradition in the beginning, but at the end of the film, they were really enjoy at the weeding. I want to write something about her grandmother , she was very sweet.