Water Crises

The water we drink today is the same water the dinosaurs drank millions of years ago. There is no new water.
Thousands year ago people believed water is one of the holy elements in our earth, but now we destroy it.
One billion people around the world have no access to clean water; It means one of six people. 80% of diseases in the developing countries are caused by contaminated water. In china, India, and Indonesia more people get sick of water than HIV. More than adults children die of disease caused by contaminated water for example just in Africa 10000 kids die every day.
Economically water crises effects on people economy. Women in Africa walk six kilometers to take the water to their home every day. At the same time we use water 100 to 175 gallons per day in the U.S when in the  developing countries the average is 2.64. Forty million hours are wasted in Africa from women and children gathering water for household.    

BLUE

In last class we wrote about "Blue". How do we feel when we hear that word? What kind of emotion does it create in our memory or our feelings? I wrote to describe blue for a blind young boy who asks to understand concept of color in general.
I know he is blind, and young, but my consideration is if my writing is clear to show that, and you as a reader
find it easy to get?

Blue

Sky is blue, I said. He shook his foot to clean the sands off, and told me" I have heard it all the time, sky is blue, sea is blue my eyes are blue, but I want to feel that, how is blue"? He sat next me with a big question that every body could see on his wrinkled forehead of his eyebrows. "I knew that face with those line on the forehead, he would not let me go before I answered him" I thought.
I said It was like swimming in the ocean, and.... He caught me, "Swimming is cold and wet!" I looked at him, in his blowing hair on the air which at the moment were orange of the sun set color. I closed my eyes and said to him "blue is going in a road that never ends, blue is a dream that you go after it when you are awake".
He said so, blue is inside me"          

Header

Hello Dear Professor

I found out how to do my last name on the second page, thank you though.
I wish a very good vacation with tons of laughter, relaxation, and health.

Maryam
 

The Story of Rainy Day

I love the rain. Most of the day I looked at the yard through the window from my chair in living room. The rain washed the glass whole day. Some drops came straight down, some twist and twist, resisting of falling. Some crashed with others trying bend their ways, some trying to open a way to get in others path, or trying stop them trying slow them, some tried being the first to fall down. Some drops in their ways into ground tickled the grass, dancing with dandelions, then going down very deep into the ground. There was dark not cold, a pure smell of life lead all drops down into the thirsty Oak tree's roots. The tree was waiting a long time, and now all drops giggling slide up to the highest leavs in top of tree to see the sky from the earth.    

Header For the Second Page Of Our Essay

Hello Dear professor

I came back home(my room) today evening from work. It was a nice day. I like the lady who I work for her off and on. we had good time, cleaning and chatting. I told you I found out about header. I mean how to write my name on the second pages on the top with the number, I did not. I tried and tried but it came to both pages what I did not want. My boy friend can help me but he is out of town. I have to ask him when he came back.
My daughter still is busy with getting ticket and visa. That is so frustrating after five years and three months she is going and come back between the US embassy and air line agency because the embassy told her to buy her ticket and take the ticket to them so she can have her visa and traveling documents. But air line agency wont sell the ticket who does not have the visa!!! Is not strange?
I miss her a lot.   

Starbucks Coffee

Hi
I am writing my essay for Monday now, and it is about Starbucks Coffee Company. That is the description way to write about something with as much as details we can. This is my weakness in writing. I want to go very quick to the main subject, and even go to persuade an idea, or feeling to othersdd. I have finished the outline, and other one, just I do not know if that is my rough draft or perwriting. I will find out on Monday!!
I remember any time I want to write what you told me once. You told me I have to write more. That is true since that time I write any sentence comes in my mind without thinking if it is right or wrong. Then I look over next day, and make some changes, or replace the words, or switch the sentences with each other. It gives me the chance to get better in spelling, and more familiar to write anyhow. I use my speech 113 book in order to write for your class too. That is other class I have taken to support my English improvement.
By the way I found out how to write my last name and the number of every pages in top of the papers when I want to print them out!!
I think, I need to go to bed. I wrote two more essays today, and I still have more to write. Tomorrow I will for half a day helping somebody to put away her Christmas decoration, and setting Easter bunny ones. I need some extra money. My part time job, and financial aid really are not enough to cover my basic needs unfortunately.

The best,

Maryam

    

Persian New Year

Hello Dear Teacher

I hope you feel better now. I did not get you were sick in the last class we had, I am sorry, but you looked good, and I think we did everything we had to. You are a wonderful teacher, and It is obvious that you like your job. I am sure all in the class like you, and respect you. You make the class for everybody joyful and effective. Your comfort with us has taken away the anxious which we had in the beginning. I talk about you to my friends, encouraging them to take your class for English 101.
In my country people are celebrating New Year now. We call that NOROOZ, and it means new day. This happens in the first day of spring, but not in a same hours or even day because our calendar has set with the earth's movement around the sun. This is the way it works; You know one year is 365, or 366, and this is the time our earth around the sun, but it is not exactly 366, or 365. It could be 365 days and three hours forty five minutes and ten seconds for example. So we celebrate exact time of the new circle which the earth starts that in the spring.
With this definition I can say to you the expression we say to each other, HAPPY SPRING!!! 

my Paradise is comming

Hello,
It is two days that I am so excited! My daughter will be here soon. I have not seen her for five years and three months. When I separated in the airport in Tehran, we had no this idea that the separation would last too long; Five years ago she was a teenager when she flew to Sweden, and now she is a lady. I look at her pictures, and get more confused if she is my little girl.
I could not take her here because the US Embassy gave visa only to me. I had to leave Iran, and I did not want left her behind, so I send her to stay with my sister for a while until I get my residency.This "while" has taken five years and three months!!
I am so happy she will be here soon.

Maryam  

What if honeybees leave our planet?

I love honey. Every morning I sweeten my peanut butter sandwich with honey. I know it is not the real real honey, but still it is honey. But more than honey I like my beautiful earth. I want to hand it to next generation better than what I have been given. This little ball, tiny tinny dust in universe, is very gorgeous when you look at it even from Mars. The only place that has honeybee after all. They are so kind to us with those soft furs on their legs.
We have been losing them since late 2006. It is time to pay them back, for all mistakes we have done to them.
"Colony Collapse Disorder" does not have any meaning to them. They do not understand why we like lawn more than wild flower, and they do not know why they are dying.
We have to do something now. A strip of seasonal flowers around our yards, or some water in a container with  a few pebbles for landing on while they are drinking, even a pot behind our windows, if we have no yard, can  make a big different for the bees who have been feeding us for thousands years.             

Uganda

Hello,
I watched the video on Sammy blog. (I found out how to see other people's blog!)
I also wrote to Sammy about the video. It is beyond sad. I had read about a boy soldier from Sierra Leone, a long way gone, I cried and sometimes I felt nauseous of what I was reading. It is beyond sad; The words can not cover all the life are gone.      
In Iran is not better than Uganda, except everybody talks about that, and there is no a day that you do not read or hear something about Iran in the news. But nothing happen, even when people inside Iran do demonstration nobody support them. I think it is because economic profit which is huge in Iran, so I say no matter you be rich or poor nobody care about you, this is you, you have to care about YOU.

    

Newspeak

Hello Dear Professor
Thank you. You are right, I found Newspeak's meaning. There is an explanation in the appendix which looks perfect. I did not read it yet, but I will do for sure. The book looks interesting and worthy of praise. I want to grasp whole concept of the book.
Have wonderful weekend.

Maryam

Vocabulary

Hello Dear Professor

Today I felt I forgot something when I was getting ready for my second class at college. That was my blog. I miss writing it is why I thought I did not write for a long time.
During the days I have many brain storms which come in my mind. I think about them, and review the sentences in my mind, but when I come home at night all are gone. I should take a note right away of my brain storm, even when I am driving!
I have read 1984 first pages for fifth time, but I do not know what does Newspeak mean? I could not find it in my dictionary.
Other word is expialidocious!!! I am kidding, it is in an old song that was made by Richard and Robert Sherman many years ago    
I wanted to get all credit for the vocabulary test, but I could not. I have written them on the flash cards to review every day. I hope I get a better grade on next test.

The best,

Maryam

to be or not to be

"If we really want to live, we'd better start at once to try;
 If we don't it does't matter, we'd better start to die".

                                      Wystan Hugh Auden
                                                             1907

I think it is sad that our world still is such a difficult place to live (really!) because if we do not try there is no other way but death. 

Have wonderful week,

Maryam

My Wish

Hello, Good Night, or better to say Good Morning

I am amazed how the time goes so fast. It is, I think, three days that I could not write for you. I get surprised any time I look at the clock, like now, it is 1: 18 am. Wow!!
This is my twenty four hours of a day: I spend four hours at preschool where I work five days per week, and six hours at Valley College as well except Fridays and week ends. Driving takes my time two hours a day, except Sundays which is less. Doing necessaries of human's life get two hours. Paper work and checking email and mails take at least one hour a day. I have half a day on Fridays, and in most of the time it goes for earning, and my appointments. I help a single mother every Saturday volunteering for many hours.  
I need to do my homework and projects related to my courses, but I can not do on time or in a way I like to do. I know I am doing well, and every thing is in progress in my new life here in the US, but I wish every day had more hours, not so much, just thirty hours instead of twenty four hours, and if it is hard for God may be God could just create us with less need to sleep.

Amen