Thursday, March 18, 2010

Traveling alone ^oo^

Traveling alone

It is so interesting and exciting to just take an adventure to travel solo by yourself around the world. Many individuals have been choosing this way to have a real time of life by their own. By traveling alone, you can discover a lot of amazing and surprising things through your trip and meet new people, make friends and feel free to go wherever you want without time-consuming. It is awesome, isn’t?

There are a lot of fun and wonderful experiences when you decide to travel alone. You will be surprised about what you can see about the world outside your view. When you prepare carefully for you trip and the place to go, with a package, you are ready to take adventure to experience the world. Arriving at the destination, you will start to discover the exciting places you wish to go without worrying about waiting or following others people like in a group tours. It will be even more excited if it is your first time traveling overseas solo. You can experience a lot of interesting like learning how to book the airplane tickets, rooms, deciding which hotels you are going to stay and how many days you will visit…It makes you automatically independent and learn how to be well-organized. That is true because it is so important to have a proper and good travel arrangement to start you trip otherwise you are about to mess up everything. Furthermore, when you visit new country, new land you will learn about this place’s culture and custom, especially Asian or European culture. Sometimes, it is really interesting and amazing more than you thought.

Another great thing is taking a vacation alone is a great opportunity to meet new people and make friends. Do not think that traveling solo you will be alone and enjoy all the things by yourself. It totally depends on your thought and your attitude. It might be a little bit frightened and nervous at first when you think you will travel with any friends and family, who is going to accompany and help you. You must be sad and feel so lonely or homesick (That’s what I think). However, if you open mind, be friendly and involved with the new people in the new place. You will see that they are also happy to make friends with you. Everyone likes to have new friends. It is human’s nature. Don’t worry! Visiting a new country, you will see more and get to know more people and might be discover how amazing they are. Some travelers make lifelong friendships and lasting and meaningful relationships with people around the world. That is so wonderful and miraculous. Each place, you have been through, you are creating memories and nice experience. It could not be more romantic if you meet you lover accidentally in your trip and spend time with each other. I wish this situation would be come to me luckily. A relationship always starts as a friend.

The last great thing about traveling alone is you can take the initiative and schedule you time. Everyone likes the freedom, so it will be uncomfortable and feel tided if you have to follow the arranged schedule of a tour. You have to wake up early in the morning to start a trip with other tourists and tour guide and cannot stay longer to a place you are interested in. That is what I experienced when took a group tour to Hong Kong. It makes you sometimes feel really tired and sleepy. Therefore, be able to control and manage time by yourself, in my opinion is a good way to go. You will have a flexible time and travel wherever you like and feel ready. Like that, you can have more time to visit and enjoy the place you like. You have time to discover it, take picture and save enough memory for it. That is the special and realistic advantage I like and prefer traveling alone.

For all of those great advantages of traveling alone, I strongly recommend everyone who hasn’t or is hesitate to take a vacation alone to give it a try. You will be not disappointed about what you get when you decide to take an adventure to travel around the world individually. Making friends, meeting new people and experience the world by yourself are worth to give a solo travel a try.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

The Creation

The history of Creation is known and defined in many various ways. It depends on religions and personal beliefs of each individual or organization. The world which people are leaving is very mysterious and interesting to discover. Therefore, many authors have written and researched about the creation of the world in centuries. They have different ideas or beliefs about how the world was created. The understanding of creation is expressed unlikely in two readings: “The Book of Genesis from The Woman’s Bible” of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and “Nature” of Luther Standing Bear. Both readings have different thought about creation. Stanton declares the creation is about the simultaneous creation of man and woman. In contract, Standing Bear believes all of the creatures in the world create a beautiful nature around humans.
In “The Book of Genesis from The Woman’s Bible”, Stanton mentioned a about the progress of God when he created man in Genesis. According to the Genesis “God created man in his own image, male and female” (Page 107, Ideas Across Times), God brought the simultaneous creation of man and woman to the world flow his imagination. He expected that both sexes are equal and have the same significant position in developing the human’s lives. Therefore, women have the same right and dominion like man. It is important to maintain and acknowledge the eternity and equality of sex in order to create the balance world. In Stanton’s opinion, she demonstrated that without marinating those important elements “there could have been no perpetuation of creation, no growth or development in the animal, vegetable, or mineral kingdoms, no awakening nor progressing in the world of thought.”(Page 106-107, Ideas Across Times). From that, people can realize that the creatures of the world are closely related to a simultaneous creation of the masculine and feminine which man and woman were evolved on the sixth day. Thus, overall Stanton’s view about the creation is man is the first and original specie in the beginning of the world.
However, Standing Bear has a different comprehension about the creation. His thought is mainly regard to Nature. He thinks that all of creatures are created the beautiful we live now. The earth, the sun, water, animals and every single creature combine together to develop the nature. Standing said The Lakota loves everything in the earth and people feel safe and comfortable under the protection of mothers and grandmothers. They are really close to nature. It makes them has the clear and sympathy thought about the world: “he can see more clearly into the mysteries of life and come closer in kinship to other lives about him” (Page 188, Ideas Across Times). Because of understanding the beautiful meaning of nature, Indian people behave in good manner and know what is helpful and harmful for their life. Standing Bear expressed that the animals have the same rights as man. They are worth to be protected by humans and it is a proper thing to do. They really care about the creatures around them “This concept of life and its relations was humanizing and gave to the Lakota an abiding love” (Page 189, Idea Across Times). It makes them like and appreciate the environment where they live. The creation of the sun and the earth play the important roles in the development of nature. Therefore, Indian people have special love and beliefs about the earth and the sun in their life. They will protect them throughout difficult situations occur in their life.
From those different concepts about the creation above, people can understand more about the historical of the world’s creation. Ones is related to the simultaneous creation of man and woman, one is related closely to nature. However, both thought of Standing Bear and Stanton are really interesting and understandable. They gave people a different ideas about how the world is made and form that people can appreciate more about the world that they are leaving now.

Rural vs urban area

In this modern world, almost everybody tends to live in the big cities to work and study. Thus, the numbers of population in the rural area has been reducing recently because people refer moving to the urban area due to the standard of living. It makes remarkable differences to chose whether living in the city or the countryside. However, despite of the fact that urban area has the attractive entertainment and good environment for people to develop their carrier and study, I still refer spending my time in the countryside because it has a fresh atmosphere, friendly neighborhood and peaceful life.

The first great thing about the countryside is it carries a fresh atmosphere around its residents. People in the countryside are living in the clear and fresh air without worrying about inhaling the smoke and the combustion from the vehicles, industries releases like urban residents. Therefore, they have a good and stable health, less get illnesses from the effects of the pollution even though they do not have a good medical care like people in the city. Everyone can obviously see the fact that, the more developed area, the more crowded people. It makes the population expand and consequently the demands of using vehicles also improve as well. Like in Vietnam, the pollution has been a serious issue in the big cities, especially in Saigon which is the biggest city in this country because people stick together in this area to desire for jobs and good educations. It certainly has benefits, but the air is really polluted and the atmosphere is oppressive. Many developing countries have the same problem like that in the urban areas. In contract, rural areas bring people a fresh, cool air with a lot of green trees and the lack of using vehicles. Therefore, which people who want to avoid the pollution, countryside is the better choice.

Furthermore, living in the countryside really makes people get closer, especially between neighbors with neighbors. Countryside just a small town, people are really friendly and willing to help each other. People live in the same area or even a little bit far each other, they still know their neighborhood very well. If someone asks about any random information about their neighbors, surely they will tell fluently about their neighbors’ stories. They get along and have a good relationship with one another. If any family has difficult problems, they can encourage and try their best to have their neighbor overcome it. They feel happy and pleasant to do the favor without asking any benefits in return. That is the beautiful characteristics of countryside’s people. They share sadness and happiness, always gather in every special event. Like New Year Holiday, it is the obvious occasion to see the rural people show their carrying and kindness to each other. They come to visit their neighbor’s house and celebrate New Year together with plenty different kinds of traditional food gathering from other families. Generally, they have really close and friendly relationships which hardly seek from the people in the big cities.

Finally, the most wonderful thing to choose living in the countryside is people can find the peaceful life here. That is so great to live in the place without worrying about anything such as how to make more money, how to find a good job, how to study or work better than other people. All of those demands are necessary and realistic, however it will be so stressful and headache for someone who just always thinks about those issues all the time, especially the people in the big cities. Whether they desire or not, they are unconsciously attracted to the busy and competitive life in urban area. Their life just likes a routine and a cycle. In the morning, People have to wake up early go to school, go to work and come home late in the afternoon. Do not have time to get together with family’s members to have a meal is a normal and common thing for them. In contract, a meal with family is a habit and traditional custom for almost every family in the countryside. They can talk and share intimately with each other about their life in a small town. They do not have to stress out and think about how to deal with the world with lots of competitions and busy works. They just wake up and go to a rice field which is so green and immense to do farmer’s jobs. It makes people open mind and be close to nature. Their life is such simple and relaxing. Living closely with nature like that, they will have a good health and rich mental development. Furthermore, countryside is especially a good idea for older people to live and spend the rest of their life here. They can stay with their family or even some of family’s members are not available, they still have neighbors to talk and farmer’s works to do. They will not feel lonely and bored when they are getting older. That is a great valuable thing the countryside can bring to people.

For all of wonderful things that countryside carries in itself. People can see and make their own thought and decision whether living in the countryside or in the big city. However, considering about having a fresh atmosphere, friendly neighborhood and peaceful life, rural areas are still great places to choose. Spending human’s lives with nature is always a good idea.

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Life is difficult when we grow up

People have to grow up and face the world even though they might not wish to. There are many things we have not known and experienced about this world. We have to worry or think a lot about our future and how to run our life better. It does not look like when we are child, we do not have to care about anything. We are just normal and innocent kids playing around with our neighbors and going to schools with arranged schedules. There are nothings to consider about. That is so good. Sometimes, I wish I could go back to the time I were a little girl with full of happy childhood’s memories and the warm love of my parents. If like that, I do not have to know that life is not always simple. It is much more difficult and complicated than I thought.

Being protected by my parents and my family, I was always happy and felt safe. I just needed to go to schools and finished my duty of studying. They love me a lot. My mother is really a great mom. She took care of me and my sisters carefully, especially me because I was the first daughter in the family. I felt like my childhood was really lucky. When I was a little girl, my mom often told a lot of fairy tales stories for me. I love listening to those stories. Her voice was so warm and inspired. It took me to a different world and wonderland where such beautiful love stories happened, where prince and princes lived happily ever after. She cultivated my imagination and positive view about the world. She taught me how to be a good person and helped me a lot in my studying. She and my father were always by my side and encourage me whenever I was sad or had difficult problems in my student’s life. My father is not only a successful business man, but also a great father. Even though, he has a lot of works to do, he still takes good cares of his family. Therefore, I was protected by them carefully all the time I was in the family. However, when I went to abroad in America, I realized that I cannot rely on my parents anymore. I talked with myself that I need to be more mature and careful when I live far away from my family. And they were also really worried about me because I am very careless and clumsy. I am so easy to forget or loss my stuff all the time. That makes them wonder if I can live independently in a new country. I know I could get in troubles anytime because of my personality. Furthermore, I did not have any experiences to live with other people; it was my first time to live in a new family in The US. I thought I would be alright to live with my aunt’s family here and I also tried to get along with them. However, it was really hard time to be a part of a family here. Probably different culture, different thought made me stressful and feel not freedom and comfortable to live with them. Finally I had to move out, even though I still love and thanks my aunt’s family a lot about everything they had done for me. Right now, I am missing my little cousin a lot whenever I think about the happy and funny memories when I played with him. He also loves playing and following me around everywhere. I used to cry so much when I moved out. But I know I need to keep moving on and look forward in the future. Life is difficult. From the time I moved out, I totally feel that I need to do all of things by myself and whatever decisions I make are really important and affect my life consequently. There many things I have to think carefully and worry about. Right now, it is not only me; I need to present my parents to take care of my sister who has just been here to study with me also. I need to manage my finance properly and divide money for food, gasoline, tuition's fees, and books and so on. Therefore, I feel I have a big responsibility for myself and my family. If I were just a little girl, all of those worries would not exist. Thinking about the future, what I am going to be is also a hard thing with me. I actually do not know which major is suitable for me. I feel that I am not good at any special fields. However I need to decide and define my direction clearly to achieve it. I hope I could find out my favorite major in the future.

All of those difficult and worrying things will happen with anyone in the world. Those are the parts of life we have to get through to be more growing up and mature. I know it would be tough and hard sometimes when you experience those. You even might get hurt and want to give up. However, we need to be stronger to face the world and to be independent and responsible with our life.

The importance of libraries and sports in colleges and universites

Being colleges and universities’ students, we have many useful resources and materials to support for our studies such as library, sports ‘center, campus, learning center, health center. All of them are significantly necessary for our demand of studying, especially libraries and sports. They both place very important roles in our students’ lives due to the facts that libraries are good resources to advance students’ knowledge and sports are useful activities to improve our physical development. Therefore, knowing how to use what they can provide for students is helpful to improve our studies in colleges and universities.

Considering about the advantages of libraries, we can see a plenty of good things. Libraries are always great resources and invaluable treasures for students to exploit and gain their knowledge. It is not only simple a place to read books, but also the place to help students improve their self-studies. People can go to libraries to find the resources by themselves for their assignments or essays which they do not have a lot of experiences about. They can stay in libraries in hours to read and finish the books that they are interested or needed. The quiet and peaceful atmosphere of libraries makes people easy to concentrate on their studying and their jobs. It also inspires people to create and do their job effectively. Sometimes, your imagination will run wild because you are so fascinated with the books you are reading. Like me I really like going to my college’s library to study. It is such a beautiful and ancient style. I love being in this library so much. I makes me feel relax and focus on what I am trying to work on. They have really organized system to manage books and resources. Every student can easily look for the one they like. Furthermore, students can improve their self-studies because libraries often have skill center for students to spend time there. They can go there and pick the materials needed to have them with their classes and do the research by them shelf. All of those benefits are provided by libraries.

In another hand, sports also keep an important role to fulfill the physical development for students. Playing sports are never bad ideas to improve people’s health. Students taking part in many outside sports’ activities are really outstanding and active. They can relax and reduce stress after spending so much time and pressure to study. If people just always study and stay in the libraries all day long, it will be more stressful and block them in the intermediate their environment. They become passive and hardly communicate with people. Everyone needs to have a good health in order to do your jobs effectively. Health is the most important thing, especially when you are in colleges and universities. We use a lot of energy to study and work around in campus. Furthermore, the more you concentrate on studying, the more tiring mind to be produced. Thus, participating in sports can help students reduce those problems. Sports also make students get closer and improve the sportsmanship among students in colleges and universities. They can be a team or compete with each other fairly and spend their life actively and happily. That is what sports can bring for people.

Looking at all of beneficial advantages that libraries and sports can do for students in colleges and universities. We can realize that how important they are in our students ‘lives. They are opposite dispositions, however they support for each other to accomplish the purpose of being in colleges and universities. Students not only go to schools to study, but also to develop their physical development. To achieve those goals, libraries and sports have similar importance and we should know how to use those useful resources effectively.

Monday, March 1, 2010

Leaving my life in different places in the world

There are many wonderful different places that I have not been too, so if I have chances I will prefer to move to different places to spend my life there. The world around us is a mysterious gift to discover, I would rather choose to take as many adventures as possible. Being in one place for the rest of my life is not the thing I wish to do. I will try earning money to travel and visit different places around the world. It brings a lot of benefits because I can reveal new things, learn and experience about life and be able to adjust in any environments.

Firstly, when I move to different places I can reveal new things around the world. I can discover many interesting countries; know about their cultures and customs. I can meet new people and visit new places. It makes me open my mind to the world. I will realize that there are such beautiful and miraculous places to visit. I wish I could have opportunities to visit Seven Wonders of the World. It must be really incredible. If everyone could be in those places, they will reveal a lot of beautiful things. Like visiting Taj Maha you will feel and see the forever love of the King regard to his beloved. You will be surprised when you are in front of this ancient and special design of this mausoleum. That is a way you reveal the world and you might just get it when you like leaving in different places.

Secondly, being in different places helps people learn and experience more about life. There are plenty of difficult or surprising situations around us. If we go out and face those things, we will be more grow up and get experiences form what we have been through. We can learn a lot of things from our friends and from people in other countries when we work and interact with them. In return, they will also receive and adopt good traditional customs from us. For instance, Asian people like to put off the shoes before getting into the house to show the police. It is a really respectful culture that Western people do not have. Therefore, when we live together, we can learn this habit and in fact many western people like it. In another hand, Asian people really like the freedom life style of Western culture that is why many people from Asian countries prefer to live in America rather than their countries. Thus, living different places are good opportunities to learn and experience different things in the world.

Finally, we can admit that living different places give us the ability to adjust any environments. If we just stay in one specific place, it is stable, but we have a limited view and experience about others cultures and customs. It is really hard to accept other cultures if we have never gotten along with them. Therefore, being in many places, we will be open mind and have various experiences with people and things. From that we can take something different without adjusting and having negative eyes. Many people are pretty old-fashionable, they always keep their opinions and do not want to share or learn from others. Comparing with people have been in many places, they are happy and pleasure to receive good and useful experiences in whichever situations in their life. Like me, studying abroad in America helps me have an open view about my life, makes me become active and easy to get along with people. For those reasons, I prefer spend my life as many places as possible to know all of cultures in the world.

All of advantages of living different places in our life are so interesting and useful. Revealing new things, experiencing, learning about life and being able to adapt different cultures will bring us an interesting and adventured life. My life will be boring if I just stay in one particular place. Therefore, I hope I could spend most of my life in many countries and discover different things around me.

Eatting at home

Nowadays, people are very busy with their jobs and studies. They do not have a lot of time for getting together and having a meal with their family. That has been a common situation in every modern house. People tend to prefer eating out rather than cooking at home because it takes such a time to prepare for food. However, in my experience, I still like eating and cooking at home with my family regarding to the facts that it makes everyone get closer, cooks our favorite food and saves money instead of spending the amount of bucks in restaurant.
The first good thing about eating at home is your family can get closer with each other while all of members prepare food together. That is really warm and happy opportunity for each family to build up their relationship after spending a tiring time with jobs and studies. People can relax and gather in the kitchen to make food. Every member of family will have different roles in taking part in the process of cooking a meal. Like our family, my mom will be a chef, my dad will be her assistant and we will clean up the vegetables, meats and so on. It is really fun and interesting because we can chat with each other and share experience while we are doing our jobs. Then, after everything is ready, we seat in the table and enjoy our results. It is a meal which everyone made up; therefore we are really happy to eat it. We also can have time to talk intimately with each other about our jobs and studies during the previous time. From that, parents can give their children some advices and encourage them to try their best, and in the same way they will receive the support from their kids. It is not only a meal at home; it is also a really nice chance to get close with your family. Thus I think eating at restaurant is not a good idea making this beautiful thing.
In the other hand, staying at home to make food is really flexible because we can cook our favorite food. In restaurant, even though they have various dishes, they still cannot have all of one of our favorite food. In contract, eating at home we can pick our favorite foods and make plan to prepare it. We can list of materials necessary to cook our food and go to the market to buy those. Later, we will have time to make food and invest our food to be delicious and satisfied our interest. For instant, my mom can make a miscellaneous seafood soup which is so delicious and special. It has a secret ingredient and fragrant flavor that none of restaurant can achieve. Therefore, I strongly prefer asking my mom cook this soup for me at home instead of going out to try it. Having your favorite food to eat is always choice.
Finally, in my opinion, I think we can save a lot of money when we prepare food at home. Everyone can easily realize the obvious fact that going out to eat at restaurants is costing such amount of money. It is good and certainly great to sometimes spending time with our friends and family in a nice restaurant. However, we just have several chances to make it. We cannot always like eating out because whenever we have a meal in restaurants, we need to prepare money enough to pay it. Everyone has to save money right? For this reason, I think buying food from markets and save those to cook at home whenever we want is still a better choice.
For all of useful advantages I prefer eating at home with my family and my friends. I can have a close time with my family, cook my favorite foods and save money instead of eating in restaurants. I really miss the time our family gathered and cooked a meal together every day. It was really a warm and happy memory. Right now, I am far away from my family, so there is no chance to eat together. It makes me love that time in the past more. I hope every family in this modern life will have as much time as possible to spend every meal with each member usually.