Culture

Gotta find a different beat

Sunshine waits past the storm, that’s what they say. With you, the world bursts in bloom, a kaleidoscope, a Belly full of laughter, forgetting the woes of the day. Are we good? Maybe in lulls, a future we weave, But bills loom, echoes of parents, that last fight, I grieve. Two days turned yesterday, a blur and a fight, Fueled…

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Design, Teaching

CBU Student Teaching Abroad

Teaching Creative TEFL After I started teaching, I started employing a new teaching method called drilling. It is to expand other related words or sentences based on the words the students have learned. For example, this class teaches 6-year-old children to learn 5 new words (brushing teeth, sleeping bag, chocolate, hiking, jogging). I will create a summer camping scene. In…

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Culture

To Dear Lisa

My best friend, Lisa, the only friend who understands me is gone, forever. All the past rights and wrongs faded and matter no more. One day in the awakening of your daughter, Nova’s eyes, I will gather all our little stories to share with her and make her laugh. She has been staying strong with the last breath that she’s…

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Culture

Viral Fragility

I painted my bedroom to reminisce the time and events we lost on track in 2020. Inspired by Dreams Of A Sleeping World by Oscar Oiwa and a man from Philadelphia… The sensation that life is a dream, has somehow been on my mind ever since I was a child. As I grew older, during my adolescence and young adulthood…

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Culture, Travel

How to volunteer in LA

There are many things we can do to be a better citizen. This Christmas my friend Yinh, Rob, and I traveled to many metropolitan areas of LA to allocate our donations. Besides the greater amount of donations that three of us have prepared this year, another thing we did differently from last year’s self-volunteering work is that we chose various…

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Design

The Cadence of Instructional Design is Chaotic yet Rhythmic

Since the internet started in the early 80s, a race of human cognitive revolution has begun – led by many emergent fields at the crossroad of neuroscience and psychology, information technology, quantum intelligence, etc. The demand for a skilled workforce in analytical thinking, abstract extrapolation, and complex problem-solving is on the rise. On the other hand, we have also seen…

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Culture

Nine Portions

Another rejection from the other side.. This is about the 15th hostel place I have contacted for the inquiring of seeking a volunteer opportunity for Thanksgiving this year. Please note: if you are here to listen to the audio of the Meditation For Developing Patience, Forgiveness, and Compassion, please scroll to the bottom of the post. Thank you. “..thank you. But we…

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Lifestyle

Vocational Art

Creativity is the source of all. As we all know stress and anxiety can lead to alcohol addiction maybe because of overnight levitra depression, stress, genetic predisposition, emotional health and social environmental factors. The acidity of bile and the precipitation of the bile acids (soluble to insoluble) Source viagra 100 mg are the main reasons for inflammation and gallbladder stones.…

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