Teaching & Learning English
“Tania, do you remember me? We used to build model rockets by the river. You said you’d take me to space one day.” Signal Source: Old Earth · Sector 3 In the New Earth, people don’t keep their old memories. Before putting your mind into the system, you go through “memory cleaning.” It removes unnecessary … Read more
The story of Joseph in Egypt Joseph is the most beloved son of Jacob, and also the owner of the famous robe of many colors. Once he reported having a dream about his brothers, and even the moons and stars bowing before him, his brothers envision grew into action. His brothers, jealous of him, sold … Read more
Last week’s seminar was regarding the measures of an attractive blog post during which our creative seminar leaders proposed at the the start of it as an inspiration for discussion, three couples of paragraphs, titles, and pictures for us to compare. This was a major highlight of the seminar as it gave us much more … Read more
REFLECTION for the SEMINARS “WHY TRAVEL?” During this seminar the ELL8 students as a whole discussed the fundemental purpose and meaning of travel as well as some of the different forms of travel such as taking refuge, or immigration. The leaders were Serena and Emma who did an amazing job walking the class through the … Read more
In this seminar, we used the original way instead of the way we had last time. We discussed what makes an attractive blog post by comparing different blog posts. During this seminar, my opinion is a bit strange to others so I debated. For example, when we were comparing two pictures, almost everyone in the … Read more
Prologue: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to OCAC, obscure as it may sound like, was written by an alliance of aliens whose imprudent investigation on Earth had long been launched before they ever started compile The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Whilst there were millions of these “time refrigerators” they suggested, they had picked one on the … Read more
March 8th Today’s Wednesday, if I remember correctly. Then I have already lived in this world that doesn’t belong to me for a week.Wednesday, March 8th. During this week, I tried to ask the local people for help, but they seemed not to understand what I said. So, I decided to write down everything that … Read more
This is an extension of The Hunger Games part one:D Cato managed a peek outside, just like always you could hear all the muttations whimpering and growling, you could even see some of them. Cato noticed something new, a glass tank filled with neon colored snakes, similar to the mutts who almost killed him, they … Read more
Alright, so I found that people are confused why there are different versions off things, and I’ve decided to explain a bit. However, if you guys have a better explanation, you are welcome to go to https://mushroom-scholars.org/can-someone-explain/ So mythology is the thought of ancient people who don’t know science. They make stories to explain stuff, and … Read more
Reflection for seminars 1&2: The topic for seminar 1 was ” Why Travel?”, led by Serena and Emma ；）We talked about the purpose of traveling and what exactly could be defined as travel. To me, the purpose of traveling might be to relax, to gain information, or to seek a better place to live, and … Read more
I just found out about Orphic cosmogony, and it completely blew my understanding about Greek mythology. I am so confused. In the Orphic cosmogony version, the creator Phanes, which I understand as the creator. This is completly different from the more known version of Chaos. Sometimes Phanes is said to be the same as Eros, … Read more
I woke up, confused, wondering where I am. I seemed to be in an abandoned railway station, with its cracked transparent dome revealing a slowly swirling gas giant planet in the dim sky. The world looked weird. there are bio-engineered creatures all around me. Bats with bull horns crawled on the ground, frogs with human … Read more