Hui talking about the Chinese New Year

 

Trailer of "Greeting"

I made a video of greetings.
If you have our class' account, CLICK HERE!!

My experience about greetings in Canada

In Japan, we bow to each other when we meet, or just say "Kon-nichi-wa (Hello)". We usually don't have body contact when greeting. It doesn't matter how close your relationship is. Even between family members, we rarely have body contact.
We know that people from other cultures greet with a kiss, a hug or a handshake, but most of us have no experience with it.
This is a story of a Japanese guy who came to Canada and struggled with what he should do in meeting and learnt how to deal with these situations, in other words, the story of my life.

When I first came to Canada, I met my wife's friend from Columbia. I kinda knew that those from Spanish-speaking countries were cheerful and passionate (I have to admit it was a bias) so I thought her friend came to me and gave me a kiss, or a hug. But how many kisses? Or how should I hug him? Who starts first??? I didn't know what to do. Before my turn, I saw he kissed on her cheek (I don't remember how many times because I was too nervous at the moment), so I waited for him giving me a kiss. But instead of kissing on my cheek, he hugged me so that my cheek flied in the air.

My second experience was in meeting with my wife's girl friend from Victoria, B.C. I was just going to say "Hi. Nice to meet you" because I thought I was not supposed to touch women's body.

But the truth is stranger than the fiction.

She came close to me and gave me a big hug! In fact, she was a cute girl. Well, it didn't matter whether she was cute or not. I was totally confused. Is this common in men and women meeting? Is this what we see every day? Is this Canada???
At that moment, I was truly completely in confusion so that my arms, which had nowhere to go, flied into the air.

What happens twice will happen three times.

When I moved to Guelph, I had another experience which made me re-acknowledge how difficult greeting was.
It occured between a friend of my wife who is from France and me. I am not such a fool as to make the same mistake. But, apparently I haven't learnt my lesson.
This time, I met him with caution because he was from France. To me, French people are elegant, well-dressed, like Parisien and Parisienne, so their greeting style was supposed to be elegant. Stereotype again.
I set up a hypothesis and a strategy about the meeting with him, which was like this; my experiences suggested that people don't give a kiss or a cheek in men and men meeting so he also doesn't give them to me. And in Europe, they usually give a big hug as greeting so that he probably will give a exellent, established hug to me. And if he doesn't give a hug, that's fine. I'm going to be able to follow his moving. That was my stupid, groundless hypothesis.

You may already know the result. Our greeting was very funny and all mixed up.
When I met him, I opened my arms to take his hug. That was the first and the last, and crucial mistake of my action. He, on the other hand, was going to give a handshake, but after seeing my opening arms, he followed my action and opened his arms. But at that moment, I tried to adjust my movement and shake his hand. Then he again tried to hand-shake, but it was too late! I tried to hug at the same time. If we'd had an audience, they must have thrown money at us.

This is my story, a story which tells you some lessons; Don't pretend to know. Stereotype is totally useless. And know each other, especially with people from different cultures.

In next post, I'll introduce you "greetings around the world" by a movie. Stay tuned with our blog!

Guillermo talking about Food Banks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQH06ZZkmTw&feature=youtu.be 

Indra talks about volunteering

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZStHFstqCI&feature=youtu.be 

Azza's speaking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYG3x3ldHhY&feature=youtu.be

I am explaining the interview about donating blood, which was done with an employee of Canadian Blood Services on Silvercreek Parkway in Guelph, Ontario on March 12, 2015.  I also added some information about bone marrow transplant

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/1-in-8-canadian-families-struggle-to-put-food-on-table-study-says-1.1346620

Your Fortune in 2015 Based on The Chinese Zodiacs

Here are some information about the Chinese Zodiac.Listen and find lucky color and luck number for 2015.

  The following article describes the basic difference between arranged marriage and forced marriage. In arranged marriages,the parents take the values of their son/daughter into consideration and search for the best match. where as in forced marriages the parents think that their choice is the best for their son/daughter. However in this generation parents do not force their children to marry the person of their choice.

http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/spring07/zuffoletti/traditional.html

Wish you everything goes well

Climate Change Town Hall Meeting

My neighbourhood listserv (like an email newsletter) sent this notice to me, and I thought you folks might be interested in both the issue (Climate Change) and in attending the town hall meeting to discuss a paper on climate change. The Guelph meeting is March 18 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Arboretum at the U of G. Lisa

http://us8.campaign-archive1.com/?u=a00729fa5b336ee2e0f96f6c4&id=ebee8e1380&e=601fcbc087

speaking about what you should do for finding a job

This video is what I am talking about what we should do for finding a job. If you are interested, please click on it. (There is one thing I missed during making this video is that volunteering is a good way for you to get work experiences in Canada) 

The longer I live in Guelph, the more I love Guelph

Canada is a wonderful country. The government is thoughtful and helpful to the newcomers. The people are nice. Everyone I met is friendly and patient. I am glad I’m living here. Life has become slow and quiet since I came here. I engaged in structure design in Shanghai for 29 years before I came to Canada. Many municipal engineering projects were designed by our company. Although we are always busy in working and don’t have enough time to enjoy life, but we are proud of ourselves be able to make the city beautiful and the traffic convenient. We are happy to have such a good chance to make contributions to our city. (This is a video about my hometown. May be one day you would like to visit Shanghai. It could be a good guide. INSIDE Shanghai| August 2014

Now, I’m a housewife. I have learnt a lot about cooking. I study English every day. I am very grateful to the ESL school teachers and classmates for their help. The longer I live in Guelph, the more I love Guelph. But I still feel a little lost. I need to do something to make myself useful. I don’t like only as a housewife to spend every day. I have asked some friends about how to join the volunteer team. I’ll follow them to be a volunteer. Guelph will be my second hometown. I think my life here will be better and better.-by pinyu

Hi everybody again,

After I had searched about thal or sickle cell and listened to the brave child, Alex, I understood and believe that the prevention of thal better than treatment.  So, I searched about population control of thal in the different countries.  I think they put their restrictions and programs that depends on their cultures.

Population control of Thal:

In a number of Muslim countries including Lebanon, Iran, Saudia Arabia, Tunisia,United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar and Gaza, the national premarital programs are mandatory and aimed at limiting carrier marriage.  In most of these countries, nowadays, interruption of the pregnancy is permitted for sever fetal disorder but only within the fourth month of gestation.

In China, prenatal screening was compulsory to obtain marriage permission by the marriage law office.

In Cyprus, however, the Orthodox Church requires a certificate proving that screening for beta thal has been performed before marriage.  But allows the final decision on marriage and reproduction option to be left to the couple, but this certificate became unnecessary for civil weddings.

In the developed countries like Canada, the carrier screening is available upon request.  In Canada a couple can live together without marriage like common law and have their children not only biological pregnancy but also children adoption.

On the other hand,  how we can prevent thal or sickle cell, as the public:.

Sharing the information with others.  Show it to our families, friends, neighbors, coworkers or anyone who has origins from areas where thal is common.  Be sure to ask your Dr to test you for thal minor, I mean the person who is carrier the defect gene and without symptoms.  Increased awareness is the key, please do your part by spreading the word.

volunteer information

Hi, everybody, I got the information about the importance of volunteering in Canada(which are different types of benefits for helper and the community ) from two different websites.They are below ..
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/11-008-x/2012001/article/11638-eng.htm

http://www.youth.gc.ca/eng/topics/jobs/volunteer.shtml

                                 
                                               Art Council in Iran
      In general, there is not any Arts Council in Iran.
In Iran each section of arts have own Union and these unions help artists to get license or art workshops. In some cases, artists do not communicate directly with the unions, They communicate through the galleries or publishers .
Iranian artists are Independent and unfortunately they don`t have benefits or grants.
Usually they make exhibitions or are art`s teachers in school, university or tutoring.

The most active part of the art in Iran is cinema.And recently there has been progress in the cinema and directory. Iranian people like cinema more than other arts.
                                                 
Leila Hatami is the Iranian favorite actress. Her father was a famous director and her mother was a actress as well. She played in the movie (The Separate) that got the Oscar last year.

           

This video is The national anthem of Iran include parts of the best Iranian movies of the last 50 years. I love it and I hope you like too.

What do you think about the new sex-ed curriculum?

Haneen and Indra talk about Ontario's new sex-education curriculum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9SoVfGIElw&feature=youtu.be

(Haneen - We can add this as an actual video if you like.  It just needs to finish processing.  Let me know what you prefer tomorrow and I can help you change it if you like.  Lisa)

Instructions for making pizza

Jeenat is explaining to Julie about making a restaurant-style pizza.  You'll have to put the headphones on and turn up the volume.  (Posted by Lisa)

Two videos about Ontario artist`s benefits

                              Ontario artist`s benefits
I think these videos can help you to get more information about Ontario artist`s benefits

   Visual artist Steven White explains how an Exhibition Assistance grant from the Ontario Arts Council went towards transportation cost and online marketing.                                   

Gwenn Seemel   received her first grant five years into her career. In this video, she shares four tips for increasing your chances that your proposal will be a winner.  

pizza

It is a very good website to learn new things. It is helpful for making a pizza. Yesterday I tried and ate it.  It was more delicious. I felt same taste as i buy  like from Pizza Pizza Restaurant. Now i fulfill my dream to making a Pizza at home and save my money too

Some Good Camping Tips for Natural Environment

Canada has good camping sites in conservation areas.

My family goes camping every summer, so I would like to introduce some good camping tips for protecting the natural environment.

First, I suggest, don’t bring disposable paper dishes or dixie cups. Camping at conservation areas can be a good natural education for your child or family. How about showing your good habits for the natural environment to your child? Your child will get a good impression about that.

Second, don’t use artificial detergent to wash your dishes at conservation areas. If you need to wash oily dishes, boil some water and put hot water in the dishes.  After that, wipe the dishes with paper towels. The dishes will be clean, and you can gather the dirty water in a plastic bottle.

Third, when you go into the tent to sleep at night, keep all organic garbage or kitchen tools in the car because wild animal might visit your site. We don’t know what would happen if wild animals ate our seasoned food, how they would react to it.

Forth, when you leave there, don’t leave anything at your site. Most camping sites have garbage and recycling bins; therefore, sort the garbage following the rules.  Especially, don’t dispose of used propane gas bottles with the general garbage because the leftover gas might make a fire.

Finally, I would like to tell you, respect all natural creatures including plants.  Remember, if you get something from nature, return it ten more times.

by Seoyoung

Persuasive speech about volunteering

Volunteering in Canada really benefits to all.It will provides some purpose and belongings, help to your carrier, and benefits your health.This will help you to get a job because you are already experienced in Canadian work , also developed  your skills,and built  up your confidence.I think it is the easy way to get into the job.This will make you active.There are many benefits for young people.If you want to know about volunteer then you can listen to the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vJVctVY

I think,  this is an interesting video about Food Bank. This video can help us to understand how Food Bank works in Canada.

Get used to live in Canada

In order to get used to live in Canada, the very important thing we need to do is "Adapt to a new culture". There is some information from "Government of Canada" web site. I wish it's helpful to you. -by pinyu

Adopt to a new culture

Integrating

Get used to live in Canada

There is a video "A newcomer's story". 

As newcomers, we have a lot of difficulties. There is a story about some newcomers living in London. They seek a decent future. They experienced the original hard time just like us. They got help from some centers, such as Life resource center, Community center. They go out to find jobs. Now, they have a good start. They believe their life will be better and better. -by pinyu

Arranged marriages in India

     I watched the following video. It exactly explains how the arranged marriages take place in India. It also explains the process of first meeting of the bride and the groom and their families. The parents of the groom mostly prefer to choose a girl who follows Indian traditions well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhJ1JNS3_fM

Garbage and Recycling System in South Korea and Japan

I was born in South Korea and I lived in Japan for 3 years and half. South Korea and Japan have good garbage and recycle systems, but both countries are little bit different. South Korea has strong rules about garbage and recycling, so Korean has to follow the rules for saving moneys. However, Japanese joins to recycling by themselves.

 South Korea........

First, in South Korea, garbage collections are not free.  We use certificated garbage bags of municipal government. We can’t use any bags. Municipal governments provide garbage bags to supermarkets or grocery stores, and the stores sell garbage bags to citizen. If we fill garbage in the bag, governments collect just their garbage bags. Garbage bag is expensive, so we have to reduce waste  and also have to sort recyclable materials for saving moneys. All rules require to someone who make waste garbage to pay about volume of garbage. If we buy a cup of coffee with paper cup at Starbucks, we pay some money for disposal paper cup, but no pay for mug. If we go to shopping, stores don’t provide free plastic bags. Therefore many people bring their own bags, or some people buy certificated garbage bags for shop-bought everythings, after then we can reuse the bags for waste garbage.

<City of Siheung Garbage bag for Home>

<Garbage Bag Price - City of Seoul Average>

5ℓ - 10cent    

10ℓ - 20 cent    

50ℓ - $1   

100ℓ  - $2 (In Canada, general garbage bag that is sold in grocery store, is 75ℓ)

paper cup - 10 cent (if you bring this cup to store,  you can cash back)

plastic bag for shopping - 10 cent (if you bring this cup to store, you can cash back)

Sorting recyclable materials is not easy.

Plastic part:separate to plastic kind of PET, PVC, PP, PE, PSP.

Steel, Aluminum: wash and separate lid part from can’s cylinder.

Propane gas bin, spray bin: make a hole for blow out

Paper: fasten all paper with string, remove all from paper, wash, dry and make flat milk package,

           no coating paper

Used batteries, fluorescent light: nearest community office.

Medicine: Pharmacy

<Recycling bins at Home>

<community Recycle Bins >

<Public Place Recycle bins>

JAPAN........

I lived in City of Nara in Japan. Nara is the first capital city of Japan. I think, Japan is operating perfect recycling system. Japanese consider all used stuff is not garbage, is resource. They try 3R Campaign that means Reuse, Reduce, Recycling. Japan does not strong rules about garbage, but they join in recycling by themselves.

 I joined in recycling with 3 ways. 
First way was government collection. All kind of plastic was collected every Wednesday and glass or Aluminum, iron steel were collected once per month by garbage trucks. For recycling, I washed glass bottles and removed all paper labels, after then I separated and put in the bins like colour bottle or clear bottle.

Second, when I went to shopping, I brought plastic bottles, egg cases, styrofoams to store. Most supermarket stores have recycling bins in front of their entrance. I put them in each bins.

<Shopping Mall Entrance in Japan>

<I had to separated lid from bottle. Both are different recycling materials>

  Last, I collected newspaper, magazine, flyer paper and clothes for our community donation. Our apartment community supported concert tickets for the nearest high school from our place. We chose one recycling company and the company visited our place for collecting recycling stuff once per month. The company paid some money to the high school. I don't have the picture, but I was proud of supporting concert tickets to high school students with my a little efforts.

I wish our classmates join in recycling with pleasure.

by Seoyoung

information interview

The two websites in the following show us that:

What's an information interview. After read it, you will understand the difference between an information interview and a job interview.

How can information interviews help you in your job searching?

How to prepare and conduct an information interview.

If you are interested in these questions and want to find out, click on the following websites, and read them.


 https://www.jobsetc.gc.ca/pieces.jsp?category_id=420

http://www.ryerson.ca/career/students/searchforajob/identifyjobleads/informationinterview/

Hello again class - I thought I should post this link to the College Royal weekend Open House at the University of Guelph on March 21 and 22.  

http://www.collegeroyalsociety.com/open-house.html 

Dear Class - I received this information about an upcoming festival in Guelph and I thought some of you might be interested in either volunteering or attending.  The Resilience Festival is a community building event.  Let me know what you think.  (Teacher) Lisa  

Here is a note from the Volunteer Coordinator for Transition Guelph’s spring festival of community resilience. Still plenty of chances left to help out!

Dear Community Member,

I am writing to invite you to Transition Guelph's upcoming Resilience festival 2015 and opportunities to get involved! 

The Resilience Festival, spanning this year from March 20th-28th, celebrates Transition Guelph's ongoing work to strengthen community resilience via local initiatives. Our goal is to create a rich and vibrant community, addressing global needs for sustainability by building local projects such as community gardens, alternative energy production, inner transition, re-skilling (learning traditional skills), storytelling, and backyard sharing.

The Resilience Festival is our biggest and most wildly successful event of the year and is a chance for people to get acquainted or more familiar with Transition Guelph. It includes the eMERGE Ecomarket, Seedy Saturday, film scr eenings, a healthcare symposium, keynotes talks, a big and delicious Earth Hour potluck, and more. All information is here: http://www.guelphresiliencefestival.ca/

There are plenty of opportunities to get involved. Volunteering is a chance to meet new people, find groups of common interest, and contribute to building a resilient community. This is a people-driven project, presented by the community for the community.

If you a re ready to jump in, locate our signup genius here: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f094aaca72da4fd0-resilience. Any questions, contact helen@transitionguelph.org.

If you want to help us spread the word about our fantastic events, you can find us on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1598211237067301/

Hope to see you there!

After I listened to this conversation , I like the idea of the government shouldn't be telling parents what age appropriate for their children. For me, I believe parents should teach their children the main issues. e.x. religion, sex, tradition ... etc. That is because we live in a multi culture community and each culture has its own thoughts.  

Global distribution of Thalassemia=Thal., sickle cell and its types : thal alpha, thal beta.

This map comes from http://www.kidsnewtocanada.ca/conditions/thalassemia

Thalassemia has found in people whose ethnic background are from the Mediterranean, Africa, the Middle East, Asian Subcontinent, Southern China and even Southeast Asia.In view of population migration,the distribution of the Thalassemia genes appears to be worldwide and to affect every ethnic group.  It is common in these regions because it helps to protect carriers against malaria.  The Red blood cell phenotype confers some protection against malaria.  Thalassemia is a characteristic of the blood.  It is inherited and passed on from parents to children, like hair color, eye color or skin color.  It is passed equally by men and women.  So if the parents carry that defect genes, 25% chance  a child will inherit thalassemia from both parents.

  It is not catching and will not turn into an illness.It affects the amount of hemoglobin in the red blood cells.
Hemoglobin is the protein in the red blood cell that carries oxygen to every part of the body. Hemoglobin
is made up of different building blocks called the beta (β)-globin chains and the alpha (α)-globin chains.  Therefor the shape of  RBC in thalassemia will be diffrent and like sickle, not as usual, and that why Thalassemia has another term"sickle cell".

What is the diagnosis of thalassemia in Ontario and symptoms?

newborn screening:These are routine tests done shortly after birth on every baby born in Ontario. A small sample of blood is taken from your baby and is tested for rare treatable disease.The sickle cell or Thalassemia one of them.  If the baby has positive thalassemia newborn screening result, it does not mean the baby has it but very likely has it.  More testing is needed to confirm the diagnosis.
 Symptoms include weakness, fatigue, feeling faint, shortness of breath, paleness, frequent infections, poor appetite,bone problems, and enlarged organs.
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career networking

Through this video I got a common idea how to build networking, which may open a door for you to get a new job. There is a few tips in the following:

(1)Divide your relationship into tow parts: personal and professional
(2)Never ask for a job, just ask advice from others
(3)Elevator speech
(4)Brand card
(5)How to build your networking by linkin.

start a career in Canada

I am a newcomer in Canada. My major focuses on agriculture.  I got my education and work experiences in China. I have nothing in Canada. But companies in Canada value work experiences. This is a bad circle.  And also because I have little knowledge about agriculture policies in Canada, and have no idea how to find a job here. So it's so hard to start a career in Canada.
here, I am trying to talk about how to start a career in Canada, based on what I learn from "occupation workshop" in Lutherwood.

(1) Improve your resume

You can keep one standard resume, but never use this standard one for all job positions. One specific resume for one job position. Highlight your typical skills.

(2) Build career networking

More than 80% job opportunities are hidden, Only less than 20% are advertised.  Companies usually fill job vacation by the order of inner promotion, recommend from current workers, networking,  recruiter, job posting and resume.It's important to build career networking, then you can get more chances in hidden jobs.

(3)To be volunteer or internship

 You can gain valued work experiences by volunteering or internship.

(4)Information interview

This is a common way in Canada. you can get some advice from experienced persons in your field by information interview, including work situations, what's valued in your career in Canada, and what you should do in next step...etc. Sometimes, you may get some hidden job opportunities during information interview.

Greetings around the world

Last week I have posted a TED talk video that a comedian talks about his experiences of his encounter in the Middle East. 
To go to the post, click here.

Continuing last week's theme, I'm going to write about how people greet each other in different cultures.

So I would like to introduce you to a blog, Heart of a vagabond, written by 7 bloggers who traveled around the world. They went around the world and wrote their experiences about greetings in those countries.

I'm gonna pick out some of their stories how different greetings are in defferent cultures and tell you how to do with situations that you meet people who comes from those countries. 

Argentina:

Everyone greets each other with two kisses on the cheek: right cheek to right cheek, then left to left in women and women meeting, women and men meeting and even men and men meeting.
When you meet a person from Argentina, turn your right cheek, not left cheek in order to avoid real kiss.

Poland:

Polish people are quite emotional as well as careful.
it's common to greet each other with three kisses on alternate cheeks (it often starts with left cheek). This greeting is between men and women, not between guys. Guys shake their hands and raise their hand. Polish often shout when they see each other, which is a polite way in Poland.
During negotiations, handshaking has different meaning in Poland. A handshake means "it's deal!!".
When you see a person who shout "Hi!" cheerfully, she/he might be from Poland so say hi emotionally and cheerfully too! 

Canada:

In Canada, as well as in Guelph, greetings are very straightforward(easy to understand). You shake hands when you first meet someone and give a hug or a kiss(es) (usually right cheek) to good friend and family members.
These greetings are common in Guelph so that it's a better way to stretch out your hand when you meet a person whom you don't know where she/he is from.

Dubai(UAE):

In Dubai, men greet each other with rubbing their noses, which is a traditional Bedouin greeting and rubbing noses is a sign of deep respect. Some women do it as well in the privacy of their homes.
If you meet someone from Dubai and his face is approaching your face, don't panic. He's not trying to kiss you but show his respect to you. Enjoy a cultural exchanges.

Mongolia:

In Mongolia, when people greet with each other during a ceremony, festival or other special occasion, they will offer their snuff bottles in the palm of right hand, with the lid partially opened. Snuff is a scented, smokeless tobacco. If you receive the snuff bottle, you should take out a pinch of snuff by using attached spoon. You then place the pinch of tobacco on the back of your hand then smell it. Even if you have an allergy to pollen or sniffles, it's respectful to hold the bottle close to your nose.
This is a very interesting style of greeting. If there is someone who is from Mongolia and lives around Guelph, please contact me through the comment. I really want to sniff the bottle!

Japan, as an extra edition:

* The following contents may contain an exaggerated information. Viewer discretion is advised.

In Japan, we usually don't touch your body and also try to show you "non-offensive". When we greet, we make a bow while we hold right arm(list) by left hand because we can't pull out a Japanese sword as long as holding right arm (a cover of Japanese sword is supposed to be on your left waist).
Exchanging business card (name card) is also an essential element of Japanese greeting. If you don't prepare any cards in business, you have no voice at this day. To avoid the tragedy, Japanese people always have thousands of business card in their bag.
"I wouldn't mind a little bow. In Japan, they bow. I love it. Only thing I love about Japan. But read books! Read statistics! Shaking hands causes viruses and flus. Tremendous germs are on the hands. It's not elitist. It's just common sense." said Donald Trump.
Yes. We bow instead of touching your body. According to one theory, Ninja utilized handshaking to kill their enemies. We can't tell whether it's true or not.

I hope these information will help you to understand greeting from different cultures and hope you won't hesitate to greet to everyone in spite of cultural differences.

Seoyoung talking about recycling in South Korea and Japan 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8Iko-swNzQ&feature=youtu.be
 

Struggling with married life (cooking)

Hi, I am Jeenat Begum. I want to discuss about my life. My life is typical than usual life. I have different stage in my life. Before marriage ,I didn't do any house work but after marriage I struggled a lot. After marriage I lived with my husband. He had a company job .So I moved another city. I have no idea what I eat and how to cook. Then I watched on television and pick up some recipes and wrote down all note in the diary. I felt relax myself that I gained some knowledge about cooking. After coming to Canada life become more difficult because we have to cooking, cleaning and drop off children at school. We have to maintain Canadian life style too. children were very picky and they wanted to eat Canadian food. They didn't like our culturalism food. They liked pizza, pasta, sausages,nutritious too.
 .

Then I again struggled with Canadian food how to make pasta,pizza and sandwich.After that I gradually try to learn cooking with the help of my son.He knew some recipe after club program.
Now i am making pizza,cookies etc. we also look forward to healthy nutritious food too . It is hard to maintain all side because children and i health cautious. Beside my junk food i  try to maintain healthy food.It is kind of tricky.

The available treatment

Regular blood transfusions provide thalassemia patients with the red blood cells they need to survive. Once these red blood cells are broken down, however, the body is left with an excess of iron.

Although iron is essential to the body, excess iron can lead to organ failure and death. It is necessary that this excess iron be removed, or ch-elated, because it stores in the vital organs of the body, such as the heart and liver.

There are varity of medicine that use to chelate over load iron:oral and injection.  Both, they have side effects. The choosing of medicine depends on the amout of accumalated iron and another consederations like the age. Children have to go to the hospital to rid the extra iron after receiving the blood but the adult can use the injection pump.

I could listen to Alex, take notes and summarize it.  Alex is a child suffering from Thalassemia.  Alex needs to deal with:

1-{chelation},It must be around 12 hrs every month.
2-Intravenous medication, regularly blood transfussion, once every three weeks.  He has to get a needle.  It`s stayed in his arm for about six hrs.  Alex described, It`s scarying for few moment when the needle does going in..  .  His mother said, "It means you give a life."

Lisa,Vijaya,Haneem are Explaining about arranged marriages and marriage system. We  are talking about three different cultures(Canada,India,Palestine).  I am happy  to share with you.I hope to get your feedback. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW-QxTwwN8I

El Salvador needs volunteering

I found another kind of volunteering in the web, is about some people that is helping in El Salvador, but they are from others countries like US or Canada, is interesting to know that exist many people helping El Salvador from the others countries but no many people helping inside the Country

Join HELP International on a volunteer project in El Salvador. Participants can either join as volunteers or international development interns and work in the fields of education, public health, entrepreneurship, and community development. Volunteers typically stay in El Salvador from six weeks to four months depending on the needs of the project and the volunteer's own schedule.

El Salvador is one of the smallest and poorest countries in Central America. HELP volunteer play an important role in helping these communities fight poverty through education and community development, but Food Bank is not present in El Salvador.

The follow video talk about the violent situation in Guatemala that is the country next to El Salvador but this countries are very similar, and is very interesting because this protest song was written by a Canadian man called Bruce Cockburn who visited this countries in the past.

https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCgQtwIwAg&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DN7vCww3j2-w&ei=duv9VM2sB4_HsQT_moLwDg&usg=AFQjCNGX_aND0BHkRb_eLxBokQv6XPhhCA&sig2=9jhwYIEojMe1grGmaTI6gg

This picture comes from http://whenonearth.net/buzkashi-fierce-manly-goat-grabbing-sport-afghanistan/

Buzkashe means goat dragging.  This is the central Asian sport in which horse-mounted players attempt to drag a goat or calf carcass toward a goal. It is the national sport of Afghanistan.Traditioinally games  could last for several days but in its more regulated tournament version it has a limted time.



  HISTORY     

Buzkashe may have began with the nomadic Mongol people, who have come from north and east spreading west world.From China and Mongolia between 10th and 15th centuries.


DISTRIBUTION

Today Buzkashe is played by several Asian ethnic group, Kazaks Uzbek and Turkmens.
Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, Uzbikistan, Tajikistan.

this picture comes from http://www.treklens.com/gallery/photo630794.htm 

RULES

1- Not to whipping a fellow rider intentionally or deliberately knocking him off his horse.

2- Riders usually wear heavy clothing and head protection to protect themselves against other players whips and boots.

3- A Buzkashe player is called Chapandaz.

4- The skill full Chapandaz is usually in his 40 the nature of the game requires its player to under go severe physical practice and observation. And the horses used in buzkashe also need training and due attention. Land lords and highly rich people owned the horses.

By viewing this website
http://www.campaignlifecoalition.com/index.php?p=Sex_Ed_curriculum

I found these pictures which show you what exactly sex education changes would be


Grade 1  (age 6)

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Grade 3 (age 8):  Homosexuality

-Will normalize homosexual family structures and homosexual "marriage" in the minds of 8-year-olds, without regard for the religious/moral beliefs of families 

Grade 3:  Gender as a changeable social construct

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Grade 4:  Romantic dating

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Grade 6  (age 12): Masturbation-Encourages masturbation as a "pleasurable" way for children to learn about their bodies, that is "not harmful"
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Grade 7  (age 13):  Anal & Oral Sex

Food Bank-Present and Absent

There are another kind of volunteering in my country El Salvador, but I can't found Food Bank there.
This articule talk about people who did volunteering job in El Salvador but they are from others countries like US and Canada. Food Bank in Canada is a good example to follow, but must have people with help vocation and I have found this persons in the Canadian Culture.

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http://www.homesfromtheheart.org/elsalvador

Video about Food Bank

I found this video about Food Bank in Canada

VOLUNTEER

WHY VOLUNTEERING IS IMPORTANT IN CANADA?

                     Hi, I am Indra. I am from Bhutan. I lived in Toronto for three years.At present I have been living in Guelph since from September 2014. I am a student of St. Georges Adult High School.Today I would like to share my views about the above topic.

 Easy way to get a job!

Are you looking for a job?If you are a new comer, You cannot get a job directly because you need to produce a Canadian Experience Certificate. To get this, you need to do one thing which will help you.  That is volunteering in non profitable organizations such as Schools, Religious Organizations, Sports, and Community Centers.

Maybe you are wondering how  how you could get a job by doing volunteer. Involving in volunteer will benefits both  sides volunteer and the centers.

BENEFITS 

• You will develop your skills and have work experience,which you can add  in your resume and the references.
• You can meet new people and make friends and also can make net work for a job.You can also share and learn new things from them.
• You can have opportunities to participate in trainings of your carrier.
• You can learn different kinds of community services.
• Gain practical knowledge of workplaces.
• Talking with people improve your language.
• Improve your understanding of  Canadian Cultures.
• Utilize your free time by helping someone else and make you happy and satisfaction.
•  Volunteering makes you busy,active and physically and mentally healthy.    

Not only job holder but,but this is useful for students as well as retire people.As a job holder and students, you must first choose your carrier job and find nearby centers.There are 200 volunteer centers across Canada. You can see this website..Canadian Volunteer Directory.





As I already mentioned about the importance of volunteering, That is why people of Canada volunteer  and gives others a chance.Volunteer may help you in different way in different places.It may bring a great change  to the community and also to  you.So I think it is the best way of searching jobs in canada for newcomers . First volunteer and then a  job.We must grab this opportunities in Canada.Get ready and look for volunteer service in your community centers.
      Volunteering may change your life.