book club-Yukai Gu Khadija Zieah, Fatimof Soyeso, jojo

A love for life
As a group we read a book called a love for life. In addition the main character is fanella that play a role of an editor and she face many challeges since her partner left her. Therefor she was jelous and mand at the same time because her friend had a son.Further more I strongly reccomand this book to does. Who wants to adopt a child since it gives an idea about how to adopt child and the way it gonna to feed.He problem you might face.

Book Club: Stephanie, Maria jose, Maria and Golden

We thought the book A love for life was very clever and emotional. Each chapter cached our attention and wanted to finish it in one time. The writer described very well on the entire situation that happened in the story and the character’s feelings. Indeed you can close your eyes and imagine how the characters are physically and their personality. The plot of the story is based loosely on love and family, is about a very loving and independent woman who wants to be a mother so badly, but she can’t. So she decided to adopt a child. But things didn’t turn out the way she wanted because her boyfriend left her. Finally, she discovered a new life and everything worked out.

We definitely recommend this book to everyone, especially to students of ESL. It is very emotional that you might read it again. Indeed this book is easy to read and understand because it doesn’t have any difficult vocabularies. All of our team members have read this book and ever since, we couldn’t stop to talking about the book. This book is a definite must read.

BOOK CLUB: Majdi, Quan, Carol, Yoshimi

A Love for Life
Our group members exchanged opinions about the book “A love for life.” We found that our common reflection of this reading was the story told us a good sample to survive a life. All group members supported Fanella’s way of life and liked her character. We were encouraged by her that our life can change better if we challenge positively no matter what the life is hard. Fanella is a strong independent single woman. Moreover, she understands feeling of weakness and share them, like she did to Ellie. There are several new types of relationships in this book. For example, a family of a single woman and an adopted child. However, we found real love in these relationships. We may believe real love exists everywhere we have consideration from our hearts.

Houses and apartments

Buying a house or an apartment

Do I want to buy a house or an apartment? Everybody asks this question when we want to buy some property. We have to focus on three important points that will help us to decide buying a house or an apartment.
The first point that people have to take in consideration when they buy property is the price. Usually apartments are cheaper than houses because apartments have less space and privacy. In general, houses are more comfortable than apartments; that’s why houses are more expensive. The price of both depends on which neighborhood the property is.
Second, the space and comfort that a house or an apartment have is also very important. Usually houses have big rooms, garden, garage, and more storage in comparison to apartments. However, I have one in Chicago and the rooms are big, but I have to share the laundry room and the garden with my neighbors. Houses don’t have this kind of the problems.
In addition, it is very important to know about houses or apartments work before to buy the property. We have to paint outside the house, cut the grass, and we have to clean the snow in the street in winter if we buy a house. In general, buildings have an engineer who does all those activities and we don’t have to pay extra because part of the assessment covers that. Owners of a house or an apartment have to maintain inside of the property like painting and fixing something inside of the propriety.
Finally, it is very important to consider all advantages and disadvantages when buying a house or an apartment. We have to analyze what is convenient for us before making a decision. In my opinion, buying a house or an apartment is a good investment. We have to think which of the options are better for us.

Tea or coffee

One of the questions we ask ourselves each day in the morning is should I drink tea or coffee? The answer forces us to make a hard decision, especially when is a habit start the day with a cup coffee, and continue with drinking it all day long. The answer of a hard decision of whether is better for you, and what health benefits we have from them according to their ingredients.

One of the most common drinks in the morning is coffee. Somehow we ask coffee to wake us with energy to keep going at work, and during the day to finish a hard day. On the other hand tea helps us to relax, clear our thoughts and we get healthy benefits from it.

Balancing health benefits from teas and coffee can give us good results. For example it’s unbelievable how a simple bag of tea with natural leaves helps our body to prevent diseases such as Alzheimer’s, strokes, blood pressure, heart attack, leukemia hypertension and cancer. The more tea you drink, more benefits you get and it does not alter your metabolism. In contrast with coffee, the more you drink, more bad symptoms you have, like anxiety, sleeplessness, headaches and abnormal heart pressure.

The difference in the ingredients that characterize tea, and coffee are the antioxidants and caffeine. The natural ingredients and antioxidants of tea, combined with vegetables and fruits, between all the different tea flavors provide a difference in the benefits to your body. Green tea for example may help you to reduce risks of leukemia, and a tea that contains fluoride can helps your teeth and bad breath. Unlike caffeine, the ingredient of coffee gives bad breath and some times bad acne, besides not helping to our hormones. Also some coffee is artificially flavored from wine products. Coffee can be stronger like Colombian or African, depends it is origin.

Finally the happiest solution is to have one or two cups of coffee in the morning, and keep drinking tea for the rest of the day.

Emma E.

Jogging outside instead, going to gym

Spring has come to Chicago. I often come across people running on the streets. And, I want to go out on the beautiful day. Walking and running outside make us feel refreshed not only physical health. However, it is difficult to keep running outside regularly because of the weather in Chicago. Therefore, many people may prefer going to the gym. I compare each feature in order to prepare us for a short best season in Chicago.

The first difference is the cost between running on the street and going to the gym. As you know, running on the street is free and easy to go. On the other hand, we need to pay monthly membership to go to the gum. In addition, we may pay on admission depending on the gym.

Secondary, there are different opportunities between running on the street and going to the gym. Running outside is very simple, only we need to do is change clothes. However, weather affects this activity very much. In the winter in Chicago, it is dangerous to run outside because of ice and snow. Even in spring and summer, we have thunder storms in Chicago. In contrast, we do not care about weather when we go to the gym. We can enjoy running and swimming on the day of heavy snow or burning sun.

Finally, these two situations have different kind of fun. Running on the street is fun. We can feel wind, sunshine and the smell of nature. And we may find something new in our neighborhood, like new restaurants and shops. Unlike the streets, going to the gym does not tell us any changes. That is a space cut off from the outside.

After considering all the characteristics, I cannot choose one of them. I want to keep both and make my choice depending on the day. Now is the best season for running in the streets, I recommend you to do it. When winter comes, let’s shift to the gym

Hot or Cold Climates

Hot or Cold Climates

Hot or cold climate, which is better? a year has four seasons spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Each season has special characteristic. Spring has wonderful thing all the flowers come, and the birds prepare every thing for their nest. Summer is hot, fun and people do ouside activities. Autumn is beautiful, when you see how trees change color and lose their leaves little by little. Winter is the least fun season. It's hardest season because around the world have extreme climates for example, North and South Poles are cold and the desert is hot. A lot of people anjoy the climates for different reasons some of them like hot or cold, anothers clothing, and many people have stress.
Most peole enjoy hot climates because its day are long, and have the opportunity to go to the zoo. People can learn many things about the wild animals. They can go to the baech to swimm and get a suntan or enjoy a BBQ together. Nevertheless, winter has short days that is the reason why people don't have many opportunity to enjoy activities. People have time for work and sleep. Summer has hot days then people can go to play, ride bicycle, t0 walk. People like hot days. Winter has short days that are why people don't want to go outside, they prefer to stay at home. If they want to go ouside they can go to the museum and aquarium because they have only inside activities.
Clothinf in hot weather is easier bacause people can wear short, T-shirt, and dresses. Those kinds of clothes are easy. In seasons life is easy. People take shower and wear short and T-shirts. However, cold weather is hard because if the people go outside, they need to wear many layers like sweater, coat, and scraves. It's very aesy to wear open toe shoes than boots need socks and sometimes need two pairs of socks to keep your feet warm.
Finally, stress is often connecter to climates. Hot days mean less stress because the people have opportunity to garden, like plant flowers, water the flawers, and grill, cook outside. On cold days; however, most people sit inside and watch TV. On sunny days people walk around the street or park and do exercises. On snow days, people stay at home watching TV , eat, and shoveling the snow. these days may be more stressful.
In my opinion, the best weather is hot because we have the opportunity to do many things. All the baeches have a lot of vacationaers because there are many activities to do. Nonetheless, in many places, where there are snowcapped mountains,there aren't many people around, like on the beaches.