What are The Causes of Underage Drinking?

The issue of underage drinking is not a new one. During the 1960s, the drinking age itself was a very controversial issue. The age of legal drinking was reduced to age 18 and quickly raised back to 21 (Underage drinking, 2001). Although the legal drinking age in the United States is 21, many teens ignore the legal drinking age and drink. Today, we can observe that many teenagers have experienced drinking from a young age. According to Kenneth H. Beck, professor and researcher at the University of Maryland, national surveys confirm that 26% of the students in grade 8 and 60% of high school students in America drink alcohol (Davis, 2003). Moreover, 21% of students in grade 9 and 42% of students in grade 12 binge drink (Davis, 2003). What are the causes of underage drinking? The following paper will examine the factors that lead to underage drinking. There are several reasons why teenagers drink; the main reasons are peer pressure and low self-esteem, poor parental guidance, and a lack of spare time activities.

First of all, underage drinking has increased because of peer pressure and low self-esteem. Although peer pressure is hard to deal with at any age, it is very difficult for teens because they are going through a lot of changes and are still trying to figure out who they are. This can cause many teens to feel insecure and have low self-esteem. According to Mothers Against Drunk Driving, some teens give in to peer pressure and drink because they want to fit in and be liked (MADD). Other teens drink because they are afraid of being teased (MADD). John Davies and Barrie Stacey (1972) observed that many teenagers like to drink because they want to feel accepted by their peer group (p. xiii). They show that teenagers believe they have to drink to be considered a sociable person. Teens believe that a person who does not drink at all is a weak person; however, a person who drinks too much is considered to be a tough and unsociable person (p. xiii). Therefore, if a teenager has low self-esteem and does not have the confidence to say ‘no’, their need to be liked and accepted by their peers can lead to underage drinking (Sparks, 2005). According to a survey, teenagers believe that boys who drink get all the girls, girls who drink get more dates, and young people who drink are more attractive (Davies and Stacey, 1972, p. 59). This indicates that teenagers believe they have to drink to be popular.

A second factor that contributes to underage drinking is poor parental guidance. In an article on parents and underage drinking, the author presents research from Kenneth H. Beck and Joseph Califano on the crucial role parents play in teen drinking. According to the article, an authoritarian approach to parenting can lead a teen to underage drinking (Davis, 2003). In this approach, parents have high demands and expectations, but lack a warm relationship with their children. Parents often use threats and punishments, such as yelling and searching their children’s rooms for alcohol. Davies and Stacey (1972) believe that strict parents who teach their children that alcohol is bad and who forbid drinking can cause their children to rebel against them by drinking secretly: “If they receive from the adults with whom they have close contact the impression that alcohol use by teenagers is disapproved of, or even explicitly forbidden, then a model of alcohol use is provided which is eminently suitable as a vehicle for symbolizing rebellious feelings towards adult authority” (p. 82). Therefore, these teenagers see alcohol as something considered unacceptable. As a result, they are the heaviest drinkers, and they drink in secret (p. ix).
On the other hand, people who have tasted alcohol at home with their parents for the first time, such as on Christmas and New Year, do not see alcohol as a negative thing and drink less: “If, on the other hand, children learn that drinking is a part of normal everyday life, that it can be a useful concomitant to social behaviour, and that it is perfectly acceptable, a model of alcohol use is provided which is less likely to be adopted as a means of expressing rebellious feelings” (Davies and Stacey, 1972, p. 82). Therefore, if parents do not teach their children about the responsible use of alcohol, this can cause teens to drink secretly and illegally.

The last factor that causes underage drinking is a lack of spare time activities, such as pastimes and hobbies. Davies and Stacey (1972) suggest that teenagers who are engaged in team sports and youth clubs are less likely to drink than those who go to clubs and dances because the teenagers who are busy with team sports do not have alcohol available to them, whereas teenagers who go to dances and parties can find alcohol and have it available to them (p. 44). In other words, teenagers need to keep busy. Additionally, after school, teenagers need to do some extra activities that pass the time and keep them busy; otherwise some of them may turn to drinking if they have too much free time. If a teenager is idle and poorly supervised because their parents are less involved in their life and do not monitor their activities, it is possible for them to become
involved in alcohol. In contrast, Beck (Davis, 2003) says that kids who do a lot of activities with their parents are less likely to drink.

In summary, according to researchers, we found that the causes of underage drinking are the force of peer groups, the lack of parental guidance, and the lack of pastime activities or hobbies. Even though 92% of boys and 85% of girls have tasted alcohol by age 14, this is not necessarily bad, especially if they only drink a little bit. For example, it is not bad if teenagers try a little bit of alcohol from their parents, as on Christmas, birthdays, and New Year. Most young people drink a little. The problem is that some teenagers drink too much and in secret (Davies and Stacey, 1972, p. 81). This may lead to alcoholism, alcohol poisoning, and drinking and driving. Therefore, to prevent drinking, parents should monitor their children, set rules and expectations for them, such as setting a curfew, and they should also spend quality time bonding with their children (Davis, 2003). They should also know their teen’s friends, and they should communicate with their teenagers in order to increase the teen’s willingness to talk to them about any sensitive issue, such as alcohol use. Most importantly, parents should have a warm relationship with their children (Davis, 2003).

Powerful Nation

Today, we observe that the number of terrorists and criminals increase. People can’t live in peace and many people are injured or murdered per day. Unfortunately, people are suffering and no strong control of gun is existent. Terrorists’ activities increase and they spread every where in the world. Also, many people don’t have enough food and money. Powerful nation helps to reduce crimes and supports poor people in society. First of all, the powerful nation is a good group to control guns and eliminates bad seed in society. Moreover, the powerful nation helps to keep a society safe. The powerful nation makes strong deterrents of who abuse a gun, so it reduces the amount of criminals’ activities. In addition, the powerful nation cooperates to keep society in safe hands and protect people from criminals.Not only the powerful nation decrease number of crimes in society, but also, it supports poor people. The powerful nation acts to help people who can’t find food, money and place to live. Poor people find that the powerful nation is a good supporter. Furthermore poor people receive many donations from this nation, for instance, they get small amount of money that parent can help their children to study in school.

To sum up, the powerful nation is a useful group that cooperates to care of society and protect it. As well, it can reduce crimes in a country and makes people live in peace. Also, it takes care of poor people and provides money, food and place for them to live. Hence, the powerful nation works to keep peace and help poor people.

What are the Differences Between Yahoo and Hotmail?

Today, Yahoo and Hotmail are the most popular email services. Most people use Yahoo and Hotmail for communication.
People depend on Yahoo and Hotmail in their work because the use of these two services is faster, cheaper, and easier. Also, the access to them is flexible. Although Yahoo and Hotmail are almost similar and used for the same purpose, some people prefer one of them than the other. This paper will discuss the reasons of Yahoo and Hotmail popularity among users. This research includes a survey which shows the number of people who use Yahoo and people who use Hotmail. Also, this paper is in order to study the result of the percentage of people who use Yahoo and percentage of Hotmail’s users. Yahoo and Hotmail are obviously the most common web email services today. Their features, capacities and securities are under development every year. If we compare Yahoo and Hotmail to how they were ten years ago, we would be surprised of how they have developed. In fact, some people prefer Hotmail instead of Yahoo while other the other way around, yet a number of people use both. Hence, this paper will help us to observe which email service is used most ? As well, this research will help us to find out which email services do people prefer more and why? Even though Yahoo is similar to Hotmail in function, there are some differences between them.

The similarities between Yahoo and Hotmail are more than differences. Both Yahoo and Hotmail have two creators. A copyright agent of Yahoo, in his article “Yahoo! Media relation”, indicated that the two founders of Yahoo are David Filo and Jerry Yang, Ph.D. candidates in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in 1994 (Yahoo, 2005). Besides, in the article,”History of Hotmail”, the author, a lead program manager of Hotmail, demonstrated that Hotmail was founded by Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia in 1995 (Wikipedia, Aug, 2005). Also, each Yahoo and Hotmail are acronyms (Alyahya, 2004,p1). In addition the copyright agent of Yahoo showed that Yahoo is short for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle”, similarly a lead program manager of Hotmail reported that Hotmail is short form and it included the letters "HTML the markup language used to write web pages. Moreover, the copyright agent of Mail2World presented the idea by given some similarities between Yahoo and Hotmail in their features for instance, Yahoo has a calendar ,strong security, spell checker and Auto virus scanning similarly ,so does Hotmail. In addition, “with Yahoo, we can put our messages in different folders; and, we can create a signature that will be shown on every message we send. Also, we can filter our messages and block senders that we do not want e-mail from, likewise, Hotmail has the same features” (Alyahya, 2004, p1).

Not only there are similarity between Yahoo and Hotmail but also there are differences between them. For example, the capacities between them are diverse. According to the lead program manager of Hotmail in his article “storage of Hotmail” distinguished that Yahoo provides 1GB for free to its users and 2GB given at a price nevertheless, the capacity of Hotmail is 250 MB of free email storage to their American users, and 2 MB of free email storage to their users who out of America (Wikipedia, Aug, 2005). According to author Jessica Aldred in his article” Hotmail Stays on Top of Free E-mail Providers”(Business, May 17, 2000) report that the number of people in Australia who registered accounts in Hotmail grew to more than two million, so in Australia people prefer Hotmail more than Yahoo. Besides, according to the copyright agent of Mail2World in his comparison chart” Mail2world vs. Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail” included that Yahoo doesn’t serve in different languages, however Hotmail serve in many languages. As well, Hotmail has extra features such as stationery, dictionary and thesaurus, although Yahoo doesn’t offer these features. Yahoo has email forwarding, bookmarks and voicemail yet, Hotmail doesn’t (Mail2World, 2005).


Method:
This study shows that the number of people who use Yahoo and Hotmail constantly. 20 people were asked from different countries. Four people are Chinese, four people are Korean, five people from Saudi Arabia, two people from Iran, two people are Israeli, one person from Japan, one person from Taiwan and last one is Vietnamese. Their age’s between18 to 38 and most of them had an experience enough to answer any question about the features and services of the email which they use. Moreover, we demonstrated this survey by given them a form of four main question and they filled it out. As a result, we found out that 25% of people use Yahoo, 50% of people use Hotmail and 25% use both Yahoo and Hotmail. (See the table below)

People who use Yahoo.
25%
People who use Hotmail.
50%
People who use both Yahoo &Hotmail
25%
In this cause, 40% of the people who use Yahoo chose “easy to use”, 30% chose large capacity, 15% chose “many friends use it”, 15% of Yahoo users said they are familiar with it and some people said they like the features of it. On the other hand, 50% of the people who use Hotmail chose “many friends use it” and “It has large email capacity”. Also, 30% of Hotmail users chose “Easy to use” and 20% believed Hotmail has attractive features and strong security. In addition, I request this question in order to investigate the reasons that why the people choose Yahoo or Hotmail.
To sum up, I found that Hotmail is very popular, and if we look at the survey we can observe that ten people prefer Hotmail, five people prefer Yahoo and the other five prefer both Yahoo and Hotmail. Moreover, I believe that people like Hotmail more than Yahoo because Hotmail has a large size and it is uncomplicated to use. Besides, the people use Hotmail more than Yahoo for the reason that features of Hotmail are more attractive than Yahoo. Also, from the articles we can notice that Hotmail has same features which Yahoo doesn’t have for instance, stationery, dictionary and thesaurus. Specially, Hotmail serve in different languages but Yahoo doesn’t, hence, it could be reasons of why most people prefer Hotmail more than Yahoo.

Should citizens allowed to protest against their government when their country is at war?

The issue of whether we should allow citizens to protest against government has been extensively debated in our community in recent times. Allowing or prohibiting people from protesting is an essential issue to discuss because it impact on country, government and soldiers who struggle in army during the war. This essay will think about the argument for allowing citizens to protest or prohibit them from it. It has been argued that government should know what people want and protect against dictatorship. A variety of different arguments have been put forward about allow citizens to protest or not. If government allows citizens to protest, then citizens lead to riots and lower the moral of soldiers. First of all, citizens shouldn’t be allowed to protest because protesters lead to riots and this lead to violence. When 10,000 opposition protesters are gathering to protest, we can see battles between police and protesters attacks with a hail of sticks and stones, which cause serious injuries or kill citizens. Also, some citizens still don’t know what they mean to be protesting about, they just riot and disorder. During protest we can see many demonstrators lying on the ground asking for help, but the others give them a cold shoulder.

For example, during Vietnam War, citizens in US had a strong protest that end with a number of people who injured and died. Moreover, in some countries police allot about two hours for protesting, but when the time expired some demonstrator’s intent on remaining in protesting areas and police are suffering to stop citizen’s disorder.
A second reason why citizens shouldn’t be allowed to protest is that protesters lead to lower soldiers’ moral and this cause danger to their lives. For instant, when citizens protest and disagree with country against war, soldiers will think twice bout their drafting in army and why they are here or why they carry on war. Of course when moral of soldiers are lowered, country will lose a war. Specifically, in Vietnam War. Furthermore, citizens who protest are not nationalistic. In fact, citizens should support their country and encourage leaders who are empowering for making a significant decision. Government always set a right decision for country and citizens should obey to their country without protesting because a government knows what the best for the country is.
It is claim that government represents citizens and protesting is a way for people to participate decision making and they can show their opinion about government’s decisions. Protesting can help citizens to protect against dictatorship and when a so-called democracy government ignores what people needs. Also, it has been argued that protesting let government know what people want and what they call it “freedom of speech” that is basic human rights. Citizens believe that protesting is one of human right that any one can feel free to say his or her opinion which they call it “democracy”, for example Africa. However, governments have information those average citizens don’t have we should trust them to make the sight decision that are in the country best interest. Also, lot of countries has “democracy”, but they are actually dictatorships. Citizens should trust government decision because governments make the best decision with expert people who know what the best is.

In summary, it is crucial that protesting is lead citizens to disorder and discourage soldiers who battle in war. Also, we have seen how protest cause lots problems, such as citizens fight with police or burn something in streets and kill each others. Therefore, if we want out country without riot and problems we should avoid protesting.

Problem Gambling

About three months ago, I walked into a convenience store. On the right side of the convenience store was a poker video machine which was very popular in the city. There was a man in his late forty, poorly dressed and dirty. I saw him dropping a few coins in a machine and waiting to win or lose. I couldn’t take my eyes off the sight, and I thought he was a homeless, but he wasn’t. After that, he didn’t get anything, and he started to swear.Then, I went to him trying to clam him down. After that we sat togather, and he started to tell me his story, “I was studying at a university without any problem or financial trouble. My grades were very high. Also, I was a nice and social person. Most the time I was smiling, tolerant and pleasant. I liked my friends and they liked me too. One day I went to a casino with my classmates. I had never been to a casino before. When I entered the casino, I felt surprised and amazed about how the people play and earn lots of money easily. Day by day, I started to gamble in a casino. I believed that my life would not be the same, and I will afford what I dreamed. Also, I believed that I would have lots friends and become very rich. All of a sudden, I lost what I had, and I was losing more than earning. After that, I borrowed lots of money to finance my gambling. I could not move from my chair, and I spent most of the day in a casino. My mood changed, and I became angry and disappointed all the time instead of being good-tempered. Moreover, I lost sleep thinking about gambling and my home life turned to unhappy. During the years I found myself in an enormous financial trouble and became poor. As well, I was escaping from my friends who argued about money that owed to them. I tried to stay away from gambling, but I couldn’t. Finally, I was caught many times by police and put in jail because I broke the law to pay for my gambling”. Listening to the story, I rose my eyebrows and was surprised about how gambling harmed his life. Therefore, I understood that he was a compulsive gambler. Gambling makes people addicted, depressed and involved in committing crimes.

What happens when the fun of gambling becomes an addiction?
Most people gamble just to spend their free time. They don't worry about winning or losing, and they gamble just for fun. In contrast, people who are addicted to gambling believe that by gambling they can escape from their problems and become rich, so they depend on gambling. Also, they are unable to tolerate losing and avoiding the shame of losing, and if they lose their money, they immediately try to recoup (President of Harvard College, 2004, P.1). In addition, gambling makes people addicted, and it is harder to treat than addiction to drugs or alcohol abuse (Braidfoot, 1985, P. 21). Moreover, according to author president of Harvard College, people who are addicted to gambling waste most of their money and lives by taking risks on gambling. Also, the author noted that if some people lose their money, they later return to gambling trying to win back their losses, and they play again and again. As result, they become addicts.

Unfortunately, some people think if they start gambling and find themselves lose many times, they don’t think that they will try again and again or become addicted to gambling. Also, some people feel that they probably lose at the beginning, but after a period of time they will learn and become skilled. Consequently they become compulsive gamblers and out of control (wikipedia, 2005).
Gambling makes people not only addicted, but also depressed. Gambling is a source to waste money and the life turns into the worst by gambling .Also, gambling can turn people’s life to unhappy and makes them depressed, for instant. Gambling makes people lose their jobs, ignore their families, and lose their friends. Besides, most addicted gamblers have difficulty sleeping, and they are usually addicted to alcohol or drugs. As well, some people think that by gambling they can get away from problems or revive thoughts of depression. In addition, “gambling losses cause depression, which leads to more gambling” (President of Harvard College, 2004, P. 3). Gamblers can't resist the try to gamble, and they borrow large mount of money. Sometimes, they damage relationships with family and friends. Moreover, mental conflict can be risen by gambling, for example, when an addicted gambler attempts to quit gambling, they usually become impatient (Chene,2005). Also, gamblers frequently feel remorse after gambling, and they are usually moody. Most gamblers and their families are worrying about finances. For instance, they torture themselves and worry most of the time because of losing a lot of money and getting into financial trouble. Gamblers usually have problems with their work, school or relationships. However, in spite of these problems, gamblers will continue to gamble (President of Harvard College, 2004, P. 2).
Additionally, money becomes oil that controls the gambling engine (Braidfoot, 1985, P.18). Addicted gamblers always try to find the money that helps them finance their gambling (President of Harvard College, 2004, P.1-2). Most of gamblers act illegally or break the law in order to get gambling money or recover gambling losses. For instance, when gamblers can’t afford their gambling, they start to steal, lie,beg and use fake checks to finance gambling or pay their debets (President of Harvard College, 2004, P.2). Also, sometimes addicted gamblers commit crimes in order to obtain money, especially, teenage gamblers, who steal money from their parents or commit crimes to finance their gambling.
In summary, according to researchers we found that gambling makes people lose their money and get into financial problems. Most times gamblers lose sleep thinking about gambling and worry about losing their money. Indeed, gamblers borrow lots money from their friends to gamble, and they have become so isolated that they don't have anyone left because their old friends ask about their own money. Also, most gamblers are addicted, and they find it difficult to stop. In fact, it is possible that when gambler can’t find money to gamble, they break the law to pay for their gambling.

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

DO you
agree with Capital punishment?
Dose your country pro with capital punishment? what do you think the advanteges of capial punishment?
I agree with capital punishment because it can protect society and capital punishment discourages people from committing murder ,so it makes society safer. Indeed, capital punishment would not allow a killer to have the ability to kill again, so our society would be free of him/her. Moreover, capital punishment should reduce crime in a country, for example, if a person knows the penalty of committing murder is death, he will be afraid to kill someone. As a result, capital punishment help to removes the worst criminals from society. Also is it a good deterrent. Furthermore, capital punishment is exactly what killers deserve. Also, capital punishment gives killers good cause to fear committing murder so, it may discourage them. In fact, most murderers would think twice before committing murder if they know their lives will be at risk. Therefore, capital punishment is an obstacle for any person
who plans to commit murder. For example, if a person plans to kill some one, capital punishment would help to forbid him to commit murder ,so he will know there is no chance to kill . Moreover, why should we pay our money for murderers? We are wasting our tax dollars to feed, clothe, and provide shelter to people who have committed terrible acts. As well as, if jails become full, we have to spend our tax to build a new prison to provide shelter for new coming murderess. On the other hand, we have many poor people who need money, If we spend money for them is better than spend it for murderers. Furthermore, It's more economical to execute murderers than to keep them in prison or let them spend their life in jail, taking up space and tax money. Finally, capital punishment helps to keep society free of crime. As we have seen in previous story, the man killed this family just to get many, he found it easy to kill people, because no capital punishment was in that country which he committed murder in it. Also, capital punishment is a good deterrent ,and it is an barrier for any person who intends to commit murder otherwise it would not allow a killer to have the ability to kill. Moreover, capital punishment saves money and time because, if we keep a murderer in a jail it is cost more money than execute him/her. Also, we shouldn’t have to spend our money for murderers, we have to
spend money for many things that our country need it. Hence, we have to protect our society and save our money with capital punishment.

Drugs

When I was walking in downtown, someone stopped me. I stared at his face, his eyes were red and he had a runny nose. Also, he coughed a lot. I was surprised when I looked at his body, he was very thin. When he talked to me his teeth were yellow. I observed that he had trouble concentrating. Obviously, he had no school, job nor friends. He asked me to give him money, when I refused he got nervous and he called me names. I felt scared and amazed; he was trying to start a fight for no reason. After realizing that he was an addict, I ignored him and he went away. Really, drugs were a big impact on his life. We observe that a person who uses drugs is negative and worried all the time. Sometimes, an addict is happy; sometimes sad. Also, sometimes an addict is moody and changes his/her mind. If someone blames addicts, they will start a fight. Addicts usually have a trouble concentrating, because drugs damage their brain and change their temper. Also addicts sometimes can not be aware about what they do and they can not control their behaviour. Moreover, addicts always ask to be alone, I think addicts had changed their friends, because they had borrowed from them a lot of money, so when their friends find them, they ask about their money that they borrowed from them. Addicts are always unfriendly and people don’t like them, because they are nervous and moody. Usually, addicts get angry and start fighting for little things consequently; most of addicts are divorced or simply not married. Furthermore, it is difficult to live with addicts because they are moody person. Finally, we can understand that drugs had a big change on a person. Also, drugs can make a person nervous and naughty. Moreover, most of addicts don’t have friends and they are isolated from other people. Also, we observe addicts are thin and pale, because drugs damage health. Also, addicts are fired from work or expelled from school. Hopefully, we will not find any one of our friends is addicted.

Me and My Favourite Hobby

Hi every body in this journal I would like to talk about my self… who am I?, what is my plan in the future, what is my favorite hobby.. First of all I am twenty-five yeas old; I have a dark brownish eyes and a little bit long black hair. My height is 175 cm and I am 80 kg weight. I live now in Toronto, however I am originally from Saudi Arabia and I used to live in Riyadh. Besides, I like to live in Toronto regarding many reasons such as that Toronto is a huge multicultural cosmopolitan city with an international atmosphere. Moreover, I have many friends in Toronto and I am studying at York University, as well I am planning to study marketing in York University, so I would like to have an occupation in a big sale company or I have my own business company . In addition, I feel quite confident about the future, and achievement my ambition. Also, I feel much more confident about myself and my abilities. In addition, my favourite hobby is playing lute and I influenced by play this instrument since I was 11 years old. Additionally, when I ask Many of my friends about a lute, they did not know what is it.. , so I would like to give some information about this instrument. Lute is the most important of all Arabic instruments and is frequently referred to as the ”queen of musical Instruments”. It was brought to Spain by the Moors but soon spread all over Europe in a fretted form called the lute. The lute has a pear-shaped body and a short neck without frets and generally has 12 strings. Furthermore, lute was discovered by Egyptian musician and body of this instrument is cut from one piece of wood and the soundboard covered with an animal skin. Lastly, I would like to show this picture and I hope you enjoy reading my journal.

MY FIRST DAY IN TORONTO

I remember the night when I said to my family and my friend “good bye”. When I took a plane the time was running slowly and I felt bored. I was wondering what is kind of country I am going to? How are the people over there? Will I like the people

lifestyle over there? And when I will come back to my country? I thought it will be a new life to me. The distance was so far. I was exhausted. I slept tiredly. Suddenly, a child was crying loudly. I thought I slept one hour, but it was only ten minutes. I was really exhausted. When I was setting on a chair; a stewardess offered to me a glass of water. I took the water and I gulped it down. After six hours, they announce that we arrived to London. Then, we spent two hours in London. Next I took another plane to Toronto. After six hours, I arrived in Toronto. when I got off the plane, I was worried. I did not know what I should to do. I thought my luggage was in London. Then, I

went to find out where is my luggage. After fourteen minutes I found it. Then, I did not know where I should go. I had Yueli’s number, but unfortunately, my cell phone ran out of battery. I could not do any things. I thought I will spend that day in airport. Then, I asked some one in airport and he told me that you should stand with this people. I stood with them. Then a customs stamped my passport. After that, I gave up

to call Yueli institute. After I finished from customs, I took my baggage and I sit in hall. Suddenly, I saw one guy hold a paper and he wrote on it Yueli institute. I was very a glad when I saw him. Then, he took me and we grabbed a taxi. When I was in

the taxi, I was looking at streets, buildings and people, every thing were different from my country. The weather when I came to Toronto was very nice, because I came at summer. Despite of the exhaustion that I felt during the trip, I enjoyed so much when I saw Toronto. It was the first time and it was really a new life. The weather, buildings and culture were not like my country. After half hour, we arrived at residence of Yueli institute. Then they gave me a key of my room. After that when I opened my room, I jumped on my bed and I slept.

thanks for reading my journal and I hope you like it

cheers and enjoy

Sami

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