My older friend's suggestion

I used to travel foreign countries,such as India, Cambodia, Neparl, and Thailand, by myself when I was university student. My first country of travelling is Thailand because one of my older friend recommended me to start travelling there. Actually, this advise from my friend changed my life in good way. Because I had never traveled foreign by myself, everything from the traveling was new to me. After that, I came to believe that I can travel anywhere by myself and I came to want to stay and work in foreign country which I like. Ten years has past, now I'm staying and working in Thailand. I'm very satisfied with life here. I think that if my friend did not suggest travelling here, I would not be here and I would worked in Japan with feeling bored and stressed.

ChiengMai Trip

I and my friends went to Chieng Mai 7 days when I was in the first year at the university. We took a train at HaoLumPong, a train station in Bangkok and we sit in the economy class. The trip from Bangkok to Chiengmai spent about 20 hours. The seat in that train are made from wood. The weather is very hot because there were no air conditioner. All the passengers in the train were my friend at the university. So we can talk, play, and shout without annoying another people. When the train started to run, we ate some food that we brought from the train station. Then, we looked outside the train to see the field which we have never seen in Bangkok. After that, we felt boring. So some of my friends suggested us to play card. That activity made us forget the time. Ten hours later, I felt sleepy and I slept on my friend's shoulder. We arrived Chiengmai

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Pin's long trip

I remembered one of my long trip last two year. I went to France with my mom and my co-workers at the Pfizer company. This trip was great because it's free for me including flight tickets, accommodation and meal because it was the incentive trip which my company offer for all of employers. It took time on the plan about fifteen hours with Thai airways. Unfortunately, I and my mom got the seats at the end of the aeroplane so, I feel it was very long travel more than 20 hours. I can't sleep because the plan not smooth and sometimes fluctuated. While, my mom had a good sleep because she is so tried. Other passengers are almost my co-workers, hence I was fun and talked to my friends along this trip.

My long train trip.

I have been gone to Hua-Hin by train whem I was in third year with my friend. This was the first time to me to travel by train. I took the free train and the train did not have an air condition. It have only seats. During my trip, at first I always talk with my friends and buy some food from the sellor who get in the train to sell some food when the train stop in the station. For me, it hard to talk with my freinds because while the train is running it always have a loud sound but I'm still try to talk with my friend by speak louder. When the time past I often take a nap or sleep as same as any other passengers. This trip was my first trip and it was very interesting for me.

An's longest trip

It was a trip that I went to Laos by bus to get my 3 months visa for staying in Thailand. This was the first time for me to go by bus and by myself, without my parents. First, I was worried about what i could do if somethings bad may happen to me, but later all it's was a good trip.
i left home at 9 pm and arrived Thai Embassy in Lao at 9 am on the next day. It's was horrible for me to wait for my visa application, i didn't know how to fill the application form and where to apply it, I was so confuse. So i just observed tyhe people around and followed what they do. finally i completed it.
Another thing was about the bua, the bus which i went to Laos by was quite good but for the bus which i came back so worse. I was about to cry in the bus.
I had my second time to Laos, but it's much better.

Advice from family.

I was an independent girl. I always decide everything in my life by my own. However, I never deny people who cares about me, when they give me advices, I listen. Especially, when those advices come from my parents, my cousins (I don't have older sisters/brothers), or my other relatives. I know they have much more experiences than I have and their intentions are always good. My parents are involved in most of important decisions in my life, such as what major I should take in the University and what university I should go to. But of course, I won't just follow everything they say without thinking first. At the end of the day, I'm still the one who making decision and not them.

Leaving Home

When I have to go abroad for studying or traveling. Many people living there or having been there usually give me a lot of useful advices such as how to find an accommodation, how do I travel in that country, etc. There are many things that I don't know about the country that I'll travel to. It's a lot harder to settle down there first time without proper information. I think these useful advices giving to me are very crucial because I can start things off much faster and I get used to it easier which mean I don't take too much time to adopt myself to new environment and also feel a lot more comfortable and also I can enjoy my life there without worrying to much about things or problems.

A Train Trip in Australia

My family live in the country, about 700 kms from Sydney, where I went to university. And when I travelled to and from the North Coast of New South Wales to Sydney, I usually took the train. Most people preferred a tour bus, but I could never understand that. True, the bus was a bit faster than the train, but it was more expensive, and not nearly as comfortable; at least, that's what I thought. I enjoyed the twelve hour train trip. It was at night, and even if I didn't take a sleeper, the seats were OK, but best of all was taht on the train, you could get up and walk around. There was a dining car where you could get a meal or sit over a coffee for a bit, and you could walk up and walk up and down the cars. The tour buses, by comparison, seemed to me to be cramped and and restrictive. You pretty much had to stay in your seat and a tasteless sandwich in a cardboard box just couldn't compete with a nice, fresh cooked meal from teh dining car. My favourite meal was breakfast. I used to have bacon and eggs around 5:00 AM, a couple of hours before the train pulled into the local station near my family home.
ANother advantage that trains have over buses is that they are much safer. Trains occasionally have accidents, but very rarely; buses, on the other hand, are as likely to be involved in accidents as any other traffic. The long train trip can be a bit boring, but that didn't worry me a lot. I could usually sleep for most of the night, and I always had a book with me. SOmetimes I invited a friend back to visit my home, and that always made the journey go much faster.

AEP Course Objectives

The AEP Course at AUA has much in common with the new iBT TOEFL exam. As anyone who has recently taken it can tell you, one major difference with its past is that unlike the old paper based exam, there are no longer any grammar questions in TOEFL - not even one.

What do you think about this change? Write your response in a comment below.

• What might the reasons for this change be? Do you agree with them?
• Does this change make TOEFL better or worse? Why?
• Do you think that it make the test more or less difficult?
• How is it relevant to what we do in AEP? Do you agree with my comment above about AUA's AEP course?
• This is a response writing activity, so you can make any other comment that comes to mind on the topic.

Roong's academic interests.

My academic interests are mostly in legal field, of course, because my major is law. I intened to get my ThaiBar next year and go for L.L.M. the year after. However, I recently focusing on ................................ !!!!
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Chie

My academic interest is economics. I am interested in how the world economy is going. Nowadays, starting in US, the world economy is getting down all over the world. On the other hand China, India and some other country's economy is growing. What elements does relate to these phenomenon? It must have close relationship. Furthermore, is it possible not to have poverty from the earth in the future.

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liu's academic interest

My academic interest is about economics, politics, technology and history. I think these subjects have very close connection. They could help me understand more about what is going on in the world and in my country. The academic subject that I enjoy reading most is history. One thing I like about history is that it is very similar to a tale or a novel. It does not only tell me what had happened in the past but it also gives me the pleasure as well as a novel.

Mimi's academic interest

The areas of study that I'm interested in are psychology and health. I have studied psychology when I'm in university. I studied about human behavior and used to read a journal about psychology but now when I graduated I don't read the journal at all. Besides psychology, I'm also interested in the health, science and innovation because these fields of study are related to my life. If I know some useful information about them, it will be good for me.

Peter's Academic Interests

My academic interests have changed a little over time, but fairly consistently in a couple of directions. Today, I continue to read philosophy, mainly ethics and epistemology, but also other areas of philosophy. When I was at university, one of my major areas of interest was logic, studying people like Frege, Cantor, Godel, and so on. I think that I liked the absolute (?) certainty that was possible in logic, which was even more certain than mathematics. At university, I also continued to study mathematics for three years.
Maths had been my favourite subject in the last couple of years of high school, having replaced physics, which had supplanted chemistry, which had taken over from biology. I also enjoyed English in high school, but found it far more difficult than the sciences and mathematics. Writing sentences wasn't difficult, but writing good sentences, and joining them all up effectively was very difficult.

Q's Academic Interests

I'm interested in Information Technology and related fields. Nowadays, people use many techonology devices and tools such as computers, mobile phone or internet in there everyday life even everday bussiness. So I want to broaden my IT skills so that I can use this knowledge to implement new technology or improve current ones to help people to live there life easier. I'm especially interested in Database technology. I woked as a Database Administrator (DBA) before I decided to go to continue my further study in this field in university in Australia.

Taka's Academic interests

Hello,everyone. I'm Taka from Japan. I came to Thailand to study MBA program because I'd like to be a bridge person who create new business between Japan and Thailand. Anyways, my major was physics but I almost forgot about that subject because it was so long time ago. Please don't ask me about physics. It's so complicate subject to explain.
My interests are economy and business in Thailand. I'd like to know circumstances of business in this country because I think it could help my study here. In order to get to know about that, I read Bangkok Post these days, but not everyday.

Ing's Academic Interests

I graduated from faculty of Food Science 1 year ago. However, nowadays my academic interest is economics. I have changed my mind after I talked with my professor at my university. She suggested me to study in the different area for adapting with Food Science. Although I like study and learn food science a lot that I usually do research and updates the news about food science, I agree with my teacher when I think of my future. Employers need to hire the employees who have knowledge more than one area.
One subject that I have never thought about is Engineering. The first reason is that I do not like Physics. I used to fail in Physics exam. The second one is that engineer need to understand the shape clearly especially in Mathematics area at which I am not good.

Pin's academic interests

My name is Pin. I am a pharmacist. I have graduated from Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. I am interested in this subject because I want to learn about health and medicine. After I graduated, I found that I eager to study more about Cosmetic Sciences because I am interested in cosmetic and perfume. Therefore, I decided to go to study aboard next year in Europe. I want to do research and develop new product in the field of cosmetic. I would like to improve my skill to create my own products. Now, I always read Sciences magazines and books involving herbs, new medicines, illness and cosmetic.

An's academic Interest

My academic interest is religion, especially Christianity. There is a reason for this, i was born and grew up in a Christian family so i have been taught about the gospel, the principles of God and many things else about my religion. i usually read the books which are about God's principles, life of a Christian ( actually I'm not a holly girl even though i have been studied much about the principle).... However, I'm also interested in biology, especially when i was in high school. it's was a subject i liked the most.
I think my academic interest maybe change by the time...

Welcome to AEP Reading and Writing 6

Welcome to term 7 of 2009, and to the level 6 AEP Reading and Writing class.

If you have already had a look through Quest 3 reading and Writing [Quest], you will have noticed that every chapter includes two types of writing exercise: a response writing activity and an academic writing assignment. For example, in chapter 5, "The Nature of Poetry", the response writing is exercise F. on page 183, and the academic writing is Part 5, on pages 188 to 192 (Hartmann & Blass, 2007). Hartmann and Blass think that both sorts of writing are important; since I agree with them, we will be doing both on a regular basis. In fact, we will aim to do both a little more often than the one of each per chapter that Quest asks for.

The academic writing exercises are fairly straight forward, and we will do the preparation necessary for those as we come to them. This blog is where we will do the less formal response writings. In case you are new to blogging, don't worry. Once you've joined our class blog and written your first post, it will be easy. The instructions that Hartmann and Blass provide in exercise F. on page 183 give a fairly clear idea of what response writing is all about, as well as how to do it, although we might change that a little for some of our response writings.

Just as we will be writing more than is included in the chapters of Quest, so too will we be reading outside of Quest. And having read something, we want to share our ideas about it, so that will also be a source of topics to write about, both here and in academic writing assignments.

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References

Hartmann, P. & Blass, L. (2007). Quest 3 Reading and Writing (2nd. ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) turn on again

From the article, "Particle beams injected into LHC", in BBC News it make me exciting to here this news which is show LHC status, and I think that it is the good news for scientists who want to know unknown facts of the Universe.

According to the article, scientists complete fix LHC machine and “have successfully injected beams of particles into two sections” (2009, ¶ 1) of the eight sections of these machine. The LHC switch-off after it turn on in 2008 because of “a magnet problem” (2009, ¶ 5) when liquid helium leak into the tunnel. After engineers successfully fix the huge machine, they switch-on and inject the beam of protons and lead ions to the LHC. This process is successful with clockwise and anti-clockwise directions. The hope of scientists who work with this project wish “to see new particles in the debris” (2009, ¶ 17) of particle impact which make them known 'the “Big Bang” and the nature of the Universe' (2009, ¶ 17).

In my opinion, when LHC work again and display the success of experiment, engineers and scientists should do in this project continuously and invite scientists or people who have ideas to seek the success of project around the world because the result of experiment will expose completely as soon as possible. The study of particle secrets is very interesting because scientists will know more about particles which show differently special qualifications. If the result of particle collisions can reveal the secret of universe it will be the vast discovery of humans. We will know how the universe born and perish, then they will seek the way to prevent that event occur. Moreover, scientists would find the new particles which will make benefit to our lives. Even though the cost of this project is very high, the thing that we will get from this project may be the vast majority benefit and the major aim of project is survival of humans. I think that the knowledge is investment.
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References
Particle beams injected into LHC. (2009, October 26). BBC News. Retrieved October 27, 2009 from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8326666.stm