A Fact > Side-Effect

Not a day goes by technology gets into our lives deeply.Every day,a new facility is born.Updates,new versions get avaliable.And again not a day goes by an event bursts up.Internet has got into every cell of us.Since then,there is both no a private life and no a social/real life.

There is an attractive power of internet.When you sit for looking at one thing,you can find yourselves lost in different websites,games,chatting windows.This comes true because the internet is the fastest information resourse on the world.In these circumstances you cannot understand how the time goes.Yesterday night it happened to me.I sat for the internet at 8.00 p.m and when I came to myself(!) it was 11.30 p.m without realizing and doing anything.I just read newspaper,filled the evaluation papers that's all!

The other issue is that the loss of private life,respect and ethical values.Only knowing your IP,people can reach your personal information and learn your private things.Some evil-minded people can transmit virus to your pc.By entering bad websites you can contaminate horrible things like heroin addiction,prostitution.I learned a horrible thing in last weeks.If people reach your IP,they can see you through webcam without your permission.This can end in disaster.

Every time we hear about cipher-robbing.When you do shopping on the internet,you are suppossed to write your creditcart's cipher.And people can reach this somehow.You can go into debt in dreadful numbers.Or by giving your home adress you can do a big favour for evil-minded people.

In brief,internet is not a kind-hearted.Yes it is very helpful of course.But it is good to be careful.You can find yourself in a disaster...

a fact > side-effect

Technology has become indispensable nowadays and entered our lives with some side-effects.Of course internet takes the lead in terms of technology.Spending virtual hours on the internet makes people away from social life.In time,these long hours spending on the internet start to disturb people both physically and psychologically.

♥ Second Life ♥

In our Advanced Reading Writing II class we have computer aided education.We use lots of web tools and softwares.Second Life is one of them.It is actually a web-site which you can enjoy online.It also contains a game which is also online.

We've met this game recently.It is actually very enjoyable if you find someone to talk :) I want to mention about game briefly.Firstly, you create a virtual character who has a name and make him/her dressed however you want.After these,you enter the game.There are lots of places and subjects which you can prefer.The game adresses to different aims.

One of these aims (which we prefer also) is educational purpose.Because we talk with people in English,it is getting useful.In our first experience,we were tasked with talking with people about purposes of using Second Life by Sedat Hoca :) It was not a efficient task because we didn't know the game and most of us couldn't find a place where people exist :) Although we found one-two people,they didn't talk with us (especially with me) because of my different style :)

The other aim is of course to spend good time.You can fly to wherever you want with one key.You don't die if you fall into the sea.With this aspect,it cannot be thought as a game maybe.But,I think people enjoy themselves there while talking and haning around.Moreover,you can dance,do shopping and something like that there.

And the third aim which I'm interested in is making friends.You can talk with people around the world.With the help of chat window you can chat and get the chance of meeting new people.Maybe you can find common pleasures together.

In conclusion;learning,meeting new people,chatting,hanging around,travelling by flying,exploring,dancing,shopping...You can find here whatever you want.Let's live a second life :)

Technology Forever!

Technology,as everyone knows, makes things easier and faster.Technology heads the list of dispensible things at the present day.Using technology in education is getting popular and essential.Because we live in an everchanging world and we have to use technology necessarily.

We are in foreign language education department so technology is in an indispensable position for us.We have to know of things on agenda.We have to read articles and passages online,use online dictionaries,do listenings,make pp presentations etc.With this aspects,technology is a must.If I was in a choosing a section,I absolutely would make my choice for the first section whose teacher uses technology in class.

In other aspects,technology is a way of simplicity.Through the internet,we can easily reach whatever we want to find.With one click we can find ourselves in an eternal information sea.Both a teacher who is fan of technology and uses and the students of this teacher feel technology's easiness and they both have much more time for other things.But the other class has to spare time for writing the notes written on the board to the notebook and search for information in encyclopaedia and dictionary.

More to say,technology is an entertaining thing.Learning by seeing or listening is more effective than one-aspect-learning.We enjoy in the classes which have visual elements.But traditional classes are very boring.No one wants to just listen or write all along the lesson.So,technologic classes are favorite of most of us.

In a nutshell,without technology life and lessons are so boring.Writing on notebooks and just listening to teacher during 3-hours-course is monotonous.By most of us technology-fan teachers are preferred as Sedat Akayoğlu =) But if I would be a teacher in the future,I will be more technologic than him =)

♥ Ελλάδα - Greece ♥

When I saw the topics,I decided to write about the second one without thinking.I really enjoy talking about countries around the world and of course about dreams.And being in Greece is my dream.My grand family emigrated from Thessalonica and Drama in the time of WorldWar I.So,I feel a strong desire to go and see there.

Travelling around the world is my biggest dream.My first experience began with one-week-tour for Finland in 2007.It was a real excitement.When I came back to Turkey,I felt very different.I had to do everything on my own there and this brought me a lot of things.I want my second experience to go to Greece.The first reason for this is emigration.I really want to see that land.This was my father's desire,too and he carried out.He was the executor for his grand aunt's will.She wanted my father to bring her Thessalonica's soil and water.But now with the death of my grandfathers,there is no witness of Greece and emigration.I have the maps and notes from my father and I hope to find there.

Except for our languages and religions,we are nearly similar with Greek People.Our geography,climate,music,food and beverages are the same.This similarity attracts me mostly.I wonder the lives of people especially the ones' who live in islands of Aegean Sea.Already I want to live in a little Aegean town or island.I enjoy myself while listening Greek music very very much.And I want to do this while eating fish,drinking ouzo and looking over against my country's coasts.

Actually,I have an opportunity to go there this summer with a youth service.I hope I can realize this.We have lived fraternally for centuries with our neighbour.We shared lots of things.The frusturation between Turkey and Greece makes me unhappy.There is no need for anxiety.We sing the same songs.We are children of the same lands.How I wish to go to Greece without visa.If I don't go there this summer,I want to go with Erasmus Program.Breathing there and walking on streets would be great.One of my friends' sister is in Greece now and she is very happy to be there.She is saying that people are very calm and friendly and enjoying being relax.This is just what I want : being easy and relax.They prefer to eat long dinner by socializing.

If I go there,this will make me so happy.I will collect money and go there next summer with 'Dostluk Express-from Istanbul to Thessalonica'.I will write my experiences if I could go. =)

Dif dif different =) / essay

If we are individuals,all of us have individualistic aspects.This makes us unique on the Earth.We learn different things from different people.With them we grow and develop.If every person was the same,the world would be no more a good place.I try to share my strange aspects,as far as I can do.

I have a bad feature for me that is what I can give up my favorite activity,band or movie if lots and lots of people love it.I don't know when I've begun to do this but I think I have had this habit for 5-6 years.I like talking about movies,actresses and actors,bands,songs with people.But,if these things arouse lots of people's attention,I directly become distant from them.For example,I really hate 'CNBC-e's youth series' such as Heroes,Prison Break,Gossip Girl and so on.This made me give up lots of things.The most distinctive examples are globally known rock bands.I cannot hinder that bad habbit and have to give up really good things.Instead,I'm interested in less known things.I try to find songs,bands,music types,movies which are less known.But this brings me in learning about different things.Some less known things are actually good-works.

I am a very cordinated and clean-cut person because of my horoscope - Virgo-.I cannot endure any of disarrangement.Any clutter makes me angry and stressful.I have very difficulty in my dormitory life.Because I have a messy roommate.I love her very much but sometimes she gets really messy especially in examination times.When I enter the room,I find every and everywhere all in a trouble.Dishes,shoes,books,clothes,cups,bags are at every turn.I cannot be at ease if our bedroom is messy and I sometimes make their beds,too.This can cause a disorder while I am in a circle of friends.They begin to complain about me.But,I have nothing to do about this habit unfortunately.My mother loves this aspect of me but unfortunately I am sensitive to things which are related to me directly.This is the other aspect of my habit.When I am at home,I don't care the rooms other than mine.My room is very generally tidy but I am not interested in kitchen if I am not there for a long time.

I am very generally a quiet person.In most situations I prefer to keep silent.Especially if have an arguement with a close friend of mine,I shut my mouth and just listen him/her.This often goes wrong.People find me guilty in events ever though I am not actually.I never want this but I cannot change myself.n arguements or something like that,I hold my tongue to calm down people,but they understand this wrong.Because I don't like speak if my sentences wouldn't change the world and if person across me is very angry.

These features are bad ones, I think.Actually I am an ordinary person as I wrote in biography =)

Dif dif different =)

Introduction-thesis statement : If we are individuals,all of us have individualistic aspects.This makes us unique on the Earth.We learn different things from different people.With them we grow and develop.If every person was the same,the world would be no more a good place.I try to share my strange aspects,as far as I can do.

Body paragraph 1 : I have a bad feature for me that is what I can give up my favorite activity,band or movie if lots and lots of people love it.

-This made me give up lots of thing.
-I'm interested in less known things.
-I cannot hinder that bad habbit and have to give up really good things.

Body paragraph 2 : I am a very cordinated and clean-cut person because of my horoscope - Virgo-.I cannot endure any of disarrangement.

-I have very difficulty in my dormitory life.Because I have a messy roommate.
-This can cause a disorder while I am in a circle of friends.They begin to complain about me.
-My mother loves this aspect of me but unfortunately I am sensitive to things which are related to me directly.

Body paragraph 3 : I am very generally a quiet person.In most situations I prefer to keep silent.

-This often goes wrong.People find me guilty in events ever though I am not actually.
-In arguements or something like that,I hold my tongue to calm down people,but they understand this wrong.
-I don't like speak if my sentences wouldn't change the world.


Conclusion : These features are bad ones, I think.Actually I am an ordinary person as I wrote in biography =)

My Biography

My name is Ezgi DEVECI.I was born in Tekirdag on 27th August of 1990.I graduated from Tekirdag Anatolian Teachers Training High School.My family still lives in Tekirdag.I am staying in dormitory here,Faika Demiray.
I have a brother 3 years younger than me.His name is Akın.He is in high school in Tekirdag.He lives with my mother.My mother is a teacher.My father died 7 years ago,he was a judge.My extended family lives in Tekirdag and Silivri,Istanbul.My grandfathers and grandmothers' family emigrated from Thessaloniki and Drama,Greece during the years of World War I.Unfortunately,I lost three of them in 5 years back to back,only my father's mother is alive.
Because of my father's job,I've moved to different cities through Turkey for my birth.When I was only a one-month-baby we moved to Dicle,Diyarbakır during the years of Gulf War.And then we went to Harmancık/Bursa,Pınarhisar/Kırklareli,Burdur,İstanbul and eventually hometown.Thanks to these movings I have lots of friends with whom I still have communication.First and second year of the high school I was in Edirne Teachers Training High School.Because of some reasons I had to move to Tekirdag Teachers Training High School.But I have never forgotten my friendships in Edirne.I was in dormitory there and I took up with lots of people.Our dorm had a ward system and we were living with 30 girls in a ward.It was the most enjoyable part of my life.
As for Ankara,I couldn't like this city.Howsoever I have lived Tekirdağ since 2003,I adjusted myself to Tekirdağ and sea much.Every morning when I woke up,I saw the see while having breakfast.Our school sees the sea as well.If we were stressed a lot,we used to go to the seaside and dring tea with simit.Our bother used to go with the waves.
Since I began to the high school,I had wanted to study in Metu.But my thoughts changed in last month before the exam.I began to want Istanbul.But everything doesn't happens according to our demands.I am here now.I like the school when I'm free of courses =)
My best friend is also at Metu.She will study Philosophy next year.I thank to my lucky stars,I have lots of friends here,both in Metu and in Ankara.
In dormitory,I feel very peaceful and easy.I have very good roommates.We prepare food together.I learn different things,cultures from them.One of them is from Adana,the others are from Eskişehir and Konya.So,they cannot understand my sea-hunger =)
I'm in education faculty but never want to be a teacher.My eternal dream is having a boutique otel in Aegean Region,especially in Foça or a fish-restourant.I hope I could have opportunity to have a master degree from Bogazici University-Tourism Administration Department.
In my free times which are really a lot,I am with my friends.We have a veteran place to go in Kızılay.Its name is Biber.Most generally we go there.Biber is where I feel very comfortable.Music and approach of people is great.
On the other hand,I really enjoy myself while dealing with literature especially with poems.Cemal Süreya is my favorite poet.I like his thinking style.
Finally I want to say something for the beginners of Advanced Reading&Writing :) :
If you like writing something,you will enjoy this course but if you don't...Last semester I really enjoyed especially in blogs.I hope we will again free in choosing topics.

I hope this semester will be a good one.Spring semester =)