Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Darning and Dangerous

This week we had I really interesting subject to discus about. It was about darning and dangerous. In my opinion I think that this subject is so suitable to our class because we have a vary adventures teacher, Miss Brandi. Not every one can clime a mountain, you need to be brave, so galangal and it cost also lots of many.

To clime Mount Everest you must be really brave because going to Everest is just like going to mouth of death .the weather there is frizzing, also if you claimed there for sure you will face lack of food. in addition up there its will be so hared to breath and as result your mind will not function .the storming there is another issue the climber defiantly will face up there.

Some people clime Mount Everest to galling them self some of them clime to be famous but the strange thing is haw people go there to galling them self. Some people think that claming Everest will give them more confident and will change their live to the batter .the first women who want to Mount Everest from our class was our teacher Brandi.


Going to clime amount Everest is a very beautiful dream to lots of people but I think if they would know how much it’s cost maybe they will stop dreaming about. Claiming Mount Everest cost 6500, 00 dollars,”that is a lot of many “. Also it takes lots of time.

danger has both good and bad!!

I know that danger has both good and bad sides! For example, sky diving is a dangerous sport however It is very exciting. We have a very exotic exprience through sky diving, but it has many dangerous factors. The dangerous factors are death and permanent disability. Personally, I like danger! Maybe I will avoid the things which have too many dangerous factors, but I will enjoy the suitable danger. Danger gives me an active life. If I avoid all danger, I will live a boring life.
In my country many extreme sports are forbidden by the government. But if it is possible I really want to race cars. I like speeding when I drive on the highway. I always feel a strange urge to pass other cars. I know that speeding is dangerous, however in germany it's legal to drive a car fast. Before I die, I really want to go on the autobahn in germany. I will rent a ferrari and drive crazy!!!!!!!

Dangres? Crazy stuff , love it !!

Hi guys this is Eman ;) I think really its interesting topic. Its maybe some thing strange, how it comes we love the life and like to live it fulfill , don’t want any illness or any kind of causes of death to touch us because we want to live for more and more years and maybe for ever !! (No one will do!) But in the same moment many people seek the adventures and dangers activates such as x- sports, climbing the mountains, diving thousand of miles under the sea, bungee jumping, and many others every one as his or her interest. However, what motivated them to do it and ignoring all kind of death penalty is different for person to another. Some looking to make a big hullabaloo, others seeking the business deals and money, some just don’t like routine life and like to take up new hippies every single whiles of the time. for me I consider my self as an adventure seeker but not as professional does , I enjoy do some crazy stuff such as car racing, sea diving , jets key, rollcoster, those are what I could had since I got the chance to do some of it. Even I’m a mother for two Childs but I still have a very little kid inside me , In my thought , behave , and many other stuff I feel it very strongly maybe because I didn’t have my child hood , I don’t know !! . well this is not the point , the point is that I really enjoy doing crazy stuff and what make me always scared the fat is nothing scare me !! Crazy yeah ;). one of my adventures which I remember that one night I went to swim I the sea and was late around 7 pm !! and was pretty dark no body there only my family in the beach cost, they want to go home but I was enjoying my swimming, so my brother turn on the car light and faced it to me, when I looked around me with the light I shocked that hundred of Jelly fishes surrounded me and I spent one week itchingL. It wasn’t that bad but hurt little bad, beside wasn’t really dangers as much as it funny. Well I have many of these stories I don’t want to remember then I’ll have home sick which is really BAD !! Hope to hear form every body about their adventures; I know I’ll laugh a lot! Take care DON’T BE CRAZY
MY REGARDS: Eman AlKindi

Daring and Danger!!!! by Omar Sabit

It is really a great topic. I am not a thrill seeker, but I might do some stunts with my friends. I’ll talk about the most dangerous experience in my life. Few years ago, I went with my friends to the southern region of Saudi Arabia which is located on a mountain chain. We were visiting a valley when we had been told that there is available rock climbing in the same area. I had just few minutes to decide if I want to do it with my friends or not. It was my first time to such an experience. I decided to climb with them. It was amazing experience, and I would like to do it again, but in the case of Mt.Everest, I’m not going to do it. It was extremely a dangerous experience but it took only few hours. I was happy for attending such a challenging. Although I’ve heard that some people think jet skiing is a dangerous sport, I enjoy jet skiing. It’s one of my favorite sports, and I don’t count it as a dangerous sport. Also, I enjoy care racing, and I like to speed while driving. In fact, I used to have sport car. I participated in some car racing competitions and I really enjoyed it. In the case of Mt.Everest, a climber might stay alive, and he might doesn’t, and that is the main reason for me to say that I would never try to climb Mt.Everest. If any one thinks that I’m a thrill seeker, please tell me!!!!!

Challenge and Confidence

When it comes to challege to a dangerous thing, most people are very afraid of it at first. I also am afraid of thrill seeking activities such as rock climbing, bunjee jumping and skydiving and so on. However, I try to challege thrill activities and want to have a confidence to achieve my goal.
These are two things which I'd like to challenge bunjee jumping and skydiving.
When I read a real story about an eldery woman who was at the age 0f 70 or 80, she challenged a new risky activity, skydiving. After she did skydiving, her life was filled with energetic and vivid life. Even though she was very old, she tried to a risky activity. I was really embarrassed about it. In case of bunjee jumping, most young people prefer to a risky and excited activity. Of course, it could be a dangerous activity. Some day, I would do bumjee jumping and feel enormously exciited.
The purpose to study here in USA is another challenge for me. I think Challenge and Confidence are very essential to live my frutiful life. Enjoy and challenge a risky activities !!

by the author KAram Rajab for this week

The theme for this week is an extremely exciting topic. Daring and danger one of my favorite topics, and I wish I would experience and live something like that in the near future. The reading passage that we read was very thrilling where you can feel and live one of high-dangerous-experience. Actually, while I was reading the passage, I felt as if I were in the adventure itself participating in it. I liked the author’s expression because they appropriated the situation they had lived. I was wondering why climbers heeded the hints of the storm, and why they did not descent with him when he went down, but I think it is one of the lessons that we should learn from the previous people which is not to do something that our emotion encourage us to do but to do what our minds motivate us to go on doing it. Also, the experience involved many lessons which every climber and even every adventurer has to take in their minds. In my opinion, I think governments should have more strict rules mandate people to have some high ability if they want to climb such harsh mountains or mounts like Everest. One of these rules is to require a high level of strong physical body ability. In addition, we can save both too old people and not enough young by requiring some special mental and physical capacities these some thoughts through my vision which I think it’s important to keep as less number as accident as possible.

I love extreme sports...

I’m an adventurous person and I love to challenge myself too. I have done many crazy things in my 22 years of life but I think that if I have the chance to climb Mount Everest I wouldn’t do it because I know many stories of people who die in the attempt. Anyway, there are many extreme sports that I want to do someday but definitely climbing Mount Everest is not in my plans.

In my country there are many cities where people practice extreme sports. I love rafting and I’ve practiced rafting for 3 years. One time I tried bungee jumping, it was a very fun experience but I’ll never try to do it again. I think is fun only for one time!. I went to Cuzco, a city of Peru with some friends the last summer and this city is very famous not only for the Inca’s culture, it is also famous for the extreme sports you can do there. My friends are a little crazy, they love rafting and bungee jumping and that’s why I had to do once. They pulled of me!... Whatever, it was fun..

I agree with Brandy in one important thing. Tourists in general have done much damage to the environment in many beautiful places. For example, in Cuzco, a place which I recommend all of you to visit if you have the opportunity, is very sad to find trash in the whole city. Some tourists when they go camping, climbing or just visiting used to leave trash everywhere. I don’t know why. Maybe they don’t care about it… What can we do?. I think everyone of us have to work and think about it!!.. what do you think??

Daring and Danger

I definitely consider myself an adventurous person, and I love to challenge myself, but I don't think I would ever climb Mt. Everest. The risks are too high. Moreover, I think climbers have done so much damage to the eco-system of Everest, and the Himalaya in general. Whenever I go hiking in the Himalaya, I am so saddened by the trash left everywhere. And I also feel saddened by the loss of indigenous cultures and traditions. It seems like no matter where I go, cultures are being lost and people are assuming western diets, clothing, and lifestyles.

But this leaves me with a dilemma. Should I stay at home and never see the world?

Or should I be a tourist and contribute to the problem? How can one travel without feeling guilty about these issues?

What do you think?

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Hi all students

Hello everyone,

I am trying it again to make sure that I know to fix this funny blog.

Laureat

bwalker3@umd.edu

Hi,
Finally, my god! BETTER LATE THAN NEVER ha!ha!ha
see you soon
Laureat

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hi every one i'm rachel and i'm very happy to learn in this class

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nice to see you here in MEI

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Friday, January 12, 2007

Welcome to Our Blog!



Welcome to the Collaborative RWG 004 Blog! My name is Brandi, and I'm happy to have each one of you in my class! I look forward to your reader responses each week.

This is a picture of me in one of my favorite countries: Liberia.