Fly to Helsinki

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Suomen tasavalta
Republiken Finland

Between Helsinki, Finland and Taipei, Taiwan, as the crow flies:
4962 miles (7985 km) (4312 nautical miles)
Initial heading from Helsinki to Taipei:
east-northeast (71.3 degrees)
Initial heading from Taipei to Helsinki:
north-northwest (328.6 degrees)
http://www.indo.com/cgi-bin/dist/place2=Taiwan?place1=Helsinki


Language:
Finnish as their mother tongue. Finnish is a member of the Baltic-Finnic subgroup of the Uralic languages and is typologically between inflected and agglutinative languages.
Hope people there won't refuse me to speak English just like those Frenchman.

Flight
From: Taipei, Taiwan (TPE)
To: Helsinki, Finland (HEL)
Departing: May 30
Returning: Jun 1

$2010 Roundtrip
7:20 pm Depart Taipei (TPE)
Arrive Helsinki (HEL) 3:00 pm
Duration: 24hr 40mn
Cathay Pacific 401 Finnair 68
The price cost me an arm and a leg.


Hotel:
Crowne Plaza Helsinki
Mannerheimintie 50
Helsinki, 00260 FI
Check-In: 1400
Check-Out: 1200
Safe is the first priority.
I had the idea wondering around the street all the night to safe money.

Famous spots:
The historical center with Senate Square, the Presidential Palace, City Hall, the Parliament building, Finlandia Hall and the Opera House. Stops at the Sibelius Monument and, when possible, at the Temppeliaukio Church (the church in the rock).

Weather
Helsinki 5 day forecast




Sun rises 4:16 and sets 22:20. Length of day is 18 h 4 min.
Recent observation: 27 May 2008 11:10
Temperature 12.5 °C, pressure 1017.5 hPa, humidity 38%, wind from the north 6 m/s, 1h cumulated precipitation 0 mm, partly cloudy (3/8).
http://www.fmi.fi/weather/local.html?kunta=Helsinki

parasite

Websites about Listening and Grammar

Listening
Name of the website: BBC learning English
Website address: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/

The traditional accent in old kingdom always attracts me, so I had the idea of searching for a website set by British people. Utilize Google and limit to the English website, then type the key word” British” and “listen.” Browse the first page of the results; you can see a famous name on the list.
Click into the website, we find out that the home page contains some categories, surprisingly, one of them is 中文! Here in the left side of the Chinese version website has a category named learning English. We can find anything we need

Content & Strengthen:
There is a great deal of MP3 and many PDF scripts named Take away English for English learners to download.
Because I’m not native speaker, I want to check the scripts of the talks they conduct.
The elegant talks sound like music. Sometimes I can turn on the radio, let the beautiful sound keep flow smoothly as a kind of background music in my room.

Weakness:
Some of the scripts of the talks are incomplete.
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Grammar

Name of the website: Guide to Grammar and Writing
Website address: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/

When it comes to grammars, my eyebrows elevate and my cold sweat drops.
My memory capacity is not much thus I avoid not memorizing thousands of rules of English. Instead, I read articles to learn this language.


Content and Strengthen:
It is simple!
It’s time to start to learn grammars now, however, I had better pay attention to the most important grammar or I’ll be confused if I try to memorize all of them.
The goal of the website is to help people those who would like to have basic ability rather than to attend a highly succeed achievement.
The website was established by a community college, so the correction and importance of their materials are undoubted.

The organization make us easy to find the contents we need.

My Wordy Wordbank

Diary: Some Reflections About TzuChi

In TzuChi, I find it easy to collect a large amount of people in all good conscience.
The new friends I met here are easygoing and kind-hearted.
Many of them have ever suffered from serious disease or struggled for harsh situation and since then, they turned their life goal and had other feelings about life.
One of the pharmacists I met became my good friend.
She forced me to study harder, and I appreciate her wish and decide to change my lazy personality.

Still, I heard that many TzuChi commissioners bumped into terrible accidents.
Those who do the right things can not immune to devil.

I don’t believe those who have bad luck because they owe it and they must ever did something wrong before.

From kindergarten to high school, our teachers say,” you treat others well, and they’ll response well back to you.”

Until my best friend turn out to be badly treated by somebody who once accepted her help, the incidence deeply beats her.

All religions persuade us to forgive, not for the reason of being good to those who hurt us, but only can we forget their evil practice,we receive wholesome peace.

Indeed to forget is too hard, so to substitute hatred by new ideas is the way to go.
Under most circumstances, of course, goodwill gets feedbacks of goodwill

At lunch time, the TzuChi volunteers cost sweats and time cooking delicious meal for us.

It’s amazing that they contribute their treasure time to help us fulfilling our stomach.
I wonder why they would like to do it and feel thankful for them.
Maybe they do it for our contribution, and we worker harder to pay back to them.

Tough Work (Assignment 1 )

1.
Name of the website: English for Medical Professionals

Website address: http://www.englishclub.com/english-for-work/medical-vocabulary.htm

Content: the vocabulary we need in the hospital includes vocabulary, body, supplies, specialists, diagnosis, visiting, appointments, and many quiz about those topics above.

Strengthens:
1. To interpret medical terms in simple ways
2. There are also some quizzes to make sure I realize those words’ true meanings

Weakness: lack of pictures to make it concrete

Five-star grading: ☆☆☆☆


2.
Name of the website: Learning English Online

Website address: http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/aussprache.htm

Content:
It contains words used in daily life at home and in a variety of circumstances, and commercial activities in workplace, etc.
This website designs many “games,” so-called quiz, about pronunciation, confusing Words, crosswords, Fill-in Exercises, Hangman, listening comprehension, matching, multiple choice, opposites, synonyms, paraphrasing, pictures, pronunciation, reading comprehension, quiz, spelling, word formation.

Strengthens:
Those are very useful and essential and I think I had better memorize all of them. If I can distinguish some familiar pronunciation of a word from another, my accent must be approved and be closer to the native speakers.

Weakness: the amount of the wordbank is a little bit too small

Five-star grading: ☆☆☆☆

self introduction (renewed on March forth)

Warning :
Attention please, all readers must got the concept that this is a poor English blog.

The owner of the odd blog suffers from Brock’s area deficit, which is a region in left hemisphere that enable human to express her own opinions.


All right, now let's take a look about who I am.
Gender: Female
Composition: 52~60% water
23~26% lipid
temperature: 333^k

Then naming myself...
My name is Glorz; it’s easy to remember, say, you know on occasionally people make mistakes on spelling, like the word” glory,” you just need to imagine the girl who is not glory is Glorz.


About the field I'm interested in...
Now I’m a third-grade student majoring in medicine at CG University.
Hopefully that I can get the degree within five years.


The long-term goal...
I want myself to contact people of various professions among different classes, undergo unexpected social situation, and cultivate the sense of sympathy.


How to feed me?
2000c.c. soy bean milk with a great quantity of vegetable everyday is superb.
Add some vanilla and I will appreciate you much more.