We will be using this blog as another way to communicate with each other and share interesting news we find online. As a portion of your grade (the special project), I will ask each of you to start a blog of your own with three entries. I will give more details about this later.
I will post an entry weekly, and for homework, each of you must add at least one comment per week on this blog. You may add links or information of your own at any time.
This week, I wanted to talk about the term a "small world". Americans often use this phrase to describe an event that makes this large world seem much smaller. For instance, I once ran into a friend of mine from Australia when I was in Sea World in San Diego, CA. I hadn't seen him in over ten years and had no idea he was even in the United States.
Here is a cute web story that illustrates the small world idea: iphone girl. This factory worker from China has now become known to people all over the world, simply because someone forgot to erase the test photos from an iphone camera in the factory.
Do you have any stories of a small world situation? If not, try googling "small world" and "coincidence" and see what you find. I will be very interested to read your comments!
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Hi. this is Sammy. I'm also glad to take your class.
hello,I'm Jin! nice to meet you in this class. see you at the class:)
Hi,this is Elva. Wish you a good day.
hi~do you know that iphone girl was advanced
Hi, everybody. I am Sam.
I think the "small world" is growing faster than it was in the past. Because electronic communication is now evolved, including the Internet, email, Instant message, the speed of communication is like that of light. Let me tell you a story of mine. Last semester, I went to the school 10 minutes early one day. For ten minutes, I went to Korean website, Chinese website, and so forth, meaning I wandered around the world for ten minutes. What a small world, isn't it? In case that we invent teleporter, it would totally change transportation, which would result in "smaller world."
Hi everyone. Thanks for commenting! Sam, I agree!
Hello, this is Po-Ya Chang; I'm from Taiwan. This is my third year in CA I'm really glad to meet you in this class, and I wish to know you guys better.
Sorry for late.
I had many experience of `small world`.
I will tell you one of them.
When I was University student, I was in NAGOYA(in AICHI, famous for TOYOTA),I met wonderful people there.
In the summer vacation, I went back to my hometown and told my sisters about one of the friends who I met in NAGOYA. `She is so nice, she always take care of others well`. Suddenly my phone rang, and it was a textmessage from her!!
My sisters and I were so surprised and we talked `Wow, does she have the sixth sense??`
Talking about her, she has experienced this kind of things so often. I think it is not just a `coincidence`, it is more than that!!!!
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