The Bridge

In This Issue

Experiential

learning activi-

ties pp 2-6

Living in

Peterborough

pp 7-9

Health, Fitness &

Sports pp 14-17

Technology To-

day pp10-13

Our Stories of

‘Success’ pp 18-

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Summer

Calendar p

After a great time at Milltown Mini Golf– a refreshing water balloon fight!

The English as a Second Language

(ESL) Bridge at Fleming Fleming’s ESL Bridging program equips students

with the language, academic skills and cultural

knowledge necessary to succeed in any future

studies. The current students are a wonderful

group of individuals from all over the world who

are dedicated to getting the most out of their

Canadian learning and living and learning ex-

perience.

Fleming’s ESL Bridge Program Newsletter Spring and Summer 2014

Treetop Trekking in the Ganraska

North American specialty: the yellow schoolbus! Just waiting for the bus...

Everybody passes for many difficult moments when it is necessary to improve or to learn new something. Improv is an art of improvisation which is a state of being and creating action without pre-planning. In May, Fleming College’s (F.C) stu-dents of ESL Bridge visited the magnificent Peter-borough Academy of Performing Arts which has the direction of famous actress/ producer/ teacher and Peterborough resident Linda Kash. She is a Canadian actress, an alumnus of Second City, she played Trudy Weissmanin the 1998 Jeas Smart sit-com, Style & Substance and she played various roles in great and popular televi-sion series such as Seinfeld and Everybody Loves Raymondy. Everybody was received by Linda who welcomed the students with delicious donuts. On this visit all students could enjoy the best of improv class. Many excellent and exciting activi-ties were developed by Linda, but sometimes only a few participated in the Improv Game such as 10 fingers in which there were 2 players, Lin-da and Marcus Lucas .They had to ask questions, but the difficulty was asking questions in ten words, no less or no more. However, they did a

good job and everybody clapped for them.

Another activity, in circle and with everybody, was to make something with one paper like a hat or a ship and the difficult this Improv Game was to try to make different thing, you couldn't make the same thing as other players. Linda and John, who is another student of F.C, started other Improv Game after, Alphabet Letters. They had to say something with the alphabet letter chosen to continue the game, if one of the two made mistakes other player could replace them, hoewer, it didn’t happen. The students had a good afternoon with Linda Kash who helped to improve their English with different Improv Game activities. Actions like this can help other people to learn English or lose the timidity, it is a good idea if you need to do

this. thing or only relax your mind.

Fleming College students of ESL Bridge before the activities

The lovely actress Linda Kash.

Josielio

and Jones

’putting on

makeup’...

Exciting Improv

Class with

Linda Kash The art of improvisation with stu-

dents of ESL Bridge of Fleming

.

Camp Kawartha

Environmental Education Centre

Initiative to create responsible and conscious people

Written by Jones Santos

The need to live in a sustainable environment is a desire for

everybody. The Camp Kawartha Environmental Education Cen-

tre teaches many students every year the idea that you can

change the place where you live into something better. The

international students of the ESL Bridge Program had the op-

portunity to know a little more about this initiative provided

by Gainey Foundation, Trent University and Fleming College’s

Sustainable Building Design and Construction program. More

than 30 foundations, organizations, businesses and individuals

helped to realize this dream. The building has things that pro-

vide it the generation of energy fully sustainably like solar

energy and geothermal radiant floors. The building was built

with Hempcrete and Slip-straw insulation. Hempcrete is a mix-

ture of lime, water and hemp shives and Slip-straw is a combi-

nation of clay and straw that is used to insulate wall cavities.

The Centre collects rainwater and filters. After being filtered,

this water is potable and the only source of water for the

building. The aquatic plants strain and purify the grey water

before it is released into the environment. "This building is

very interesting because it is a demonstration of how we can

build in a sustainable way

without so much impact"

said Manoela Chaves,

student of the ESL Bridge

Program at Fleming Col-

lege. After, this amazing

experience the interna-

tional students of the ESL

Bridge Program had an

opportunity to learn more

about traditional skills of

the indigenous peoples.

Everyone was excited to

know the skill such as how

to hunt animals, make fire

and some funny games.

Finally, everybody ac-

quired knowledge about

sustainable building and

the action of the Camp

Kawartha Environmental

Education Centre in teach-

ing people to be more

conscious and to protect

the environment.

Traditional skill of the indige-

nous peoples; spear-throwing

Students of the ESL Bridge Program at the Environment Centre

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The otter got the most attention and took the most time of students. Sec-

ond, the camels made students feel afraid because the students thought

one of the camels might spit on them, and third the meerkats charmed and

amused the students because they stood up like they was looking for

something.

Riverview Park

and Zoo On Tuesday May 6th, the classes of

Fleming’s international ESL students

went to Riverview Park and Zoo in an

off-campus activity with Briagh. The

students thought the destination would

never come because the route was so

long! After many minutes they arrived

at the zoo.

The students enjoyed the animals and

took many pictures. Some animals got

more attention than other animals. International students

Meerkat

Otter Camel

Razzo Ferreira,

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Barbacena/MG -

“I visited the Riverview Park and

Zoo and in Brazil I study biolo-

gy. This is my course, so for me,

to see the zoo was a good ex-

perience because I could know

different and great structures

and I could see for myself con-

cepts seen in class, and it was

an exciting activity and comple-

mentary to my studies.”

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Disc golf is a combi-

nation of Frisbee

and Golf and it is

played like tradition-

al golf, instead of a

ball and clubs, how-

ever players use a

flying disc or Frisbee.

Disc golf

Disc golf After the students watched the animals, they went to play disc golf. Disc

golf was a new and unknown game for most students, but after Briagh ex-

plained and told the instructions about the game, the students immediately

started the game. Some students launched the disc very well, but other

students need more strength and training to play this game.

Finally, after many flights of discs, the students ended the tour and left.

Note: the return route was very much faster.

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“This kind of activ-

ity should be held

many times. It is

good for interna-

tional student’s

communication.

And the team work

was very im-

portant. He

thought the weath-

er was very hot”

Chen You

“The Amazing

Race was a great

activity, which al-

lowed us to im-

prove our sense of

team working and

test our mental

and physical abili-

ties.”

Marcus Lucas

Amazing Race 2014

Amazing Race Written by Leandro

Fleming College had an amazing race on May 27. This race consisted in complet-

ing some tests on the different places of the college with a partner. Briagh and

Amanda were the coordinators of this race, and gave some t-shirts to every par-

ticipant.

The amazing race started in front of the Wellness Centre. After this every racer

needed to go to the soccer field. But during the way, every racer was afraid to

fall because there was a slope on path. At the soccer field, they ran around a

baseball bat, because of this a lot of people fell down. After they recovered,

they ran to a point and back to their partner, and each partner needed to do this

too. After this work they went to the student council and answered some questions.

When they finished these questions, they had a ping pong challenge, during

which they needed to play ten times without lose the ball. After finishing this chal-

lenge, they went to the SAC of the student residence to try to open a box with a

letter, but there were a lot of boxes. In the letter was written that all students

needed to go back to the soccer

field for another activity. In this activ-

ity, the partners crawled in the dirt

and jumped rope and made a goal.

When this race was finished in an

impressive time, everybody was very

tired. This race awarded the winners

that was Lucas and Razzo. But every

racer had a very fun time.

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Peterborough is a city of

Ontario. It’s not a town.

There is a lake around Pe-

terborough. It’s near to To-

ronto; about 125 kilometers.

Peterborough has about

75,800 people. There are

two post-secondary schools

in Peterborough; Fleming

college and Trent Uni-

versity.

First impressions of Peterborough

When I came to Canada. I only have been to Toronto and Peterborough. Now I stay at

Peterborough. The environment of Peterborough is very well. It’s better tan China . There are

the fresh air and thick tree. I always see some birds and squirrels sun around the trees, when I

go to the school. I will feeling very specially, like live in in the nature with animals.

In the summer , There are a lot of flower and grass to grow from ground. The trees are

grow up very flourish envelop the whole Peterborough. In the winter the temperature will de-

crease to 30 degree. Even more than -30 degree. There are too much snow arrive to Peter-

borough. The weather is very windy. That will make you feeling more colder. Be careful the

street, when you drive or walk on the street. The snow melt become water then the water fro-

zen up become ice. That make the street very smooth. In Peterborough, the transportation is

very inconvenience. The bus is very expensive. Every 20 minutes will depart from Downtown.

On the weekends every 40 minutes have one bus

comes to bus station . So people mainly have cars.

Peterborough and Lindsay, ON

Lindsay is a community of 20,354 people

(2006 census)[1] on the Scugog Riv-

er in the Kawartha Lakes region of

south-eastern Ontario, Canada. It is

approximately 43 km (27 mi) west

of Peterborough. It is the seat of

the City of Kawartha

Lakes (formerly Victoria County), and

the hub for business and commerce in

the region.. Lindsay Transit provides

bus service to the community and sur-

rounding area.

Lindsay has a sister city, Nayoro, Japan, and a small Japanese culture exhibit is in

the main entrance to the library as well as at the Olde Gaol Museum. The sister city

serves as a cultural experience for local students as every two years students are

chosen to travel to Japan for free

Written by:Zhi

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Helena is a volunteer at

Turtle Trauma Centre

She helps many turtles. She

feels happy to offer her

ability to help many ani-

mals and people and she

will do it for future.

VOLUNTEERING IN PETERBOROUGH: WHAT A GREAT IDEA!

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Jobs and Volunteers In PTBO Why do people like to be a volunteer. The Bible said “ It is more

blessed to give than to receive”. If you want to find a good job and

know the society . Enjoying the volunteer is the first good experi-

ence. It is good for the student and adults to find a good job.

Most volunteers provide their abilities to help society to service for

the general public. Peterborough has lots of great opportunities for

volunteering. The government offers these opportunities to the pub-

lic. They can let the students know the society earlier. For these in-

ternational students like us, it can let us earlier to know the culture of

this country and practice our English communication quickly. That is a

win-win relationship for us.

We can use the extracurricular time to find a professional skill vol-

unteer related to our majors. Then we can do volunteer work with a

high efficiency.

VOLUNTEER

PTBO

VOLUNTEERING IN PETERBOROUGH: WHAT A GREAT IDEA!

Visit

www.ptbocanada.co

m/volunteer/

This web offers vari-

ous of volunteer op-

portunities to public.

You can find a volun-

teer opportunity from

this Internet. There

are many details to

tell you how to do this

volunteer. And you

can send a email to

apply this position.

Written by Chen You

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AI in real life

Nowadays, there are

several real-life applica-

tions of Artificial Intelli-

gence, like computer

games, computer pro-

grams, security applica-

tions for information sys-

tems, robotics (auxiliary

robots), devices for

recognition of handwrit-

ing and speech recogni-

tion, medical diagnostics

programs and much more.

Some highlights follow.

There are about 80 nodal points in the human face.

Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence is a branch of computer science which aims to develop devices that sim-

ulate the human to think, perceive, make decisions and solve problems, finally, the ability to

be smart.

For decades, this area of science has been largely driven by the rapid development of in-

formation technology and computing, allowing new elements to be quickly aggregated to AI.

History Begun in the ‘40s, the research surrounding this emerging sci-

ence was developed only to find new features for the com-

puter that was still being created. With the advent of World

War II, it also became necessary to develop the technology

to boost the arms industry.

Over time, several lines of studies about AI emerged. One of

which is the biology that studies the development of concepts

intended to mimic the human neural networks. Actually, in the

‘60s this science won the nickname of Artificial Intelligence

when the biological researchers believed it was possible that

machines could accomplish complex human tasks such as rea-

soning.

After a dark period, the studies about neural networks re-

turned in the ‘80s being driven by many financial invest-

ments and in the ‘90s this study was consolidated as the base

of artificial intelligence.

Written by Joao

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Neural Network

System

Neural network is a

concept created to

mimic the human

learning process that

uses the processes of

approximation, clas-

sification and recog-

nition of patterns.

Each artificial neuron

has the ability to

identify and/or pon-

der the information

captured by the main

system, such as hu-

man neurons which

are activated when

the pattern is found

and activating one

specific function.

The artificial neural

network, as stated

before, is the basis

of artificial intelli-

gence and is used in

the visual, auditory

and linguistic compu-

ting that propose to

develop systems that

mimic the human cog-

nitive capacity.

Facial Recognition System

Face recognition is a biometric technique based on the facial

features of people. The human ability to recognize the faces

of people and associate with their name is being applied to

computer systems.

The face of a person is formed by several features, which

are called nodal points. There are about 80 nodal points in

the human face. Facials signatures can be created with the

nodal points and stored in a database.

Nowadays, there are complex facial recognition systems that

are connected to public and private security cameras able to

recognize faces in real time.

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Websites and apps for English

learning

According to some researchers there are approximately 2 billion English speakers, of which 1 billion are non-native speakers divided in around 375 million learning as a second language and 750 million people that speak English just for business or enter-tainment. Nowadays, we have new ways to learn a foreign language, especially using websites and apps, including Duolingo, Livemocha, Busuu, etc. It is interesting to know if the students of the ESL program use them and what is their opinion about

these features.

Duolingo (https://www.duolingo.com/) is a service designed for language-learning, launched at the end of 2011. It is a dynamic way to learn other languages, but it is less speaking practice than

writing. The app is available for Android and IOS.

Livemocha (http://livemocha.com/) is an online community de-signed for language-learning, launched at the end of 2007. There are lessons, with grammar, reading and listening. You can also chat with other speakers, includ-ing native speakers of the language that you intend to

learn.

Busuu (http://www.busuu.com/) is an online community similar to Livemocha, launched in 2008. Its strength is the flexibility to save the lessons in PDF for-

mat and the audios in MP3 format.

In order to find out what websites or apps are used by the students of the ESL program at Fleming, we did an online survey (http://goo.gl/ekGzIC) with around 20 international students. Most of the

Brazilian students use Duolingo, probably because of the flexibility that it has. The

students from China use a Chinese search engine, called Youdao (有道, http://

www.youdao.com/), more specifically a feature called “Youdao Dictionary”. Most of the students use them from 1 to 4 hours. We can see the results of the survey in the

pie charts.

12%

35%

9%

15%

20%

9%

Usage

Busuu

Duolingo

I don’t use any website or

apps.

Livemocha

Others

Youdao

2 billion English

speakers, of which

1 billion are non-

native speakers di-

vided in around

375 million learn-

ing as a second

language

“Most of the

Brazilian

students use Du-

olingo”

Students from

China use a Chi-

nese search en-

gine, called

Youdao

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“I like this kind of study

because you can learn

playing.”

Adriana Nascimento

“It is better to use

something one from

each website. But don’t

use only one for all

aims.”

Alexander Bome

“It is very important to

learn new languages!”

Charles Wendell

“Sometimes, you need

to use other way to

learn English like read-

ing a book and writing

something in English.“

Jones Santos

“This Apps are a new

way to learn, but this

isn't better than tradi-

tional way.”

Lucas Camargo The usage of these software is convenient to improve and practice a foreign lan-

guage. It could be a good way to learn English, “I like this kind of study because

you can learn playing”, commented Adriana Nascimento, who is a Brazilian stu-

dent of the ESL program. However, we can’t use these features for all goals that

we have in a language. “It is better to use something one from each website. But

don’t use only one for all aims” said Alexander Bome, who is a Russian student of

the ESL program. One thing is certain, any help for English learning is welcome.

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Carol Anne Wicks, is from Montreal, Quebec. She loves to

work with people, to cook and enjoy volunteering at Canadi-

an help other people. She loves trip with her trailer and

bringing her family with students together. The success to her

is the relationship with other people.

Soccer has a number less follower in Canada if compared to

Hockey and other sports. But she thinks that Canadian people

enjoy soccer, because it is good exercises. It is important for

Fleming College to give support to international students to

demonstrate their skills. Soccer is not popular in Canada,

because there is long winter, and Canadians are proud of

inventions like Hockey. About World cup in Brazil, she thinks

that Brazili-

ans love this

sport, and if

comes to

Canada, it is

not impossi-

ble, but we

don’t have a

good team,

so it’s harder.

Photo Caption

Amanda Gray, is a

coordinator of Flem-

ing International at

Students. She is orga-

nized, and has a

good management

skills. Success to her, is

always keep your

mind open to learn-

ing.

Her opinion about the

World cup in Brazil is

that Brazilians have

the opportunity to

receive the Cup of

their favourite sport,

because it is very

popular. She thinks that in

Canada isn’t impossible to receive World cup, but

such as Hockey is considered the main sport of Canada.

Amanda Gray

Carol Anne Wicks

The soccer is the favourite sport in the world, with

more lovers than any other sport, but its history in

Canada can be a little different in some aspects.

For example, Canada is considered a hockey

country, and in the winter it is impossible to play

soccer.

For example, in Toronto, there is the York Region

Shooters team, with one of the biggest a clubs of

the country, and it was offering try-out to imi-

grants. However, due to the large number of soc-

cer players in Brazil often good athletes are ex-

empt from clubs for great competition and give

up their career. Already in Canada, the situation

is the opposite, due to shortage of young people

interested in the sport.

The Canadian Perspective

World Soccer The opinions of Canadians and

Chinese about this famous sport

Written by Ricardo Remedio

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Cong Liu, Chinese student

of ESL in Fleming College,

always likes to cook and

try new foods. But, she

considers a problem be-

cause these are things

that kill time much. She

has finalize like goal,

and success to her is hav-

ing a sweet family and a

strong mind.

The world’s most popular sport– in action!

So, Cong talked about Soccer, and she believes that Soccer is not suitable for Chinese, be-

cause the Brazilians it so well. When we talked in relation poor countries she said Soccer can

turn inequality to equity. Cong think think that the womens soccer of Canada is excellent

and they won Chinese female team many times. For her, they like soccer in summer. But in

winter, they cant play it. Just four months Canadians can play soccer here, which the reason

why soccer cant be popular in Canada. When I ask "You mean in canada, we need more

chance to play soccer?" She thinks: Yes. Brazilians can bring more soccer culture to this coun-

try. About Fleming, I asked for

her, if Fleming should have more

opportunities for students to show-

case their skills. She said, the col-

lege can and they should. Maybe

they can hold a soccer match be-

tween Brazil and India, or Brazil

and Canada local students. About

the possibility of World Cup of

Soccer in China, she told me that

some of her classmates said no.

Because, the goverment must

build many stadiums to hold the

match, its will not be used after

the match.

The Chinese Perspective

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What is

hydration? Not an easy question, because it

will differ from person to person,

but is the process of combining

with water; usually reversible

(dehydration). On the average,

water makes up 60 - 70% of your

body weight. The range is due to

the fact that different cells contain

different amounts of water. Muscle

cells, for example, are 70-75%

water whereas fat cells are only

10-15% water. Therefore, a mus-

cular person will have a larger

percentage of his/her body

weight coming from water.

Fatigue Water is the most vital sources of

energy in the body. dehydration

causes the enzymatic activity in the

body to slow down, resulting in

tiredness and fatigue.

According to research conducted with students of Fleming, more than 80% do not take 8 glasses of

water daily

Keep yourself hydrated for Summer Written by Lucas Camargo Summer is coming and the temperature has begun to rise. This increases the temperature

of the body. That's when the body eliminates sweat, aiming to maintain proper body

temperature. Through sweating we lose water and minerals which are essential for the

functioning of the organism. Water is part of all these mechanisms. Including breathing,

heart, kidney and all other organs' work. We eliminate around 2.5 litres of water per

day through urine and perspiration. We need to take 8 glasses of water per day, but

will only water hydrate the body? According to research conducted with students of

Fleming, more than 80% do not take 8 glasses of water daily, but they know the im-

portance of staying hydrated. Having eight glasses of water a day isn’t as difficult as it

sounds. Many foods are full of water content.

Foods, especially fruits and vegetables play an important role in hydration. So with food

use can hydrate and nourish our bodies. In summer it is much tastier to eat salads. Take

advantage of this to improve the use of vegetables!

And don’t forget about beverages such as milk, juice and herbal teas. Some foods with

high water content include pineapple, pumpkin, apples and others juicy fruits. Staying

hydrated will give you energy for sunny days. If you are feeling tired, you can eat fresh

foods such as yogurt with pumpkin seeds, banana with milk, oatmeal or chamomile tea,

because this kind of food has been proven to aid the production of serotonin and mela-

nin, improving your sleep and feeling better.

Zhi is getting refreshed

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Stay in shape with the help

of your smartphone Currently the smartphones are always with us. These devices help us

in in various daily tasks, to wake up, or to translate some text, or to

cook, and others. Smartphones can be a good ally in the quest for bet-

ter health. They can be a simple timer, or do more complicated tasks,

such as, being your virtual personal for measuring your progress, stay-

ing the course, and keeping your motivation up.

Some apps for fitness connect you with other people who support

you, and can send their support too, others add a competitive edge to

the process. In others, the goals are in completing a run or bicycle ride

segment in the shortest amount of time. Some of the apps operate as

tracking tools, in which you log your workouts or calories eaten. Others

are coaching apps that march you through a fitness routine, and others

are a combination of all these things. The options for support and moti-

vation are endless!

.

Fitness

Apps Written by Hugo

Runtastic Pro lets you measure and track

your runs, walks, and other exercises, but it

also doubles as a coaching app to moti-

vate you to keep working toward your

Lose It! Helps you

to keep track of

what you eat

each day and

how many calo-

ries you burn. It’s

like having a

‘budget’ but in-

stead of counting

dollars it counts

calories for you

and only allows

you to ‘spend’ a

certain amount.

RUNTASTIC

Zombies, Run! is

an audio adven-

ture and game

rolled into a run-

ning workout.

You listen to a

story through

your earbuds

about zombies,

and keep running

to complete mis-

sions as they

come up in the

ZOMBIES,

RUN!

LOSE IT!

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Our Stories of ‘Success’

Helena is a student of Fleming College. For her, success means you do that you want and fail-ure means something you don’t get yet, but you’ll get. Her weakness is she is proud and bossy and her strengths are she is a persistent, battler per-son and likes to help people. In short term goals she wants to improve her English and in long term goals she wants a good job, to continue her study and find a great person to get married with. One thing that if Helena could change in her personality is she would be less emotional. Finally, Helena’s tip

for success is to be persistent!

Written by: Razzo Ferreira

Helena Teixeira

23 years old

Salvador, Bahia,

Brazil

Josielio Maia Dantas, Brazili-an, live in Rio Grande do Norte, in the northeast of Bra-zil, and He has twenty four years old. He arrived in Can-ada there are seven months, he is student of program ESL at Sir Sandford Fleming Col-lege, and currently he is in the level five. Their strengths are patience and ease to know new people beyond have a great potential for the ex-change of experiences. He is not punctual and he always leaves things to the last mo-ment. He wants to know new methods applied on the sci-ence and still to use all knowledge acquired in Cana-da for improve their methods in Brazil. He wanna working for helping health from the people. He agrees be deter-mination that key is for start an objective and it this is demonstration to success achieved. For he failure has a meaning, mean is not all ob-jectives achieved, it this oppo-

site to success.

Josielio iMaia Dantas

23 years old

Rio Grande do Norte ,

Brazil

“Believe that you never give up

on your goals”

Joao Marcos Mazza

Burlan de Freitas do

Amaral

Sanots City, Brazil

“Believe that for you achieve the success looking to your

into it and find your purpose”

João Marcos Mazza Burlan de Freitas do Amaral, Brazilian, live in Santos city, São Paulo state. He has twenty four years old. Currently he is student of ESL Program at Sir Sandford Fleming College. Their strengths are intelligence and daily application. There are weaknesses, perfectionist and he is reserved. Joao want on short notice has a professional career and also be married. On long terms he wants a working in the development system in the smart cities and after to start a second course, entering a college (Mechatronic Engineer) and he still wants buy a house. e expects to work and advance your career in the city where he lives, and to start the second college. He wants change to be less emotional. For his success Achieved personal goal; Have pleasure of doing life. For his failure did change is your mistakes;

when lack your change.

Written by: Charles

Written by: Charles

Razzo`s said that he always helps people, so this is his big-gest strength. He feels good being a generous person. One thing that he thinks of his problems is that most of time he is late. He also wants to change his personality to have

more motivation.

The first goal of Razzo`s is to finish the ESL program. After this he wants to finish the foren-sics program. In some years after he finishes the forensics program he wants to start a master’s degree. Razzo`s idea about success means achieving his goals, and without this he will not have success. So the most important tip of success is

being happy.

Written by: Leandro

Razzo da Silva Ferreira

Barbacena, Minas Ge-

rais, Brazil

21 years old

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Manoela is very good with data analysing, so this is her most strength, on the other hand she thinks that she is a perfectionist and it some-times disrupts her. She really wants to finish the ELS and the computer engineering program of the school. After this she wants to go back to Brazil and open her compa-ny. In five years she plans to do her PHD, and develop a research about neural net-works, because she wants to

mix biology with computers.

One thing that she doesn`t like in her personality is to be emotional, because the sentimentalism could inter-fere in her decisions. Manoe-la thinks that success is work-ing with something that you want and love, sometimes

other people work in something that they don`t like and this makes the job more difficult. An excellent sentence is “success doesn`t come without work”. She said that failure is something that went wrong but on the other hand is the opportunity to try again, make better and be better. Manoela`s tip for success is “Keep calm, work hard and

stop the whining”.

Briagh is an interesting person, she believes the success mean balance between obstacles and achievement and healthy personal rela-tionships. Her tip for success is get a lot of sleep, a lot of water and a lot of play. For

Briagh failure means to be alone and isolated. If she could change one thing about his personality it would be more assertive.

The short term goals of Briagh is simple and easy; I think; she wants to use calendar more frequently. Her long term goals also are not so hard, she want to be best parent and partner (for her husband). Thinking more about the future; five years from now; Briagh wants expend her small busi-ness into an outdoor experiential learning center for interna-tional youth. Briagh strengths is interpersonal skills and com-munication. Her weaknesses are planning and organization, she not knowing her limits.

Briagh Marie Hoskins-Hasbury 28 years old Peterborough, Ontario

Manoela Chaves

Crato / Reará / Brazil

27 years old

Computer Engineering

arol Anne enjoys to talk with people. She like tutoring be-cause she talks individually with each person. Sometimes, she feels insecurity and Carol Anne doesn’t believe in her-self. She has goals that are to get more jobs in ESL Bridge Programs and Carol Anne Would like to move to Peter-borough. Carol Anne want to spend more time create

things like painting and sew-ing. She want to be more con-fident. “Success for me is to feel connect in my world” said

Carol Anne. Fail ure for her is to feel disconnect in her world. “Believe in yourself is the most tip for success” said

Carol Anne.

Carol Anne Marie Robichaud Teacher ESL Bridge Program

Written by: Jones Santos

“THE SUCCESSFUL WARRIOR IS

THE AVERAGE MAN, WITH

LASER-LIKE FOCUS.”

BruceLee

Alison Jonck’s idea of suc-

cess is using his profes-

sional potential and being

happy with his work; and

his idea of failure is when

you have a goal and you

can’t achieve it for some

bad reason. If he could

change one thing about

his personality, he would

be more patient and fo-

cused. His strengths are to

be sociable and hardwork-

ing; and his weaknesses are

being lazy and not being

punctual. His short term goal is to lose weight and his

long term goals are to marry, achieve financial stability

and have children. He sees himself teaching a class in 5

years from now. Alison’s number one tip for success is:

“You need to figure out your ideas and realize them.”

Written by: Joao

Alison Jonck

21 years old

Bauneario Camburiu, SC,

Brazil

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Pablo believes that success

means to be happy and have

a lot of friends he can trust. In

his opinion, living alone is to

fail himself. His goals are to

“speak English very well, like

a Canadian!”, and to finish his

program in Brazil, when he

returns to his hometown Uber-

lândia – MG/Brazil. He wants

to buy a house five years from

now. He thinks that he is orga-

nized, but he likes to transfer

his guilt to other people.

If Pablo could change one

thing about his personality, it

would be more outgoing, be-

cause he is so shy. His tip for

success is: “Be polite!”

Written by :Marcus Lucas

Pablo

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Uberlândia

“Speak English very

well, like a Canadian!”

Xiaoyong, whose occi-

dental name is

Frances, believes that

success means to finish

her college program,

get a good job and

have a wonderful

family. In her opinion,

failure means “My life

without family, job and

friends”. She thinks

that her strengths are

sports, including swim-

ming and table tennis,

however physics, chem-

istry and biology are

her weaknesses. She has as her short term goal to finish

the ESL program, and as her long term goal is to get

married. She wants to study and get a job in five years.

If Xiaoyong could change one thing about her per-

sonality, it would be to be more independent. Her num-

ber one tip for success is: “Support from family and

friends.”

Written by: Marcus Lucas

Xiayong

Maryam believes that

success means going to

bed at night, feeling

like she has made a

difference, and failure

means repeating the

same mistakes. In her

opinion, her strength is

bringing people to-

gether, but she has to

learn to say “no”. She

has as her short term

goals to do a really

good job with the

Leadership program

at Fleming College,

and figure out what

she is going to do

next, and as her long

term goals to write a

book, travel the world

and start a project to

create jobs. She wants to teach in five years.

If Maryam could change one thing about her personality, it

would be: “Talk less, and listen more!” Her number one tip for

success is: “Get involved and volunteer, and talk to people!”

Written by Marcus Lucas

Alex Bome

believes that success

means to be happy

with himself, and fail-

ure means nothing. In

his opinion, his weak-

ness is lazy. He have

as short term goal to

study English and as

long term goal to use

English for work. He

wants to live in hap-

piness five years

from now.

Alex’s num-

ber one tip for suc-

cess is: “Calm down!”

Written by: Marcus Lucas

Alexander Bome

Russia

“Calm down!”

Maruam Monsef

29 years old

Afghanistan

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Marcus Lucas is a very funny guy, he believes that his strengths are his beauty, charm and friendliness and his weaknesses is eating piz-za all the time. Marcus hasn’t any short term goals, but his long term goal is “to be very very very rich”. If Marcus could change one thing about his personality it would be to be less shy, because he said “I’m so shy”. For Marcus suc-cess means “being satisfied

with yourself” and failure means the opposite of this. Fi-nally Marcus said “Don’t worry! Every little thing is gonna be

alright” it is his number one tip for success. Written by: Pablo

Marcus Lucas Abreu de Araujo Falcão 19 years old Recife/PE – Brazil

The biggest strengths of Tracey is being hardworking and making friendships, on the other hand she worries too much, which is something that she doesn`t like. She wants to move to another house, be-cause her house is too small. She will still teach English, and she wants to improve her stud-ies, and do her PHD in commu-nication. One thing that she wants to change in her person-ality is relax a little more, be-cause she is an over thinker. For Tracey success means be happy and enjoying coming to work every day, and failure is if you don`t keep trying. She said the biggest tip for success is “be hardworking and make

good friendships”.

Written by: Marcus Lucas

Tracey MCConnery

Peterborough / Ontar-

io / Brazil

36 years old

Robin is creative, kind nice

and curious. She is sensi-

tive, impatient and bossy.

She has a funny short term

goal that is trying clean

her desk and she wants to

finish something in her job.

Robin would like to work

on a government project

about international educa-

tion and to work in one

more different country.

Five years from now, she

wants to live half year in

Canada and half year in

New Zealand. Robin would

like to be more confident

in front of large group of people “ I am shy” said Robin.

“Success is everything that defines each person” she said. For

her failure is more complicated. She said: “Sometimes there is

an opportunity to try again, sometimes you are disappointed

but there is always the opportunity to learn. You try to sur-

round yourself with people who believe in you.” It is a good

number one tip for success.

Written by: Jones

Robin Cox Chair, School of General Arts & Sciences

Lucas said that planning is his greatest strength because he plans every-thing; but explosive an-ger is his greatest weak-ness. Lucas has many goals, but his short term goal is to speak English fluently. He wants to go back to Brazil to get a good job and finish his course. In five years from now he wants to live in another country. Lucas believes that “success” is when you reach things that you want most in life and if he doesn’t reach his ob-jective Lucas said “If I don’t get my goals I feel that I failed.” For Lucas planning everything is a good way to reach

“success”.

Written by: Jones Santos

Lucas da Silva Camargo 22 years old Sao Paulo, Brazil

“Plan everything!”

“ I HAVE NOT FAILED. I’VE JUST

FOUND 10,000 WAYS THAT DON’T

WORK.” Thomas Edison

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Pablo believes that success

means to be happy and have

a lot of friends he can trust. In

his opinion, living alone is to

fail himself. His goals are to

“speak English very well, like

a Canadian!”, and to finish his

program in Brazil, when he

returns to his hometown Uber-

lândia – MG/Brazil. He wants

to buy a house five years from

now. He thinks that he is orga-

nized, but he likes to transfer

his guilt to other people.

If Pablo could change one

thing about his personality, it

would be more outgoing, be-

cause he is so shy. His tip for

success is: “Be polite!”

Pablo

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Uberlândia

“Speak English very

well, like a Canadian!”

Xiaoyong, whose occi-

dental name is

Frances, believes that

success means to finish

her college program,

get a good job and

have a wonderful

family. In her opinion,

failure means “My life

without family, job and

friends”. She thinks

that her strengths are

sports, including swim-

ming and table tennis,

however physics, chem-

istry and biology are

her weaknesses. She has as her short term goal to finish

the ESL program, and as her long term goal is to get

married. She wants to study and get a job in five years.

Xiayong

Maryam believes that

success means going to

bed at night, feeling

like she has made a

difference, and failure

means repeating the

same mistakes. In her

opinion, her strength is

bringing people to-

gether, but she has to

learn to say “no”. She

has as her short term

goals to do a really

good job with the

Leadership program

at Fleming College,

and figure out what

she is going to do

next, and as her long

term goals to write a

book, travel the world

and start a project to create jobs. She wants to teach in five

years.

If Maryam could change one thing about her personality, it

would be: “Talk less, and listen more!” Her number one tip for

success is: “Get involved and volunteer, and talk to people!”

Written by Marcus Lucas

Alex Bome

believes that success

means to be happy

with himself, and fail-

ure means nothing. In

his opinion, his weak-

ness is lazy. He have

as short term goal to

study English and as

long term goal to use

English for work. He

wants to live in hap-

piness five years

from now.

Alex’s num-

ber one tip for suc-

cess is: “Calm down!”

Written by: Marcus Lucas

Alexander Bome

Russia

“Calm down!”

Maruam Monsef

29 years old

Afghanistan

Charles Monteiro

22 years old

Belem, Para, Brazil

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Suhail Sharma, this re-

laxed young man be-

lieves that he has two

strengths: focusing on

goals and making

friends. He is taking pro-

ject management at

Fleming, and one of his

goals is to finish the pro-

gram. For the future, he

wants to make money

and then open his own

business. When asked

about what does success

mean to him, he an-

swered with good humor,

“ To be able to go into

McDonald’s, buy seven

chicken nuggets, eat

three, throw away four,

and not have to worry

about it.“

Written by Hugo

Suhail

Bahrain

24 years old “Sometimes you just have to risk it

for the biscuit”

Lucas Stamm is fo-

cused on his future.

He believes that his

strengths are being

outgoing, being an

opinionated leader,

and having the ability

to persuade others.

Currently he is taking

an ESL program, but

hereafter he is going

to take the Instrumen-

tation and Control

Engineer Technician

program. His goals

now are to improve

English, get a job,

and keep traveling

around world. He

also wants to help

people and to work

at a scientific job. For

him, success means,

“Achieve your goals,

no matter how small they might be for other people.”

About the failures, he says, “It’s a chance to do bet-

ter.”

Lucas Stamm

20 years

Brazil

Gloria is a lady from

Guangzhou. Her full

name is Cong Liu. She

is very strength with

her study and she is

good at sleeping.

Her weakness is no

planning for herself,

she often delay to do

something, so she

want to change it. As

her short term goal is

finish her ESL pro-

gramme and work

best to help others for

her long term goal. She

want to finish her THR

programmes and fur-

ther more study in future five years. In future, she think that

has a sweet family is success, and lose her hope as failure.

She told me that had a clear definition about happiness

and made out what she wanted to do and had to do as her

NO.1 tip for success.

Written by: Chen You

Cong Liu ‘Gloria’

Guanzhou, China

Charles Monteiro’s idea

of success is seeing his

goals and objectives

connected with his hap-

piness and success; and

his idea of failure is not

reviewing what is being

done. If he could change

one thing about his per-

sonality, he would be a

better speaker. His

strengths are to be moti-

vated and hardworking;

and his weaknesses are

to be shy and quiet. His

short term goals are to

finish the ESL program

and to be fluent in Eng-

lish; and his long term

goals are to get a pro-

fessional career, help his

family and study for his

Masters’ degree. He

sees himself completing

his Masters and buying a house in 5 years from now.

Charles’ number one tip for success is: “Do your work,

but don't justify your mistakes”.

Charles Monteiro

22 years old

Belem, Para, Brazil

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Summer

2014 Experiential Learning Schedule

Helena found this guy hanging out Downtown Peterborough:

“We come in peace!”

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1 2 3 4 5

Canada Day Celebrations!

**HOLIDAY!!**

6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Lang Pioneer Village

Live like Canadians did 100 years ago!

Charter Bus departs @ 1:00pm

13 14 15 16 17 18 19

Rock & Rope

Rock Climbing

City Bus @ 1:20pm

20 21 22 23 24 25 26

Peterbor-ough Music

Fest

Tegan and Sara

Lakefield Agricul-

tural Fair!

City bus @ 12:30 from downtown terminal

27 28 29 30 31 1 2

Peterborough

Music Fest

Cowboy Junkies

3 4 5 6 7 8

LIFTLOCK BOAT

CRUISE!

City Bus @ 12:00

LAST DAY OF CLASS!