PRIDE

We live in a small village in Ödemiş, İzmir. Almost all families in here earn their keep from farming and stockbreeding.These are really hard works and require labor force. So children have to help their families in fields. Because of this, these children don't pay any attention to their lessons. However this is becacuse the families can't understand the importance of school and they don't encourage their children. My primary school was not really good and most of frieds don't continue their education life. Under these circumstance I went to a good high school. My family were really proud of me and they always supported me . So I tried to do my best and got a high degree at there. After that I won the universtiy and now I am in METU. There was nobody who could go such a good univestiy like me in my village. So everybody talked about me and this appeals to me. Because my family gets happy when they heard my achievements. So I feel good when I think that I can do my best in order not to disappoint them.

Our Lively House

This is our house which is built in Second Life.
At first when our teacher said that we would build a house we got surprized and couldn't do something. But than we worked with our group members and helped each other. Even though to built a house in here is enjoyable I understand what a difficult work it is in real life. Firstly, for building houses our class was divided into five groups and each group found an appropriate place foor building the houses. Then we tried to make the floor of our house. Actually this is the most difficult part of it. Because we had some accidents and had to do it again and again.Secondly, four of us made the walls.I made the wall which is opposite the sea. However it was a challenging work to equalize the walls with each other in terms of their length and broadness. Thirdly, we decided in which shape we would make the roof and got a pyramid shaped roof. At last, we chose the colour of our house. Although most of our neigbours had colourful houses, ours was a plain one with brown and yellow colours. There was problem ,though. It was a bit low. However it wasn't a big problem anyway. It looked wonderful I think. At the end of our work we had a photo in front of our lovely house. Now we have an excellent house with a sea view in Second Life. Would you like to come and visit us at our sweet house :))

The dream of living in aplace like this...

I sometimes dream of living far from city center when I get bored from the active life of city. I want to have a cottage which is surrendered with a marvelous scenery. There is a big garden with colourful flowers. There is fresh air in everywhere. You don’t have to listen to the noise of the city. There is a quiet and confortable place. There are only bird calls which are really relaxing. You can walk through paths which have trees in both sides. You can eat healthy vegetables you grow by yourself. I hope I have a place like this in the future to spend my weekends in peace…

There are a lot of students in Metu. We can catagorize Metu students in terms of their lifestyles in the universty. There are three types students: social ones,unsocial ones and the ones who are capable of in both sides. Firstly, social students are interested in most of the activities in university. They want to join as many groups as possible. They try to be interested in many things such as sport,music etc. However,sometimes these students can spend their most of time enjoying themselves instead of studying and can have difficulty later. Because without studying nobody can be successful in Metu. The second group is exactly different. They only try to get high grades in university. They don’t interested in enjoyable things and always study. Because of this they are shy when they are in a group most of time. I think in their later times these students will be regretful for not live life fully during student years. The last group however is much successful in both sides than others. They can both enjoy themselves and be successful in their lessons.Because they know how to use time. They are also more happy in life. Because they don't have to worry about their lessons and they are enjoy themselves with their friends.
Of course the last group is the ideal of all of them. I hope every student can be like them...