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...

WHT DO PEOPLE USE SECOND LİFE?

The people whole who use second life can be divided into three catagorizes for their purpose of using it. The first type is to chat people and make new friens. This is the most common type. Because people are mostly interested in social side of the second life. The second is obligation for business or education. For example we use second life in our lessons. However after using second life for a while, this group goes on using it for fun or contact new people thanks to it. The last catagory is technological purposes. There are some people who only want to spend time in front of computer. They want to use technology as possible as they can and use every way.

Live Life Fully

This is a really fantastic place.It is a dream of many people in every age but especially children to go an entertaintment center like this. Everywhere is colourful and makes you feel enjoyable. There is an intersting cockhourse, a comfortable hammock, a rocking chair and things like that which reflects the aliveness as if written in the picture " Live Life Fully". There is also an interesting thigh which is like a different place in the foto. The left side of it is a city with a little traffic and full of lights.It is like a diffrent world from this foto because it resembles the real life. Also there is another amazing thing that attracts attention.Despite this colourful foto,there is something which disturbs you. Because there are no people at all.And this is a discrepancy to the theme of foto.But though don't you want to go a place like this?

My Friend Ayşegül

I want to introduce you one of my best friend.She is a member of our classroom which has only three students. Her name is Ayşegül Girgin and she is from İzmir.Although we aren't in the same class in the first year of our high school,we met by chance.Because we two are the only students who want to choose foreign language department. We could cope with all difficulties together and find out ourselves in our small but lovely class. In appearance, she is a really beautiful girl. She has brown and curly hair which I always envy. Also her fringe suits her so much. Her eyes are brown and she has dark skin. She is slim and unfortunately like most of my friends she is longer than me:) In personality, she is an optimistic and easy-going person. She always smiles and never hurts somebody. Even if she doesn't agree with someone, she prefers to be silent and never argues. However sometimes she does things actually she doesn't want to do because of her quietness. So I try to change her this behaviour. Because she must know how to say yes when it is necessary in order not to be hurted. She is also an incredibly hardworking person. She is really responsible and I know I can trust her in every part of my life. However we are seperated at the end of enjoyable four years. Now we are in different places but it doesn't mean our friendship will end. I am really happy to know that there is a loyal friend even if she is far away. Thank you for coming my life dear...