By First Last Name, Country
After a series of questions and knowing that there are only 4 hospitals in all of Santa Barbara with only one hospital to go to for somethings serious, I was told that most of the people who live here believe that healthcare is very good in this city and that they have never had a problem. 
By Yuki Matsuno Japan
There are many things that makes us better. I think that exercise is one of the best thing for our health. Because it can bring us many good effects. For example it makes feel happy. Then I asked four questions to three people who is EF student, who is native English speaker and who is gym trainer.
Each of they think the best sports for their health is own them. And two people exercise about 5 ～ 10 hours in 1 week but one person do just walking. In addition, all three people say playing sports outside is good. Because it has effects own their body. For example it makes feel happy and healthy good shape, other says build muscle and make mental toughness. In conclusion, doing exercise is good effects for everyone so it is very necessary in our life.
I asked three people whether they liked to exercise or not. Everyone answered “Yes! I do like to exercise!!” And also everyone answered we need regular exercise.
They said running is the best to do everyday. I agree with that. I think running is the easiest way to exercise because you don’t need much money and any machines. There is a person who said a bike is also good. That is a good idea.When you go to work, you can go by bike instead of car.
On the other hand, I asked them what kind of sports they liked. They answered football, basketball, and dance!
Someone said “it is important to exercise every day, but it is difficult.” That is true. However, we can keep doing what we like every day. Thus, instead of running or biking which you don’t want to do every day, you should do football,basketball, and dance which you like. Of course, if you like running, do running!
I think we can do what we like every day. As a result, it makes our life healthy!!
By Alexia Colucci from France.
Sport is omnipresent in our lives. The majority of people give sports a place well-defined in their lives, whether large or small, that it’s for their health, for the education of their children, their hobbies. Obviously, everyone is not passionate about the same sport ,but sport itself brings people together.
We don’t go a day without seeing someone do a sport or without hearing about sports on television. Even the big nations struggle between them for the organization of competitions like the Olympic Games.
To learn about the sport of the people, I went out into the street and I stopped people to ask four questions of three people. The first was: Do you play a sport? Two of them said yes.
The second was: Which one and why? The first person told me: “In my city the rugby is sacred, it’s rooted in our culture.”And the last person told me: “The golf, because my grandfather made me love this sport.”
The third question was: How much time per week do you play sports? The first person told me: “Four times so approximately, I practice seven hours.”The last person told me: “One time every weekend and I stay there two or three hours.”
The last question was: Do you prefer to go somewhere by car, by bus, by bike or by foot? The first person told me: “By car because it’s fast.”The second person told me: “By bus because it’s less tiring that to drive.”And the last person told me: “Sometimes by bus for short ride, but by car for the work or for the long ride.”
Thanks to this survey, we can see that sports are a part of our lives but everything depends on the culture of countries, cities and education we can receive. The passion for the sport depends on each. Sport reaches every person differently!
By Helene Messie, France
A lot of people in the United States of America don’t eat healthily, there is a huge percent of obesity in this country. But one state is different from the others : California. A lot of Californian people want to have a perfect body and for that they eat healthy food. I have also to say that being healthy is not just to eat healthy and to do sport, no, it’s almost like a philosophy of life.
Wednesday, the 21 of February, I went to State Street and to the EF school to ask people four questions. I talked with three persons : Dan, an EF student; Jessica, a native English speaker and Carolina, a women I met on State Street.
The first question: What do you eat in the morning?
In the morning, Dan eats French toast with butter and drinks water. He is an athletic person. Jessica eat cereals and Carolina likes to eat bacon with eggs and pancakes with her coffee but not every day.
The second question : Do you think that you eat healthy food (that you eat healthily)?
Dan told me yes because for him it’s important. Jessica told me yes too and Carolina told me that she don’t really eat healthy. She doesn’t really give an importance to that.
The third question : Do you like to cook healthy recipes ?
Dan told me that he doesn’t really cook. Jessica said yes and Carolina said no because it doesn’t interest her.
Fourth question : If you had the choice between a soda and a fruit juice, what would you choose?
Dan and Jessica would choose the fruit juice and Carolina told me that for her, it depends of the time of the day.
• With this survey, I can say that Dan is an athletic teenager who isn’t really interested to have a healthy lifestyle but pays attention to what he eats. Jessica may be a healthy person who likes to cook healthy recipes and Carolina isn’t really interested to be a healthy person.
Let’s watch this short video :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35qoEXCHIwM
This video shows us how to prepare healthy lunches really fast. Because sometimes, the reason why we don’t eat healthy food is that we miss time for the lunch. So now, no more excuses !
By Helene Messie, France
A lot of people in the United States of America don’t eat healthily, there is a huge percent of obesity in this country. But one state is different from the others : California. A lot of Californian people want to have a perfect body and for that they eat healthy food. I have also to say that being healthy is not just to eat healthy and to do sport, no, it’s almost like a philosophy of life.
Wednesday, the 21 of February, I went to State Street and to the EF school to ask people four questions. I talked with three persons : Dan, an EF student; Jessica, a native English speaker and Carolina, a women I met on State Street.
The first question: What do you eat in the morning?
In the morning, Dan eats French toast with butter and drinks water. He is an athletic person. Jessica eat cereals and Carolina likes to eat bacon with eggs and pancakes with her coffee but not every day.
The second question : Do you think that you eat healthy food (that you eat healthily)?
Dan told me yes because for him it’s important. Jessica told me yes too and Carolina told me that she don’t really eat healthy. She doesn’t really give an importance to that.
The third question : Do you like to cook healthy recipes ?
Dan told me that he doesn’t really cook. Jessica said yes and Carolina said no because it doesn’t interest her.
Fourth question : If you had the choice between a soda and a fruit juice, what would you choose?
Dan and Jessica would choose the fruit juice and Carolina told me that for her, it depends of the time of the day.
• With this survey, I can say that Dan is an athletic teenager who isn’t really interested to have a healthy lifestyle but pays attention to what he eats. Jessica may be a healthy person who likes to cook healthy recipes and Carolina isn’t really interested to be a healthy person.
Let’s watch this short video :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35qoEXCHIwM
This video shows us how to prepare healthy lunches really fast. Because sometimes, the reason why we don’t eat healthy food is that we miss time for the lunch. So now, no more excuses !
Rikako Fujita, Japan
Do you know one of the Japanese novelists who are elected as a candidate of Nobel Prize in literature? Even though he has not received the Nobel Prize he continues to write but feels frustrated when he does not win. The big fans of him are also feel frustrated.
When I first read his book, I was really impressed. His story are very beautiful and logical, and constructive. To site his famous books, Norwegian wood, Kafka on the shore, 1Q84 which is impressed by 1984 written by George Orwell.
His books are read and evaluated all over the world. There are a lot of fun overseas. He is thought to have right to receive this prize. His books theme are always Humanity which is very important factor to get Nobel Prize in literature. It is thought that there are some secret power which prevent him from receiving the prize. But it is just imagination.
By Jasmin Maucher
The first thing that you think about Las Vegas is the city of the million lights, the gambling capital of the world, luxury hotels, show girls and having fun. It is a city full of glamour and extravagant individuals. The image created by films like “Hangover” or “What Happens in Vegas” is definitely true!
But the city has two faces. There exists another side of that extreme-loving city, a side away from all that glitter, that is also true. What we don’t think or don’t want to think about is that an estimated 9,432 homeless people live in Las Vegas, 300-400 in makeshift homes of the colorlessness and darkness of the long flood tunnels. Do they choose this life or do they have no control?But why should any human being want a life of poverty, the cold, filth, loneliness and lack of comfort?
Most of them got into that situation because of drug abuse, unemployment and run ins with the law. But the opinion of a lot of people working in charity organizations is that, if you want to get out of this dire situation, you can make it. There are a lot of organisations that try to give them a hand out of the tunnels into a new life. They try to give them shelter, medical help, social assistance…. in short, a second chance in life. So why don’t they want to change their situations?
Well, perhaps it takes too much effort or their self-confidence has shrunk to a minimum. Lots of them might have no perspective, no hope. Some of them also want to live that life to escape from the social obligations. They want to live a life where they don’t have to wake up very early, go to work, behave like they have to behave to be a member of our society. They don’t want to have to fit into a pattern.
Some even say that they have some privacy, and strangely, a sense of security. Most of them also say that the live in the tunnel system isn’t as bad as they expected. People sometimes get so comfortable down there, that they even forget they’re living in a flood channel. They receive food stamps so they have enough to eat and they don’t have to pay a rent, which is very expensive in Las Vegas.
So is it a self-built prison or a kind of freedom? People nowadays work so hard for a future in which they don’t have to work and can do whatever they want to do during the day…Can you compare that freedom? I don’t know! Our contribution to make those lives a bit brighter might be to make them feel more accepted and treat them in a respectful manner,not like a leper. Most people avert their view when they pass by a homeless person. Why do they do that? Why do you do that? Give them a smile! Make eye contact! Talk to them! It can be so easy!
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