For this week's question, I'd like to introduce a topic that we have not really explored much so far this semester: your country/culture/home. More specifically, this week you're going to write about your hometown.
What I'd like you to discuss is what you think makes your hometown unique. To be exact, describe one thing that you think everyone should know about your hometown.
To give you an example, I'll tell you something about my hometown. I'm originally from Lincoln, Nebraska (not Missoula, as some of you may already know!). The one thing I always miss about Lincoln when I'm away is the sunsets. It doesn't matter if it's spring, summer, fall, or winter: the sunsets around Lincoln are simply spectacular. Because Lincoln is located smack dab in the middle of the "great plains," an area that is as flat as a table (there are no mountains, no hills), the sky never seems to end. The result of this is that the sun paints the sky with an artist's brush of colors every evening. Imagine looking west into an endless sky of purple, blue, orange, red, and pink. These colors fill every void on the horizon and then spread upwards until they touch the farthest corners of the sky. Watching the colors of a Nebraska sunset slowly fade into the purple darkness of the coming night is one thing that everyone should experience.
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Hi josh...
ReplyDeletewhat my hometwon unique with is knowing each other. In another word, everybody knows each other and all of us are kinda relatives from second or third cousins. It's hard to believe hahha but you can see all the student from my hometown in ELI and Butte are relatives. The weather changes everyday cuz my hometwon is only 4-5 minutes of walking to the beach and almost the half of it is farms.Anyways, I think that what my hometwon is unique with.
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ReplyDeleteAs you all know i'm from Tajikistan. Originally, I'm from the South Part, but i grew up in East Part, the capital of Tajikistan, Dushanbe. What i like and miss in my country are food (especially "Shish kebab" similar to BBQ but more delicious)and spring. I love spring in my country, it's incredibly beautiful. It seems like everywhere covered by colorful flowers inside the green carpet, especially mountains (Tajikistan is a mountainous country. 93% of its territory is surrounded by mountains, referring to the highest mountain systems of Central Asia: Tien-Shan and Pamir)We have special places for the relaxation; enjoying fresh air in the beautiful sunny day of sping. And, If you are an active person,we have different kinds of sport: hiking, swiming or kayaki, you will find a lot of interesting activites. You won't be bored! :)
Farzona :)
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ReplyDeleteI think the thing that make my hometown unique is that all of Kuwait is like one town only. Kuwait is very small and you cannot walk in the street without saying hello to someone you know. Kuwait City is like a jewel in the middle of the desert. Kuwait is full of lights at night and you can go out in the middle of the night and see people driving and no one sleep early. It is very beautiful and full of life. The city has a lot of big buildings and the streets are always full of people, but there is not much traffic because there are many big roads with eight lanes or more.
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ReplyDeleteAs you know, I come from the suburbs of Paris. Since I was born, I live in the same city, Meudon, which is near Versailles (more famous because of its castle).Perhaps you don't know that Paris is in a "cuvette"; so most of the part of the suburbs are on hills like Meudon; that is, you have a great view on Paris. When the weather is good, you can see the Eiffel tower, the Montparnasse tower, the "sacré coeur", "la défense".... During a summer nights, it is just beautiful with Paris' lights and wonderful when the Eiffel tower shines! What you should see is fireworks on the 14th of July (national day); you don't see one but several fireworks distributed in all Paris! There are no words to discribe that!!!
Donc venez à Meudon (thus come at Meudon)....
Hello, ladies and gentlemen!!You know that I'm from Japan,right?My home town's name "Sendai". This city located north of Tokyo,takes 2 hours by the express train. Anyways, Sendai has very famous festival in summer and winter. In summer, there is "star's festival" in Augest every year. This festival is celebrating the meeting of Orihime (vega) and Hikoboshi(Altair).This day, my hometown has a big fireworks and lots of visiter from everywhere. In winter, there is "Pageant of Starlight". This event has many kind of parade;for example, a drum and fife crops,dance and sing. Also there are many lights on the trees. It is so beautiful. You should come to Sendai and watch those events!!!!!
ReplyDeletehi everybody! my hometown, Ouagadougou, is unique because of our chicken!!lol! I'm serious...our chicken are sooo delicious! we have different ways to cook it and there are some names like "TVchicken", "BICYCLEchicken" and so on! i swear, if someone eats our chicken, it'll be difficult for him or her to like her or him country's chicken! also, we have a kind of beer , its traditionnal! its so good...but for real, my country is unique because our hospitality is unbelievable! everybody for every country can feel at home in Burkina! also, we are upright people. For example, its in Burkina that take place every years the African Festival of Movies and there is also the international of Burkina's artisanat, which attract people of everywhere just for one week! And in April of this year, the KORA Music Awards 2009 will take place in Burkina, so...You can see that my country is very comfortable and interesting! I hope that you'll visit Burkina one day!
ReplyDeletehi, every weeks i late. i would like to just write for my hometown. my home town name is Uji, kyoto. it is not a big big city, population is about 200,000, i say unique that is japanese green tea and scenery of seasons beside a Uji river. about tea, Uji tea is a high-grade japanese tea. characteristic is sweetness as made by handmade. in addition, the tea powder has used for making sweets for past years; a parfait, cake, ice-cream cone, pudding, and dumpling etc. i suppose to like you these. another, japan has four season that spring, summer, autumn, and winter. trees of cherry blossom along Uji river is very beatiful in spring. summer is the fire work. autumn is colored. mountains around the river change slowly during November to December, finally mountains covered with colored leaves of red, yellow, orange, and little green. in winter, all of leaves fall and mountains become quite, it appear fog on the river as the cold day. originally, i did not like winter in my town, but my mind was changed to see this scenery.
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ReplyDeleteMy home town is Sendai. Sendai has four beautiful seasons, beautiful sea, and delicious food. I love my home town. I'm going tell you about Sendai's one of famous food in Japan. It names "Gyu-tan". It is cow's tongue!!! Gyu-tan is the most famous Sendai's food in Japan. Can you imagine that we eat cow's tongue? But it's really really delicious! I can say Sendai=Gyutan. We usually eat that slice it and burn it, then eat. If you come to Japan, you should come to Sendai and eat Gyu-tan.
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ReplyDeleteeverywhere has soemething special that the people who are from that place cannot forget it never. so I going to talk about the our special time that we always do in Kurdistan with our relatives or frineds. the people in Kurdistan are usually going on picnic on the weekned during spring time. however, the special day for going out is one day a year, which is Newruz. Newruz is our first day of new year, which is at march 21. at that time the spring is starting and everywhere is green, so all of Kurdistan's people who live in the cities try to go out,and have special lunch with their relative, and doing dancing,and games,in addition, Newruz has a special simple, which is fire, everywhere you can see fire. because Newroz has another meaning to us, which is freedom, so the fire is simple of freedom for us.
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ReplyDeleteMy home town is Deajeon. Deajeon is the third lagest city in Korea after Seoul and Busan,yet Deajeon is a quite clean and quiet city. Deajeon is famous for science. There is a big research park, Deadoc Science Town. Also, Deajeon is famous for center of traffic because it is located in middle of the South Korea. Almost highways are going into Deajeon and going out other area.
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ReplyDeleteI am from Riyadh which is the capital of Saudi Arabia.
Riyadh is a very big and beautiful city. It has many modern high buildings and skyscrapers. What I miss most is the great malls which have all domestic and international brands and it closes at late time. Shopping in Riyadh is really amazing you can find anything that you want. It also has great restaurants from all over the world. They are very fancy and what is important is the delicious taste. Even McDonalds taste better in Riyadh. The other thing that I really miss is the warmth of the sun and the warmth of the people in my city.