He’s just not that into you.
Posted in Culture, Movies, Questions, Vocabulary
Tagged culture, friends, getting older, growing up, lies, life, Love, movies
Dream vacations
Some new vocabulary in sentences from today’s conversation:
I have been snorkeling, but not diving.
The hot air balloon burst!
My roots are from Palestine.
Your dream is realistic, I think you can achieve it.
The girl won a scholarship to do humanitarian work in Jordan.
Posted in Vocabulary
A good friend is hard to find
A Good Friend’s personality:
– honest
– helpful
– dependable
– understanding
– funny
– trustworthy
– encouraging
– persistent
– “being there for you”
– “you can count on him”
A Bad Friend’s personality:
– dishonest
– selfish
– mean
– judgemental
– troublesome
– negative
– bad influence
– secretive
Posted in Vocabulary
Translation Project
Last month, Petra University students translated an interview from Arabic to English to help make a film for the Orphan Welfare Association of Baqa’a camp…
A job well done… and neither easy nor quick … as you can see below!
transcript and translation notes
Its kind of nice when all of our goals –> English, translation, conversation, culture, helping others .. can combine in one project 🙂
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is ‘What are you doing for others?’ ”
— Rev. Martin Luther King
“Be the change you wish to see in the world” – Gandhi
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, its not.” – Dr. Seuss
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single minute before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank
“No one can do everything, but everyone can do something.”
Christmas Carols!
Jingle Bells
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
Frosty the Snowman!
Twelve Days of Christmas
Note: 3:39 .. full round!
You were there…
You were there, in front of me,
in close distance.
You were there with your smile, your warmth, your anger.
The sorrow buried deep in your eyes.
You were there, but in pain.
You were there standing,
until agony and sorrow took control.
You were there, but now no more.
Your empty soul sleeps, restless less.
Your anger, your pain, your sorrow:
released to me.
These parasites that now prey on me grow too great, too resilient.
The heart drowns in anguish,
overpowering the love that kept you standing.
It torments the soul.
You fell, so now I fall.
A great power has conquered.
Antibodies of love defeated.
Now, with the domination of hatred and anger,
Affliction overcomes my soul.
-A
Petra University English Club 