The Promised post

OK, I am a man of honesty and If I said I am going to write in mid-June, I will.

But, I am quite reluctant to write a post.

Few days ago, I drafted a post titled "Summer holiday is incomplete without...", but my mind wandered off somewhere and I didn't publish it.

Don't put the blame on me (put it on Akon :p)! The room temperature and noise distraction affects attention span. Duh! It's hard to concentrate in this badly ventilated office.

Anyway, leave some comment about how you're spending your summer; I will include them and mention your id/name, or whatever.

Note to myself: to draw a comic stick figure sitting in a hot office, and upload it.

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Global Village sneak peek *spoiler*

Students of Tomas Bata University, Zlin

A lot of people have been asking me about the Global VIllage. So I'm writing about it. It's just a rough spoiler, and some of it might be false. So, don't scold me!

• WHEN: 4th of JUNE, 10 AM - 18 PM (APPROXIMATELY)
• WHERE: U2 BUILDING, 01 FLOOR
• WITH WHOM: INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FOR YOUTH AND CHILDREN
• WHO: Mongolia, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, Russia, India, Turkey and Columbia so far. And probably, a video clip of ERASMUS students.
• WHAT: TABLE, PRESENTATION, GAME AND DISCUSSION

1. TABLE: Each country has a table of their own where they put traditional food, souvenirs, pictures etc.
2. PRESENTATION: Every country presents at certain hours to all the audience, e.g. Turkey at 10 am. The presentation is 30 minutes long.
3. GAME: Then they organize games and quizzes with prize.
4. DISCUSSION: At the end, there will be a huge discussion between visitors and the representatives.

If you're interested, write to: barbora.babcanova@gmail.com

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An apple on May 16 keeps the doctor away

I have just read from our Trainees in Zlin blog that on May 16th there's a shopping center opening.

Behold, "The Zlate Jablko"

*ahem*

"The Golden Apple"

A Humongous shopping center as you see.

But what's in it for me?

Multi-Cinema (first time hearing this!)
75 shops (More than enough to go around!)
Restaurants
Coffee shops
Bars

Oh and there is a concert, a firework and a movie waiting for you at 17.00, 21.00 and 21.30, respectively.

Too bad I can't attend, I would enjoy all these things!

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Things I didn't know: Part 4 "Plug it Cable"

Tried connecting to wireless from your dorm and the network admin allegedly suspended your wireless ID?

You can still connect through cable free.

Maybe you noticed them, the cable inputs in the library, and the university hall etc.

1) Plug the cable

2) Look at the input socket! There should be some numbers. They are the address you must insert in your connection settings.

3) put the:
a) IP address,
b) Mask,
c) Gateway and
d) DNS into your LAN connection settings.

Voila!

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A card in your sleeve for the test

A card in your sleeve for the test

Can I ask you a question? What's Iambic pentameter? What are the differences between Trochee and Spondee? err...

Well, here's something fancy I found: this easy nursery rhyme will cover some of your scores in the test. Muhahaha

Good luck with the test, E/AMP students of 1st/2nd year!

"Rhythmic Beat"

Iamb
Two syllables
short and long
for the time of year to see,

Trochee
Another two syllables
long and short
waiting for me to be,

Anapest
Three syllables
with intensity to
climb and see the tree,

Dactyl
With three syllables
that stress to pensive long
in the forests of time
where pines no longer grow, for

Spondee
For two or more
consecutive, stressed syllables-
That - Hears, hears hears
the cold grey wind, upon the sea!

If you're bored or don't understand it, No worries!

Read these! They have nice examples. Iamb (I-amb), Trochee (Tro-kee), Anapest (A-na-pest), Dactyl (means "finger") and Spondee.

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Things I didn't know: Part 3 "Wireless connection in Dormitory"

Now this one is a little bit off the line. I alone have this service, and I hadn't asked for it, it just spontaneously came to me. Yes, I can connect to wireless network right from my dormitory room! How? I don't know how. But try it out, it may work.

• a) Register the UTB-Student wireless network using your Novell network ID and password.
  
• b) Put the setting to automatically connect every time you are in the signal range.
  
• c) Seat yourself at the Wireless network places and go wireless.
  
• d) Shut down your PC (hopefully laptop)
  
• e) Go to your room and turn it on. If you're lucky, it should still get the signal.

If you live in one of these dorms, you can at least save the cable connection fee!

Check out the other things I didn't know!

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Things I didn't know: Part 2 "Newsletter about Scholarships"

Would you like to study abroad? Do you think you should have free scholarship?

Do you think you're missing out a lot of scholarship opportunities?

Well, let them always stop by you .

You can have tons of information about scholarships, internships about studying abroad sent to your e-mail address. All you have to do is ask. There is a place where universities announce their scholarship to each other. Ms.Miroslava Cedidlova forwards them in a newsletter to every students who subscribed.

Here is how to do it:

1. Write an e-mail to: cedidlova@rektorat.utb.cz
   
1. Include your name (jmeno)
2. Surname (prijmeni)
3. Academic department (fakultu)
4. Year (rocnik)
5. Field of study (studijni obor)

You will receive tons of information about Programs, Summer courses and Scholarships offered from USA, Germany, UK and so on. Some of them come in Czech but they are pretty basic and obvious.

Good luck for your further education!

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Put your food in your mouth

Good news everyone!

Menza is holding food tasting event in association with Unilever Foodsolutions CR on 20 May 2008.

Nothing better than fine free meal during busy school days!

See you there.

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10 things you didn't know you could do in UTB

All right. This is the project I've been thinking about for a long time. I'm going to write so GREAT article that it should be divided into ten parts. Just like Star Wars or James Bond :)

"The first thing you didn't know" will be about the Internet connection around the campus. But I am just excited and writing this article as a trailer.

So, "Things you didn't know" Part 1 COMING SOON!

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Breaking news: Global Village in Devitka

We interrupt this program to give you breaking news about Global VIllage....... it's coming to Devitka.

Ok, enough hysteria. Barbora just told me that there is going to be an info meeting on "Wednesday (16th April), at 19:30, in "Devítka" (I guess you know where it is, opposite to Prior)".

If you're interested, come and join the meeting! I will be there, too.

Courtesy of www.restaurace.cz

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Global village is coming to town

There are 245 countries in the world, and two types of people.

1. Citizens of well-developed countries. Their country exports entertainment to the world and it helps them spread their culture, e.g. USA, Russia, UK etc.
2. Citizens in other countries. They feel their contributions are missing. So, they wish to exhibit their cultures to the world, “Our culture should add up to the globalization, too!”, e.g. Czech Republic, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Mongolia, etc.

If you’re #1, you have to know A LOT to fit in this Internet roaming, jet plane flying world,. If you’re the second type, #2, you may want to show your country to the world, screaming “I’m from (your country here)”.

Whichever of the above you’re trying to accomplish, I have a good news – Global Village. This is a multi-culture festival, which will be held this summer in the University Building U2.

Barbora, an AIESECer who is part of the team preparing this event asked me to post about it on the blog. “A lot of foreign people gather in Zlin to present their country to the visitors of this event. They offer samples of their traditional meal, teach the visitors words from their language or even traditional dances” she said.

Even for bystanders, who don’t want to go up and represent their country, they are saving money by watching it. Because they get to know and experience culture shock free in Global Village, instead of traveling there and paying for loads of money (9,999€).

If you like free things by the way, this is another reason you should join, I’d say. You could probably taste many types of foods free such as:

• Fried meat, sweets, pancakes, biscuits, cookies.

Also I’ve read about Global Village in Dubai, where people buy many fancy foreign things, such as:

• Traditional clothes, jewelleries, souvenirs, handcrafts.

Oh wait, instead of pathetically trying to describe the event by listing words, I can show you a video. D’oh! Click here to watch the video!

I list all the other things I found interesting below:

• The organization team pays for your expenses, and you can buy anything you want to present your country.
• You can be as creative as you want to represent you country, e.g. Powerpoint presentation, songs, teaching traditional dance, basic vocabulary etc.
• There is “Zlin dog” students film festival after it, jackpot!
• Then, all the students go after-party!

Update: it is in June 4th. Don't forget to watch the video!

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AIESEC wants us to work abroad!

On 12th of March, Wednesday evening, I walked up to the tables on the first floor to relax after a long lecture. There I found an ad flyer by AIESEC saying "Neschovavej se!", meaning "Don't hide!". It was about traineeships, internships UTB students can have, and it was due in few minutes . So I went there, and took this picture!

There were 7 students who came for the ad, including me, 3 AIESEC members, and 3 trainees from abroad. The presentation was unfortunately in Czech, and I didn't understand most of what's being said. But here's what really sounds cool.

"AIESEC offers you opportunities to improve your foreign language skills, learn foreign culture and get hands-on experience on " says Zdenek, AIESEC member, who started the presentation. "Also you will attend preparation seminar for the internship from AIESEC"

I liked the idea, but it said it was for the 3rd year students and above. "There are four kind of internships/traineeships you can choose," said Lenka, another AIESEC presenter, "Management Traineeships, Technical Traineeships, Developmental Traineeships and Educational Traineeships".

Then, I started feeling drowsy for a few minutes because I didn't understand it. After awhile, Cigdem, a trainee from Turkey spoke about her experience. She said Turkish people didn't drink fizzy water, which was interesting.


Then spoke Eduardo from Columbia -- he's probably learning quite good Czech during his intern, as he answered one student's question in Czech. One thing I found interesting was that Colombians are happier than Czechs -- because of the sunnier weather.

Then a Czech guy, Lukas, talked about his internship experience in Turkey last year, but unfortunately he spoke in Czech so I can't recall anything he said.


Finally, there came Snake (Yes, it's his name) from China, who made a PowerPoint presentation with him to show his cultural shocks. He showed us that he found it hard to eat with spoon and fork, rather than chopsticks.
After the presentation, we discussed about internships. I asked whether I would qualify for an internship, but found out I could if I'm an AIESEC member. Piece of cake! I am going to meet them on Monday, and join them.

Oh, I forgot I'm giving out information to you. If you want to work abroad through AIESEC, you have to decide immediately. The deadline's coming soon!

Places you can find more information are:
www.aiesec.cz/zlin
lenka.stastna@aiesec.net
Here you can check your language skills and see if you can pass the test for internship. Yeah, there is a language test.
vyuka.jipka.cz/online-testy

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Introduction

Welcome my friends!

Tonight I create this blog to let international students who study in the Tomas Bata University to exchange and express their ideas.

Read up-to-date news about the university, share funny experiences, ask if you need help with homework and debate topics.

Obviously, I can't expand this blog without your help. So please, TALK TO ME!!!

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