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Everyone,

"International students in TBU, Zlin" Blog admin is looking for someone who can continue the legacy of this forgotten blog. Contact me if you are interested.

To qualify for the ownership of the blog, you have to prove that you are able to write clearly, consistently and have fun doing it.

You have the opportunity to expand this blog and sell the pitch to all the international students in TBU, and further affilations. Following the click-ads, you have the opportunity to earn decent money from Google AdSense.

Note: You can be a former student or alumni of TBU.

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Thou Shall Not Fail Thy Exams

This is just a quick note to let you all know that I am not writing in this blog until mid-June.

*Awwwww!*

I am sorry, but the exam period has started and the laws of physics just got me -- I can never be at two places at once.

But I will be writing things starting mid-June, and you can either check it out during summer or read it when the school starts.

You all have exams, too. So I would like to say GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE!!!

*APPLAUSE*

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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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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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Things I didn't know: Part 1 "Using Scanner"

Editorial note: Because of some people's complaint, I change the title of the series into
"Things I didn't know" from "Things you didn't know".

Using Scanner

Well, this one is just something I noticed accidentally. I needed a scanner and I never thought I could find one.

But all the computer rooms (U2, library and u5) had 4-8 PCs marked SCAN on their monitors.

So, here's how you can use the scanner -- free.

1. You go to the Xerox push on the scan button (see the picture below)

2. Choose the PC you're sitting on. (for example, SCAN2) and scan your paper by
pressing Start (the big green button).

3. Sit on the PC with SCAN2 note on it.

4. Log in.

5. Open ScanRouter V2 Link (Start=Programs=DeskTopBinder V2) and you will see
the scanned paper.

6. Save it, and mission accomplished!

Tip: This is the image I scanned in Library. The stick figure is doing the robo dance!

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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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How to memorize State capitols?

Why do you need to know the capitols of the U.S. states? There's almost 50 of them. Well, you don't really have to know it. I bet even the Americans themselves don't know all the capitols.

But here are some of the reasons:

• You are enrolled in American Studies course, (where you have to learn the capitols of the states)
• You aren’t enrolled in course, but you think you will be in “Who wants to be Millionaire?” one day, and you will need these.
• You must know them in order to impress people. (We are livin' in Amerika! Coca-Cola, Wonderbra! :P)

Whatever it is, I found a very easy way to memorize all those names in 1 hour.

What is it?

Animaniacs.

What?

It’s a cartoon song.

WTF?

Yeah, it’s simple. This is a piece of song from cartoon Animaniacs. Just watch it yourself, OK?

courtesy of Teachertube

There is the lyrics, from STlyrics.com

Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Indianapolis, Indiana
And Columbus is the capital of Ohio
There's Montgomery, Alabama, south of Helena, Montana
Then there's Denver, Colorado, under Boise, Idaho.

Texas has Austin, then we go north
To Massachusetts' Boston, and Albany, New York
Tallahassee, Florida, and Washington, D.C.
Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Nashville, Tennessee.

Elvis used to hang out there a lot, ya know.

Trenton's in New Jersey, north of Jefferson, Missouri
You've got Richmond in Virginia; South Dakota has Pierre
Harrisburg's in Pennsylvania and Augusta's up in Maine
And here is Providence, Rhode Island, next to Dover, Delaware.

Concord, New Hampshire, just a quick jaunt
To Montpelier, which is up in Vermont
Hartford's in Connecticut, so pretty in the fall
And Kansas has Topeka; Minnesota has St Paul.

Juneau's in Alaska and there's Lincoln in Nebraska
And it's Raleigh out in North Carolina and then
There's Madison, Wisconsin, and Olympia in Washington
Phoenix, Arizona, and Lansing, Michigan.

Here's Honolulu; Hawaii's a joy
Jackson, Mississippi, and Springfield, Illinois
South Carolina with Columbia down the way
And Annapolis in Maryland on Chesapeake Bay.

They have wonderful clam chowder.

Cheyenne is in Wyomin' and perhaps you make your home in
Salt Lake City out in Utah, where the Buffalo roam
Atlanta's down in Georgia, and there's Bismarck, North Dakota
And you can live in Frankfort in your old Kentucky home.

Salem in Oregon; from there we join
Little Rock in Arkansas; Iowa's got Des Moines
Sacramento, California; Oklahoma and its city
Charleston, West Virginia, and Nevada, Carson City.

That's all the capitals there are!

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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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