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Great Poems From Great Poets

It is natural to feel disappointed

When things don’t go your way

...It’s easy to think

"?I can’t do it, so why try "

But no matter how scared you are of making mistakes

Or discouraged you may become

Never give up

Because if you don’t try and

If you don’t go after what you want in life

It won’t come to you

And you’ll be forced to accept

Things that you know could be better

Success is not measured by

Whether you win or you fail

There is always a little bit of success

Even if things don’t go your way

What’s important is that

You’ll feel better about yourself

_{(Amanda Pierce)}

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The best and most beautiful

things in the world

cannot be seen

or even touched.

They must be felt

with the heart.

Helen Keller

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I may not be the fastest

I may not be the tallest

Or the strongest

I may not be the best

Or the brightest

But one thing I can do better

Than anyone else ……….

That is

To be me.

Leonard Nimoy

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Silence of the heart,

.not only the mouth-that too is necessary.

Then you can hear God everywhere:

in closing of the door,
in the person who needs you,

in the birds that sing,

in the flowers, the animals-
.that silence which is wonder and praise.

Mother Teresa

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You never know

.until you try

And you never try

.unless you really try

;You give it your best shot

.You do the best you can

-And if you’ve done everything

"in your power, and still “fail

the truth of the matter is

.that you haven’t failed at all

When you reach for your dreams

,no matter what they may be

;you grow from the reaching

;you learn from the trying

.you win from the doing

Laine Parsons

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ADDRESS

Where is the friend's house?" It was dawn"

when the rider asked

.The sky paused

The passerby bestowed the ray of light between his lips

.onto the darkness of sands

:And pointing his finger to a poplar tree,he said

Not far from the tree"

There is an alley greener than the slumber of God

.Where love is as blue as the Feathers of Honesty

Walk to the end of alley emerging

.from beyond Maturty

.Take a turn towards the Flower of Solitude

.Two steps to the flower

.Stay at the foot of eternal jet of the earth's myths

.Then a transparent fear will encompass you

:In the flowing intimacy of space , you will hear a rustle

You will behold a child

.On a tall plane tree picking a young bird

.from the Nest of Light

Ask him

".Where the friend's house is

Sohrab Sepehri

Captain James Cook

(Born: October 27, 1728 Died: February 14, 1779)

The English navigator James Cook, possibly the greatest explorer of the 18th century, is known for his voyages to the Pacific Ocean and his application of scientific methods to exploration and to cartography. Born on Oct. 27, 1728, he was the son of a poor Scotsman who had settled in Yorkshire as an agricultural labourer. After a short time in a haberdasher's shop at Stainthes, he became a bound apprentice to a Whitby ship owner, and spent several years in coasting and Baltic trade. He joined the Royal Navy in 1755 as an able-bodied seaman, soon became a mate, and within four years became a master. In 1759, during the Seven Years' War, Cook was given command of the Mercury, sailing to Canada and up the St. Lawrence River, where he helped to survey the river channel. He was responsible for the successful piloting of the fleet, which took Quebec.

After the war ended in 1763, Cook, commanding the schooner Grenville, spent four years surveying the coasts of Labrador, Newfoundland, and Nova Scotia. He also studied mathematics in order to master the science of navigation. His charts of the coasts, considered both important and accurate, were published. Cook had observed a solar eclipse in 1766 and used it to determine the longitude of Newfoundland; these findings were published in the Transactions of the Royal Society. After his return to England in 1767, Cook was commissioned a lieutenant in the Royal Navy.

Voyage of the Endeavour

In 1768 the Royal Society requested the Admiralty's aid in observing the transit of Venus at Tahiti, to occur in June 1769, and Cook was given command of the expedition. Secret instructions made clear that Cook also was to search for Terra Australis incognita, the "unknown southern land." Cook and the Endeavour left Plymouth on Aug. 26, 1768. In addition to its crew the Endeavour carried an astronomer, two botanists, Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander, and artists.

The Endeavour traveled by way of the Madeira, Canary, and Cape Verde islands and Rio de Janeiro and rounded Cape Horn into the Pacific. Cook carried good provisions and citrus products and thus avoided the plague of scurvy. The ship reached Tahiti in April 1769. During their three months there the scientists examined the island thoroughly and observed the transit of Venus on June 3. They sailed west with a Tahitian guide through the Society Islands and then southward, finally reaching land on Oct. 7, 1769.

Cook had rediscovered New Zealand, originally discovered by Abel Tasman in 1642. He spent several months circling and surveying North Island and South Island, proving that they were islands and not a continent. The expedition then sailed west, reached the unexplored eastern coast of Australia, which he chartered and claimed for Great Britain. Sailing north, Cook saved the Endeavour after it struck and was grounded on a coral reef. Overall about 3,200 km (2,000 miles) of Australian coast was surveyed. Cook also confirmed the existence of a passage between Australia and New Guinea (the Torres Strait). The expedition sailed on, refitted at Batavia in Java, and returned by way of the Indian Ocean and the Cape of Good Hope. It reached England on July 13, 1771.

Voyages of the Resolution

Because the first voyage had not totally disproved old legends of a major southern continent, the Admiralty soon authorized a new expedition. Cook commanded the Resolution, which was accompanied by the Adventure, and again took scientists and artists. They left Plymouth on July 13, 1772, and headed for the Cape of Good Hope. Then they traveled south, crossing the Antarctic Circle in January 1773. Finding no continent, they went on to New Zealand and from there explored the South Pacific.

The Resolution and Adventure lost contact, and the latter returned to England, becoming the first vessel to circumnavigate the world from west to east. The Resolution, however, again crossed the Antarctic Circle, reaching a latitude of 71 degrees 10' S, stopped at Easter Island and Tonga, and explored the New Hebrides, New Caledonia, and Norfolk Island. Finally it crossed the South Pacific again, rounded Cape Horn, crossed the South Atlantic to the Cape of Good Hope, and then sailed north to reach England in July 1775. Only one man had been lost to disease on the entire voyage. Cook had proved that no great continent existed in the temperate region of the Pacific, but he had become convinced that there was an Antarctic continent. As a result of his successful expeditions, Cook was elected a fellow of the Royal Society.

Promoted to captain, Cook sailed again on the Resolution on July 12, 1776, this time to search for the Northwest Passage from the Pacific side. At the Cape of Good Hope he was joined by the Discovery. The two ships visited Tahiti. They also discovered Christmas Island and then the Hawaiian Islands, which Cook called the Sandwich Islands, in January 1778. Sailing onward to North America, the expedition landed at Nootka Sound, near Vancouver. It then went through the Bering Strait into the Arctic Ocean but found ice and no passage. The ships returned to Hawaii for repairs, and Cook was killed there in a skirmish with the Polynesian inhabitants on Feb. 14, 1779. The expedition then returned to England.

James Cook had surveyed and charted thousands of kilometres of coast and had solved many mysteries of the Pacific Ocean area. He had also opened the northwest American coast to trade and colonization. Cook handled ships and crews extraordinarily well, avoided scurvy, hitherto the scourge of long sea voyages, and conducted all of his explorations in a remarkably peaceful fashion.

Khalilullah's Story

Khalilullah’s Story

Hello ladies and gentlemen my name is Khalilullah Hussaini. I come from Afghanistan. I want to tell u about when I came to a great centre calls IEC.

I came to IEC in March 2007. When I came to IEC I didn’t know anyone and I didn’t know any teacher from IEC so I felt very scary. I went to IEC’s office and I gave a test and it was very easy for me. The first term that I went to IEC I went to c7. In c7 I found some friends and I was going to like IEC. In term one my speaking improved a little.

In my second term I was in s42 which was a good class. In s42 I found lots of friends and some of them were afghani and Irani who could speak my language. I gave some test and my result was not excellent and it wasn’t too bad so in third term I stayed in that class. I was a bit shame because my friends moved up but I didn’t. I wanted to improve and go up so I worked very hard and I got an (A) in English and lots of other subject except math. In my last term I moved up and I went to 4L which was the top class for 12 to 14 years old student. My friends were there in that class. In IEC my math improved a lot as well as my English. Unfortunately it was my last term so I had to leave IEC. I did not want to IEC but I had to. Now I am going to stratified high school. I missed my friends a lot.

Thanks a lot for your reading

Special Thanks To Khalil

Pouya's Story

Pouya's Story

Hi, my name is Pouya Jahandideh I want to tell you how I came to IEC and how I began to love it …..

The first day I came to IEC I was scared from everyone I saw. When one of the students talked with me I just stared at him even I didn’t understand he was talking in my own language. I was very nervous when I wanted to go to the English class I went to toilet when I wanted to go to the office I went to the high school’s office. After a few days I got used to IEC. After one week I went to S44 class, it was very easy and I found many friends there and after two weeks we had holiday for about three weeks.

The next term I went to S43 class and I was happy because my English was improved and I could understand English better. I wrote a story and my teacher told me it’s very good and I will put it in IEC magazine but from that term till now I couldn't see it in IEC magazines! I also did a short film with Hassib and Latif and it was very funny.

The next term was my third term. In the third term I was in 4L class. I found many friends there and I could improve my English a lot. We had fun there and we could make many good memories. But my third term also finished very quickly and most of my friends left IEC and I really miss them.

This term is my fourth and last term. Unfortunately I must leave IEC after this term. I really don’t want to leave IEC because I get used to IEC and I can't forget it. I can’t forget how much fun we had and I can’t forget my teachers and my friends in IEC. I’m really sad because I found some of my friends late, very late and I can’t be with them after this term.

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Kristin's Story

Hello, I am Kristin Dzhokova, from Bulgaria and now I will tell you my story...

The first day I came to the IEC was Valentine’s Day. I was very scared, because I didn’t know anything about the students and the teachers. I thought they might be bad with me. Also I thought that there will be no Bulgarian students, so I will not have someone to talk with. The first day I wanted to run away because I was very, very nervous. I didn’t understand the teachers and I thought I know the worst English. I had a spelling test, but I had all the words correct and it made me feel very happy. At the end of the day I was still very scared and I wanted to go home and not to come back to school again. One of the things that made me happy was that a boy gave me a rose. Before that happened I felt like nobody likes me. The students were good and talked to me, but I was just too scared. They asked me a lot of questions and I didn’t want to talk because I was not confident about my English.

The next day was better, I was not feeling so nervous. As the days went on I felt better and better in the IEC, I made more and more friends, I improved my English more and more, I knew more things about the whole IEC. I was trying to progress and to be a very good student. I developed my skills in many things, and I got better and better. My dream was to become a Student of The Week and to go to the top class for English and Maths. My effort was awarded, I was runner up in the spelling competition for Level 2, and I became Student of The Week for week 9. I was very happy with these things!

This term is my second one in the IEC. The first term I started in group 4E, the second best class. Now I am in 41, the best class in stage 4. For Maths I am in M41, the best Maths class in stage 4. In the Cross Country Carnival I was 4th in group 12. After 3 weeks I will run in the Zone against girls from other schools.

Many of my friends left the IEC and I miss them VERY much. Some of them went to Chester Hill High School, and sometimes I meet them and we have fun.

Now I feel GREAT in the IEC! I LOVE IT!!! I like all of the teachers and students. I don’t want to go to High School, I want to stay in the IEC forever!

Thank you for spending time to read my story!

WE WELCOME EVERYONE WHO WANTS TO SHARE HIS/HER STORY! WE WILL BE GLAD TO RECEIVE YOUR LETTERS ON THE FOLLOWING E- MAIL ADDRESS:

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