Great Tips to Study

     At the end of some intensely hot summer holidays, your colleagues from Tasmania have just started a brand new school year. Australian and New Zeland students will be joining soon. Let’s greet them with our best wishes for this new stage in their lives.

     This initiative would match the last suggestion on the Random Acts of Kindness WeekCalendar and we would join Jose’s tagging for this meme: go and write an encouragement message on someone else’s blog, as an “anti-cyberbullying” behaviour…

     You could also write a post sharing some of your best strategies to study; for instance:

• While studying, are you aware of creating any visual pictures of the subjects you are reading or writing?
  
• Or, on the contrary, do you listen to the silent voice of your thougths speaking up the texts?
  
• Do you usually write summaries and reorganize notes taken during classes?
  
• Do you create mind maps or diagrams to visualize the relations between concepts?
  
• Do you participate in a work group belonging to at least two different countries and making presentations by skype cast?
  

     So, you may share your best tips for an efficient study in a blog post, or visit the Australian and New Zeland student blogs welcoming them to school, or both.

     Just follow your inspiration and remember to link to this post.

Image Title:Students taking a computerized exam

Image Author:Michael Surran

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 Practicing Kindness All Over The World

     I followed the links inserted in our calendar by Miss W. and found this amazing initiative called Kindness.com.au in Australia, Acts of Kindness.org  in the United States, Kind Acts.net   in Canada, among other 16 Countries. They are all connected in the same aspiration to  a new level of solidarity that is bringing humanity together in our days.  Born in Japan, in 97, the World Kindness Movement has been slowly spreading abroad with the aim of building “a kinder and more compassionate world“.

       So, if you would like to participate in the annual week specially dedicated to acts of kindness, please

• Read about the concept of kindness itself, according to the Australian or the Canadian Kindness Movements.
•  Try to practice one or more of the suggestions scheduled in the American Foundation Calendar

• You may also make some research in any of those kindness sites, find out what they are suggesting for schools and communities maybe even in your area or create your own initiative.
• Share your kindness experience and spread the word in a blog post, by commenting on your friends posts or both. (Please remember to link to this post so we may join you soon)

“An act of kindness is a spontaneous gesture of goodwill towards someone or something – our fellow humans, the animal kingdom, and the kingdom of nature. Kind words and deeds come from a state of benevolence, generated by a core response deep within all of us.

     When we carry out an act of kindness, it is a message from one heart to another, an act of love, an unspoken “I care” statement.” kindness.com.au

 Original Image:Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar

Author:The Custom of Life

Licensing:GNU Free Documentation License

 Our world is full of wonderful places.

They may be amazing like unforgettable landscapes or wonders of Nature that became famous all over the world and every year are visited by crowds of tourists.

But they can  also be just humble places that, in the course of our personal history, turned out to be very special and wonderful places to each of us.

It may be just a wild beach you love to walk in during winter days, listening to the scream of the seagulls and following their flight, open wings in the wind over the roaring waves. 

Or just a simple field you must cross to meet your friends, on  weekends, before you start to play your favourite sport. And, with time,  you came to look at this field as a friendly space, as a bit of Nature that somehow belongs to you and to whom you belong.

Or, on the contrary, it may be a perfect hiding-place, a secret retreat you decorated yourself in the attic of your home or in a corner of your garden and where you can feel protected when you need to think, to  write or just to be alone.

So,

• How is or would be a “Wonderful Place” to you? 
• Why do you or would you enjoy to go there? 
• What can you or would you do in this place? 
• With whom do you or would you like to share it?

Image: Kerala Treehouse Author: Cyrillic

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