To help you travel well in Argentina, we've put together some exciting activities, courses and tours that you can add to your schedule. These are not only designed to be fun, but also to enable you to learn and expand your personal and professional development.
Walking Tour of La Boca
The 5-hour tour, moderate（适度的）walking, departs at 11 am in Monserrat and finishes at 4:30 pm, Tuesdays and Fridays.
Price: £15 per person
Tour the beautiful cobble stone（鹅卵石）streets of Le Boca, the heart of Buenos Aires and the birth place of Tango. This fascinating walking tour is a must if you want to explore the rich history of Buenos Aires.
Photography Courses
6 hours of lessons per week
Price: £295 for two weeks
Study photography with an experienced private tutor who will tailor your lessons to your individual needs. Classes include practical teaching, analysis of your work, theory and history and regular opportunities to explore the city by yourself to photograph landscapes of the city.
Graffiti Tour of Buenos Aires
The 3-hour tour departs at 3 pm in Colegiales and finishes at 6 pm in Palermo, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays or Saturdays.
Price: £35 per person
Experience the world of urban art through this wonderful tour of Buenos Aires. You can travel both on foot and by air-conditioned minibus. The tour finishes in Post Bar in Palermo, home to the unique street art gallery Hollywood and Cambodia.
Spanish Courses
1-Week Intensive Course with private lessons, before starting your Main Project
Price: £590 per week
Weekly Lessons: 10 hours of lessons per week running concurrent with your Main Project
Price: £195 per week
Use your time in Argentina to learn Spanish. You can either do a 1 -week intensive course or take lessons at the same time as doing your main project.
One of the biggest risks a modem student faces is a broken phone or laptop. Jake Hertz and Isaac Roberts are two students who have launched a new business to meet this exact need: Campus Tech Repair.
Hertz and Roberts started their business half a year ago and they've had amazing success. The first day they had posters up, they received nearly a cloven calls from students. Despite not having backgrounds in business, the two gladly accepted the challenges of starting up such an in-demand service.
Hertz and Roberts experienced such a high demand because of the lack of any other hardware repair service on campus. The IT Center itself only provided software fixes: Hertz guessed that this was because of the increased responsibilities faced by repair services. Hertz and Roberts did make customers sign a release（解除）of responsibility, yet they also wanted to build a higher level of trust.
This, Hertz noted, was the only real challenge that they expected to face. Becoming directly sponsored by the school could solve the problem of community trust. Hertz and Roberts have already engaged in conversation with the University toward this end.
The main selling point of their service is its convenience, as well as the relatively low price. Many students have neither the time nor the means to visit a phone repair service in a store, in addition to the problem of cost. For them, Campus Tech Repair is the desired alternative.
Hertz is optimistic about the future of the business. The two partners dream of expanding the range of their operation to include more students and be able to meet all hardware needs. They've even received requests to repair Playstations（—种游戏机）, in addition to their specialties of computer and smartphone repair. They believe that with the support of the University, they could become a necessary part of campus services.
Each year, the National Council of Teachers of English（NCTE）presents several awards to recognize outstanding books written for all age levels. Earlier this month at a book awards luncheon（午宴）held during their 107th Annual Convention，they announced the winner of the 2018 Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction for Children.
Dan Santat was named the winner of the 2018 Charlotte Huck Award for his novel AFTER THE FALL, the inspiring epilogue（后记）to the beloved classic nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty. The Charlotte Huck Award was established in 2014 to promote and recognize fiction that has the potential to have a positive effect on children's lives. The award honors Dr. Charlotte Huck, a professor at Ohio State University who devoted her career to promoting the role of children's books in young people's academic, social, and emotional development. Each year，the committee selects a winner and recommended titles appropriate for children.
“Charlotte Huck was a supporter for children's books as teaching tools,” says Erika Dawes, chair of the Charlotte Huck Award committee. “Books like these award winners, books that promote imagination, wonder and sympathy, fill a critical need in our classrooms.”
Jason Chin was named winner of the 2018 Orbis Pictus Award for his book GRAND CANYON, an illuminating（启蒙的）look at one of the planet's most fascinating features. The Orbis Pictus Award, established in 1989, is the oldest children's book award for nonfiction.
Honor and Recommended Books in each category were also announced at the awards luncheon, where the 2017 winners（Jason Reynolds and Melissa Sweet）delivered speeches. Dan Santat and Jason Chin are invited to speak at next year's Annual Convention.
There are a lot of reasons why people calling 911 might not be able to tell operators which floor they're on in a high-rise building. They could be injured or simply confused. Yet precious minutes are wasted when emergency personnel have to search a building to find a person in need. With a new app called Sensory, emergency responders soon may be able to use a caller's smartphone to locate his exact position in a building.
Columbia University researchers William Falcon and Henning Schulzrinne created Sensory using a two-step process. First, they used all existing smartphone features that help narrow down a caller's location. All iPhones produced after 2014 already include GPS and altimeter（测高仪） that can help emergency responders determine if a person is outdoors or inside a building. But when it comes to tall buildings, just knowing a person's altitude may not be enough，because the distance between floors changes from one building to another.
So Falcon and Schulzrinne analysed the plans of figuring out the average distance between floors in residential（住宅的）buildings and office buildings among more than 1000 buildings in New York City. They tested their app in 63 experiments in five high-rise buildings and found that it could find a caller's location within two floors with about a 91 percent accuracy.
In a survey conducted by Find Me 911 this year, dispatchers（调度员）said that they regularly received calls from people in need who often couldn't share their location. They sometimes accidentally give the wrong address or floor number. Some callers are too young to know their address. Dispatchers also received calls from those who are deaf or have hearing problems and they often couldn't hear the operator's questions.
The new Sensory app could help shave precious minutes off the time it takes first responders to get to those calling for help. And it could make the difference between life and death.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. If you can stay positive no matter what life throws at you, you've got the freedom to change your life into anything you want it to be. But how?
Enjoy the Moment
While the present moment may be uncomfortable, it is the only one that is guaranteed. Look beyond the present problem and find the moments that are worth enjoying and then enjoy each one.
Five Happy Things Everyday
Make it a rule to recognize and then celebrate five happy things every day. Whatever their size or significance is, be sure to seek these happy things out and then hold them close so you can see their positive power.
Embrace（接受）Your Mistakes
Embrace your mistake as an opportunity to learn something new about yourself and others. By becoming aware of your mistakes, you are able to move past them and prevent regret from keeping you stuck in the past.
Hold Yourself Accountable
Keep focused. It's up to you to walk your path. When you feel your positive attitude slipping away, hold yourself accountable for getting it back on track. It's going to take a positive attitude to make your dreams come true.
Let it Go
Holding on to old, negative thoughts will prevent positive thoughts from getting through. You weren't born to be consumed by constant negative thinking. You were born to make a positive difference in this world. It's time to let go and begin living the life you are meant to live. It's time to stay positive－no matter what.
A. Keep you safe from anxiety.
B. So let your negative beliefs go.
C. Would you rather be right or happy?
D. Thus, make the most of the present moment.
E. No one wants your goals and dreams more than you do.
F. This habit helps you to appreciate whatever you have.
G. Accept the fact that you are human and that nobody is perfect.
A few years ago, I was working on a project in a small office of a company. While everyone was friendly, there seemed to be a（n）1 of the workplace culture, for which I wanted to do something 2.
So one evening, I wrote up a few quotes that have 3me over the years. The next morning, I went to work a bit early and quickly 4 them up by the sinks and mirrors in the office 5.
For the next few months, some of the quotes got 6, but I noticed that a couple 7. So perhaps they were meaningful to some of them.
Eventually, I finished out my contract（合同）with that8and went to work in another place.
A few months ago, I was 9to a reunion with my colleagues to hear updates on how the 10 I had worked on was going. Although I11 worked in this office building, I had really enjoyed working with the team, and was 12 to see them all again. Towards the end of the 13, I went to the restroom, and one of the quotes that I had written before was still 14 in the same spot by the mirror! It 15: The real voyage of discovery consists not 16 seeking new lands, but seeing with new eyes.
Maybe the quote still stood out as a 17 reminder each time someone went to the restroom. 18 the case is, it is a sweet moment and reminder that we never know how long a seed planted will 19 to bloom and give fruit－but to simply keep20 seeds of kindness from the heart... nothing less, and nothing more.
The word Nushu literally means “women's writing” in Chinese: As the name suggests, Nushu is created and specially used by women.
Often （call） “the world's only surviving characters for women”, these slim words were developed from standard written Chinese. In the old days, Nushu （teach）by elderly women to girls at home because female children weren't allowed （attend）formal school. During gatherings in villages, women used the characters to .write poems or song lyrics to express their emotions were hidden from men. The words were full encouragement and positive energy, and showed an uncommon open-mindedness among women at that time.
Ji Xianlin once said that Nushu is a feminist（女权主义者）symbol. “It's unique writing system created by （talent）women who were deprived（剥夺）of the right to education,” he wrote in an article. “It has significance in various （field）and represents Chinese people's strong spirit.”
Nushu was made as a national cultural heritage in 2006. However, it is not （wide）used in daily life today. In fact, it is a dying language. Now linguists are taking action to prevent this incredible cultural heritage from（disappear）.
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Boys and girls,
To make better use of the books we have used but no longer need them, we've planned to set up the book bank. We can recycle books and magazines that is in good condition in an effective way, thus avoided unnecessary waste. Meanwhile, the notes in our books can help another students learn their lessons efficiently than before. What's equal important is that, by using the recycling books, a lot of money can be saved.
Therefore, it's necessary that the Senior 3 students generously donate the used books and other learning materials, that will definitely serve as excellent examples for the students in those lower grade.
Thank you!
Student Union
