Where is this little baby looking to? What is looking for? Only a little happiness and confidence or does she only want to survive? 27th December 2008 Saturday. Israel started to attack to Gaze with the excuse of Hamas’ rockets. Thousands of Palestinians were killed by tanks, war planes, battleships, helicopters…. Israel has the power so it does whatever it wants in the Middle East. They always kill innocent civil public. It may be the law of the life but in the same conditions. Palestinians have nothing to stand out against Israel and its ally U.S.A. They have only stones, slings and the most important hearts which live only for independent Palestine. It may be impossible for them to beat Israel but they do not stop, do not throw in the towel. They fight with whatever they find but the most annoying thing is that they are alone. We may blame or shame Israel but we do not do anything to help these innocent people. They see us as an ally but we cannot help on these conditions. They are alone and they know that, however, they do not despair. We can arrange protests, we can shout at Israel but it is useless for dying Palestinians. This shameful action must be stopped. A nation is dying in front of the world. For what? Only for a holly empire?

In the first derby match of the 2009, Galatasaray Man Basketball team defeated the FBÜlker with 78-62 and preserved the second rank in the Beko Basketball League. The match naturally started with a high and tense atmosphere. Galatasaray was on the pitch with Cüneyt, Hüseyin Graves, Zizic and Groviç. FBÜlker, Green, Ömer, Preldzic, Mirsad and Vidmar. The beginning of the match was unproductive for both teams in terms of crores but then the host side, Galatasaray, started to score easily with the help of its fans supporting their team on the tribune in the first period of the match. However, in the second and third periods FBÜlker provided a balance with the scores of Smith and Preldzic but it was not enough to catch up with Galatasaray. In the end Galatasaray fans celebrated their team’s victory. Before the match high security precautions were taken.After the match Galatasary fans celebrated their victory in the hall and on the streets. This match was important because it was the first derby match of the new year and it was written to history.

Nicenet: This site provides a limitless location for guides, teachers and lecturer to publish, create and share links, online debate activities, discussions, and other things about course theme with students. We can learn the suitable and useful sites for our educational progress. We use this site to create a more affective teaching and learning. Our teachers put the information, subjects, comments about the course and our homework. We can look our feedback and past works and lessons’ content. In our technology era, such kind of site is very useful to provide affective teaching and learning. When I will become a teacher, I will definitely use such kind of sites.

PB Wiki: This site is one of the most effective one created specially for group working. Every one of the group members can add something to the site and in the end a united work appear. We can reorganize our texts and our friends’ writings and essays. We can comment on other group members’ texts and adjust them. Besides we add everything to this site such as videos, photos, documents, links and other tens of useful tools for our education.


Blogger: Blogger is a web page which serves as a freely easily reached personal journal for a specific person. As a rule this site is updated daily, blogs often serve as a digital paper or book for the author. Instead of writing on a paper, using this page is more comfortable for the writer and thanks to that other people can easily reach the data on the blogs whenever they want. We can add photos, links, texts and videos. These make the subject more understandable and the page more interesting. We can do our homework by using this page. We do not need to stay in the class for long hours and write on the paper over and over. We cannot put aside our sheets, works and essays for a long time but by using this page we can save them forever and look them whenever we want. We can read our friends’ text without standing up our chair. On the other hand we have some problems about this site. One of them is that we sometimes have difficulties in connecting to internet. In our dormitory we have a wireless connection and it sometimes does not connect and we cannot write our texts, essays, etc.

We have listening and pronunciation course in this term. It is a very useful for our educational development especially in speaking and understanding of the speech. In order to achieve these skills we have a lot of listening and speaking activities, however, they are not effective for our progress. Specially, Praat, a kind of program by which you can record and edit voice of sentences or words, is a nightmare for us. I hate this program and do not want to record anything but it is a compulsory activity for our course and we have to do it each week. It is very difficult because we do not have suitable physical environment for recording. In our dormitories, we have a clamor every time. Our computers and microphones are not suitable for this high specialized activity. For some of us, who has not a notebook, it becomes more and more annoying. On the other hand, the words that we must record are from different accents from different English speaking regions. One of them can be from Canada and another from Australia. This difference makes the work vary hard for us. We do not know even one accent but this activity enforce us to repeat the pronunciation of the words and sentences. We do not learn anything.