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My school in USA

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Hello! My name is Plus!

I'm a Thai exchange student in America

I came with AFS

Today, I am going to talk about

My school in USA

The first thing is clothing

People here don't have uniforms

So you can wear whatever you want

If it's not too exposing

So, you can wear shorts(that aren't that short)

People here really have much freedom and self confidence

Before I came here, I was really worried

because I was not good at fashion stuffs

But when I am actually here

People at school aren't all too fancy with their clothes

You can really wear anything

For me, I like the basic; T-shirt and a pair of jean

The next thing I am going to talk about is "The Pledge of Allegiance"

In Thailand, we have our national anthem, right?

But here they have some kind of national music and everyone stands up

After the music finishes, people say some long sentences that goes like..

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

I think that was right!

When that ends

People sits down

and class starts

Here, students have lots of participation in class

If you are curious, you can immediately ask

Asking is not a strange thing. It's very usual.

And when the teacher asks question, people answer.

I really love that part

And here, people study the same classes everyday

So same schedule, for everyday

btw, I'm not sure if other schools are like this too but my school is

So we can have different friends in different classes

And this is..

My folder

For school

Some people have a bunch of folders

But I am too lazy so one is enough

But mine has many sections for different subjects

And the notebooks here..

There is no restriction

They don't have school notebooks

So you can buy whatever kind of notebooks you want to use

And some teachers doesn't even check the notebooks

So you can take notes or no. Whatever.

But still some teacher does check

I am talking about my school but for other schools, I don't know

But I bet other schools don't have their own notebooks too

But still, most will take notes

because stuffs will be in the exam

Tada! They gave us chromebook!

It's for taking notes

In words

For sending work online

To research

And there is internet at school

It's amazing

And you can print at school! for free!

I love it

Other than that,

I got another computer

Why? Because I have a special class called Technology

That requires that thing

I am still not sure why

Talking about homework, for me, there is a lot

But most are pretty easy

You just need to do it

There are lots of quizzes too but it's not that hard

Quiz is just to test your skills, after all

Some of my classes have quizzes every two days

But the score for those quiz aren't that much

Just to make us remember the information

Homework..

Sometimes, we do it in our notebooks

This is my math notebook

In my math class, we NEED to have a notebook bc there is lots of things to.. write

But math here is real easy

Some subjects, you get homework package

There are fill-in-the-blanks stuffs

It's not hard too but

It's english so I need to translate it first

And sometimes, you do homeworks through this

So

There is a school website where you can

check your grades, homeworks, and school events

I think other schools have it too

Tada!

Let's talk about interesting subjects I have

First, English. In thailand we study grammar but here,

People already know grammar so

So people study..

Novels

Literature

It's kinda fun

But it's in english

And some are boring

and just reading is not enough! You need to analyse

This is my annotating notes

analyse everything

characters.. um

point of views

a bunch of stuffs

For people who are coming to America, I suggest reading english novels before you come

because you will have to study something like this

And not just one, a lot

Another one is P.E.

They don't have a certain sport you need to play

This grade needs to play

basketball.. you know

You can choose whatever

But you need to do something

like walk the track

This is the easiest

and my personal favourite

Because I'm not that athletic

There are

games, football

fitnessroom

There are a lot of exercising stuffs in that room

A freedom of choice! I love it!

Last but not least,

Chorus

It's an activity period

People are divided by their voice types

soprano, alto, base blablabla

And we practice songs

We had practiced about 4 songs by now

It's really

Fun

Most songs are about christianity

And my favourite subject,

Lunch!

There is

a place where you can buy food

There are trays and foods

and then you pay

And according to my research,

according to my friends

It's not that good

So, you can choose to pack your lunch

normally, I pack sandwich, some fruits..

And people usually sits

with someone they know

that has the same lunch period

here there is a,b,c,d lunch

no, just a,b,c

Mine is in A lunch

so i sit with someone with A lunch too

Normally, people sit at the same seats with same people

for the whole semester

That's all! If anyone is curious about anything,

let me know in the comments below

Bye! >3<

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Deputy Secretary Sullivan At Reception in Support of United States' Bid to Host 2023 World's Fair - Duration: 10:39.

MS NAUERT: Hi.

Good afternoon.

Welcome, everyone, to the State Department.

And if I may have your attention for just a moment, please.

Isn't this such a beautiful center?

It is incredible.

Often, I walk through this center on my way in to work and it's pretty sparsely populated,

so it's wonderful to see so many people in here this afternoon.

Thank you so much for joining us today.

I want to extend a special welcome to our many distinguished guests, including the Diplomatic

Corps and those from the great state of Minnesota.

Where are all the Minnesotans here?

(Applause.)

Raise your hand if you're from Minnesota.

You're from Minnesota, you're from Minnesota, you're from – my husband's from Minnesota.

(Laughter.)

We have a lot of great folks there.

Do you all know how nice Minnesotans are?

You've heard it?

You've heard "Minnesota nice?"

Let me tell you how nice these folks are.

I would go running sometimes in Minnesota with my husband in the middle of winter – January,

February – and we'd be on along for a run, and it's maybe 15 degrees outside,

Fahrenheit, and people would smile and they would say hello at you.

In the middle of winter while you're running.

So we hope that you will consider Minnesota.

We are big fans of it certainly here at the State Department.

I would like to acknowledge the U.S. Diplomacy Center for allowing us to use this space today.

It is a beautiful pavilion.

It was completed last January and funded with private donations as part of a private-public

partnership.

It will be home to the first museum and educational center telling the story of U.S. diplomacy

and also American's diplomats.

We're here today to highlight the strong national support enjoyed by Minnesota-USA

bid to host Expo 2023 and to inspire member-states of the Bureau of International Expositions

to vote for the U.S. bid on November the 15th.

Please, mark your calendars.

We would love your vote.

(Applause.)

Thank you.

The Minnesota-USA project is private-public partnership that started more than two years

ago and is a part of our global campaign to bring a World's Fair back to the United

States.

We would love to see that.

I would like to thank the Office of the Under Secretary for Public Affairs and Public Diplomacy

for coordinating the State Department's efforts and putting today's event together.

I know they have been hard at work at this.

An initiative of this magnitude requires a true champion to advocate on its behalf.

Our Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan is here, and he has embraced this task and

is working tirelessly to mobilize not only the department but the entire U.S.

Government in support of the Minnesota-USA bid.

Deputy Secretary Sullivan is a native of Boston with decades of experience in both private

legal practice and public service, including positions at the Defense Department and also

Commerce Department.

His ties to diplomacy and the State Department started long before he was sworn in as deputy

secretary.

His uncle served as a Foreign Service officer for more than 30 years, and we all know how

important our Foreign Service officers are to the work that we do here every day.

As Deputy Secretary of State, he serves as principal advisor to Secretary Tillerson,

providing guidance and firsthand assistance to the Secretary in the formulation of conduct

of U.S. foreign policy.

We're honored that he is with us here today and that he is such a strong advocate for

Minnesota-USA's bid to host Expo 2023.

Please join me in welcoming Deputy Secretary of State John J. Sullivan, and he is a terrific

guy if you've not had a chance to meet him.

(Applause.)

Sir.

Thank you.

DEPUTY SECRETARY SULLIVAN: Thank you, Heather, for that kind introduction.

I have one qualification to Heather's remarks: I am from Boston and grew up as a hockey player,

a hockey coach, a hockey fan, so I've spent a lot of time both in my youth and then when

I was coaching my children's youth hockey teams in Minnesota – Brainerd, Red Wing,

Winona, Rochester – I've been all over the state, been in many of your hockey rinks,

tournaments, summer hockey camps, and Minnesotans, as Heather said, are just the most wonderful,

sweetest persons, except when they hop over the boards to take a shift in a hockey game

and then they're pretty nasty.

(Laughter.)

So I can speak from personal experience on that.

But I'm delighted to see so many people here to support this bid and all of those

who have played an instrumental role in the United States bid for Expo 2023.

I want to recognize the foreign diplomatic corps are present this afternoon, as many

of the foreign ambassadors who are here.

Thanks to all of you for being here and for standing behind this important cause.

Four months ago, I met with many of you at the department as one of my first public appearances

as Deputy Secretary of State, at which time I spoke about the United States initial efforts

to bring the World's Fair back here to our country.

I'm thrilled to report that since that time, the U.S. proposal has advanced to the final

round.

Our teams have been very busy highlighting why the United States, and more particularly

Minnesota, is the ideal location with the perfect theme for that state – health and

wellness – to host the World's Fair or Expo in 2023.

As Heather mentioned, the expo is a public-private partnership, one that's driven by grassroots

efforts of the Minnesota World's Fair Bid Committee under the dedicated leadership of

the committee president and chief executive officer, Mark Ritchie.

Thank you, Mark, for all your work.

Many of you know Mark, who is the former Minnesota secretary of state, and in a moment he'll

provide us with the latest update on the bid, including details on the recent announcement

of the proposed expo site in Minnesota.

Before Mark comes up here, I'd like to highlight the impressive work done thus far to effectively

mobilize international support for this important commercial and diplomatic initiative.

I want to thank our terrific Under Secretary for Political Affairs Tom Shannon, who himself

is a Minnesota native, and his colleagues from the regional bureaus present here today

for their diplomatic engagement in support of the expo.

Many have moved mountains to get us here to this point.

In May, Congress passed legislation by unanimous consent authorizing the United States to rejoin

the Bureau of International Expositions, or BIE, which is the Paris-based organization

that governs participation in the World's Fair.

Secretary Tillerson then signed the treaty accession documents that were deposited in

Paris.

Thank you to the Minnesota congressional delegation, as well as the leaders of the House Foreign

Affairs and Senate Foreign Relations Committee, for getting this legislation passed.

You'll hear later in the program from two members of the Minnesota delegation that are

with us today: U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar and U.S. Representative Tom Emmer.

Thanks to all of you for your help in getting us to where we are today.

In June, the Bureau of International Exposition's general assembly voted to advance the U.S.

bid to the final round that will be held in Paris on November 15th.

Earlier this month, the United States once again became a voting member of the Bureau

of International Expositions, and I look forward personally to traveling to Paris next month

to cast the U.S. vote in support of this expo, the first in more than 15 years.

(Applause.)

My colleagues in the United States and around the world, including my former colleagues

and friends from the Department of Commerce, have spoken to you and representatives in

your capital about the Minnesota-USA bid.

There is strong federal support for this public-private partnership in what would be the first World's

Fair that'd take place in the United States in almost 40 years.

BIE delegates have attended U.S.-hosted expo events in Paris, Brussels, and London, and

many of your consuls general in the United States have attended expo events in Minnesota

and Chicago as well.

I understand that several of you will join Deputy Chief of Protocol Cam Henderson in

the Office of the Chief of Protocol's Experience America trip to Minnesota in the near future.

For those ambassadors or charges who have not yet signed up for the trip, please speak

with protocol today before you leave.

It's not too late to join.

We want you to experience Minnesota as we seek to bring the world there in 2023.

We can all agree that there's something inspiring about a World's Fair, a time when

the world comes together to celebrate, explore, and discover the promises and opportunities

of new technologies and partnerships; in this case, to focus on the increasingly important

areas of health and wellness.

Minnesota, home to some amazing medical technology companies and a region regularly ranked as

one of the healthiest metropolitan regions as a – regions in the country, is an ideal

location for such an expo.

The Smithsonian's American History Museum even included Minnesota's Medical Alley

as one of the featured regions in their current exhibition, Places of Innovation.

I still fondly remember my experience as a child when my parents took me to the New York

World's Fair in Queens in 1964.

For those of you who have not been to the Queens Museum in New York City, there's

a great World's Fair exhibit that captures that time and experience through a fantastic

scale model of the city.

It's really something to see.

If you haven't been to a World's Fair yet – and I stress "yet" – I hope

that we will have the opportunity to come together in Minnesota in 2023 for the Healthy

People, Healthy Planet Expo.

However, in order for that to happen, we need your support, and we need your vote on November

15 in Paris at the BIE general assembly.

So again, I thank you all for coming this afternoon and appreciate your ongoing efforts

to make the 2023 expo in Minnesota a reality.

Thanks very much.

(Applause.)

For more infomation >> Deputy Secretary Sullivan At Reception in Support of United States' Bid to Host 2023 World's Fair - Duration: 10:39.

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Are these the grimmest homes in the world? | news 24h - Duration: 1:35.

Are these the GRIMMEST geek caves in the world? Horrifying photos reveal rooms where people surf the web surrounded by cigarette butts, rotting rubbish and bottles of urine

Shocking pictures have revealed some of the grimmest computer dens in the world, where people surf the webs surrounded by rotting rubbish and clutter.

A collection of images of poverty/s*** stations originally posted to 4chan have recently resurfaced online, showing computer stations strewn with cigarette butts, rooms covered in rubbish and empty beer crates piled ceiling high.

The images make for stomach churning viewing with one showing a bottle of what appears to be urine alongside the computer.

Some have speculated that the rooms are troll caves as all have at least one computer screen, suggesting that the people who use them spend a lot of time online.

However, these rooms are equally likely to belong to people who are struggling with depression or hoarding issues.

For more infomation >> Are these the grimmest homes in the world? | news 24h - Duration: 1:35.

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London Burger King offers free Whoppers to killer clowns | news 24h - Duration: 3:45.

Terror-frying! Burger King offers FREE Whopper to the first 500 customers who turn up to their central London eatery... dressed as a KILLER CLOWN

Burger King is offering free Whoppers to the first 500 customer who turn up to their central London eatery dressed as a killer clown.

The advert, which appeared on Wednesday, invites fans to turn up to the flagship Leicester Square branch in the terrifying costumes on Saturday night.

But it has prompted further fears that the terrifying killer clown craze will return.

Posters advertising the burger featured a clown eerily similar to murderous, blood-thirsty clown Pennywise from Stephen Kings IT.

The horrific clown craze swept across Britain last year, with hoards of parents and children being forced to flee menacing teens in the outfits.

The first person in British legal history was prosecuted for scaring kids last October as cops fought to stamp out the trend.

Officers at Thames Valley Police revealed they were called to 14 killer clown pranks in less than 24 hours in one weekend before Halloween 2016.

A young mother in Derby ran for her life in March after a clown jumped out on her armed with a chainsaw.

At the time, a Derbyshire Police spokesman said: We received a report from a woman who was walking with her young child when a man dressed in a clown outfit jumped out at her, holding what appeared to be a chainsaw.

Were investigating the circumstances of that incident and want to hear from anyone who knows who was responsible for it.

Its not an offence to dress up as a clown but you might be breaking the law if you act in a menacing or threatening manner towards somebody else, particularly if you brandish an item such as a chainsaw.

Last year, there were a number of incidents where people were seen dressed as clowns, and constant media and social media coverage seemed to encourage others to do it too.

Anyone who is thinking of dressing up as a clown to go out and scare people needs to consider how their actions could affect others.

Incidents involving clowns that are causing alarm or distress to members of the public will be taken seriously by the police.

It might seem like a harmless prank, but some people have genuine fears and subjecting someone to a terrifying experience - even if it is funny to you - is simply not acceptable, and we will take action where appropriate.

Burger King have been contacted for a comment.