Tuesday, October 28, 2008

My day !




( MP3 soundtrack )

I wake up every morning at 7 o'clock and read my emails. I usually write a few words back in reply. Some of the emails make me laugh, every now and then one makes me want to cry.

Yesterday James wrote me an email about his boys playing hide and seek at home on Sunday. They had a great time. Their grandmother was also there, and the boys were a bit shy when it came to kiss her goodbye. Tommy wanted to turn aound and run, but James said that after a quick kiss they could have a nice drink of milk.

After the emails, I usually talk to a friend or two on the phone, and try to give them some good ideas for the day. Then I wait for my friend John to pick me up and take me to Vienna. If the weather is dry and sunny, then I may wash some shirts and hang them on the line to dry. While I am in the garden I often see Mrs Jones with her pram. She has twins and it is hard work for her to push the pram, especially when she has to pull her dog along after her as well. If I have time I open the gate and say hello, I always have to remember to close it again, because sometimes there are young children playing in the garden.

When I look out of my window, across the street I can see a huge garden, and in the Autumn I can smell dry leaves and cut grass. Once I was invited in to walk around among the trees, and I could see the flowers much better. The old couple who live there also invited me to drink some tea with them, and also gave me some cake to eat. Lovely!

Monday, October 27, 2008

The new Lötschberg Base Tunnel

The new Lötschberg Base Tunnel – Record performance on a millenium project, Switzerland ( youtube soundtrack below )

Look up Lötschberg in an atlas and it can't be found... because Lötschberg itself does not exist. Lötschberg is the name of the Alpine crossing between the Kandertal valley in the canton of Berne and the Lötschental valley in the canton of Valais. Nowadays Lötschberg is mostly associated with the new Lötschberg Base Tunnel, a railway tunnel from Frutigen to Raron, to which PORR also made a significant contribution. With a length of 34.6 km, it is not only one of the longest tunnels in the Alps, but also in the world. As part of the "European Corridors 24" (Rotterdam-Genoa) and the new transalpine railroads from the NEAT project, it is the second most important Alpine passage in Switzerland after Gotthard.

Sunday, October 26, 2008

verbs

( MP3 soundtrack )

read - write
cry
hide - seek

kiss
turn
talk
give
pick
dry
wash
push - pull
open - close
look
smell
walk
see
drink - eat

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Virtual Teams





Virtual Teams ( MP3 soundtrack )


Developments in communications technologies have seen the emergence of the virtual work team. A virtual team is a group of people who work interdependently and with shared purpose across space, time, and organisation boundaries using technology to communicate and collaborate. Virtual team members can be located across a country or across the world, rarely meet face-to-face, and include members from different cultures[1]. Many virtual teams are cross-functional and emphasise solving customer problems or generating new work processes. The United States Labour Department reported that in 2001, 19 million people worked from home online or from another location, and that by the end of 2002, over 100 million people world-wide would be working outside traditional offices (Pearlson & Sounders, 2001).


Wednesday, October 15, 2008

11 was a racehorse



english practice






enjoy