Monday, January 2, 2017
Journal Question #9
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Winter can be a hard season. There's snow, ice, freezing temperatures, dark days, a tendency toward isolation and introspection. But winter can also be wonderful if looked at and experienced with a positive attitude. Here's the question: how do you survive the winter? What are some tips you can share to make the best of the cold season?
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- TGriffin
- I have been a language teacher (ESL/ELL, French) for 30 years. I have taught in public and private schools, immersion programs, refugee programs, adult/continuing education, elementary, middle, and high school as well as university. Currently I teach ELL at a high school somewhere in New England.
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ReplyDeleteGet some warm clothes, and more exercise to make your body strong. Of course there are heating in the room, eat a lot to get warm from the food. Have one hot chocolate or coffee in your hand, it may help your hand get warm. Get gloves and the clothes that are waterproof, you can go out play with snow. "Do you want to build a snow man""
ReplyDeleteI think the best way to survive in winter is have a hot coco and when in the daytime go outside to play.We need to get out off our phone.Winter is not a reason to play phone it is a anther way to find art.
ReplyDeleteWe can go outside and made a snowman.
I always think winter is awesome. Even though it's cold but there are so many fun things can do. You can go outside to build a snowman; lay on the ground to make a snow angel; have a snowball fight with your friends; skiing. If you don't want to go out side, that's fine too, it's snowing outside, but you can lay down on the couch or bad, get a cup of hot coco, read a book or watch tv show. Think about it, isn't awesome? By the way, if you think is cold outside, just put more clothes on you.
ReplyDeleteActually I don't really like winter, because I don't really like to wear a lot clothes on me, it's kind of heaven, but I do like winter in Saco. In my hometown, winter there have not much snow, also the air is very dry and not good too, I really don't like it. It's not like here, we have so much fun things to do in the winter time. We can go to skiing, snow fight with friends or build a snow man just for fun, or just lay on the soft snow, that is very fun things to do. If you don't want go out is doesn't matter, you can staying at home watching the snow fall from the sky or the snow makes everything become white and quiet.
ReplyDeleteI don't want to go out at winter, especially in Maine. The winter is terrible here, and the temperature is much lower than my hometown. And it's very uncomfortable to put a lot of clothes on. So when winter comes, I will just stay at home, get some warm clothes, turn the heater on , make a hot coffee for my self and sit on the comfortable sofa. At this time, when you look at the snow outside of the window, you will feel you are in the paradise now. I think that's the best way to live in the winter.
ReplyDeleteI really love the winter that is my favorite season. When the winter is comming, I will tea for some warm coat, hat boots, scarf and gloves turn the heater on and after I have not even mind the cold. The sight forget about the weather is cold and frozen. The sky is the best winter sport and the ice skate. So I think that's the best season is the winter.
ReplyDeleteIt the Coldest time for whole year, so I bought a lot of warm clothes and shoes to spend it. During this time, I don't like go outside to play sports. When I want to sport, I will go to gym with my friends. At least we can run in gym. So, it is the only thing about sports in winter. Before the weather is warm again, I prefer to stay in my room and watch movies. It's so cold outside, that I don't even want to leave my bed.
ReplyDeleteIt's true that winter can be a hard season. With the snow, ice, freezing temperatures, hard days... And more things that aren't awesome. But it can be fun sometimes. For example during winter you can go ice skating, skying, playing with the snow... It's not thatbad but it doesn't let you do a lot of things. And it's also annoying to wear the coat the gloves and every single thing that you need to not be cold.
ReplyDeleteI mean it's cool to have snow and those activities during 3 weeks or for a month but for me that's enough. I wouldn't be able to live in a cold place for ages. I couldn't make it.
The places where it's cold every single day they have few things to do.
I like to live in a place that has all the seasons and it's not that cold.
Today I want to talk about the winter in my hometown. my hometown Yantai is a city near the sea. So its winter is colder than inland city. Of course, it is not s cold as Maine. There is a few times snow every winter. As usual, my friends and I climb mountain every weekend if it doesn't snow. If it snows, we usually stay at home or go to the mall with friends. We never had snow day for school even though I would like to have. Winter s a hard but beautiful season. Everyone should enjoy it.
ReplyDeleteWinter is the coldest season without question. And I have to say that winter give us so many trouble especially in Maine. The December in Maine dooms everyone, the traffic is getting harder because of the ice and snow. People can't run outside because the ice is covering almost every single corner. About 2 years ago the snow was too heavy which made the tree fell down and broke the wires. During that time a lot of houses ran out of electricity and water. And the worst part is the temperature. Maine reaches the temperature of negative 2 degree Fahrenheit. It sounds like staying home during the winter is the best decision, but people can also have so much fun through out winter. People can go skiing or ice skating or even build a snowman. A lot of people wish to do that but where they live don't have snow. The best way to enjoy the winter is to do the things that you want to do but you can't do in other seasons so you won't have any regret for winter.
ReplyDeleteWinter is the coldest season without a doubt. However, I prefer cold and I love snow. Though the snow bring us many trouble, snow also make us happy. Sometime the snow can be a trouble for driving, but think about it in another way. We have a school offal that day. Also, winter brings us spring. The winter is already come, so the spring is not far from us.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I dont like winter. It causes us so much troubles and we cant do anything beside staying at home. So to survive the winter, what you need to do is wear warm clothes. If you are able, put boots on. Especially you dont want your face to be cold so wear scarf and hat to keep your head warm.
ReplyDeleteI think winter is a wonderful season even it is cold. Snow is so beautiful and you can do lots of fun things like having a fight with snowballs. But when you go outside you may wear ton of clothes that makes you move harder than you were a T-shirt. If the snow is heavy we may have snow day on that day and you can continue sleeping. Winter is a nice season. Everyone should like it and enjoy it.
ReplyDeleteI love winter and everything about it. It's a season were I can sleep well, I can play with snow, I can eat nice and warm food and more stuff. It might be hard to survive but that doesn't matter. The only thing that you need to do is to keep your self warm, with some nice warm close and a nice temperature at your home.
ReplyDeleteWinter is the coldest season of the year so we need to wear heavy clothes what is I don't like to do. In this season we will have snow which is really interesting. My hometown doesn't have a lot of snow so that I don't like winter. But here is different, we have a lot of snow here that I can try to learn ski. We can even make a snow man. But I prefer warm weather so I like summer. In summer, we can do more things than in winter. There are more sports available and you can enjoy ice creams. You can just lay down on the beach and take a sunbath. Just enjoy your everyday because one year has four seasons and you can not change it. If winter comes, stay with the enthusiasm of summer.
ReplyDeleteIn winter, I always wearing Canada Goose, sweat pants and UGG. In winter I prefer drink hot water or water without ice. And when you go out make sure bring gloves with you. Do not stay outside for a long time.
ReplyDeleteWinter is such a hard season for me. As I'm Spanish, I've got used to the Spanish winter, which is not that cold as Maine. The temperature in Madrid is never lower than 0 degrees and it never snows. In my opinion winter in Maine sucks. When I go outside my hands are always freezing and my whole body is shaking even though I'm wearing a warm coat. Sometimes winter gets me into a bad mood. But I think that ski and ice skating trips can help you to survive it easily. Also the snow days are never going to make you feel depressed because you can have so much fun making snow mans or just playing with the snow.
ReplyDeleteI like the winter, Although the snow will bring us some inconvenience, but when the snow, we can do the snowman and the air will get better in winter, I will wearing Canada Goose and boots to keep warm.
ReplyDeleteI think the best way is stay in the room. In the winter, it is very cold. If you go out you need to wear warm clothes. when you go out, you can't use your phone, and you should have a hat. This is a very good suggestion for you. Don't use you phone outside. You just need to use like 30 second. then you can't feel you hand.
ReplyDeleteWinter is a hard season for me.There will be ice in front of my homestay's house,so it's hard to go out and come back.And a big snow destroyed our snowman.winter also makes me cold,and I need to wear heavy jacket to school.I don't really like winter.
ReplyDeleteand it makes me sleepy and hard to getup in the morning.My phone die fast when it's cold.However,winter is cold.
ReplyDeleteWinter is a wonderful season,but it is really cold , I need to wear a lot of clothes to keep me warm.I think the tips I can provide just wear more than fall,and if you want to go make a snowman you'd better wear gloves ,just in case your hand have frosbidden.
ReplyDeleteOf course, Saco is not the best place to survive the winter. Is so cold here. Even if you wear three jackets on, you still cold. So I think I can't tell how to survive the winter because I have never had the experience of a freezing winter. The most I can tell is to stay in the dorm or in your house, and if you have to go a outside just use a worm clothing. Honestly I don't like winter, but I hope I will get use to it.
ReplyDeleteWinter can be a such a hard season for the people who is not used to it. But for the people who likes the winter Maine is a really good place to go. The winter season can be a fun season because you can go to ski, snowboard etc... Could be hard or easy season depending if you like the winter or not.
ReplyDeletePersonally speaking, I don't like winter. Because it's freezing outside. So the only way for me to survive in Winter is to stay inside of room. Don't go outside to make snowman or play the snow, it's freezing, can harm your hand and skin. Hope winter can pass soon.
ReplyDeleteI like winter before,but now I'm not,I'm lived in south in Chengdu,there's no snow in the winter,so when I came to Maine I'm not really adapt the weather in winter.It's very cold and the wind is biting.I can feel the cold breath even if I dress very warm.I think stay in home it's more comfortable,there's a heat can make me feel warm.Don't go out,if you must to go out,please dress very warm,wear you hat and gloves,come back as quickly as you can.When you arrive home you can drink some hot water to let your body feel good.I wish I can not get ill in this winter!
ReplyDeleteI like winter, it changes the color of the world, someone says that winter is freezing him, but I'm still wearing T-shirt. Snow is the best thing in winter! When I was a child, I loved throwing snow ball so much, now I like watching snow falling down to the ground and brings us snow days. For those who are very healthy, I suggest you to do some sports in winter, it helps you to become stronger. For those who are fear of cold, I suggest you to stay inside and have some hot chocolate or hot pot.
ReplyDeleteI like winter very much because there will be snow day in winter. I like snow because I'm shanghai there is barely no snow. During winter we need to keep us worm especially in place like Maine, it's too cold for us. We need to prepare a lot sweaters and parkas to defend our selves. Stay in room is a good choice to keep our from cold. Snow will melt in to water so we need boots to keep cold water away from feet. With this we can pass winter quickly
ReplyDeleteI like winter but I don't like winter in Saco. Is too cold out side, people always were lots of clothes. At the winter I will get more warm clothes and sleep long time ��. Also I will stop to do exercise out of dorm.And spend more time on study and play video games.
ReplyDeleteIn winter, it's a terrible season, because it can cause snow blindness, in a world in which all of them are white, appear drab.
ReplyDeleteAlthough we can hold to a positive attitude in the face of it, but I don't like it, it can let a person become lazy, not activities.
Although we can make a snowman, snowball fights, but I have seen some kids, snowball fights the tragedy of the accident.
So I just want to stay in the room reading a book.
I think winter is the time to relax.we can play snow,make snow man,ski, enjoy the snow. In the winter, night is longer you can sleep a long time at weekend. But when you go out you must wear thick clothes.
ReplyDeleteI like winter because it will snow in winter. In the winter can have a lot of activities can do, like skiing, skating and snowman, you can also play a snowball battle, but these are secondary. In China, the winter is more meaningful, because the Spring Festival in the winter, on the Spring Festival that day will have a family dinner, everyone in this day put on new clothes, put down the work, home and family reunion, chat together, eat together . This is why I like the winter, it can not only expand more activities, but also allows people to reunite.
DeleteI don't really like winter. It's so easy to get tired in the cold weather. Snow is a beautiful thing in winter time. I don't mind snow but I am not sure I like it. There have lots of people will build a snowman outside when it snow. This might make fun in winter time. But it's too early to be dark in a day.
ReplyDeleteYou survive the winter by having warm clothes, eating hot food, having a chimney.... I prefer summer, winter is cold, and you can't do much, days are shorter, and is dangerous because the roads are slippery. But there are some sports that I love, like snow boarding, skiing so that things I recommend to do in winter to have fun.
ReplyDeleteWinter is exactly the coldest season. Actually, I don’t even like winter. I like autumn. Not very cold and not very hot, this just gives a feel that is fresh and cool. But in Maine, winter is the longest season. It almost dominates forty percent of a year. Certainly, I need to prepare somethings that make me keeping warm. Such as warm clothes and boots for snow. Although I don’t like winter, in the winter, there also has lots fun. For example, we can make a snowman outside of dorm. Or sometimes, winter, the snow day, gives us the best reason that to lie under our quilt, and even you can sleep whole day! Anyway, I think if you want to enjoy the winter, the best way is to enjoy the snow, play with the snow, and feel the snow. Finally be sure to stay warm! Maine is too cold.
ReplyDeleteWinter is the time of the year when everyone's favorite conversation is " Ahhh, finally! Winter" and " Oh, no! Winter!" Winter is the coldest season in the year. I don't like winter, because I don't like the cold weather, especially in Maine. I grew up in southern China, 20 degrees is my winter, and I often get sick in the winter. The sky dark very early, it make me feel so tired. In winter, waking up aid a 100 times harder than waking up in the summer. Getting out of the warm air pockets of the bed is anguished. My glasses constantly get fogged up. Also, we have to put on a lot of clothes, I don't like it because it will looks very unwieldy.
ReplyDeleteI don't like winter but I like the snow in winter. I enjoy snow mostly because it's pretty. It never snow in my hometown, to see the snow was my dream when I was a child, and this is the reason why I came to Maine to study. And also snow is fun because we can throw the snow ball at people while still remaining socially acceptable, but we are likely to get into trouble if we throw water or a chunk of ice at someone. Snow is awesome because we might be have snow day. Hahaha... Just kidding
I really don't like winter. Because winter is so cold, and you need wear al out of clothes to survive and if you not wearing a lot of clothes you will get sick which is so bad. My tip is wear warm and don't stay outside too long. Turn on the heat make some hot water chose a interesting TV show and lay on the couch that's what I do during the winter.
ReplyDeleteto survive the winter you do not go outside, you stay inside with a hot cup of chocolate or coffee and chill in your warm room. Thats the best way to enjoy winter. But to make it better you go out with a warm jacket, pants and boots and just simply enjoy the snow. Get creative with the the things you do. For example, snow fight but with a snow wall to duck snow balls. Simply get active and warm to enjoy your day.
ReplyDeleteI love winter. I love snow. I started skiing as a small kid. Since that time I love snow and Christmas without snow is not Christmas. But if outside is -24 degrees I don't really want go outside and enjoy winter. There is lot of things we can do outside. We can go skiing, snowboarding, or just have outside. I like summer either but winter with snow is sometimes better.
ReplyDeleteI hate winter because winter is cold. When I was a kid, I liked winter because of snow falling. Seoul is cold like Moscow. It is because of the cold wind coming down in Siberia. It's colder than Saco. I've seen so much snow, winter is just cold. To get a cold winter, we need to prepare a lot of warm clothes. In winter strong wind hit my cheek. Winter is bad.
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Mr.Griffin
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Jen 13, 2017
Winter is a cold, tough season, the temperature is very low in outside and makes us feel so uncomfortable, and also the sunshine become shorter and shorter. But, on the other hand, winter is a good season, we can ski, we can build a snowman. Here is some tips to have fun in winter. First, make sure we have warm clothes, glaves, and hats. Second, go out and ski with friend, that is a kind cool thing to do in winter. Third, see the beautiful view of snow in winter, it make us comfortable.
Thanks, everybody, for your comments on winter. Most of you have negative feelings about the season, but several of you like this time of year, as do I. My tip: go outside and enjoy the snow - if it snows; this will keep you happy and healthy during the cold season.
ReplyDeleteI like snow, because in my home city rarely snow and another reason is snow day that we don't need go to school. But I don't like the freezing temperature, it's super chilly. When I get out of dorm, I almost freeze. Because the temperature, I hardly go outside.
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Mr. Griffin
Jan 10, 2017
In winter, the wether must be cold. So, warm clothes is the first choice to survive in Winter. For me, I don't hate winter, but don't like it either. I like eating high energy food when I get home. Sometimes, friends and I will go for a hotpot. I also like throwing snow ball, it's pretty fun. The best tip is to stay at home and turn the heat up. So, you won't feel like winter at all.
In the winter, I think warm clothes is the most important thing to keep warm, and play some sports do some exercise to make you body warmer.
ReplyDeleteIn winter,I think I need to take my warm clothes,if today is snowday. I can read some books to improve my English level and do my homework.but I don't want to go outside.because outside is very cold. I think if I go outside,I will die in the snow.
ReplyDeleteDon't waste your time in sleeping. To maintain a good living habits, of course, can not put down, so every day is necessary to learn. Keep in touch with your classmates and friends, share your holidays and see what you think. Do not waste time, you can do some social work, such as secretarial, internships, and so on. Learn a skill, a large summer time can be used to learn what they like, such as guitar, piano, origami, handicrafts, etc.. At least read a book, which is a hard condition, must be done in order to enrich their knowledge!
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