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Hi people, my name is Eli. I enjoy playing the guitar and singing, writing, cooking, meeting new and complex people and doing other things that make me happy. I also have a long-term goal to live and teach English in China. Before I can do this however, I need some Chinese language skills and so am hoping to gain them here. I also need to improve my understanding of English as I have always taken it for granted and never seriously explored such things as effective structure and grammatical terms and definitions. This is one of the benefits of being at italki. It encourages me to look deeper into the English language. So please understand that I am a student in English as well and always will be. I will check and re-check any corrections I make to English notebook entries and apologise in advance for any mistakes I may make and the potential confusion that could create. I also have some knowledge of Italian as this was the main language I used before beginning pre-school in Australia. I am planning a holiday to Italy with my daughter in October 2015 and would like to improve my Italian speaking skills prior to that. I am able to communicate through skype by either video or voice call. Please feel free to contact me with any questions. Thanks.
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    Maybe it's because you are rude. 

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    Thanks Bruce. You seem to have a habit of bashing me. It really makes me feel ugly and I wish you would mind your own business.

    Dorothy, perhaps I was a bit harsh without good reason. I wonder though, have you ever done the same? Truth is; I'm annoyed at you for some cruel and pointless remarks you have made at italki on other posts written by people I know and admire, and who - curiously enough - don't have a "normal" way of learning as you seem to believe to be definable and what might be the basis for your attack on them. And so I reacted childishly and attempted to sting you with my pathetic jibe. I can admit that. Is there anything you need to admit?

    PS: Bruce, I will find extremely irritating if you jump back on this train. I'm sure Dorothy can deal with it without your annoying diatribe.

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    Dorothy; who says what is "natural"? You? Give me a break, go and explore the world or something. 

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    June 14, 2014
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    I have pasted below a letter I recently sent to a friend of mine who has been suffering from insomnia. Good luck.

    Dear friend,

    I’m sorry to hear you have insomnia – I know this feeling very well.

    The last few weeks – and often in my life – I have also had trouble sleeping.

    A few years ago I discovered a breathing exercise from a doctor friend of mine that helped me find a
    natural way to cure insomnia.

    I would like to share it with you and will try to explain it here. I practise this breathing exercise when I am lying in bed and my mind is so busy that I cannot sleep. It begins by taking a large and deep breath of air <em>into</em> my lungs through my nose. I then breathe <em>out</em> through pursed lips.

    The important thing is to make this breathing controlled. Do not do it too fast. Just do it slowly and feel what is comfortable for you. I usually count in my mind when I start and once I have a rhythm I stop counting and let the breathing exercise become more natural. The other very important part of this exercise is that <em>your breath out should be twice as long as your breath in.</em>

    What I do is <em>count to about five</em> <em>when I breathe in</em> through the nose, and then <em>count to about ten</em> <em>when I breathe out</em> through pursed lips. Within about five minutes I can begin to feel my mind becoming quiet and my whole body relaxing. I did this last night when I was very tired but still finding it difficult to sleep. And within about fifteen minutes I was asleep.                                                                                                                                                            

    I think the reason for breathing out through pursed lips is that it makes it easier to control the flow of air.

    Just remember; do this calmly and slowly until you don’t have to count anymore and until it begins to feel natural. If you do it too fast you could make yourself dizzy instead.

    How this works has a scientific explanation which you can explore if you wish to. I have left a link below, and there are also others that can describe it better or not as good.

    Regardless of science, however, it is just like a very simple yoga exercise that helps people relax and that has been practised by humans for many centuries, and that has been mostly forgotten due to life becoming faster paced.

    I hope this explanation is clear and that the breathing exercise will help you find it easier to sleep.

    <a href="http://barefootfts.com/blog/a-sleep-trick">http://barefootfts.com/blog/a-sleep-trick</a>

     

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    What has happened to me

    I had a lab meeting today at 10 a.m. which I woke up late for. The first thing I did was to look for my phone so I could see what the time it was. I could not find it, however, and was eventually told by my roommate that it was 10:06. I quickly ran to the lab where other members had begun the meeting. My professor is not teaching domestically this semester, so fortunately it was a video meeting. I still do not know, however, if my professor has knowledge that I was late. A senior lab member told me that our professor may not have been aware of it that I was late because none of the other lab members had told him. I am now wondering if I should send him an email to apologisey or not.

    I did not go straight home last night because I was helping the undergraduate student who presented this morning’s lab meeting to prepare for it. She wasn’t sure how to construct the mathematical modelling for her topic so and I helped her to code it using the software MATLAB. I eventually arrived home at 6 a.m. to have a rest, and did actually set an alarm. Unfortunately I was still late. I’m not sure why the alarm didn’t wake me; was it because it did not work or just that I didn’t hear it. Weird.


    This is a correction of my correction. Even I make many mistakes. : ) 

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