Monday 14 April 2008

My holidays

I spent two weeks of my holidays in the UK. I was working in my pizza place and doing some university work. I was looking forward to go home. I went home on the 31st of March. It was a long journey. I left home at 22.00 and I caught a train to Wigan at 22.40. I changed my train to the coach and I arrived in Liverpool at 00.00. Later I caught the bus to the airport and I spent the night there. My flight was early morning and I was in Latvia at 11. It is because of two hours difference in tome. At least I took a train to my home city and I arrived at home about 15.00. I spent a super week, I have done many different things and I met many friends and relatives. My girlfriend and I went to the biggest water attraction park in Northern Europe. 40 various attractions are placed on the three floors of Livu Water Park and 7 outdoor. We had amazing time On Saturday when my friend and I were flying a paraglider. I went up to 342 meters from there you can see the whole town. Even more my friends and I had barbeque outside and a sauna. One of my friends and I went to swim in a river after the sauna. I have really enjoyed my time at home.

Mobile phone

Why students can’t use mobile phones in lectures and tutorials?

People are using mobile phones everyday and everywhere. It is very convenience way to contact people. However, it is not everywhere always allowed. There are rules where you can not use a mobile phone for a number of reasons, for example it is obvious that it is not allowed to use them in the university during lectures and tutorials. Because:

1. It is easily distracts other students attention. Moreover, it makes impossible to concentrate on the subject when there are some external noises.

2. It disturbs the lecturer and he/she can not to follow the topic.

3. Even more it shows unrespectable behavior according to the lecturer.

4. Doing the notice to the person who is using mobile phone the teacher looses time of the lecture or tutorial.

5. There are a lot of individual work in lectures and tutorials and using mobile phone makes illusion of cheating.

6. It is impossible for the student to listen to a lecture, to take notes while he/she is speaking phone.

7. Students have paid money for their studies and doing other things in lectures or tutorials they are loosing their money.

8. Speaking the mobile phone is the first step to fail the module, because you are not interested in the subject as well as you are not getting knew knowledge.

9. If there are speakers turned on when the phone is ringing there are magnetic waves what create awful sound and everyone can hear it.

10. You can not enjoy your conversation and speak free in lectures or tutorials. So it is much easier and better to do it outside the lecture or tutorial classes.

There are ten main reasons why students are not allowed to use mobile phones in lectures and tutorials.