Islamic Awareness Week


In Islamic Awareness week until Feb 17, Muslim Students Association set up booths and exhibitions in Machall Norh Courtyard. Anyone can drop by, take a look and learn about Muslim. They want to tear down the misconceptions out there about Islam where there has been a lot of controversy. Sometimes what you hear in the media isn't really portrayed properly or sometimes you only get bits and pieces.


From GAUNTLET NEW. FEB. 16

Have you visited famous places in Alberta?
We have lived in calgary but we don't know well about it. And when you can go to somewhere, we usually visit Lake Louise and Banff. Let you know about AB and famous places in AB.

First, Alberta is named after Princess Louise Caroline Alberta (1848–1939), who was the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria. Lake Louise, the village of Caroline, and Mount Alberta were also named in honour of Princess Louise.
-> I didn't know about symbolys of Alberta. Written by bottom of flag FORTIS ET LIBER means strong and free.

Second, This is famous places in canada. We call it "Writing-on-Stone National Park"

Near the Alberta/Montana border and just 44 km east of the small town of Milk River is Writing-on-Stone National Park. Canada recently nominated the park to UNESCO for World Heritage status. The park boasts over 50 stone-carved images created by the Blackfoot Native Americans, which date as far back as 7000 B.C.

Moreover, Do you know where "Lethbridge Japanese Gardens" is?

During World War II Canada gathered thousands of Japanese Canadians near Lethbridge. When the war ended many people decided to stay in the area. To make the huge land feel more like home they built a Japanese Garden near the center of the town and it has been a highlight for many tourists since.

In Alberta, there are many beautiful places. Although we couldn't go to famous places, we just know that places. When we back to our country, we can tell friends, family about AB. Actually, I haven't visited many places in canada yet. Hopefully, before I went to back korea, I want to visit interesting places.

What is the most 'extreme' thing you've ever done? Skydiving? Bungee jumping?
Write 150 words on an extreme thing you did in your life. What was it? When did you do it? How did you feel before? How did you feel after?

 In Korea, there is amusement park that we call it 'Lotte World'. There are many rides. Especially, One of rides is gyrodrop. Its height is 78m that is kind of 28th floor in an apartment. And it takes 3 seconds from top of the ride to bottom of it. I gonna tell you about gyrodrop.

 Seoul is the capital of Korea. Two years ago, my brother, my cousin and me went to seoul to travel. We wanted to go to Lotte world and bought tickets for a day. I like riding a roller coaster. So, I road many kinds of roller coaster. When I didn't want to ride roller coaster anymore, I wanted gyrodrop. While I saw gyrodrop,  it gave me a scare. But I wanted to try riding that and I sat on the chair in the gyrodrop. It was going up while it was turnnig around. And when it was top of the gyrodrop, it was stop turnning. I didn't know when it go down. When i was talking with my cousin, it suddenly went down. I was scared to death. Frankly speaking, I don't want to ride gyrodrop anymore.

 When we want to ride extreme something, not only we can enjoy that but also we have to be becareful anytime.

This is outside of Lotte world that have indoor and outdoor.

It is gyrodrop and can go up to 78m.

 Have you ever eaten Timbits?

 I want to lose my weights. But It is too hard to me. Because whenever I work at timhortons, I usually eat some Timbits. Especially, My favorite is Chocolate glazed. Many people like Timbits. We can eat lithly because it is smaller than regular doughnuts. We think about it that hasn't lots of calories. But they have lots of calories than we think.

 My favorit timbits is chocolate glazed. When I eat it, i can get 70 calories. For woman, they should get 2,000~2,100 calories a day. If I eat ham & cheese sandwich that is around 400 calories each that for 3 meals, I already get 1,200 calories. In addition, If I buy box of 10 chocolate glazed Timbits, I can get more 700 calores. It is horrible. Do you know what most best selling is? That is sour cream glazed. It has 90 calories each. If you get 20 sour cream glazed, u can have 1,800 calories. Unfortunately, we are often sold out of it.

 When we eat timbits, we have to be careful of eating it. While i am working, I don't have to eat too much.

FRAUD!
Write about a scam you know about or saw. Describe the scam. Would you be tricked? Who might be tricked by this scam?

I have experience related with scam. It happend in Canada. I can work unrestricted because I have an  open work permit. While I was looking for a job, I found a job search website. I wanted their help getting a job. While I was looking around their homepage, some pop-ups were showing me information about jobs. It said "If you want to get a job, coupons, or gifts, you can give us ur name and phone number. I felt strange about this, but in Korea, it is not much of a problem. I didn't worry about it. After I told them my information, they texted me immediately. Later on, I kept getting messages from a third party. I didn't worry about it. Usually, I pay around $40 at the begining of each month for my phone. At that time, I got a strange phone bill. They charged me $70. I didn't know why. I kept getting strange messages for two months. The second bill charged me around $60. After I did some research about third partys' on google, I found out that it was phone fraud. I knew how to do stop the messages. After I texted "Stop" to them, they didn't text me anymore.

I wanted to get some infomation on jobs, but I lost money when I gave my information to them.

I would be tricked because Korea and Canada have different fraud cultures. I didn't know that. Also, old people and foreigners, like me, who don't understand might be tricked by this scam.