GOOD EVENING!!!

My dear friends,you know we will have the new year at this night. I hope that everybody don't live bad things during it. Have a nice year:))

2008

Hello everybody!
I am waiting the new year impatiently! I am so excited about that, because all December,31 nights are exciting me. This date is the most important date in a year for me. The other important day is my birthday=) I feel very very happy these days. And now I am looking my backward about 2007. It was the nice year for me and for my family. Luckily, we didn't live bad events. Thanks God!! This year my mother and I will celebrate the new year in our home. I get ready! I bought chips, appetizers, drinks, pastries and also çiğköfte=) My plan is wathing TV, because all TV channels have nice shows. Although I prefer TRT this year, because TARKAN(my favorite megastar) will give a concert in/at (I don't know the preposition what it is) TRT.
I send all best wishes to you=) Merry Christmas and have a nice year everybody=)

First Bayram Without Family

Hello my dear friends. Did I celebrate your bayram? No, I know . Because this bayram was not bayram for me and my mum . The first day of bayram I went to mosque and I glad to Allah . After I callad my family. I was happy because it was bayram . Then my sister opened the phone . I said ''Good Bayrams!'' and my mother took phone and started to cry I was too upset because I have never wanted my mum is un happy. Now I am waiting for holiday and I missed my family a lot. If yıou have a chance do not affect your family and give them a rose to show your love.

portfolio

I am very nervous because of portfolio.I prepared everything for this but I can forget everything immediately..good luck for me..:(

My Heart is Aching

Now my hearth is aching

So like a child , my crying

Like a child

Who lost his toys

I lost my darling.

Now my hearth is aching

It is full of the pain

Because of my darling.

Since she has gone

The tears don't allow me alone...

My Last Holiday

My last holiday was very good for me. I went my town.I saw a lot of my old friends. I saw my familly. Especially my sister, Her name is Ayşen Bilge. She is ten years old. I love her so much. She is very friendly. And my mother cooked what kind of food I like. I visited a lot of old people in Bayram. I kissed their hands. I will never forget this holiday.

Scuderia Ferrari

Ferrari is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello and Modena, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1929 as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street legal vehicles in 1947 as Ferrari. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One, where it has largely enjoyed great success, especially during the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, late 1990s, and 2000s.

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mutlu sağlıklı nice bayramlara:)hepinizin bayramını kutlarım:)

HELLO EVERYBODY!

I am very happy because now, I am in Kestel. I want to share with you that: I met a girl who is from İnegöl. Her name is Mehtap. She sat the next of me and during the trip, we talked each other very much. She majors in mathematics in Yıldız Teknik University. I think she is a great and beautiful girl. I liked her and she liked me,too. She told me her experiences of the university. After that we talked about our families and my relatives who live in İnegöl. At that moment I realized that she has already known them. When I heard these things, I was pleased. Finally I think it was a interesting trip for me and really I didn't understand how the time passed.

HAVE A NICE HOLIDAY!..

B@H@R

I was very upset these days. Because I was absent for a few days in my class, and I miss my classmates and teachers:( See u on Monday or Tuesday...

::)

:)

I have wanted to be a maths teacher since I was 12. Of course,when we were a child everybody-mother,father,uncle,sometimes old people who I don't know- ask the same question.Question is "What do you want to be in the future?"I answered with identical sentence many times.I repeated,I memorized.When I started to grow up really.I thought that I want to be a teacher really or It is just a habit.I thought very long time.I made up my mind being a teacher the best beneficial way to grow up right people.I have wanted to be a teacher since I decided,but I know I need improve myself. I had many models of teacher. I need their help and their experience...

I think these photos are very funny.Mouse is vey clever :D I lıked it a lot.Also I like caricature very much while I am loking at caricature,I am enjoyed . I chose two of them for you.I want to share them with you I think you will lıke them ,too :D

The bayram

I am very happpy today, because I am going to go to my hometown. I missed my family. Especially I missed my sister. She is 10 years old. She is very cheerful. When I call my family, she always answers the phone first. When the bayram started, Iwill kiss everybody's hands. And I will save money.The bayrams are very special days for the turkish.

my dear hande..
you are from Alanya. Of course you love there. And you are very happy now because you will go there this afternoon. This is very nice. But please don't say maybe I won't come back. You should come back Hande Because you are not lonely. I am here. I will be beside you. Don't forget I love you. Hayırlı yolculuklar cnm bayramdan sonra görüşmek dileklerimle...
ayşe nur

My dear Alanya..

Today evening I'm going to go to Alanya so I am very excited and happy.I miss my family,I want to go there immediately.Also I bought some presents for my parents I hope they will be happy.I don't want to come back from Alanya.Maybe I won't come back İstanbul because I am very alone in there.I can't stand that.I hope everything will be good....

Are You Hungry?

DİSTRACT MEAN:Stop someone concentrating on something.
This word is really important for us.We should learn it.I wait your commend

MY NİCE MEMORY!
I want to share my nice memory with you. Four years ago, I went to Kapodokya. To travel can be enjoyable and exciting to places which we always see from postcard. Especially if you go with your the best friend. Dilara was my best friend. We went together.
Before the trip, we were excited, but not only because of happiness. Right we were happy however we were afraid. We had many nightmares about accident, about bad things. Yes it is very comic now but four years ago it was real, and we were afraid.
Our bus left to school garden at 11.00 pm. and we arrived to Kapodakya at morning. Kapodokya was really interesting place. There are many fairy chimneys, many underground cities. They were fantastic, very much. And of course Ihlara Valley. It has perfect view. When I saw it, I was amazed.
All of them were wonderful, but more wonderful thing was to be beside best friend. To share something, to feel the same things…
We have unforgettable two days, but now we don’t call to each other. We have some problems. I have new friends, she does too, but I miss her.
If you have a good friend, you should struggle in order not to lose her/him.
Ayşe Nur :(

http://www.fashion.net ---> this link about fashions and chic things. I have already found and I liked. I find, it is useful for my friend who like fashionable and lux things. Especially for girls:)

RIHANNA

Early Life:
Rihanna(Robin Rihanna Fenty) was born in Barbados, on Feb 20, 1988. She made a musical trio with two of her classmates. She won the Miss Cambermere Beauty Pageant and performed i nthe Colours of Cambermere School Show, singing Mariah carey's HERO. At the age of 15, Rihanna received her big break when one of her friends introduced her to music producer Evan Rogers, who was vacationing in Barbados. One copy of Rihanna's work was sent to Jay-Z.

Music Career:
Rihanna's debut album,Music of the Sun, was released August 30, 2005 from which, further singles were released, the first being "Pon de Replay" reached position 2 no. in both the US Billboard Hot 100, the UK Singles Chart. Since its release, the album reached the top 10 in both US and Canadian charts. The further promote the album, Rihanna toured as on opening act for Gwen Stefani.

To Be CONTINUED...

our sweet school:)

Yesterday

I was so happy yesterday,because I realized something such as love.Love is the most important thing in the world.I have forgotten it lately.In our life,we often fail to remember absolutely delight things.Anger and hatred sometimes coat in our mind.Remove the bad things.I realized that everything can be nice.I wish everybody can notice good things and be happy.:):)GOOD LUCK

MY LAST WEEKEND

Me and my roommates decided to go Cevahir and we asked to someone ‘where is the cevahir’. When we learnt where is it, we went to Mecidiyeköy and we found Cevahir. Cevahir is a huge mall .We visited all stores and we bought some clothes for us. While we were traveling around the mall, we were hungry and we went to eat hamburger. We bought hamburger but we couldn’t find chairs to sit so we went near an alone woman and we asked ‘can we sit’ she nodded and we sit near her. After that while we were speaking ,she has never looked at us so we suppose her foreign person and I asked her ‘Do you live in turkey’ She answered ‘EFENDİM’ so I surprised .I couldn’t speak turkish :D because I was shocked and we speak turkish each other. When our eating finished ,we said good bye and we continued our travelling in Cevahir. At the end of the day we were really tired and we came back to dormitory. I spend my last weekend very enjoyable.

POOR GÜLOŞ

Hello! This week I want to share a horrible experience of me with you. When I was only four, I went to my grand father's store. He was selling toys. So I spent a lot of time there. After that I wanted to go home. A dog appeared in front of me as soon as I went out. It was awful, very huge and black. It had black eyes and it showed me its teeth. When I saw all this features, I faited. My grand father and his friends came immediately. They got rid of the dog and picked me up from the ground. Then my grand father brought me a cup of water. At that moment, I was feeling better. Finally my mum came the store and went to home. It is my first terrible experience...

ABOUT ME

I grew up in yalova and like so much because my parents live it. I have got a older brother he is computer engineering and graduted Bilkent universty. He lives in Ankara and working there. I love his but always argue with each other. My family far away from me so ı miss them. A lots of friends live in Yalova ı don't used to live in Istanbul .I feel so lonely.I meet many new friends but experienced about people so don't confident sometimes.

MY LAST WEEKEND

My last weekend was very good. Because I travelled Bursa with my classmates whose names are Buğra, Shahmir, and Emre. Firstly, we went Ulu Cami (huge mosque) with our travel guide. Then we visited Emir Sultan Tomb. we learnt a lot of new informations about Emir Sultan. After that we went to Yeşil Cami (green mosque). Then we visited Uftade Tomb. We was very hungry so we went Yeşil Konak for eat something. We ate iskender. It was very delicious. I arrived my home at half past seven. We stayed in my home with Buğra.

Knowledge is to understand
To understand who you are.
If you know not who you are
What's the use of learning?

The aim in learning is
To understand God's Truth.
Because without knowledge
It is wasted hard labour.

Do not say: I know it all,
I am obedient to my God.
If you know not who God is
That is sheer idle talk.

Twenty-eight syllables
You read from end to end.
You name the first `alpha''
What can it possibly mean?

Yunus Emre says also
Let me receive what I need.
The best possible thing
Is to find perfect peace.

Yunus Emre (?1238-?1320)

Culture Shock Questionnaire

This is an example how you could organize your questionnaire. Get enough print outs or photocopies to include the answers of four people. I recommend you to visit the American and English culture and literature department. Avoid questions with yes/no answers.

Question	Name	Name
1 How did you feel during the first months in Turkey.
2

etc.

Looking forward to talking to you about your work.

1001 Inventions

Prof. Salım Al-Hassani came from Manchester University to give information about the Muslim inventions. First he talked about the between 600AD-1600AD years. He said these years are dark period. Nobody wasn’t trying to improve scientific things.And then he talked about some inventions and he show how these things are worked.

Use of articles: exercises

As our reflection on most common mistakes showed, you have problems with articles. Have a look at the link `Englishpage`. There are some useful exercises about articles. Do as many exercises as you can!

My Mistakes

I always make mistakes about was/were . I must learn past tense clearly. Because I always use ''was'' with ''we'' . Also I make mistakes about expressions. I will be careful after this time.

mistakes

My general mistakes are wrong words, grammar and spelling. I should read book and be carefull. What else? Listen some lectures and write pragraph.

S is my problem.

S is my common mistakes.For example: She hate(S).My mistakes reason is quickly writing.After that I careful about this mistake.


See you later..

I generally make mistake with articles,prepositions and possessions.I forget their usage.For example:a,in,at,of,the etc.That's way I make lots of wrong in my sentences.I sometimes make grammar mistake.
I must study them again and do the practice in some example.I must review their usage.

MY MISTAKES

I made mistakes about only articles. such as: It has cinema and bowling center , it located between Ortaköy and Beylerbeyi localities , went to conference room. Correct sentences are ; it has the cineme and the bowling center , it is located...,went to the conference room.

my common mistake

Generally I make grammer mistakes. This is very important problem. Because If I want to learn English very well. I must solve this problem. If I want to solve this problem, I must do more practise and study hard. I believe solve this problem..

My mistakes

I usually make an article mistake and also my mistake is miss verb.I f I don't solve this problem,I don't learn English very well so I must do a practice about articles.

my common mistake

I usually make article mistakes a lot. It makes my English bad.I hope I won't do more mistakes about article...

my common mistake

Article mistakes are my common mistakes in my written assignments. Sometimes I can't be sure which is true. For example: I say that 'I am an student', but it is not true. It can be 'I am a student' This is only simple example. But article mistakes are big problem for us. Because we often use them. I don't want to make them again so I have studied it from Grammer book for a week. Also I read many example sentences.

My Mistakes

While I am speaking,I genarally make mistakes to miss verbs.While I am writing,I try to dont miss verbs so I read my writing two or tree times.Genarally I miss 'be' because it is very short so I can't realize it's missing while I am speaking.I think its big problem because when I miss verbs ,sentences haven't any meaning I must try to remember 'be' .I must be careful while I am speaking and when I wrote something, I must read it lots of time because find mistakes is very hard job for me.

EDITING LOG

These are my general mistakes:
cooker_cook
make a cake yesterday-made a cake yesterday
the classroom more difficult-the classroom is more difficult etc.

I think,I do these mistakes when I am careless. I see that I must be more careful...

MOST COMMON MISTAKE

I always don't pay attention spelling word in my written assignments. I should read a book and study hard not to do make them anymore.

MY HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE DAY

My high school graduate was an unforgettable day. I felt so excited.

Beginning of the day , I came to school. I saw all of my friends. Some students was sad, some students was happy. Our friends from later classes prepared a celebration for us, and they invited our families and some important peoples. For example, our countries headmaster of education was there.

Later, all the quest came and they sat on their seats. In the early evening the ceremony started. First off all we said our national march together, then some of our school’s managers told us and quest from lectern.Then the presenter told my name and he called me to lectern. I wrote a poem for our ceremony and it was my turn. Then I went to lectern and I read my poem to quests. They acclaimed me a lot, and I saw somebody were crying.
Later we took our yearbooks and we thrown our caps to air. While the sun was going to back of the mountains, we watched a firework display.

Finally we left from our school last time, and we went to houses. I know that, I can’t forget this day whole my life.

PROMBLEM AND SOLVE

I often make grammer mistake and I write wrong vocabulary but I solve this promblem because I learn word programme word programme can smooth with vocabulary.The other promblem solve is I should study grammer,I should listen my grammer teacher carefully but fınally I hope improve grammer and English.

PROMBLEM AND SOLVE

Muslims Heritage of 1001 Inventions

First of all, he introduced himself to us. His name is Salim Al-Hassani, and he is a professor at Manchester University in England. He has lived in England for 27 years. His English is so good, he speaks clearly, and his body language is perfect.
Firstly, he said that “ How I came cross this subject?”, and he started to explain. First of all, he met a person whose name is Donald Cardwell (4 Aug.1919/ 8 May 1998). Mr. Cardwell was a historian who created “history of science & industry”.They met, and they became good friends. One day Mr. Cardwell said that 1000 years about history of science & industry is empty in our books. Then, Salim Al-Hassani looked a lot of books about history then he saw an enormous space. The books starts to explain from 5th. century and they suddenly jump to 15th. century. For this reason, he started to research and his story started.Then,suddenly he became an important man.

He found a lot of information about Muslim’s inventions and a lot of scientific studies from 500 to 1500. In this ages Muslims were first class scientists. They invented more than 1000 inventions.
Especially they invented ; gunpowder, paper, fountain pen, compass, camera, numbers ( especially zero), weight driven clock and lots of important and technical inventions.

Later, Mr. Hassani talked about Muslim’s mosques and universities. Muslim’s women lectured and studied about science at mosques and universities. The first university in the world was created by Muslims, and he showed us a lot of pictures about their inventions and science. Then he talked about famous Muslim scientists and inventors, especially about Architect Sinan and Ottoman Empire
Some of the most important peoples ;
Al- Beruni ( he wrote 200 books about astronomy , math, science and faith)
Architect Sinan ( he invented wonderful techniques about architecture)
Al- Khwarezmi ( he found “zero” ) and lots of people.

At the end of the conference, he answered our questions and gave us two website addresses which are created by him.
Here are the addresses ;
www.muslimheritage.com
www.1001invention.com
Finally he smiled to all the people in the hall and he appreciated us about our patient to him.

General Feedback 1

All of your blog posts are important contributions for our class to improve in writing. THANK YOU! Your posts show your instructor that you are interested in the subject and this will certainly affect your participation mark positively.

Reading through your posts I noticed some nasty (bad, unpleasant) mistakes:

1. Capitalization at the beginning of a sentence
2. Use of present and past participle "shopping makes me feel relaxed", "shopping is relaxing"
   
3. Use of articles
   
4. Missing verbs in sentences!
5. Uses of like: "I like to buy a car", "I like eating fish"!

My advise: always read and edit your writings carefully.

about conference

prof. Salım Al-Hassani came from Manchester university. He is a muslim. He told about 1001 inventions Muslim Heritage in our world. this was topic. He gave us some examples. For example: Mimar Sinan. He told about Mimar Sinan.
Mimar Sinan's innovative designs:
1)Earthquake resistance
2)Environmentally friendly
3)Min. consumantion
4)Acoustic Engineering.
Then, he said some sentences. For example:
Muslim opposite illeture,
illeture opposite scholar.
And muslim women. He told muslim women's inventions.

about conference

he talk about the history of science and industry.He showed some grafic about 600ad-1600ad and discover the muslim heritage in our world. History of science and civilisation as SHOULD BE taught.He said ''CIHAT is informatio. It's very important.''
www.1001inventions.com this is his website.finally he talk to SINAN's innovative designs and give some example:
EARTQUAKE RESISTANCE
ENVIROMENTALLY FRIENDLY
MINIMUM CONSUMPTION
ACOUSTIC ENGINEERING...

1001 inventions

Machines:
1-Six cylinder reciprocating pump: six cylinder driven individually with cams. It's powered by a large water-wheel placed in a flowing river.
2-Fountains: The fountain can change water shapes(a lily, spear and shield) at regualr intervals.
A volve that can switch out put flow by use of a warm gear driven by the flow through a water turbine.
3-Sinoli wheel: The sinoli wheel is powered through a system of gears driven b ya water-wheel. It features a fake animal.
4-Two reciprotaing pumps: Two reciprotaing pumps work alternately to drive water through one-wave valves. Pumps are powered by a large water-wheel in a flowing river.

Some words coming grom Arabic:
1-Admiral-from Amir al Bahar
2-Cotton-from Quttun
3-Mattress-from Matrah
4-Magazine-from Makzah

Muslim Contrubiution of Science(examples):
Al-Turi, Banu Mussa, Ibn battuta, Ibn Sahl, Ibn Ridwan, Ibn Sina, Al Ghazali..

Shopping is good activity

I enjoy shopping because it relaxed me . I prefer clothes shopping because I lıke to wear new things and I like buy present for somebody. Everytime I like to go shopping with my friends because I sometimes need to help.I want to ask someone’s opinion. I don’t like online shopping because it isn’t security.

I am shopping in shopping malls or in Internet. I usually prefer online shopping because online products cheaper than the other products and very much kinds are in front of me. And products are coming from my home. I don't tired and it is very comfortable I think. I usually buy shoes. I love shoes very much. Then, I buy clothes, bags, stationery products, novels. I go to shop with my mom or my best friend. Because I trust to their gustos. Certainly, all of girls likes shopping and I'm a girl:)

CRAZY ABOUT SHOPPING

I like shopping so much. Specially electronic or technological things.
If i have money in my pocket and i see a good thing in a showcase, i buy it right now. I agree that, I'm crazy about shopping. I like shop my friends. Because if i hesitate to buy a good thing i request some advice from my friend.
But i don't like my habit about shopping, because i spend lots of money, then i request money from my father. He says " I spent you to enough money, why are you wasteful ? " and i say " OK dad. No problem." At last i try to live penniless.
I think I should give up this habit :((

My Shopping Habits

I like shopping because I relaxed when I do shopping.I prefer clothes shopping.I like buy new clothes but sometimes I go souvenir shops.I've never go alone the shopping.I always go with my friends.Generally I don't prefer online shopping because I like stroll all shopping centers.In my opinion,online shopping too expensive from the others

MY SHOPPİNG HABİTS

Shopping is exciting but little bit hard for me. Because I can't choose something in short time. time flies when I choose something. Genarally I do shopping with my parents. Because I don't have enough money for shopping. I like clothes shopping. And also shoes shopping. I don't prefer online shopping. Because it is not exciting and I can't try.
I prefer big shopping centers in order to do shopping. Also I like grocery shopping. I love surprise

ayşe nur

SPEED OF SHOPPING

I usually like shopping. When I am tired, under the stress or I want to stroll around somewhere, I go to the shopping centre. After the shopping, I'm relaxed. Generally I prefer

clothes shopping but this year I must go for grocery shopping because I live in İstanbul

without my family. I don't like to shop alone because if there is someone, he or she can help

me to choise and give me some suggestions. However, I dislike go shopping with my mum and friends. I am very angry and I want to kill them when they are undecided. Finally, of course everybody likes shopping and me too.

Presentation: impressions on peer assessment

The peer assessment was helpful to detect those students, who were only focused on the instructor during their presentation. In fact, they got low grades on eye contact from their peers. Sometimes grading seemed correlated with the popularity of the presenter. Over all, the students were well prepared and proved that they had learnt a lot from the presentation workshop held in the previous week.

average income for TR in 2006

BAD DAY

It ıs another very coldd day.I am sıttıng ın front of the door.The man was lısten to musıc.I was want to help me.And ı was ask some qestıons about money because I was very hungry.He was gıve 5 dollar for food or drınk.Fınally I went to market I bougth some food after I was very happy,because bad day was finish

beg him

ıt is another very cold day.I am sitting in front of the door.He was handsome boy walking in the street.I don't have any money and really hungry.I begged him but he didn't see me

hard life

It is another very cold day. I'm sitting in front of old building. I'm feeling cold. People are walking in front of me. But anybody isn't looking at me. I'm begging now. Because I am hungry. I want to only a bread. I want only some money. I don't have anything in this world. Anybody doesn't love to me. Because I'm a begger so I always very unhappy. In fact, life is very diffucult for me...

IF I WAS A POOR WOMAN

It is another very cold day.I am sitting on the upstairs.I haven't got any money to buy some bread and I'm very hungry since two days.I hate begging for money but I must do that to continue my life.But nobody gives me some money so I am very upset.If I don't eat something I will be die in my opinion.My stomach is grumbling and my ears are freezing.Although this reasons nobody helps me.I am crying when it rains.

It is another very cold. I am sitting and I am unhappy.I need to home please! I am very hungry. Help me...

MY BAD DAY

It was another very cold day.I sat in the street and I froze because weather was awful.People were walk in front of me.I begged money from the others but nobody didn't give money to me.I haven't got any money and home so I begged but people didn't look at me.Sometimes some persons gave money to me and I ate something but then my money finished again because,people didn't like me.

Homeless

It ıs another cold day.I am sitting in front of the door . ıt was a cold for me .then a man was comeıng .I was hungry , durıng the day İ wan not eat anythıng . the man was listenıng musıc .I pleased to hım to gıve me money to buy eatıng .Then he dıd not give me anythıng .he told me you are lyıng me yuo ar not hungry .Then I began to cryıng that I am really hungry .I am not a bıgger just I am a homeless.after a few mınutes he belıved me. he took me to a retuarnt .Then I ate ,and I thanked hım.

Begging Without Poorness is Bad

It is another very cold day. I am sitting and I am freezing. A man is walking and he likes a rich man . I want to some money to go hotter place. But he is not looking me. Maybe he is listening music loudly or he thinks ''You are richer than me!'' but I am not. I do not want be homeless but I am a homeless . Everyone thinks homelesses are rich they beg every time and they earn lots of money but it is not true . If I have chance I do not want to beg. I am sure. I am angry to some people who begging without poorness.

TODAY,MY GOOD DAY

It was another very cold day.I was sitting in front of the old building.Iwas colding again.Everybady didn't look me and didn't give me any money.I don't want to beg,too but I hadn't got any money.While I was begging,I become so shy.I must do it to live.While I was thinking,came a very rich man and gave me a lot of money.So I was very happy.Then,I go to the for rent a flat.I am looking for this man to say thank you.....

I am homeless..

Its another very cold day. I am sitting on street line.I am sleep near the rubbish.I hate this life.I need jobs, cheap house.Anyone helped to me.The man pass to me but he is looks rich.He dont look me!Oooh shit!

Speaking and Presenting Workshop

We had workshop about speaking and presenting. Students were really into it and had fun. After brainstorming what a presentation is they analyzed bad presentations taken from youtube. Speaker's problems were listed in pairs and solutions found...

Let's get it started

It took me a while to set up the student's journal, because the first attempt on freewebs was a flop. My students have their invitations on their email account now, and I hope that they will enjoy with this blog and make frequent use of it.
Franziska