Thứ Tư, 23 tháng 3, 2011

Student life in the context of high inflation

Student life in the context of high inflation
About a week ago, Kate, a friend of mine, told me that she might have to drop out of school this year. She said that she couldn’t handle paying school fee this semester. And that is one of many bad consequences happening to my friend as well as lots of students recently resulted from high inflation. The gas price is going up extremely high so that it leads to a rise in the general price such as goods and services. More seriously, money is losing its values. And all of that make students who mostly depend on parents and haven’t worked yet in dire need, lots of students quit school, they lose their renting house or even don’t have enough money to buy food. In my opinion, high inflation is creating some seriously negative effects on student’s life.
First of all, studying of students is affected badly. In the context of high inflation, all the prices are going up very high so that it absolutely leads to a rise in school fee in general especially private schools. For example, in my university as a public school, school fee increase from 75000VND/credit to 100000VND/credit. As a result, lots of students who do not have enough money to pay for school fee have to drop out of school. Moreover, the price of books, materials, studying tools also increases very high. Its costs a lot of money to buy books and all the stuff needed for learning such as notebooks, pens, dictionary… I still remember that in the last semester, my brother gave me 300000VND to purchase all the books and materials I need. But now, that amount of money couldn’t buy half of the books I need. Consequently, many students are studying without books. The lack of books and learning tools is increasing rapidly so that it effects to the result of studying. High inflation is making students learn less effectively and more distracted.
Secondly, high inflation creates bad health for students. Because of all the extremely high price of food, students cannot afford much nitrous food every day. The price of food is mostly double high. I remember reading on news; a student in College of Finance and Customs told that she went to the market with 50000VND to buy food to cook for a dinner of 4 people. Finally she went back home with nothing much, just some egg, fresh bamboo shoots, spinach and cabbage. Meat is something unaffordable for students. Student’s meals are lacking nitrous food, especially lacking of meat products. As a result, this makes student health get deteriorated. It is easier for students to get sick. In addition, due to high inflation, student’s health is affected badly because they have to earn money by taking part time jobs at night which is supposed to be a rest time after a long day studying. It leads to a lack of sleep; students always get tired and stressful.


Last but not least, high inflation also causes bad effect on social life of students. Going out activities for students is limited due to the high price. Everything is increasing price such as the bus tickets, parking cash, movie ticket… so that going out is not so easy if students don’t have money. Consequently, it is not so often for students to go to a movie or go picnic or go shopping at the weekend anymore. Because students don’t go out, they cannot meet new people so that students are easier to get more depressed and passive.
High inflation these days is causing many serious effects on student’s life, not only studying and health but also social life.

Thứ Hai, 14 tháng 3, 2011

student's life in the context of high inflation

1. Intro 1
About a week ago, Kate, a friend of mine, told me that she might have to drop out of school this year. She said that she couldn’t handle paying school fee this semester. And that is one of many bad consequences happening to my friend as well as lots of students recently due to high inflation. The gas price is going up extremely high so that it leads to a rise in the general price such as goods and services. More seriously, money is losing its values. And all of that make students who mostly depend on parents and haven’t worked yet in dire need, lots of students quit school, they lose their renting house or even don’t have enough money to buy food. In my opinion, high inflation is making some negative effects on student’s life.
2. Intro 2
Living in HCMC these days is not so easy for everybody especially students who haven’t had a stable job yet. Months ago, my parents regularly gave me 1.5 million VND allowances each month which I could spend freely for the whole month. But now, facing with a high inflation in HCMC, that amount of money wouldn’t last for 3 weeks. All prices are going up very high while money is gradually losing its values. 100VND is not so worthies than it used to be. As a student, I could understand the pressure that every student is struggling with in the context of high inflation, I know how hard it is to save money by skip over breakfast, how it feels when we do not have enough money to buy meat for days. This causes many negative effects on student’s life. Money becomes a bigger concern for all students. In my opinion, there are several solutions that students can do to survive in this high inflation.

Thứ Hai, 7 tháng 3, 2011

the power of writing

The power of writing
Writing is an essential and important skill that everyone has had since we were children. While many many people enjoy writing very much, lots of people think that writing is very boring and useless. In my opinion, writing is very powerful. There are 3 important and powerful functions that writing can do.
First of all, writing is a really good way to express our thoughts. We can express our thinking about any topics through essays, magazines or newspapers. It is a lot better than speaking that we have time to think in writing. For instance, in a speaking contest, the topic is about “murderers nowadays”, it will be more persuasive when we have 10 minutes to think first, then select and organize ideals and write down some notes before speak so that our speech will be more fluent and effective.
Secondly, writing creates clear and permanent records. Unlike speaking or listening which we mostly forget, writing helps us remember things by making records. For example, taking notes in class is also a writing way that becomes very useful in the exam season. Moreover, these clear and permanent records are very useful in the future. We can keep memorable things and read anytime. We can keep a dairy for 20 years later, for instance.
Last but not least, writing makes us be smarter and more active. As we know, reading daily is an excellent way to have a clear and active brain and so does writing. To have a good writing, we need to know what type of writing it is, how to arrange and organize sentences appropriately. It requires our mind to think and think effectively. Thus it trains our mind to be more organized and logical. Moreover, thanks to the deviation of the topics, from politics to economy or education to marriage, we need to read a lot to learn vocabulary to serve for writing so that our brain is forced to learn and remember a lot. Thus writing helps us to be smarter and more active.
There are several powerful functions that writing can do. Making persuasive thoughts, creating permanent records and especially helping active brain are really useful and interesting things that writing can do. I hope that there will be more and more people realize that and enjoy writing more.