Ancient Kamakura is the place to see, according to Kota

Kamakura is the very place where something beautiful, impressive, historical and ancient is gathered, I think. However lots of people believe that their favorite ancient city is Kyoto. In my opinion, it is Kamakura where I strongly recommend you to Kamakura compared to Kyoto.

Kyoto is one of the quite famous cities in Japan and even in the world. There are lots of temples which are sometimes gorgeous represented as Kinkakuzi and also have “Wabi-Sabi” described “a beauty in simple and silence.” However, the problem is that Kyoto is just a destination for tourists. In other words, it always has crowded people. Besides, you can't enjoy the beauty in silence because Kyoto is urban. After all, you can't afford to get the emotion like the beauty in Kyoto.

In contrast to this, Kamakura has lots of fascinating places and temples like Kyoto as well, which also have beauty. Besides, this town is completely separated from the urban cities, so it is like another world. You can enjoy walking the streets which are lined along the beautiful green, listening to the sound of leaves trembling and breathing the fresh air which contains slight smells from sea.

Why People Are So Fascinated by Celebrities? by Gu

People are always fascinated by celebrities nowadays. Some celebrities have fame, some have charming appearances and some have both of them. In the case of Diana and M.J, their deaths launched them onto a sort of iconic status. But whatever they are, in fact, all of them are commercialized and lose their privacy.

Generally, celebrities become famous due to the media. The media need celebrities for drawing the public’s attention. Meanwhile, the public also needs those celebrities to fill their hollowness. Several years ago, a famous host of CCTV (the largest TV station in China) said that even a dog of CCTV could be famous. I think he is right. With the improvement of our lives, people naturally seek for mental satisfaction. Thus, those celebrities become the ones provide it. When Beckham appeared, even though he was in Manchester United, no one could imagine that he would be so famous. Having perfected by his agent, someone said it’s his wife Victoria changed him into a real celebrity, not only a good soccer player. His fame not only brought him wealth, but scandal as well. It’s just out of people’s curiosity? Of course it’s not. When he began to enjoy himself as a celebrity, he also had to bear all kinds of inconvenience following his fame.

Rashid takes us to Washington DC

I belong to a family of fanatic travelers. Since we love traveling we usually travel each year. The last trip I had with my family was to The U.S.A, we stayed there for a bout 3 months. and visited a lot of places; however, the place that I loved the most was Washington DC.

Washington DC is the capital of The U.S.A and is located in The District of Columbia between Virginia and Maryland. What makes it so special is that even though it's the capital of one of the most powerful countries it's still not polluted and the amount of cars isn't a lot compared with many capital cities, it's a peaceful,quiet place, you can see people people of different ethnicities walking on the streets and also see them play at the parks. Furthermore, Washington DC is the home of the famous Smithsonian Museums. If your a museum fanatic its a place you must visit.The museums that i enjoyed the most were Natural History Museum and Air and Space Museum, they are the most well known museums among the Smithsonian Museums, since they were in the movie "Night at the museum".

On the other hand, if you want to know about American history Smithsonian Museums have couple of museums special for American history.

Washington DC is also famous for having the White House,Abraham Lincoln Memorial, and Washington Monument.

All in all, I believe Washington DC is one city that all travel fans,museums fanatic, or people who are interested in The U.S.A and its history. I also advise you and anyone if they had a chance to travel there!

Better late than never! Rashid's views on the driving age

Vehicles have changed people's lives dramatically, both in a good way and a bad way. It has made transportation faster,more comfortable, and more efficient ; however, it also made people lazier. Anyhow, there has always been controversy about the legal driving age whether it should be reduced or increased.

If you ask me, I believe it should be reduced.

One of the reasons is the eagerness of young teenagers to drive. Personally I believe the eagerness makes many young gteenagers tempted to drive without the awareness of their parents, and without knowing how to drive well they cause accidents. As a result if the legal driving age is reduced teenagers eagerness would be reduced; however, I also believe a good precaution would be limiting the young teenagers driving; for instance, they need to drive with an experienced person for the first couple of years.

Another reason is because of emergencies. If you take my country for example, the ambulance usually takes time till it gets to a house sometimes very late. So i believe that if a young teenager is taught how to drive well he could save a lot of time and might even save a life!

Based on the two reasons I mentioned above I firmly believe the legal driving age should be reduced.

some of the celebrities mentioned by Sharifa...

Because celebrity is a wide word that includes many people from different fields, there are different reasons of why people admire them. Let's start with the sports field. People admire Kaka ( Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite ) because of his high abilities and skills in football and admire Michael Schumacher _ German racing driver _ because of his championships. He became the world champion more than five times.
A lot of people admire celebrities of the art field and they have their own reasons. Let's take some examples. People still admiring Michael Jackson althought he kicked the bucket because he was the pop music king. He was a professional singer. And why some people admire Angelina Jolie because she is the ambassador of good intentions. Teenagers admire Hannah Montana because she has a fantastic voice with an attractive smile and style.
In my opinion politicians are celebrities,as well. I and a lot of people admire Barak Obama because of his right policy of ruling the USA and his special characters. If we think deeply about why people admire celebrities, we will find the human's nature one of these reasons. People are curious. They like to follow others news and break into their privacy. Some people have free time so they spend it in searching about celebrities.

Edinburgh is Ahmed's idea of a wonderful city

In Britain there are a lot of cities and villages. When I was small I went with my family to Britain. We stayed in Edinbrugh. It's in the north of Britain in Scotland. I love that place and I wish to go back again. I like it because it has a lot of historical places like forts,buildings and castles. You can feel the past and imagine how scottish people lived in the past. It's a wonderful city with kind people and I made some friends there because I stayed there fot two years. I wish to go back there again.

Wisaka's dream destination of Egypt

I think most people have names of cities or countries that they particularly want to visit. So do I. When I was a child, I really enjoyed reading mysterious and legendary books, especially ancient Egyptian stories which I couldn’t put down to go to bed. So it was Egypt, which was the name that I particularly forgot how to spell, I hoped to visit. I visited the land of glorious culture and architecture in ancient times which is far from Thailand around 8 and a half hours for 15 days, 2 years ago. I was captivated by the impressive architecture, it was so incredible how they built and created them. The real one and pictures in books were completely different. Every temple or even the cemeteries could make me sense the prosperity of Egyptian civilization, and when I saw exquisite carvings, it gave me goose pimples. It was Temple of Medinet Habu, which didn’t have many tourists, that the symbol of carvings were chiselled deep into stone walls over the length of the palm, so every picture was still very clear. I also like the symbolic animals and hieroglyphs. The Canopic jars, which were used for containing the organs of mummies, used the symbolic and form of falcon, baboon, jackal and human head to relate their belief, as well. Besides, when I was taking a bus in a caravan to Abu Simbel, the outside was the desert and completely dark, but I could feel like the sky was lower than usual. I’ve never seen clear stars as many as that time. It was an indescribable moment. I have many unforgettable moments and events of the Egypt trip which won’t fade away.