When Oumou Dieye first started competing against men in the sport of golf, she was not confident and felt a little afraid. The men did not want to golf with her nor did they take her seriously. But then, she won her first game. After that, she had all the confidence she needed to keep playing and defeating male golfers.
Dieye is the only professional female golfer in Senegal. She was introduced to golf by her brother-in-law and immediately fell in love. Not long after she began competing, Dieye was given a chance to train in Morocco. With the financial support from her French golf partners, she spent three months training with the Moroccan Golf Federation. She said she enjoyed the experience so much that she returned to Morocco and stayed for seven years. While there, she also taught children at a golfing school.
Today her home is filled with many golfing awards. She has won so many that she has lost track of the number. What she has done is notable because Senegal is a conservative, Muslim nation.
There is much pressure from society for women not to be involved in professional sports. The country practices a more liberal form of Islam（伊斯兰教）. However, the culture still has traditional ideas of what women should do. A woman who chooses sports over duties at home risks being rejected by her family. At first, her family was not supportive. But after seeing her love of the sport, they changed their minds.
In 2018, when Dieye returned from Morocco, she was not happy about the state of golf in her home country. She wanted to create a golf school similar to the one in Morocco. In 2020, the Senegalese Golf Federation agreed to help Dieye establish a golf school in preparation for the 2026 Summer Youth Olympics in Dakar. It will be Dieye's job to train Senegal's first national golf team. This will involve preparing female golfers-including her own daughter.
A letter written to a 12-year old girl in Lithuania was delivered in December, almost 51 years after it was sent.
Now in her 60s, Genovefa Klonovska said after being handed the letter, "I thought that someone was pranking me. " The letter included a handmade, colored rose and two paper dolls. It was sent to Klonovska by a young girl in Poland. They exchanged letters in what is known as a pen pal program-when people write letters to each other without actually meeting.
The letter, together with 17 others, was discovered this past summer when a wall was taken down in a former post office in Vilnius.
The letters, from the late 1960s and early 1970s, were likely hidden by a postal worker after he searched them for money or valuables, Vilutis said. The senders were family members or pen pals from places such as Australia, Poland, or Russia. Street names and their numbering have changed in Vilnius, capital of Lithuania. Post office workers spent months looking for the people who were supposed to receive the letters—the recipients. Only five recipients were found. In several cases, children of dead recipients were handed a lost letter.
Deimante Zebrauskaite, head of Lithuania Post, said "We felt a moral duty to do this. "
Zelrauskaite added, "One lady compared the experience to receiving a message from a bottle thrown into sea. People were emotional（动情的）. Some people felt they saw a part of daily life of their dead parents. "
In the letter to Klonovska, sent from Koczary in Poland, a girl named Ewa complains buses no longer reach her village. Now in her 60s, Klonovska has no memory of Ewa. She probably wrote Ewa after finding her address in an advertisement for pen-pals in a newspaper. Their relationship stopped after the letter was not delivered. "The loss was not life-changing, "said Klonovska. She then asked, "What if they delivered a lost letter from a suitor（求婚者）to his love, and their wedding never happened?"
They say procrastination（拖延）is the thief of time—actually deadlines are. New research has found that if you want someone to help you out with something, it is best not to set a deadline at all. But if you do set a deadline, make it short.
Professor Stephen Knowles tested the effect of deadline length on task completion for their research. Participants were invited to complete an online survey concerning a charity donation. They were given either one week, one month, or no deadline to respond. Professor Knowles says although the topic of the survey was about charity, the results are true of any situation where someone asks another person for help.
The study found responses to the survey were lowest for the one-month deadline and highest when no deadline was specified（明确规定）. No deadline and the one-week deadline led to many early responses, while a long deadline appeared to give people permission to procrastinate, and then forget. Professor Knowles wasn't surprised to find that specifying a shorter deadline increased the chances of receiving a response compared to a longer deadline. However, he did find it interesting that they received the most responses when no deadline was specified.
"We interpret this as evidence that specifying a longer deadline, as opposed to a short deadline or no deadline at all, removes the urgency to act, "he says. "People therefore put off undertaking the task, and since they are inattentive or forget, postponing it results in lower response rates. "
He says of the research that it is possible that not specifying a deadline might still have led participants to assume that there is an unspoken deadline. Professor Knowles hopes his research can help reduce the amount of procrastinating people do. "Many people procrastinate. They have the best intentions of helping someone out, but just do not get around to doing it. "
Reading is essential but how can one choose the right books to read and where can one find them? A few famous people may give you some helpful tips.
●Read books from past eras.
Otherwise, you'd be "completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of your times, "just as Alert Einstein put it. "Somebody who reads only newspapers and books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who dislikes eyeglasses, "he said.
Reading too wide a variety in too short a time would keep the teachings from leaving a lasting impression on you. Seneca the Younger, a first-century Roman philosopher, suggested that "you must linger（流连）among a limited number of master thinkers, and digest their works, if you would obtain ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind. "
●Shop at secondhand bookstores.
Virginia Woolf believed the works in secondhand bookstores have an attraction which the usual volumes of the library lack. Browsing through these hooks gives you the chance to run into something that wouldn't have risen to the attention of librarians and booksellers.
Check out authors' reading lists.
In his 1940 guide How to Read a Book, American philosopher Mortimer J. Adler talked about low to choose books. He attached importance to those that other authors consider worth reading.
Mortimer wrote that "one way to understand them is to read the books they read. "
●Make the final decision by yourself.
It's you yourself who should choose what, how and when to read. Theodore Roosevelt recommended choosing books on subjects that interest you and letting your mood guide you to your next great read.
A. Interest is the best teacher.
B. Great authors are great readers.
C. Leave some room for older works.
D. Learn more about those great authors.
E. Don't jump too quickly from book to book.
F. There's no "best books" list that everyone should follow.
G. Usually they are much more selective in organizing their collections than secondhand book owners.
High school graduations are one of the most important moments in a teenager's life. However, heading into the 1 on June 6th, David was stopped at the door by a gatekeeper. So you can imagine how 2 David was. Although his sneakers were not extremely unacceptable, David learned they were in 3 of the school's dress code and he was 4 entry.
David was about to 5 his chance to walk across the stage with his classmate when he caught sight of a 6 face. Butler, a famous local educator, came to the graduation as a parent. Learning David's unpleasant situation, he 7 the young man back to the entry to see if he could 8 the gatekeeper's mind.
"I was hoping that she would let it go, but she9not letting this young man in, and I didn't have time to 10 with her, "Butler said. "I wasn't going to let him miss the most 11 moment in his life for anything. "Without missing a beat, Butler simply changed his 12 with David. Just as the 13 closed, David made it inside the hall. Eventually he 14 David from ruining his graduation day.
Although firstly 15 by the last-minute substitution, Butler's family were thrilled that his quick thinking turned a very 16 situation into a joyful celebration. "I wasn't 17 because Mr. Butler is always helpful, " a 18 parent of David's said.
It's said that a truly 19 man will give the shirt off his back to someone in need. Now it seems, the saying also 20 to the shoes off his feet.
You might have heard of the word game Wordle. The online puzzle has become so. popular that some people cannot go clay without it. By November 1, 2021 , only 90 people (play) Wordle but within two months, that number had grown to 300,000. Social media users helped grow the ( popular) of the game.
Wordle can be played once per day. It is very simple and that may be it spreads so quickly. It contains just 30 empty squares ( appear) under the name "WORDLE. "
Players get six chances to guess a five-letter word that has been chosen by the game that day. The goal is to guess the word in the least number of (try). To start, players enter a real word, letters then turn different colors to provide clues about the word. A green letter means the letter is in the word is in the right position. Yellow means the letter appears in the word but is in the wrong place while a gray letter means it does not appear in the word al all.
Originally, the game ( create) to activate office atmosphere by Josh Wardle, a New York software engineer.
My family moved in a small house in Brighton, Colorado on my seventh birthday. My first memory is our neighbor Bill, an old man, handing me strawberries from his garden through a hole in the chain-link（铁丝网）fence. "We need to make the hole bigger, "he said jokingly. Later I knew that he lived alone.
Bill spent much time working in the garden, and I was always talking to him from our yard. I was a chatterbox. I think what drew me to Bill is that he never got tired of listening to me. I also think Bill saw a lot of himself in me—we were both lonely and anxious—and that may be why he always took the time to listen to me. It was a wonderful connection.
There weren't any kids of my age in the neighborhood, and my parents were very busy, so I mostly played in the yard with my dog. I had a lot of imaginary friends—a whole family, actually, with a wife, children, a best friend no joke. Weird kid.
One day, my parents asked Bill whether he'd watch me while they were away on business. This worked well for everyone, so it became a somewhat monthly occurrence. Bill had a spare room in his house, which became "my" room.
Bill promised to teach me to drive the lawn tractor（割草机）someday and I was always looking forward to it. In winter, Bill would attach a snowplow（铲雪机）to the front of the lawn tractor. I seriously told him that I would invent a better snowplow when I grew up. "Sure you will. You'll get a patent certificate. It takes a certificate to prove an important thing, "Bill said with a smile.
One snowy morning, an idea suddenly hit me. My parents were watching TV when I spit it out, "What if I adopted Bill as my grandpa?" My parents said I could go over and ask him.
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I knocked on his door, sat down in his living room, and asked, "Can I adopt you as my grandpa?"
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The next morning, while learning to drive the lawn tractor with a snowplow, I accidentally plowed down our chain-link fence.
