A Watch a film.B. Enjoy a concert.C. See a play.
NEMO Science Museum in Amsterdam
NEMO Science Museum in Amsterdam is a stimulating scene. Children of different ages have fun with huge soap bubbles and experiments in the chemistry lab. Grown-ups, with or without children of their own, have fun at NEMO too. It's hard to hold back when you are presented with all the devices and experiments.
Visiting NEMO
Amsterdam NEMO houses loads of hands-on science and technology exhibitions inside its large
boat-shaped building. No matter what your background is, you will learn something new and have fun in exciting games. Attractions change regularly, so check the homepage to get the latest word.
Rooftop square: the roof is freely accessible for everyone. You can find the open-air exhibition Energetica and a restaurant on the roof, with beautiful views of the city of Amsterdam.
NEMO tickets
The museum can be crowded, so you can buy your NEMO tickets in advance.
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4 years and older: |
€ 17.50 |
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Children under 4 |
free |
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20% discount for student groups of twenty |
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Facilities in NEMO
There are several cafés and if you prefer to bring your own food, snacking on it is allowed in assigned places. On a sunny day you should picnic out on the large roof.
Opening hours
NEMO is open from Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00 a.m.~17:30 p.m.
Accessibility
NEMO is easily accessible by public transport. The museum's eye-catching copper-green building is easy to spot from Amsterdam Central Station.
●By bus: Take Bus 22 and get off at Kadijksplein.
●On foot: Weather conditions allowing, a 15-minute walk to NEMO from the Central Station is a nice option. It's worth the trip just to view the spectacular architecture and the surrounding piers (码头) and ships.
●By car: NEMO is accessible by car. However, parking in the centre of Amsterdam is expensive. NEMO does not have any parking facilities of its own.
I was in a new state at a new school and needed something solid to stand on: a place to feel grounded. I also needed to do laundry, so I walked to a nearby self-service laundry and stuffed a machine with my clothes. As I struggled to close the washer door, the woman working behind the counter told me to give it a good hit with my hand. The washer did its job, yet even after an hour, the dryer seemed to have barely warmed my clothes. I left, having decided to air-dry them on my car in the August heat.
A month later, I learned her name was Sandy, which she told me after I'd helped her stop a washing machine from moving across the floor. I was grading poems at a table when one of the washers broke loose and skipped an inch into the air. I jumped to the machine and held on while she unplugged it. The next week, Sandy told me dryer No.8 was the fastest.
It went on like this. I'd do laundry once a week, usually Thursday or Friday. Sandy worked Tuesday through Saturday and we'd talk small while I folded clothes. She told me about her son and his grades, the new dog they'd just adopted. She was fascinated that I was studying poetry. She teased (开玩笑) that it was harder making a living as a poet than as a laundry attendant. Even then I knew she was probably right.
I began to recognize others there: workers taking breaks by the door, a mother and her baby, and even some delivery drivers. But Sandy was the center of my community. For nearly three years and almost every week, I'd do laundry and talk with her. We checked on each other and expected the other to be there. We asked where the other had gone when we missed a week. There was a note of concern for the other's absence, a note of joy at their return.
I'd found a place to stand on solid ground.
Stories of immigrants attract me a lot, especially the life stories of Italians who have come to America since the 1700s. In each of these stories I see elements of my own story, that of leaving my birthplace and family and creating a new life in a different culture and in a different language.
The child of Italian immigrants and an award-winning scholar of Italian literature, in the book My Two Italies Joseph Luzzi struggled to create or find his own identity from an early age. Even more problematic for him was "which" Italy to "choose," the one he inherited(继承) from his family, poor and linked to old traditions and customs he finds rude and somewhat cruel, or the one he finds in literature and art books that show him a country with a modern literary culture.
The choice becomes even sadder as in his professional life he becomes a scholar of Italian literature and culture. He describes episodes of his youth that show the clash between the first and the second generation immigrants that are both funny and tragicomic(悲喜剧式的). These episodes highlight the daily customs his parents brought from their hometown that are in conflict with Joseph's desire to "fit in" the American culture. Joseph's visits to Italy as a student and then as a scholar deepen the divide between his two Italies and highlight his quest for identity.
The author's personal changes are full of quotes and comments on the cultural and political landscape of Italy. I find that his insights on contemporary Italian cultural and political phenomena are particularly interesting. In this book, Joseph touches or comments in depth about several issues concerning Italian life, such as the relationship between dialects(方言) and the official "Italian" language, and the Southern "question" or the uneasy interaction between Northern and Southern Italians.
I enjoyed reading this book. It is personal, moving, educational and entertaining. I hope you will enioy it too!
With an abundance of sun and wind Spain is positioning itself as Europe's future leader in green hydrogen (氢气) production to clean up heavy industries. But some energy experts express caution because this process relies on massive availability of zero-carbon electricity.
Green hydrogen is created when renewable energy sources power an electrical current that runs through water, separating its hydrogen and oxygen molecules (分子). The process doesn't produce planet-warming carbon dioxide, but less than 0.1% of global hydrogen production is currently created in this way.
The separated hydrogen can be used in the production of steel, ammonia (氨) and chemical products, all of which require industrial processes that are harder to stop fossil fuels. Hydrogen also can be used as a transportation fuel, which could one day transform the highly polluting shipping and aviation sectors.
Spain's large, windswept and thinly populated territory receives more than 2,500 hours of sunshine on average per year, providing ideal conditions for wind and solar energy, and therefore green hydrogen production.
"If you look at where hydrogen is going to be produced in Europe in the next million years, it's in two countries, Spain and Portugal," said Thierry Lepercq, the founder and president of HyDeal Ambition, an industry platform bringing together 30 companies. "Hydrogen is the new oil."
Lepercq is working with companies like Spanish gas pipeline corporation Enagas and global steel giant ArcelorMittal to design an end-to-end model for hydrogen production, distribution and supply at a competitive price. Criticism has centered on green hydrogen's higher cost compared with highly-polluting "gray hydrogen" drawn from natural gas. Lepercq argues that solar energy produced in Spain is priced low enough to compete.
Globally, Lepercq said, "Electricity, power, is 20% of energy consumption. What about the 80% that is not electrified? ... You need to replace those fossil fuels. Not in 50 years' time. You need to replace them now."
The Benefits of After-school Activities
Your kid is asking for piano lessons, joining a soccer team or taking ballet classes, but you're not so sure that your money will be well spent. , read these next benefits of participating in hobbies outside the home. It might just convince you to book the first class.
Build confidence through creative hobbies
From arts and poem writing to music and crafts, there are lots of creative after-school activities available out there for kids of all ages. Not only do these classes stimulate your little one's imagination, but they also encourage curiosity.. Interacting with others, sharing, cooperating and solving conflicts are all added bonuses and they are all extremely helpful tools in building self-confidence.
These days, the fast-paced world we live in causes stress to us all, including children — and providing fun environments and spaces where they can feel safe and creative is an excellent idea to help your child reduce the stress.. You have to aim to eliminate the stressors in your child's life, regardless of the type of stress your child is dealing with, be it the case of shyness, social anxiety or pressure from school or home life.
Gain physical and psychological strength with sports
Avoiding childhood obesity has become a real issue in a world where kids spend more and more time indoors, glued to screens. But if your child shows any interest in a sport (even if just by watching it on their iPad), grab the opportunity and introduce after-school activities that focus on said physical activity. In these activities, your kids can also learn important lessons like respecting others and teamwork..
A. Reduce stress with after-school activities
B. Boost children's enthusiasm and participation in class
C. When your kids spend 80 percent of their hours at school
D. Besides, they make your child more confident in the process
E. If you can't decide about sending your kids to after-school activities
F. Choosing activities that don't put extra pressure on your kids is also essential
G. Most importantly, your children can develop their mental strength while doing sports
During the lockdown, my husband, Bob, and I were offered a pingpong table. I am a non-athlete but Bob does well in pingpong.
"What are we going to do with that pingpong table?" Bob asked me.
"The two of us will 1 ," I replied. Bob looked doubtful.
I lost every game and I told myself that it didn't 2 that I always lost. I was playing for 3 and to provide a positive experience in a difficult time. But there were days when I 4 losing. Once I threw my paddle(球拍) across the yard angrily. Then Bob 5 I play with a handicap(让分) of 12 points. That 6 a lot—I sometimes won! I'd never been interested in any kind of sport. But pingpong became the 7 of my day. I began to get better and won more games. My handicap 8 to 8.
My husband and I 9 the worst of the lockdowns through pingpong. It 10 me that even a self-described bookworm can learn a new sport. The 11 was my husband's suggestion that I play with a handicap so I'd have an equal 12 to win. He doesn't like to lose either, but it's more fun for him if I actually want to participate and 13 it. It takes two willing partners to play table tennis, after all, and two people with an equal chance in each other's 14 to make a marriage. Simply put, when it comes to table tennis—or any other 15 —there is no ping without a pong.
The first "forest library" in Shanghai recently opened to the public, giving readers the chance (relax) and read in a natural environment.
Known as Read & Joy Forest, the forest library that was (joint) launched by Pudong New Area and Shanghai Library (locate) in an urban green space area near Shanghai Library East. Covering an area of 20,546 square meters, it allows visitors to take a pleasant walk in the quiet and green forest, includes many different kinds of trees.
The design of the forest library ensures minimal (极少的) disturbance to the forest, with existing green spaces (connect) by wooden walkways. The library is in the open air and equipped with facilities such as benches and information desk.
(have) a library in the woods is an extension of reading indoors, according to Xu Qiang, one leader of Shanghai Library. "It offers different reading experiences to readers," Xu added.
Most of the visitors to the forest library were young people and parents with their children, who either immersed (沉浸在) themselves in reading took wanders leisurely in the forest. "The fresh air and the scents of the trees here are really (impress). I've spent the whole morning indoors, and wanted to get some fresh air. The library makes it possible to enjoy reading in natural surroundings. I must say I have a (prefer) for it," said one reader sitting on a bench.
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That year, my father worked abroad — and couldn't come back for Christmas. My mother, sister and I had to make our own Christmas decorations.
My mother and I dragged in the final section of our seven-foot artificial Christmas tree from the garage. Before setting the tree in its stand, we moved our sofa over so we would have the room needed for our large tree to fit in the living room. In a moment, we would form the branches that would hold our decorations.
Everything was going smoothly, and my sister announced the stand was ready. Mother and I lifted the bottom section of the tree and were about to place it into the stand when I heard a scream. It was so loud that I assumed someone had broken into our home.
"A mouse! A mouse!" screamed my sister. She screamed just as loud, and jumped up on the sofa as the baby mouse ran to one side of our living room and then the other. Because of the loud screams, the mouse was frightened. The little creature had obviously found a home in our Christmas tree. Once we brought the tree inside and opened the branches, the baby mouse fell out of its temporary home and ran across our living room.
"Get the mouse!" my sister screamed.
It was so tiny and quick that I wasn't sure what to do. I tried grabbing its long gray tail, but it slipped away. Then I ran to our bedroom and came back with an empty shoebox and a fly swatter (蝇拍). My plan was to stun (打晕) the little mouse and put it in the box.
I was about to hit it with the swatter when my sister shouted out, "Don't kill it! It's a baby and kind of cute." My mother agreed with her, and I could tell by its frightened eyes that the little mouse did, too.
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As I saw the fear in the mouse's eyes, I gained some Christmas sympathy.
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I asked my mother and sister if they wanted to say goodbye to the mouse.
