What if I were to tell you that there is a magical place where you can get paid to play and channel your inner child? This is an opportunity to break free from the world of boring day jobs. Trust me, the grass is greener on the other side and I'm handing you an open invitation to come see for yourself! Join us, as a summer camp counselor (辅导员)!
Duties
Typically, your campers' ages will range between 7 and 17 years old. Your role would be to lead and supervise children in both recreational and educational activities within a residential area. Your duties include providing children with emotional support in things like newly introduced skill sets, conflicts with other campers, and potential separation anxiety from home. Your main objective would be to guarantee (确保) that every participant is safe.
Salary
A summer camp counselor's hourly pay is on average $10. The weekly average pay is $420. Junior level pay is about $320 a week. Senior level pay is roughly $560 a week.
If you have no related experience then you will start as an assistant for at least 4 weeks and get a quarter of the junior level salary.
Qualifications
You have to be 18 or older and have graduated from high school. It is encouraged but not required to have certificates in lifeguarding. Training in first aid is ideal. It is also preferred' that you have had. exposure to some sort of childcare in the past.
Your days as a camp counselor will be very rewarding!
"I'll be there in a few minutes. I'm playing a game with a friend, a guy named Scuzball, " my 15-year-old son shouted from his room. "Oh, what is Scuzball's real name?" I asked. " I have no idea, " he said. "Where is he from?" I continued. He responded, " I think somewhere in Canada. Oh, wait, it doesn't even matter because Scuzball just left the game and he has been replaced with a robot. "
"Your friend is replaced by artificial intelligence? "I asked. "It doesn't matter, Dad. It happens all the time! The game continues. " My son doesn't mind playing with a person or a robot, which is typical of gamers these days. But I wonder whether the face-to-face experience of friendship that I grew up with will be lost by our children.
Aristotle, a great thinker and educator, has pointed out that shallow friendship is easily formed but also easily abandoned because such bonds arc fragile. Deep friendship, by contrast, is when you care for your friend for his sake, not for any benefit you can get. This is selfless friendship. You can have only a couple of these friends because they require lots of time and effort. You must make sacrifices for each other.
Presence in friendship requires "being with" and "doing for". Perhaps the most defining feature of deep friendship is "doing for", as my friend has my back in trouble or brings me soup when I'm sick. Only strong bonds have the power to motivate real sacrifices. But it is unclear why online "friends" would bother to do the hard work of friendship. When I asked my students whether they had people in their lives who would bring them soup when they were sick, they laughed at my Stone Age question and said they'd just order soup online.
Digital life fills and absorbs waking life time so that people do not join in example case of friendship, like sports, collective arts, free range childhoods, etc. In this way, digital life produces false friendships.
Sugar-free cookies, sugar-free candy, diet soda…are better for you? After sugar became a bad thing in the nutrition and wellness world, sugar-free food items and drinks acted as substitutes(阅代) for once beloved sweet drinks and snacks. Claiming to be ZERO sugar meant it was healthier, better for diabetics(糖尿病患者), and helped you slim down. . . Right?
Wrong. Sugar-free food isn't better for you. In fact, it is worse.
Sugar-free means that artificial sweeteners (甜味剂) are used instead of real sugar. The problem: these sweeteners do not come from natural sources and they can cause you more harm than good.
Let's get into what these artificial sweeteners actually are. Sugar-free sugar sounds wrong and that's because there is no such thing as sugar-free sugar. Some of these sugar-free alternatives even contain sugar and the chemicals your body often does not know how to process.
Most artificial sweeteners arc a lot sweeter than sugar, so only a tiny amount is needed. That's why they can market sugar-free alternatives as "low-calorie" or "no-calorie". It also means that you get no nutritional value from consuming them, which is why many sugar-free substitutes are class fed as "nonnutritive". These artificial sweeteners tend to hide under sneaky names. Actually, they are 200-600 times sweeter than sugar.
When you eat sweet stuff, your body continues to desire it and, even though your body cannot metabolize these sugar free alternatives, your brain does not know the difference. In tum, sugar-free alternatives can lead to weight gain and type 2 diabetes.
Artificial sweeteners also damage your gut's ability to break down sugar, which impacts everything you eat. In other words, your body doesn't know how to handle artificial sweeteners because they have nothing real to process.
A good rule of thumb: stay away from artificial sweeteners and look for non-sugar, natural sweeteners.
In the war against artificial sweeteners and real sugar, both lose. Satisfy your sweet tooth with natural sugars that come from fruits and stay away from products claiming to be sugar-free!
A new eight-kilometer road is under construction that links the port area with the motorway system.
It is expected to carry 20, 000 trucks and cars a day, which greatly reduces the overcrowded traffic in the center of the city. As part of the project, two four -kilometer road tunnels are being built below the central area of the city, one for traffic to the north and the other for traffic to the south. The two tunnels are about 20 meters below the surface and each 6 meters wide, providing for two lanes of traffic in each direction.
In the upper part of the tunnel two air conditioning pipes remove the waste gas of trucks and cars and keep the quality of air inside the tunnel. The lighting is at the top of the tunnel, practically at its highest point. There will also be electronic signs at frequent intervals (间隔).
They show traffic conditions ahead, and can be seen clearly by drivers.
The wall is made up of four main elements, which include a waterproofing covering and, on the inside of the tunnel, a concrete lining (混凝土衬砌).
Each tunnel is roughly round and the lower part of the tunnel is somewhat flat. The surface of the road lies on the base, which is made of concrete and steel. The drainage system (排水系统), just below the road surface on one side, removes any extra liquid, particularly water. In the event of fire, the fire main, which
is made of steel, pipes water to many fire hydrant (消防栓) stations at regular intervals along the length of the tunnel. The fire main is at the side of the tunnel, and at the level of the road surface. Other systems in the tunnel will include emergency phones.
April is the cruelest month. . Or so said gloomy poet T S. Eliot in his long poem, The Waste Land.
It seems he wasn't wrong. Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) - - otherwise known as the "winter blues"-is a well-known condition. But surprisingly, some people feel more depressed in spring and summer than at other times of the year. The days getting warmer and longer, and the fact that spring flowers and blossom represent new beginnings for some people, just make the spring blues worse for others.
●What Causes Reverse SAD?
Because it's not well understood or often spotted, it's hard to pin down the reasons for feeling down when everyone else seems to be full of the joys of springtime. With winter SAD, less sunlight is thought to disrupt the body's intimal clock and bring on depression. You might also be tempted to stay up later, throwing out your body clock.
●How Do You Recognize It?
Do you love the cold and feel much more energized at that time of year, while spring makes you feel much less positive? Again, this could be reverse SAD. And it sometimes runs in families, so look around at your nearest and dearest and note how they feel about the arrival of warmer, brighter days.
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Exercise can work wonders. A study found that ten weeks of standard exercise was 20 percent more effective than medication. And get plenty of sleep. Try to get up at the same time every day, even if you haven't slept well.
A. Can You Shake off Reverse SAD?
B. Can Exercise Help Overcome the Spring Blues?
C. This phenomenon is sometimes called "reverse SAD".
D. The spring blues may have a negative effect on people.
E. But if your depression shows no sign of lifting, see your doctor.
F. Reverse SAD, on the other hand, might be caused by too much sunlight.
G. Like traditional SAD, spring depression comes back at the same time every year.
I had a bad habit of skipping to the last pages of a book. I just wanted to see how it ended while I was still in the middle of it. This habit1 first my mom, then my friends, and2 even my own daughter.
Often my3 wasn't limited just to the books I read but also to what others were reading as well. Then one day my daughter told me in4 , "Dad, please just read a book one 5 at a time like everyone else!"
At times I didn't6 this bad habit to just books either. I also tried to skip ahead in my own life and7 what to do months or even years from now instead of enjoying each day at present. Although I knew that the8 of my life wasn't done yet and that I had many pages9 to write, I still couldn't control my bumming desire to write the10 of it halfway through. Time and again, I would11 jump ahead and try to solve every potential problem before it happened. Life,12 , doesn't work like that.
It loves to13 us, and you never know what new problems, changes, or opportunities each new day will14 .
Each of us has to15 the book of life line by line, moment by moment and trust that our story will be brought to its perfect end.
"We regret to inform you are the words that writers fear to receive. Everyone (know) that success rarely happens overnight, but perhaps not many know that a lot of(high) successful writers have previously faced rejection. Take for example J. K. Rowling. When she received her first rejection letter, she(stick) it on her kitchen wall. Rowling had spent years survivinglittle money, spending all her time writing. Aftertotal of twelve rejections, she succeeded. As we know,
Harry Potter became a(globe) success. Jerome David Salinger started writing short stories in high school, but later struggled to get his work(publish). Despite rejections from several publishers, he refused to give up. Perhaps the overall prize for perseverance (坚持不懈) should go to the Bronte sisters.
There was a timewomen were not encouraged to become writers, so they had to write a book of poems under male names. Even when the book sold only two copies, the sisters still didn't give up. It seems that talent alone isn't enough(guarantee) success. a lot of hard work and a touch of luck play a part, perseverance is the key.
Keep trying and eventually you will read the words "We are delighted to inform you"
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June 15, Saturday Sunny
Today, I went to the Gele Mountain with my friends.
There lived a baker who was very stingy (吝啬的). His neighbour, on the other hand, was a kind man who was always glad to share the little he had.
The baker was jealous of his cheerful neighbour. He complained, " "How can he have so little and yet be so happy?" Every morning, the smell of bread rolls went in the neighbour's house. When the poor neighbour was eating stale (不新鲜的) bread, the wonderful smell filled the air. He took a deep breath and sighed with happiness.
As the baker watched, he thought, "The smell from my baked goods makes his stale bread taste delicious. That's not fair. He should pay for such pleasure. " After seeing this happen, again and again, the baker went to his neighbour's house and handed him a bill. "Every day you steal the smell of my baked goods. You need to pay for it, " said the baker. "You want me to pay ten coins as a smelling fee?" laughed the neighbour. "Yes! If you don't pay, I'll take you to the court, " replied the baker. When word of the baker's demand spread around the city, everyone laughed at the idea of a stolen smell.
The greedy baker was so angry that he took the case to a respected judge. To everyone's surprise, the judge sent word to the neighbour that he should bring five gold coins with him. When the kind man heard this, he worried that be would have to give the little money he had to the greedy baker. The baker was delighted at the news.
The next day, the baker and the neighbour arrived at the crowded court. When the judge walked in, the courtroom fell silent, First, he listened to the baker's complaint, Then, he asked the neighbour, "Is it true that you enjoy the smell of this man's baked goods every day?" "Yes, Your Honour! That is true, "admitted the neighbour.
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Finally, the judge declared, "A smell has been stolen. Since stealing is a crime, the neighbour must be punished!""
The judge turned to the baker and asked, "Did you hear the wonderful sound of the gold coins?"
