Show 515 Sunday 30 September

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Sunday Kitchen #66 Hummus and Pita Bread

Soak some chickpeas overnight.
Cook them.
Then blend them with some tahini, lemon juice, garlic and olive oil.
Hummus.

Put 2 teaspoons of yeast in 1/4 cup of warm water.
Add 1 tablespoon of sugar and let stand for 10 minutes.
Sift 2 1/2 cups of flour and 1/2 teaspoon of salt into a warm bowl.
Form a well in the center.
Pour in yeast mixture and one cup of warm water.
Mix.
Turn out onto a floured surface and knead for about 10 to 15 minutes, until smooth and no longer sticky.
Oil a large boil.
Place dough in bowl and turn to coat with oil.
Cover with a damp cloth and put in a warm place free of drafts for 1 1/2 to 2 hours.
Dough should be doubled in bulk.
Knead for a few minutes then divide into balls.
Roll balls into circles on a lightly floured surface with floured rolling pin.
Sandwich the circles between floured cloths and let rise for about 20 minutes in a warm place.
Sprinkle cookie sheets with flour or oil.
Bake for 5 to 10 minutes at 475 degrees.
Hummus and pita bread.
Mmm, delicious.

links

I used this pita bread recipe.

This show was featured on the cataspanglish blog.
Thanks Cris :)

music

show start
artist: AdHoc
album: Toutes directions
track: La note en cage
from: Annecy, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

other music
artist: HOTEL 7
album: HOTEL 7
track: The oval room feat. Syncopator
from: Milano, Italy
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site
YouTube channel

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Show 514 Saturday 29 September

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Today we went to a football game at Acadia University’s stadium.
The game is called football in Canada. In New Zealand we call it gridiron or American football. I’d never seen a football game before so I was pretty excited about going.

I was really surprised that such a small university even has a stadium. And it’s not just like a field with a few chairs by it ... it’s an actual full-on stadium with a shop and a box office. Universities are not things I usually associate with sport, but apparently it’s a North American thing.

The guy from the student paper invited us to sit with him and he explained some of the rules to me which was nice.

Acadia was playing the Huskies, a team from a university in Halifax called Saint Mary’s.

Acadia scored first. A try is worth 6 points. Except that it’s not called a try it’s called a touchdown - which is kind of funny, since the ball doesn’t actually have to touch the ground.

A conversion is one point and a field goal three points ... and there are other ways to score points too.

The people in front of us were yelling stuff to the opposite team, which was very entertaining. They also cheered their team.

Let’s go Axemen. Let’s go Axemen.

The red and blue above the rest,
Above the rest.
Our teams are fighting,
And they are out to win the fray!
Well, I should say,
We’ve got the team. BOOM! BOOM!
We’ve got the steam. BOOM! BOOM!
For this is old Acadia’s day.

Some girls danced at half time.
These are the Acadia dancers.
And these are the Saint Mary’s dancers.

One man took his passion to a whole new level.

This was the first game on the new field. This field used to be grass but it’s now made of synthetic grass filled with sand, rubber, and reground sports shoe material.
At first I was shocked at the thought of being tackled on artificial grass but I jumped on it and it actually felt pretty soft.

We have to run to the football.
Everybody hear me on that?
Let’s get to the ball!

Another thing that surprised me that there are about a zillion players on each team, and they keep running on and off the field. Come on ... if you’re going to play sport you might as well play the whole game.

Oh and the time too, I first heard the game was 60 minutes long, with 20 minutes for half time - which sounds like a reasonable length. But, no, it’s actually way longer because they keep stopping the clock. We stayed for over two hours and the game was only three quarters of the way through.

I decided I just couldn’t handle watching sport any longer so we called it a day. When we left I’m pretty sure Acadia was winning, but I just checked the score on the net and the final score was 40-12 to the Huskies. Wow.

notes

The red and blue ... This is the Acadia song. It's on page 154 of the ASU student handbook.
I think it's called a fight song.
In the book, we've got the steam is before we've got the team, but the guys sitting in front of us sang it the other way around.

zillion noun (informal) a very large number

way adverb (informal) a lot, much, really

handle verb manage or cope with (a situation, person, or problem)

music

show start
artist: AdHoc
album: Toutes directions
track: La note en cage
from: Annecy, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

other music
artist: XL Ant
album: XL Ant
track: Balbalama5
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

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Show 513 Friday 28 September

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Hi, I’m Sarah. Welcome to The Daily English Show.

Friday is “culture class” day for the English language students at Acadia. And today we were supposed to be going to a corn maize, but the weather wasn’t so great, so it was cancelled, which is a shame, but plan B turned out to be really cool. We went to a place in Wolfville where you can choose a piece of pottery and paint it. It was really fun.
Here’s a bit of footage from the day.

STICK NEWS

Kia Ora this is Stick News. On Wednesday, the producer of The Daily English Show was interviewed on Canadian radio for the second time in a month.

The national public radio and television broadcaster in Canada is called the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation or CBC.
CBC operates several radio stations including Radio One.
CBHA-FM is the CBC Radio One affiliate in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
It broadcasts both national and local programs. One of the local programs is called Mainstreet.
Mainstreet is on weekdays from 4 to 6 pm. According to their website, the show is “A lively and entertaining blend of national and regional news, interviews, book reviews and recipes”.
This week Mainstreet scored an interview with the producer of The Daily English Show.
The interview was live at around 5:40 on Wednesday.
Also find out what brought an English teacher from Japan all the way to Wolfville and why she has her camera equipment in tow.
Stay tuned, those stories are coming up in the final half hour of Mainstreet. You are listening to Mainstreet on CBC Radio One. It’s five thirty and the local news is coming up next.

And that was Stick News for Friday the 28th of September.
Kia Ora.

friday joke

One day a little boy called Johnny was sitting in a church. He had to go to the bathroom so he said to his mother, ''Mummy, I have to piss".
His mother said, ''Johnny, don’t say piss in church! Next time you have to use the bathroom, say, 'whisper' because it is more polite".
The next Sunday, Johnny had to go to the bathroom again. This time he was sitting next to his father, so he said to his father, ''Daddy I have to whisper".
His father said, ''OK. Here, whisper in my ear".

conversations with sarah
#318 How was the pottery painting?

Step 1: Repeat Tim’s lines.
Step 2: Read Tim’s lines and talk to Sarah.

Tim How was the pottery painting?

Sarah Good. It was fun.

Tim Have you ever done that before?

Sarah No, not like that - where you buy a piece already made and just paint it. But I went somewhere in Japan where you make a piece and then you choose the colour and they glaze it and then post it to you.

Tim Was that in Tokyo?

Sarah No, it was in Tokoname, in Aichi.

Tim What did you make?

Sarah I made three things: a rice bowl, a tea cup and just, like, a plate.

Tim Do you still have them?

Sarah Yeah, I think I still have two of them. I think one of them got chipped so I threw it away. But I still have the other two.

Tim What are you going to do with the cups?

Sarah The ones I painted here? I don’t know. Drink coffee out of them for a start, I guess.

links

The Clay Ground

CBC

CBC Radio

CBHA- FM

Mainstreet Nova Scotia on CBC Radio One

today's STICK NEWS pictures

Fair Dealing

today's joke (Contains spelling mistakes. I rewrote it a bit.)

Tokoname at Wikipedia

Tokoname pottery

Tokoname more about pottery

music

show start
artist: AdHoc
album: Toutes directions
track: La note en cage
from: Annecy, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

friday joke start
artist: AdHoc
album: Toutes directions
track: Sumbala
from: Annecy, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

cws start
artist: San Sebastian
track: Happy Sad
artist site

qa start
artist: Manu Cornet
album: Distance & Temps
track: Silk Road
from: Paris, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

qa bgm
artist: sion
album: Smoky Jazz Dub
track: Back for Coffee
from: Rugby, ? (doesn't say which country - could be England, Australia, South Africa or USA)
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

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Show 512 Thursday 27 September

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Hi, I’m Sarah. Welcome to The Daily English Show.

It’s time for a history lesson.
See this book? This is the Acadia Students’ Union Handbook – it’s like a diary or schedule or planner or whatever you call it.
I think the cover’s pretty awful, but there’s a lot of useful information inside, including a page with a brief history of Wolfville.
So let me share with you the history of Wolfville.
The first known settlers to this area were these people: Mi’kmaq – I don’t know how to pronounce that. But anyway, they arrived somewhere around 700 AD.
Then French people settled here in the 1680s and they were called French Acadians.
Then in 1755 the British kicked out the Acadians.
And between 1759 and 1760 lots of planters settled here. I don’t know what they were planting – but it says here they were planters.
And the community became known as Mud Creek, because there was a muddy creek I guess.
Then in 1830 it was changed to Wolfville – and the name comes from the family name: DeWolfe. It says here that DeWolfe families were prominent and numerous in this area.

So there you go. When I first heard the name Wolfville I thought it must have been named that because there were a lot of wolves in this area. But, no.

STICK NEWS

Kia Ora in Stick News today, there is now an official anti-bullying day in Nova Scotia. The second Thursday of the school year has been named Stand Up Against Bullying Day. On the day students are being asked to wear pink.

A teenage boy in Cambridge, Nova Scotia wore a pink polo shirt on his first day of school this year.
He was harassed for wearing the shit. People called him a homosexual and threatened to beat him up.
Two students heard about the bullying and decided to take action. CBC news reported they went to a nearby discount store and bought 50 pink shirts.
They then emailed classmates and asked them to wear the shirts to support their anti-bullying cause, which they called their ‘sea of pink’ campaign.
The next day dozens of students wore the pink shirts and hundreds more wore their own pink clothes.
When the bullied student arrived at school to see the students wearing pink, his classmates said it was a powerful moment.
"Definitely it looked like there was a big weight lifted off his shoulders. He went from looking right depressed to being as happy as can be."
The school principal was proud of his students.
He said: "You're always hearing about the youth of the world and how bad things are. Well, they're not that bad."
Now, the second Thursday of the school year has been officially recognized as Stand Up Against Bullying Day by the Nova Scotia government.
The Premier, a former teacher, is encouraging students to wear pink on the day and he says he was impressed by the students who started the campaign.
"I've seen circumstances as a teacher where students can make a difference, and this is one of those times when students have made a difference."

And that was Stick News for Thursday the 27th of September.
Kia Ora.

ASKING ACADIA

Do you know where the name Wolfville comes from?

No idea.

I don’t know.

Um, I have no clue where the name Wolfville comes from?

Probably when the founder of this great town came about I’m pretty sure a wolf attacked him. And he just decided to call it Wolfville because he battled that wolf so badly, that it was left with him forever. So he thought that he would like to name this great, great, great village after the wolf that had attacked him.

conversations with sarah
#317 Are Acadians different from Quebecois?

Step 1: Repeat Jack’s lines.
Step 2: Read Jack’s lines and talk to Sarah.

Jack Are Acadians different from Quebecois?

Sarah Yeah. They’re both descendants of people from France – but they settled in different areas of Canada, so the culture’s different.

Jack How many Acadians are there?

Sarah Ah, it says here in Wikipedia there are 380 thousand.

Jack And they all live in Nova Scotia?

Sarah No, most of them live in New Brunswick.

Jack Where’s that?

Sarah It’s the province next to Nova Scotia.

Jack So lots of people there speak French?

Sarah Yeah, it says 35%.

Jack But it’s different from Quebec French?

Sarah Yeah, it’s Acadian French.

links

today's news
today's STICK NEWS pictures

music

show start
artist: AdHoc
album: Toutes directions
track: La note en cage
from: Annecy, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

asking acadia start
artist: XL Ant
album: XL Ant
track: Levitation (Club Mix)
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

cws start
artist: San Sebastian
track: Happy Sad
artist site

qa start
artist: Manu Cornet
album: Distance & Temps
track: Silk Road
from: Paris, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

qa bgm
artist: sion
album: Smoky Jazz Dub
track: Back for Coffee
from: Rugby, ? (doesn't say which country - could be England, Australia, South Africa or USA)
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

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Show 511 Wednesday 26 September

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Hi, I’m Sarah. Welcome to The Daily English Show.

Today’s mistake is: I have ever ...

I‘ve heard people say things like this quite often.
I have ever been to France.
Or I have ever been snowboarding.

I think it’s an understandable mistake to make because the question is: Have you ever ... ?
Like: Have you ever been to France?
So you might think the answer would be: Yes, I have ever been to France.

But, no, if it’s not a question, don’t use ever.

Have you ever been to a baseball game?
I’ve been to a baseball game.

And the negative would be: I’ve never been to a baseball game.

And while we’re on the topic – what’s the difference between have you and have you ever?

Well, let me try to explain.

If it is a have you question it could be something that you are expecting the person to do and you’re just asking if they’ve done it yet.
Like: Have you done your homework?
Or it could be something that you think there’s a high chance that they have done, like: Have you seen The Lord of the Rings?

But have you ever implies that you think that there’s a good chance they may not have done it.

So in Wolfville I wouldn’t ask anyone: Have you ever been to Halifax? – because I would assume that most people have. But I would ask that in BC. And if I was in New Zealand I would say: Have you ever been to Canada?

STICK NEWS

Kia Ora in Stick News today, according to the Canadian Cancer Society, women should no longer systematically check their breasts for lumps each month. They say there’s no evidence the method saves lives.

Today theglobeandmail.com reported the Canadian Cancer Society has changed their tune about breast self-examination or BSE.
They said for years, breast cancer groups have distributed cards outlining how women should perform BSE, and urging them to do so at the same time each month.
But the new message is that they don’t need to check their breasts on schedule.
The Canadian Cancer Society said that monthly BSE gave women a false sense of security and results in unnecessary anxiety and treatment. They now say checking is best done with mammography and clinical breast examinations conducted by a trained nurse or physician.
Instead of DIY breast checks, the society says women should get to know their breasts and be alert to changes that may signal a problem.
They said that even though they would no longer be recommending breast self-examination as a monitoring method, it was still important for women to look at and feel their breasts to detect changes in them.

And that was Stick News for Wednesday the 26th of September.
Kia Ora.

ASKING ACADIA

Have you ever uploaded a video to the internet?

Oh, no.
No.
No.
Not one of myself no.
Not really. Not in my life.

conversations with sarah
#316 What did you do?

Step 1: Repeat Lucy’s lines.
Step 2: Read Lucy’s lines and talk to Sarah.

Sarah Let’s ask each other questions off this list.

Lucy OK, sounds good. Who’s going first?

Sarah OK, you go first.

Lucy You mean, I ask first?

Sarah Yes, you ask me a question.

Lucy OK, let’s see ... have you ever broken a bone?

Sarah No, I haven’t. Have you?

Lucy No.

Sarah OK, my turn. Let’s see ... have you ever received a present that you really hated?

Lucy Yes, I have.

Sarah What was it?

Lucy A dress. My aunt gave me this dress for my birthday when I was about 10.
I really hated it.

Sarah What did you do?

Lucy I just said thank you and tried to look happy, but I never wore it.



links

today's news
today's STICK NEWS pictures

music

show start
artist: AdHoc
album: Toutes directions
track: La note en cage
from: Annecy, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

asking acadia start
artist: XL Ant
album: XL Ant
track: Levitation (Club Mix)
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

cws start
artist: San Sebastian
track: Happy Sad
artist site

qa start
artist: Manu Cornet
album: Distance & Temps
track: Silk Road
from: Paris, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

qa bgm
artist: sion
album: Smoky Jazz Dub
track: Back for Coffee
from: Rugby, ? (doesn't say which country - could be England, Australia, South Africa or USA)
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

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Show 510 Tuesday 25 September

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Hi, I’m Sarah. Welcome to The Daily English Show.

I’ve been doing a few interviews recently. I mean not me interviewing someone – but being interviewed for a change.
I did that interview before I left Nelson. And then yesterday I was interviewed by the editor of the student newspaper ... which I haven’t quite worked out how to pronounce. The athenaeum. Maybe.
I think that interview was for an article and also for their podcast.

I was actually on the cover of this paper last week, doing yoga of all things. I just happened go to that free class that they had when the yoga center opened and there was a photographer there. Anyway, I’m not going to show you that.

But I will show you this – I put a notice in their classified section to ask if anyone wants to help us out with The Daily English Show or answer a question on camera for the Asking Acadia section. I wonder if anyone will actually email me.

Also, today I got an email from someone at CBC – that stands for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. And they said they wanted to interview me. So we had a talk on the phone. And now I’m going to be on their afternoon show. So that’s going to be sometime between 4 and 6pm tomorrow – which is Wednesday the 26th of September.

Another thing that’s going on tomorrow is an election. It is the SRC By-Election Day. SRC stands for Students’ Representative Council.
And in today’s paper, you can see all the candidates in this newspaper.

There are many positions like:

Grad Class President
Grad Class Vice President
Councilor at Large ...

I don’t even know what that means. I thought it might be helpful if they published something describing a bit about what the jobs involved. But maybe everyone already knows.

STICK NEWS

Kia Ora in Stick News today, it’s election time at Acadia University. Tomorrow students will vote in the Students’ Representative Council by-election.

The Students’ Representative Council is the governing body of the Acadia Students’ Union.
Elections are held twice a year to choose the members of the council. There is a general election in February and a by-election in September.
Today the Acadia student newspaper published write-ups for each candidate in tomorrow’s election.
One student wrote this: “We’re coming to the pinnacle of our university careers at one of the best schools in the world. We should be united in spirit as a class, and give back to the school that has helped us grow together as a family.”
Another candidate shared her dream for the future: “I want nothing more than to return to Wolfville when I’m sixty and shake my broken old hips on the dance floor with my aging (and still amazing) friends and classmates”.
One person even wrote a poem: “I’ve got a lot to give and the only thing I lack, Is a last name that can be pronounced, and that is a fact”.

And that was Stick News for Tuesday the 25th of September.
Kia Ora.

ASKING ACADIA
Are you going to vote tomorrow?

Yes, I am.

Honestly, probably not. And only because um, it’s a lack of information I’m not aware of what they do. I’ve seen a lot of signs around, but nobody’s actually taken the time to explain to me what they do and what their roles are. So I can’t differentiate between candidates.

Oh, probably.

Um, no I guess. I don’t really know if there’s anything to vote about.

Yes.

conversations with sarah
#315 What were people protesting about?

Step 1: Repeat Jarrod’s lines.
Step 2: Read Jarrod’s lines and talk to Sarah.

Jarrod Are student politics big at universities in New Zealand?

Sarah Yeah, at Vic they were because they had a big political science department. And it was the capital city. I think a lot of people interested in politics go to that university.

Jarrod Were you interested in politics?

Sarah Yeah, from a journalists perspective. Not to join in myself.

Jarrod Can you remember who the president was?

Sarah I think I remember what he looked like. I can’t remember his name. I remember people shouting stuff over loudspeakers.

Jarrod Shouting what?

Sarah Oh, there were often protest marches to parliament.

Jarrod What were people protesting about?

Sarah Usually fees.

Jarrod Too high?

Sarah Yeah.

Jarrod Did you go on any marches?

Sarah Yeah, a couple.

links

today's STICK NEWS pictures

music

show start
artist: AdHoc
album: Toutes directions
track: La note en cage
from: Annecy, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

asking acadia start
artist: XL Ant
album: XL Ant
track: Levitation (Club Mix)
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

cws start
artist: San Sebastian
track: Happy Sad
artist site

qa start
artist: Manu Cornet
album: Distance & Temps
track: Silk Road
from: Paris, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

qa bgm
artist: sion
album: Smoky Jazz Dub
track: Back for Coffee
from: Rugby, ? (doesn't say which country - could be England, Australia, South Africa or USA)
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

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Show 509 Monday 24 September

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Hi, I’m Sarah. Welcome to The Daily English Show.

Today we scored an interview with the president!
Kyle is the president of the Acadia Students’ Union. And he’s also a student, so the first question I asked him was:

What are you studying?

I’m a French major, doing a minor in political science and math.

STICK NEWS

Kia Ora in Stick News today, Virgin Mobile is being sued after they used a photo of a 16-year-old girl in an ad campaign, without asking for her permission.

Virgin Mobile Australia is a mobile phone company based in Sydney, Australia.
Their latest national advertising campaign is called 'Are You With Us Or What?'
For the campaign, they used images from Flickr, without asking for permission from the people in the photos.
One image was of a 16-year-old girl from Texas.
The photo was taken by an acquaintance, who then posted it on his Flickr page. He chose a Creative Commons license that allows others to use the photo, if they credit the photographer.
The ad features the photo of the girl doing a peace sign, with one of the campaign slogans, “Dump your pen friend”.

In the lawsuit, the girl’s family says the experience damaged her reputation, exposed her to ridicule from her peers and scrutiny from people who can now Google her.

And that was Stick News for Monday the 24th of September.
Kia Ora.

conversations with sarah
#314 How did you win the election?

Step 1: Repeat Sarah’s lines.
Step 2: Read Sarah’s lines and talk to Kyle.

Sarah Why did you decide to run for president?

Kyle Um, I guess a lot of it had to do with, ah, the fact that I’m, I’m pretty passionate about the student body here and about Acadia University itself. And, ah, I had been a president in one of the residences and I just figured that I could take a lot of things to like a higher level. So that’s why I did it.

Sarah How did you win the election?

Kyle Um, a two week campaign. Um, we did a lot of posters, a lot of signage.
A lot of just talking to general people and trying to get them, you know, excited about what we, what we had to offer. Um, I ran with two different people, so it was kind of like a slate. Um, but ah yeah, it was basically just a lot of really mad campaigning and ah, a lot of sleepless nights and ah, we went from there.

Sarah What does your job involve?

Kyle Basically, as a president of the organization I oversee all the services that the union provides. I oversee the executive. Um, but I am responsible to the student body at large. So, I’m kind of the bottom of the food chain. Um, so, I’m directed by the students as to what they want me to do. Um, but I also represent the union to national government, provincial governments, ah, to the administration.

Sarah Do you enjoy the job?

Kyle Love it. Every minute of it. I mean some days can be pretty stressful and I’ll go home and I’ll just be, “Oh, why did I even try to do this.” But then an hour later you’ll realize just like how awesome it was and how much of a, you know, an effect you had on the general student body just in that day.

Sarah What do you most enjoy about it?

Kyle Um, the interaction with people. I’m a people person so I love being able to chat and talk with people. So, getting to meet new people on a daily basis is really neat. And, ah, also ah, you know, being able to kind of connect yourself with alumni and the board of governors and those people are really neat to, you know, to be able to engage yourself with every day.

Sarah What are the issues that students most complain about?

Kyle Right now, it’s obviously faculty negotiations. Ah, that’s something that we hearing a lot of and something we’re campaigning about right now, trying to build awareness on. Um, there’s not really many other issues at this time. It’s so early in the year, so it’s really hard to gauge what the issues are going to be. Ah, but typically during the year, I mean, there aren’t really many complaints heard. It’s usually it’s just like an individual having, you know, one issue with something that can be taken care of pretty quick.

Sarah What would you most like to improve at Acadia?

Kyle Um, communication. And that was something that we set out in our goals in our campaign was that we wanted to communicate better and, you know, invent new ways of doing so.
So, I mean, we started, you know, with a big blitz with Facebook this year obviously that’s the big thing. Ah, podcasting, videocasts. Um, I mean this week we have a general meeting of the student body. Which we can get 140 people to go to. So that’s a huge thing. Really getting all the students involved this year and that was something we really wanted to do.

Sarah Do you want to be a politician?

Kyle Um, it’s lurked in my mind. A couple of times. Ah, I don’t really know if it’s something that ... I more or less want to be a teacher, that’s kind of what I’m going for. But if the opportunity ever presented itself, I’d sure take it up.

links

today's news
today's STICK NEWS pictures
Kyle Steele - president of the Acadia Students' Union

music

show start
artist: AdHoc
album: Toutes directions
track: La note en cage
from: Annecy, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

cws start
artist: San Sebastian
track: Happy Sad
artist site

qa start
artist: Manu Cornet
album: Distance & Temps
track: Silk Road
from: Paris, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

qa bgm
artist: XL Ant
album: XL Ant
track: Reality (Chill Out mix)

album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

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Show 508 Sunday 23 September

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Sunday Kitchen #65 Wine Tasting

And John’s going to lead you through a tasting of these seven wines, ah, to give you a real quick grasp on varieties from around the world. Thanks for coming and have some fun.

I always start with one thing: the first thing you have to understand about wine is that wine is a farmer’s crop. OK? Every bottle of wine comes from the hands of a farmer somewhere in the world. And as you know, living in a(n) agricultural community, farmers need every penny they can get for their crop. So, here’s to the farmer, thank you.

He’s been in the industry for a long time. He’s into everything from the vineyards, to the winery, to the marketing, to the making. He understands the complete game that is the wine world. So, what I’m going to do is I’m going to ask Peter to give you a little song and dance and tell you about this beautiful wine that comes from Nova Scotia.

Benjamin Bridge is a winery that’s starting literally around the corner. So we’re sort of over top of the hill and just down on the other side of the ridge on White Rock Road.

The climate in Nova Scotia is absolutely fantastic for, for sparkling wines and for aromatic whites.

So this grape variety is ... it’s meant to be comfortable, casual, at home ... goes great on, you know, decks and wharves and things like that. It’s low alcohol. Moscato d'Asti’s actually only about five and a half percent. We’ve run this to about seven. And we think with out climate it’s about where we want to be. So it’s lower alcohol, easily consumed, often too easily.

Put your nose right in. The nose on this wine is beautiful.

One of the beautiful things about the bubbys – and this is one of the reasons they were first used – is that they were, they were given to patients in the health care system in France.

You want to get some air in there. The air opens up wine. That’s why we give it a twirl.

I can just put Burgundy on my bottle and everybody in France knows that it’s a Pinot Noir – because only Pinot Noir is grown in Burgundy. But, I can’t use Burgundy if I’m growing a Pinot Noir in California.

Wine makers, like Peter, their real skill is taking different wines, and blending them.

We’re going to drink some Zinfandel in a little while and I can tell you, a real Zinfandel is nothing is nothing like those white Zinfandels. It’s big, it’s kind of in your face, um very, it’s beautiful.

She is also the largest organic grape grower in South Africa.

You can make crappy wine out of great grapes, but you can never make great wine out of crappy grapes.

Here’s something I want to tell you: the world of wine is wonderful.

The Shiraz grape loves heat. And it will make a grape that will give you alcohol up to 17 percent, in the vineyard. The problem is you’ve got 17 percent wine, it tastes like alcohol, and second of all, after half a glass you’ll be talking to Jesus.

And there is actually a man by the name of Wolf Blass. He’s a little guy about this guy, he’s a German ah ... of German origin.

There is no correlation between quality and price. Last year the top 100 wines in the world had five wines that were over 700 hundred dollars and yet the average price of the top 100 wines in the world last year was 28 dollars and seventy something cents.

Buy a bottle of wine, taste it, and if you don’t like it, never buy it again. Find the ones you like. Only drink the ones you like.

Wine is kind of like people, in that you never know exactly where it’s going to end up.

So, all wines don’t necessarily get better as they get older.

I can tell you right now, that 99 percent of all the wines you buy from the liquor corporation are meant to drink now.

And most people have a, a false impression that you can age a wine for ever and it’ll get better and better.

I’d rather you buy a 12 dollar bottle and like it, than, than buy a 30 dollar bottle that you’re really paying for the label.

We make white wine out of red grapes sometimes. Because if you crush a red grape, you’ll notice the juice inside’s white. OK? And that’s because all the colour and the flavour in the grape is on that jelly layer on the inside of the grape. So we crush the grape up and we let it sit in a big vat in its skins. And we either punch cap it, which is when we push the cap down like this ‘cos all the skins come to the top. Or we have great big giant vats where they continually keep pouring wine over the grape to keep pushing it down. And that’s how we get the colour in our grape, in our wine.

I don’t have much more to say. Have fun, enjoy it and it’s an amazing world, the world of wine. Thank you.

links

wine tasting

Tempest

Bishop's Cellar

music

show start
artist: AdHoc
album: Toutes directions
track: La note en cage
from: Annecy, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

other music
artist: AdHoc
album: Toutes directions
track: Rendez-vous au .org
from: Annecy, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

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Show 507 Saturday 22 September

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Last Sunday, some nice people took us on a bit of a tour to some places near Wolfville.
The part of Nova Scotia we are in is called the Annapolis Valley.

We drove through a town called Canning and we stopped to look at some Canadian geese.

I really like the colour of the sand on this beach.

We stopped at a place called a look off. There was a beautiful view.

This is Hall’s Harbour. Hall’s Harbour started out as a pirate base. We didn’t see any pirates though.

This is the Acadian flag.
And this is a plant inside a gumboot.
A wishing well.

The most famous thing around here is the tides.

The Bay of Fundy’s funnel shape and prevailing Atlantic Ocean currents conspire with planetary rotation to create the highest tides on Earth – as much as 16 meters above low tide.

See this poor little boat has no water to float in now ... but in a few hours it’ll be a different story. This is a picture from the sign.

Birdie.
Nice rocks.

We went into a really old shop.
They were selling something called dulse. I’d never heard of dulse before.

Then we went to see these cool concrete houses. Some people were renting this house and they let us go inside and have a look.

After we saw the houses, we drove to the concrete house museum.

This is me with a pumpkin. Me and some geese.

We had a really nice lunch at the union street café in Berwick.

Then we went home.

links

Canning
Bay of Fundy
Annapolis Valley Wikipedia

Canadian Geese
Acadians
Dulse
Concrete Houses
Union Street Cafe

music

show start
artist: AdHoc
album: Toutes directions
track: La note en cage
from: Annecy, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

other music
artist: Manu Cornet
album: Distance & Temps
track: Silk Road
from: Paris, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

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Show 506 Friday 21 September

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Hi, I’m Sarah. Welcome to The Daily English Show.

Today we went on a trip with the English language students.

We went on a boat called Bluenose ll.

This is from Wikipedia:
Bluenose was a Canadian schooner from Nova Scotia, a celebrated racing ship and a symbol of the province.

It was launched in 1921 and in 1946 it hit a reef and sank.

It also says:

The depiction of a generic schooner on the Canadian dime has for years been commonly known as the Bluenose. In 2002, the government of Canada declared the depiction on the dime to be the Bluenose.

Dime means 10 cent piece, by the way.

And more from Wikipedia:

Bluenose II, was launched at Lunenburg on July 24, 1963, built to original plans by many of the same workers. She cost $300,000 to build and was financed by the Oland Family as a marketing tool for their brewery operations in Halifax and Saint John. Her popularity led (to) her being sold to the government of Nova Scotia which in turn gave possession of the ship to the Bluenose II Preservation Trust.
And it says that these days, the Bluenose II serves as a goodwill ambassador, a tourist attraction in Lunenburg, and a symbol of the province.

So we went on the boat and it was great. I’m not really much of a boat person actually, but this was really nice.
The town of Lunenburg is really pretty too. I love the bright colours of the buildings.
Here’s some footage of the trip.

STICK NEWS

Kia Ora in Stick News today, a bar owner in Osaka Japan has been arrested after serving alcohol to a customer she knew would be driving. Kyodo news reported the arrest was the first of its kind.

The drink driving laws in Japan have been changed. The amendment went into effect on Monday and makes anyone who provides alcohol to drivers liable for punishment.
Yesterday police arrested a 53-year-old bar owner in Osaka. They say she served several glasses of beer to a 45-year-old man, even though she knew he would be driving later on. The customer was also arrested.

And that was Stick News for Friday the 21st of September.
Kia Ora.

friday joke

A man visits his aunty in a rest home. When he arrives, she’s asleep, so he sits down in a chair in her room and flips through a few magazines, and munches on some almonds which are sitting in a bowl on the table.

Eventually, his aunty wakes up, and the man realizes he has absent-mindedly finished the entire bowl of almonds.

"I'm so sorry, aunty, I've eaten all of your almonds!"

"That's okay, dearie," the aunty replies. "After I've sucked the chocolate off, I don't really like eating the almonds anyway”.

conversations with sarah
#313 How was the trip?

Step 1: Repeat Jenna’s lines.
Step 2: Read Jenna’s lines and talk to Sarah.

Jenna How was the trip?

Sarah It was great. The weather was perfect and the boat was really beautiful and sparkling clean. My image of boats is of dirty, smelly boats ... but this was really nice. It was like sailing right out of a museum.

Jenna Who organized the trip?

Sarah The English language division.

Jenna Do they often go on trips like that?

Sarah Yeah, they do, on Fridays. Not every Friday, but quite often they go on trips to see things around the province.

Jenna Was it a day trip?

Sarah Yeah, we left in the morning at about quarter past seven and then got back about three I think.

Jenna So you had lunch in Lunenburg?

Sarah Yeah, we went to this nice little café. I can’t remember what it was called, but the food was great.

notes

I'm not much of a x person = I don't really like x.

aunty is also spelled auntie

dearie = dear
From my dictionary:
old-fashioned, BrE, spoken
used to address sb in a friendly way
used as a friendly or condescending form of address

I said the English language division but it's actually called the Acadia Centre for International Languages which is part of Continuing and Distance Education. I'm still a bit confused by all the names ...

links

today's news
today's STICK NEWS pictures

I found the joke here - but I rewrote it a bit.

Bluenose
Lunenburg

music

show start
artist: AdHoc
album: Toutes directions
track: La note en cage
from: Annecy, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

friday joke start
artist: AdHoc
album: Toutes directions
track: Sumbala
from: Annecy, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

cws start
artist: San Sebastian
track: Happy Sad
artist site

qa start
artist: Manu Cornet
album: Distance & Temps
track: Silk Road
from: Paris, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

qa bgm
artist: Manu Cornet
album: Distance & Temps
track: Un peu plus tard
from: Paris, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

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Show 505 Thursday 20 September

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Hi, I’m Sarah. Welcome to The Daily English Show.

Since I’ve been here at Acadia, I’ve picked up quite a few brochures and flyers to read because I think that’s quite a good way to find out stuff about a new place.

And I found something interesting in this book. This is the Acadia University Academic Handbook. And inside here I found Acadia’s mission statement.

A mission statement, according to this dictionary, is a formal summary of the aims and values of an organization.

This is Acadia’s mission statement:

The mission of Acadia University is to provide a personalized and rigorous liberal education; promote a robust and respectful scholarly community; and inspire a diversity of students to become critical thinkers, lifelong learners, engaged citizens, and responsible global leaders.

I think that’s a pretty good mission. And I used to work at ECC in Japan and I quite liked their mission statement too.

IT IS OUR GOAL, THROUGH THE TEACHING OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES, TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR STUDENTS' CAPABILITIES, INTERNATIONAL AWARENESS AND LEADERSHIP QUALITIES. IN THIS WAY, WE HOPE TO PROMOTE MORE INTERACTION AND UNDERSTANDING AMONG THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD, THUS HELPING TO CONTRIBUTE TO WORLD PEACE.

What do you think of mission statements? I guess they can be kind of pointless if the organization doesn’t really believe or want to follow the statement.

But I think they also can be useful. So I thought I might write one for The Daily English Show. Of course, I have a general idea of what our mission or purpose is. But I thought it might be a good idea to focus it with a mission statement.
Do you have any ideas?

STICK NEWS

Kia Ora in Stick News today, the loonie briefly matched the US dollar for the first time since 1976.

The Canadian dollar is nicknamed the “loonie” because it bears the image of a well-known Canadian bird called the loon.
Today, for the first time in more than 30 thirty years, the loonie matched the US dollar.
Back in 2002, one Canadian dollar bought 61 US cents.
According to Wikinews, the Canadian dollar's recent rise is partly due to the soaring prices of oil, gold, copper, and wheat, which Canada exports in great quantities.
As a result of their rising currency, Canadians have enjoyed cheaper imports from the US and tourism in the US, while export industries have suffered.

And that was Stick News for Thursday the 20th of September.
Kia Ora.



ASKING ACADIA
What do you think of the Axe?

I’ve never been. I just, I’m new here and I have never been yet. You, you picked the wrong person.

Um, I think it’s alright. Ah, there’s some changes that I think ... they’ve been trying to make which is good. It’s changed over the years I’ve been here. So I definitely enjoy it.

I’ve never ever visited there, but ... so I can’t say.

I guess I like it. And I like the fact that they have wet dry nights for the people who are underage too.

Oh I think it’s good, it seems to be pretty fun, they have a lot of cool events, so...

conversations with sarah
#312 Did you get trashed?

Step 1: Repeat Mary’s lines.
Step 2: Read Mary’s lines and talk to Sarah.

Sarah I went to a wine tasting event last night.

Mary Cool. How was it?

Sarah Great. It was fun.

Mary Did you get trashed?

Sarah No, not at all, there was only a little bit in each glass.

Mary Was it at the university?

Sarah No, it was at a restaurant in Wolfville.

Mary How many wines did you try?

Sarah About eight.

Mary Were they local wines?

Sarah One of them was. And the rest were all from different countries. Not from New Zealand though, which was strange, because the poster said, from New Zealand to Nova Scotia.

notes

The Axe (officially called The Axe Lounge) is the bar at Acadia University. This is their site.

trashed means very drunk

wet dry nights I don't know what these are - I guess they are some kind of event which underage people can also attend. The drinking age in Canada is 19.

links

today's news
today's STICK NEWS pictures

mission statement
ECC
loonie

Temptest - the restaurant where the wine tasting event was

music

show start
artist: AdHoc
album: Toutes directions
track: La note en cage
from: Annecy, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

asking acadia start
artist: XL Ant
album: XL Ant
track: Levitation (Club Mix)
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

cws start
artist: San Sebastian
track: Happy Sad
artist site

qa start
artist: Manu Cornet
album: Distance & Temps
track: Silk Road
from: Paris, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

qa bgm
artist: HOTEL 7
album: HOTEL 7
track: Deep 2 am
from: Milano, Italy
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site
YouTube channel

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Show 504 Wednesday 19 September

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Hi, I’m Sarah. Welcome to The Daily English Show.

Today’s mistake comes from a student of mine from Brazil. As you may know I teach English online. And so far all my students have been from Japan and Brazil.
I have never been to Brazil so it’s really cool having students from there – I get to learn a bit about the place. And also learn a bit about Portuguese – because people’s mistakes often come from the fact that that’s how you say it in your native language.

So one of things my student said was, normal. He said this when I asked him things like: How was your weekend? or How was work today?
He would answer, mmm, normal. And so I told him, in English it’s strange to answer normal, instead you could say, OK or alright or the same as usual.
And then he explained that the reason why he made that mistake is because that’s how they say it in Portuguese.
And I thought, “oh, that’s interesting”, because it’s similar to Japanese.
Normal in Japanese is futsu – and you can use that word to reply to questions sometimes to mean OK or alright.

STICK NEWS

Kia Ora in Stick News today, a woman climbed onto a sumo ring. A Japanese newspaper reported it was the first time ever a woman had stood on a dohyo.

Sumo is a Japanese sport in which two fat men try to push each other out of a ring, called a dohyo.
Women are not allowed inside the dohyo.
But today at Ryogoku Kokugikan, for no apparent reason, a woman climbed on stage at a sumo tournament.
She was holding pieces of paper with writing on them, including one which said, “help me!”
The judge, a former sumo wrestler, promptly pulled the woman from the stage.

And that was Stick News for Wednesday the 19th of September.
Kia Ora.

ASKING ACADIA
Do you use myPantry?

Um, every once in a while. Um, I like even just getting a few things out of the fridge they have there. Especially the soymilk.

No, I live off campus.

MyPantry, I do, I do. I’ve cooked the pasta and I like to make breakfast in the morning sometimes.

No, I don’t. I live off campus.

Yes. I usually use the blender to make smoothies. And sometimes they have pasta there, that was really good. Especially they had nothing really I liked that day. So ... And for breakfast, the waffles, they’re pretty good.

Ah, I haven’t yet. But I saw it.
I do use myPantry. Quite a bit actually.

conversations with sarah
#311 Do you like sumo?

Step 1: Repeat Charles’s lines.
Step 2: Read Charles’s lines and talk to Sarah.

Charles Do you like sumo?

Sarah Mmm. Yeah, it’s kind of interesting. I just don’t think it’s that … inspiring.

Charles What do you mean?

Sarah It’s so unhealthy.

Charles Why?

Sarah Why? Because they’re so fat. It’s not healthy to be that fat. They die really young.

Charles Lots of sports are dangerous though.

Sarah Yeah, true. It’s different though.

Charles How is it different?

Sarah Well, there’s usually a risk that you’ll get badly injured or that you’ll die in a sports accident, but the people that don’t have an accident are fine. But with sumo, pretty much all of the wrestlers will have bad health later on I think.

notes

myPantry is a part of Acadia's meal hall. In myPantry, ingredients and utentils are provided and students can cook for themselves.

I talked about myPantry in Show 501.

STICK NEWS in Show 495 was about Acadia's meal hall.

Read more about dining at Acadia University.

Acadia's video about myPantry.

links

today's news (Japanese only)
also here
a video clip of the incident

today's STICK NEWS pictures

music

show start
artist: AdHoc
album: Toutes directions
track: La note en cage
from: Annecy, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

asking acadia start
artist: XL Ant
album: XL Ant
track: Levitation (Club Mix)
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

cws start
artist: San Sebastian
track: Happy Sad
artist site

qa start
artist: Manu Cornet
album: Distance & Temps
track: Silk Road
from: Paris, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

qa bgm
artist: HOTEL 7
album: HOTEL 7
track: Deep 2 am
from: Milano, Italy
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site
YouTube channel

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