Interview with my mother

Technology issues

My mother is a senior lady with high problems with new technologies and products that have been appearing through the years, when she is using any kind of products she has to ask me or my brothers to help her use it.
It's not only because she is an aged woman, she also doesn't known Spanish nor English which makes it more difficult to her to understand some modern artifacts.
This are some of the questions I made to her after I tried to teach her use the computer:

Q. How do you see the technology of today?
A. It's very very difficult if you don't know the basics nor the language

Q.Do you see yourself using well the computer?
A. No, I barely can touch the icons and guide myself with colors and figures.

Q.Are you interested to learn about technology?
A. Yes of course technology makes peoples live more easy and comfortable , but I'm a little old for this.

Alejandro Law.
Yuen Lai Wan.( My mother )

Immigration policies

Borders open

Costa Rica is a fine country where immigrants are welcome to stay.Here there are any kind of immigrant legal or not from every part of the globe.There's a high percentage of illegal immigrants in the country, so one of the policies, is that all citizen must have and ID card,if not it is send to the migration building, and if it is a illegal immigrant they are returned to their original country.
Another policy is that when you are about to enter to the country you must show papers and registration, that way police can know if they are visiting or else.

Letter to organizer

Dear Organizer
I'm Alejandro Law from English II with Olga Chavez, my group made a presentation of South Africa. I consider that the activity was very good and we had enough time to prepared.Seeing the others groups presentations I realized that the English from the all the groups where not different from each other,I liked the activity because it was educational , and their was food for everyone.

Alejandro Law

Nanaimo Bars

A Canadian Dish

These rich, sweet, chocolatey confections are named for a town on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. As far as anyone can tell, the recipe by a local woman named Mabel Jenkins first appeared in a cookbook in the 1950s. Her easy, no-bake recipe for bars with a layers of graham cracker crumbs, creamy custard and sweet chocolate is now popular all over Canada and in the American Pacific Northwest.

Makes 12 big bars or 24 smaller bars

Bottom Layer

Unsalted butter -- 1/2 cup (8 tablespoons)

Cocoa powder -- 5 tablespoons

Sugar -- 1/4 cup

Egg, beaten -- 1

Graham cracker crumbs -- 1 1/4 cups

Shredded, sweetened coconut -- 1 cup

Chopped almonds, pecans or walnuts -- 1/2 cup

Middle Layer

Powdered (confectioner's) sugar -- 2 cups

Unsalted butter -- 1/2 cup (8 tablespoons)

Milk or heavy cream -- 3 tablespoons

Vanilla custard powder or instant vanilla pudding mix -- 2 tablespoons

Top Layer

Semi-sweet chocolate -- 4 (1-ounce) squares

Unsalted butter -- 2 tablespoons

Method

1. Bottom Layer: Put the butter, cocoa powder and sugar into a saucepan and place it over low flame. Stir to melt the butter and blend the ingredients. Whisk in the beaten and cook, stirring constantly, until the mixture starts to thicken, around 2 to 3 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in the remaining ingredients. Pour the mixture into the bottom of a greased 9x9-inch baking pan and press down firmly to form an even layer.




2. Middle Layer: Use a tabletop or hand-held mixer to beat together middle layer ingredients until they form a light and fluffy mixture. Spread the butter cream mixture evenly over the bottom layer in the baking pan.




3. Top Layer: Place the chocolate and unsalted butter for the top layer in a small saucepan over low flame. Stir until the chocolate and butter are melted and form a smooth mixture with a nice sheen. Spread the chocolate layer evenly over the butter cream layer in the baking pan. Set the pan in the refrigerator and chill thoroughly.




4. To cut into bars, first bring to room temperature, then cut with a sharp knife.

Why not at home

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School at home

There is a constant fear in the mind of the parents, fear that their kids get hurt at school , an accident in the school bus , a professor teaching wrong values. We live in a dangerous country were kids get kidnapped, raped or get something stolen.

Parents do not take´s risk so they teach their kids at home.
In that aspect is safer but also not the best because at school kids stay at least 5 hours at school learning with a schedule and they can make socialize and make friends and be part of a system. Costa rica´s education is not bad at all , with qualified teachers making house Schooling is not necessary yet.

Community service

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By Law Students from college and high school are send to do community service to provide help to the public or a institution by force.Is often done by volunteers, but if the students are doing it by force it is not as is define. Community service should not be force to the students to be done, only if it is for college because it is like a preparation for the job after they graduate. For students in high school community service can't be force to do , students must have the initiative to do it if, not the work would not be worth,and students won't learn anything for the experience. Alejandro Law

Video!

Longevity

Longevity can be related to long life.People believe that is related to a good diet and good health.Aging is part of growing up,that is the lost of proteins thorough t the years.A advantage of longevity is that may live longer and achieve goals before dying , and populate more the planet,
a disadvantage is that less people dies the planet gets too crowded and there will not be enough resources too fulfill our needs. To have a long life is very important to have in mind to have a lot of exercise and eat in a healthy way, its obvious that many people search a long life grew old having a hundred twenty years old cause people is afraid to die, or anything related to it.The thing is that in school teachers do not teach the nature of death in kinder garden, and it should cause dying is a part of life.