I’m Meichen, now I’m still in auckland waiting for my form to apply for the visa. I went back to school, most of the students have gone, well, siva has gone for holiday too. Is everyone ok? Have you got accustomed to your life in your country?
Tommorrow Nam will graduate from school, good luck nam!
Best wishes,
Meichen
Some of us like to shop and some of us just do it because they need to. We all have different shopping habits and we do our shopping in different locations. Maybe you only shop clothes one time per year, or maybe you buy clothes one time per week.
We have made a survey about EF students shopping habits. Five people where asked where and when they shop. We have asked people from different background and sex. Most of the answers where about the same, but in some of the cases there where a difference.
The questions where following:
All of the people we asked bought most of the time, clothes. All of us, more or less needs to buy clothes for the right type of weather and to look respectable. The difference is that girls prefer to buy clothes and the guys like to buy electronic equipment. Three of the asked people do there shopping with their friends and two of the students prefer to buy their things by themselves. We asked the question, if the students where loyal to a specific brad. Half of the students answered yes on this question, and the rest didn’t care about brand loyalty. But all of the guys where very conscious about what kind of brand they shoos. It seams that most of the people like to prepare a list before there shopping. They want to know what they are going to buy when they are going on their shopping trip. But one of the asked people, liked to walk down to the city centre and just buy things on impulse. This can be an expensive way to go shopping, when you don’t have the same control over our money. This person also had a high budget when she where shopping. Still this person liked to compare prices in different shops before she where going to buy her, for an example clothes. Almost all the people answered the same on this question. They liked to check up prices in at least, three shops. It’s a good way to save money, when it can be a big difference in price in different shops. For an example, there can be an on sales weekend.
An intrusting question was about, where people do there shopping. I thought that a lot of the asked people liked to do there shopping over internet. Unfortunately, most of the students liked to shop the normal way. They probably like to see what you buy and still
They all like to go shopping on the weekend,sometimes on the public holidays as they’ve lots of time.Most of them buy clothes for youselves,some for their mothers.They like to go shoping once or twice a month and theyt spend half of a day,even longer time for shopping.
Thanks for your support & cooperation of the students & teachers.
At EF schoolOn 18th May.2007Eric & Jack
Shopping habits of the EF students.
We interviewed several students from a typical EF class. The survey was composed of 14 questions split in 4 different topics. First, we asked general questions to introduce the subject, then, there were questions about shopping habits, shopping in
Auckland and finally brands and advertisement. We collected answers from 7 students who come from different countries.
The purpose of this questionnaire is to find out interesting information about shopping habits of students from different countries.
Results
General information
All of them enjoy going shopping. However, the frequency fluctuates from twice a month to almost everyday. It is also noticeable that girls are more enthusiastic and tend to go shopping more often than men.
Shopping Habits
Most of the interviewees prefer going shopping with friends. We noticed that the mains factors when buying an article are quality as well as price and that the huge majority of the students compare prices in different shops before buying what they are looking for. Also, we found out that the men from
Saudi Arabia look less concerned about budget than the other students.
Shopping in
Auckland
A considerable number of students do not have a favourite shopping place in
New Zealand. Moreover, they generally do shopping more often in their own country than in
Auckland; although, most of them like the shopping facilities here.
Brands and advertisement
Apart from the Saudi Arabian men, the interviewees are neither brand conscious, nor brand loyal. Also, half of them are easily affected by advertisements. Furthermore, they consider TV and magazines as the most effective way of advertising.
Comments
We can clearly notice a sharp difference in the shopping habits between the Saudi Arabian and the rest of the World. This could be explained by cultural differences, that are particularly strong between them and the others students. It is also remarkable that there is an important diversity in the answer about the perception of advertisement, that is due to personality more than gender or nationality.
Acknowledgement
We want to thanks all the students who kindly answered to our questionnaire: Sary, Som, Emilia, Manami, Aya, Akil and Saeed.We also thanks the teacher Gesa who allowed us to interviewed her students during class time.We also thanks our teacher Siva because it is the best teacher and also, because we want to get a good report.
We are Siva’s students and we had to make a survey about shopping habits. We created a questionnaire and we introduced it to the Ef students. We interviewed six students from different classes, countries, sex and ages.This purpose is for improving our interview skills and English.
The students like to go shopping for clothes. Some students go shopping once a week, but sometimes just for window shopping. Actually they buy something once per two weeks. On one hand, most of them prefer to make it with some friends, because they can help to choose but on the other hand some of them like to go by themselves because they can take their own time.We discovered that Asian people like using Internet, first reason is because it’s cheaper. Second one is because is easier. However, Europeans prefer to go in commercial center because of the choice. Almost everybody spend 2 hours in the shops. Students think that the most important factor is the quality and the second one price. They don’t care to spend more money if they find the product high quality and useful. Every student doesn’t care about brand. They are not brand royal and conscious. All of them prefer to go shopping in their own country for different reason. For Asian students, clothes and products are more fashionable in their own country than
Auckland, then it is cheaper and more choice. The fashion in NZ is too different than
Europe that’s why they like to go shopping in their country. There it’s easier to find clothes because of the choices. Commercials, Internet, friends and famous people influence the shopping habits. It depends for what kind of product. Students are ready to spend between 50 and 100 NZ dollars but for some of them, it’s not a problem to spend more money when it’s necessary. As a result of this survey, they have a similar habit. Each student likes to go shopping in their own country and they spend about 2 hours for shopping. But there is a difference between Asian and European. Asian people use Internet for shopping and spend money more than European.
Furthermore we didn’t find a difference between girls and boys. Both of them like going shopping and spending time to do it.
Takuya and Sidonie
Basically what we’ve done is to come up with 10 questions for EF students to answer regarding clothes shopping.Siva sent us to a class in the Nelson classroom containing level 3 or 4 students.The class contained mostly Arabic and South-American students.We interviewed total 8 students. The questions that we asked were following
Findings: 1.- 5 of 8 students said that they like to go shopping with friends., the rest by themselves.
2.- 5 of 8 said that they go shopping once a month, 2 once every six month and just one once every 6 month.
3.- 6 of them said that they prefer comfortable cloth than something fashionable.
4.- 5 of them said that they don’t care about the prices
5.- 6 of them have a brand loyalty, specially with brands like Nike, Adidas, and Echo. 6.
– 6 oh theme said that advertisements don’t make a difference in their decisions by the time there are shopping.
7.– All of the 8 students agree that woman have an obsession for shopping more than men, but just because of an stereotype.
8.- just 5 of them said that child-labour affects their shopping decisions.
9.- 4 said they prefer to buy in their home country, 2 in Auckland, specially in New Market or at Queen St, and 2 in somewhere else.
10.- 6 of theme said they were impulsive shoppers, and the other 2 in an specific time Now, as we can see on the report, most of the students have very similar shopping habits.The survey shows that people like to go shopping with friends, which was what we expected before the survey.Also regarding how often the students shopped we thought that once a month would be the most likely answer which proofed we were right.
Furthermore, most of our following questions came down as we expected, that people agreed that women have a stronger obsession with shopping, and that people prefer comfortable clothes before fashionable, however when we asked about the use of child-labour, many students weren’t really aware of what it was all about, which made us a little bit surprised. We can also see that most of the students are impulsive shoppers and don’t really mind in what country they buy their clothes, they basically buy what attracts them at the time.
So, to summarize the survey, we can see that, wherever you come from, shopping habits are mostly very similar, which was the outcome we had expected.
GABRIEL & ALEX / EFTUI – Siva’s angels
This week’s topic in Unit 84 is exploring economics and commerce.We asked 6 persons about their habits concerning shopping, for example time, brand-consciousness, knowledge about their favourite brand etc. This survey should show the buying-habits of EF-students.It could help to show an image of the general buying habits of young people from all around the world.
Findings
Most students like shopping, especially shopping for clothes irrespective of gender.The average student goes for shopping about 5 – 6 times a month and spends about 2.5 hours.They mostly prefer buying clothes and spend most of the shopping-budget on them.On average the persons do not have any favourite brand (except H&M, BillaBong, Giordano which were mentioned by few of the interviewees)Nearly all interviewed students do not have a specific criterion for buying clothes, but look at the product in general.Most students prefer real (face-to-face) shopping, followed by online-shopping.The interviewees spend from 100 to 300 NZ$ on shopping (except groceries).Four out of six people are willingly to pay more money on quality food, instead of buying cheap food.
Comments
This survey cannot be taken seriously for all people around the world, because the number of the interviewees was very low, i.e. six persons.However, most of them should inform themselves better, where their consumed products are produced, in order to prevent child labour, and encourage fair-trade.
All in all, the students look at quality independent from specific brands.
We want to thank all our interviewees for spending their time for our survey.
Greetings Thomas and Andreas
Last saturday, I went to “Hobbiton”, a movie set of Lord of the Rings, in Makamaka. We departed at 8am at EF School and drove about 2 hours to Matamata. We bought some lunch and took the Hobbiton bus to the sheep farm. While we drove there, Rene used to drive our small bus to the entrance of the sheep farm.
At about 11am, we finally entered the Lord of the Rings movie set!
Our guide told us nearly everything about the places. He told us exactly which scene was filmed at which place. It was amazing.
But not everything is still there, because many things, such as gardens or animals, were taken from Great Britain to make the film exactly like the book. They made gardens, which aren’t there now, and a lot of additional decoration was removed as well.
After that, we drove to Hamilton and went to beautiful (and ugly) gardens. We took a break for about 1 hour and then we drove back.
All in all the day was great. Mainly because I am a real Lord of the Rings fan and enyoyed the whole movie set. I think it is only interesting, if you are really exited about Lord of the Rings.
Greetings
Andy
NAM NGUYENVietnamese New Year
The most popular name for the Vietnamese New Year is “Tet”; where as the formal name is “Nguyen Dan” (Lunar New Year’s Day). “Tet” is a very important because it provides one of the few breaks in the agricultural year, as it falls between the harvesting of the crops and the sowing of the new crops. The Vietnamese prepare well in advance for the New Year by cleaning their houses, polishing their copper and silverware and paying off all their debts.
They observe the custom of the kitchen god “Tao” for a week before the New Year; they believe there are three gods represented by the three legs of the cooking equipment used in the kitchen. The middle god is a woman the other two are her husbands. It was once customary to provide the gods with a carp on which to travel. The carp represents the second last stage in the process by which animals are gradually transformed into dragons. They buy a carp from the market, bring it home and place it in a bucket of water to place at the altar of the house before it is later set free.
A special rice pudding is eaten at New Year that must be prepared beforehand. The rice pudding is know as “banh chung” or “banh tet”. The pudding is filled with green bean paste and pork fat. New Year food such as preserved sweets, beef, chicken, fish, oranges, coconuts, grape-fruits and other seasonal fruits, especially watermelon. Watermelon is considered lucky because the flesh is red, so the choice of the melon must be taken carefully to find one rich in colour. The seeds are often dyed red also and served as delicacies.
The last day of the year a plant such as the bamboo tree is planted in the courtyard of their homes. They decorate the tree with bells, flowers and red streamers. The decorations are not for decorative purposes but are to guard the family against evil spirits.During the middle of the day an offering is place on alter of the household for the ancestor’s of the family. This is done every day throughout the New Year Festival and along with that incense is burnt at the altar.They believed in the custom of the first person through the door in the New Year will reflect the family’s future luck and wealth.On the first day of the New Year, they visit all their closet friends, teachers and their parents. On the second day, they visit their in-laws and other friends who are not as close. On third day, they visit the family of their teacher and their more distant relatives. On the fourth day, the spirits return to heaven and business returns to normal.
They also visit their local temple and they bring back flowers or greenery as a gift from the celestial spirits. This gift will be kept in the house all year. Children and young people will receive presents of money from their grandfather and grandmother, their parents and older people.
The Chinese, Indian (Ayurvedic) and Tibetan literature on the subject goes back to at least the 10th Century. In China as early as 2737 BC it was used by herbalists in the court of Emperor Shen. The Tibetans call it ‘Sman-mchog rgyal-po’ which translates as ‘King of the best of medicines’. In Ayurveda it is called ‘Harikaki’ and described as being ‘useful to human beings like a mother’; “At times even a mother becomes angry but ‘Haritaki’ never causes any harm to a person who takes it”.
Between 1840 and 1900 more than 100 papers were published in the western medical literature recommending cannabis for various illnesses and discomforts. More recently in 2000 a survey of 1000 British doctors found that 8 out of 10 said they would prescribe cannabis if they were allowed. They can confirm that cannabis can heal include: Arthritis, Appetite Loss, Nausea, Cancer Chemotherapy, AIDS Wasting Syndrome, Nausea From Cancer, Chemotherapy, Glaucoma, Multiple Sclerosis, Depression, Parkinson’s Disease, Movement Disorders, Dystonia, Asthma, Brain Injury/Stroke, Crohn’s Disease, Ulcerative Depression, Mental Illness, Epilepsy, Fibromyalgia, High Blood Pressure/Hypertension, Migraine, Nail Patella Syndrome, Schizophrenia, Tourette’s Syndrome.
I think I can give more medical facts about this, but probably it would be worthless because of a knowledge problem about the medical subject, but if you want, you can contact me and I will give the answers thar you’re looking for.
So now you can realized that weed is not acuatally that bad, you just need to open your mind and let yourself free.
Greatings and bless.
Hey. Instead of presenting myself with the basic things (name, age, hobbies, studies and all these boring stuffs), I would introduce me by showing the most unusual attraction of my city.
To start, I will do a bit of geography. I live in Laval. As you probably don’t know, Laval is a town of 50 000 inhabitants in the West of France, close to Brittany, at 300kms from the capital Paris (city I deeply hate)
Then, You can wondering what sightseeing there are. Frankly, almost none; as all French town, there is a church, a castle, some museums and 3 mains festivals. The first one, called “equival” is about horses, the second one called “BAlladelles” is about Middle Ages. I like that one because it is the only time we can find “cervoise” which is a very ancient Gaullish alcohol. The last one, called the “Uburlesque” is very nice as well because during 4 days, there are a lot of artists performing funny shows all across the city.
But, for me, the most important attraction in Laval are the “Bateau Lavoir”, which means laundry boat. Although it doesn’t have a very attractive name. It is one of the symbol of the old France.
Let’s start by a lesson of history. Until the 1960s, most of the people didn’t have any washing machine. So, when they needed to wash their clothes, they had to use the river. That is why in several city in France, the city built boat on the river with facilities to wash the laudry. There were 2 floors, the bottom one was used to wash and rinse whereas the top one was used to dry the laundry thanks to huge basin, shared by all the women ( At that time, women were doing the chores) who could washed their laundry much more easily than if they were alone. However, with the arrival of the washing machine, such boat were obsolets and outdated and almost all the cities decided to destruct them.
Fortunately, in Laval, where there used to be up to 20 laundry boat, the City council decided to keep two of them. That is why, just in front of my home ( on the other side of the river), there are still two “bateaux lavoir”. One is called “Saint-Julien” and is visited by hundreds (even maybe thousands) tourists every summer.
There are several pictures of them
You see the pink building at the right of the second picture? My home is between this building and the parc behind. I can see these boats every day from my window.
That’s the end for today
Leo
EF TUI Level 6 