What is your favorite thing about living in the Chicago area?

What do you miss about your home country?
Make 8 sentences.

  A good place to learn by reading.  

http://www.readtheory.org/2009/pages/beginning.html  

   Try one story or two.

father = John  mother = Maria   daughter = Jane   son = Tom
knife, fork, green, blue, white, bowl, plates, table, kitchen, smiling, 
cheese, vegetables, happy, brown hair, eat, Mexican food, 
What are they doing?  How old is each person? 
Where are they?  What do the children do every day?
Make sentences about this family.  Tell a story.  
Try to write at least 12 sentences.

    Is your Windows computer slow?    

Here is what I would do:

1. Go to download.com and get

    A. ccleaner 

       http://download.cnet.com/CCleaner/3000-18512_4-10315544.html?tag=mncol;1  

    B. Glary Utilities 

        http://download.cnet.com/Glary-Utilities/3000-2094_4-10508531.html?tag=mncol;1 

Both programs are free and easy to use --- basically just click on one button

2.  Remove any programs that you do not use.

        Go to control panel on the start menu and choose

          add or remove programs (in Win XP). I forgot what it is called in Vista and Win 7.

3.  Especially get rid of all anti virus / anti malware programs like Norton, McAffe and all the others. These programs slow down computers.  Replace them with Microsoft's free program:  Microsoft Security Essentials.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/products/security-essentials  

4.  Go back to download.com  and get a good Defrag program

   http://dgwnload.cnet.com/Auslogics-Disk-Defrag/3000-2094_4-10567503.html?tag=mncol;2

  Running this program might take all night, but it might also speed up things by 10%.

    There is no charge for this good advice.    

Diary2 students:
Now tell me about how you love or hate computers.  Also tell me the ways that you use computers.