InternationalEnglish College of Issue 5, 2011

October 2011

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Students sPICE of Perth International College of English Drinks from around 2 Holidays in WA the world A Recipe to try! 2 We will show you some places to visit in WA. There is Rottnest Island, Penguin Island, The Pinnacles, Fremantle, and Cottesloe Beach. Saving Money in 3 Rottnest island is one of the most famous places Perth in . There are some Quokkas which are small and similar to rats. They are cute but you Finding a Job 3 shouldn't touch them because they are dirty. The views are absolutely beautiful. You can hire Students and 3 a bicycle and ride around the island, yet there Technology are a lot of hills, so it makes you exhausted. Be Some great Music 4 careful about snakes on the beaches. It costs Festivals in Australia around $100 including bicycle hire. You can catch a ferry to get there at Barrack St Jetty near Girls Generation 4 the bell tower or Fremantle Jetty. Penguin island is in Rockingham. You can go there by train at platform 2, it takes around 30 minutes. It costs about $30 for a return ticket to the island. If you want to see sealions, there are extra tours. I recommend you bring your own food and Special points of water, for it is interest: expensive there. Christmas is Fremantle and Cottesloe are the most famous and visited places in WA because many tour- coming! ists go to Fremantle to buy souvenirs and to eat Classes finish fish and chips. I recommend you go to Cicerel- los where there is the most popular fish and on Friday the chips. If you want to swim or surf, you should 23rd of go to Cottesloe because it is absolutely superb and you can't miss the sunset. December and The Pinnacles are about 280 kilometres north of Perth. When you go there, it looks like spikes coming out of the earth! You can have a picnic with your begin again on friends there, even you can drive inside all of those pinnacles, that is amazing, Tuesday the don't miss this place. One day trip for this place is the better. In fact, 3rd of January. in summer, you can go surfing there, but other times, nothing very interesting Planning a trip? around those pinnacles, there is a small Ask Tracey and town, you can't see many people even in Georgina what noon, and the food there is expensive. And the tickets to go inside tours are the pinnacles is really cheap, 11 dollars available. for a car. Even though it is far, it is worth it. By Huyen,Mai,Leo Drinks from around the world A traditional spanish drink: Sangria Ice Cendol One of the best-known Spanish drinks all over the world Cendol is a sweet dessert broth that is found is sangria. You can find this drink in almost all countries throughout Malaysia and Indonesia, as well as in the world, but if you really want to taste a real san- South Thailand and Singapore. In Malaysia, cen- gria you should go to Spain. The main ingredients for a dol is particularly popular in Penang and Malacca real Spanish sangria are: red wine, lemon or orange but it can be found in any part of Malaysia. The juice, soda, sugar, some pieces of fruits like orange, ap- ingredients of cendol are coconut milk, palm sugar ple, peach..., also the peel of the orange and a liqueur or (gula melaka), red beans, grated ice and short vermouth. In my country sangria is a popular drink but we starch noodles traditionally colored with pandan don't usually ask for sangria if we want to go for a drink, leaves. Nowadays artificial colouring is used. we usually ask for a canha (an small glass of beer) or for By Martin a tinto de verano (red wine with soda or lemon fanta). By Mar Caipirinha Brazil is a tropical country and we have samo '' Che" - a traditional refreshe cocktails but the must importante is The dessert in Viet Nam Caipirinha, It is made of Cachaça, sugar and lemon, It is veryeasy to prepere. In the summer time, the weather is It is a refreshe cocktail and you can drink in a very hot and everyone feels thirsty sunny day or in a party with your friands. and wants something to drink."Che" Ingredients: is a type of drink so famous in Viet 1 lime, quartered Nam. It is a sweet dessert which is protein rich. It is cooked with different 2 tsp fine sugar beans such as "red bean", "black 2 oz cachaca By Rogerio bean", "green bean" and sugar. In the south of VietNam you can find this Japanese Drinks kind of drink in small shops along the Speaking of alcohol in Japan, it is Japanese Sake streets. "Che" is put in a glass with 3 which is very strong and made of rice malts and type of bean, coconut milk and some mineral water, but I would like to introduce you to ice. When you drink it, you feel cool non-alcoholic beer. Some people will say it is and you will forget the hot weather. By Huyen nonsense, but the taste is almost the same as beer. Chinese Wine In 2009, beer with alcohol 0.00% was sold for the The name of this kind of chinese wine is "Baijiu", means first time in the world. It has been popular "white liquor", it often translated as "white wine". This for drivers and pregnant women. Other beer kind of wine is even stronger than Vodka. White wine has companies have followed it and sold a lot. Nowa- some diffrent taste and smell, but for normal people in days, in addition to non-alcoholic, non-calorie China, they can not distinguish all of them, because is beer is getting popular too. If you go on a diet, hard to do it. In China, on some important days, people you can try it instead of Australian beer! By Mai like to drink this white wine. By Leo

Here is a recipe for one of my favourite dishes - Aqua Pazza! Firstly, I will show you how to cut the fish. Itdepends on the kind of fish and it is very difficult to cut them, even Japanese people. You need many practice to do it well. Now, I will describe how to cut snapper. 1.Prepare the fish on the chopping board. 2.Remove the scale from tail to head with a blade knife. 3.Cut out gills, head and tail and then remove the organs and wash the fish well. 4.Cut and slide along the bone and turn the fish over and repeat the above steps. Do you think can you do that? It seems to be easy, but I described this very briefly. If you are a beginner, it will take more than 30minutes. I would recommend you to buy cooked fish. It is much better! Now, I will show how to make aqua pazza with this fish. 1.Prepare some tomatoes, shellfish and chopped garlic. 2.Heat and put oil in the pan and cook fish on the middle heat. 3.Put the chopped garlic, some tomatoes and white wine in the pan. 4.Warm it up for five minutes. 5.If it doesn't taste good enough, put salt and pepper. 6.Garnish it with parsley. By Mai

Page 2 sPICE Some things you can do to save money in Perth

We are overseas students, we need to pay for tuition and some different fees for studying and spending money in different places for living in Perth. How could we save money while we have a quality life? It is really an important prob- lem we should think about. We have some big parts in our life that we need to pay for.

First one, rent. As we know, homestay is really expensive when we study abroad. Students move out after 18 or when they find a share house. In fact, share houses are the best way to save rent. How do we find a good share house? We can check the information on websites like http://www.gumtree.com.au/. This website has lots of information about every- thing, of course including the rent information. We can find some nice houses which are near your school or really easy to get to your school, and also, it is much cheaper than homestay. But a good household is important, careful about those in- formation on the Internet, maybe it is fake, they just want your money. Second, food. This is the most important spending in our general life. Doing the cooking by yourself will much cheaper than have meals in restaurants. Perth's restaurant always are over price, eating home is the best choice. You can do cooking with your friends who live in the same share house, you can eat everything if you can cook it. Then, buy some high quality and inexpensive food also can help you saving money. On Friday afternoon, Saturday afternoon, Sunday afternoon, there will be a very cheap market which selling vegetables and some fruits in Subiaco. If it is possible, go there on Friday afternoon, that time the vegetables are the fresh and good. Also, there is a market will open on Saturday morning, it is lo- cated in Canning Vale, meat, fish, vegetables, both good and cheap. But this is far from Perth City, so may be you need a car, and you need get up early in the morning, one last thing, in Canning Vale, buy more, save more. So invite your friends go with you, save money together. Third, transportation. This is we need to pay when we go for school or go to some nice places. Go to buy a student SmartRider is a good choice. It is much cheaper than others, but you may need a letter from your school to prove you are a student. These are something we can do to save money in Perth. What else can you come up with? By Leo

Finding a Job in your field When I decided to come to Perth I was really worried about how I could find a job as soon as possible. I thought it was going to be so difficult but one and a half months later I am working in a research centre called CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Or- ganisation). The story began when I met a girl who was working there as a researcher. To meet people and talk with them about you and what you like to do is so important to get a job, don't be shy!. One week ago she heard about a colleague of her at the CSIRO he was needing a person to work as a casual for a two months pro- ject...and she thought of me! If you want to work as a casual in the CSIRO you don't need any skills or degree because it is a simple job. For , my job consists of helping a researcher who is studying the effect of drought in some plants. I have to water the plants, weigh them, harvest them or make different measures. They need casuals all the time for their different projects. These studies can take a month or a year and they can re- quired full time or part time casuals. The CSIRO is an important and famous institution therefore working there is good for your CV but also useful to practise English in a working and multicultural atmosphere. By Mar Students Love Technology! Technology is improving from day to day, but schools' teaching method is not catching up. Through the use of advanced technology, teaching and learning could be quite different. Especially the internet, it is the network that everybody needs in their everyday life, and also in the business industry. Using internet access during class can interest students to learn. For example, like what I am doing in class, we use a blog to do our essays instead of writing it on a piece of paper and handing it up to our teachers. This is fun, because I can read other students' essays and leave a comment based on what they've written. So blogs can improve our writing and reading. Other than blogs, we can also have access to various kinds of grammar websites, such as http:// englishgrammarsecrets.com/. Grammar websites are better than giving students a piece of paper to do it as homework, and you can also correct what you did straight away from the website. Apart from internet, iPhone can also help students to learn. iPhone has various kinds of application than can improve your learning or makes learning easier By Martin

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Phone: +618 9221 2295 Seems like summer is around the corner, and everybody is wondering what to do Fax: +618 9221 1792 when it comes. I have an idea of what to do filling up your free times during sum- E-mail: [email protected] mer. I came over an advertisement about an amazing event called , it is held on Sunday, Nov 27. There will also be a lot of artists attending the festival, such as, Alfrojack, LMFAO, and Benny Benassi. The ticket cost from $129.95 to Thanks to Josh’s class for $260.00 (including $2.00 booking fee), but there's a way to get the tickets for free. producing this magazine. If you upload 5 of your best summer festival photos to Stereo Star on Facebook, and if they like your pictures they'll send you to the Stereosonic festival for free! Go to stereosonic.com.au for more information. By Martin Southbound Festival

Check out the updated The summer is coming and Perth This is a festival which young people in Aus- website! www.pice.com.au will have the biggest festival in Janu- tralia want to join it. It is located in the beauti- ary - Summadayze. You can enjoy a ful South West town of Busselton, about two big party with beautiful people in hours to drive there. The next festival will a huge area. begins on 07/01/2012, end on 08/01/2012. There is a little something for every- Southbound festival has some music and one, different kinds of music, electronic comedy acts, also there are food and mar- music, pop, and hip hop. kets. And in this festival, you can see a lot of acts such as the Klaxons, Joan Jett and Summadayze Perth – January 3rd, the Blackhearts, Public Enemy, The Hives, 2012 . Sir James Mitchell Park & Tay- Kings of Leon, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Na- lor Reserve, banks of the river South tional. You can go camping there and enjoy Lineup highlights: two days weekend, it will cost you about 200 Pendulum dollars, but it is one of the most interesting Snoop Dogg things to do in Australia. By Leo Scissor Sisters Moby DJ Set It is located in the beautiful South West Sasha By Rogerio town of Busselton

Girls Generation, SNSD "Girls Generation" is a popular girl group in South Korea. There are nine members in the group. They were born in 1989 and 1990. The group has become well-known after their song "Gee" was released. That is a very famous song in Asia. The group is called another name, which is "SNSD", the acronym of the group's Korean name So- Nyeo Shi-Dae. Their first record was released on August 5,2007. Do you know what they look like? They are tall, beautiful girls and they are called "girls with long legs". They are good at singing and dancing, and especially, they can speak Chinese, Japanese and English. The members have had various activities as actresses, acting in various video clips and solo singers for drama soundtracks. My favorite song is "Genie" but there are some other good songs too such as " Gee", "Kissing you" and "Run Devil Run". I usually find information about them on the internet. One day, I would like to go to their concert in Korea or VietNam. If you want to hear some of their music, have a listen on YouTube! By Huyen