Arvin's blog

           This semester,  I'm taking a yoga class. I don't know where I get the idea, but I love doing yoga now. I had never done yoga before, to be honest, and I'm not very good at doing any kind of physical activity. Almost everyone wants to change their lifestyle and be more active and healthy, and I wanted to do the same too; maybe that's why I'm taking this class. My parents always say being healthy is the top priority cause nothing can replace our health, so I'm learning to take care of my body and mental health.  About our class, we are a total of ten, including the instructor. As soon as we come into a class, we start doing warm-ups and then getting into different poses, as our instructor suggests. Every lesson we learn new poses but some of them are pretty challenging because it needs concentration and balancing. I'm still working on that, hopefully getting better at it soon. Soft music plays as we do yoga during the class, and we usuall...

     One of my friends came to Chicago, and we decided to do something interesting. He works at a truck company and drives one of them. He and his girlfriend moved to Washington last July, and since then, we haven't had much time to hang out.  So, we decided to watch a movie. I totally forgot how it feels like to watch a movie at the cinema. The last film that I watched at the cinema was " Frozen 2" with my Korean friend, Jenny. It sounds funny, but it's what it is. We had already talked about watching "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten rings" because everyone who I know seems like watching this movie at the moment, so I don't want to miss that one. After having dinner at a Mexican restaurant, we went to the cinema. Honestly, I had never been to a cinema since I came here and my first impression was insane! The cinema was huge, and I had no idea how many halls there were. I first was a little bit worried about watching the movie at the big crowded cin...

       I have seen many of my classmates writing about themselves for this week's blog. So I want to do the same. As you may already know, I'm Arvin and come from Mongolia. It's my third semester at PNW, and I'm majoring in Biological Science. Starting college during a pandemic was hard for me, but I managed to finish two semesters which I can't believe. It feels amazing; being back on campus, having college experience, and seeing many students even though I don't know many people around here. By the way, I'm 22 years old; I know it's too old for being a sophomore. It's because after graduating high school, I went into medical school for 2 years in my country and then decided to learn English; therefore, I flew to Australia. It had been my dream to study abroad since I was a child. You might ask, "Why Australia?". At first, I thought of coming here because my only brother lives here, and then there were difficulties in obtaining a U.S visa ...

     Everyone asks me where I came from and then starts to guess some other countries from Asia. Once I answer the question, they get lost or have no idea where that country is or even its existence. For this week's blog, I wanted to write a country that I think can be interesting for our classmates. In my opinion, two out of ten people know about my country, but what they know is only Genghis khan. So, you might get it; it's Mongolia. However, I don't want to write history here to bore you, I just would love to give a little bit of information about my country.       To begin with, I was born and raised in Mongolia, the country is located between two powerful countries, China and Russia. Some people think that Mongolia is part of China, but it's not true. Mongolia is an independent country, and the population is only 3 million who speak Mongolian (native language). The capital of Mongolia is Ulaanbaatar, which is a quite crowded place than the rest ...

  Nim was not a human but a chimpanzee.  Could he really be like us? This question was always staying in me during the film. About Nim, he was separated from his mom when he was just two weeks old. What happened to Nim? , what did people do with this little chimp? For this week's blog, I need to post my answers to the guided reflective questions. So here we are. 1. Was there a specific scene that got to you? Describe and explain how it moved you. Nim moved to many places because of people to teach him and money to take care of him. The one place, which I remember it very clear, he was sold for medical research. I was heartbroken to see him putting in a cage and injecting some kind of medicine or whatever. The cage looked as if it were a prison. No one to take care of him or play with him; he was just a research object. I felt like he was looking at us saying..." Please stop it "...    2. What surprised you? Why do you think it caught you off guard? When he act...