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Survival English: Navigating Bureaucracy in British Columbia ~ For English Language Learners.

HOW TO GET AROUND

Translink ~ Buses, Sea Bus, Canada Line, Sky Train, West Coast Express, and Handy Dart.

Information Services:  Call  Customer service:  Telephone Number: 1 (604) 953-3333

Website 

http://www.translink.ca/ 

The telephone service for Translink Customer Service is in English only.  When you call the above

telephone number for Customer Service, press "0" to wait and connect to a live operator who

can speak with you.  

At this point in time, 18 October, 2015, there are no guarantees that you will reach an operator

who has any other language than English.

http://www.translink.ca/en/Fares-and-Passes.aspx

When you go to the above link and click on it, you will reach a page that tells you about how to buy fares.

Tickets, the Compass Card, Faresavers, and Passes are explained in this link.

In all methods of getting around through Translink and its services, remember to keep your proof of purchase with you at all times. You will see "fare paid zone" signs. That means that you must be able to show your receipt for your fare paid in the form of a Pass, Compass Card, Ticket, or Faresaver voucher.

One-Word Poem ~ After The Week That Was

Recorded Tuesday, 28 October, 2014, at home, Vancouver, BC., Canada.

This one-word poem came to me Sunday, 26th October, 2014.  Following the week that was, here in The Pacific Northwest of Canada, or, at least, following the reception of news stories that reached me through radio and online internet news and Facebook posts, including one of a mentally-ill man who shot a reservist outside our parliament, his life minutes later being taken by our sergeant-at-arms; the barricading of meeting room doors in our capitol by the MPs' all gathered on that Wednesday morning to meet; the continuation of the destruction of our civil liberties by the media-fuelled links to gossip and innuendo, the Western Washington State Schools shooting by a student, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC's) firing of the host of their program called Q, and his Facebook post of Sunday, 26th October, 2014.
Here is the one-word poem:

"Context".


by Susilawati (Susila) Bryant

"Enderberry": How Pronunciation Affects Spelling and Vice Versa

Listening to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's nine a.m. Sunday morning radio newscast this morning, recounting recovery efforts in Enderby, BC,  I heard the word "Enderberry".
Spring's promise notwithstanding, and the soft sough of blossomed fragrance present, Enderby underwent a shock of nature in recent days.

Ambitious Beavers, building their own homes and habitats, are said to be the cause of destruction to the Kingfisher Habitat, and the isolation of about two hundred residents due to resulting flooding. 

CBC News Story on Stranding of Hundreds in Enderby, BC

The North Okanagan is as fertile and fragrant as any southern British Columbian locality, and especially at this time of year.  It may be a small consolation, to those citizens whose lives have been disrupted by the beavers efforts, to be able to catch the scent of blossoms on a breeze, when debris from nature's havoc has them scrambling to plans B and beyond.

But when I heard the CBC Radio National News this morning at nine a.m. local time, the announcer, perhaps affected unknowingly by the fertile future of fruit and flowers in the North Okanagan Valley, say "Enderberry" as the disaster's location, her mistake conjured up a mystical location filled with fruit tree branches and berry bushes.  Enderberry may well be my new mythical name for describing all things North Okanagan.

If you are new to British Columbia, or to its English usage, you might well find the use of this new word, as pronounced by the CBC Radio News presenter, a starting point for your discovering of this lovely part of the Province of British Columbia. Of course, the proper name is Enderby.  The announcer said "Enderberry". This difference provides you an opportunity to express the two names in your enunciation exercises, and explore the potential for poetry in the English you are learning today.

Meanwhile, every effort is being made to restore order and services to the people of the affected area. Wishing you well, you Enderberrians; and here's to you!

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"Earthlingo" by Susilawati (Susila) Bryant. Written for World Peace Day, 2013.

"Earthlingo"

Bhteki

Speak

Dici

Dire

What you heard

When you came

Here.

Ecouter

Listen

Repetez;

How'd you learn to talk

That way?

Northern

Southern

Eastern, 

West;

Inhabitants

Are each a guest.

Some have water

Some have snow

Some have nowhere else to go.

Some have straw

Some have fleece

Some have war

And some have peace.

Some have knowledge, 

Some are poor

Some are wealthy

Others, dour:

Some are narrow

Deep inside

Some have everything to hide.

Say your Mantra

Form the words

Share it with your garden's birds,

Sing it softly

Sing it high,

Let it go, 

Yes, let it fly

On the wings of destiny,

To the one Eternity.

Say you love, 

Or say you hate:

Say, "Please let me through the gate!"

Speak your peace

Or hold your tongue

Everbody, once, was young.

Every country, every land

Given ways to understand.

Habla

Parlez

Gavaru,

Sounds that may 

Mean naught, to you.

Do you think you had a choice

In where you'd first 

Hear your own voice?

Do you believe you are above

Another, whom you cannot love?

Speak, Bhteki, Dici, Dire,

Language of an ancient sphere;

Then, you can become sincere.



By Susilawati (Susila) Bryant, 8 September, 2013.  With World Peace Day in Mind.

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