What to wear?

Girl fashion in the UK
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Summary

When you arrived in a new country, people often wear a different style of clothes. When you look fashionable at home, you can be out-of-date in other countries. So what are the girls of the UK wearing? Nowadays a lot of girls wear piercings, in their navel, or belly button, nose, lip, or eyebrow.
There are few different clothe-styles, UK girls usually wear. You have the, to be extremely good-looking and very fashionable style, also called the ‘glam’ look. Some dresses like a rock music fan called the ‘rocker’ look. If both of this styles is nothing for you, than there is the ‘sporty’ or ‘Tom Boy’ look, but most important of all wear clothes you feel comfortable with.

My opinion

When I read this article I thought, hey this is very similar to what Dutch girls wear. In the Netherlands it isn’t strange anymore if you have a piercing on a strange place. Some people overdo it with the amount of piercings they wear, but it is their choice, you have to respect that. The same applies to the clothes. My opinion of this matter is that have to wear what you like in your free time, but if when you have a official meeting, like a job interview or a funeral, you have to wear nice looking clothes, I think.

Farmers should be paid to protect 'wild life'

Financial incentive for hill farmers
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Rising costs of food production and the global recession are two difficult factors for livestock owners, especially when the government wants to substitute existing subsidies paid to hill farmers. While they are protecting wildlife, landscapes, water and carbon stores as well as rearing livestock; they should be rewarded, the National Trust said. They also say that the government had to give financial incentives for farmers who conserve the largest carbon stores in Britain. Peatlands are the single largest carbon reserve in the UK. In this article Iwan Hughes told his strong viewpoints of this matter.

My opinion

I totally agree with the points of National Trust. We, as the superior living beings of the planet earth, have to protect all the livings and landscapes. Otherwise all the good things of the world, like wildlife and landscapes, belong to the past, and that is what nobody wants. These farmers have a hard time right now, and the government doesn’t help them, what is a shame. In the end I hope that the hill farmers get rewards for what they do for the society. One thing is for sure Britain farmers are not the only farmers in the world with a hard time. I think that this is an international problem, if it isn’t a world problem.

Freshers' week

Your first experience at a university
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If you are a new student, your life will probably change in the month October. Because all things that month are new, your new study, you meet new people; it can be overwhelming and confusing. This is also the reason that this is the busiest month for universities in the UK. They organize a Freshers´ Week for newcomers. In this week you can settle into university life, make some friends and join a club. This article gives some very usual top tips what to do if you are a newcomer. Freshers´ week can give you a very great and motivated start of your study.

My opinion

I think the Freshers’ Week is very similar to the in Dutch called “Introductieweek”. This week can be very fun and good for people who are not social. But be realistic, you can’t change from non-social to social in one week, it is only a start to get social. It looks like that this article wants to show us that a Freshers’ Week is the best and only way to get social, during your first period on a university, but I think that there are many ways to get social. Some tips on the other hand are very useful I think.