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How my journey to different schools and different languages started. I was born to a Turkish family in Germany.  You would think that my first language would be Turkish because I was Turkish but it was not. My first or let me say primary language was German. I was going to a school in Germany; only Turkish I spoke was at home.  I was very confident writing, reading, and talking in German but not so much with Turkish. I took Turkish classes in Germany, that sounds weird but it was necessary. It was necessary because the alphabet and grammar was different. I never thought I will need it because I was living in Germany and never thought that I might move back to Turkey. Actually I never wanted to move to Turkey, I was forced.

Now I am in Turkey with my little Turkish. What my friends and relatives said was that I was beginning a sentence in Turkish but it was ending up in German. I had a hard time at school learning with a different language. It was like starting a new life but I did succeed. At school as a second language we learned English, it was not hard for me since I spoke German, it was kind of similar. But the only thing I did not or could not learn is the grammar in all the 3 languages I spoke. For example what a verb is, simple perfect tense or any kind of terms related to grammar. I cannot memorize what is what but I can put sentences together in a right way and that is the important part.

I graduated high school in Turkey and married an American and moved to America with him. Now I have to learn better English to speak, read, and write. Not only because I am in America, I do also go to college. One of my classes that I take obligates us to write a blog. Let me tell you, I did not like it. I did not like the idea that everybody in the world has to see all the mistakes that I will make in my sentences. But with blogging I learned how to better my sentence skills. As I wrote I found my mistakes and corrected them and got better. Because of blogging, I passed my accuplacer test in sentence skills, which I could not pass for 2 times. My college class is almost over and my blogging journey too, at least for a while.

 

 

Piggybackers Wardrivers and Viruses

                        I have never heard the words piggybackers and wardriving before. Piggybackers are people who just want free WI-FI. It can be your neighbor across the street. It happened in my old neighborhood, there was a family who just moved in and didn’t have internet connection. When she needed to go online she was just sitting in her front yard and connecting to the other neighbors WI-FI. It was not long when the other neighbor caught her using his internet. How he noticed it is when his internet connection got slower, so he look up who was using his WI-FI and her name came up. He was not mad because she didn’t know that she was doing something bad and she was not being malicious. Wardirvers are like piggybacker, but they are malicious. They drive around to get free WI-FI but also your personal information like your bank account number and password. Here are few suggestions how to protect yourself from intruders to your WI-FI: Make a strong administrator name and password, turn on your wireless router on only when you need it, and don’t broadcast your name of network.

                        We all know what a virus is, but not many people know how you get infected by a virus or how you can protect yourself from it. One important recommendation is to install an antivirus software. I used my computer for 2 years without an antivirus software. I consider myself lucky but also educated by not getting infected by a virus. I never downloaded something from a not trusted or unknown website. If I got Emails from friends I didn’t open the attachments without scanning it, hotmail has a scan file option when you get an attachment on your Email. There is one more important thing I did; I never clicked on links that I do not know. If you have to or want to go to that link, type it in to your address bar.