Echan's Learning Journal

Findings from learning and teaching languages, health, psychology

Entries from 2019-01-01 to 1 year

Poetry

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangersbut to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my painbut for the heart to conquer it. Let me not look for allies in life's battlefieldbut to my own strength. Let me not cr…

Are you choosing the right oil?

I have been using Rice Bran oil for years, assuming that it must be healthy oil because it’s so expensive... Turns out there are better alternatives!

Great things I love about Perth

Since 2018 single use plastic bags have been banned, and Coles and Woolworths have a collection bin where you can drop off your soft plastics. TerraCycle collects your used cosmetics. There are a lot of libraries! A good collection of Eboo…

The challenges of tracking calories in/out

One thing I really struggle with is overeating food that doesn't come with nutrition info, that you cook yourself, or others cook for you. When I'm eating out at KFC it's simple to make an informed decision because they list all the calori…

Making use of nutrition labels

If you care about nutrition labelling, if you want to be able to read it and feel more in control of what you're consuming, these little cards may help. I ordered a whole bunch of resources from Livelighter and this was one of them. It's a…

Weight loss with Kanopy

Today's question: Do you know of a good website/article that compares the caffeine content across different beverages? If you're a member of a library in Perth, you have the privilege of accessing a website called Kanopy. You get 4 credits…

Onleihe German Digital Library

www.goethe.de Recently a free service called Onleihe came to my attention. It's available for the desktop, as an iOS app, and Android app. By signing up for the Goethe Institute library, you can use Onleihe to access thousands of German eb…