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Meet two more members of the Photography and Blogging class:

Selena Chen 

     Ting-Yun Chen, also known as Selena or Sunset, was born in Tainan, an ancient and cultural city in Southern Taiwan. She moved to Northern Taiwan in 2005, where she received a B.A. in Chinese Cultural Studies from National Centre University in 2009. That year she returned to the South and started her Masters degree from National Cheng Kung University which she completed in 2012. Here, she was a research assistant who focused on gender and sexuality.
     Selena loves everything about Art and the sense of beauty. That's why she’s interested in film, reading, writing, music, ballroom dancing and video games. In her life, she has paid all her attention to the art of ‘play’ -- Life for her is a big game, what she wants to do is enjoy her golden years, make things interesting, do her best, and keep working hard. Usually, she is a rational person and sometimes she can be romantic -- she quit her job to come to Vancouver and started an extremely different life studying English at International House Language School in 2013, all because she missed her boyfriend.

Now, she is taking a photography and blogging course, where she is learning how to express stories and feelings through the camera. By using cell phones, she understands how easy it is to take pictures and how difficult it is to take good pictures!
     She loves how her life has changed. Life can never be predicted and the only thing you can do is find happiness and positivity, like Selena.

Tais Gomes 

     Tais Gomes is a journalist who was born in the most popular city of Brazil: Sao Paulo, in 1986. Her city never sleeps, but she doesn’t mind that. She is used to this crazy atmosphere. She is always busy studying, working, driving, helping people or meeting friends and sometimes doing all things at the same time. She is curious, talkative and loves to know about different cultures. Her big passions are spending time with her family and traveling to new places.

     Tais received a B.A. degree in Social Communications from Estacio University, and two diplomas in TV Broadcasting and Speaking from SENAC. She spent the last three years as a TV reporter for TV Record Group. As a journalist, she loves interviewing people, because it’s a way to discover interesting things.

   Her current challenge is living independently in Canada for eight months to study English at International House Language School. This is very important for her personal growth. Here, she is taking a photography and blogging course, because it’s a perfect way to express what she sees and feels.What she appreciates most in her life is Faith; Faith in dreams, in life and mainly in God.