snow and a cup of free coffee The last weekend of this year, I'm killing time staring snow falling with my hubby at a Starbucks store nearby. It must be the last time to get a free drink through Starbucks app. He and I have enjoyed free Starbucks drinks after becoming a golden member of its whenever we earn 2 rewards. We've ordered expensive ones that we don't drink with normal price and that is always a venti size which is the biggest size in Starbucks. However, we actually don't like the expensive ones we order by rewards due to too much sweet taste. We just want to feel using our rewards for high values based on only money. It's an awkward secular way to have fun, but we like it. Unlike I order a java chips frappuccino usually, I ordered a seasonal menu, pinenut praline latte that is the least sweet seasonal latte in this winter. Outside quite a lot of snow is falling different winter of the Southwest coast of the US. Many people are drinking and talking, studying in the store. Some people are just looking blankly at the snow coming like me. It is first snow this year, at least for me, and has me to recall winter times in Korea and Japan.

How to say in this situation in English? My friend and I were trying to make an appointment to hang out together. She said what time it was good for me. I wanted to say I was ok with whenever she wanted. So I said, "I can fix my time to you." I know it was a wrong expression. How should I am supposed to say?

The rainy season I'm trying learning conversational English. If someone thinks my English writing is unnatural, please give me a mention. It will be very helpful for me. Winter is around the corner. The Northwest of the US rains every day until next summer from now. When I moved here from Japan, I was very curious why nobody used an umbrella on a rainy day. Most peoples who I asked about my curious said if I saw a person using an umbrella, they was a tourist. The majority of them couldn't tell me specific reasons I was understood. They just said using an umbrella was annoying. However, one year after I started living here, I naturally realized all of it. It is definitely not as much rain in The Northwest of the US as to use an umbrella. It can be fully covered by rain-protection jackets except a couple of pouring rainy days. Additionally unlike Korea and Japan, the car is a daily transportation here. There is no need to walk in a long time in the rain. They drive to right in front of their destination.

The way to use "they" as a gender-neutral reference I heard this way is a common nowadays. I'm so confused with using "they" as a gender-neutral reference. When I use "they" with this situation, do I have to use it as a singular verb? Would someone please explain it for me?

Before a test Please would someone correct my writing to natural conversational English? I have a test and a presentation tomorrow at school. The test would be not too hard, because I had already taken almost the same class in my country. However the presentation is a problem for me. It is enough difficult to speak English in proper accent, grammar and intonation front of native English speaker. So it is obviously overwhelming to speak English on a specific purpose to inform some knowledge. I'm sure I'm going to be into panic before presenting.

Organ trafficking Do you remember the story of Frankenstein, the monster who was created by man using multiple dead bodies. The story tells us the sanctity of human life and the warns of the evil side of science. Nowadays humans are not capable of creating human life from dead bodies like Frankenstein, but humans are able to use organs for human benefits, such as for incurable diseases or for handicapped people. Unfortunately, high medical skills not only give us bright sides but also a dark sides one of which is organ trafficking. Organ trafficking means that someone illegally sells human’s organs as a product. There are various worldwide organizations against illegal organ trafficking. Let me talk about their efforts. I'm going to focus on introducing two non-profit organizations. One of the organizations is "Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH)" that aims to provide the medical community and society with ethical and legal organ trading. The other organization is "World Medical Association (WMA)" that aims to provide ethical guidance. The purpose of those organizations is basically the same, stopping the works of illegal organ harvesting. The organizations' members are formed by Medical doctors of various specialties and medical researchers. They also have non-medical professional members as a sponsor. The member do inform significant facts about organ trafficking to public using medical knowledge. They often collaborate with journalists to publish books and article on news or magazines. However, the main activity of them is to appeal the need of laws that prohibit organ trafficking to governments. DAFOH collected nearly 450,000 signatures, from over 32 countries and petitioned UN for ending illegal organ trafficking in China on Oct 2013. According to Damon Noto, the spokesperson of DAFOH, international pressure has forced change in China previously. WMA cooperated with Chinese Medical Association (CMA) on medical ethics and human rights in 1998. They have been trying to remove forced organ harvesting in China.

a very first time experiense I found a planner for 2016 year at Staples online store, and it offered free shipping if I pick up at any offline store. So I ordered it with the free shipping deal. I get the e-mail that said the planner arrived at the Staples store. When I got to the store for picking up my thing, I realized I don't know the order number. But a clerk kindly looked for my planner through my name, eventually I took it. Next time if I use this kind of free shipping deal again, I'll never forget to bring the order number and my photo ID.