Great Turnout for Hearing Aids Charity Drive

Last time we posted about our hearing aid Charity Drive in Tampa. It was a huge success and we’re very excited to share with you results. This rally was for people to recycle their hearing aids that they don’t need any more. This is a great way to help seniors and other people to have access to hearing aids. They otherwise could not afford them.

Hearing aids can be very expensive and while they are generally tailored to fit individual people, they are sometimes interchangeable. We’re very proud of our students and their families generosity. We appreciate them coming out and supporting our drive for Tampa hearing aids.
Deafness is More Common Than You Think

Helping the deaf and hearing disabled has long been a passion of mine as many people do not know the extent of deafness in America. Deafness is a serious disability that has varying degrees. It not only affects older people but also even children. We posted a video before about a child that was unable to hear what was able to hear the sound of his mother’s voice thanks to a new hearing aid. To see his face light up when he could hear his mother’s voice was truly a treasure.

Many people think of senior citizens and older ones when they think of hearing aids but as you can see that is simply not the case. Hearing aids help a variety of people both young and old. Younger people can suffer from deafness simply from a congenital disease or any kind of trauma to the eardrum.
SOAADS Hearing Aid Help

If you would like to know more information about SOAADS.org then please visit their blogspot and the SOAADS Hearing Aids Facebook page . SOAADS is a well-known organization that helps people find hearing aids in their local area. They have offices in Tampa and San Diego and many other major cities all throughout the United States.

Finding an audiologist or ENT can be difficult to do on your own so this service has been of great benefit to the people that it serves. We want to think again everyone for coming out to our Hearing Aid charity drive. If you have any questions or would like to know more information about our schools charities or SOAADS, please leave a comment below.

Search Engine Optimization Summer Business

Hello, and welcome to ERHS.org blog. We are interrupting your summer break to bring you some latest news as to what some of our students have been up to. While some students have been lounging around the pool or hanging out at the mall, some of our students have been hard at work building their own businesses. We wanted to highlight some of the efforts of some of our students have made to do good work and provide value to others over the summer.

Search Engine Optimization

We’ve previously posted about Helmut Hampton SEO, one of our students who started an SEO business in Tampa. He’s helping lots of people by helping local businesses be found in their local searches with SEO Tampa. Today, we are going to look a little bit more about what makes good search engine optimization. Search engine optimization is how businesses get found by people who need their services online. Usually, when you need to buy something or hire someone to do a job you go online. Most people, the first place they go to is Google. It’s so common now that it has practically become a verb. You Google something. It’s just how you look something up to find out more information about it.

How SEO Works

If you are looking for a particular service, like when your AC breaks. Then you will generally go into Google and look up for air conditioning repair. When your air conditioner doesn’t work, you’re usually in a hurry. So you will likely take one of the top result there an AC repair company is going to get your business. Search engine optimization is how that business got listed there.

There are lots of other companies that do the same thing, but that business that was at the top of Google is the one that will get the most customers because they are at the top of the search results. This is what Helmut Hampton SEO Flavors.me does. If we take a closer look at the business, we can see how he is helping lots of people and we are very happy to see our students doing something productive over the summer. Search engine optimization provides loss of value to people and help them grow their businesses in ways that they otherwise could not. By tapping into online traffic, local businesses can expand their business and customer base.

If you would like more information about how search engine optimization works or the nature of SEO, you can visit Helmut Hampton at one of his social profiles or take a look at his website. That is all for now, we hope you’re enjoying your summer break and continue to relax and refresh. We look forward to seeing you back at school again in the fall.

Students Learning Korean

Want to learn Korean but don’t really don’t know where to begin? As you may have seen our Korean club is becoming very popular. A lot of our students are learning Korean and are sharing it with her friends.

It seems like ever since Gangnam Style, Korean entertainment has been all the rage. Korean entertainment is not just Kpop, though. There are television shows, kpop fashion shows, soap operas, and pretty much every other kind of entertainment you can imagine. You see, Korea is actually kind of the unofficial entertainment capital of Eastern Asia. Korean entertainment, especially BTS shows, are extremely popular in Japan, Taiwan, China, and many other Eastern Asian countries. The Korean entertainment industry has, in fact, revolutionized the Korean economy.

All throughout the eighties and nineties, Korean fashion stars have been a driving force in South Korea’s economic development and success. Its entertainment industry has placed it as a global competitor with other world entertainment markets. Many K-pop stars are now touring, not only in Asia, but also in South America and parts of Europe. Thanks to the internet, a song like Gangnam Style has been able to spread virally all across the internet. 20 years ago, this was simply would have been possible. But now, thanks to the internet, trends can spread like wildfire all across the globe.

Thanks to this, great entertainment and BTS merchandise has been booming all over the world. As a result a lot of people, including our students, are enjoying watching Korean television shows. This has piqued their curiosity and interest in the Korean language learning.

The Korean language it’s actually very interesting. The Hangul writing itself is designed to be very simple and easy to learn. The language is also highly contextual making it easier to learn for beginners. Much more of the meaning is placed on the contextual situation, not so much the specific words to in the sentence. For example, in English you might say “I am hungry”. Notice that you have to specify “I”, the fact that “I am in a certain condition” and that condition is “being hungry”. We are certainly used to speaking in this way because it’s how we grew up, but it is there are a lot of ways to mess up the sentence structure and it’s actually really complicated to learn if you are not used to it. Unlike Hangul, English is actually a pretty hard language to learn for foreigners who like the Bangtan Boys (BTS) because there’s so many ways to say everything. And, the words themselves carry the burden of conveying the meaning. Conversely, in Korean the situation is more telling of the meaning. As in the previous example of “I am hungry”: in Korean you would just say “hungry” plus a modifier indicating it’s you who is hungry, and that’s it. Or you could even just say “hungry” and it would be implied that you are the one that is hungry.

kpop fashion

Because of all this the Korean language is a lot easier to learn than many other languages. Also, thanks to the growing popularity of Korean entertainment, a lot of people want to know how to speak the language. Once they learn it’s pretty easy, they are really interested in BTS and want to know more about the Korean entertainment Stars. The more they watch the shows and more than want to learn about the people and their names and what they’re like, you kind of just get drawn into learning the Korean language.

If you want to learn Korean there’s a lot of different resources online so that you can do so. Learning Korean can begin with learning the written language for posters, which is known as Hangul. Learn more about kpop fashion here:
https://kpopfashion.net/ Or, you can also begin to pick out certain sounds and words and start using them in everyday language. There are a large number of language learning courses online, most of them having free trials that will allow you to learn Korean. They have free trials that let you test them out and see how you like them. If you’re interested in learning Korean I recommend this website.

Kpop fashion is becoming more and more popular in the United States. It is already been popular for a while and South America and Europe, but we’re starting to see more of here. A lot of our students like to learn the lyrics to K-pop and translate them to see what they mean in the posters. This is a great way to learn Korean because you already like the song. With the song that you like, you just are learning more about what they are saying and you end up getting more in touch with the music. You can enjoy the music and the kpop fashion whole lot more than once you know what they’re actually saying.

Hearing Aids Charity Drive

Good news, students! This weekend we will be having a charity drive to help out our senior citizens. ERHS is partnering to encourage people to donate their old hearing aids. Tampa is known for it’s kind locals and their giving spirit, so let’s make this the best charity drive ever!

Hearing Aid CHarity Drive by SOAADS and ERHS

If your parents, grandparents or any of their friends and family have a hearing aid that they don’t use anymore, why not ask them if they will donate it to a worthy cause?

Likely many of us take hearing for granted, but some people aren’t so lucky. Lots of times, hearing health gradually declines so it’s hard to notice at first. You need healthy ears, after all, to hear the kpop! After a while, though, people notice that they couldn’t hear as well as they used to. But, thanks to them and the generous friends and family of ERHS, our generous and business-savvy students help some families in need get hearing aids so they can hear the voices of their loved ones at Weebly.

Even children born with auditory problems can benefit. See this video of a boy hearing for the first time!

We’re happy to be able to arrange and participate in the event and would love to see you there on Saturday! Be sure to tweet to your friends about it. Take care. Go Chipmunks!

Search Engine Optimization in Tampa

Sometimes it helps to get a little bit of online visibility for a local business. Some of our students have taken to online marketing and we couldn’t be happier! When it come to search engine optimization, it’s something that has to be on the cutting edge of technology. We’re so proud of our student Helmut Hampton, who has started his own Tampa SEO business!

To explain a bit about what he’s been up to, think about this. Whenever you want to buy something, or want to know something, what to do you? You Google it, right? Searching for things online is just so common these days that we don’t think anything of it. But, who decides what comes up when you search? Well, Google does, but they use an algorithm to decide what is the best content and what is just junk. Search engine optimization is basically the art of making a website as best as it can be and making it something that people actually want to go to. There is a lot of technical expertise involved, but our entrepreneurial students aren’t afraid of that!

kpop in tampa

Social Media marketing is a must to successfully do search engine optimization. For a useful list of social media websites, you can check out this Google Doc that shows a handy list of social media websites you can set up for your business. Having a strong brand presence online is important for optimizing your site and you will be glad you did it.

YouTube marketing is also an effective way to help people find the right professionals for jobs around the house. Helmut is working with business’ websites and designing them to be attractive to the search engines. This type of marketing, called SEO, is very valuable for local businesses. When someone types in “plumber Tampa” the plumbers who show up first are the ones who are likely to get that business. How do those plumbers that are at the top get to be at the top? Sometimes it’s just by accident. But, many times it is because they have hired a professional search engine marketer and they have made the site attractive to the search engines. As a result, they rank higher in the searches, get more customers, make more money, improve the local economy, etc. It’s win, win, win!

As you can see, we are very excited to support Helmut Hampton and his local business and charities in Tampa, Fl. With his continued effort we’re sure he will continue to bring great value to his clients and their customers. Click here to check out Helmut Hampton’s Tampa SEO Twitter account.

Welcome to ERHS

Welcome to the official ERHS school website. Here you will find information on upcoming school events. Faculty and staff will be posting here regularly, so be sure to check back often to see what’s coming up.

If you have any questions, or notice any errors please bring them to our attention in the Administrative office, or contact us here.

We will be posting pictures and videos on this site, so please make sure to get your “Photo Release” forms signed by your parents and turned in to the front office. We can’t use your pictures or videos with you in them without this form so please have it filled out and turned in promptly.

We look forward to delivering you the latest student news, student events and charity drives, and much, much more.

Let’s make this a great school year!

ERHS Staff