This basic overview will help you follow the process. The bolded words describe the main parts of the hookah. The bowl at the top of the hookah will hold the shisha tobacco, with hot coals above it. Air sucked through the hookah will heat the coals, light the tobacco, and bring the smoke down through the main shaft. The smoke leaves the stem at the end of the shaft, and enters the glass base of the hookah. The smoke travels through water and air in the base, becoming cooler and more dilute. The smoke moves through the hose and into your lungs.

Summary: Learn how a hookah works.

Before choosing a course of study, think about what type of job you would like to have. Much climatology work done today focuses on climate change science, and involves developing models to predict future climate trends. One area of specialization, paleoclimatology, studies how climates have changed over time, which helps us to better understand current climate trends. If you'd prefer to do research, plan to stay in school long enough to get a doctorate. Courses related to climatology are offered through a variety of academic departments. Most of these fall under the heading of the atmospheric sciences, of which climatology is a branch. University academic departments that offer studies in climatology-related subjects include departments of Earth System Science, Environmental Science, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, and Meteorology and Atmospheric Science. Other areas of study that can prepare you for work as a climatologist include physics, geology, chemistry, computer science, and geography. Before you choose a school, it will be necessary to find a course of study that can train you for the field you want to work in. Call academic departments to ask whether the coursework offered through their majors is meant to train students for particular types of work. When deciding where to pursue studies in atmospheric science, take into account the department's reputation, and whether it offers courses related to the branch of climatology you'd like to work in. On the department's website, look for information on internships as well, since this will be an important part of your professional development. Use the following resources to search for an academic department in the atmospheric sciences: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Hurricane Library, and the American Meteorological Society's Colleges and Universities Index. To get a sense of a department's strengths and emphases, call the department to ask about where recent graduates have found work.

Summary: Consider possible career paths. Select a course of study. Match departments with careers. Choose a school.

Many families will create traditions around the New Year. Since the holiday represents the beginning of change some people discuss New Year's goals or challenges. Some families will share a formal dinner out or at home to celebrate. Many families will honor their heritage's traditional practices together. It's never a bad time to start a personal tradition, whether it's going out to a party, staying home, watching fireworks, or celebrating the New Year in your own unique way. Depending on where you're from, different traditions take a different form. You don't have to be from that region, of course. If something strikes your fancy, you can adopt a tradition just because you want to. In Greece, parents bake a cake and hide a lucky coin in it. They cut the cake at midnight and eat it. Whoever gets the piece with the lucky coin has good fortune for the upcoming year. In Belgium, children write New Year's letters to their parents and read them out loud. In Estonia, people will often eat up to 12 meals to celebrate the New Year. Some of the meals are left for spirits who visit the house on the holiday. In Ireland, women put mistletoe underneath their pillows at night for good fortune. In Germany, people eat marzipan pigs and jam-filled donuts as a token of good fortune.

Summary: Start a family tradition. Honor a personal tradition. Celebrate a cultural tradition.

The GIMP app icon resembles a dog-like face holding a paint brush in its mouth. GIMP may take a few minutes to open if you haven't recently opened it. Click File in the top-left corner of the window (Windows) or the screen (Mac), then click Open... in the drop-down menu, select an image to open, and click Open. You can repeat this process for multiple photos if you want to layer the transparent image over a non-transparent one. If you open a second image in a second window, select it, press Ctrl+C (or Command+C on Mac), select the first image, and press Ctrl+V (or Command+V. This tab is at the top of the window (or the screen if you're on a Mac). A drop-down menu will appear. It's near the top of the Windows drop-down menu. Selecting it prompts a pop-out menu. You'll find it near the top of the Dockable Dialogs pop-out menu. A small "Layers" window will open. Click the name of the image that you want to edit. It should be in the middle of the "Layers" window. Click and drag the "Opacity" slider at the top of the window to the left, or click the downward-facing arrow next to it to lower the opacity. Make sure that you're monitoring your image while lowering the opacity. Lowering the opacity from 100 to 50 should be enough to make your image transparent. Click the X in the top-right (Windows) or top-left (Mac) corner of the "Layers" window. It's at the top of the GIMP interface. A drop-down menu will appear. You'll find this option near the bottom of the Image drop-down menu. Doing so "flattens" the image, thus preserving its transparency. The default export settings will save your project as a JPG, but you'll need to change this in order to maintain your image's transparent background: Click File. Click Export As.... Find the file's name at the top of the export window. Change the "jpg" part of the file's name to "png" (for example, "bear.jpg" would become "bear.png"). Click Export at the bottom of the window, then click Export when prompted.
Summary: Open GIMP. Open an image in GIMP. Click Windows. Select Dockable Dialogs. Click Layers. Select your image. Lower the "Opacity" value. Exit the "Layers" window. Click Image. Click Flatten Image. Export your project as a PNG file.