My winter break plan

By the winter break’s coming, my heart flies to my hometown, China and cannot wait for the events that are going to happen. I have a strange family that doesn’t have stable places to live. Thus, it would be a busy break that I should fly to Hong Kong first, then Anhui province, then Hubei province and Shanghai at last. However, I’m already get used with the busy plan every time I got back. I extremely look forward the meeting with my lovely family members two days after.

For the first thing that I would do after I got back, I would chat with my grandparents. They are the people I love the most in this World. When I was young, my parents are too busy to look after me everyday and the two elders and my great grandmother, who’s already passed away, were the only people that could stay with me and look after me. As a result, I have profound feeling with them. I’m sure when I go back, I would absolutely tell them everything happened in this few months whatever that’s happy or sad. Surely, I would tell them everything about me.

After that, I think I would start some reading and writing in Chinese. I’m kind of unfamiliar with Chinese because of coming to America. Even though there are many Chinese classmates, we usually only talk Chinese instead of writing or reading. I used to be a student that good at writing, but I cannot be as good as previous now. I want to make myself better and I don’t want to forget the culture of my motherland, so I decide to work on studying Chinese for this Winter Break. On the other hand, I should study for SAT because of the coming SAT test after this year.  It makes me seem truly busy, but it’s not unbearable.

Meanwhile, it’s a break. The break means something can make me resting, eating, sleeping and relaxing. I wish I can always sleep a lot and no one would wake me up in the morning during the break. I’m tired with those hard-working days in CA. I was a lazy girl last year, and actually I’m still that lazy girl right now. Nevertheless, I wish I would have a better future and so I won’t feel this tired when I become an old woman. So, by wanting to make myself to a lazy person again when I’m old, I need to learn more and being hard-working, to make me a brighter future.

Lastly, there are other things that I should do. I would go shopping because I became taller and the clothes never change their sizes. I would go meeting my secondary school friends and giving them some gifts that I take back. I would go to many places to find some delicious food because I miss Chinese food so much. Americans cannot imagine how great it is to have the real Chinese meal everyday. The planning make me cannot wait for even one minute. I wish I could rush back.

Poem

The Christmas is coming
The families are singing
Wishing that the light of the Christmas tree twinkling
Like the stars blinking
By the gifts giving, friends are celebrating

My Thanksgiving break

                               

Over the Thanksgiving break, I went to Boston with the school’s trip. Boston is an old city with interesting culture and beautiful architecture. I spent a great week in Boston City. The school sent us to an international hotel with some faculties that would take charge of us. Even though the dorm was a little bit crowded and it’s too hot, I still felt great to go to many wonderful places and hanging out with my friends during the break.

On the second day of the break, I went to New England Aquarium with my friends. In the Aquarium, I saw different types of fishes and other ocean creatures. First of all, I saw penguins. They are a lot smaller than the penguins in my mind. I usually think penguins are as big as human’s size, however, the ones that I saw that day were seems like some dolls, like the human infants’ size. “They are so cute!” I thought. I saw some of them swam in water; some of them clear up their feathers; some of them had their lunch; and some of them talked with their friends and played quietly. They were so adorable that they captured my mind immediately and I even didn’t want to leave them.

Then, because of my friends’ calling, we went to the other part of the aquarium. I saw some jellyfish with mysterious blue light reflected on them. There were many different types and different sizes of jellyfishes. Each of them was different but also similar. The mysterious feeling of those jellyfishes attracted me. I put my hand to the glass that stored the jellyfish. Although I didn’t feel any changes, it was still fun to just touch something that was moving slowly and used my heart to feel the life of a kind of animal that I never familiar with.

After this, I saw tons of different fish in a big aquatic glass. Some of them were colorful; some of them were whole colored; some of them were from tropical forest; and some of them were from Deep Ocean. My eyes were confused by looking at those fantastic creatures. I enjoyed the views in the New England Aquarium so much as to forget to leave. I thought I would never forget this place, when I left, I bought a penguin doll with me as the souvenir. After leaving the aquarium, I was always inattentive because of the scene that I cannot forget.

I did tons of different things during the break. I cooked with my friend. I watched new arrival movies, Hunger Games. I went to Blue Man show, which was very fun, with the school’s member. However, the best thing I did was the trip to the aquarium. Over all, that’s the greatest Thanksgiving Break I’ve ever had. I wished I would also have this much fun next Thanksgiving.

Summary

The Sweet allure of emptiness?

Mark Kurlansky’s daughter asked him why he doesn’t vote for Romney and he answered. Also, as a president, even though Obama is not perfect, he did lots for people who need help and support women’s right, people’s right a lot.

Why do I write about Darwin?

The author got a letter from a lady and he explained what Darwin’s like and he said the relations between Christianity and Darwin’s theory. He wished people would think more in different things instead of just lock them selves in the perspective of religious.

Puking for freedom

Rick Santorum thinks “the separation of church and state is absolute” was “You bet that makes you throw up.” The author talked about Santorum’s thinking and discussed what he wanted to do during the election of the president.

Is being dumb such a bad thing?

Republicans don’t like Romney because he’s the biggest option to be a president next time. Then, he discussed what happens to Republicans and what’s wrong with them. Also, they want to exalt ignorant.

How did I get here?

He discusses what is democracy and why he became a democracy. He says he knows nothing and not even sure about that. He thinks he will keep asking questions on this blog so he can have some idea of how it works.

Sounds in an hour-final

 What should a girl that was bored by the long break with no homework to do? Today, when I return to the dorm for the end of the Thanks giving break, I spend a whole hour to stay in my room and remember all the different sound that I heard.

First of all, I hear the sound of water. It should come from the restroom right in front of my room. People usually go to take a bath really early then they don’t need to battle for the using of bathroom. I have already taken bath tonight so I don’t need to worry for it.

Then, I hear the air conditioner on the wall at the left of my desk. I don’t think I need that today because the weather was so warm. Then, I open my window to make the room cooler and not that hot. In the meantime, I heard the wind that blew my window because the window was opened. As a result, some fresh and cool air would come and make me feel better in this dry place.

On the other hand, the loudly bark of a dog catches my ear. There are only two dogs in our dormitory, and they belonged to Ms. Simon and Ms. Anderson. However, Ms. Anderson was downstairs in the basement. Thus, I thought the bark was from Ms. Simon’s room. The dog is a big one, and when it stands by four legs, it’s taller than my knees. I like this fluffy dog so much that I would play with him anytime I see it. I was right because I found that someone lived near my room closes the door and the bark disappear.

People running and walking around the hallway leave their sound of footstep to me because most of them came back school today. They should be really busy to talk to friends they hadn’t seen these days and clean their rooms. Even though the quiet hour has started, people are too excited to keep quiet and stay in their rooms. I smile and I think it’s really nice that the school starts again because having rest and being not busy everyday bore me. I missed the busy days with full of works so much during the break.

I find that Ms. Max, the dorm parent take charge of us tonight comes, and I think she goes to the room opposite mine, “Rachel, I have something to talk to you.” After that, she finds there are too many people in that room. She isn’t angry, and just tells them go back to their own room. “You would have plenty of time to meet each other after study hall, and you can see each other everyday later” she says, and I think she leaves the room then.

Everything sounded nice in this hour. I heard talking between peoples, dog’s bark, door closing noise, water noise, air-conditioner, sound of wind and people’s walking noise in this our. Also, there are even many sounds I haven’t mentioned. It’s a good chance for me to find out something I don’t usually know or paying attention. I heard that there are many interesting details waiting for people to find them. I wish people would always do something to find the small things in their lives.

3 choices

1. Walking among dream and truth by Leo, because the descriptions are interesting.
2. A special canvas by Amanda because I like the way that she wrote about the piece of art.
3. Magic bowl by Nina because the story is creative.

Right where you are sitting

My room is in a corner of the dorm. It’s a quiet place and the whole lobby in the side of my room has only 4 rooms and one bathroom. Right, in my room, I’m trying to find some details that I never paying any attention before.

Actually, the first thing that catches my eyes is just the desk. The desk is a big thing that it’s too common in my room and I wouldn’t use my precious time to look at it. However, I see that there is a big gap between the main part of the desk and the bookshelf today. I usually think the desk and the shelf are one whole thing but I find I have had some wrong ideas for a long time. Then, I think I’m really lucky to notice that they are separate because one side of my shelf is nearly leaves the working range of my desk. So I stand up really fast to adjust it. I’m so glad that I do this work or my shelves would all fell down. I used to think it’s a waste of time to do this kind of observation, but I know if I don’t do that, I would use more time to tidy my shelf then. As a result, I would always find inconspicuous details in my room.

On the other hand, I found there are some small cracks and holes on my desk and it’s not that smooth as what I think it is before. Doesn’t matter the cracks are caused by me, the owners of the desk before or the age of the desk, it’s just broken. Then, I understand that my desk is not that stable as the one in my imagination and I need to be a better owner of it.

Right on my shelf, there is a frame with a picture of my great grand mother who passed away five years ago. I have brought this frame with me to everywhere, just like I have brought my favorite doll to everywhere for 8 years. I’m a person who yearns for the past, and because of the observation, I start to look at this picture again. I’m afraid of any damage of the picture so I clean and move it every week. During the observation, I saw the smile on her face. The background of the picture is even faded because of the fast passing time; I’m afraid if the person in that picture would be faded. This is my last way to remember her, but it’s disappearing gently. I’m a little bit worried and stop my work on finding details about right where I’m sitting.

To conclude, the activity teaches me that I need to be a better owner of all the stuffs I have. I would spend more times on observing some small details that I cannot find out without a careful mind. I cannot take charge of all my stuffs and make them always in a right order if I don’t use my mind to fix them. I wish I would make my room better.