I’m very glad to receive your e-mail asking for information about the host family we have arranged you to stay with.

Locating in a beautiful and quiet neighborhood, the house was big enough to enable you to have a room of your own. Apart from the convenient public transportation, our private car will make your visits difficult. Because all the family members can speak fluently English and have outgoing personalities, I’m sure you will have no trouble to communicating with them. Above all, they hosted the American student last year, through that they gained lots of experience. In addition, the hostess cooking will guarantee you a wonderful chance of tasting delicious Chinese food.

Hope you enjoy your stay here.

Yours,

Li Hua

With Gaokao draw near, I was concerned and nervous. However, I couldn’t be absorbed in study, which resulted my failure in exams. I got very discouraging. Just then, my teacher, Miss Zhang, approach me. She said, “In life we all have moment when we can’t achieve what we want. Don’t allow those moments to weaken you. Instead of, let them inspire you.” These words provided her with courage to smile at life. Eventually, I gained that I deserved. So it’s a optimistic attitude that matters.

Last Wednesday, the teachers and students in Senior Three attended the grown-up ceremony holding in our school hall, which theme was “Growth and Responsibility”. First, a student representing all of us made an one-minute speech. He showed our sincerely thanks to our parents and teachers and talked about our dreams. Then, some teachers and parents offered us their congratulations and expressed their expectations for ours future. Afterwards, wonderful performances were put on by students from a couple of class. Though the ceremony over now, it has made me realize clearly that I have grow up. I should be responsible to myself now. I will never forget about this experience.

Everyone will be full of respect when mentioned a mother’s love. Truly, who can love you more than your dear mother does in world? But in modern society, especial among one-child families, mothers usually give too much love to her only daughter or son. They try to help or even protecting their children in every way, which left their sons or daughters too comfortable to deal with challenges themselves.

What we all know, we have entered into the 21^st century, and the young generation will face more challenges in the future. There is nothing wrong for mothers to love their children, and they should also leave rooms for their children to develop themselves and become independent.

I used to feeling I was the sun in my family. But while my cousin was born, everyone pays more attention to her. So I disliked her and couldn’t get along well with her. As time went on, I realized what ridiculous I had been at that time. I tried to find a proper time to apologize. When my cousin’s family came to my home a few day ago, I took my cousin to play outside.

In the way to the playground, I had bought many snacks for her. Then we began to chat. When we talked about their childhood, suddenly, I said “sorry” gentle. She was silent, so I thought that she hadn’t heard me clearly. But after while she said, “Don’t say that. In my memory, you are always friendly.”

I can't swim because I have a strong fear of water. Look back at my childhood experience, I think that three reason might explain the fear. The first  reason is why I was not allowed to go near the water. When I was a child, my mother had unreasonable fear of it. So, as a child I was taught see the water as something danger. Second, my eyes became bad ones when I was five. If I took off my  glasses in the water, I couldn't see anything, but this increased my fear. The worst part of your experience is that as a child I see a neighbor drown. Since then I have been more frightened.