A friend and fellow teacher and I made plans after     1     (attend ) the Greater Good Summer Institute in Berkeley , California to celebrate kindness. We both work in an elementary school in     2     needs are great and burnout（过度劳累）is high.

We wanted to do an experiment to see if we could begin a movement toward a more sympathetic community, and in the process, improve     3     ( we). This is how the Kindness Coalition was born.

In the time that has passed, amazing things have taken root. We began by giving everyone a personally-grown small potted plant and a kindness passage, with     4     (encourage) to pass the spirit forward. Since then, we     5     (buy) small gifts and secretly placed them in mailboxes or workspaces, along with a quote and a tag from the Kindness Coalition. We keep track of people we've tagged, and inspire them     6     (pay )it forward.

We have a     7     (wonder) coffee station supplied by our local Starbucks and other     8     (volunteer) who bring treats and creamers. We have a Random Acts of Kindness board, very full     9     thank-you notes. Students are starting to make notes of appreciation and practice other random acts of kindness, too, for staff and for other students. Our school has become a kinder,     10     (friendly), and happier place.

LEGO has been around forever and is still a favorite toy for     1     (child) of all ages. Now, however, one teenager has found another use for LEGO     2     could help improve the lives of people who are missing limbs (手臂).

David Aguilar, a 19-year-old from Spain, was born without a right forearm. He was only 9 years old when he     3     (manage) to make a prosthetic arm (义肢) for himself out of LEGO. Though this LEGO arm was     4     (help) for David, it was not very strong. It wasn’t until nine years later that David was     5     (eventual) able to make another prosthetic arm. It was     6     strong that he could do push-ups with it!

Now,     7     (be) a student at Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, David studies bioengineering. In the coming years, David is hoping to make other much     8     (cheap) prostheses to give more people access to them around the world. He loves using his LEGO arm, and he wants other people who are missing limbs     9     (experience) the same thing!

It’s so refreshing to see such a clever young man who tries to help others in similar situations to his own! We can’t wait to see     10     David creates in the years to come!