Last weekend, my classmates and me paid a visit to a fruit-picking garden, where is not far from our school.

Early in the morning, we set off from the school and arrived the garden after a thirty-minute ride. The garden looked very beautiful but we saw varieties of fruits. All of us got exciting and hurried into the fields. We pick oranges, peaches and other fruits for several hours until we were worn out. It’s really good for us to get close to the nature. Most important, we acquired some knowledges about fruits at the same time.

How a meaningful experience we had!

Like million of other people, Mr. Griffin who is a head of IT for marketing agency Rise at Seven, kept a dog during the pandemic. With most of us working home during lock downs, many people wanted pets’ companionship.

When bosses require staff to return to the office at least a few days a week, have a pet dog can become a problem. You have to see if a friend or relative can look after it, and pay for expensive doggier day care, or even potentially try to get a new job that allow you to continue to work from home all the time. It was to help employees such as Mr. Griffin more easily return to the office after the pandemic which Rise’s bosses decided to let everyone bring their dogs to the office.

Mia King, one of the firm’s executive says that rather than being a distraction, having dogs at work has actually made staff work hard. Because they make everyone happy, and cheery staff are more product.

When I came to China, I start to travel around and I was amazed at various wildlives compared to my hometown in the UK. I went to Northeast forests in Dongbei and it was full of birds singing -numbers that I’d never experienced it in the UK. These forests are bird watching paradise. I was impressing by the number of birds in Inner Mongolia, lots of different species singing like an orchestra on the morning. In Sichuan I saw the fire throat, the black throat and pandas. These is birds that are found nowhere else. With a relative rare human population, there are big wild spaces and quite different wildlife comparing with the rest of China. I’ve been here 11 years now and I've still just scratched the surface . There’s still so much many to see.

While walking in the Palace Museum yesterday, I met a young student , that came from the USA. It was first time that I had met a foreigner, so I went to greet her in English. He told me that he was a college student travel in China and he liked China very much. I volunteered to show him around to the museum. He was impressed by the Chinese buildings and busy taking photo all the time. He said he hadn’t seen such beautiful buildings before. After that, we go boating on a lake but had a good time together. I was very glad to have the chance to improve my speaking English.

I’m fond of travelling. In my opinion, it’s very interesting explore new places and experience different cultures. I had been to several cities both at home or abroad so far. Of all trip I’ve taken, the best one what I made deep impression on was the trip to London two years ago. I was attracted by its remarkable architectures, especial London Bridge. Besides, I had my English greatly improving by communicating with native English speakers during the week-long trip. I found people there was friendly to me and willing to introduce the history of the city. In a word, not only did I academically benefit a lot of but also I physically and mentally felt relaxing.

Last Sunday was our family cleaning days. When I was sorting out my closet, I found a lot of clothes which looked newly, but in fact I hadn’t worn them for a long time. I was about to throw them away while my mother stopped me, say that there was an old clothes recycling center in our community. I told that some of the recycled clothes would be donated by people in need after being sorted. I eventually realize it was a great opportunity to protect the environment and helping people. At the last, I found the recycling center and recommended them to my friends.