【推荐1】Before the December holiday craze and celebrations start, November is an ideal time to visit the southeast states to enjoy mild temperatures and unique festivals and events.

Head to downtown Florence for this popular annual community event held the first Saturday of November. There are stages with live music, over 250 food and craft vendors, art exhibitions, amusement rides, antique tractor show, car show, and pecan cooking competition with celebrity judges.

This yearly festival features hand-made pottery, colonial crafts, and pottery-making demonstrations. Pottery collectors can pick up some limited-edition pieces signed and dated by local potters. Always the weekend before Thanksgiving, the event starts on Friday, with a duration of three days.

Labeled as the largest one — day festival in southwest Georgia, this annual event, always held the first Saturday in November, features a sunrise breakfast, mule parade(骡子游行)，flea market with hundreds of booths, a barbecue and fish fry, regional entertainment, and more. Mule Day celebrates the mules’ significant contribution to the area’s agriculture.

Veterans Day, a federal and state holiday in the United States, is always celebrated on November 11th. There are events throughout the Southeast, including parades and ceremonies on or close to Veterans Day.

【推荐3】Duolingo — iOS/Android

Have you ever wanted to learn another foreign language? You might say: “English is hard enough. I don’t want to go through that again.”

Relax — learning a foreign language doesn’t always mean you have to sit in class and take endless exams. An app named Duolingo has been designed to help you memorize new words and grammar in creative ways, such as online lessons, games and interesting exercises.

Named   “the best language-learning   app” by   The Wall Street   Journal,   Duolingo   currently offers 30 languages, including English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Irish, Dutch, Danish, and Swedish.

Headspace: Meditation & Sleep— iOS

With homework to finish tests to prepare, it can seem like you don’t have a moment to relax and gather your thoughts. What’s to be done?

Meditation(冥想)may help, and here’s an app to get you started. Headspace teaches you to face some of the toughest problems of everyday life. It has courses on work and productivity, personal growth and   how to deal with troubling emotions like anger and fear. There are also courses designed specifically for kids and students about dealing with distraction and homesickness.

And, if that isn’t enough, Headspace can help us with the biggest single cause of stress and anxiety : lack of sleep. The combination of the app’s calming voices and relaxing music will help you get a good night’s rest, ready to face the challenge of the next day with optimism and energy.

Gentle Wakeup — Sleep & Alarm Clock with Sunrise — iOS/Android

Every device(仪器)has an alarm function these days. But what does this app have to offer?

The makers of Gentle Wakeup believe people can wake up w ell. The key is that the app wakes with light rather than sound. It offers a better move out of sleep through a “Sunrise” — a light slowly, gradually becomes brighter, just as the sun does. But the sunrise is only half of the waking process: The light grows for 20 minutes before you are eased out of your sleep by the natural early morning sounds of birdsongs. The makers believe users of the app will never wake up in the same w ay again: “Start getting awake by light and you will never w ant to wake up by sounds again”.

Forest: Stay focused — iOS/Android

Though phones make life more convenient, many people feel that they are addictive. Forest is a clever intervention(干预)designed to make people understand that there’s more to life than phones.

Here’s how it works: you plant a seed in the app and the longer you stay away from the phone, the more it grows. From a seed, it becomes a tree and then a forest at last. The makers say, the “sense of responsibility and achievement will encourage you to stay away from your phone and focus on w hat’s important in life”. And Forest has received some good review s from users, who say that’s exactly what it does: “It’s a phone game that gives you time rather than taking it away.”