Look at the pictures. Which doodle (涂鸦) do you like best? The one you choose may say something about your character (性格).

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My son, Micah, was not happy at the beginning of his vacation because he didn’t get great grades last term. Then I took him to spend the vacation near the beach (沙滩). On the beach, we saw a group of men playing rugby ball and they asked Micah to join them. When the rugby ball was over his head, he became excited and couldn’t stop waving (挥动) his arms in the air and saying, “My turn, me, me.”

At first, I thought that he would play it just for a while. Because he always keeps interest in something but he never lasts it for a long time. However, when I called Micah to come back, he refused this time. He still played rugby ball with them and listened to the laughter of the guys.

I really enjoyed the happy face from Micah. And I thanked those men for sharing a happy time with him. Then, one man of the group taught Micah how to hold the rugby ball and throw it! Micah was happy to learn the skills and had fun playing rugby ball. I was also happy that they helped my son get out of the terrible mind.

Heroes came in many forms (形式), and these men were my heroes today.

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We are traveling in New Zealand these days. We arrived here on Wednesday night. On Thursday we crossed the Southern Alps. It took hours. We drove through Arthur’s Pass and then stopped to look at the mountains. The top looked a bit like black and white pictures, with their bright white snow and big black rocks. We stayed for the night in Greymouth, where we bought some books.

Yesterday we drove on to see the famous Franz Josef Glacier (冰川). First we left our things in our hotel and then we set out to walk to the glacier. It took a long, long time to walk over the rocks in the bottom (底部) and when we got to the wall of the glacier we were very thirsty. We broke off a tiny bit of ice and tasted it. We were drinking water that was thousands of years old. It was much nicer than the ice from the fridge.

Today we drove to the Fox Glacier. Someone had told Dad about a lake on the way, so we went there first. We had to walk through a dark forest to find Lake Matheson. It was a very cold lake because all its water came from the glacier.

It was too late in the day to reach the Fox Glacier. We stayed in the car park to watch great big green-brown parrots. I used to think parrots were sweet and lovely, but these birds were not. They were walking all over the cars in the car park, breaking soft parts with their bills (喙). They even broke off windscreen wipers (雨刮器).

Tomorrow we have to get up early because we are flying to the top of Franz Josef in a plane. I am looking forward to that because the top of the glacier is all deep snow. So far we have only seen the front ends of glaciers.