1 . Here are some movie museums you can visit.

Rancho Obi-Wan Star Wars Museum

Reporter Steve Sansweet founded Rancho Obi-Wan Star Wars Museum in 1998. It’s a nonprofit museum that is the home to the world’s largest collection of privately-owned Star Wars memorabilia (纪念品), making it the Guinness World Record holder for “Largest Collection of Star Wars Memorabilia”.

La Cinématnèque Francalse

Paris’ La Cinémathèque Francaise is one of the world’s largest film collections Established in 1936, co-founders Henri Langlois and Georges Franju acquired a large collection of films and documents.

It’s a Wonderful Life Museum

It’s a Wonderful Life Museum opened in 2010. Actress Karolyn Grimes donated original photos and other memorabilia from her private collection.

Australian Centre for the Moving Image

Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) opened in 2002 and it grew to be an international exhibition of film, television, and digital culture. Over the years, the ACMI has featured lasting and traveling exhibits.

2 . Born in California and representing the United States before switching to China, teenager Gu Ailing decided to represent China in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.

The 17-year-old is a freeskier and Grade-A student with an American father and Chinese mother. She grew up and still lives in the United States, but in June 2019 she made the “quite difficult” decision to compete for China. She wrote on Instagram that she was “proud of my heritage and equally proud of my American upbringing”.

As for the decision to compete on behalf of China, she said it is “a valuable opportunity to help inspire millions of young people in China where my mom was born.”

Gu graduated from a San Francisco high school in 2020. It is reported that she scored 1,580 points out of a maximum 1,600 in the SAT, and has been offered a place at Stanford.

Gu started learning to ski at the age of 3, competed in national competitions at 9 and won her first World Cup event at 15. She won two gold medals and a silver at the 2020 Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne, Switzerland. On Jan, 30th, 2021, Gu made her debut at the X Games in Aspen, Colorado and won two golds and a bronze. In the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, she achieved great success—two golds and a silver.

“My goal is to win Olympic gold,” she said before the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.

“It’s the top achievement. And that would be rewarding for all the work that I’ve done to achieve greatness in the sport.” Her efforts finally paid off.

3 . For twelve years, my church has participated in the Appalachia Service Project. One week each summer, volunteers go to repair or build homes for families.

At the age of sixteen, I went on my first volunteer project in West Virginia. On the night we arrived, we discovered that “our family” was living in a trailer (活动房屋) that was in poor condition. The staff soon decided that the only reasonable solution was to build a new house. “Our family” was overjoyed with their new house that was 20x30 foot with three bedrooms, a bath and a kitchen/family room.

On Tuesday of that week, I asked “our family’s” three boys, Josh, Eric and Ryan, “What do you want for your new room?” Josh, the oldest, responded, “I just want a bed.”

We were stunned. The boys had never slept in a bed. They were used to foam pads (泡沫垫). That night we had a meeting and decided that beds would be the perfect gift. On Thursday night, we drove to the nearest city and bought beds and new bedding.

On Friday, when we saw the delivery truck coming, we told “our family” about the surprise. It was like watching excited children on Christmas morning. That afternoon, we set up the beds. As we fitted the frames together, Eric ran into the house to watch us. He observed with wide-eyed enthusiasm. As Meggan, a member of our group, slipped a pillowcase onto one of the pillows, Eric asked, “What is that?”

“A pillow,” she replied,

“What do you do with it?” Eric persisted.

“When you go to sleep, you put your head on it,” Meggan answered softly. Tears came to our eyes as she handed Eric the pillow.

“Oh... that’s soft,” he said, hugging it tightly.

5 . Welcome to Our Festival

Story Show in Oheron

Adults

8: 00 pm—10: 00 pm

Join us for an evening of true, personal stories about science. Come to the only show where you can hear people—scientists, not-scientists, and half-scientists-tell funny and touching stories about the role of science in their lives.

Cost: $10

Make Your Own iPhone Case through Toysinbox 3D Printing

Families & Teens&. Adults

10: 00 am—12: 30 pm

In this workshop, you will learn to design and make your own iPhone case by 3D printing. First, you will learn how to use a 3D printer. Next, you will design a 3D model for your iPhone case that will have a lovely pattern and your name. Once you create the model, you will print it out on our 3D printers. A 3D-printing worker will guide you through this process step by step. Come and enjoy this fun and unique learning experience!

Cost: $35

DIY Underwater Vehicle Design in MIT Museum Teens

2: 00 pm—5: 00 pm

Dive into the world of ocean engineering by designing and building an underwater vehicle! Test your vehicle in large tanks on the Museum’s floor. Show off your engineering creations and share your design process with Museum visitors.

Cost: $15, Ages 12

Animal Kingdom for Young Ones in Museum of Science, Boston

Families

9: 30 am—2: 00 pm

Join us for a day of hands-on science fun designed especially for pre-schoolers!

Activities include the Museum’s popular “Live Animal Story Time” shows and a talk about baby animals and book-signing by children’s book authors. Take part in special live animal visits and activities in the exhibition halls, as well as design challenges and lab activities—all created with your young scientist in mind!

Cost: $20

6 . When I was walking back home at around 12: 15 p. m. during my lunch break one day, an apple core (果核) came flying towards me. It landed just before my feet. Surprised, I thought myself _______ not to get hit by it.

The apple was _______ over the wall by a school student. I live opposite a school. A wall _______ my apartment building from the school.

Thinking it was a one-off _______, I told my friend Lucy, and we laughed about it.

Then, the week after, I was walking along exactly the same place at the same time and bam! Another apple _______ the wall. This time it _______ on the roof of a shed (棚屋). I thought to myself: ”Is it my destiny (命运) to get hit by an apple?”

Last week I was walking back home. I _______ my phone. It was 12:15 p.m.. My _______ wandered to those two times before when I’d seen an apple thrown over the wall. But _______, my thoughts were interrupted (打断) by another flying apple! This one was a big one. Only one bite had been taken out of it, and it was thrown with speed.

Enough was enough. Someone could be really ________ by these apples. Did the ________ not realize that people live across the wall? Or do they not care?

I told my friend about it. “You should just throw the apple ________ over the wall. That will teach them,” my friend Sam ________. But I don’t want to play that “game”. As they say, “An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.” ________, I might end up hurting someone when I throw it back.

Maybe I’ll call the school and let them know. The students responsible need to know that they might end up hurting someone if they keep throwing their waste. What’s more, waste ________ to the bin, not anywhere else.

8 . As I had grown up in Belgium, going to university in the UK made me feel lost and lonely. Although I was struggling, I felt unable to share how I was feeling with anyone and didn’t know where I could turn for support.

Things were getting harder and harder, and one day I was on my way back to university when I had a sudden thought that ending my life would be a way out. I was in my own world when a lady standing nearby came up for me and said: “Are you waiting for a train? Are you OK?”

Although I didn’t say much back to her, the little conversation was all it took to interrupt my thoughts of ending life. I got the next train back to university. The small talk was a wake-up call and made me realize it’s OK to reach out for help. I spoke to my university and they provided me with a teacher to help. I also shared my feelings with my loved ones. By seeking some timely and useful help and being honest about what I was feeling. I created a strong support network that I could lean on when I needed to.

When I started working at Network Rail in 2012. I heard that Samaritans provided training for staff working in the rail industry on identifying and helping people who may be vulnerable. Instantly, I knew I had to sign up. I wanted to turn my experience into something useful and positive, and to equip myself to help others who might be feeling like I did back then. The training was fantastic and interestingly shone a light on the fact that everyone has the skills to save a life.

So, if you ever notice someone who you think might be struggling, try talking to them. You already have everything you need to save a life. Take it from me, starting a conversation can be all that it takes.