“You guys will do great. I love you.”
I looked up at my mom, and she smiled at me. But I didn’t want to get out of the car. The car door opened, and my sister jumped out. I knew I was supposed to follow her, but I was stuck in my seat. My sister was running towards the school and looked back quickly, keeping going. I kept looking at the door, hoping she would come back out and get me. She didn't come back.
My mom had told me that my sister would show me where to go. The day before, I had pictured it all in my head. I would follow her into school, and she would show me where to go. Following her would be easy, and I wouldn’t be scared at all. Now how am I supposed to know what to do?
“I have to get to work. You're going to be okay,” my mom told me as she looked towards the school. 1 followed her eyes and saw more kids than I had ever seen before. I jumped out of the car, closed the door behind me and took one last look at my mom.
There was no turning back now.
I started walking into my new school. The doors were too tall and heavy for me. Not knowing where to go, I headed to the only place that I knew in this new, unfamiliar school.
I walked nervously into my teacher's classroom. It was familiar to me since I was here a few short weeks ago for kindergarten orientation (迎新介绍). 1 could hear my heartbeat in my ears. As I looked around, there were no other kids in the classroom. Maybe I went to the wrong class or it wasn’t the first day of school. I wanted to go home. 1 looked around the room. There was a wall of shelves filled with toys and board games.
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“Hi! Before eight o'clock, you can wait in the cafeteria or here if you want.” came a familiar voice.
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As the day went on, I realized I had no reason to cry.
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1.表示歉意；
2.解释原因；
3.另约时间。
注意：1.词数80左右；
2.开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear David,
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Yours,
Li Hua
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It's quite impressive to see Canada geese flying into the clouds. They live to be around 25 years old and are very loyal. They never forget their first home. No one knows this more than my family.
In 2000, when I was seven, my parents and I came back from a T-ball game one late spring afternoon. To our surprise, two adult geese and a baby goose were in our driveway （车库前的私 人车道）.The adults were shocked by us and flew away, but their baby was too young to fly and couldn't follow. We are no strangers to the ways of wildlife, so we knew to avoid contact with the baby, hoping he could join his parents.
Hours passed, and night fell. The tiny little thing was wandering around our yard, unaware of what could happen. It was clear that the baby needed protection, warmth, and food to make it to the morning, so we brought him onto our back porch （门廊）and set up a wire fence to enclose and protect him.
We all pretty much slept with one eye open till morning. And then another morning. And another. Each day, we tried eagerly to get the baby back to his parents, who kept coming to our yard. He wouldn't go to them, though, and they wouldn't come close enough to claim him. The baby goose had clearly decided we were his new family and we gave him a name - Peeper, because he would follow us around the yard making a peeping （唧唧叫）noise, nonstop.
Days turned into weeks, and weeks turned into months, until almost a year passed. Peeper slept on our back porch in typical goose fashion. Every day, my dad would clear his droppings with water and throw him up into the air, so he could fly a loop around the house, coming back again once the porch was clean.
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One evening, my uncle was over, and my dad wanted to show him Peeper's loop.
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It came as a shock 20 years later when an aging adult goose made his way back to my yard.
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