Six-year-old Ismail Zulfic was born with no arms and used to be scary of going into the water after incident in a pool. So that changed when the little boy met Amel Kapo. He set up a local swimming club after noticing what disabled kids struggled to swim in pools for lack of special equipments for them. Kapo taught Zulfic to swim. Zulfic was able to swim well after a little months of practice. He even won for a gold medal in a local swimming competition for disabled people，finish well ahead of other swimmers.
This butterfly without wings showed that desire, will and perseverance are things that real pay off.
Challenges of life are of great important in our growth. It reminds me of my days which I joined in the military training after I entered senior high school. It was the first time I have lived away from my home, so I found difficult to fit in. And the training officer was strict on me. I once thought I couldn’t stick to the end. But final, I made it. The training made it much easy for me to adapt to my future life. And the difficulties I came across have now became a precious memory in my life.
In a short, it’s better to learning to regard the challenges of life as the stepping stone to future success and make the best of them.
Today, at the local convenience store that I work, an elderly man with a guide dog come in. He went to the shelf where there were all kinds of greeting card. He picked up a card, held it up extreme close to his eyes, but struggled to read it. Just as I was about walk over to help him, I found the little girl, who was about ten years old, asking him if he needed help. Before hear his answer, she started to read him almost every single greeting card out loud until the elderly man was smiled. He said, “That’s perfect! His wife will love this one!”
Maria, a 91-year-old woman, has an unbelievable experience last week. A group of thief broke into her house but took nothing away with themselves. Maria remembered that the windows were broken and all her boxes were opened, and nothing was missing. Instead, she found a handwritten note that was said that “This is to help you get by.” Besides a note there was some money. It seemed that the thieves realized how poor Maria lived and decided not to take something - but to help. One policeman who has been working for 40 years was surprising by this event too. Later Maria framed the note receiving from her friendly thieves and used the money buy sweets for her great grandchildren.
Li Mei went to the cinema on last Sunday. On the way there, he saw two boys climb up the back of a truck, so he hurried to ask him to come down from the truck. The two boys came down and Li Wei told them that it was dangerous climb up the truck like that. The two boys said that they have done something wrong but their faces went red.
Yet, after a while Li Wei was very surprising to see the children were running after a tricycle with many thing on it. Soon they caught up with the tricycle and pushed it hardly. Li Wei ran to join them in helping a driver.
One rain day while I was walking home with one of my friend, a truck came to a stop beside me. The driver wound the window down and offered us a umbrella because he found we were wet through. I stood there and couldn’t believe in that a complete stranger is so thoughtful. The man insisted, so I grateful accepted the offer, thanked him and watched the truck disappear down the road. This man might need the umbrella himself, and he preferred to give it to everyone else. It was a lesson to us that it was possible give without expect anything in return.
The best advice I was received in my childhood was from my dad. He always gives me some advice, but I seldom took them seriously. One day he encouraged me to participate a speech competition. So I signed up and before the competition, I did my best to be full prepared. And the moment I stood on the stage, I was such nervous that my mind completely went blank. The experience of lose a competition was really painful. Then, my dad said, “My son, life is like a battlefield. You have to lose many time to win the final victory.” Thanks to his advice, I never give up while I do anything.
On September 5, the students in our class paid a visit to the China Science and Technology Museum.At 8：00, we left the China Science and Technology Museum by the school bus.At 8：30, a guide introduced it to us brief and told us that we should pay attention to during our visit.Ten minutes late, we were divided into five groups and begin our visits separately.Some student took notes carefully as they visited.All the students were amazing at the great achievements in science and technology.Three hours had gone by after we knew it.At 11：30, we returned to our school.This visit not only broadened my horizons but also aroused my interest in study science and technology.
Last week, I visited the Beach Park with two of my friend, Tom and Jack. I learned a lot about starfish, which name comes from their shape. As a matter of the fact, they're not fish, though they started their lives in water pools by the seashore. They can take care themselves even when they are young. Young starfish know what to eat. Some starfish can later live deeply in the sea, though they can't swim. They move by use their legs and feet. The starfish has no head and tail, and just has five legs. If a leg fall off, it will grow right back. The amazed starfish has now become my favorite animal.
Two weeks before my wife's birthday, I telephone some of her friends from university and requested that they send the video, wishing her a "Happy Birthday". I asked them to tell the pleasant memories they had during his university days. I received seven videos from the friends she had not been in touch for eight years! Many of them described fun memory from university and talked about that how much they missed those times. Before I showed the videos to my wife on her birthday, she could not stop smile. She was very happy but I saw tears of happiness in her eyes. A simple action made her birthday specially by connecting her to old friends.
