Our video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3em77tKF8

Sam:Hey dude!
I've found a great chance to have our own musical company!
J: really!' Can you speak slowly! Don't be that excited.
S: oh, oh let me tell you with some more details.
I met a man from Africa , he's so rich and luckily he's interested in our plan of the musical company. After our discussion, he told me that he could guide us to raise our company .
J: Really!? Is this believable? What if he is a swindler?
S: Oh, dude, why do you think that way! He's absolutely not that kind of people. He showed me his houses which was so big, just like a palace, he showed me his cars, he had a pile of cars in his personal garage. And...he showed everything he could to prove his wealth.
J: well, let me think about it ... You know, I plan to use the money to get married with Annie. By the way, what's the cost?
S: It is not high at all, the African promised he could be our patron , so that we only need to pay three million dollars. It means that you only need to invest 1.5 million dollars, that is the most precious and also last chance we have.
J: But...I promised Annie and her parents I would buy her a house, car, and finish our wedding before 2015. She said she wants a garden wedding with a lot of cute cupcakes i. She wanna invite all her friends and relatives, she dreams to wear the wedding dress of Vera Wang. Plus, she plans to go to Maldives for honey moon. I've promised her, I can't ....
S: hey man, think about your dreams! How you yearn for your dreams. You can earn much more money than 1.5 million, that you can provide her with the best life in the world. The only price for her is to wait for a couple of years.
J: well. Okay, I will join you.
Jim: Annie, I have something to tell you. I need to follow my heart, I need to invest in the musical company, it's my final shot!

Annie: What about me? What about our wedding? You promised me.
Jim: I'm sorry Annie, this is the dream that I've been pursued. I'm afraid you have to wait until my dreams come true.

Annie: your dreams? What about mine? You are so selfish. If you insist doing that, our relationship will definitely be over. Cuz I don't think I would be happy with someone who didn't listen to me.

Jim: Why should I listen to you?!
Annie: Because I am your fiancé, how dare you are!

 Boyfriend: who cares! I don't want to stay with you either! Just get out! In the evening, boyfriend went to find Sam, and complaint about what

Annie said : I don't get it, why didn't she get it! I just wanna make my dreams come true, to own a musical company. Why didn't she understand? I thought she was the person that knew me the most. The next day, Jim went to visit Sam, he was going to discuss the company thing with him. He knocked the door again and again, no one answered. Jim became anxious, he asked sam's neighbor who passed by.' Excuse me, is Sam home?'

' I don't think so, I saw him in a hurry carrying a bag leaving yesterday.' 'What?! Where did he go?'
' I have no idea, man' then Jim called him, no one picked up.
'What the heck! He left without letting me know! Did he betray me? Oh, no Sam could never do that.

Oh no, he betrayed me! Fk!' 

Dear Patrick

Letter to Patrick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKZd8QHkj6k&feature=youtu.be

Dear Patrick, 

How are you now? Do you still live in the small island and paint near the river everyday？

I am Sophia, a sophomore who have just knew your story about you and your wife Joanna. I really like the last part of the video, “She is just like the low tide in the morning; the new leaves of an old tree that we used to planted; the soft wind fly through my hair. She is a part of my world, she is a part of me." I am impressed by your romantic love experience and your kindness. In fact, I want to talk with you about love.

We are all in love, in pain, in love again as long as we are living in the world. We laugh because of love, we cry because of love, we even hurt ourselves because of love. Sometimes we may swear that we will never fall in love with anyone again. However, when we meet the right person, we will just fall. This is how amazing love is. I really admire you as you can love someone since the first glance. I admire you that you can assume the responsibility not only for your lover, but also her everything even her daughter. I admire you that you can accept the death your wife and regard her as a part of you. As I can see, love can make people much better than they used to be. In fact, the story of you reminded me of my grandparents.
My grandfather died a couple of years ago. Since then, my grandmother has started her life without her love of her life. To our surprise, her sadness did not last long. She quickly got out of her moody emotion and started her new life. She began to learn how to make cookies, cakes and things so on. Besides, she made a lot of plans for traveling. At that time, we all thought that she did really get over my grandfather's death. However, there was a night I found her crying in her own room, and I began to notice that she had never really got over it. The only reason she tried all those new skills was that she wanted to fulfill her time so that she would not have a lot of time to think about grandpa. They really loved each other, oh, actually they are still in love with each other.
Thank you for showing me the great story. Nevertheless, there are two suggestions I want to give you. First, I hope that I could see your face next time because you hardly showed your face in the video. Second, maybe you can consider moving into a big city! You will find out that there have been a lot of huge changes during the past 15 years!
Thank you again and best wishes. 
Sophia

Let's CREATE!

Lacking of creativity nowadays has became one of the most serious problem for teenagers especially Chinese teenagers. Although we always say that we wanna be a creative person, what does creativity mean?

Creativity – the ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, relationships and to create meaningful new ideas, forms, method, interpretations, etc; originality, progressiveness, or imagination. Creativity refers to the phenomenon whereby a person creates something knew that has some kind of value(baidu.com). According to these explanations, I begin to realize what does creativity mean.

In the past, I've read a lot of creative writing, such as poems, biographies and novels. To make the creative writing engaging, one of the most important thing is to find an interesting topic. As for me, I am interested in writings about love, science and school life while I hardly ever read things about politics and war. The topic we choose needs to be fashional and new, it cannot be one that everyone writes about. Beside topic, the writing tittle is also playing a significant roll in the writing. Writing titles, like headlines, should wet a potential reader's appetite and make them want to read the entire piece. It piques a reader’s curiosity and tells them a little bit about what the story holds(baidu.com). In my opinion, the title is usually a clue of the reading. It must be concise and easy to understand meanwhile including the  theme. Then, we should pay attention to the content. The plot cannot be flat and direct. We words should be variable and there must be adjectives, adverbs and verbs which emphasize the theme. 

As for my creative writing this week, I have done a lot of work to make it engaging and interesting. Firstly, I have a title of my favorite song to be the title of my writing. The title contains the theme, the character and is also engaging. It is not an original and boring title at all. Second, I have chosen a topic that is really popular these days, courage and guardianship. This kind of topics are usually educatial. Also, the story of the character is not well-off. Our character could not be understood by the people she wanted to protect. This is interesting and is the most excited part of the story. It can drag readers into a deep thinking. Furthermore, I like my ending part most. Just like a lot of romantic stories, the characters did die, but forever lived in people's mind.

All in all, I hope that I can improve my creativity so that I can write better articles and stories. Besides, grammar is also really important and I need to work on it in the future.

You are the sky full of stars

Once upon a time, there was a beautiful goddess called Starry. Wherever she arrived, there would be shine of stars. Not only good looking, she was also kind and generous. She was the eudemon of a small village called Sky. It was surrounded by mountains, like a little baby lying in its mom's arm. Well, Starry was like a mom of the small town, she wholeheartedly loved the small town and always tried her best to protect the people in the town since she decided to live there many years ago. Because of her, the village flourished more and more. Not only sky is always full of stars, but also the village. The roof of the house, the crown of the trees, the cloud, the wind, the narrow path led to the big city, they were all shined by Starry.

Besides Starry, there was a priest who also claimed himself as a guardian of the town. In the front of his church, there was a huge old tree which was used to be a school as he said. Because of the lack of resources of education, all the villagers dreamed of sending their children to his school. Every year, he accepted many children, and sent them to the Under Tree Boarding School for 12 years as they started from elementary school and finished after college. During the study time, they couldn't leave the school and meet their families no matter what the reasons were.

However, Starry found out that the priest was totally a liar. There was a villager who begged her to send his child a letter because his mom was going to die. Starry could not refuse the requirement of sad man finally, so that she slipped into the school. To her surprise, it was not a school at all but a prison. The prisoners were making huge and sharp knives. She realized that the only reason the priest gathered those children together was that he wanted to imprison them and eat them finally. 

In order to stop this, Starry started to call upon villagers to fight with the priest. To her surprise, nearly all the villagers were deceived by the priest, no one believed her. They even built a group to fight with Starry and refused her to get closed to the old tree. For her love village, Starry didn't give up. She devoted her life to the village that she dushed her head against the huge tree. The tree was broken, with flame shining around it and the children ran out In a hurry. After their crying and telling the story, about how the priest had maltreated them, the villagers finally realized that who is the real eudemon of them. They felt regret and punished the priest together. They didn't find Starry's body anywhere, but noticed that she was becoming the shiniest star while the cloud was sending her to the sky. 

Although Starry seemed to die, she was still using her shiniest flame to protect the village. Every time when villagers rose their heads, they would see stars filling the sky, just liked the smiles I f Starry, who would forever protect them no matter what happened.

In-class writing

In my opinion, I think the greatest part of my essay is the construction. I can write clear begging, middle and end with interesting hooks and conclusions. It is easy for the audience to notice the place where I am going to talk about another things or opinions.

However, there are a lot of difficulties I can't easily solve them. The first one is grammar. Every time when I write some long sentences, I will make mistakes. It is difficult for me to focus on grammar while I am concentrating on recording my inspiration. Second, the lack of vocabulary annoys me a lot. There are a lot of things I want to describe, unfortunately, I can not find proper words to do that. The only thing I can do is to repeat the words I've used for many time. Because of this, I always can't include as much details as I want. Third, sometimes my mind would get confused, and I can't concentrate on my writing. Although there are a lot of things I want to write, I can't organize them orderly. They confused me a lot.

If I have more time to write, I would like to write my essay in a totally quiet situation without anything disturbing me. In that way I could organize my mind. I'd like to write an outline first.Also I would like to look up on the dictionary to change some of my words, like confusion to another word, because I used this word for too many times. 

You are the sky full of stars^*^

As we are living in the modern world with high technology , I bet that most of us have seen this picture before and even know something about it although we haven't traveled abroad to see the real one. However, do you really understand the emotions and the messages expressed by Vicent Van Gogh, the insane painter of this masterpiece? Have you noticed the contradiction between peace and mania which shows the confused emotion? If your answer is no, please follow me and go deep into The Starry Night.

First of all, the picture shows the peace of the village. Have you seen that? The village is surrounded by the mountains with some orange candles lit. The rotated shine of the stars and moon makes the roofs gold. The small farmhouses were arranged optionally. They are just like babies lying in their mom's arms. Night comes and wind blows, the small village is totally in peaceful condition. Imagine that you are lying on the roof with someone your like, chatting and laughing a lot. Then you raise your head, there are stars filling the sky.  How beautiful the scene is!

Nevertheless, the other parts of the  drawing are not in the same tone as the village. Look at the tree right on the left of the painting. It is withered, and acts like a claw of a hungry monster or burning fire. It is dark and extend from the ground to the sky. There is no leaves or flowers on its crooked trunk at all. The only color we can see is brown, even black. We can not see the top of it, which make us feel even more uncomfortable. Besides, the shape of the sky is just like a blue storm which may attack the village seriously. Stars and sky are mixed together like a huge vertex which can inhale the village anytime. 

With the contradiction of the silent, peaceful village and manic, tempestuous sky, we can easily notice that our painter totally showed his confusion at that time. He wanted to show the peaceful and nice things, but the monster in his mind obviously disturbed him which made him confused. Brightness and darkness were both existing in him mind which is revealed in the painting.

Do you understand the tone of the painting now? Maybe you can notice more things than me while you enjoy it patiently and I bet you will fall in love with the painting after you do that.

Collageeeeee

Have you seen my collage? Have you noticed what are those things on my collage? If your answers are no, don't worry, I will help you figure out.

For starters, the four yellow pictures are the list of the most romantic things I wanna do in the future. I believe that all of us may have some ideal scenes in our mind, little by little, there will finally be a to-do list. As for me, my to-do list is just like a girlish diary. "Being exposed in the rain and sing together""Lying on the dawn under sunshine, and doing nothing""Watching Dracula movie together and screaming as loud as I want",etc. The funny thing is that these things always come up before I getting to bed. Actually, I always like to write something before going to bed, either long on short. It seems that my talent of writing will only shows up at night in my bed.

The second series of pictures I added is the sunrise and sunset of Cheshire Academy. I always get up early and have a run outside the dorm. To my surprise, the sunrise is the best I have ever seen. The clouds are different everyday and even the colors are varied from pink to gold. Same as the sunrise, the sunset is also really beautiful. The blue blue sky, the clouds full of red color, the mild wind, and the person who stands beside me.

Finally, the last picture shows my favorite part of summer vacation, traveling. I always have trips in different places during summer vacations. This summer I went to lijiang, an old town with many woody buildings. Lijiang is regarded as the most romantic place in China and I love it a lot. I took a lot of pictures during the trip, and I also wrote down my opinion towards it.  When I was young, my mom often required me to write travel notes. At first, I refused a lot because I hated writing things such as homework during my playing time while travel notes were just like homework. However, after a couple years oppress, I finally fell in love with travel notes. It becomes my habit that I would write something beside to picture I took.

All in all, it doesn't matter what things you usually write and what type of writer you are. The most important is that you should regard writing as a way to express your emotion and release your pressure. You should love the things you write and write with your passionate!

Test TEsT!

Whoooooo am I

Look at the stars
Look how they shine for you .
                              —YELLOW  www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKNxeF4KMsY

Life changes too much for me that I left my country, my family, my friends and everything I am familiar with for the first time. The brand new life is not as glorious as I thought before. The language problem, etexts problem, making friends with strangers, ect. All kinds of trouble show up and bother me a lot.I always can not help missing the original life I have in china. However, every night when I look at the sky, I saw stars shiny and bright. They are just like the smiles of people who always encourages me and make me brave, insistent and optimistic.
I want use this song to thank people who always care for and stay with me, they are forever the twinkling stars shining for me all the time.

I could be catching a wave

I could be seeing the world

I could be riding with the top down

Kissing my girl

                               ——Anywhere Else But Here.  www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0SDS69BV3s

The reason why I am here is simple: Going to somewhere else and having a larger view. In order to achieve this goal, I gave up a lot. I cry a lot and  miss the food in China all the time. However, I never regret because I believe there will be some day I stand in a higher place than other people, seeing more fantastic view than other people although I have to pay a lot more work than others. I have to fight with loneliness, struggle with laziness, I have to keep going and going in order not to fall back to where I used to be. Everyone should have their own dreams, moving to somewhere else rather than staying in a place all the time until died. Only if we experienced different things, deal with different trouble, we will be able to know how important our home is, and have motivation and responsibility to fight for family and future.

Werever you go

Whatever you do

I will be right here waiting for you

                                      ——Right here waiting.  ww.youtube.com/watch?v=S_E2EHVxNAE

Like the lyric said, I hear your voice on the line, but it doesn't stop the pain. Long-distance love is truly hurt. We can only contact each other by texting and calling. You don't kno what is really going on, you don't know the emotion of him, you can touch and hug him like you were really together. Nevertheless, distance and jet lag can not separate couples who are really in love. As long as you hold on to your faith, their will be a day you are able to walk to him, with confidence and  maturity, getting ready to have a happy marriage. I believe that the day will finally come. So I try to work hard, keep fit, mesmerize more word, participate in lots of activities. I will just wait patiently for the day I could stand by you undoubtly.

Three goals for class

1# End with an A

2# Be able to write better than before

3# Establishing a logical mind in writing

For Better For Worse, To Love To cherish

In me the tiger sniffs the rose.