Letter 6: We played our first game like the final

Dear Tim:
There’s two important games for high school students, one is the one we are playing now, it’s held by Taipei government, the other one will begin in December, it’s a national race. Today(10/24) we have a important game, if we win, we could make into the top four, every player practice hard for this , they come to school at 7 everyday to do the morning practice, at noon and after school they still have to practice, everyone has made a lot of progress, but we lost 2 points. When the bell rang, the captain cried, at first I didn’t want to cry, though I am pretty sad, but when I heard she cry, I feel like my heart is broken, they really did a lot of effort, the results just weren't as good as we imagined. Then, we have 4 games to play, our goal is to win four out of five games. Because of the rules of the games, even if we win the following four games, we would at most get the fifth place. But at least we can still say that we got this result only because of the rules; we still have what it takes to be better.

Before the game, everyone will stand hand in hand in a circle.

The one who take the camera is our coach.

Q&A
(1) The first Chinese came to Phoenix and work as railroad workers. To live, they opened laundries, restaurants, and planted vegetable gardens.
(2) The original Phoenix Chinatown used to be the baseball stadium and the basketball arena.
(6) Floyd of Rosedale is the trophy in the Iowa – Minnesota football rivalry, introduced in 1935, is a bronze trophy in the shape of a pig.

Floyd of Rosedale

(11) They are the same things. I’m not sure if there’s also different pearls in US, in Taiwan we have white pearl, brown sugar pearl...etc, and they can be in different size. My favorite one is brown sugar pearls with milk.

Big bubbles and small bubbles.

Letter 5: Mid-Autumn Festival

Dear Tim, the midterm exam is over, I finally have time to write the letter.

There's lots of legend about Moon Festival. Chang’e was Yi’s wife. One day, when Yi was out hunting, a wicked servant attempted to steal the magic elixir, Chang’e drank the magic potion, and escaped from the evil servant by going to the moon. When Yi returned, he was heartbroken. He set out Chang’e’s favorite fruits and cakes as an offering to her. Chang’e continues to live forever as the “Moon Goddess”.

Let me tell you the story about "Jade Rabbit" and "Wu Kang, the man chopping the cinnamon tree". Wu Kang was the god who makes the pill which can live forever. Once he took the medicine to the human’s world, this made the master angry, and decide to punished him by sent him to the moon and chop the tree every day. Though Wu Kang chopped day and night, the magical tree restored itself with each blow, and thus he is up there chopping still. The master had to find someone to replace Wu Kang to make the pill, but human is too evil, this time he need an animal. The master designates 3 celestial to the human’s world, they transform themselves into 3 poor old men and solicit food from a fox, a monkey and a rabbit. The fox and the monkey had something to give them but the rabbit did not. Afterward the rabbit sacrificed itself by jumping into the fire and burned itself to serve the 3 old men with its meat. The 3 celestial were so touch by the rabbit that they sent the rabbit to the moon palace. The master named the rabbit “Jade Rabbit” because it’s really kind and the fur of it is as white as the jade.

Letter 4: TAS “Twelfth Night”

Dear Tim, I’m sorry that I write this letter late, because the midterm exam is coming, I’m busying prepare the test.

Most of the academic departments and classroom buildings for the University are on the south side of the river, in the ancient days, the only things on the north side of the river were the men’s dormitories. This year the children’s hospital was built and has been open during the football season. If I am one of the sick little kid in the hospital I will feel better when the players wave to me at the end of the 1 st quarter. At that moment, I’ll feel like I am healthy and out of the hospital.

If Chloe is my classmate, I will probably hate her 😂, she’s too lazy and too proud.  She’s really a queen in your house, everyone serves her, she can do whatever she wants. Chloe might be putting on a little weight because she eats out everybody else’s dish, this is what I do in school too, Hugo’s lunch is my lunch. 😁

This semester I study much more harder than before, I stop being late for school, and keep awake in class, but the more I want to be better, the more things I have to do, then the less time I can use. I find it difficult to balance my time, after finishing my school work, I have no time to relax, needless to say spend time on what you like.

On Thursday we went to Taipei American School to watch “Twelfth Night” ,the show they played. What makes me feel excited is last year my favorite actor has played this year! This year he played the role of Andrew, he elaborated his role so well, and he’s pretty cute, that why I’m a big fan of him. But this is his last year to play in TAS, he is going to graduate and study in US, but I believe the show without him will still be awesome. When we took a picture with him, he said he remember us! Awww, it’s so sweet.💕 The background of the play is set at 1980, not only their superb acting, their scene layout and clothing design are on point.