Letter 10: World Press Photo 2017

Dear Tim:

On Wednesday, Summer took us to “World Press Photo Exhibition “. There’s always something you can’t imagine happening on the world. A few photos made me impressed.

One is a black rhino, poached for its horn, is found dead at South Africa. In Asia, rhino horn is considered valued medicinal properties. Before the teacher explained the picture, she asked us a question: "Do you think wild animals should be protect?" In fact, I would like to say no. If no greedy human being selfishness and killed those animals, then we would not need to protect them.  Why do people protect them after hurting them? Is there any way for humans not to do such a thing? The teacher also said that if it is a professional person took the rhino horn, the rhino can continue to survive, you aren’t a professional person, then why are you still doing this? Even a nine-year-old child knows this is wrong, but people are blinded by their greedy.

There are already many animals, environments and resources in this world that have vanished because of human selfishness. But when can we face this problem?

Q&A

Jason is going to school in Toronto. The weather there might be a shocking experience for him, people in Canada may be the only one who looks forward to cold. Toronto Blue Jays should be his new baseball team. When it comes to ice hockey, I think I should have tell you that there’s an ice hockey national player in our school, which is Vivian Shao’s classmate now!

Unlike Patrick, Mr. Maher just needs to show up to get the free breakfast. 

Echo is working in Ireland and just has the occasional day off. Echo’s job is skating with the company, and this year they will go through about twelve different European countries. When I was in kindergarten, my brother and I learned roller-skating in the park, This winter holiday, my junior high classmates asked us to go ice-skating. I think both of them are similar, if you know one of them, the other will be easy for you. So I have never fell on the ice. 

L9: School Fair

Dear Tim:
Saturday (11/11) is the school fair, compared with last year, we sell one more product, the corn soup, and we’re still going to sale the noodles, gradient drink, and painting the faces, hope we can earn more money. This year Angela and I will do the cash register work, Summer, our teacher is going to help us send the food to other teachers. And today(11/10) we cook once while we are during the house economics class, the teacher gave us a better recipe, the cost of production will be lowered.

Now let me tell you how we’re going on Saturday. Everything sold out except the drinks, I think it’s because every class sold drinks but the weather wasn’t that hot anymore. On that day, Doris’s mom brought “handmade banana cake” for us to earn money, and it worked, the banana cake is $20, the drink is $35, if you get both you can save $5 dollars, our PE teacher bought 4 sets for his graduated students. What makes me felt pity is I didn’t eat any, couldn’t taste how delicious they are. 😩

Most of us had some paintings on our face.

Allison's drawing on Hugo's arm.

Gradient drinks

The kids in Arizona who dressed as cactus are so cute, it’s like you would only see people dressed as banana in Taiwan. 

Last year Ericson dressed as banana.

The trick-or-treat usually starts at 6:30, and ends at 8:30, about 200 “trick-or-treaters” came to your house. Hugo’s costume of teletubbies looks like “a frog pretend to be teletubbies” 😂 Did you notice that Candy lost the most important part of teletubbies, the antenna.

Letter 8: Halloween

Sorry Tim, these two weeks I'm really busy, most of the days I was at the basketball court because of the competition, now the game is over, I finally have time to write the letter.

I'm always interested in horror things, either novels or movies is my love. The more scary it is, the more I love it. Recently, I've been watching a television series called "Pretty Little Liars". It's talking about one of five girls who had been killed, after this, someone who named A started to threatened them. A might be the murderer, so they need to find out who A is. On Halloween, we held an party in class, everyone dressed up, but that day was still playing the basketball game, so Selena and I did not join the party. If I could dress up, I would probably be A, he or she is always wearing a black hoodie, with black gloves and black boots. He or she is everywhere, knows everything about you, but you can never find out who A is.

This is A.

Teletubbies

Q&A

1. Why should the Los Angeles Dodgers be considered the favorite in this years’ World Series?

The Dodgers won more games than others, they have the best pitcher from Texas Rangers, so now they have two best pitchers.

2. Why would the Huston Astros be considered the “sentimental favorite”?

In the past few years, they won lots of games. This year they had the longest winning streak in baseball, and the second best record in baseball, winning more games than during regular season than any team.

3. What are traditionally used to decorate the graves on Dia de Los Muertos?
Adult graves are marked with orange marigolds, while orchids are left at children's graves.

Letter 7: Good news and Bad news come together

Hey Tim, this is Melody!

Nini, Selena , Red are still on the team, and I'm the manager. At first I thought being a manager would be much easier than being a player, but now I know I'm definitely wrong! I'm the most tired person, before the game I need to collect the money then order the lunch. When the game starts, I need to do some records for the coach. These seem easy, but when you're really doing this, you'll find out how difficult it would be.

On Friday(10/27) a game made me cry, this is the first time I cried because a basketball game. I am not a perceptual person, but this game really makes me very touched. The game that day was Zhongshan Girls High School (ZSGH) versus  Nei Hu Senior High School (NHSU), at last ZSGH lost 2 points, it was same as our first game, the match turned at the fourth period, can't believe this would happen.😢😢 But this is not the reason I cried, when they were still playing, we cheer up for both of them, after the game ended, ZSGH said thank you to all of us. Couldn't tell how impress I felt. Normally, you won't appreciate the courage from other teams, even if you do, you won't say it out loud; and only if you lose the game you'll cry, unexpectedly I cried for others. The another reason is, it reminds me we almost win on the first game, what a pity!

As we expected, we reached our goal, won four out of fives game, and get the fifth place. But after this, something shocked me! Our coach won't be our coach anymore, he told us this after winning the game, it's "the-430-day" he teach us. Since he has started to teach us, his family never support him, he has two children who is in kindergarten, need him more then us. The reason he told us at this timing is because if we know this when our morale is high, we can bear it. If this decision makes him feel easier, then I will support him.