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     It is always very exciting that it comes to Christmas because the New Year and Chinese New Year are around the corner. We can have much happy time in these weeks.      I always feel that people like to celebrate Christmas the most. There are many decorations and songs for Christmas. There are many Christmas tree and red decoration put in many places and classrooms. Until now, there are concerts and markets for this festival especially in New Taipei City. People like to celebrate it so much.      In my childhood, children always get some candy and candy cane from teachers. We can put the Christmas socks and wish for the gifts while I always not believe at all. I believe that maybe it is possible that Santa Claus is coming when I first listen to this story. After I have some pocket money, I have the exchange gift parties with my friends. I have attend to change good gift and bad gift. Bad thing is very interesting because we have to...

When it comes to holidays, people like to go travel with family or friends or only himself. Most of us like to go foreign country while I want to travel to Taiwan in the first place, even I don’t need to care about time and budget. If I don’t have the time limit, it is a good chance that I can go to a lot of places. I love to go to natural places the most. There are many beaches and mountains in Taiwan. Living near the sea or in the mountain must be a good choice, so that I can see the morning and night sceneries. Watch these before sleeping and after waking up. This is so relaxing with the sound of the sea and the wind. In the mountain, there must be sounds of birds and animals all day. I don’t need to listen to fake natural music and annoying alarm anymore. Morning and night markets are my favorite places to go. It is very interesting to enjoy the different atmosphere of markets. Some of them like to yell very loudly and some of them are very enthusiastic. Observing customers is...

     Each person is special with some cool talents. Most of the meals that I have every day are cooked by my parents before college. I seldom eat outside, but I found that some of my friends eat very less. I can eat at least two bowls of boiled vegetables and many dishes, but my friends only can eat a small bowl of a whole meal. My dream is to attend the big eater challenge because I can a whole pot of noodles and many foods. Eating food is my happy world.      My second talent is listening to two people speaking to me at the same time. I am not very good at it, but I still can do it. I found this talent because of my sisters. They always have many things and can’t wait to share with me. They are so happy and want to first. I tell them to start telling me at the same time and I reply to them separately. I am very happy that I have this talent, but this is very tired of me. I forced that not doing this to me again so that all of us can have a good qu...

     Like most people, I also want a job which can let me earn much money, less work and near home. If you want to earn more money, it is not easy to have less work.      My ideal job is to run a restaurant which sells hot pots and a coffee shop. The most important thing that I care is to have a good atmosphere. People can come to my restaurant to have a nice dating. Customers can be old friends, new friends, couples or family. All of them can enjoy the time in my restaurant. I can see people chatting and playing happily in my restaurant. I can also make friends with them. It is very interesting that each people have specific stories and different reasons to come here. I always like to know many life stories from people.      Selling hot pots and coffee is the easiest way to let groups of people eat together. They can cook the food together and have more chances to talk together. I don’t want to sell expensive foods so that most people and ...

     I am poor at writing skills because I don't get any training on it and the environment. People in Taiwan usually listen and read more often while we seldom practice writing.      My first time of writing can trace back to elementary school when I studied in cram school. I was preparing for GEPT, but actually, I don't know what I was writing. I just write anything that comes up with my mind, so my scores of writing are the lowest of four parts.      After that, I learn how to write formal articles in senior high school, and this is for the college entrance exam. English teacher started to teach us some tips. We started to know how to organize the information in the right paragraph. At that time, I memorized many typical types and idioms. Writing articles seems boring because we only need the same thing to get high scores. However, it really improves my writing skills and decreases the wrong grammar.      In college, I st...

     Marriage seems like an important issue in everyone’s life. In some ages, people start to be asked many times: ”When will you get married?”      For me, marriage can let two people live better. You can always know that there is a person loves you so much and always support you. Marriage is the haven of your life. It can also let people growing up. They can learn how to deal with house works and both family. The most important thing is to get along with another one well so that they can have a happy life. In profit way, the couple can earn more and share more ways to earn more money. If you are too busy at work, another one can help to do the housework. In this situation, you can only focus on business and not to worry about other things.      Everything must have pro and con. Marriage must waste many times and care more each other in order to maintain the relationship. We have to stay with each other or go to travel or do something toge...

     This is very hard for me that I have never been to any other countries. I can not understand other countries culture very details and how they live in daily life. I can only decide what I have learned before. If I could choose where to be born and grow up, I might choose Japan.      Japanese culture touches me a lot. They always care about people's feeling and prevent to hurt them. Even though Japanese people want to refuse the invitation, they will not refuse directly and not let others feel shame. If someone wants to refuse you, you need to say it is ok. In this situation, people who are sensitive will feel better. I can also happier when I want to refuse people. Refusing is a difficult skill.      Snow is also the reason that I want to live in Japan. There is snow on the mountain especially FUJI mountain. In the winter, they always snow. Snow is so beautiful that I want to watch most of the day. Cold water can let...

     English is the global language nowadays, so everyone in this world needs to learn English. American culture influences the world deeply. If Chinese becomes the global language, our daily life will be changed a lot. First, we don't have classes to learn English. It is more probable that we only can speak Chinese and we can't speak other languages. There are some positive people will not only learn Chinese while most of us aren't. In this situation, we might be less competitive.      In order to make ourselves be more valuable, we have to prepare more instead of staying in the comfort zone. I can speak Chinese, so I don't have to spend too much time to learn and I can communicate with foreigners. I want to sell things and bring my culture from my country to the world, such as Taiwanese food and slippers.      Becoming a strong language of our country, there are more responsibilities to maintain our habit and contribut...

English      Nowadays, more and more people learn English. We can use English to go travel around the world. When we try to talk with foreigners, we always use English in the beginning. In Taiwan, we start to learn English when we are little. Learning English is important for us.      I began learning English in kindergarten, and I also went to cram school. My teachers usually use fun ways to teach me. This is also the reason why I like to learn English. It is excited that I can use English to chat and talk about daily life, and I can no longer only speak Chinese. I am proud of myself that I can talk fluently with foreigners in English. In the first time, I told a foreigner where the bus station is. When I grew up and learn more English, I can teach foreigners Chinese and talk about more topics.      After learning English for so many years, my English skills are no longer better than everyone. There are also many diffi...

     There is a library in the building five in our school. Most the students like to go to the library when they have break times or go to study. Especially before the exam, there are always full of the students.      If you have been to the library, there is a tree in the middle of the library. Let me tell you why it is there, but you need to keep it a secret. There was a forest at the site of YZU. The engineers need to cut off all the trees, and it is successful at the beginning. When they started to build the building 5, a tree started to grow after the day tree was cut. That tree grew very quickly and as large as before. After a whole day, the tree became the same height as before. Some of the engineers tried to cut it down, but it grew up and taller the next day. All of them get sicked. No one has any idea to deal with it.      All of the engineers were shocked by this situations, so they went to the temple of Land God(土地公). They ask ...

     I stayed in the Carrefour for many months, waiting a master bought me. I was wondering my master like to drink water or not. I want to drink a lot of juice, milk tea or coffee every day.      One day, Michael comes to take me home. It is comfortable that there is usually room-temperature water. Sometimes, it is very hot so I can get cold water. Although I can suffer warm water and even hot water, it is excited that Michael never hot water for me. I don't like to suffer hot water. Another important thing that I want to argue. Michael never gave me drinks except for water. I hope that I can have some drinks in my life.      I found that Michael always likes to drink water anytime. One time he was blamed by his teacher because he put me on the desk of 5730 (a computer classroom). Is it wrong for putting me on it? Drinking water is important! If Michael doesn't drink water every ten minutes, he will go crazy. I am so depress...

     Before the first meeting, they wanted to change the time from Friday to Monday. I help everyone to negotiate when we all can have time. Only I have a celebration feast that night, so I show up only a little time.      There are Sunny, Courtney, Mireia, Wiktoria and Katarzyna in our groups. Our partners are very nice all the time, and they don’t have strong accent. We talked about languages and culture. They share us about La Tomatina. They said that they have never attended this. We talked about how to say “Hello” in different languages. Next time, I want to learn more words. All of them have been to many countries in Europe. Wiktoria had been to Africa. None of them have been to Asia. I invite them to come one day. I can guide them to travel in Taiwan.      Although I am late for the meeting, all of them don’t angry at me. When we are talking, we all have smiles and we try our best to communicate. I really appreciate that I have nic...

Dear Michael:      2028 seems so far away! At that time, I will be almost 30 years old. Will the world be more technological, convenient and peaceful? Will the gap between the rich and the poor smaller?  It's hard to imagine. This is me in 2018. Studying second grade in YZU, I finished an orientation event for freshmen last week. Attending activities is exciting for me, and I am going to start learning dancing. There are plenty of goals that I want to do. I also want to travel around Taiwan with my family. For myself, I have no idea whether I should refuse to attend the student association of my department or not. I also have no idea to have an exchange or not. I hope that I will have an answer earlier.       Maybe in 2028, I might have a job. My dream is to run a restaurant with my family. I need to have enough money and skills to run it. The most important thing is to have a great food and style for my restaurant. I really want to...

Hunger games       My favorite English book is "Hunger Games". I had read the whole series. The reason that I like these books because the plots are very exciting. I considered that the author was writing about the situations in this society. There are twelve districts in their country. The Capital holds Hunger Games every year. Every child might be sent to attend and there must be one winner. They have to kill each other in order to live. Some districts are poorer than other, so they have fewer sources to easily win the game. This is similar to the current situations. Some countries are very rich while others are not. The former keeps bullying and exploiting the latter. In the story, the Capital controls every city to prevent them overthrow the Capital. At last, it is no use. People still have the abilities to overthrow. There are also some love stories which is the most interesting I have ever seen. The boy loved him when they were little, but the...

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