Life experience

【一線原創(chuàng)】

Happy Winter Vacation
快樂寒假
Fireworks
(By Zhang Yu of Class 7 Grade 2)

　　The Spring Festival is the most important traditional one in China. As an important part of it, fireworks bring us happier atmosphere than usual. This Spring Festival, Dad bought lots of fireworks as last year. On the eve, he lighted them, and then they blossomed like flowers in the sky, with sweet sounds and brilliant light. How beautiful! I was deeply moved, though every Spring Festival I felt it. It brought me the beautiful feelings. At that moment I was buried in the sea of happiness. And also it made me feel more about the prosperity of our homeland.
　　Meanwhile, However, I was worried about the fireworks. First, setting off firecrackers made a tremendous noise and caused serious air pollution. Also children's safety faced the crisis of getting burned or injured in the eyes. What's worse, many dustmen's valuable time was wasted for fireworks pieces after being set off dirtied the environment.
　　So I thought some day we'll have to forbid making and setting off fireworks, though it's a Chinese custom for hundreds of years.

——寶應(yīng)中學高二（7）班  張鈺

My Trip To Australia
(By Zhang Yu of Class 11 Grade 3)

　　During this winter holiday.I paid a visit to a foreign country, Australia . When people had a cold winter here, I had a hot summer there. Australia had many places to visit, just like the Olympic Village, the Opera House, Bondi Beach and so on. The food people eat there is not the same as ours. And the culture of Australia is different from that of China.
　　However, the most important thing is that people there don`t keep the Spring Festival. The Spring Festival is only for Chinese. So, on the New Year`s Eve, it was not as lively as in China. At this time, we felt more and more homesick.
　　With a delightful feeling of serene seclusion, I played and studied. When I studied at school, I remembered my friends and teachers. When I had a rest in the hotel, I remembered my father and mother. Only when I sat on the beach and looked at the blue sea and the blue sky, I instantly felt refreshed. So Australian seas were kept in my heart.
　　What a wonderful foreign trip!

——淮安外國語初三（11）班  張宇

　�。ˋustralia is a beautiful country, it has many sheep and kangaroos . But this was not mentioned in this passage, from this passage we felt a little homesick , too . The writer loves her mother, her father, China and the culture of China. We know it is very important. Australia is beautiful, but we love China because we're Chinese.
——Gao Lishun from Huaian Foreign Language School）(薦評老師：高立順)

【體驗生活】

Colors of life
(By Zhou Juan of Class 5 Grade 2)

　　I liked painting when I was very young. I painted the sky, the broad sea and the green forest. Although I still didn't understand what the harmony of colors was, how to use a pen to manifest, only simply doubled what I thought of the wonderful things.
　　At that time, the most beautiful dream was only sitting in the green grass, looking into the blue sky, gnawing(咬, 啃) the yellow cracker, playing the game of throwing the handkerchief.
　　Bit by bit, I was growing up and became mature(成熟的). I just knew the life wasn't so simple or easy and that it wasn't like the boresome(煩人的) Children's building-block(積木) to kill the time. There was always black color in our life: the failure of different kinds of examinations, the very drastic(激烈的) competitions, the quarrels with classmates, making me know that misfortune is also another color of the life. Hardship also results in much happiness.
　　Life is just like this. Life is beautiful, so it is unnecessary for us to add to our present annoyance(煩惱). When heavy dark clouds clear away, of course, there is still a beautiful and sparkling sunshine waiting for us.
　　Life is showing yourself frankly. Fortune and misfortune are the final color of life. You needn't attend too much. Also, it is unnecessary to hide yourself.
　　Only when we expand our arms to embrace the whole world around us will we feel that life is so beautiful and sweet. You need to paint your colors of life.

——寶應(yīng)中學高二（5）班  周娟

【開心一刻】

Tove Pants Better

　　A boy came into the house covered with mud finising a rough day at play "Mum," He shouted at the top of his voice, "If Ifell out of a tree, would you rather l broke a leg or tore my pants?"
　　"What a silly question!" his mother an swered from the next room, "l'd rather you tore your pants!"
　　"Well, l got good news for you then ." The boy replied trium phantly.
　　"That's exactly what happened."

撕壞褲子更好 

　　一個小男孩在外面瘋玩了一天之后，帶著滿身泥巴回到家里。“媽媽，”他大聲喊到“如果我從樹上掉下來，你是希望我摔斷腿呢，還是希望我把褲子摔壞呢？”
　　“這是個多笨的一個問題呀！”媽媽從隔壁房間回答到：“我希望你撕壞褲子了。”
　　“那好，我給你帶來好消息了！”小男孩帶著勝利的口吻回答說：“事情正是這樣發(fā)生的。”

——淮安外國語學校初二（4）班  陳靜  供稿

I’m a barber

　　Girl: How many times do you shave a day?
　　Boy: Oh , about forty or fifty times.
　　Girl: Are you crazy?
　　Boy: No, I'm a barber.

我是理發(fā)師

　　女： 你每天刮幾次臉？
　　男： 喔,四五十次吧！
　　女： 你瘋了不成？
　　男： 不，我是個理發(fā)師。

——淮安外國語學校初二（4）班  李文  供稿

【流行時尚】

Pop Whirlwind-Hip Hop
(By Wu Hongmei of Class 5 Grade 2)

　　The young always like fresh fashion, of course, including me, especially those full of energy and vitality(活力). Even full of passion(激情) is more favored and attention-getting.
　　I always remember an advertisement sentence: Parents don't accept presents this year except for "Naobaijing". I can also make an advertisement sentence: Brothers, don't sing songs except for Hip Hop. Yeah, it is Hip Hop. It is inspiring the young all over the world. Both the rhythm and melody will make you burning.
　　For those who don't know Hip Hop, you might just think it is s style of music-bnut actually it's a lot more. Hip Hop is a fashion, it's dance, it's art, it's music and it's a whole youth culture.
　　Since the September of 1979, when Sugerhin Gang's Rapper's Delight was released to Jay Chou in Taiwan Island, it has gone through twenty years.
　　There are two people you really need to make Hip Hop, a DJ(流行音樂節(jié)目主持人 (disc jockey)) and a rapper(進行說唱表演的人). In fact some people think that rappers are a kind of poet, but with a musical accompaniment.
　　The lyrics (歌詞) may sound strange. But don’t worry! What’s important in Hip Hop music is how the words rhyme together fit the beat of the music.
　　People gradually take up Hip Hop music. So Hip Hop can really be called "world music".

——寶應(yīng)中學高二（5）班  吳紅梅

【外國民歌】
　　Oh, Susanna
　　Oh, Susanna
　　I came from Alabama,
　　With my banjo on my knee,
　　I'm going to Louisiana,
　　My true love for to see,
　　Oh, Susanna,
　　Oh, don't you cry.
　　For I came from Alabama
　　With my banjo on my knee,
　　It rained all night the day I left,
　　The weather it was dry,
　　The sun so hot I froze to death,
　　Susanna, don't you cry.
　　Oh! Susanna, oh! don't you cry for me.
　　For I came from Alabama
　　With my banjo on my knee.

　　噢，蘇珊娜
　　我已從阿拉巴馬回來，
　　膝蓋上放著我的班卓琴，
　　我正要到路易斯安那，
　　去看我的愛人，
　　噢，蘇珊娜，
　　不要哭泣，
　　因為我已從阿拉巴馬回來，
　　膝蓋上放著我的班卓琴，
　　我離開的時候整夜下著雨，
　　天氣十分干燥，
　　太陽如此炎熱以至于我差點兒凍死。
　　蘇珊娜，不要哭泣。
　　噢！蘇珊娜，噢！不要為我哭泣。
　　我已從阿拉巴馬回來，
　　膝蓋上放著我的班卓琴。

說明：
　　這首歌曲是美國民謠之父佛斯特（Stephen Foster）的早期作品。
　　歌詞滑稽，曲調(diào)輕松，里面那些不合邏輯的句子非常幽默。
(Provided by Carfu Chen)

【名人名言】

　　1. Truth needs no colour; beauty , no pencil.（真理不需色彩，美麗不需涂飾。）
—— William Shakespeare（莎士比亞）
　　2. The language of friendship is not words but meanings. （友誼的語言不是詞句，而是意義。）
—— Henry D. Thoreau（梭羅）
　　3. One cannot be strong without love. For love is not an irrelevant emotion; it is the blood of life, the power of reunion of the separated.
（沒有愛，人無法堅強，因為愛不是一種無足輕重的情感：它是生命的血液，是分離者重新團聚的力量。）
—— Paul Tillich （保羅·蒂里希）
(Provided by Carfu Chen)