A group of students of Jinan University in Guangzhou cycled north, submitting a proposal to the Ministry of Education, the CYL Central Committee to set up Teacher's Day. After a year, the State Council decided to set September 10 every year as Teacher's Day. Since then, the mainland's teachers have also had their own festival.
Teachers’ Day was established in the history of our country. In 1931, educators Tai Shuangqiu Cheng Qibao and others had an assembly at the National Central University in Nanjing, and issued a declaration "to improve the treatment of teachers, protect the jobs of teachers and promote training of teachers," and agreed on June 6 for Teacher's Day, also known as double-6 Day. Soon, the Nationalist government first agreed on June 6 for Teacher's Day, but then Teacher's Day was changed to August 27 (lunar birthday of Confucius)
After the founding of the People’s Repubic of China, the Central People's Government resumed June 6 for Teacher's Day, and the Ministry of Education announced that local educators could organize the celebratios based on the actual situations. National Education Union was set up in 1951, and educators were recognized as part of the working class. On April 19, 1951, the Minister of Education and the Chairman of the National Committee of China Education Union issued a written statement, declaring the "Labor Day" as Teacher's Day at the same time. However, due to the lack of teachers’ characteristics, the implementation was not satisfactory. Especially after 1957, the "left" ideology under the influence of the “left” ideology, teachers were ignored, so Teacher's Day in fact existed no longer.
In recent years, the Chinese government has taken many measures to mobilize the whole society to respect teachers, to improve the status of teachers and to make better teachers’ working and living conditions.
To further enhance the political and social status of teachers, form a good social atmosphere of respecting teachers and knowledge and talented people in society, and promote the development of education career, according to many proposes from the National People's Congress, the CPPCC National Committee members and people from all walks of life, particularly teachers around the country, as well as the experiences to carry out activities to honor teachers throughout, the State Department issued a motion on January 11, 1985 to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress to determine September 10 every year as Teacher's Day. At the Sixth National People's Congress on January 21 in the same year, all agreed on the establishment of a Teacher's Day motion, and decided on September 10 as Teacher's Day.
September 10 is determined as Teacher's Day because at the very beginning of new school year, the new students begin to respect teachers create a good atmosphere. At the same time, there are few national holidays in September and it is convenient to focus on all aspects of the organization and activities of the prominent media coverage, and promote the formation of good social atmosphere that teachers, knowledge and talented people are all respected across the country.
The establishment of Teacher's Day marks the fact that teachers are respected in our whole society. This is because the teachers’ work determines the future of our country to a large extent. Teachers’ work is closely related with every family, every child, youth, young people.Teachers play a huge role in the development of human society and progress. Teachers are engineers to cast human civilization, and are the communicators and builders of human civilization. The continuity of the development of human civilization depend on teachers’ work of generation after generation. The Civilization of a society, one country and one nation will suffer great losses in the absence of teachers’ hard and effective work. Therefore, a history of civilization is unimaginable with teachers.
Since then, in annual Teacher's Day, teachers have all celebrated their own festival in different ways across the country. Through selections and awards, by introducing the experiences, and helping to solve the problems of wages, housing, medical care, and other aspects of the practical difficulties and improving teaching conditions, the majority of teachers’ initiatives have greatly been enhanced to be engaged in the education cause.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
My current episodes of life (5)
September 20
The new teacher-training began in the multimadia hall of Meiao Middle School today. This training was not meaningful for our improvement in teaching, just for the money-making of some officials. If you want the title assessment, you must attend the training or you will not have the qualification to be assessed.
At 8 am, all the teahers had singed in at the gate of the hall according to the schools you are from. All the morning, a teacher from Tancheng Party School, led us to study some knowledge about intellectual property. But he did so bad that most of teachers just talked there and did not want to know what he said and some teachers left so early. So the meeting was in great mess. He was not so interesting that I slept there most of time.
In the afternoon, a teacher from the Board of Education was so clever that he really knew what we really wanted. He did not make some other explanations about quality education, and just underlined the important points on the book and even some answers. He was very welcome then.
At 3 pm, we began our first test on quality education, with your book in your hands to help you to find your answers quickly. Ma Baolong, Ma Jiuzheng and I co-operated verywell. After about one hour, we all finished all the questions correctly and successfully. And some teachers feared that they could have a very high grade so that the test was not real.
September 21
At 9:30 am, we had the second test on intellectaul property just like what we did yesterday afternoon. After about one hour and a half, we were very glad to go out of the test room. We were very happy not because we did it very well but because the funny training was really over.
In the afternoon, I stayed at home, strangely not very happy. I was again worried about my title assessment of this year. I am not very sure of it.
In the morning, my wife went home directly after she goe off night shift of work. She sent the design plan of the new building, and was told that we will not start to work until October 1. She was and is very happy whenever she thinks of her future new house. She is ready to do anything for her new house in her own heart.
The new teacher-training began in the multimadia hall of Meiao Middle School today. This training was not meaningful for our improvement in teaching, just for the money-making of some officials. If you want the title assessment, you must attend the training or you will not have the qualification to be assessed.
At 8 am, all the teahers had singed in at the gate of the hall according to the schools you are from. All the morning, a teacher from Tancheng Party School, led us to study some knowledge about intellectual property. But he did so bad that most of teachers just talked there and did not want to know what he said and some teachers left so early. So the meeting was in great mess. He was not so interesting that I slept there most of time.
In the afternoon, a teacher from the Board of Education was so clever that he really knew what we really wanted. He did not make some other explanations about quality education, and just underlined the important points on the book and even some answers. He was very welcome then.
At 3 pm, we began our first test on quality education, with your book in your hands to help you to find your answers quickly. Ma Baolong, Ma Jiuzheng and I co-operated verywell. After about one hour, we all finished all the questions correctly and successfully. And some teachers feared that they could have a very high grade so that the test was not real.
September 21
At 9:30 am, we had the second test on intellectaul property just like what we did yesterday afternoon. After about one hour and a half, we were very glad to go out of the test room. We were very happy not because we did it very well but because the funny training was really over.
In the afternoon, I stayed at home, strangely not very happy. I was again worried about my title assessment of this year. I am not very sure of it.
In the morning, my wife went home directly after she goe off night shift of work. She sent the design plan of the new building, and was told that we will not start to work until October 1. She was and is very happy whenever she thinks of her future new house. She is ready to do anything for her new house in her own heart.
Saturday, September 20, 2008
That experience made me different！
To be honest, I was and am very sorry for my not good performance in the English-teaching career, especially that I did not present an English open class in front of my whole colleagues of English teaching-research group, not to mention in front of the whole school and the whole county. As a teacher, I felt very embarrassed for my bad performances in the English lesson competiton or the open classes within the whole county. So when I got the news, I really did not know whether I would be glad or not, or whether I would be sad or not.
During those 19 days, I always felt very worried, upset, anxious, sad, depressed, in low spirits and sorry for myself, and sometimes even fearful and frightened, with a long face. And most of time, I was always feeling suppressed so much that it was too hard to take a slight breath.
Most of nap time, I always slept on the floor of the sitting room with the electric fan on, but often in insomnia. Although lying there, I always thought of my teaching content, or the teaching courseware, or sometimes just too anxious to go into the state of sleeping, turning over and over again and not falling asleep.
Though I fell asleep at times, it was a very short time before I felt that I had already waked up and worried again about my prepared lesson because I always felt that my preparations were not enough, and thought it should be much better. It all meant that I was not very confident in myself and that lesson presentation.
Only in the office, could I concentrate on the preparations for the lesson, because I love this work very much, and am hard-working, sudious, cautious and conscientious seriously and carefully. And almost I did not join my colleagues in their little chats about some trivials in life or teaching. I was silent to everything and I was not interested in anything a bit. What suppressed me most was an invisible force, so that I could not breathe. Although I also had a gooooooood laugh over some of jokes and something funny. I felt very feeble almost every day and I did not find any energy to support me and needed very much a power to raise me up,
At home, I did not turn on the TV set at once as usual. At times, I opened my courseware in the computer and looked at it aimlessly, at other times, I just lay on the floor and did not want to do anything. It is very strange that lying down should make you feel very good or calm down. Lying there, I was always worrying about my coming open class, with my eyes wide open. Sometimes, I went to the kitchen to prepare lunch or supper to make me busy in order to make myself forget that matter temporarily in a very short time.
But of couse, I also had a short moment of pleasure and comfort and non-worry. Whenever I had a goooooooood idea or inspiration about my open lesson, I also felt very excited and even thrilled with myself and my new changes for my lesson. Several times, I got my inspirations when lying on the floor and turning over and over not to go to sleep. When I made my rehearsals against my computer, I was also feeling very fine and full of a little confidence. And I had to admit that every rehearsal or practice would made me firmly confident and full of courage to win.
Little by little, I was gradually becoming sure that presenting an open lesson was not so terrible if I made a complete and careful preparation, and especially after the last two rehearsals, I was not nervous and surely thought that I was able to do very well in that seminar. Because of all those practices and thorough careful preparation, I did not feel any nervous and upset and anxious about the open lesson. I also felt very calm even though the day came near to me. I felt very calm on the way to Linyi, and had a pleasing and relaxing chat with my colleagues, very happy.
So when it was my turen to present my lesson, I went up on to the platform calmly in the presence of all the teachers present. After talking a lot with my ever-deskmate in front of the platform, I felt much more relaxed, and in some sense, I felt that I had entered a good state of mind, acting as my role. I was very calm in my inner heart, and was enjoying the process. And I did not have any kind of tension and unease I had been worried about prior to it. Therefore, finally I truly triumphed over myself, and overcomed my own shortcoming in front of so many teachers from some counties and districts.
When I finished my course and thanked my students with “Thand you all!”, all the students gave my a warm applause. In their sincere applause, I bowed to them deeply and politely, because I knew that I won the open lesson and myself and recognition and appreciation of students. So I think that lesson was the best one of all my lessons since my graduation. I was feeling satisfied and proud that I could do what I wanted to do, and meanwhile I could do it very well if I wanted to.
So when I got off the platform, I did not feel a kind of excitement I desired for before. When I came back my seat, I had the same state of mind as I did not present my lesson. I did not have the special happiness and pleasure, and did not feel as if relieved of a heavy load. I was not very happy as I had imagined when I got the news. I felt that everything went as it was. And thinking that a lesson was a lesson as it was, not any specially. After a short time of explanations about the lesson, I went to the bus stop peacefully to catch my bus home. Everythin would go as usual.
That experience really made me so different. I really suffered from the sadness, but I also benefited a lot from that experience, and I also grew stronger a lot. At the very beginning, I felt very sad and anxious and evern depressed, and then after many practices and careful preparations, I felt a little comfortable and relaxed, and finally I felt very calm about it and enjoyed it.
Everybody is different if you think you are so different. And believe in yourself and think that everyone can make a difference if you think you can make a difference.
During those 19 days, I always felt very worried, upset, anxious, sad, depressed, in low spirits and sorry for myself, and sometimes even fearful and frightened, with a long face. And most of time, I was always feeling suppressed so much that it was too hard to take a slight breath.
Most of nap time, I always slept on the floor of the sitting room with the electric fan on, but often in insomnia. Although lying there, I always thought of my teaching content, or the teaching courseware, or sometimes just too anxious to go into the state of sleeping, turning over and over again and not falling asleep.
Though I fell asleep at times, it was a very short time before I felt that I had already waked up and worried again about my prepared lesson because I always felt that my preparations were not enough, and thought it should be much better. It all meant that I was not very confident in myself and that lesson presentation.
Only in the office, could I concentrate on the preparations for the lesson, because I love this work very much, and am hard-working, sudious, cautious and conscientious seriously and carefully. And almost I did not join my colleagues in their little chats about some trivials in life or teaching. I was silent to everything and I was not interested in anything a bit. What suppressed me most was an invisible force, so that I could not breathe. Although I also had a gooooooood laugh over some of jokes and something funny. I felt very feeble almost every day and I did not find any energy to support me and needed very much a power to raise me up,
At home, I did not turn on the TV set at once as usual. At times, I opened my courseware in the computer and looked at it aimlessly, at other times, I just lay on the floor and did not want to do anything. It is very strange that lying down should make you feel very good or calm down. Lying there, I was always worrying about my coming open class, with my eyes wide open. Sometimes, I went to the kitchen to prepare lunch or supper to make me busy in order to make myself forget that matter temporarily in a very short time.
But of couse, I also had a short moment of pleasure and comfort and non-worry. Whenever I had a goooooooood idea or inspiration about my open lesson, I also felt very excited and even thrilled with myself and my new changes for my lesson. Several times, I got my inspirations when lying on the floor and turning over and over not to go to sleep. When I made my rehearsals against my computer, I was also feeling very fine and full of a little confidence. And I had to admit that every rehearsal or practice would made me firmly confident and full of courage to win.
Little by little, I was gradually becoming sure that presenting an open lesson was not so terrible if I made a complete and careful preparation, and especially after the last two rehearsals, I was not nervous and surely thought that I was able to do very well in that seminar. Because of all those practices and thorough careful preparation, I did not feel any nervous and upset and anxious about the open lesson. I also felt very calm even though the day came near to me. I felt very calm on the way to Linyi, and had a pleasing and relaxing chat with my colleagues, very happy.
So when it was my turen to present my lesson, I went up on to the platform calmly in the presence of all the teachers present. After talking a lot with my ever-deskmate in front of the platform, I felt much more relaxed, and in some sense, I felt that I had entered a good state of mind, acting as my role. I was very calm in my inner heart, and was enjoying the process. And I did not have any kind of tension and unease I had been worried about prior to it. Therefore, finally I truly triumphed over myself, and overcomed my own shortcoming in front of so many teachers from some counties and districts.
When I finished my course and thanked my students with “Thand you all!”, all the students gave my a warm applause. In their sincere applause, I bowed to them deeply and politely, because I knew that I won the open lesson and myself and recognition and appreciation of students. So I think that lesson was the best one of all my lessons since my graduation. I was feeling satisfied and proud that I could do what I wanted to do, and meanwhile I could do it very well if I wanted to.
So when I got off the platform, I did not feel a kind of excitement I desired for before. When I came back my seat, I had the same state of mind as I did not present my lesson. I did not have the special happiness and pleasure, and did not feel as if relieved of a heavy load. I was not very happy as I had imagined when I got the news. I felt that everything went as it was. And thinking that a lesson was a lesson as it was, not any specially. After a short time of explanations about the lesson, I went to the bus stop peacefully to catch my bus home. Everythin would go as usual.
That experience really made me so different. I really suffered from the sadness, but I also benefited a lot from that experience, and I also grew stronger a lot. At the very beginning, I felt very sad and anxious and evern depressed, and then after many practices and careful preparations, I felt a little comfortable and relaxed, and finally I felt very calm about it and enjoyed it.
Everybody is different if you think you are so different. And believe in yourself and think that everyone can make a difference if you think you can make a difference.
Friday, September 19, 2008
My current episodes of life (4)
September 16
According to Ma’s requirement, I made another two rehearsals in the multifunction hall in the morning with students from Classes 1 and 2, Senior 3 of my female colleague Cui Daorong. The two rehearsals went very well and smoothly, and I felt very confident in myself and the success of the coming open class.
And after those two rehearsals, I was very calm and full of faith and success. And the first time, it was not so hard for one to give a lesson in public places. On the contrary, I hoped its coming very much. That evening, I had a very gooooooood sleeeeeeeep.
September 17
Today I went to Linyi No.6 Middle School to show my open class.
My lesson today is a reading one of Texts one and two. I showed my two students in charge of English how to carry out my teaching plan and asked them to make the class in good order and maintain the class discipline. And I was also convinced that they were able to do it very well.
Then I waited for a short while in my caseroom before I received a telephone from my colleague Wang Xiuying to tell me to come to the school gate to gather for the start-off. At about 8:20 am, I started out in Wang’s private car together with my other colleagues Xu Baoguo, Zhang Qiuyun and Liu Qing.
At about 10 am, we all arrived at Linyi Hotel, and after checking in, I came to Room 411 and had a good rest and waited for the lunch time of 12 am. I lived with Hou Zhanling. At 2 pm, I got up and prepared to start off to Linyi No.6 Middle School.
At this seminar, there were three lessons. The first one was taught by Fan Jingzhi from Lanshan Tutorial School of College Entrance Examination. The second one was given by a teacher from Hedong District. I presented the third lesson at about 4:30 pm. At the very beginning of the meeting, all the teachers paid attention to the lesson, but after a short time, a loud noise arose from the teachers, and sometimes even influenced the students on the platform who were all from Lanshan Tutorial School, with 30 girls on the platform and other boys sitting beside the platform.
A short rest after the first two lessons, I began my open lesson at 4:40 pm. But before that, I had met with a little trouble that my mobile disk borrowed from Ma Baolong, my close male friend, did not work in the computer. Finally I had to go on internet to open my email box and again downloaded the powerpoint courseware.
To be honest, I did not feel any nervous or upset when I stood on the platform and began my teaching content. Ignoring all the teachers present below, I was absorbed in the teaching content and the students’s performance. I had to admit that that lesson was the best one including the four rehearsals. I finished all the teaching content in the limited time of 45 minutes.
And then three of us had several minutes to explain about each other’s lesson. At 6 pm, the meeting ended successfully. At 6:30 pm, I arrived the bus stop and luckily caught the last bus to Tancheng. After 75 minutes, I reached Tancheng and got off at the crossing, and then walked home happily.
I must admit that I had spent the most difficult 19 days since I worked as a teacher in September, 1991. But I also must admit that all that benefited me a lot and that experience made me braver and more confident than ever.
I was very lucky that I came across my deskmate Liu Zhengxiang. Since we graduated from Linyi Teachers’ College, we did not see each other for 18 years. We were all very happy and excited to see each other on this special occasion. In front of the platform, we had a gooooood chat about what we were interested in most. Because it was time for me to prepare my lesson, we had to stop our pleasing chat. After the meeting, I was so busy to return home, so I couldn’t meet him again. But I know he is working in Yishui No.2 Middle School, and I decide to get in touch with hime after my advanced title assessment.
According to Ma’s requirement, I made another two rehearsals in the multifunction hall in the morning with students from Classes 1 and 2, Senior 3 of my female colleague Cui Daorong. The two rehearsals went very well and smoothly, and I felt very confident in myself and the success of the coming open class.
And after those two rehearsals, I was very calm and full of faith and success. And the first time, it was not so hard for one to give a lesson in public places. On the contrary, I hoped its coming very much. That evening, I had a very gooooooood sleeeeeeeep.
September 17
Today I went to Linyi No.6 Middle School to show my open class.
My lesson today is a reading one of Texts one and two. I showed my two students in charge of English how to carry out my teaching plan and asked them to make the class in good order and maintain the class discipline. And I was also convinced that they were able to do it very well.
Then I waited for a short while in my caseroom before I received a telephone from my colleague Wang Xiuying to tell me to come to the school gate to gather for the start-off. At about 8:20 am, I started out in Wang’s private car together with my other colleagues Xu Baoguo, Zhang Qiuyun and Liu Qing.
At about 10 am, we all arrived at Linyi Hotel, and after checking in, I came to Room 411 and had a good rest and waited for the lunch time of 12 am. I lived with Hou Zhanling. At 2 pm, I got up and prepared to start off to Linyi No.6 Middle School.
At this seminar, there were three lessons. The first one was taught by Fan Jingzhi from Lanshan Tutorial School of College Entrance Examination. The second one was given by a teacher from Hedong District. I presented the third lesson at about 4:30 pm. At the very beginning of the meeting, all the teachers paid attention to the lesson, but after a short time, a loud noise arose from the teachers, and sometimes even influenced the students on the platform who were all from Lanshan Tutorial School, with 30 girls on the platform and other boys sitting beside the platform.
A short rest after the first two lessons, I began my open lesson at 4:40 pm. But before that, I had met with a little trouble that my mobile disk borrowed from Ma Baolong, my close male friend, did not work in the computer. Finally I had to go on internet to open my email box and again downloaded the powerpoint courseware.
To be honest, I did not feel any nervous or upset when I stood on the platform and began my teaching content. Ignoring all the teachers present below, I was absorbed in the teaching content and the students’s performance. I had to admit that that lesson was the best one including the four rehearsals. I finished all the teaching content in the limited time of 45 minutes.
And then three of us had several minutes to explain about each other’s lesson. At 6 pm, the meeting ended successfully. At 6:30 pm, I arrived the bus stop and luckily caught the last bus to Tancheng. After 75 minutes, I reached Tancheng and got off at the crossing, and then walked home happily.
I must admit that I had spent the most difficult 19 days since I worked as a teacher in September, 1991. But I also must admit that all that benefited me a lot and that experience made me braver and more confident than ever.
I was very lucky that I came across my deskmate Liu Zhengxiang. Since we graduated from Linyi Teachers’ College, we did not see each other for 18 years. We were all very happy and excited to see each other on this special occasion. In front of the platform, we had a gooooood chat about what we were interested in most. Because it was time for me to prepare my lesson, we had to stop our pleasing chat. After the meeting, I was so busy to return home, so I couldn’t meet him again. But I know he is working in Yishui No.2 Middle School, and I decide to get in touch with hime after my advanced title assessment.
My current episodes of life (3)
September 14
Today is our country’s lunar Mid-Autumn Festival. Because of this, all the schools will have a three-day holiday from September 13 to 15 according to the requirements of the country. In the morning, my daughter finished her homework before we went home for the festival. And then at about 10 am, we went to the market to buy two chickens and some fresh peaches, and went home to get together for the family union.
My youngest sister, together with her only son Haoyu, had arrived there before we got home. After a short rest, my wife and I started to help my father to prepare the family dinner. Father was very happy to stew the two chickens in his little simple kitchen. My wife and I prepared other vegitables of dishes. My wife was ready for spring onions, ginger and garlic, and I helped to cut off the celery and garlic. We were all happy with pleasure. In actual fact, life is as simple as that. Cherish all you have to cherish and value all you have to value, and you will find you are very happy and happiness will always be around you.
After that, I went up to the second floor of my younger brother’s building to look at my daughter and her two younger brothers play the computer games. They were all very happy and full of pleasure. All children are always masters of all holidays and festivals.
At about 4 pm, my sister and her husband returned home from the river beach for the family dinner. For life, they carry sand beside the river up to the river banks in the evening, because today is the festival and no other officials inspected the river, they could carry up the sand. And then they sell the sand to others to make money because they are building a two-storey building and are in much need of money. So I know that their life is not very wealthy, but I can easily find that they are living a very happy life, which I think is most important.
We had a very inviting dinner of the family union. Though we did not eat any mooncakes because we were all full, we were feeling very happy when finding everything went very well and everybody was so happy.
A short rest after the dinner, my sister and her husband continued their previous work. My wife and I had a pleasing chat with my parents. The main topic was whether to build a house or not at home. As a matter of fact, I did not agree to build a house at home only because we did not much-need a house when we are so young and my daughter is so young. And my intention is our focus on my daughter’s growth and her studies.
But my wife wanted very much to build a house because my parents told us that it is likely that our villege will be re-planned and re-designed in a not very far future. If it is that, villegers will be given some money to make up for the loss of the houses. And another reasone is that several houses are being built in the villege. All this caused my wife to make up her mind to build a house of our own. And my parents ageed to help us build a house and they all supported my wife’s decision. So our final decision was to build a house of our own.
Today is our country’s lunar Mid-Autumn Festival. Because of this, all the schools will have a three-day holiday from September 13 to 15 according to the requirements of the country. In the morning, my daughter finished her homework before we went home for the festival. And then at about 10 am, we went to the market to buy two chickens and some fresh peaches, and went home to get together for the family union.
My youngest sister, together with her only son Haoyu, had arrived there before we got home. After a short rest, my wife and I started to help my father to prepare the family dinner. Father was very happy to stew the two chickens in his little simple kitchen. My wife and I prepared other vegitables of dishes. My wife was ready for spring onions, ginger and garlic, and I helped to cut off the celery and garlic. We were all happy with pleasure. In actual fact, life is as simple as that. Cherish all you have to cherish and value all you have to value, and you will find you are very happy and happiness will always be around you.
After that, I went up to the second floor of my younger brother’s building to look at my daughter and her two younger brothers play the computer games. They were all very happy and full of pleasure. All children are always masters of all holidays and festivals.
At about 4 pm, my sister and her husband returned home from the river beach for the family dinner. For life, they carry sand beside the river up to the river banks in the evening, because today is the festival and no other officials inspected the river, they could carry up the sand. And then they sell the sand to others to make money because they are building a two-storey building and are in much need of money. So I know that their life is not very wealthy, but I can easily find that they are living a very happy life, which I think is most important.
We had a very inviting dinner of the family union. Though we did not eat any mooncakes because we were all full, we were feeling very happy when finding everything went very well and everybody was so happy.
A short rest after the dinner, my sister and her husband continued their previous work. My wife and I had a pleasing chat with my parents. The main topic was whether to build a house or not at home. As a matter of fact, I did not agree to build a house at home only because we did not much-need a house when we are so young and my daughter is so young. And my intention is our focus on my daughter’s growth and her studies.
But my wife wanted very much to build a house because my parents told us that it is likely that our villege will be re-planned and re-designed in a not very far future. If it is that, villegers will be given some money to make up for the loss of the houses. And another reasone is that several houses are being built in the villege. All this caused my wife to make up her mind to build a house of our own. And my parents ageed to help us build a house and they all supported my wife’s decision. So our final decision was to build a house of our own.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
My current episodes of life (2)
September 4
After two classes in the morning, I surfed the internet at home in the afternoon to search for two proper reading materials for this open class. And at the same time, work out some of the reading questions about the first article.
September 5
I continued to work on my teaching multimedia coursware besides two classes of the morning. Most difficult, it is to work out nine reading questions according to the first reading passage. During the process, I felt very tired but also very pleased full of happiness. You will be feeling very fine when you are absorbed in what you are very interested in, forgetting your current worry and depress not only spiritually but mentally. And I felt confident in working on my courseware.
In the evening, I finally completed my courseware, very happy and excited even though a little exausted.
September 6
All day I practised my courseware over and over again. Today was the last military day of my daughter. In the morning, they continued their military training, and in the afternoon, their superiors came to inspect their military training result, finally ending the successful training. Also because they continued the military training on Saturday, they did not attend class on Monday.
September 7
All day I continued my practice of grasping courseware. In the evening, I worked out my learning programmme to be prepared well for printing. I focused time and energy on the practice of reading contents. Much more practice made me full of confidence and the sense of achievement.
September 9
Yesterday evening, I received a telephone for Ma to tell me to prepare a teaching programme and a speaking-class manuscript. So today I began to prepare them in the moring and at 11 pm, I succeeded in working them out, and meanwhile emailed them to Ma.
September 10
Today is Teachers’ Day. As a senior teacher, I was very happy not because I received fresh flowers and a cup of tea from the two classes but because I was and am feeling that we teachers are very important for our students, and we also felt that education cause is so important and meaningful and worth striving for it. And we all felt that we are loved and much-respected by the students.
In the afternoon, I received the telephone from Song Keyu that told me he looked through the program and manuscript and emailed me his revised ones, and asked me to print them.
September 12
In the afternoon, I had two rehearsals in the school multifunction hall with Zhou Tao’s students from Classes 11 and 12, Senior 3. In the first class, I did not finish all the prepared content, but in the second class, I felt it was very fine because I successfully completed all the teaching content, and I felt I made a little progress in the time of control and fluent process. But I also found many faults much needed to be improved, and made some necessary changes, by omitting some of the process details. And I felt that the rehearsal was very useful for me to convince me that I could made a very gooooooood performance in the seminar.
After the rehearsal, I felt very confident and much more convinced because I knew that I could do it very well this time.
After two classes in the morning, I surfed the internet at home in the afternoon to search for two proper reading materials for this open class. And at the same time, work out some of the reading questions about the first article.
September 5
I continued to work on my teaching multimedia coursware besides two classes of the morning. Most difficult, it is to work out nine reading questions according to the first reading passage. During the process, I felt very tired but also very pleased full of happiness. You will be feeling very fine when you are absorbed in what you are very interested in, forgetting your current worry and depress not only spiritually but mentally. And I felt confident in working on my courseware.
In the evening, I finally completed my courseware, very happy and excited even though a little exausted.
September 6
All day I practised my courseware over and over again. Today was the last military day of my daughter. In the morning, they continued their military training, and in the afternoon, their superiors came to inspect their military training result, finally ending the successful training. Also because they continued the military training on Saturday, they did not attend class on Monday.
September 7
All day I continued my practice of grasping courseware. In the evening, I worked out my learning programmme to be prepared well for printing. I focused time and energy on the practice of reading contents. Much more practice made me full of confidence and the sense of achievement.
September 9
Yesterday evening, I received a telephone for Ma to tell me to prepare a teaching programme and a speaking-class manuscript. So today I began to prepare them in the moring and at 11 pm, I succeeded in working them out, and meanwhile emailed them to Ma.
September 10
Today is Teachers’ Day. As a senior teacher, I was very happy not because I received fresh flowers and a cup of tea from the two classes but because I was and am feeling that we teachers are very important for our students, and we also felt that education cause is so important and meaningful and worth striving for it. And we all felt that we are loved and much-respected by the students.
In the afternoon, I received the telephone from Song Keyu that told me he looked through the program and manuscript and emailed me his revised ones, and asked me to print them.
September 12
In the afternoon, I had two rehearsals in the school multifunction hall with Zhou Tao’s students from Classes 11 and 12, Senior 3. In the first class, I did not finish all the prepared content, but in the second class, I felt it was very fine because I successfully completed all the teaching content, and I felt I made a little progress in the time of control and fluent process. But I also found many faults much needed to be improved, and made some necessary changes, by omitting some of the process details. And I felt that the rehearsal was very useful for me to convince me that I could made a very gooooooood performance in the seminar.
After the rehearsal, I felt very confident and much more convinced because I knew that I could do it very well this time.
My current episodes of life (1)
August 30
Just when I got up at about 7:30 am, I got a telephone from Wu Qingfeng, my close male friend, telling me that I was given a chance to present an open class in the 2008 first seminar on Senior 3 English because of our Senior 3 group's excellent performance and great achievement in the 2008 national college entrance examination.
I was very excited and much more thrilled to hear the good news, but I was, meanwhile, very worried and even frightened to have so good a chance. And then I made a telephone to Ma Baodong to ask about some details of this seminar. After our communication, I felt a little fine and eased a little. So in the following period of days, I was glad and alos very worried, very excited and very upset and unrest full of anxiety. And I did not really know whether I was happy or not, and I was unrest or not. During those days, I was not a bit myself, and not knowing what to do next and how to deal with tomorrow. At about 12:30 pm, I received a sample courseware from Cao Yunqiang by emailing. After looking at his sample courseware, I felt taht I knew what to do next and felt that I was able to do it very well and was very confident in myself and the open class. In all, I really didn't know how I lived the bittersweet day: August 30, 2008!
September 1
Todayd I was feeling a little happy because my only daughter will begin her new school term year and also begin her junior middle school life from today. This morning, she went to Yucai middle school to have a little test of english and maths before she really entered her new class. In the afternoon, she went there again, waiting for her new enrollmetn of class. But they did not have any news, just waiting there for a long time until 7:00 pm. Not any teachers to go to tell them any thing, they had to go home separately.
This evening, my wife telephoned her ever colleague, her husband working in Yucai, to ask about the distributions of class, and told her that we wanted very much to have my lovely daughter studying in her husband's class. But to our disappointment, we received bad news that her husband couldn't help us and I and my wife felt very helpless and very sorry about that Because we did not have any ability to make my daughter study in better classes: class 9 and 10, junior 1.
So I telephoned Feng Ling in no time, hoping that my daughter could study in his class and he promised to have a try to help me. Then I thought that it was likely that my daughter would study in his class and also felt very glad. Because we knew very well each other even though we are not good friends, it is very convenient for me to be informed of study information of my daughter at any time, and I did really not have any other intention.
September 2
In the morning, Feng telephoned me that the head teacher of Class 3 did not want to exchange students, so he did not succeeded in helping me. But he still promised to have another try that afternoon, and I was very grateful to him even though we did not succeed.
In actual fact, I was and am very sorry that I did not make my daughter study in the so-said better class. And I felt much sadder and even a little depressed.
So we had to receive the reality that my daughter has to study in her current class: class 3. And we encouraged her to study hard and made her believer that it is not important in which class to attend but important to believe in herself and that she also would study very well in any class. And also we told her that her head teacher did not want to exchange her because of good test result. As I observed, she was not influence by this matter, so I was and am very glad and happy about it because I believe that she is growing up. So finally this matter ended without success.
In the following days, my daughter continued her military training before new school year really began. She was very tired, but also very pleased. After all, her new school life began.
Just when I got up at about 7:30 am, I got a telephone from Wu Qingfeng, my close male friend, telling me that I was given a chance to present an open class in the 2008 first seminar on Senior 3 English because of our Senior 3 group's excellent performance and great achievement in the 2008 national college entrance examination.
I was very excited and much more thrilled to hear the good news, but I was, meanwhile, very worried and even frightened to have so good a chance. And then I made a telephone to Ma Baodong to ask about some details of this seminar. After our communication, I felt a little fine and eased a little. So in the following period of days, I was glad and alos very worried, very excited and very upset and unrest full of anxiety. And I did not really know whether I was happy or not, and I was unrest or not. During those days, I was not a bit myself, and not knowing what to do next and how to deal with tomorrow. At about 12:30 pm, I received a sample courseware from Cao Yunqiang by emailing. After looking at his sample courseware, I felt taht I knew what to do next and felt that I was able to do it very well and was very confident in myself and the open class. In all, I really didn't know how I lived the bittersweet day: August 30, 2008!
September 1
Todayd I was feeling a little happy because my only daughter will begin her new school term year and also begin her junior middle school life from today. This morning, she went to Yucai middle school to have a little test of english and maths before she really entered her new class. In the afternoon, she went there again, waiting for her new enrollmetn of class. But they did not have any news, just waiting there for a long time until 7:00 pm. Not any teachers to go to tell them any thing, they had to go home separately.
This evening, my wife telephoned her ever colleague, her husband working in Yucai, to ask about the distributions of class, and told her that we wanted very much to have my lovely daughter studying in her husband's class. But to our disappointment, we received bad news that her husband couldn't help us and I and my wife felt very helpless and very sorry about that Because we did not have any ability to make my daughter study in better classes: class 9 and 10, junior 1.
So I telephoned Feng Ling in no time, hoping that my daughter could study in his class and he promised to have a try to help me. Then I thought that it was likely that my daughter would study in his class and also felt very glad. Because we knew very well each other even though we are not good friends, it is very convenient for me to be informed of study information of my daughter at any time, and I did really not have any other intention.
September 2
In the morning, Feng telephoned me that the head teacher of Class 3 did not want to exchange students, so he did not succeeded in helping me. But he still promised to have another try that afternoon, and I was very grateful to him even though we did not succeed.
In actual fact, I was and am very sorry that I did not make my daughter study in the so-said better class. And I felt much sadder and even a little depressed.
So we had to receive the reality that my daughter has to study in her current class: class 3. And we encouraged her to study hard and made her believer that it is not important in which class to attend but important to believe in herself and that she also would study very well in any class. And also we told her that her head teacher did not want to exchange her because of good test result. As I observed, she was not influence by this matter, so I was and am very glad and happy about it because I believe that she is growing up. So finally this matter ended without success.
In the following days, my daughter continued her military training before new school year really began. She was very tired, but also very pleased. After all, her new school life began.
Teaching programme for extracurricular reading practice
I. Teaching materials
The teaching materials is from one certain newspaper. The theme of the article is that through a pleasant trip,both father and daughter will eventually lead to mutual communication and mutual understanding, embodying the current relationship between father and daughter.
II. Teaching objectives
1. Teachers guide students to use skimming, scanning and other reading techniques to understand the passage extracting important details and facts.
2. Accumulate useful words, phrases and sentence structures, and improve their language ability and the habits of thinking in English.
III. Teaching focus and difficulty
1. Teaching majors
Guide students to use reading strategies to develop reading ability, and can apply to their language knowledge to express their ideas.
2. Teaching difficulty
Skillfully use the phrases and sentence structures in the passage.
IV. Teaching design ideas
Through the use of the design task of teaching, fully embodies “student-centered" philosophy of teaching to enable students to participate, and experience.
V. Teaching aids
Multimedia courseware
VI. Teaching process
Step One: Reading
Teachers directly show students the reading passage and enable them to read through the whole passage by skimming and scanning to catch the main idea and relevant specific information to complete the following questions within the limited time.
Give students a hint about the reading skills: According to the different requests of each question, you can easily find the main idea by skimming and if you want to find out some specific information, you can ignore some unimportant information by scanning and catch key information, so it is very easy for you to get what you want in a very short time to speed up your reading skills.
Step Two: Understanding
1. Students are allowed to finish the questions below all by themselves first and then can have a discussion in groups to check that they are right. And then ask some of them to share their answers with the whole class and meanwhile enable them to give their reasons or find their supporting information to let their choices make sense.
During this process, any student who has different opinions can give out their own ones to debate with others to support his own point of view.
After the right answers are showed then, students can continue to share their understanding with others about the answers whether they are right or not.
2. Students are asked to fill in the following blanks according to the text:
Rose goes on a road _______ with her friends as her first step toward _____________. Considering her _______, her father, James, joins them. After many comic situations, James finally _____________ her daughter and realizes that Rose is _________ up and every kid should be on his own way to growth and success.
Through this process, students can further understand the reading passage and further grasp the theme of the passage, and meanwhile it’s an effective way of checking that students really understand the passage, and also benefit their later writing.
3. Focus on the outlook of the passage
Part1 Para. ________ don’t agree with each other
Part2 Para. ______ go on a college road trip
Part3 Para. ______ the great significance(意义) of the trip
Students are allowed to finish the blanks with paragraphs according to the hints of main idea given of each part. And it’s easy for students to complete it.
With the passage organization in students’ mind, they will have a much better understanding of the ideas and structure of the passage.
Step Three: Enjoyment
1. Paragraph enjoyment: ask students to find out one or two paragraphs full of as many words and expressions as possible. Give students several minutes to find and underline what they think are useful, colorful and joyful, and during this process they also can do in groups and exchange their notes.
And then show out the paragraph and check that students find enough of it, and add some of them to his own that are left out by him.
Next, ask some of students to share their enjoyments one by one: First point out the wonderful words or expressions and explain how to use them correctly and freely. And then some of
students can give some complements or some changes if necessary.
Although this process is a little difficult, it can make the classroom atmosphere lovely and meanwhile fully mobilize the enthusiasm and autonomy of the students’ learning and participation.
2. Sentence enjoyment: first ask students to find out and then exchange what they have found and make a summary of them. And then show four of them to the whole class to enjoy and analyze, and meanwhile ask students to translate them fluently to all the class.
Step Four: Reading aloud with memory
Students are all allowed to have several minutes to read aloud the beautiful and colorful words and expressions and sentences over and over again so that they even recite them. And then in groups they can have a good review of their reading aloud.
Step Five: Employing
Drill One: Choosing …
Drill Two: After following …
Two of the very useful sentence structures are picked out of the passage. Students are allowed to have several minutes to make at least two sentences, which will fully train students’ ability to use language communication to express themselves. First teachers give an example for them to follow and ask two of them to come to the front to finish this task and finally check together with the whole class.
Step Six: More expressions
Accoring to the topic of this passage, present students some expressions of agreement and disagreement
1. Agreement
I’ll say. There’s no doubt about it. That’s the idea. I can’t agree more. You’re saying that! Now you are talking. That’s more like it. That makes two of us.
2. Disagreement
Of course not. I really don’t think so. I’m afraid not. Nothing doing. That I can’t say. Not that I know. Not on your life.
Step Seven: Another extensive reading
Present another reading material to further train the reading skills and ability of students. Students are asked to finish reading in a very short time to strengthen students’ ability to read and capture relevant information.
And then ask students to do as they have done with the first passage to enjoy this one.
VII. Homework
Students are all asked to write a short passage with new words , expressions and sentence structures they have learned in this lesson to strengthen what they have learned.
VIII. Teaching reflections
1. The teaching process fully embodies the "student-centered" philosophy of teaching. Under the guidance of teachers, students learn to think, learn to analyze, learn to find and learn to express, and students really play the main role in teaching and learning as well as the leading role of teachers to comprehensively improve the reading ability of students
2. Teachers should also continue to strengthen methods of learning to better improve the quality of teaching.
The teaching materials is from one certain newspaper. The theme of the article is that through a pleasant trip,both father and daughter will eventually lead to mutual communication and mutual understanding, embodying the current relationship between father and daughter.
II. Teaching objectives
1. Teachers guide students to use skimming, scanning and other reading techniques to understand the passage extracting important details and facts.
2. Accumulate useful words, phrases and sentence structures, and improve their language ability and the habits of thinking in English.
III. Teaching focus and difficulty
1. Teaching majors
Guide students to use reading strategies to develop reading ability, and can apply to their language knowledge to express their ideas.
2. Teaching difficulty
Skillfully use the phrases and sentence structures in the passage.
IV. Teaching design ideas
Through the use of the design task of teaching, fully embodies “student-centered" philosophy of teaching to enable students to participate, and experience.
V. Teaching aids
Multimedia courseware
VI. Teaching process
Step One: Reading
Teachers directly show students the reading passage and enable them to read through the whole passage by skimming and scanning to catch the main idea and relevant specific information to complete the following questions within the limited time.
Give students a hint about the reading skills: According to the different requests of each question, you can easily find the main idea by skimming and if you want to find out some specific information, you can ignore some unimportant information by scanning and catch key information, so it is very easy for you to get what you want in a very short time to speed up your reading skills.
Step Two: Understanding
1. Students are allowed to finish the questions below all by themselves first and then can have a discussion in groups to check that they are right. And then ask some of them to share their answers with the whole class and meanwhile enable them to give their reasons or find their supporting information to let their choices make sense.
During this process, any student who has different opinions can give out their own ones to debate with others to support his own point of view.
After the right answers are showed then, students can continue to share their understanding with others about the answers whether they are right or not.
2. Students are asked to fill in the following blanks according to the text:
Rose goes on a road _______ with her friends as her first step toward _____________. Considering her _______, her father, James, joins them. After many comic situations, James finally _____________ her daughter and realizes that Rose is _________ up and every kid should be on his own way to growth and success.
Through this process, students can further understand the reading passage and further grasp the theme of the passage, and meanwhile it’s an effective way of checking that students really understand the passage, and also benefit their later writing.
3. Focus on the outlook of the passage
Part1 Para. ________ don’t agree with each other
Part2 Para. ______ go on a college road trip
Part3 Para. ______ the great significance(意义) of the trip
Students are allowed to finish the blanks with paragraphs according to the hints of main idea given of each part. And it’s easy for students to complete it.
With the passage organization in students’ mind, they will have a much better understanding of the ideas and structure of the passage.
Step Three: Enjoyment
1. Paragraph enjoyment: ask students to find out one or two paragraphs full of as many words and expressions as possible. Give students several minutes to find and underline what they think are useful, colorful and joyful, and during this process they also can do in groups and exchange their notes.
And then show out the paragraph and check that students find enough of it, and add some of them to his own that are left out by him.
Next, ask some of students to share their enjoyments one by one: First point out the wonderful words or expressions and explain how to use them correctly and freely. And then some of
students can give some complements or some changes if necessary.
Although this process is a little difficult, it can make the classroom atmosphere lovely and meanwhile fully mobilize the enthusiasm and autonomy of the students’ learning and participation.
2. Sentence enjoyment: first ask students to find out and then exchange what they have found and make a summary of them. And then show four of them to the whole class to enjoy and analyze, and meanwhile ask students to translate them fluently to all the class.
Step Four: Reading aloud with memory
Students are all allowed to have several minutes to read aloud the beautiful and colorful words and expressions and sentences over and over again so that they even recite them. And then in groups they can have a good review of their reading aloud.
Step Five: Employing
Drill One: Choosing …
Drill Two: After following …
Two of the very useful sentence structures are picked out of the passage. Students are allowed to have several minutes to make at least two sentences, which will fully train students’ ability to use language communication to express themselves. First teachers give an example for them to follow and ask two of them to come to the front to finish this task and finally check together with the whole class.
Step Six: More expressions
Accoring to the topic of this passage, present students some expressions of agreement and disagreement
1. Agreement
I’ll say. There’s no doubt about it. That’s the idea. I can’t agree more. You’re saying that! Now you are talking. That’s more like it. That makes two of us.
2. Disagreement
Of course not. I really don’t think so. I’m afraid not. Nothing doing. That I can’t say. Not that I know. Not on your life.
Step Seven: Another extensive reading
Present another reading material to further train the reading skills and ability of students. Students are asked to finish reading in a very short time to strengthen students’ ability to read and capture relevant information.
And then ask students to do as they have done with the first passage to enjoy this one.
VII. Homework
Students are all asked to write a short passage with new words , expressions and sentence structures they have learned in this lesson to strengthen what they have learned.
VIII. Teaching reflections
1. The teaching process fully embodies the "student-centered" philosophy of teaching. Under the guidance of teachers, students learn to think, learn to analyze, learn to find and learn to express, and students really play the main role in teaching and learning as well as the leading role of teachers to comprehensively improve the reading ability of students
2. Teachers should also continue to strengthen methods of learning to better improve the quality of teaching.
Friday, August 29, 2008
Friday, August 29, 2008 Fine
From today to August 31st, my daughter will stay at home and her piano class stopped yesterday. After she had breakfast, we worked out a detailed English review plan for the coming three days. First Book 8 and then Book 7 and then Book 6, finally Book 5 if she has more time. After she first reviewed new words and phrases, recite the dialogues in Parts A and B, one dialogue each part. The review time is from 8:30 am to 11:00 am, and from2:30 pm to 5:30 pm every day, three days in total.
All day she did do very well according to the plan, and I hope that she will do much better tomorrow. And she can study conscientiously and voluntarily in accordance with the established plan arrangement. This is her greates progress in study I am looking forward to seeing until now. So I think the best education method is to encourage children to form a gooooood study habit and continue it firmly and lasting with perseverance.
Perhaps I am very tired and exausted today, so I did not get up until 3:30 pm when my student (Wang Zengjiao) telephoned me to wake me up. She received her university admission notice, but unfortunately she did not satisfy the college, the Feixian campus of Qingdao Polytechnic University. I have known this campus by chance, and it is not very good, or exactly speaking, it is not really a university campus. She was not sure whether she would go or not, so she telephoned me to want to know more about this campus and my opinion of her admission notice.
In fact, I was a littel shocked when I heard it. She is a very studious and hard-working student, but her physics is not very good, and has a bad knowledge foundation; her biggest drawback is carelessness and inadvertence in study. I am very sure that if she can overcome this shortcoming, she will have much more progress, and most importantly, she is very confident in herself. So I gave her my opinion and advised her going back to have a good review, and she said that her elder brother had the same advice as me.
We talked a lot for about 30 minutes because we had a very good terms with each other during the whole school term. Two exams after she just arrived at this class, she came to me for some help with her English. She graduated for Tancheng No.2 Middle School. And then we talked a lot about English study, and encouraged her to have a big confidence in herself and told her if she continued her perseverance she would pay off sooner or later. Meanwhile, I gave her some good English advice and methods. She did not agree with me any more. After that long talk, we also had several more chats about her study or study results after each important examination. She is so childish that she made some mistakes again and again; sometimes, she made up her mind to get rid of her bad habits, but in next exam, she would made this mistake agin.
So I strongly think she did not form a goooood study habit and gooooood thinking habit; it is not because she did not study very hard but becasue of her bad study habit that she did not make much more progress in study that she was still looking forward to. In all, she is a girl of great personality with a big heart. As a matter of fact, I like her and this kind of girls very much, so I strongly advised her going back to study hard for next year's college entrence examination, because I know her very much, and she has a very big dream of her own.
Afte a short time, my wife returned home from her work. Yesterday I spoke of it unintentionally that it is a long time since we ate dumplings, so today she bought some leek to prepare for leek dumplings. Then we went to the kitchen to prepare the dumplings stuff happily; I prepared the dough and she prepared the stuff. She mixed fried eggs, vermicelli and shrimps with leek to be the dumplings stuff, which is very delicious and inviting. And then we made the dumplings as we were watching CCTV 5: Starry Way, and my daughter was surfing the internet.
And then when we ate the inviting dumplings, I felt very very happy and comfortable and contented. How beatiful life is and I love it very much.
All day she did do very well according to the plan, and I hope that she will do much better tomorrow. And she can study conscientiously and voluntarily in accordance with the established plan arrangement. This is her greates progress in study I am looking forward to seeing until now. So I think the best education method is to encourage children to form a gooooood study habit and continue it firmly and lasting with perseverance.
Perhaps I am very tired and exausted today, so I did not get up until 3:30 pm when my student (Wang Zengjiao) telephoned me to wake me up. She received her university admission notice, but unfortunately she did not satisfy the college, the Feixian campus of Qingdao Polytechnic University. I have known this campus by chance, and it is not very good, or exactly speaking, it is not really a university campus. She was not sure whether she would go or not, so she telephoned me to want to know more about this campus and my opinion of her admission notice.
In fact, I was a littel shocked when I heard it. She is a very studious and hard-working student, but her physics is not very good, and has a bad knowledge foundation; her biggest drawback is carelessness and inadvertence in study. I am very sure that if she can overcome this shortcoming, she will have much more progress, and most importantly, she is very confident in herself. So I gave her my opinion and advised her going back to have a good review, and she said that her elder brother had the same advice as me.
We talked a lot for about 30 minutes because we had a very good terms with each other during the whole school term. Two exams after she just arrived at this class, she came to me for some help with her English. She graduated for Tancheng No.2 Middle School. And then we talked a lot about English study, and encouraged her to have a big confidence in herself and told her if she continued her perseverance she would pay off sooner or later. Meanwhile, I gave her some good English advice and methods. She did not agree with me any more. After that long talk, we also had several more chats about her study or study results after each important examination. She is so childish that she made some mistakes again and again; sometimes, she made up her mind to get rid of her bad habits, but in next exam, she would made this mistake agin.
So I strongly think she did not form a goooood study habit and gooooood thinking habit; it is not because she did not study very hard but becasue of her bad study habit that she did not make much more progress in study that she was still looking forward to. In all, she is a girl of great personality with a big heart. As a matter of fact, I like her and this kind of girls very much, so I strongly advised her going back to study hard for next year's college entrence examination, because I know her very much, and she has a very big dream of her own.
Afte a short time, my wife returned home from her work. Yesterday I spoke of it unintentionally that it is a long time since we ate dumplings, so today she bought some leek to prepare for leek dumplings. Then we went to the kitchen to prepare the dumplings stuff happily; I prepared the dough and she prepared the stuff. She mixed fried eggs, vermicelli and shrimps with leek to be the dumplings stuff, which is very delicious and inviting. And then we made the dumplings as we were watching CCTV 5: Starry Way, and my daughter was surfing the internet.
And then when we ate the inviting dumplings, I felt very very happy and comfortable and contented. How beatiful life is and I love it very much.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Thursday, August 28, 2008 Fine
Today everthing went every well as usual in the morning. After my daughter returned home, she told me that the piano class stopped today, and she did not have to go to practise the piano tomorrow. After hearing of her words, I suddenly realized that the summer holidays will be over soon and I will go into my route of teaching.
Suddenly I did not know why I had such a bad notion that the holidays are always so short but a school term is always so long a hard one. In fact, time is the same to the holidays and a school term, and different is how you feel and what you think of. So in some sense, it only means that I am feeling a little depressed and a bit upset about the job of my own. I do not have much confidence in my future, and I also know it is not good for my coming new school term and my much progress in my teaching and research.
So it is where it is. But I can control my mood and attitude even though I can not change my working environment. How I should get along with others is not more than what attitude I should have towards them. Attitude determines everything! Passion is everything! I know these encouraging words, but I do not practise them evey well, so in the coming new school term, I will try my best to put them into practice to ignite myself and bright myself and push myself.
At about 2 pm, my daughter called me to wake up, but I was really really very tired and did not get up, and just wanted to sleep a little more. Then I hesitated a short time before I finally got up. But at last I got up because I suddenly realized it would be a bad example for my loving daughter if I did not get up on time when she got up to continue her revision plan. So I made up my mind to set a gooooood example for my daughter.
In the whole afternoon, my daughter continued her revision plan and went on to translate another half of the article I did not complete yersterday. In fact, I finished the big part of the part left in the morning. In the afternoon, I completed all the task of translation and did some tense change necessary.
After I published it in my English Garden, I felt very very relaxed and fine to be fresh. So if you want to have a feeling of happiness, the best way is to work yourself very hard first full of energy and enthusiasm, and then to relax yourself. After that, you will really feel yourself and can be very relaxed.
I am vey tired but also very happy. I work very hard but I am also very happy!
Suddenly I did not know why I had such a bad notion that the holidays are always so short but a school term is always so long a hard one. In fact, time is the same to the holidays and a school term, and different is how you feel and what you think of. So in some sense, it only means that I am feeling a little depressed and a bit upset about the job of my own. I do not have much confidence in my future, and I also know it is not good for my coming new school term and my much progress in my teaching and research.
So it is where it is. But I can control my mood and attitude even though I can not change my working environment. How I should get along with others is not more than what attitude I should have towards them. Attitude determines everything! Passion is everything! I know these encouraging words, but I do not practise them evey well, so in the coming new school term, I will try my best to put them into practice to ignite myself and bright myself and push myself.
At about 2 pm, my daughter called me to wake up, but I was really really very tired and did not get up, and just wanted to sleep a little more. Then I hesitated a short time before I finally got up. But at last I got up because I suddenly realized it would be a bad example for my loving daughter if I did not get up on time when she got up to continue her revision plan. So I made up my mind to set a gooooood example for my daughter.
In the whole afternoon, my daughter continued her revision plan and went on to translate another half of the article I did not complete yersterday. In fact, I finished the big part of the part left in the morning. In the afternoon, I completed all the task of translation and did some tense change necessary.
After I published it in my English Garden, I felt very very relaxed and fine to be fresh. So if you want to have a feeling of happiness, the best way is to work yourself very hard first full of energy and enthusiasm, and then to relax yourself. After that, you will really feel yourself and can be very relaxed.
I am vey tired but also very happy. I work very hard but I am also very happy!
Centuries-Olympic dream come true!
Tonight centuries Olympic dream finally come true
The 29th Olympic Games grandly opens in Beijing
The 29th Olympic Games grandly opens in Beijing
On August 2008 night, the worldwide attention-attracting opening ceremony of the 29th Beijing Olympic Games was held grandly at the National Stadium. President Hu Jintao attended the opening ceremony and announced that the ceremony opened. With more than 2,000 years of history of the Olympic movement and more than 5,000 years of splendid Chinese culture heritage making the other more beautiful, it will commonly write a new large chapter of human civilization.
State leaders, the IOC President Jacques Rogge, honorary life president Juan Antonio as well as leaders and dignitaries from around the world attend the opening ceremony, and with all the audience witnessed this exciting moment in history.
Under the darkness, the nest-modelling National Stadium is brilliant, gorgeous, magnificent and glorious. The grand stadium that can accommodate more than 90,000 is fully packed and all the audience is excitedly full of great joy. Before the formal opening ceremony, some performance teams presented the brilliant national songs and dances and rendered the scene is very warm atmosphere, which are from a number of provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities, and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Macao Special Administrative Region, and Taiwan.
At 19:51, in the joyful sound of music, Hu Jintao, Jiang Zemin, Jacques Rogge and so on go up the chairman podium, waving to the audience. Breaks out a long period of warm applause.
A dazzling ring illuminates the ancient sundial. In the central stadium, with many powerful beats, 2008 Fou drums, a kind of ancient Chinese percussion instrument, utter the sound of moving spirits, and the white lights on the Fou drums are flashing in turns, producing the numbers of countdwon. In the thunderous sound of the beat Fou drums, all the audience present cry loud with numbers’ transformation: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4. 3, 2, 1, in the midst of cheers, greeting the opening ceremony starting time: 8pm sharp.
2008 actors beat and sing, reciting “That friends come from afar is very pleasant”to express our welcome to the Olympic athletes and guests from around the world. Multicolorful fireworks bloom in good order along the Beijing north-south axis, showing 29 huge footprints, a symbol of the 29th Beijing Olympic Games. One burning footprints after another flies across the night sky, all the way north, and change into down-flying stars over the national stadium, and then on the ground they all gather into glittering Olympic five rings, and finally the rings are lifted up slowly by the flying fairies dancing lightweight in the air. Full of romance and unique creation, this display of the Olympic rings move and shock the audience present.
“Five-star red flag flutters in the wind, how resounding the victory songs are. Sing our dear motherland, from now on towards a prosperous and powerful one ……” In the clear voices of a girl, China’s 56 chilren all clad in their national costumes enter the stadium, surrounding the bright five-star red flag.
At 8:12 pm, all rose, and the PRC military band plays the national anthem, and the PRC national flag is hoisted slowly. The audience present sing at the top of their voices, and the sonorous national anthem reverberates in the stadium.
Dark to light and Guqin sounding, a huge scroll spread slowly, and begins the large-scale cultural and arts performance which of the theme is the beautiful Olympics. It took artists more than 3 years to meticulously prepare this performance. With a display of novel ideas, strong Chinese styles and the rich appeal of performance practices, it dedicates to the world a gorgeous and splendid blend of the Olympics and Chinese civilization.
In the midst of elegant and remote tones of Guqin, some shadows of black dance and flutter on the white paper, just like an invisible hand is painting on it, and then a Chinese ink painting is rising slowly at the central stage of the stadium. 810 dancers all clad in Confucious period costumes and carrying bamboo scrolls, a kind of one of the earliest forms of books, intone “All are brothers around the world”,“There must be my teacher among three walking people”. 897 movable types transform into the different periods of Chinese character he which means harmony or peace, showing that it envolves from various stages of calligraphy, and the winding-rising Great Wall. All the programs such as pictures and words, show meaningful connotation and artistic conception, visually presenting that the Chinese culture goes back to ancient times and the enduring charm of our ancient “four great inventions”such as printing. On the mobile stage, four puppets of Beijing Opera and 800 actors performance the triumph scene of joy with the accompaniment of Jinghu, drums and gongs. Capacious and boundless desert, the choppy and waving sea, the pioneers’ arduous trek on the land and sea “Silk Road”, beautiful Kunqu floating here afar, 5 long scrolls of Chinese paintings spreading one by one, flying celestial nymphs dancing wearing colorful clothes, 32 dragon poles rising slowly, …… operas, Silk Roads, etiquettes with music etc., they are all warmly unrestrained, and gloriously magnificent, vividly demonstrating the ancient and profound Chinese culture. The piano music is bright and cheerful; 1000 actors dance on the stage disguising themselves as stars, just like the vast Heaven River was floating in the night sky, and finally set up the star-glittering Nest, and a beautiful girl dressed in red is flying a kite across the starry night sky. The Tai Chi performace is not only vigorous with grace but also full of power and grandeur; in the center of Tai Chi, innocent and artless children are singing folk songs, and carrying colorful pencils are depicting out in the ink painting green hills, blue waters and the smiling sun, and the colorful birds spreading their wings and flying in the sky. …… All these performancing arts of simplicity and lasting appeal profoundly embody the Chinese excitement of embracing the great Olympics and the sincere pursuit of peace and harmony.
The grand music is suddenly played. In the vast and expansive universe, stars spangle and the blue earth slowly rotates, with 58 actors running and jumping on the planet. The British singer Sarah Brightman and China’s singer Liu Huan passionately sing the theme song of the Bejing Olympic Games “You and me”: You and I, heart to heart, live in the global village. For a dream, we cover a thousand li and meet in Beijing. ……” 2008 smiling faces of children around the world are showed at the stadium, and the wide-smiling faces also appear on the projection screens at the top of the stadium. The heartfelt theme song and the smiling faces of different skin colors is a lively interpretation of the Beijing Olympic Games theme“One World, One Dream”.
At 9:10 pm, the admission of athletes begins. The military band played by turns the classical music of different styles from five different continents. The Greek delegation from the birthplace of the Olympic movement first enters the stadium, and then delegations of other countries and regions follow according to the order of simplified and admitted Chinese character strokes. A total of 204 delegations of countries and regions participate in this Olympics. During the following 16 days, more than 10,000 athletes from all over the world will compete under the five-ring Olympic flag. Athletes are all full of youthful energy and in high spirits, smiling and waving to the audience from time to time. The audience present show that they are welcome to come to Beijing with warm applauses and cheers.
At 11:09 pm, the host Chinese delegation enters the stadium last. Chinese sports delegation is composed of 1099, including 639 athletes, the biggest number than any other previous Olympic delegation and also the largest delegation of athletes participation.
Yao Ming, our flag-holder and a famous basketball player, walks at the forefront of the process with Lin Hao, a primary school student of Grate Two from Yingxiu Town, Wenchuan County in Sichuan province. At the moment Wenchuan huge earthquake occurred, the 9-year-old little Lin Hao bravely faced the music, and stormed into the ruins to rescue the students, and later was rated as a juvenile hero of earthquake relief. That Chinese people facing disasters courageously demonstrates the perseverance and unyielding tenacity greatly touches all the Chinese and foreign audience. The audience burst into stormy and thunderous applause, cheering constantly. Go China resounds throughout the stadium.
In the process of admission, each athlete leaves a colorful footprint on the drawing of scroll at the centre of the stadium. Colorful footprints and the drawings of cultural performances together constitue a beautiful scene of Human Homeland.
Beijing Olympic Games Organizing Committee President Liu Qi addresses a speech on behalf of BOGOC, warmly welcoming athletes, coaches, and guests from various countries and regions of the world, and expressing our sincere thanks to the IOC, international individual sports organizations, all the builders and workers participating in the BOG organization and building, all the friends showing concern and support for the BOG. Liu Qi says that the important mission of the BOG is to promote cultural exchanges between the countries in the world. We sincerely hope that friends can have a beautiful memory of Chinese long history and culture and passionate and hospitable Chinese people.
And then IOC President Jacques Rogge addresses a speech at the opening ceremony. He thanks the BOGOC and tens of thousands of volunteers for their hardworking delecation. He says that we are in the same world, and we have the same dreams, and hopes that this Olympic Games will bring us joy, hope and pride.
At 11:36 pm, a long-expected moment arrives. State President Hu Jintao announces with a resonant voice: The 29th Beijing Olympic Games opens!
Immediately, the dazzling fireworks bloom in the night sky; the boiling melodies resounds throughout the stadium; colorful flags wave; and passionate people cheer constantly.
8 flag-holders enter the stadium carrying the Olympic flag. They are the representatives of elite athletes of different periods of our country’s sports development. Zheng Fengrong is the first athlete of our country who broke the women’s high jump world record in the history of our track and field. Mu Xiangxiong is a swimming master who broke the world record in the 100m breaststroke three times. Zhang Xielin stormed to the table tennis world champion several times. Pando (Pan Duo) is the first female athlete who stepped on the Everest. Li Lingwei won 13 badminton world champion. Yang Ling, a shooting player, set the Olympic record in 10m mobile target shooting. Xiong Ni is a diving player who collected gold and silver in four consecutive Olympic Games. Yang Yang, a short track speed skating player, realized the “zero breakthrough” for our country in the Winter Olympic Games. 80 children are dressed in national costumes and sing the Olympic theme song. The Olympic flag raises slowly, and flutters high above the stadium with the five-star red flag.
Under the five-ring flag, Chinese player Zhang Yining and Chinese referee Huang Liping respectively are on oath on behalf of all participating athletes and referees.
“We meet here, different languages, but the same smile, ……” In the beautiful song, 100 girls in white keep time of rhythms, cross their arms and wave their hands, as white peace doves are flapping and flying. Athletes and audience wave their arms together with the girls. The spectacular scene of tens of thousands of doves flying deeply expresses people’s ardent expectation for peace.
At 11:54 pm, the Olympic flame from Olympia arrives at the Bird’s Nest, and the exciting Olympic flame-lit ceremony is about to begin. All the spectators wave colorful flashlights, like millions of stars flickering brightly. In the past more than four months, the Olympic torch travels across five continents and vast land of our country, and first on the world’s highest peak, Mount Everest. More than 20,000 Chinese and foreign torchers participate in the torch relay, all the way igniting passions and all the way transmitting dreams.
8 torchholders lift the torch high, continuing the final relay at the stadium. Xu Haifeng is China’s ever firdt Olympic gold medalist in the history of Olympics. Gao Min is China’s first Olympic springboard diving gold medal winner. Li Xiaoshuang is the first winner of Olympic individual all-round gymnastics gold medal. Zhang Xugang is only one player who won two Olympic gold medals in the history of weightlifting. Zhang Jun is the first winner of Olympic badminton mixed doubles gold medal in China’s Olympic history. Chen Zhong is China’s ever first over-67kg taekwondo Olympic champion. These well-known athletes, who once created many magnificiences lift the torch high and jog in the stadium, who are warmly welcome by all the spectators present.
At 0:00 am on the day of 9th, Sun Jinfang, the seventh torchholder, who was former captain of the Chinese women’s volleyball team and made her great contributions to winning the “three consecutive championships” holds the torch to come to a high platform in the stadium. There she lights the torch in the hand of Li Ning, a famous gymnastist, who is waiting there. And then Li flies in the sky with the torch in his hand, running strongly on a Chinese scroll which is spread slowly at the same time above the stadium, and on it appears the video of globle torch passing of Beijing Olympic flame.
At 0:04 am, Li Ning running in the air comes to the torchtower lights the fuse. The great torch at once bursts forth a huge raging flame, making all the stadium brilliant and sparkling.
The holy flame is kindled and all are boiling. Magnificent fireworkd rise high into the air, forming the rainbow over the stadium. Unrestrained music and warm deafening cheers make the exciting atmosphere present to the peak. Meanwhile, more than 40,000 fireworks burn at the same time, making all Beijing brilliant and splendid with a blaze of colour.
Happy sounds of singing and strong dances emerge a grand event with a bustling night. This is a memorable moment 1.3 billion Chinese people will never forget, and another glorious moment of the modern Olympic movement. After seven years of meticulous preparations, China dedicates to the world the grand celebration of sharing friendship and peace.
Tonight, Beijing does not sleep! Tonight, the world celebrates together!
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 Fine
I am very glad and very happy that everything went very well exactly like a clock. My daughter went to her piano class in the morning, and in the afternoon, she continued her revision plan in her own room. My wife worked all day long in the hospital, and at noon, she surely told me that it will not be long before the Chinese medicine hopsital conbines with the County No.1 People's Hospital. I am very happy to hear that only because she can have a salary rise.
In the morning Ma telephoned me again to talk about that matter of yesterday and he wanted me to go with together to the grate office, but I did not receive Xu's any message about it, so it is not polite for to go there drectly. So he first went there and a short time Xu informed me of it by telephone. We talked a lot about it but we finally could not change anything, so I finally decided to accept the assignment of my job, and I am not very sure that I like it very much. I felt a little upset about the two experimental classes:Classes 15 and 16, which were taken by my student Sun Tao ago. He was asked to take Classes 17 and 18. I was and am feeling a little embarassed now because of all that. So the best answer to this problem is to accept it without any explanation.
In the whole afternoon I was still translating an article about the Beijing Olympic Games. But I don't finish it now, and have just finished translating half of it. This article is about the opening ceremony of Beijing Olympic Games. As soon as the Olympic Games started, I wanted to translate it in memory of this grand and gorgeous event, but because I spent much more time watching the games most of the time, I delayed this task that I assigned me. So until today, I did set out to do it. I think it is very arduous, but it is very interesting and meaningful, and I have learned a lot through this job.
In the afternoon, I felt very tired and exausted, so I stopped the translation and had a very good rest to relax myself. I watched the Korean soap opera You are loving with my wife after my daughter went to bed after her shower.
I felt a little fine after a short time.
In the morning Ma telephoned me again to talk about that matter of yesterday and he wanted me to go with together to the grate office, but I did not receive Xu's any message about it, so it is not polite for to go there drectly. So he first went there and a short time Xu informed me of it by telephone. We talked a lot about it but we finally could not change anything, so I finally decided to accept the assignment of my job, and I am not very sure that I like it very much. I felt a little upset about the two experimental classes:Classes 15 and 16, which were taken by my student Sun Tao ago. He was asked to take Classes 17 and 18. I was and am feeling a little embarassed now because of all that. So the best answer to this problem is to accept it without any explanation.
In the whole afternoon I was still translating an article about the Beijing Olympic Games. But I don't finish it now, and have just finished translating half of it. This article is about the opening ceremony of Beijing Olympic Games. As soon as the Olympic Games started, I wanted to translate it in memory of this grand and gorgeous event, but because I spent much more time watching the games most of the time, I delayed this task that I assigned me. So until today, I did set out to do it. I think it is very arduous, but it is very interesting and meaningful, and I have learned a lot through this job.
In the afternoon, I felt very tired and exausted, so I stopped the translation and had a very good rest to relax myself. I watched the Korean soap opera You are loving with my wife after my daughter went to bed after her shower.
I felt a little fine after a short time.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 Fine
Today everything went very well as usual according to its previous route.
In the morning, I translated two pieces of my blog-friends' essays, one My August's Sky and the other Smile to sing the songs of life, which I have liked very much. My August's Sky presents a loving emotion between the two lovers who love each other very deeply. I am very touched by their missing each other and thinking of each other and bless them a gooooood life. Smile to sing the songs of life is teaching you how to cope with your troubles, your setbacks, your loneliness and your happiness in your own life. It deeply moves me in the bottom of my heart. It also indicates that I am not sure about the real life and have no idea how I can have a goooood and loving and happy life now and in the future. It also means that life is not easy for every one of us, so we must take it seriously and face it bravely and courageously.
In the afternoon, I was surfing the internet and my daughter went on her revision plan peacefully. I visited my blog-friends' websites and did some responses to their information. After a short time, I received a telephone from my friend and colleague Ma Baolong, who was out of the school then. He told me that Xu Hui, head of Senior One, telephoned him and asked him to take charge of the lessons of two experimental classes. And then he told me that Xu wanted me to take charge of another two experimental classes, and asked me if I would like to take it in the new school term.
To be honest, I would like to go and work with Xu, who is very good and impressive and very capable with great ability and grear courage. I also like him himself. We are having a goood terms with each other untill now. But in the matter of fact, I don't want to go to his senior group, only because I will not be feeling very well in that English office because of a woman. I know that I am very wrong to think about that and her, but I must not be feeling fine to work with her all day and all month and all year. Her biggest drawback is that she is always looking down at others and thinking very low of others, showing off herself, and she is very very difficult to get on with.
So I don't decide to go or not go. It all depends tomorrow.
A short time after I answered Ma's telephone, I went out to have my hair cut. I havn't had it cut since about three months ago. I usually have my hair cut every three months. I was very lucky that there was only one man who was being shaved. It was at 5:40 pm when I arrived there. First I had my hair cut and then had my hair dyed black. It was 30 minutes before I had my hair dyed well. I returned home at 6:40 pm.
I was feeling very well after I had my hair cut and felt relaxed in the mind and spirit. Andalso I felt free and fresh.
In the morning, I translated two pieces of my blog-friends' essays, one My August's Sky and the other Smile to sing the songs of life, which I have liked very much. My August's Sky presents a loving emotion between the two lovers who love each other very deeply. I am very touched by their missing each other and thinking of each other and bless them a gooooood life. Smile to sing the songs of life is teaching you how to cope with your troubles, your setbacks, your loneliness and your happiness in your own life. It deeply moves me in the bottom of my heart. It also indicates that I am not sure about the real life and have no idea how I can have a goooood and loving and happy life now and in the future. It also means that life is not easy for every one of us, so we must take it seriously and face it bravely and courageously.
In the afternoon, I was surfing the internet and my daughter went on her revision plan peacefully. I visited my blog-friends' websites and did some responses to their information. After a short time, I received a telephone from my friend and colleague Ma Baolong, who was out of the school then. He told me that Xu Hui, head of Senior One, telephoned him and asked him to take charge of the lessons of two experimental classes. And then he told me that Xu wanted me to take charge of another two experimental classes, and asked me if I would like to take it in the new school term.
To be honest, I would like to go and work with Xu, who is very good and impressive and very capable with great ability and grear courage. I also like him himself. We are having a goood terms with each other untill now. But in the matter of fact, I don't want to go to his senior group, only because I will not be feeling very well in that English office because of a woman. I know that I am very wrong to think about that and her, but I must not be feeling fine to work with her all day and all month and all year. Her biggest drawback is that she is always looking down at others and thinking very low of others, showing off herself, and she is very very difficult to get on with.
So I don't decide to go or not go. It all depends tomorrow.
A short time after I answered Ma's telephone, I went out to have my hair cut. I havn't had it cut since about three months ago. I usually have my hair cut every three months. I was very lucky that there was only one man who was being shaved. It was at 5:40 pm when I arrived there. First I had my hair cut and then had my hair dyed black. It was 30 minutes before I had my hair dyed well. I returned home at 6:40 pm.
I was feeling very well after I had my hair cut and felt relaxed in the mind and spirit. Andalso I felt free and fresh.
Ceremony draws worldwide attention（reproduced）
Stunning display, UK press says
The British press spoke in praise of the spectacular Beijing Olympics opening ceremony unanimously, calling it the best ever and a stunning display of China's rising confidence.
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), also ran live broadcasts of the opening ceremony on its BBC1 and BBC high definition channels.
Huw Edwards, who delivered the commentary with Sue Barker in Beijing, noted China's confidence.
A presenter with Eurosport hailed the Games as "bigger than anything imaginable", calling the ceremony an "extraordinary" and "extravagant" presentation.
The Financial Times said "the most certain victory of the Olympic Games was duly ratified on Friday night when China won the gold medal in the opening ceremony competition - presumably for all time".
The paper noted that no country in the world ever has - or will - match the Chinese in effort, human power, synchronicity, and ingenuity.
Calling it an enormous show and a gigantic event, the paper said the first triumph belonged to the evening's auteur Zhang Yimou, who insisted on traditional lines: nationalism with Chinese characteristics.
The Guardian displayed a photo captioned "Beijing Olympics take flight" showing the Bird's Nest being lit up by fireworks.
The Guardian said the ceremony that opened the 29th Olympic Games on Friday night outdid all of its predecessors in numbers, color, demonstrating to the world that the new China intends to make its presence felt.
The Daily Telegraph said: "China marches on to world stage." It published a photograph of hundreds of Chinese dancers wearing feather headdresses to represent the age of Confucius.
The paper said China had showed itself to the world leaders present in the stadium and to a television audience of billions.
The tabloid Daily Mail said Hollywood "will study the DVD of the performances for years to come and plunder Beijing's visual tricks".
Sharing in pride
The Chinese shared the Olympic pride as they watched the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, the Los Angeles Times reported on Friday.
In Beijing, locals and visitors braved stifling heat as they crowded parks and other designated viewing areas to see the opening ceremony, the paper said.
"They might not have tickets to the Games. They might never set foot inside the stadium. But wherever there was a TV screen, big or small, the people of Beijing on Friday gathered and cheered, soaking up this brief moment in the long history of this ancient capital when the Olympic flame illuminated the Chinese sky," the paper said.
Despite heat and the threat of a summer shower, locals poured into designated parks and viewing areas in Beijing, grandparents and babies in tow, some waiting hours for a foothold among the standing-room-only crowds of thousands, the paper said.
"I am so proud to be Chinese tonight," Ju Ke, a 19-year-old animation student who got a front row seat on the grass of Ditan Park before two giant monitors, was quoted as saying.
"China has made so much progress in recent years," he said. "Chinese culture is so amazing. The Olympics were hard-earned."
All the years of waiting and sacrifice seemed worth it when the Games finally began at that auspicious 8 minutes past 8 on the eighth day of the eight month in the eighth year past the second millennium, the paper said.
"They've probably been preparing for this day since Deng Xiaoping opened up China to the world," Nicholas Martelli, a Chinese language student from Italy, said. He also had waited hours to see the show on the big screen along with a group of visitors from Spain.
The US Miami Herald said "the Beijing Olympic organizers dazzled an audience of 91,000 at the whimsical Bird's Nest Stadium and another estimated 4 billion watching on television with a colorful, imaginative opening ceremony that bridged ancient and modern Chinese history."
The New York Times said on its website: "An ecstatic China, an ancient nation so determined to be a modern power, finally got its Olympic moment on Friday night ... the 2008 Beijing Olympics began with an opening ceremony of soaring fireworks, lavish spectacle and a celebration of Chinese culture and international good will."
The Wall Street Journal said on its website that the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games "is expected to attract 4 billion viewers, probably the largest number in Olympic history".
The World Journal said in an editorial the Beijing Olympic Games opened successfully, as wished by 1.3 billion Chinese people and overseas Chinese. It was a big day for China.
CNN, ABC and Yahoo also gave wide coverage to the opening ceremony.
Japanese front page news
In Japan, nearly all the major newspapers - Yomiuri Shimbun, Mainichi Shimbun, Tokyo Shimbun and Nihon Keizai Shimbun published news of the grand event on the front pages of their evening editions.
The state broadcaster NHK (Nihon Hoso Kyokai) televised live the entire ceremony.
Kyodo News and Jiji press, the two leading Japanese news agencies, continuously updated their news items about the event and released striking pictures of the performances at the ceremony.
"Tonight, the Bird's Nest was turned into a red sea of joy with smiling faces everywhere," Mainichi Shimbun said
To host the Olympics, which was a 100-year dream of the Chinese people, will speed up China's development toward maturity, Jiji press said.
Spaniards 'delighted'
The Spanish media was impressed and delighted with Friday's opening ceremony of the Games.
The spectacular event was seen live by around five million Spaniards, and was the main item of Friday evening's news bulletins.
Television channel Antena 3 described the ceremony as "an astonishing effort". While Cuatro called it "impressive".
Radio station Cadena COPE said it was "the most dramatic Olympic opening ceremony ever".
Television Espanola - the state-owned channel that holds the rights to screen the Olympics - featured an interview with Crown Prince Felipe, who is head of the Spanish delegation.
Prince Felipe said their Chinese hosts had made them feel "very welcome indeed", and that "we are hoping for a very strong Spanish performance here".
Spain is hoping to improve on its performance four years ago in Athens, where it won 19 medals.
Live TV broadcasts
In France, French TV channel France 2 televised live the opening ceremony with explanations of performances depicting China's history.
In South Korea, KBS, MBC and SBS TV stations also showed the opening ceremony live.
KBS invited a Chinese student in South Korea as a guest to explain to viewers performances at the opening ceremony, while MBC sent Chinese-speaking reporters to Beijing to cover the event.
In Thailand, TV commentators of the National Broadcasting Services of Thailand (NBT) lauded the opening ceremony, calling it "the most spectacular Olympics opening ever".
"Beautiful indeed," Thai TV anchors repeatedly said when seeing a central stage designed in the form of an ancient Chinese scroll with artists "dancing out" traditional Chinese paintings.
Canadians celebrate
About 5,000 people gathered outside a movie theater in Toronto early on Friday morning, hoping to watch the spectacular opening ceremony on the big screen in high-definition.
Although the show was not due to start until 8 am local time, many people, young and old, arrived at the Richmond Hill Center for the Performing Arts well before sunrise.
A year ago, the theater decided to show for free the opening ceremony because of the demand.
"When I arrived at 5:30 am, there were about 700 people here," Michael Grit, one of the organizers, said.
"The theater can only accommodate 3,700 people, so we had to turn about 1,000 people away," Grit said.
The audience was amazed at the dazzling performances, which they though not only demonstrated China's great ancient culture, but also its progress in modern science and technology.
"It was amazing - I liked it and I'm proud of it," said one young woman of Chinese origin.
In Vancouver, the event was televised at 5 am, but that did not deter viewers.
To celebrate the historical occasion, several government officials and Chinese embassy staff gathered at the City Hall in Ottawa to raise the Olympic flag.
"Beijing and Ottawa are sister cities, the flag-hoisting ceremony was meant not only to mark the opening of the Games, but also to express our best wishes for the friendship between the two cities," Ottawa mayor Larry O'Brien said.
Federal Environment Minister John Baird said: "The opening ceremony was stunningly spectacular. It's not something you see every day. It was an exciting occasion for Chinese and Canadians."
In Montreal's China town, hundreds gathered before a big screen to enjoy the show.
The Chinese communities in Vancouver and Ottawa have planned parties and parades in the coming days to celebrate their home country for hosting the Olympics for the first time.
Reception pleases Iraqis
Iraqis on Friday were happy to see their athletes at the opening ceremony of the 29th Beijing Olympics, and witness the spectacular event.
"Just as I had expected, the Chinese did not miss the opportunity to demonstrate the distinctive characteristics of their ancient culture," 55-year-old Adel Rasheed said.
"They not only evoked people's curiosity about China's history, but also showed their superiority in modern science and technology."
The Rasheed family shared the occasion with their neighbor Basim Ali, 54, in Baghdad's western district of Yarmouk.
Before the opening ceremony, they had got themselves a generator and enough fuel in case there should be a power failure. Baghdad suffers from a chronic power shortage.
"I wonder if the number eight that the Chinese believe brings good luck holds true for all people of the world," Rasheed said.
He was referring to the UN announcement on the very same day 20 years ago, which signaled the end of the devastating eight-year war between Iraq and Iran.
When popular singer Liu Huan, and British diva Sarah Brightman were about to start their duet of the Olympic theme song, Um Sameer, Basim's wife, took out her mobile phone and asked everyone to keep quiet.
"I recorded the song because I heard it would be performed by a Chinese and a British singer. I did not want to miss the opportunity. Now I can listen to it whenever I want," she said.
The Iraqi team's participation in the Games at one point was doubtful due to a dispute. Iraq eventually sent a very small team.
"I did not expect to see any of our top leaders at the stadium to welcome our athletes. But I was sure the Chinese people would give them a warm welcome," Muhammad Hussan, 20, said.
"I was not disappointed. When our team entered the stadium applause broke out. They were also cheered by the millions of Iraqis glued to their TVs at home," Hussan said.
Rasheed said: "I feel proud of our athletes. They are few in number, but they give me the sense that we are part of the world community, we are not alone. People do care about our sufferings."
Belgians give thumbs up
In Brussels, heart of the European Union (EU), overseas Chinese, along with dozens of Belgians, gathered before a big flat screen in a Chinese restaurant to watch the opening ceremony.
As one of nearly 4 billion viewers across the world, David Fouquet, director of the Brussels-based Asia Europe Project Information Service, said: "It was quite impressive. It would have been even more impressive if I could have been there rather than watching it on the screen."
Andre Puttemans, managing director of a business consultancy, said: "The opening ceremony was not a copy of the Western world. It was Chinese.
"I think the Chinese people have the right to be very proud of what they have achieved."
When the national flag of China was raised at the beginning of the ceremony, everyone in the restaurant stood up to show their respect and admiration, Puttemans said.
"In dealing with China over the last 22 years, I have seen great changes there. I think in spite of all the difficulties before the Games, my personal feeling is China has been evolving nicely," he said.
Bernard Dewit, chairman of the Belgian-Chinese Chamber of Commerce, said the opening ceremony presented a modern and changing China.
"It was beautiful. The ceremony showed that China is a modern country," he said.
Dewit, a lawyer who published a book on Chinese business law in 1980s, said China's hosting of the Olympic Games marked a step forward for the emerging nation to be more open to the outside world.
"It will convince people that China is continuing with its opening up," Dewit said.
He said it was a good coincidence that this year China was also celebrating the 30th anniversary of its opening up policy, which was introduced by the late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in 1978.
Dewit said the Games would definitely help promote China, which is already one of the world's most vibrant economies and promising markets.
The British press spoke in praise of the spectacular Beijing Olympics opening ceremony unanimously, calling it the best ever and a stunning display of China's rising confidence.
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), also ran live broadcasts of the opening ceremony on its BBC1 and BBC high definition channels.
Huw Edwards, who delivered the commentary with Sue Barker in Beijing, noted China's confidence.
A presenter with Eurosport hailed the Games as "bigger than anything imaginable", calling the ceremony an "extraordinary" and "extravagant" presentation.
The Financial Times said "the most certain victory of the Olympic Games was duly ratified on Friday night when China won the gold medal in the opening ceremony competition - presumably for all time".
The paper noted that no country in the world ever has - or will - match the Chinese in effort, human power, synchronicity, and ingenuity.
Calling it an enormous show and a gigantic event, the paper said the first triumph belonged to the evening's auteur Zhang Yimou, who insisted on traditional lines: nationalism with Chinese characteristics.
The Guardian displayed a photo captioned "Beijing Olympics take flight" showing the Bird's Nest being lit up by fireworks.
The Guardian said the ceremony that opened the 29th Olympic Games on Friday night outdid all of its predecessors in numbers, color, demonstrating to the world that the new China intends to make its presence felt.
The Daily Telegraph said: "China marches on to world stage." It published a photograph of hundreds of Chinese dancers wearing feather headdresses to represent the age of Confucius.
The paper said China had showed itself to the world leaders present in the stadium and to a television audience of billions.
The tabloid Daily Mail said Hollywood "will study the DVD of the performances for years to come and plunder Beijing's visual tricks".
Sharing in pride
The Chinese shared the Olympic pride as they watched the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, the Los Angeles Times reported on Friday.
In Beijing, locals and visitors braved stifling heat as they crowded parks and other designated viewing areas to see the opening ceremony, the paper said.
"They might not have tickets to the Games. They might never set foot inside the stadium. But wherever there was a TV screen, big or small, the people of Beijing on Friday gathered and cheered, soaking up this brief moment in the long history of this ancient capital when the Olympic flame illuminated the Chinese sky," the paper said.
Despite heat and the threat of a summer shower, locals poured into designated parks and viewing areas in Beijing, grandparents and babies in tow, some waiting hours for a foothold among the standing-room-only crowds of thousands, the paper said.
"I am so proud to be Chinese tonight," Ju Ke, a 19-year-old animation student who got a front row seat on the grass of Ditan Park before two giant monitors, was quoted as saying.
"China has made so much progress in recent years," he said. "Chinese culture is so amazing. The Olympics were hard-earned."
All the years of waiting and sacrifice seemed worth it when the Games finally began at that auspicious 8 minutes past 8 on the eighth day of the eight month in the eighth year past the second millennium, the paper said.
"They've probably been preparing for this day since Deng Xiaoping opened up China to the world," Nicholas Martelli, a Chinese language student from Italy, said. He also had waited hours to see the show on the big screen along with a group of visitors from Spain.
The US Miami Herald said "the Beijing Olympic organizers dazzled an audience of 91,000 at the whimsical Bird's Nest Stadium and another estimated 4 billion watching on television with a colorful, imaginative opening ceremony that bridged ancient and modern Chinese history."
The New York Times said on its website: "An ecstatic China, an ancient nation so determined to be a modern power, finally got its Olympic moment on Friday night ... the 2008 Beijing Olympics began with an opening ceremony of soaring fireworks, lavish spectacle and a celebration of Chinese culture and international good will."
The Wall Street Journal said on its website that the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games "is expected to attract 4 billion viewers, probably the largest number in Olympic history".
The World Journal said in an editorial the Beijing Olympic Games opened successfully, as wished by 1.3 billion Chinese people and overseas Chinese. It was a big day for China.
CNN, ABC and Yahoo also gave wide coverage to the opening ceremony.
Japanese front page news
In Japan, nearly all the major newspapers - Yomiuri Shimbun, Mainichi Shimbun, Tokyo Shimbun and Nihon Keizai Shimbun published news of the grand event on the front pages of their evening editions.
The state broadcaster NHK (Nihon Hoso Kyokai) televised live the entire ceremony.
Kyodo News and Jiji press, the two leading Japanese news agencies, continuously updated their news items about the event and released striking pictures of the performances at the ceremony.
"Tonight, the Bird's Nest was turned into a red sea of joy with smiling faces everywhere," Mainichi Shimbun said
To host the Olympics, which was a 100-year dream of the Chinese people, will speed up China's development toward maturity, Jiji press said.
Spaniards 'delighted'
The Spanish media was impressed and delighted with Friday's opening ceremony of the Games.
The spectacular event was seen live by around five million Spaniards, and was the main item of Friday evening's news bulletins.
Television channel Antena 3 described the ceremony as "an astonishing effort". While Cuatro called it "impressive".
Radio station Cadena COPE said it was "the most dramatic Olympic opening ceremony ever".
Television Espanola - the state-owned channel that holds the rights to screen the Olympics - featured an interview with Crown Prince Felipe, who is head of the Spanish delegation.
Prince Felipe said their Chinese hosts had made them feel "very welcome indeed", and that "we are hoping for a very strong Spanish performance here".
Spain is hoping to improve on its performance four years ago in Athens, where it won 19 medals.
Live TV broadcasts
In France, French TV channel France 2 televised live the opening ceremony with explanations of performances depicting China's history.
In South Korea, KBS, MBC and SBS TV stations also showed the opening ceremony live.
KBS invited a Chinese student in South Korea as a guest to explain to viewers performances at the opening ceremony, while MBC sent Chinese-speaking reporters to Beijing to cover the event.
In Thailand, TV commentators of the National Broadcasting Services of Thailand (NBT) lauded the opening ceremony, calling it "the most spectacular Olympics opening ever".
"Beautiful indeed," Thai TV anchors repeatedly said when seeing a central stage designed in the form of an ancient Chinese scroll with artists "dancing out" traditional Chinese paintings.
Canadians celebrate
About 5,000 people gathered outside a movie theater in Toronto early on Friday morning, hoping to watch the spectacular opening ceremony on the big screen in high-definition.
Although the show was not due to start until 8 am local time, many people, young and old, arrived at the Richmond Hill Center for the Performing Arts well before sunrise.
A year ago, the theater decided to show for free the opening ceremony because of the demand.
"When I arrived at 5:30 am, there were about 700 people here," Michael Grit, one of the organizers, said.
"The theater can only accommodate 3,700 people, so we had to turn about 1,000 people away," Grit said.
The audience was amazed at the dazzling performances, which they though not only demonstrated China's great ancient culture, but also its progress in modern science and technology.
"It was amazing - I liked it and I'm proud of it," said one young woman of Chinese origin.
In Vancouver, the event was televised at 5 am, but that did not deter viewers.
To celebrate the historical occasion, several government officials and Chinese embassy staff gathered at the City Hall in Ottawa to raise the Olympic flag.
"Beijing and Ottawa are sister cities, the flag-hoisting ceremony was meant not only to mark the opening of the Games, but also to express our best wishes for the friendship between the two cities," Ottawa mayor Larry O'Brien said.
Federal Environment Minister John Baird said: "The opening ceremony was stunningly spectacular. It's not something you see every day. It was an exciting occasion for Chinese and Canadians."
In Montreal's China town, hundreds gathered before a big screen to enjoy the show.
The Chinese communities in Vancouver and Ottawa have planned parties and parades in the coming days to celebrate their home country for hosting the Olympics for the first time.
Reception pleases Iraqis
Iraqis on Friday were happy to see their athletes at the opening ceremony of the 29th Beijing Olympics, and witness the spectacular event.
"Just as I had expected, the Chinese did not miss the opportunity to demonstrate the distinctive characteristics of their ancient culture," 55-year-old Adel Rasheed said.
"They not only evoked people's curiosity about China's history, but also showed their superiority in modern science and technology."
The Rasheed family shared the occasion with their neighbor Basim Ali, 54, in Baghdad's western district of Yarmouk.
Before the opening ceremony, they had got themselves a generator and enough fuel in case there should be a power failure. Baghdad suffers from a chronic power shortage.
"I wonder if the number eight that the Chinese believe brings good luck holds true for all people of the world," Rasheed said.
He was referring to the UN announcement on the very same day 20 years ago, which signaled the end of the devastating eight-year war between Iraq and Iran.
When popular singer Liu Huan, and British diva Sarah Brightman were about to start their duet of the Olympic theme song, Um Sameer, Basim's wife, took out her mobile phone and asked everyone to keep quiet.
"I recorded the song because I heard it would be performed by a Chinese and a British singer. I did not want to miss the opportunity. Now I can listen to it whenever I want," she said.
The Iraqi team's participation in the Games at one point was doubtful due to a dispute. Iraq eventually sent a very small team.
"I did not expect to see any of our top leaders at the stadium to welcome our athletes. But I was sure the Chinese people would give them a warm welcome," Muhammad Hussan, 20, said.
"I was not disappointed. When our team entered the stadium applause broke out. They were also cheered by the millions of Iraqis glued to their TVs at home," Hussan said.
Rasheed said: "I feel proud of our athletes. They are few in number, but they give me the sense that we are part of the world community, we are not alone. People do care about our sufferings."
Belgians give thumbs up
In Brussels, heart of the European Union (EU), overseas Chinese, along with dozens of Belgians, gathered before a big flat screen in a Chinese restaurant to watch the opening ceremony.
As one of nearly 4 billion viewers across the world, David Fouquet, director of the Brussels-based Asia Europe Project Information Service, said: "It was quite impressive. It would have been even more impressive if I could have been there rather than watching it on the screen."
Andre Puttemans, managing director of a business consultancy, said: "The opening ceremony was not a copy of the Western world. It was Chinese.
"I think the Chinese people have the right to be very proud of what they have achieved."
When the national flag of China was raised at the beginning of the ceremony, everyone in the restaurant stood up to show their respect and admiration, Puttemans said.
"In dealing with China over the last 22 years, I have seen great changes there. I think in spite of all the difficulties before the Games, my personal feeling is China has been evolving nicely," he said.
Bernard Dewit, chairman of the Belgian-Chinese Chamber of Commerce, said the opening ceremony presented a modern and changing China.
"It was beautiful. The ceremony showed that China is a modern country," he said.
Dewit, a lawyer who published a book on Chinese business law in 1980s, said China's hosting of the Olympic Games marked a step forward for the emerging nation to be more open to the outside world.
"It will convince people that China is continuing with its opening up," Dewit said.
He said it was a good coincidence that this year China was also celebrating the 30th anniversary of its opening up policy, which was introduced by the late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in 1978.
Dewit said the Games would definitely help promote China, which is already one of the world's most vibrant economies and promising markets.
Smile to sing the songs of life
Smile to sing the songs of life. Do not complain about life for too many tribulations, do not have to complain about life in too many twists and turns. If the sea loses its rolling waves, it will lose its power, and if the desert loses its dancing-flying sands, it will lose its spectacle, and so if life goes smoothly without any storms, it will lose the charm of its existing.
Smile to sing the songs of life. Attribute any failure to an attempt, don’t think too meanly of yourself; imagine any succes as a kind of luck, don’t pride. In this way, smile and calmly play music to bravely face setbacks, to gladly accept happiness, to courageously taste loneliness and to gallantly overcome sadness.
Smile to sing the songs of life. Write the Chinese character 人 very well and live in dignify and strength, not to ingratiate yourself with money and any power. The poor is a simple song; the commonplace is a line of beautiful poem. Smiling, we go to sing, looking at Red Dust fluttering in a calm, and tasting the worldly ups and downs in loneliness.
Smile to sing the songs of life. Open wide your dust-laden hearts, make narrow selfish die away, fly your soul freely, and returen your expansive tolerance. In this way, a bright world will appear in front of you: blue sky, white clouds, little bridges, running streams and so on. You can live all the way happily, with the flowers’ fragrance lingering in your nose while enchanting, and with the gorgeous colorful butterflies dancing around you beautifully.
Smile to sing the songs of life. Shed tears for others’ sorrow; have mercy for the good of soul; have sympathy for the unfortunate friends and care for the elderly and old and unlucky people of misery. With the power of smiling, we, smiling, care for everything around you, move everything around you, and affect everything around you until every one of people is wearing a brilliant smile on their faces that will never appear forever.
Yes, it is so. And let us bring a smile to face all that life has given us.
Smile to sing the songs of life. Attribute any failure to an attempt, don’t think too meanly of yourself; imagine any succes as a kind of luck, don’t pride. In this way, smile and calmly play music to bravely face setbacks, to gladly accept happiness, to courageously taste loneliness and to gallantly overcome sadness.
Smile to sing the songs of life. Write the Chinese character 人 very well and live in dignify and strength, not to ingratiate yourself with money and any power. The poor is a simple song; the commonplace is a line of beautiful poem. Smiling, we go to sing, looking at Red Dust fluttering in a calm, and tasting the worldly ups and downs in loneliness.
Smile to sing the songs of life. Open wide your dust-laden hearts, make narrow selfish die away, fly your soul freely, and returen your expansive tolerance. In this way, a bright world will appear in front of you: blue sky, white clouds, little bridges, running streams and so on. You can live all the way happily, with the flowers’ fragrance lingering in your nose while enchanting, and with the gorgeous colorful butterflies dancing around you beautifully.
Smile to sing the songs of life. Shed tears for others’ sorrow; have mercy for the good of soul; have sympathy for the unfortunate friends and care for the elderly and old and unlucky people of misery. With the power of smiling, we, smiling, care for everything around you, move everything around you, and affect everything around you until every one of people is wearing a brilliant smile on their faces that will never appear forever.
Yes, it is so. And let us bring a smile to face all that life has given us.
Monday, August 25, 2008
My August's Sky
In the August sky, the air is filled with yearning; your purple wizard stretches my folded sentiments. The wait of the Millennium, the Millennium looking back and the Millennium’s expetations all are drifting lazily in the thick fragrance of osmanthus. Here you are and I have had this life of love and painted the August sky an azure one.
You are the most beautiful encounter of my life. When I gently opened your space, your heart closely seized mine. In a blink, your name was ironed in the bottom of my heart as firm as a rock. Whenever I am free, I will be in your room, lingering over those words of wisdom and those beautiful pictures, which have held my heart and my soul.
The appearance of a certain sentiment is not because I have known you many years, but because of a casual, which makes life full of concerning and missing.
My heart is leaping with great joy, and even if it is a small symbol, it can make me imaginable. When my flower of feeling was waken by wind, I knocked open your heavy door of heart with my warmth, resulting in my heart immersing in the gentle sea. The heart that had subsided a long time before regained its consciousness the moment it touched yours. And you are in my mind even at busy moments.
I often think that you come or not come is the same, because you are always in my mind and I will be waiting for you in time or out of time.
You don’t know of the deep love affair unless you have missed; you don’t know of the thick love affair unless you have loved.
Sometimes, I convince myself to make your smile and your face blocked in the screen, not to stare, not to make him stir my heart, and to leave it as it is, and forget the just oath only in the blink of eyes. As at this moment, I hold myself in the lonely corner, writing and painting, only to fill the grief with loneliness of my own.
My love is not in any injury even with the pain of missing, the heart of traveling, and the drunken yearning. My missing scrolls over my fingertips, and that shallow and drunken feeling is that you are gently calling for the previous agreement so that the love flower is blooming in purity in August. Look at clouds, mountains and rivers, read my poetry books, and send my waving thoughts distantly. It is you that plant this yearning, and share with you my love to you with the help of easten wind even if water and clouds block me.
I am again thinking of you when the setting sun is like rosy clouds, like your dimples. My heart is indulging to you and for you.
You are the most beautiful encounter of my life. When I gently opened your space, your heart closely seized mine. In a blink, your name was ironed in the bottom of my heart as firm as a rock. Whenever I am free, I will be in your room, lingering over those words of wisdom and those beautiful pictures, which have held my heart and my soul.
The appearance of a certain sentiment is not because I have known you many years, but because of a casual, which makes life full of concerning and missing.
My heart is leaping with great joy, and even if it is a small symbol, it can make me imaginable. When my flower of feeling was waken by wind, I knocked open your heavy door of heart with my warmth, resulting in my heart immersing in the gentle sea. The heart that had subsided a long time before regained its consciousness the moment it touched yours. And you are in my mind even at busy moments.
I often think that you come or not come is the same, because you are always in my mind and I will be waiting for you in time or out of time.
You don’t know of the deep love affair unless you have missed; you don’t know of the thick love affair unless you have loved.
Sometimes, I convince myself to make your smile and your face blocked in the screen, not to stare, not to make him stir my heart, and to leave it as it is, and forget the just oath only in the blink of eyes. As at this moment, I hold myself in the lonely corner, writing and painting, only to fill the grief with loneliness of my own.
My love is not in any injury even with the pain of missing, the heart of traveling, and the drunken yearning. My missing scrolls over my fingertips, and that shallow and drunken feeling is that you are gently calling for the previous agreement so that the love flower is blooming in purity in August. Look at clouds, mountains and rivers, read my poetry books, and send my waving thoughts distantly. It is you that plant this yearning, and share with you my love to you with the help of easten wind even if water and clouds block me.
I am again thinking of you when the setting sun is like rosy clouds, like your dimples. My heart is indulging to you and for you.
Monday, August 25, 2008 Fine
Thoughout the morning today, I was feeling very tired and exausted, could not afford to mention the spirit of doing something, feeling lethargy, and not being interested in anything.
Early in the morning, I went to do some morning exercise, a little tired but feeling well. After coming home, I first prepared some breakfast for my daughter, and then lay on the long sofa to have a rest, but, however, I fell asleep unwittfully. I woke up when my daughter greeted me gladly to go to the piano class. I went to bed again as soon as she left home. I slept until about 11 am because after a few minutes my daughter returned home from her class.
So I got up to prepare lunch for my family. After having our lunch, I continued my sleep again to about 2:10 pm, when my daughter and my wife, who stayed at home from her night work, woke up. At this time, my younger sister telephoned to ask about the password of money that was deposited in the bank. And then my wife went out to meet her to deal with this matter.
At 2:20 pm, my daughter and I worked out a review plan to prepare for an admission examination on September1 at Yicao Middle School. The review plan is as follows:
Time schedule: 2:30 to 5:30 pm every afternoon, from 25th to 31st of August; 5:30 to 6 pm for supper; 6 to 8 pm for the rest and play
Review content: maths textbooks 12,11,10 and 9; english books 5 and 6 in primary school
Time schedule: 2:30 to 5:30 pm every afternoon; from 25th to 28th for maths, from 29th to 31st for english
Review methods: maths: all the example exercises are redone, and all the formulas and definitions are recited again; English: recite agaian all the dialogues and texts that were recited, and then review all the word and phrases in the books.
And she carried out this review plan successfully and she completed it very well.
In the afternoon, I was feeling a little well and surfed the internet, visiting some websites of my blog friends. And then I felt very comfortable from their beautiful words and good articles. So communication among people is a very good method to comfort yourself and relax yourself and excite yourself and ignite yourself and bright yourself.
Early in the morning, I went to do some morning exercise, a little tired but feeling well. After coming home, I first prepared some breakfast for my daughter, and then lay on the long sofa to have a rest, but, however, I fell asleep unwittfully. I woke up when my daughter greeted me gladly to go to the piano class. I went to bed again as soon as she left home. I slept until about 11 am because after a few minutes my daughter returned home from her class.
So I got up to prepare lunch for my family. After having our lunch, I continued my sleep again to about 2:10 pm, when my daughter and my wife, who stayed at home from her night work, woke up. At this time, my younger sister telephoned to ask about the password of money that was deposited in the bank. And then my wife went out to meet her to deal with this matter.
At 2:20 pm, my daughter and I worked out a review plan to prepare for an admission examination on September1 at Yicao Middle School. The review plan is as follows:
Time schedule: 2:30 to 5:30 pm every afternoon, from 25th to 31st of August; 5:30 to 6 pm for supper; 6 to 8 pm for the rest and play
Review content: maths textbooks 12,11,10 and 9; english books 5 and 6 in primary school
Time schedule: 2:30 to 5:30 pm every afternoon; from 25th to 28th for maths, from 29th to 31st for english
Review methods: maths: all the example exercises are redone, and all the formulas and definitions are recited again; English: recite agaian all the dialogues and texts that were recited, and then review all the word and phrases in the books.
And she carried out this review plan successfully and she completed it very well.
In the afternoon, I was feeling a little well and surfed the internet, visiting some websites of my blog friends. And then I felt very comfortable from their beautiful words and good articles. So communication among people is a very good method to comfort yourself and relax yourself and excite yourself and ignite yourself and bright yourself.
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Sunday, August 24. 2008 Fine
Curtains closing on Beijing Games
Today my daughter stayed at home because of Sunday, and my wife had a rest at home from night work. At 10 am, my daughter and I went to enrol at Yicai Middle School. At first begining, we did not succeeded in enrolling because we did not have two recently-taken and no-caps photos of one cun and the copies of the residence permit and property ownership certificate. And then immediately I went to copy the permit and the certificate and daughter went home to fetch her photos. I was very unlucky that there is not a photocopying house near my school, so I had to walk south a long way to have the copy. And then, I went back to the school gate and met my daughter to go together to Yicai Middle School to complish our task of enrolling. And then everyghing went very well, and we completed the task of registration successfully and smoothly.
After that, I telephoned my wife at home to come downstairs and we went home together. Before we started out home, we went to the market first and payed for a just-killed chichen. And then my wife and daughter went to frame and mount their pieces of embroidery they had finished two days before. I first went home alone. But we promised that we would meet at home.
Our main intenti0n to return home is to visit my younger brother's new house that just had been built a short time before. He is a good and clever man and himself designed his two-storey new house. It was about four months before it was finally built. There we found that they had moved some furniture into the new house. After we knew that they did not have a very big wallmirror, we gave him 500 yuan to pay for a big wallmirror. And then we visited every room of his new house, and my little nephew, only about five years old, is very glad that he can have a large high-rise to live in. At about 3 pm, we had a party meal with our parents, my brother and his family, and then chatted a lot of homely words with my parents, and at about 4 pm, we said goodbye to them and went back home happily.
I am very happy that my parents are very well and they are living a very happy life and everything at home is going very well and smoothly, and my brother and his family are also leading a sweet and happy life. You are very happy when you are feeling that you are feeling very happy. So the biggest happiness is that you are feeling that you are happy!!
On the closing day of the Olympic Games, our excellent players continued their marvelous performances at the venues that brought us two gold medals in the boxing event. Zou Shiming bagged his first ever gold medal in men's 48kg class boxing title, and Zhang Xiaoping stormed to men's 81kg boxing crown, which is the 51rt and also last gold medal of our delegation.
In the gold medal list, our country topped with 51 gold, 21 silver and 28 bronze; the United States second with 36 gold, 38 silver and 36 bronze; Russia third with 23 gold, 21 silver and 28bronze; and the United Kingdom fourth and Germany 5th.
At 8 pm, the closing ceremony began amid a display of fireworks that form a huge circle in the sky which symbolizes the complete success of the Beijing Games. In our traditional Chinese culture, circle is a symbol of perfection, harmony and renewal. The countdown to the closing ceremony started from the number 29, indicating 29th Olympic Games. And all the audience joined the countdown from10, while the numbers were displayed by firework explosions in the high night sky.
During the 16 days, friends from all sides, get together as in a big family, with friendly competiton, harmonious coexitence. They compete fair, just and open, and enhance understanding and promote friendship between them and their countries that they belong to. Thus, in such a warm and harmonious environment, 38 worl records that have been broken, and 85 Olympic records have been broken. Beijing Olympic Games, as a great Olympic Games, will find its exclusive place in the history of the development fo modern Olympic Games and will eventually be recorded in history.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Saturday, August 23, 2008 Fine
Today is fine and I am feeling very well because of the fabulous weather with warm wind and sunlight. My daughter went to the piano class. As was planned, I would go to pay her fee but her teacher said we had better pay it in a short time, so I did not go to her teacher. I went to surf the internet and visited the websites of my friends online and watched the Olympic Games. And my wife came back home from her work all night, and she was sleeping all morning because of hard work last night.
At noon, one classmate of my daughter’s sent us her letter of acceptance from the county education department. We are all very happy for the good news. It is as follows:
Junior high school enrolment notice of 2008 Tanchen County’s urban areas
Awarded place number: 2002371322001110277
Name; Zhao Ruijie
Identity card number: 371322199605040022
Father’s name: Zhao Changrong
Mother’s name: Gao Xia
Based on Compulsory Education Law of People’s Repulic of China and the spirit of 28th document of 2008 Tancheng educational foundation documents, and according to the admission principle of the regional and nearest plan and test exemption, please come to Yucai Middle School to enrol from 23rd to 26th of August, 2008, together with this notice, compulsory primary education certificate, the residence permit, and property ownership certificate. Children of migrant workers and whose parents are doing business come to enroll with the following valid documents or certificates such as the temporary residence permit, housing lease contract, business licenses or labor and employment contracts.
The Department of Basic Education of the Education Bureau of Tancheng County
20 August, 2008
We are all very excited when the good news from the Olympic venues stormed to us from time to time. In the afternoon, Meng Guangliang and Yang Wengjun, the defenders of the men’s canoe double 500m, did their best to defend their title, and they are the first ever defending champions in this event. We are very proud of their marvelous achievement and fantastic performance on the river.
Ma Lin won Olympic men's table tennis singles gold.
In the evening, world No. 2 Ma Lin claimed the Olympic title, outgunning Wang Hao 4-1 in an all-Chinese men's singles table tennis Olympic final. Ma took the game 11-9, 11-9, 6-11, 11-7, 11-9, becoming the third Chinese player to win Olympic men's singles gold, after Liu Guoliang in 1996 Atlanta Games and Kong Linghui in 2000 Sydney Games.
Again, three five-star red flags were hoisted at the same time at the same stadium in the same event at the same Olympic Games.
At noon, one classmate of my daughter’s sent us her letter of acceptance from the county education department. We are all very happy for the good news. It is as follows:
Junior high school enrolment notice of 2008 Tanchen County’s urban areas
Awarded place number: 2002371322001110277
Name; Zhao Ruijie
Identity card number: 371322199605040022
Father’s name: Zhao Changrong
Mother’s name: Gao Xia
Based on Compulsory Education Law of People’s Repulic of China and the spirit of 28th document of 2008 Tancheng educational foundation documents, and according to the admission principle of the regional and nearest plan and test exemption, please come to Yucai Middle School to enrol from 23rd to 26th of August, 2008, together with this notice, compulsory primary education certificate, the residence permit, and property ownership certificate. Children of migrant workers and whose parents are doing business come to enroll with the following valid documents or certificates such as the temporary residence permit, housing lease contract, business licenses or labor and employment contracts.
The Department of Basic Education of the Education Bureau of Tancheng County
20 August, 2008
We are all very excited when the good news from the Olympic venues stormed to us from time to time. In the afternoon, Meng Guangliang and Yang Wengjun, the defenders of the men’s canoe double 500m, did their best to defend their title, and they are the first ever defending champions in this event. We are very proud of their marvelous achievement and fantastic performance on the river.
Ma Lin won Olympic men's table tennis singles gold.
In the evening, world No. 2 Ma Lin claimed the Olympic title, outgunning Wang Hao 4-1 in an all-Chinese men's singles table tennis Olympic final. Ma took the game 11-9, 11-9, 6-11, 11-7, 11-9, becoming the third Chinese player to win Olympic men's singles gold, after Liu Guoliang in 1996 Atlanta Games and Kong Linghui in 2000 Sydney Games.
Again, three five-star red flags were hoisted at the same time at the same stadium in the same event at the same Olympic Games.
Friday, August 22, 2008
Friday, August 22, 2008 Cloudy
An all-Chinese women's singles table tennis
Today there was nothing special for the whole family. My daughter was continuing with her piano class in the morning, and in the aftenoon, she finished another three consonants and also did it very well. My wife stayed at home all day and went to work all night.
During other time, we were watching the Olympic games live. In the evening just-finished table tennis event, Zhang Yining, the defender of this event, edged her teammate, Wang Nan, to the title, and her another teammate, Guo Yue settled for bronze. Zhang won 4-1, becoming the third Chinese table tennis player to pocket four Olympic golds, after legendary Deng Yaping and Grand Slam veteran Wang.
This is the first time at this Olympic Games that three five-star red flags was hoisted at the same time at the same stadium at the same event at the same Olympic Games. All the spectators present were singing the national anthem together with our players on the podium, all with excited tears in their eyes.
During other time, we were watching the Olympic games live. In the evening just-finished table tennis event, Zhang Yining, the defender of this event, edged her teammate, Wang Nan, to the title, and her another teammate, Guo Yue settled for bronze. Zhang won 4-1, becoming the third Chinese table tennis player to pocket four Olympic golds, after legendary Deng Yaping and Grand Slam veteran Wang.
This is the first time at this Olympic Games that three five-star red flags was hoisted at the same time at the same stadium at the same event at the same Olympic Games. All the spectators present were singing the national anthem together with our players on the podium, all with excited tears in their eyes.
Two sprint gold medals winner Usain Bolt led Jamaica to the men's 4x100 meters win with a new world record. Bolt, who broke both the 100m and 200m world records en route to the gold medals, ran the third leg and gave the Jamaicans a big lead before handing the baton to his compatriot, the former world 100m record holder. His teammate easily anchored the race in 37.10 seconds, breaking the previous mark of 37.40 set by the United States in the 1992 Olympic Games.
A total of 37 world records had been broken at the Beijing Olympic Games by August 21.
We are all proud of their amazing presentation at the stadiums.
We are all proud of their amazing presentation at the stadiums.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Thursday, August 21, 2008 Heavy rainy
Today it was raining very heavily from last night till now. So my daughter did not go to the piano class because of the heavy rain, and stayed at home and finished another two consonants. And then, she ddi some more reading in her own room, after that, she watched the Olympic events. She always goes to surf the internet at about 11:30am every day during the summer holidays. My wife rested at home from work and continued her embroidery job, and I think it will not be a long time before she finishes it.
This evening, there was a major women’s vollerball competition, our volleyball team agaist the Brazilian volleyball team. If our team wins the game, we will enter the finals. We were all looking forward to its coming and expecting that our women’s volleyball team could have an excellent and amazing performnace. And we all expected that our volleyball team succeeded in defending the title.
But unfortunately, at about 6:30pm, there was a thunderstorm, raining cats and dogs and lasting about one hour, with lightning and thunder. So after a short time, TV signals were cut off and we could not have a good chance to watch the volleyball match. Finally, our women volleryball team was defeated by the women Brazilian team with a big score of 0:3 because of not our hails of fans. We lost the defending and we are very saddened for their failure. However, we are always supporting our women volleyball team as usual with our great enthusiasm.
Today our delegation seized only one gold in women’s 10m platform singles event. In the first four rounds, our player, Chen Ruolin, was left behind a Canadian player and ranked second, and her teammate, Wang Xin, finished third. But in the last round diving, Chen gave a marvelous and perfect dive and overtook her rival and made the final victory. This is the 46th gold of our delegation.
I am very proud of our players’ marvelous achievement in the games though they could get more gold medals. .
This evening, there was a major women’s vollerball competition, our volleyball team agaist the Brazilian volleyball team. If our team wins the game, we will enter the finals. We were all looking forward to its coming and expecting that our women’s volleyball team could have an excellent and amazing performnace. And we all expected that our volleyball team succeeded in defending the title.
But unfortunately, at about 6:30pm, there was a thunderstorm, raining cats and dogs and lasting about one hour, with lightning and thunder. So after a short time, TV signals were cut off and we could not have a good chance to watch the volleyball match. Finally, our women volleryball team was defeated by the women Brazilian team with a big score of 0:3 because of not our hails of fans. We lost the defending and we are very saddened for their failure. However, we are always supporting our women volleyball team as usual with our great enthusiasm.
Today our delegation seized only one gold in women’s 10m platform singles event. In the first four rounds, our player, Chen Ruolin, was left behind a Canadian player and ranked second, and her teammate, Wang Xin, finished third. But in the last round diving, Chen gave a marvelous and perfect dive and overtook her rival and made the final victory. This is the 46th gold of our delegation.
I am very proud of our players’ marvelous achievement in the games though they could get more gold medals. .
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Another new world record
Bolt breaks 200m world record against headwind.
Usain Bolt of Jamaica, the Olympic men's 100m gold medalist, broke the men's 200m world record in 19.30 seconds en route to his golden double last night, even into a headwind of 0.9m per second.
The previous record of 19.32 seconds was set by American Michael Johnson in the 1996 Olympic Games. The 21-year-old had already broken the 100m world mark in the Games when he became the fastest man in the world in 9.69 seconds.
Former Chinese leader Hua Guofeng died.
But early in the morning, I received a piece of shocking news on the internet. Hua Guofeng, a former leader of the Communist Party of China, died yesterday at the age of 87. It is said that Hua died of illness at 12:50 pm in Beijing.
Hua was an outstanding CPC member, a long-tested and loyal Communist fighter and a proletarian revolutionary who once held important leading posts in the CPC and the government.
Born in 1921, Hua once served as the Chinese premier and chairman of the CPC Central Committed.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008 Cloudy
Yin Jian won our country’s 1st Olympic sailing gold.
My daughter and wife did their routines in the morning, and afternoon, my daughter finished another two consonants and she did very well in practising them. And then my wife came home from work at 3:30pm. She went to sleep at once after a short time she arrived home because she did not have a cat nap at noon. My daughter watched the Olympic Games events and I went to surf the internet to enjoy ourselves.
From last night to this morning, I did not feel very well and felt a bit depressed, and I also felt the pressure when I received an invitation from a friend and also ever colleague to drink together to celebrate his daughter being admitted to the university. To be honest, it is a goooooood thing to celebrate a child being admitted into a university, but I did not make meself happy and excited because I am afraid of going to such situations, and I am not convinced that I can do very well in such situaions. Since I received this good news, I watched the television, absent-minded all the night. And always I was thinking about this matter, to go or not to go? I was indecisive. I was under no determination. I think that we are good friends and ever colleague, so it is logical for me to go to the party to drink together. But I am in introversion and not a talkative person and not sure that I can behave myself. But the main idea is that I do not like to drink, do not like such an occasion, more important, I do not know how to persuade people to drink more. The whole night, I was worried about it with much anxiety. At about 12:40pm, I went to bed but did not go to sleep, just lying in bed, awake. This matter made me difficult to sleep well. Perhaps it was a long time before I fell asleep at last.
I went to the playground to do my morning exercise. I was still very depressed, and still did not decided to go or not go. All morning, I did not have my breakfast and just lay on the bed, awake, and didn’t know what to do next. I was not sure of going to the party until about 11:10am when I had to decide to check that another teacher would go. Even when I telephoned him about this matter, I urgedly wanted to come to the result that that teacher had gone to the party so that I could have a gooooood excuse that I did not go to the party. But unfortunately, that teacher did not go then and asked me to wait at the school gate, so I had to go with him to the party.
But I did not know why I was feeling very fine as soon as I finally got in the car after I waited for about an hour. Therefore, I think that we often feel a bit worried and even depressed before we go to do something that we are not sure of. But we will feel very fine once we are trying to do it or we are very sure that we can do it well. But to be honest, however, in any case, I do not like such an occasion.
But to be frank, I was and am very glad to have met my friend and very happy that he was and is also very happy that we got together 12 years after we departed each other. And we chatted a lot about him, his children and me and something we were very interested in. He told me his daughter would go to a college located in Zaozhuang City to study nursery. He told me she did not like it but at last she agreed to be admitted to that college. I am very glad to know something about him and his life. So after talking a lot, I did not feel a bit depressed, on the contrary, I went to thd party to have met him. I delecated 200 RMB yuan to his daughter’s pocket money, and then I gladly came home at about 2pm without any dish.
Meeting friends will make me feel much better, and the mood is relaxed, and am again interested in everything around me.
Today, we did not have many events that can bring us gold medals. But we also had very gooooood news: Yin Jian won our country’s 1st ever Olympic sailing gold. Yin used her knowledge of local water to the best effect. Despite a fourth and three fifth finishes by the first four marks, she collected her composure and stormed back to the third by the finishing line to claim the title. In just-finished event, Wu Jingyu claimed the women’s 49kg taekwondo title, beating the player from in the final with the absolute advantage.
I lived a goooooood day happily. How beautiful life is!
My daughter and wife did their routines in the morning, and afternoon, my daughter finished another two consonants and she did very well in practising them. And then my wife came home from work at 3:30pm. She went to sleep at once after a short time she arrived home because she did not have a cat nap at noon. My daughter watched the Olympic Games events and I went to surf the internet to enjoy ourselves.
From last night to this morning, I did not feel very well and felt a bit depressed, and I also felt the pressure when I received an invitation from a friend and also ever colleague to drink together to celebrate his daughter being admitted to the university. To be honest, it is a goooooood thing to celebrate a child being admitted into a university, but I did not make meself happy and excited because I am afraid of going to such situations, and I am not convinced that I can do very well in such situaions. Since I received this good news, I watched the television, absent-minded all the night. And always I was thinking about this matter, to go or not to go? I was indecisive. I was under no determination. I think that we are good friends and ever colleague, so it is logical for me to go to the party to drink together. But I am in introversion and not a talkative person and not sure that I can behave myself. But the main idea is that I do not like to drink, do not like such an occasion, more important, I do not know how to persuade people to drink more. The whole night, I was worried about it with much anxiety. At about 12:40pm, I went to bed but did not go to sleep, just lying in bed, awake. This matter made me difficult to sleep well. Perhaps it was a long time before I fell asleep at last.
I went to the playground to do my morning exercise. I was still very depressed, and still did not decided to go or not go. All morning, I did not have my breakfast and just lay on the bed, awake, and didn’t know what to do next. I was not sure of going to the party until about 11:10am when I had to decide to check that another teacher would go. Even when I telephoned him about this matter, I urgedly wanted to come to the result that that teacher had gone to the party so that I could have a gooooood excuse that I did not go to the party. But unfortunately, that teacher did not go then and asked me to wait at the school gate, so I had to go with him to the party.
But I did not know why I was feeling very fine as soon as I finally got in the car after I waited for about an hour. Therefore, I think that we often feel a bit worried and even depressed before we go to do something that we are not sure of. But we will feel very fine once we are trying to do it or we are very sure that we can do it well. But to be honest, however, in any case, I do not like such an occasion.
But to be frank, I was and am very glad to have met my friend and very happy that he was and is also very happy that we got together 12 years after we departed each other. And we chatted a lot about him, his children and me and something we were very interested in. He told me his daughter would go to a college located in Zaozhuang City to study nursery. He told me she did not like it but at last she agreed to be admitted to that college. I am very glad to know something about him and his life. So after talking a lot, I did not feel a bit depressed, on the contrary, I went to thd party to have met him. I delecated 200 RMB yuan to his daughter’s pocket money, and then I gladly came home at about 2pm without any dish.
Meeting friends will make me feel much better, and the mood is relaxed, and am again interested in everything around me.
Today, we did not have many events that can bring us gold medals. But we also had very gooooood news: Yin Jian won our country’s 1st ever Olympic sailing gold. Yin used her knowledge of local water to the best effect. Despite a fourth and three fifth finishes by the first four marks, she collected her composure and stormed back to the third by the finishing line to claim the title. In just-finished event, Wu Jingyu claimed the women’s 49kg taekwondo title, beating the player from in the final with the absolute advantage.
I lived a goooooood day happily. How beautiful life is!
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