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.