John is an American boy. His family is in China now. John likes chocolates (巧克力) very much. But his mother doesn't give him any. They are not good for him, she thinks. But John has a very nice grandfather. The old man loves him very much, and sometimes he buys John some chocolates. Then his mother lets John eat them. She wants to make the old man happy. One Sunday evening John says in his room, “Please, God. Make them give me a big box of chocolates tomorrow. It's my birthday.” His mother says, “God can't hear you, my boy.” “I know, but my grandfather is in the next room. He can hear.”

The summer vacation started on June 26th. Jerry wanted to find a job in the city. One day he saw an advertisement(广告) in a window. It said, "Wanted: The best salesman(推销人员) in the world. Top Pay."

    "I'm a great salesman," Jerry said to himself. "I'm sure that I can sell anything. I'll go in and ask for that job."

    So Jerry went into the building. He saw a manager in it. He said to the manager, "Good morning. I saw your advertisement. I think I'm the best salesman in the world. Give me the job, please."

    "You must prove(证明)that you're the best," the manager said.

    "I'll pass every test that you give me," Jerry said.

    "Good," the manager said, and he took a box of sweets out of his desk. "Last week I bought a thousand boxes of the sweets. If you can sell them all before the end of the week, you can have the job."

    "That's easy," Jerry said.

    He took the boxes of sweets and left the office.

    Every day and all day he went from shop to shop, trying to sell boxes of the sweets. But he couldn't sell one. The sweets were so bad that he couldn't even sell them.

    At the end of the week, he went back to the manager. "I'm sorry, sir," he said. "I was wrong about myself. I'm not the best salesman in the world, but I know who is."

    "Oh," said the manager. "Who do you think is the best?"

    "The person who sold you a thousand boxes of the sweets."

    One day, Mr. Smith is going to take a train to his home town. When the train starts, one of his shoes falls (落下)on to the ground. The train is running faster and faster and he can't pick it up. Then he quickly takes off the other one and throws it on the ground near the fallen shoe. A little boy on the train asks him." Why do you do that?" "I've already(已经)lost one shoe. "Mr. Smith answers, "If a man picks them up, he may get a pair of shoes."

Hello, I'm Tom.  I come from Cuba (古巴), but recently I moved to China.  I started a new school life here.  It was a big change for me because the school life in China is quite different from that in Cuba. 

School in China starts at 8:00 a. m.  and ends at 4:00 p. m.  The new school is much better than my old school in Cuba.  For example, it is bigger and more beautiful than my old one.  I thought that I might be lost in the first week.  Luckily my new classmate Wang Lei is very friendly.  He showed me around the school.  He is my good friend now.  We always study and eat together.  We go to the canteen for lunch.  The cooks in the canteen cook various (多样的) traditional (传统的) Chinese foods.  They are very delicious.  I hope that one day I can also learn to cook Chinese dishes. 

In China, we don't have so much homework to do every day.  After school, I only have to do my homework for about twenty minutes.  I can go to sleep early.  It's good for my health. 

I start enjoying my school life here.  I am always having so much fun!