My name is Maggie.I am a 13-year-old Canadian girl. I live in Toronto. It's a very big city. I can speak English and French. I have classes from 8:00 a.m. to 2:40 p.m. I have lunch at school. Many girls love playing volleyball after school, but I like swimming. I have a big family, my father, my mother and two brothers. I think China is a great country. I want a Chinese pen pal.

    Please sendemails to me if you want to be my pen pal. My email address is maggie13@yahoo.com.

    Tomorrow is June first. It's Children's Day. I am going to have a happy holiday. I am going to go to the library and read books. I am going to go to the park and take pictures with my friends. I am going to play computer games with my brother. I am going to help my mother make dinner. I am going to go shopping with my mother.

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    We buy our daughter a little dog. There are not many children of her age and we think a dog would make her happy. We are right. They play together happily. Our daughter smiles and laughs a lot more. Both of them are very dirty. But the dog is easier to look after than my daughter. He always eats up all his food and needn't wash his cloths. My wife is also very happy because I don't smoke any more. The dog doesn't like the smell.

    Mike is my cousin. He is from Canada. He likes swimming, playing basketball and climbing mountains. He likes climbing mountains best. He climbed lots of high mountains. He has got a good friend, Tony. Tony likes playing basketball, travelling and collecting stamps. He likes travelling best. Tony and Mike often play basketball together at weekends.

Every day we eat a lot of food. A healthy diet is good for us. But people in different countries eat different kinds of food. My friend Peter is from America and he tells me a lot about food in America. Most Chinese people like to eat pork(猪肉). But in America beef(牛肉) is more popular(受欢迎). We often have rice or noodles at every meal. But Americans may think hamburgers and fruit pies are more delicious(美味). Chinese children like to eat ice creams in summer. But Americans nearly eat them every meal. Americans like sweet food very much, just like cakes, ice creams, chocolate and so on.