Wonder what it is like to be a chef(厨师)? This weekend you will have your chance to find out. Two local chefs, Monica Sallier and Andrew Gleason, will hold an "open kitchen" at their restaurants this Saturday.

    Monica's restaurant, The Blue Hen, is small but comfortable. Wooden tables and chairs cover the dining area, and sweet music is always on. "I like to laugh and always tell jokes while I cook," Monica said. "Cooking brings people together. The cooks who work with me have become my best friends."

    At Monica's "open kitchen", she plans to teach her guests how to prepare country­style fried chicken. For it, she will use her family's secret spice(香料). She learned how to make it from her father. Monica seldom uses a measuring cup(量杯)when cooking. By doing so, she hopes to offer her guests a special dining experience. "If you come to my restaurant, you'll never get the same dish twice, "she said.

    Also opening his kitchen this Saturday in Shreveport is Andrew Gleason. He is the head chef at Quarter Bistro. "I am not the most talkative chef in the business," Andrew said. "Mostly because I prefer to give my full attention to the food. Every ingredient(食材)must be carefully measured. "

    Andrew's food also makes the dining experience special. He makes every dish look like a piece of art. At his "open kitchen", Andrew plans to teach his visitors how to prepare blackened catfish, a dish of his that has won much praise throughout the city.

A little girl walked to and from school every day. Though it was not fine and clouds appeared in the sky that morning, the little girl made her daily trip to school as usual. When school was over, winds became stronger and it began to rain.

The mother of the little girl felt worried that her daughter would be afraid and that lightning might frighten her child.

Following the bright light of lightning, the mother quickly got into her car and drove to her child'sschool.

As the mother drove along the road, she saw her little girl walking alone in the rain. To her great surprise, she found that when a lightning came, her daughter stopped, looked up and smiled. Another lightning came and then another followed. With each lightning, the little girl stopped, looked up and smiled at it.

Inside the car, the mother asked her daughter, "What were you doing? Why did you lookup and smile when the lightning came?" The little girl answered with a smile, "Mum,you know, God (上帝) was looking at me. Each time I felt a little afraid walking in the rain, God would take a picture of me. I knew he was playing a game with me."

When I was a young teacher, my first teaching job was in a village in the far north of Canada. There were no roads. You had to take a 1  to fly into the village. I was quite 2 about this new job. I couldn't sleep well. But I packed( 打包) my bags and headed north for my adventure.

In autumn, when I 3 there, the weather was fine. The 4 shone and the days were clear. But all of that was soon to change. In late October, the season changed suddenly. One morning, I awoke and it was winter. In winter, it is very 5 in Canada's north. It snows a lot, too. One winter day, it started to snow really, really6 . The wind blew. And the snow did not stop. It snowed for a whole day. It snowed all night, too.

On the morning of the third day, the snow finally stopped coming down. I7 and looked out of my window. The students looked out of their windows too. They could not see their school."Our school has disappeared( 消失)." they cried. All they could see was a world8 white snow everywhere. The snow covered the school completely. It was more than 8 metres high. It was amazing! But not everyone was surprised. "It happens every year," said the school principal(校长)，"This is Canada. This is how we get to school in the far north."

Of course, there was no school that day. The people in the village came and helped the guard dig out the snow. It9 three days to uncover the school! The kids enjoyed their days off. But they were glad to get back to10 finally.

Kimberly always enjoyed singing. She began.1 music when she was in middle school. To practise, she didn't take the English classes many.2 . "How poor your English grades are! You do have to come back to the class as3 as possible," the English teacher said.

One day, Kimberly wrote some lyrics(歌词)and she wanted to be a singer. But her music teacher4 her to improve her writing first, because it was basic for writing lyrics. From then on, Kimberly tried to think about some good ideas and 5 in English. Later, she found that it was good for her English6 and writing. Slowly, she corrected many.7 in vocabulary and grammar.

Later, Kimberly wrote an English story and8 it to her teacher. It was 9 , and the teacher saw her hard work. "Music means a lot in my life, and I believe my English will become wonderful because of10 ," she said. Her love for music pushed her to get over many difficulties.

注意：(1内容要点齐全， 可适当发挥； 文中不得出现真实姓名、学校等信息；(2词数： 100词左右(文章的开头和结尾已给出， 可做参考， 不计入总词数)

 Hi everyone! I'm Li Hua. It's my great pleasure to present my vlog to you.

 So much for my video. I hope you have enjoyed it. Thank you!