Halloween is an autumn holiday that Americans celebrate every year. It means "holy evening," and it comes every October 31st, the evening before All Saints' Day. However, it is not really a church holiday, it is a holiday for children mainly.

     Every autumn, when the vegetables are ready to eat, children pick large orange pumpkins. Then they cut faces in the pumpkins and put a burning candle inside. It looks as if there were a person looking out of the pumpkin! These lights are called jack-o'-lanterns, which means "Jack of the lantern".

     The children also put on strange masks and frightening costumes every Halloween. Some children paint their faces to look like monsters. Then they carry boxes or bags from house to house. Every time they come to a new house, they say,"Trick or treat! Money or eat!" The grown-ups put treat-money or candy in their bags.

     Not only children, but most grown-ups also love Halloween and Halloween parties because on this day,they can disguise themselves as personages or ghost as their imaginations will lead them. This bring them the satisfaction of being young.

    On October 1st, we went to Wuyishan in Fujian by train. We stayed at a beautiful hotel. It was cool and cloudy on October 2nd. In the morning we climbed the mountains and went to see the waterfall. We were tired, but we were happy. In the afternoon we went on a raft trip . We took some pictures. We had a lot of fun there. 

    There are four seasons in a year. They are spring, summer, autumn and winter. Winter is very cold. The wind blows and blows. I don't like winter. I like autumn best. It is cool and dry. The leaves are not green. Some are yellow. Some are brown. The leaves fall down. They look like butterflies. I can eat much fruit in autumn. And Mid-autumn Festival is in it. I can eat mooncakes, taros and beans. I feel happy in autumn.

At the zoo.

Cat is fast. Rat is fat.

See them run. Fun! Fun! Fun!

Money is short. Giraffe is tall.

See them play with the ball.

Landfills increase pollution problems by Peter Li

Although there are three landfills in Rainbow City, people believe that the landfills will all be full in 20 years because we are producing more rubbish than expected.

Pollution problems are getting worse. Therefore people ought to think about solutions. The environment will get better if people start doing something to help.

Miss Huo from the Environment Department talked about ways to reduce pollution. The Pollution is getting serious. Therefore, we ought to recycle more and stop throwing so many things away without thinking about the environment.

Now we're recycling things such as paper and plastic bags, but that's not enough.

We have to think about recycling more things such as batteries, washing machines and rice cookers.

There are many things we can do to protect our environment. We should take action now so that we all can live in a better environment.