Happy New Year

It was my first new year in Japan. Although I hardly had time to enjoy the Kouhaku Song Competition on TV with my friends in the Omisoka Eve,  it was still a fantastic new year for me. Since I talked with my parents via the internet and welcomed the coming of the new year with two books.

Hope it will be a happy and fantastic year again this year!
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My podcast 4

Do you want to know how important it is to help others? Please check out here and you will understand it by yourself.

My podcast 3

A book about Helen Keller. Here is the introduction.

My podcast 2

A funny but interesting story. Please check it here .

Reading practice 3

Before me I saw a new world opening in beauty and light, and I felt within me the ability to know all things.

Without Helen Kellen, the successful and outstanding representative of the deaf and blind, you will never know how brave and courageous can human beings become. And thanks to her, we get to avert our eyes to the world of the deaf and blind, starting to pay attention to and care about them. Moreover, we are encouraged to live in this world with our heart filled with hope. She behaves like a lighthouse on a cliff, showing us how precious the light is and leading us to go through the darkness.


She left us valuable heritages of her perspiration and courage she held to struggle out of the adversity and her charity for the blind and deaf.

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Issue practice 14

Issue: What most human beings really want to attain is not knowledge, but certainty. Gaining real knowledge requires taking risks and keeping the mind open-but most people prefer to be reassured rather than to learn the complex and often unsettling truth about anything.

Knowledge is considered indispensible in human beings’ daily life and the development of humans, society and the world. Why is it indispensible? What I believe is that knowledge is not only for supplying certainty and that human beings want to attain knowledge not only because of the desire to obtain certainty, but for their own development as well.

Knowledge is primarily used to offer certainty. Human beings need the sense of safety and security when they are striving to live in the world and survive competitions between each other. The fast way that is available for one to assure and prove that he is right is to rely on knowledge which is thought to be greatly convictive. On one hand, each of us has been convicted by knowledge since we are given birth to this world; we learn a great deal from books and classes. The knowledge that is invented and discovered by our ancestors turns to be our invaluable wealth so that we successors do not need to recognize and define the world all over again from the start. We learn to define the world continually after our predecessors. On the other hand, knowledge offers us the sense of safety and security. When worried about what to do next after preparing the apparatus in a chemical experiment, open the textbook and you will get to be confident to take the next step.

Moreover, we human beings are pushed to learn and master more and more knowledge so that we can go further and further on the way to the future. Only by mastering and understanding all the wealth passed down from the old generations, can we young generations stand higher and achieve more accomplishment. For one thing, individuals need knowledge to equip ourselves up so that we can survive the competitions between human beings and live a life of higher standards. For the other, the development of the whole human world requires the support of knowledge. Just as the great scientist Isaac Newton said, “If I have seen further than most men, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Without knowledge of different fields, it is impossible for humankinds to develop.

In conclusion, human beings want to learn knowledge, as far as I am concerned, not only for certainty, but also for self-growth and development.

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The Twenty-First Birthday of My Life

It is my 21st birthday in my life today. I have been planning to make my own cake and hold a party with my friends for a long time. But when the day really came, I decided to change my plan.

Since I just came back from my travel yesterday, I was so tired that although I got up at 9 o'clock in the morning, and could not help yawning and feeling the headache that I fell into sleep again at twelve and did not wake up until 3 o'clock in the afternoon.

Beside the exhaust I had got from the travel, I also had to do some study, as a result of which, I found it hard to leave any time and strength for my birthday party. I decided to compensate some time at the first period of the next year.

Although my party plan failed, I am still happy and glad that I have got my friends' blessing back from China, my friends abroad in America and Europe, and my friends in the dorm. I also received some lovely presents from them. Mom bought me a glorious necklace and Dad a watch. My favorite teacher also said "Happy birthday" to me, which made me extremely intoxicated.

A birthday without a birthday party can also be fantastic as long as you have friends and relatives and teachers to wish you "happy birthday".
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