Legends of the Slik Road

Last week, my father, my brother, and I went to see "Legends of the Slik Road─Treasures From Xinjiang", an exhibition at National Museum of History.

Our main purpose, of course, is to see "The Beauty of Loulan", a female mummy which was found in Lolan in China. In the exhibition, there is a baby mummy, too. Due to the desert in Xinjiang is extermely dry, the bodies and the ancient things such as silk skirts, shoes, paintings, and figures can last completely for thousands of years.

The Beauty of Loulan is more beautiful than I think. Her skin is dark and bright which looks like leather. Her hair ,nails, skin and eyebrow can be saw clearly.

After watching the exhibition, my family and I went to see the Botanical Garden near the National Museum of History. It was a leisured afternoon, many parents brought their childerns and pets to the garden. There were also many painters and photographers who tried to catch the fantastic scenes in the garden.

Later, we spent the rest of our time in a Dante coffee shop. This is our favorite way to spend our time with family members.

It was a nice weekend I had.

College Life I Wish

Since I became a college student, I found that I have more time than before. So I decided to do more things which I seldom do in senior high school.

I force myself to read newspapers and magazines such as Business Weekly and Science everyday in order to keep myself well informed. I believe that through reading the autobiography and essaies, I can be a better and mature adult who is able to handle things wisely.

I also like to watch movies. Our library is abundant in movies. I can watch a lot of movies in the library. I get used to watching movies when we do not have classes. This semester, I am busy with lessons I took, so I only watch several movies. Nevertheless, I learn things in those movies.

Therefore, I hope I will have more time to watch the films , since I have less lessons in the next semester.

In conclusion, I am a freshman in the college, so I have to use my time well to learn more and to experence the world more. I hope I will do better in the future and hope I will keep my words.

The Bucket List

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This is a movie leading by Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman who are my favorite actors that both won the Oscar award. It is story about two old men who wanted to accomplish their dreams and wishes.

One day on a philosophy class, the professor made every student write down the things which they want to see, want to do, and want to experience on a paper which called the bucket list. The old man in the movie made his bucket list when he was a freshman in the college. With his young and cheerful heart at that time, he wrote down his desires and hopes. However, time went by, a teenager became an old man. Work and life pressure suffered the man's body and heart. He had already forggoten his pureness and those dreams on the list.

Illness forced him live in the hostipal. At that time, he met another old man just like him. They found their whole lives were devoted to things they did not really want. At the end of their lifetime, they decided to seek their dreams. Therefore, they traveled around the world, drove airplane and roadster. The two old man only had one propose: "To live like themselves."

This is a movie I extremely want to watch since I saw its trailer on the television. There is its DVD in our library. But every time I try to find it, it was borrowed by the teacher!

To sum up, my recently hope is to see the movie after our final exam!

Styles of Popular Music

Outline: Style of Popular Music

I. Introduction:
Popular music varies from culture to culture and from generation to generation.
Thesis statement: Three of the more successful styles are reggae, punk, and rap.

II. Body:
A. One successful style of popular music is reggae.
1. Born on the Caribbean island of jamaica in the 1960s.
a. Spread throughout the world in the West.
2. Developed from mento.
a. Was sung and played on guitars and drums.
b. Musicians changed mento into a music style called ska.
3. Reggae's special sound comes from reversing the roles of the instruments.
a. Guitar palys rhythm and bassplays melody.

Sophie's World

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This Tuesday, we had a lecture course about philosophy. The teacher mentioned about a book named "Sophie's World" that aroused my memory about the book.

I had read Sophie's World when I was eleven years old. I still remember at that time, I borrowed this book at library just because its beautiful cover and its name. I had never thought about that this book had triggered my curiosity about philosophy. Besides Sophie's World, I later read several other books written by the author such as"The Children From Sukhavati " and "The Solitaire Mystery". All of the books are about philosophy. Those books had made me view things more deeply and widely since I was a little girl. Therefore, I would like to introduce you this great book.

Sophie's world is a famous philosophy book written by Jostein Gaarder which I strongly recommend.

It is a story about a fourteen years old girl, Sophie, came back home and found a mystery letter. There was only one line on the paper"Who are you?" "Where the world come from?"
Those questions motivated Sophie to think more. Later, she began to learn philosophy with the man who sent her the letters.

It is fun that the writer named the main character Sophie which means wisdom in Greek. Only those who have widom will seek for the truth.

This book uses an interesting way to guide readers follow Sophie to enter the door of philosohy.
Therefore, I inroduce you the book which worth reading.

Useful Concordance

Yesterday, our English teacher taught us a convenience way to learn the usage of words. We have learned a lot of phrases and words, but we only memorize them instead of knowing how to use them.

The teacher offered us some websites to find out how the words being used by people. We just have to key in the phrases or words, and then the system will search all its data bank for them. Without few seconds, hundreds of sentences are found. Therefore, we can see how the words were used in the magazines, reports ,or essaies.

Those websites are truely usefull to me. I have never thought of the way to learn words and phrases, but I have been troubled with the problem that I could not use the words I had learned for a long time. Consequently, I am thankful of my teacher.

Confession

This Monday was quite busy to me, because I had a chemistry midterm in the morinig and a Chinese report in class. In order to study and work on my powerpoint report, I went to bed at twelve o'clock yesterday and got up at 3:00am this morinig. I would not stay up studying until midnight, since it would make me exhausted completely on the next day. Instead, I choose to sleep early and get up early. Although I still slept little, I felt full of energy that day.

Nevertheless, delaying homework until the last minute is really a awful habit of me. I swear from now on. I will finish my jobs early and will never suffer from catching up my homework in a hurry.

I make my confession today and hope that I will not make the same mistake again.

Astronomical Spectacular

The sky tonight is really amazement to me. While walking out of the school building, the fresh air and clear sky eased my tensed mind. I looked up and surprisingly found a big smile on the dark sky. Above the curvy moon, there were two shining stars that formed the shape of a smiling face.

On the next day, the news said that it was a special astronomical spectacular that seldom happens. The two shining stars were Venus and Jupiter. This phenomenon happens only when two fixed stars and the moon go very closely. Coincidentally, they formed the shape of a smileing face. Besides, this sign would not exist for too long, maybe only a couple of hours.

I used my cell phone to take a picture of it, but two mega pixels was not enough to take a clear photo at night.

However, I think I was lucky to see the fantastic scenery at a right time. This took away all my vexations at that night.