Confidence~~~Turely Thinking

     Yesterday, a picture about a dog attracted my attention: the dog was looking at himself in the mirror. But to my surprise, in the mirror there was a face of an imposing tiger instead of that of a dog. The picture seems to tell the truth that you should think highly of yourself. However, I wonder if it's really true. In my point of view, the most important thing is to think of you properly.    
       First, thinking too highly of yourself, you will feel rather depressed when you cannot achieve the destination. Because you overrate your abilities, you will of course set goals far beyond you and try to achieve the goals ambitiously. It can be imagined that for most of the time, you cannot fulfill the task successfully. The worse thing is that you will not recover from your setback.
        Second, thinking too poorly of yourself, you will find it difficult to cultivate your own faculty. If you never find that in fact you are more capable than you believe, it's impossible for you to cultivate your potential faculty. You will think you are having nothing special. It's reasonable that you don't have some achievements; You are satisfied with what you are, and don't think of being successful one day.
       If you are a dog, no matter you find a tiger or lion in the mirror, you cannot boast yourself the king of the animal world. The only thing you can do is to keep your host safe. Seeing very clearly in the mirror that you are a dog.

My plan~~~

    The long winter vacation will coming soon. In this vacation, we have a good festival, Christmas. I plan to go to the Harrison Hot Springs with my boyfriend. I have came here for 8 months, but I just viewed some simple scenery, and I did not see many places. So I want to use this vacation to have a good rest. I think it is a good idea.

    In this vacation, I will not forget to do the homework. Although I do not have classes, I have right to study on vacation, too. If I do not study, I will fail the next semester. So I will try my best. Next, I want to feed a dog for myself. I really want a god because I like dogs. They are cute and clever. I hope to have one thing for myself. For this reason, I will buy it for my new year;s gift.

   After the next semester, I will come back to my home and see my parents. I really miss them and they also really miss me. I think this is my short-term plan.

Cell phone good or not

   With the development of IT and information industry, cell phones play an important role in people’s life. But, like everything else, they have both advantages and disadvantages. 
    First, it’s useful. As a wireless mobile telephone, it’s easy and handy to early to wherever one goes and call the callee however far away he is. Therefore, it greatly facilitates people’s life. Second, it’s convenient. Whenever one meets trouble or something urgent, one can make a call immediately. Most important of all, it’s a very helpful companion. With a multirfunction cell phone in hand, one can easily get on the Net, browsing the useful information, conducting e-commerce and doing whatever one can do via Internet.
      However, just as everything has two sides, the cell phone also has many disadvantages. To begin with, it’s expensive to buy and costly to pay the hills. To make matters worse, it’s also easy to lose and costly to get it repaired. Worst of all,it’s not as clear as a family telephone and sometimes the number dialed is often not available. Finally, it’s alleged the microwaves in it might do harm to people’s health. In my opinion, it will face an ever brighter future in its development. Someday most of them will be developed into new Intemet-enabled mobile phones, which will be as useful as pocket computers. And I believe its advantages will not only offset its disadvantages, but also far outweigh them.

Wonderful vacation

      When I was 17 years old, I took a trip to Yunnan with my parents. It is in the southern part of China. It is really a very beautiful place grand mountains, clean rivers and kind people. Trees and flowers are seen everywhere. Every year there are lots and lots of visitors.　　Maybe you have heard about Shi Lin (stone forests). There are all kinds of strange stones. Some of the small stones look like graceful girls; and the big stones look like handsome men. Other stones look like cats, peafowls, double-edged swords, mice, elephants and so on. Of all the stones, the stone like a beautiful girl in a legend is the most famous .Its name is A Shima. 　　I also went to Li Jiang. The roads in that city are just like the Eight Diagrams. Any road in the city goes to the center of Li Jiang. A river runs through the whole city. If you go along the river, you'll never get lost. There are many ethnic minority people in Yunnan. They are very cordial. And they all like singing and dancing. We danced with them around the campfire that night. I really had a good time.
　　I like the elephants and fruits there best. An elephant is even taller than me! I even mounted the elephant, though I was very afraid at first. But the elephant seemed very friendly. I took some photos with it. The fruits there are very fresh and delicious. They are very good for our health. 　The trip to Yunnan impressed me greatly. I will never forget it.

Saving Money

   

Everyone must work to live, but many people are fortunate enough to make more money than they immediately need. What should they do with this extra income? While it is tempting for people to spend it all on things they desire, I believe it is better to save at least a portion of the extra income for the future.

　　By saving money, people give themselves more security. They cannot predict the future; perhaps one day they will be jobless. At a time like this their savings can spare them a great deal of suffering and help to see them through the hard time. In addition, saving money allows people to build up a larger sum. They can then buy something more worthwhile than the small things they can but if they spend the money right away. For example, they may be able to buy a house with their savings. Finally, he practices of saving helps people develop the habit of setting goals and planning for their future. In this way they are bound to lead more meaningful and successful lives.
　　Most people would like to enjoy their money immediately. Nobody likes to wait for the things that he wants. However, if we learn to save our money, we can gain more advantages in the future. We will lead more secure and, thus, happier lives. We will also be able to buy the things we truly want but cannot afford right now.

The meaning of love

  This week I received a call from a good friend’s girlfriend, because she found a bill to me in his purse. She asked me something about it. I told her he borrowed money from me and just returned it to me. She then asked me what the use of the money is. I frankly told her I knew nothing about it. She accused me of lending money to him without knowing the use. I said I didn’t think I needed to ask such questions, since I knew him for a long time and trusted him. She continued to ask more about it. I said: “Why you ask me such question?” She said, she thinks she has right to know about it. I said with a peaceful tone “I don’t think you have right to know about it. If he agrees me to tell you, I will tell you. If not, I won’t tell you. Because he is my friend, while I don't know you at all. I should respect him first.” The words enraged her and she lost her temper and shouted me discourteously on the phone.

In my personal opinion, everyone is independent, belonging to nobody except himself. The parents gave us our life, but cannot go through our life instead of us. The bosom friends can touch our hearts and feeling but cannot taste the happiness and bitterness in our life. Therefore, I always attach selfhood most. My life, my feeling and I just belong to myself only. In my inner belief, for me, I should be responsible for myself; and for the others, I should respect him, including his feeling, his choice and his life. I hate everyone who thinks he has right to know everything about other people, to interfere other’s choices and to invade others’ personal spaces.

However, a lot of persons are always against the rule. During our childhood, a lot of parents request their children what to do and what not to do, even impose their will on the children. Generally the parents choose the school, the major and even the way of the future for the children. Since we are little child, we are told to do whatever adults tell us to do. Increasingly we lose the ability of listening to our inner heart and just do whatever others tell us to do. That’s why we lose the ability of innovation, which is the largest power and motivation for our civilization. For individual it causes our spirit world becoming vacuous and boring, since we don’t know what we want and what we are interested in and what we can do. We don’t know where our heart is.

As a famous writer Gaoersiji said, even a hen can love his own children, but most of all, how to love. Everyone can love other people; however, the way to show love is the most important. If a love cannot make each other feel safe, comfortable and inspiring, it is an unhealthy love which should die and cannot survive. We love just we want warmness and comfort.

A true love is an unconditional love in which pay without thought of gain; a sincere love is a selfless love in which thinking about others rather than himself; a healthy love is a comfortable love which contain concern rather than interposition, communication rather than inquest, respect rather than interference, help rather than substitute, toleration rather than nit-pick.

Life in Vancouver

The life in Vancouver is full and happy. I think coming across the Pacific was worth it. Here I have met a lot of new teachers and classmates, and they are completely different from the people who were around me before. We are all come from different countries or different cities.

I had a really hard time when I first came here. I am not feel very comfortable to live here, and I do not know how to get my school, where is the mall and so on. Therefore, I like here now. I also fit to everything here.

             My English is not good, especially in speaking, but with teachers’ guidance, I dare to open my mouth and speak English. I should be braver than before. I think English is more interesting than Chinese in my imagination. After a period of time, I think I will improve more. This is also the purpose that I came here.

Vancouver is a very beautiful place, there are many trees and flowers, fresh air is always, and I like living here. In addition, I came to many beautiful places. Such as beaches, parks, restaurants and shops. I started a new life here. On the other hand, I really miss my mother and my father. I already cannot fit food here. I think I will better soon.