I have been thinking about having a haircut, but always can not make up my mind to do so. For one hand, growing long hair is not an easy thing and I appreciate it and the experience and memory behind the long hair. For another hand, I am not sure what I will look like with short hair. However, yesterday, I was suddenly determined to have the long ( Read more... )

  I was ill, thus absent in last writing lesson and I felt very sorry not to attend your class. Everyone will miss the days when they have sound bodies when they are ill. Previously, in order to carry on my dieting project, I did not have regular meals, which caused me to omit after meals now. So regretful did I feel now to go on such a diet and ( Read more... )

  The winter in Nanjing falls all of a sudden, making people at a loss to fight the coldness. The only way to keep our bodies warm is to wear more and more clothes. Classmates from northern areas still are unable to fit such changeable weather and they hate the moisture in the air. The unexpected coldness brought back my mind of the old days in ( Read more... )

  One day in this week, my roommate Shaelly asked me if I enjoy my college life at the moment all of a sudden. Her questions made me lost in thought for a while, and then I responded,‘I am living a life.’I began to look back on the past days I have spent since this semester, and concluded that life is mechanical, rotating at a period of a week. ( Read more... )

  My roommate, Shaelly, recommended a short story written by a British novelist, Alex Shearer, called The Great Blue Yonder, to me and she speaks highly of the book. Attracted by the title, I immediately went to do the reading. Having read another well-received novel, Little Prince, I initially considered that perhaps these two share the same style ( Read more... )

   Steve Jobs once said,‘stay hungry, stay foolish’and the former one was my slogan to lose weight. Of course, Steve’s ‘stay hungry’ is an attitude to pursue knowledge, science or truth. My usage of his words seems to be a little bit funny but I must admit that being hungry is really suffering. Two months ago, I was determined to go on a trip to ( Read more... )

When I was a little girl, I was always looking forward to my birthday, when I would be promised a gift I’ve been longing for by my parents. As I grow, my expectation for birthday grows weaker. The arrival of birthday is a mark of my growing old. In another word, I feel reluctant to be mature because I don’t want to take more responsibility. However ( Read more... )

A chance encounter with a girl whose hands are removed perhaps due to a scald accident led me in emotional swings. Sympathy took hold of me and I was stunned by her attitudes toward the life after recovery. To recover from such accident is not difficult and to survive is a great fortune, but being brave and positive to the later life and keeping ( Read more... )

Emotional or mood swings are such an amazing thing that they will come to you at any time or place. I was hit by them this afternoon although I have had a wonderful nap. Thus, the following of such mood swings are unexplainable for they belong to the psychological circle. Under this circumstance, I was not in mood the whole afternoon and I could ( Read more... )

To make up a story is not difficult, but if there are some limits to the story organization, it is not so easy. Take my story of the second person and past tense in short sentences as an example. Should each sentence begin with “you”? I was also required to make sure each sentence as short as possible, which caused my making up not go smooth. When ( Read more... )