Hi, Joseph! ( Can I call you like this? ) My hometown is Hongtong County, the south of Shanxi Province. It's a cultural town that famous for the origination of the most Chinese people. Six-hundred years ago, people lived in Hongtong were so hungry that they had to move out to everywhere of China as Shandong, Inner Mongolia, even to Taiwan ( This is one of the reasons that Hongdong's people move to Taiwan, the other is the political movement. ) . They planted a small sophora japonica when they gone. Now, it's become a big tree. Nowadays, people always get back to see the tree. Except this, the people moved out from Hongtong County have a common mark that there little toe have two nails, like me. O(∩_∩)O~ By the way, I want to improve my speaking and writting English, and I noticed that you want to learn mandarin, so I think we can learn from each other, can we?

This is nicely written. I am especially impressed to see that you know how to space commas ( , ) and periods ( . ) correctly as you type. I find that most Chinese students are not taught this important detail in their English classes at school. However, one other extremely important item you have overlooked is the need to capitalize the pronoun ' I ' every time you use it. Using ' i ' in short text messages to friends is OK, but on a language-learning website, it should always be capitalized. Only two misspellings: 'famous' and 'because' ... Notice that the "teacher" here did not correct these. I will tell now you that you should not expect 100% accuracy from all the English language help that you get on italki, especially from "teachers" who are not native English speakers. Finally, you said that you grew up in "the famous town of ShanXi [P]rovince", but you did not give the name of the town. Is it Taiyuan, the capital?