My Essay 85 Hello! My name is Hankun. I live in a small town in the middle part of China. This is a distant and less prosperous region with beautiful landscapes in the countryside. I made this e-magazine so that you can learn about me. Although the space in the magazine may be not enough for me to write everything I want to say, I am still trying to write as much about my personal interests and experience as possible. This is a great showcase for me and I will put in many of my photos and concentrate on writing things that I am most proud of. Here I sincerely thank you in advance for reading it~ =) Academic Life: I always think learning should be a wonderful and happy experience. Merely learning about the world we live in and our position in it is fascinating for me. Thus the biggest motivation for me in learning is pure interests and curiosity. At the same time, I especially enjoy academic contests. I think they are always a great opportunity to motivate and push me to the limits. In my school, I am always among the TOP5 students. Math: I don’t quite remember the first time when I was attracted by numbers or graphs, but I always enjoy learning it. It’s always a great excitement to face some challenging math problems and finally overcome them! From pure personal interests I started to put more and more time in math. Then in 2012 as a seventh grader, I won the second place in an AMC8 contest and in Feb. this year, I was again in the test center among a bunch of tenth graders taking the AMC10 contest and finally won the second place among all the students. Cycling Club: We all are 14 and we all like to go outside to see the beauty of nature. That is why in the seventh grade I founded a cycling club in school. I am always fascinated with this and organize activities with friends from time to time. We’ve visited every beautiful place nearby. The photos were taken in an orchard full of peach trees and the vast countryside with clouds freely floating in the breeze. Our footsteps were once into a lonely orphanage and our cares to a small 9-year-old child with cardiology disease. The experience is always the most important and the memories are eternal.