4 days in Shaoguan,China Write about a travel experience: 4 days in Shaoguan,China A few months ago, I joined a volunteering tour with my schoolmates. The aims of the tour are visiting the farming families and planning activities for a primary school. We arrived Ruyuan,the mountainous area of Shaoguan after 6 hours in bus. Actually, it was not far between the city area and mountainous area in Shaoguan but we spent 2 hours getting into the inside part of the mountains. After we checkd in in the hostel and get everything settled,the darkness had already come and we had a delicious local dinner there. It was amazing that the ingredients of the meal are totally planted and bred by the owners of the hostel! In this tour, we visited a primary school in day 1 and day 2. We designed the games and teching activities as much as we can and brought those gifts to the children. Surprisingly,they all loved our gifts and always smile and full of energy! Their attitudes encouraged us indeed as they taught me be satisfied and optimistic everytime. Growing up in the least-developed and poor districts may be a terrible story for most people. But the farming children always believe, "Knowledge Changes Destiny". As this reason, they studied very hard and never gave up to walk out from the mountains. Inversely, we used to annoyed about life and trifles. Um...What are we doing? Where do our passion go? Be natural. Walking out of our house and see the outside world. Maybe we can get more.

First notebook entry: Introducing myself Hello,everyone.I am Yvonne from Hong Kong and will graduate from Secondary School as soon after July. Undoubtedly, English is very important since I live and going to work in this international city. No matter we are just a salesman/saleslady or an office assistant, we need to handle the daily works with people from all around the world. Moreover, when we see the job requirement, we can find that general English is a very gerneral condition for applying a job. Talking about my English, I think my listening and speaking skill are the worst parts. I once chatted with a foreigner in a bus, he tried to talk in very simple words but I can't get his meaning! After he repeated the sentence several times, I got it and realise that my listening is totally weak and feel embarrassed! I hope can improve my English and increase my competitiveness in the society.