Christmas present for our cats

As I wrote before, our family doesn't prepare get any presents for each other,
but I made a present for my cats.

I made a cat tower last year.
This year I made a box with tunnel and they love it!

The cats make us always laughing and happy.

[Strangely, it is a little hard to combine "laughing" and "happy" into the same sentence and have it sound natural in American English!  Luckily they mean almost the same thing.  Here are some other ways that sound more natural to me:  "The cats always make us laugh."  "The cats always make us happy."  "The cats always make us laugh and keep us happy."  "The cats always make us happy and keep us laughing."  "The cats make sure we are always laughing and happy."  And this is one probably closest to yours: "The cats always keep us laughing and happy."  Hah, I think English is strange!  :-)  But those are my suggestions!]

We love them very much! :) :)

P.S I wanted to update upload (or attach) other photos, too, but unfortunately I can update upload only 1 photo here.

First notebook entry: Introducing myself

I'm learning English, because I want to get a lot of information,
Than then I will want to start a business.

My native language is Japanese.
I live in the country of Kanagawa Prefecture.
but this place is has a very beautiful sea.
My home near the sea, so very happy.
and my hobbies hobby is surfing.
but sometimes play surfing.
because wave is changing　by wind.

I only go surfing sometimes, because the wind is always changing the waves.

Welcome to italki and good luck with your goals!  Hang loose!  \ooo/

Working in Ethiopie  [Ethiopie is maybe French? in English, Ethiopia]

Hi everyone, long time no see! It's been one year since I wrote on italki last time.

After staying at the headquarters in Beijing for one and half a years, I've since evacuated from Libya when after the turbulence ["turmoil" might be a better word to use here!] that took place at the beginning of 2012. I am working in Africa again now, but in Ethiopia this time.

Compared to the first time I worked at overseas, I spent much less time to get getting used to the life and work here. We are constructing a railway here which is our company's first project in Ethiopia. Due to the importance important role the project plays in our company's current expanding strategy, the management keeps a keen eye on the on-going progress of the project and makes it the No. number one Project of 2012. [For some reason we never shorten "number one" to "no. one", even though "no." is indeed a common abbreviation for "number."] Working on this project offers me a good chance for the self-developent in my career, however, challenges co-exists exist at the same time.

The whole railway are is divided into two parts, one in Ethiopia, and one in Djibouti where French are is the most used language besides the local ones. I started to learn French by myself one month ago. The French grammar is much more difficult than English, however, I believe every effort will be paid off for those who never give up.

That sounds like a great experience for you, good luck!

I can't resist, I'm correcting it this time into the present tense.

My morning life

Today is a sunny day.

It has rained for three days.  This morning, at it is six o'clock when I wake up.  I looked out of the window, it is so bright outside, and I know notice, it stop has stopped raining.

After a ten minutes shower, I heard hear my son's alarm clock singing ringing. Then he got gets up and began begins to read his English book.  He reads English for fifteen minutes every day. I often stand beside him as a tutor.

At the same time, my wife is cooking breakfast for us. Today, she prepared is preparing fried rice, steamed buns and spinach soup and onion for us.

When time is seven ten, At ten after seven, my son and I walked down the stairs, he was is going to school, and I was am going to the office. His school is about five minutes walking distance.  After saying goodbye at the school gate, I went go on my way to the bus station and to the office.

The nearest bus station and metro station is are beside the school, but they are not my selection destination.  I should climbed climb a hill then reached the end of the bus line. It will take takes me twenty minutes, it is my morning exercise.

Now, it is seven thirty.

Sounds like the start of a good short story!  :-)

My morning life

Today is a sunny day.

You can write the whole thing in present tense or past tense, but you should be consistent!  Most of the time, people write about the past in the past tense, but some authors think it is poetic to use the present tense for effect!  My corrections are NOT the only way to do it, but it is one way!

It has had rained for three days.  This morning, at six o'clock, when I wake woke up, I looked out of the window.  It is was so bright outside, and I know noticed, it stop stopped raining.

After a ten minutes shower, I heard my son's alarm clock singing ringing, and then he got up and began to read his English book. He reads English for fifteen minutes every day. I often stand beside him as a tutor.

At the same time, my wife is was cooking breakfast for us. Today, she prepared fried rice, steamed buns and spinach soup and onion for us.

When time is seven ten, At 7:10 (or "At ten after seven") my son and I walked down the stairs. He was going to school, and I was going to the office. His school is about five minutes walk walking distance away.  After saying goodbye at the school gate, I went on my way to the bus station and to the office.

The nearest bus station and metro station is are beside the school, but they are were not my selection destination. I should climbed a the hill then and reached the end of the bus line. It will take took me twenty minutes, it is my morning exercise.

Now, it is seven thirty.

After reaching the end of your story, and correcting it into the past tense, I feel like I would enjoy it more in the present tense to be honest!  It feels like you are taking me on a journey with you.  As I said, it is unusual to write a story in the present tense, but it can be fun.