I come here

Today，I came here, italki. I want improve my English . Not only do exams make me feel pressured ,but also because I like english. I wish I can will be able to speak English as good well as  I speak Chinese , and  I love listening to English songs, but whatever no matter how many times I  listen, I always sing bad poorly. It is drepressing me.

加油！继续努力学习！

Traveling to earthquake damaged town –part2

People have nothing to eat in for one week after the earthquake happened because all roads were ruined by the earthquake. There were a lot of helicopters on in the skies trying to help people but they could not find a place to land and one helicopter crashed when trying to land close a mountain.
People were searching digging for potatos under the ground which farmers planted while the government army arrived one week later.
The guider told me there are two dogs living in the high school and don’t leave because their host owner is under the building. The two dogs can find some human bones of human sometimes because there are still more than 20 persons people buried under the crashed collapsed school. She cried when she told me her nephew is one of these buried under this school.
After traveleding to this town, I know humans are so small in the face front of disasters like earthquakes. We should live a wonderful life, because we have a chance to live while so many people did do not.

Traveling to earthquake damaged town -part1

This weekend I had a traveled close to Chengdu city. I traveled a town damaged by a serious earthquake 5 years ago. This town was surrounded by a lot of mountains. It is takes about 1 and a half hours to arrive there by bus.
I watched the pictures before earthquake and pictures after the earthquake. It's so sad almost all buildings were damaged. The small town is very new now because all of the houses were built after the earthquake. Most of the damaged buildings were removed, but there is one place kept in the same state after the earthquake happened. It is the high school in that town. So the town is quite new and beautiful except this high school. This high school is kept this state to remember the earthquake.
A lot of persons people could not help to cry after the local guider introduced the high school and the information story of this town during the earthquake. There are a lot of sad stories. This town had about 9000 persons people living there before the earthquake, but about 6000 was were killed in that earthquake. The high school I traveled to was the best place acted in that least damaged building from the earthquake. A lot of people escaped in this high school. Another grade school was not so lucky, most students and teachers was killed. When the government wanted to choose a place keep the state to remember the earthquake, people did not choose to keep the grade school because too many persons people died and it made people so sad. That's why the not as serious high school was chosen to remain the state.
There was also a lot of sadness in the high school though, even though it was the most not seriously damaged place during the earthquake. There was were 8 teachers and 20 students killed and they are still under the crashed collapsed building now. It was the during class time when the earthquake happened, all students was were the in classroom. The 4th floors classrooms building crashed into 2 floors. The building fell down after most students escaped from the classroom. There were more than 100 students and teachers running in the stair room stairwell while when the building fell down. They were so lucky the whole building crashed except the stair room stairwell. There was one village in that town area was not so lucky, the whole village was buried about 50 meters under a mountain.

China Is Changing--2 still yesterday

I've wrote about the life my parents experienced 30 years ago last time. I would like to write the life when I was young. It's about 20 years ago.
Unlike my parents, I don't have any memory of starvation. China had already ended the communal way of life after a reformation. As I wroted last time, all people from a village had to share a piece of land at the same time. This way of life ended up when I was born. The piece of Land belonging to the village was divided to smaller pieces and every family has one piece for at least 20 years. So every family worked very hard on their own land so they could have all the produce. That's why I never experienced starvation.
I am the first kid of my family. I had a funny childhood, but I only have one younger brother because China started the one child policy when my parents got married. Actually , my younger brother was born illegally. I heard a lot of funny stories about how my parents escaped from the planned parenthood group to have my younger brother. My mother swam to the other side of the river behind our house while my father fighting with the law execute group one day during the pregancy of my younger brother. My mother and I lived in a relative's home for 3 months untill my younger brother was born.
We had a  funny childhood though we don't have a lot of money. My parents worked very hard and saved every penny so my younger brother and I could go to school to have an education.The most interesting thing for me and my younger brother was fishing , catching lobsters and frogs. We went to the river to do these things everyday after school. We felt happy when we caught even one small fish of only like , 1 inch. We'd catch a frog and filet it into bait then tie it to a line then threw it into the river as in order to catch some lobster. Lobsters are so stupid. They'd grab the frog meat very tightly and ate the frog meat. We'd reel the line tied to the frog meat so the lobster came. We could catch a lot of lobster to make a delicious dinner. I'm still very happy when I remember this experience.
I don't know if you can understand what I felt happy. you can at least correct my mistakes in this article.Thanks！

Lisa, great article. Makes me hungry for some fresh lobster! Thanks for sharing!

China Is Changing--1, Yesterday

Yesterday
People in China were very poor during my parents's generation. I did not experience that ages, but I heard a lot of stories from my parents and some other old friend.
I was born and grown up in a small village. So I've heard a lot of stories about the life in the village. People did not have their own land before the year of 1980. Every village had a piece of land. All the people from the village had to share a piece of land at the same time. There were about 20 families belonging to one small village. All people went out to work at the land and went home on the sunset. People worked everyday but every person could obtain a little food and some money at the end of the year. That little food is not even enough for a single person. Further more, people could not buy enough goods even if they had enough money, because they needed tickets to buy any kind of commodity. There were a lot kind of tickets, like tickets for rice, pork, bean oil, cloth and so on. You needed a ticket if you wanted to buy anything. That's because the new China was lacking everything. People were too poor to buy any stuff. My parents told me they were hunger everyday. They could not eat meat until the New Year Day, which means they could only have one day of eating meat for every year.
I think people did not have momentum to work hard on a piece of communal land is the reason why they did not create more food and other commodity.
This is the life in China 30 years ago. But life had changed a lot during the later 30 years. It's so later now. I have to sleep again. I would like to write about what happened later in China.Hope this can help people from all over the world to know China.

  Very interesting article Lisa, thansk for sharing!