Happy New Year!

It is very hot and humid every day, and my husband's only day off was the first of the month. So, I do not feel I am having a new year at all.

Yesterday was another very hot day, so I decided to go to the library to cool down. Then, I found a book teaching how to draw quick pictures with a 3-colours ball point pen. My drawing skill is shocking and my students said that "Australia is not a cat or rabbit" when I draew a map of it. Fortunately, I have a lot of time on my hands now, so I thought it was a good time to practisce drawing.

There was another book translated into Chinese, so I thought I could learn drawing and Chinese at the same time with the book for a second. However, I also thought I might give up both of them. So, I borrowed the Japanese version at the end.

As is the nature of most of the how to books, this book is easy at the very beginning, but soon after it becomes very difficult and complicated... It still looks like something different from what I wanted to draw, but at least I am enjoying this (*^^*)

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Very nice entry! It looks like you have most of the technical details correct, but certain sentences just seemed a little different from how a native speaker might say them. They were still correct, just a little off. Here are the one's I noticed:

"It is very hot and humid every day" --> "It has been very hot and humid every day"

"My drawing skill is shocking and my students said that "Australia is not a cat or rabbit" when I draw a map of it." ---> Shocking isn't quite the right word here. "Shocking" is pretty similar to "surprising" in that it can be either good or bad. 

"However, I also thought I might give up both of them." --> A native speaker would probably clarify "However, I thought I might give up both of them if I tried to do too much at once." or "However, I thought that if I tried to do too much, I might fail at both of them.