Ugly Stone I used to feel sorry about that ugly stone in front of my gate. It was lying there like a black caw; and no one known why it has been left there and no one care about it. Except during the wheat harvest season, my grandma always say, look at that ugly stone, it takes a lot of place, when will you move it away? So, when my uncle was going to build a house, he wanted to use it to build the wall. But it is not a regular, no angles or surfaces, and people don't bother to break it with strength, because they can easily find a better one from the nearby river. So after we had built the house and stairs, my uncle hadn’t used it. One year, a stonemason came and wanted to make a stone mill for us, my grandma said: use that ugly stone, don't bother to bring one from other places. But after looked at it, the stone mason shook his head, because it was too flinty to make a mill. It was not as fine as a jade, so we could carve pictures or inscriptions on it, and it was not as smooth as a bluestone, so we could use it for clothes washing. It was just lying there quietly with no tree to shade it, with no flower to company it. Only some wild grass grown up, and slowly it was covered by some green and black moss. For us, the children, we began to hate it and want to move it away together, but we don't have enough strength. Even sometimes we coursed it and hated it, we can only left it there. The only comforting thing was that there were some pits on the stone, and they would be full of water after rain. The ground would be dry after three days of the rain, but the the pits still containing some water for chickens to drink. Every mid month night, I would look forward the full moon rising, and climbing up on the ugly stone and looking at the horizon. My grandma always yelled at us for afraid of us falling down from it. For one time, I have fallen down from it and broken my knee. People always say that it is ugly, for all I know, it's really the ugliest stone.

My Middle School Chinese Teacher Today is my middle school teacher's birthday. I haven't seen him for years and I don't know what to say if I call him or send him a text message. The first time I met him was in the third year of my middle school. He teached me Chinese for a year and at that time I realised that I can write good Chinese essays under his instruction. That inspired me and I benefit from this skill a lot. They had lived in a small room next to our classroom, so our everyday studying was under his supervision. He is an easygoing man, but he could be serious and strict. I found a little sadness behind his smile when we graduated. Maybe that's why I didn't choose a normal university after I graduated from senior high school. I am not used to seperation.

On July 22, 2015 I live in Tongzhou district, Beijing. I go to work by subway line six everyday. Tongzhou was a suburb district of Beijing before, but now the municipal authorities, including municipal government, high court and the party committee, are moving to this district. I'm not an original resident there. I rent a little apartment in this district near the starting station of subway line six. Now the house rent is rising and the subway will be more and more crowdy.

My Opinion on Overtime Working My boss's secretary handed her notice last week because of her working overtime so often. She said she hadn't got a whole weekend in several months and didn't get paid extra. It is not legal in China to ask employees working overtime without paying extra. But these things are very common in many cities. Most emplyees don't ask help from the government, they just leave their companies they don't content with.

Which season are you beginning to watch? I began watching Supernatural from season 4. I want to ask the others this question, but I don't know how to say. Which season are you beginning to watch? Which season do you begin to watch? Which season do you begin with? Which season do you begin watching? Which season do you start from? Is there any correct sentence?