About cats

I am writing this notebook because I want to speak about this these lovely animals.
Well, I never had didin't have a cat; I always had dogs.
Last year, my fiance have decided to adopting a cat.
At the time moment I didin't like that idea, because I had never had a cat, however after I agreed to adopt one.
We had wanted to adopt just one cat, however this didin't happen.
My neighbor brought two cats for us to see; One white with black and one yellow with white.
They were so beautiful that we have just decided to adopt both of them  two.
Their names are Calvin (the yellow one) and Xilita (the black one)
They was were so little. Today they are five months old.
I love my cats and they are my love.

Nice weather

During April, the weather in London was still chilly, but since the beginning of May, it has become warmer and  the days have also become longer, so the temperature is comfortable and it feels like spring. When it's like it is today, I want to go to a park, lie on the grass, relax and take it easy.

Red dragon of balloons

I saw a balloon modeller performing balloon performing show at a festival last week. First he blew up red balloons and a white one and connected them by twisting and twisted them together. Second Then he blew up another four red balloons and he connected each of them to the first balloons. The four long balloons appeared to be four tails swinging in different directions, and he moved those balloons like as though he was waving a flag. The audience wondered what he was making. A red octopus? He braided the balloons. After that, he popped broke the parts of balloons which he did not need for his work with a pin in a row. Pung,pung, pung! Bang, bang, bang! He took out a big red dragon's head and its body which he had made in advance out of a black box and connected what he had made on the stage to the body. What he was making was the tail of the red dragon. The dragon was two meters long or longer. He said it had taken took more than two hours to make the head and the body and that he had won the second place in the world balloon competition with this Red Dragon.

To introduce myself

I am a Chinese and I am 22 years old this year. I want to learn English. I like making friends and reading.
Food, music, and sleeping is are my biggest hobby favourite pastimes.

I can speak Chinese and Cantonese. If you are interested in learning Chinese, I would be glad to help you.

About my language learning phobia

The trouble started when I was a little girl. As a pupil from the German-speaking part of Switzerland, the first foreign language I had to learn at school was French. By this time my mother and my sister were both already nearly fluent in French.

I’ve always been more of a science-type person, so language-learning was quite a hard job for me. However, I tried hard. At last in least at the beginning of the French course...

Practising my first French words at home, I made numerous mistakes. My mother and my sister laughed at me whenever I spoke. I was ashamed (really) embarrassed and eventually I refused to speak. When it came to English learning a few years later I was fearful and demotivated.

During my education I bumbled through the language exams. I earned two master’s degrees so I had to attend countless lectures. Many of them were given in English. As you may imagine, it wasn’t fun to for me. Likewise it wasn’t much fun to me to travel or to work in international relations.

So I decided to set an appropriate New Year's resolution for 2016. My intention is to battle my fears and to improve my English (speaking) skills. In order to do that, the first thing I did in 2016, was to book booking a language trip. I will go to Australia for seven weeks in September. Because I always need a very concrete goal, I also started a Cambridge First exam preparation course at our local adult education center. The test will be held in December.

And then, a few days ago, I came across italki. I was instantly excited. What a great opportunity to work on my speaking issues one-to-one in peace! Still in the (very) same week, I had my first lesson. My teacher, Chris, is very patient and I enjoy our lessons a lot.

I’m confident that I will love it to communicate communicating in English by the end of the year:-)

Good luck with your English lessons. Your level of English is already good, you just need to work on your confidence!