Childhood I was born in a quiet village. It belongs to subtropical monsoon climate zone, moderate climate, and distinctive four seasons, where almost people make a living by farming and fishery. When I was a young girl, I often went to the fishpond, that was managed by my uncle, to have fishes and lobsters with my counsin. Around fishponds, farmland are usually cultivated with many kinds of crops, whose landscape will change with seasons. I think the summer days impress me deeply in my childhood. In China, we have the summer holiday, and child often pay all time on playing in nature. It is the time to have sweet fruits. You can pick peaches as much as you want by climbing a tree or just using a long stick to get them. Moreover, most children are really fond of fishing lobsters and catching loach by the river together. We usually use earthworms as bait to attract lobsters and they are easy to take the bait. But catching loach is really difficult with only our hands. Funnily enough, a nursery song named Catching Loach was widely circulated among children at that time. In my hometown, there is also rich in lotus seedpod and lotus sprout in summer. We often row the boat in the pool surrounded by endless lotus leaves, in which you can also find a kind of wild fruit named water caltrop that can be eaten freshly, and it is better to enjoy them after cooked if they are too hard to chew. So tasty and soft they are! When summer comes, I miss the good old days and my childhood companions very much. I really know that I can not come back any more, with time goes by, everything changes and people do so.

Cooking I am not good at cooking nor a crazy food lover, but I would rather cooking by myself than eating out when I am free. Scrambled eggs with tomato is a very popular home-cooked dish in China, tasting good and cooking easily. I like to fry the egg until brown, and then add the tomato. Put some sugar in moderation, absolutely, it makes the dish even more intense to taste. Steamed products are very important parts of the Lunar New Year's Dinner in my hometown. You can steam almost everything, such as steamed vegetables, steamed eggs, steamed fishes and so on. Not only keeping original flavor, steaming gives dishes a better and fresh texture. In addition, this cooking way is simple and practicable, served so quickly and produced fast. One of my favorite steamed dishes is steamed spareribs with rice powder. Chop out spareribs and mix them with rice powder, then put all of them in steamers for several quarters, finally add little sauce and a few chopped green onion and you can enjoy. People say cooking is really good therapy. In my opinion, as cycling, you should be patient at repeated motion, and enjoy that whole process in the meantime. Actually, sometimes I am really tired of cooking especially when I do same dishes only to fill hunger. Cooking is something you have to constantly learn, to discover, to enjoy.

A Small Shop I can not help sharing a small shop with you. It is around a quiet street where I take a tap dancing class. By the way, my favorite dancing is tap dancing that I can truly feel the power from my body by taping. Before the class, I wanted to eat chocolate very much and then a small shop occasionally turned up. It is of not much difference from other stores in shanghai, both of them provide bottled Oolong tea, Oreo cookies, Baxy ice cream and so on. To my surprise, I found some snacks in the corner of a shelf that I did not ate anymore since I left my hometown. Such as breakfast cookie, packaged in the plain box as same as few years ago. A kind of drinking called shuangwaiwai that was really popular with child in the past many years in my village could be bought in this small shop. In the old days, goods offered in shops were vary from where you lived. For instance, you could not buy a kind of fruit can named "lameizi" in other cities in China, with the exception of the province of hubei. With the development of transportation and online shopping, people can get what they want through shopping websites, like Taobao and Jingdong.

Favorite Season Affected by the monsoon, the city where I live has four distinct seasons with their own features. Echo has ever said that spring was not reading day. That's for true! On the one hand, it is so comfortable with a temperature around 20 degrees that people can not stop napping. On the other hand, everything in the nature rebirth when spring coming, people can not help going out for appreciating beautiful scene and basking in the sunshine. As is known to all, autumn is a harvest season in the most of China, showing a bright yellow scene. However, instead of good days in spring and the autumn, summer holiday and winter holiday left more profound impression on me. With the arrival of summer, the temperature goes up to more than 30 degrees. It is so hot in the outside and I really enjoy an ice watermelon after taking a nap at noon. Moreover, sky is always very beautiful with colorful and changeable clouds especially at dusk. As the day grows longer, people can enjoy themselves in trips and sports. In my opinion, many people must look forward to the coming of snow in the winter. In fact, it is not so lucky to see snow in recent years. Whatever the weather changes, I really cherish the memory of eating a baked sweet potato when walking in the cold wind.

A Food Journey Of Discovery I ever tried many ways to make it delicious when eating sweets especially chocolate. Maybe a cup of Mile-tea or coffee is a good choice to balance sweetness, and it really improves sweets enjoyment. In fact, considering intensity of manual work I engaged for last few years, such combination with high calories indeed help a lot. Dessert with a cup of tea is also a kind of food enjoyment. I have ever been in Hainan for several months. Compared with Shanghai, it is not developed but a very beautiful and special coastal city. I am not such a people fond of making detailed plans, so I decided to have a train tour to the south along the coast line. It is worth mentioning that I often spent much time having afternoon tea during my trip. Tea house mainly provide green tea and black tea with sugar, of course, a variety of dessert are served for the whole afternoon, such as appetizing steamed buns with coconuts, pieces of fresh cakes, tasty bread and so on. Undoubtedly, bitterness of green tea perfectly neutralizes sweetness of dessert. No matter how people think, I was awfully impressed by that experience. One day, I wanted to the University of Hainan on foot. I t was so hot that I could not restrain the desire to drink water. Suddenly, a small grocery store caught my eyes when turning left at a road. The owner was an old man with a tall and thin figure, wearing white hair. He said with a smile on the face that only sugarcane juice was available here, but you could chose to add lemons. Needless to say, it tasted extremely nice and I could not get that smell out of my mind.

A Big City I have been working in shanghai for more than one years. Compared with other cities I have ever visited, It is really much more bigger. However, It not only refers to increasingly land expansion, but also more emphasis on it's openness and inclusion. When walking on streets, I can easily come across foreigners who maybe have been living the city for many years. In the meantime, more and more people form all over the country swarm into there to make money, making the city extremely lively and busy. What's more, there are many stylish architecture with a long history, which are coexisting with a lot of popular shops emerging with internet economy in recent years. Moreover, people can obtain rich education resources. Many pubic libraries, museums and galleries provide people a good atmosphere to study. In addition, people can benefit form many independent bookstores, private collection shops and so on. In all, I love shanghai very much.