Holiday

We will have seven days of holiday for our National Day holiday which start from October 1st, plus Mid-Autumn Day, a traditional festival for family reunion which is on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month , that is September 30th, in total we will have 8 days for holiday, such a long time that it almost reaches the length of Chinese new year holiday.
How to spend the long holiday is a question. Because China has the largest population in the world, there are so many people who go to tourism cities for travelling or go home for a rest everywhere. It will lead to a heavy traffic burden and inconvenience for us all , such as, we have to wait for a long time to buy train tickets, even worse the ticket that we want to buy has been sold out .
So I decide to go back to my hometown where it takes about 2.5hours by bus from Shanghai , spending time with my family. The last time I went home is May 1st. I haven’t seen them for 5 months. I miss them so much.

the natural way to say this is as follows :- We don't deserve to be in this situation.

In the scenario you have given I would use the the raising tension,, if it was myself in a heated meeting and some one start to raise their voice I would say. "There is no need to add tension to this meeting, please calm down."

Yes you are right, up for grabs means that an item is ready to be taken by someone else.

Introducing myself

I'm looking for a native English speaker to help me improve on my spoken English, my reading and writing English well, and I hope to make friends with these people. Of course, if you want to learn Chinese, I am willing to help you!

 

 

Hi Amy, I hope this helps you.

 

Mark

First notebook entry: Introducing myself

I am not good at English
but now i really need to improve my English ,especially reading and writing

help each other!

Hello everybody. Nice to see you here. I'm coco. I'm from china. I like English very much. But my english is not very good. I'd like to improve my oral English. Would you like to help me? Would you like to learn Chinese? I speak standard mandarin. I'll be very glad to help you. I think we can be friends, and we can help each other. I'm looking forward to get Finding a friend from here.