Recently, I have taken an interest about a professor and her name is, Dr. Li Fei-Fei. I want to know more about her and so I bought her online autobiography called, The Worlds I See. I'm glad I bought this book today. She is a good example of continuing to pursue life's North Star

I went to the stream to go fishing or I went to the stream to fish

I went to the stream to go fishing🐠

Today was fabulous! It was also a day filled with challenges and joy. I went hiking to a remote village which was located on a cliff. There were no roads leading to this village except a mule road starting from the bottom of the mountain. In 2003, the local government provide 100,000.00 yuan to build this road. About 15,000 villagers built this mule road which took over one and half years to complete. I can't imagine how they finished this dangerous and tough task. Mules and people use this road daily to delivery materials for building houses and other necessities of life for this mountain village. In 2018, the same government built a cableway for villagers from another cliff to connect to this side of the village. The cableway was constructed from the middle of the mountain to the top. People can delivery many things by cableway. As an example, motorbikes, tricycles, pigs, material for the roadway and so on. Then the government built a road from the middle of mountain to the top to enable the villagers to thrive economically. Certain villagers thrive by planting and harvesting Sichuan peppers. Now with the completion of the cableway or mule roads, they can travel with their produce to sell at markets. Many people went hiking to this cliff village recently to experience this mountain market. The villagers sell their peppers, local nuts, fruits and even home cooked food on their door step. The life of the local villagers has greatly improved.

Today is my first day back to work after the Chinese New Year holiday. I like to eat at McDonald's for my lunch break. McDonald's has a *fish hamburger and this is very delicious. I made a coffee for myself as well. I don't like coffee usually, but this coffee was made with coconut milk and it tastes very nice. By the way, I hope to find a language partner soon. My mother tongue is Chinese(Mandarin) and I hope we can learn from each other. After I graduate, I would not have a chance to improve my English speaking or vocabulary. *In North America, we call the ‘fish hamburger’ a Filet-O-Fish Sandwich or a fish sandwich.

In my opinion, large retailers should be allowed to choose their closing days. I think people like to shop mostly on the weekends and I think large retailers offer a huge selection of products that allows for one-stop shopping. Closing on Sundays is very inconvenient for customers. Also, some patrons will say that smaller stores will struggle financially when larger ones are opened on Sundays; people don't usually go to smaller local businesses even if large retailers are closed. People will just stay home to shop online. So there's no need for large retail stores to close on Sundays. In conclusion, I think large retailers should close on weekdays.

Every night, I help my son go to bed. Tonight, we both went to bed at the same time. I usually read picture books for him but I didn't do that. Last night, he promised he would not have a temper tantrum but then he had one. I told him I wouldn’t read any books tonight as punishment. I hope my son will get his temper under control and learn a lesson as well.

Today, I would like to start learning English again to improve my level of proficiency. I find it challenging to speak with people at my school. My plan, at first, would be to write a little in English every day and then post it on Italki for help with any corrections. Secondly, I’ll start watching English movies again with subtitles. I hope this will help me improve my language skills.