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I decided to teach English in Shenzhen last May, but long before I signed my contract, I knew exactly what I would be doing during Spring Festival. As classes came to an end for the semester, I watched my friends plan trips to beautiful beaches, but I wasn’t jealous of their vacation plans for a second… I was busy reminding my fiancé to bring my parka as we would be heading north: to Harbin.

The flight from Beijing to Harbin was only about two hours. I sat giddily on the plane and read about the

A clean summer day. The trees and leaves are twinkling in front of the eyes. Scared birds scatter in different directions. The young witch flies on a flying broom. Ammm... young clumsy* witch.

Suddenly her broom catch the branch of the tree... And clumsy witch is falling down right on the anthill. While falling from the tree, she demolish one branch with green leaves that stuck in her hair near the ear.

Before Sabrina understand what happened, she felt ant bites and despite of pain in her back you

I have changed the title a little. I united two of the titles.

The clumsy witch (who cried golden tears)

Once upon a time, there lived a little girl.
She lived together with her her mom and her granny in a little house nearby a beautiful lake, outside the city.

The house, surrounded by a garden, was just a small house but very comfortable and cozy. In the garden grew thousands of different flowers and there lived butterflies and birds lived there, too.

The girl loved the birds, butterflies, and f

I hope you like my funny stories based on your mistakes. This time it will be another story. Let’s say it is a modern version of Cinderella as it is all about shoes!

So, here are the expressions that inspired my imagination.

1. “I bought a new shoe.” Sure, we all know we can’t buy only one shoe.  If people are disable and have only one foot/leg, they have to buy a pair of shoes or shoes anyway.
2. “I was in a hurry so I just could wear my left shoe.” Hahaha!  We wear footwear all day long. Some people ma

 When you’re struggling to make your writing stand out, it can help to vary your syntax. This might sound complicated, but we’re basically talking about varying the actual structure of your sentences to add some variety to your work.

But we’re not going to bore you by rambling on and on about what syntax is and why it’s important. With such a complex subject, it’s usually easiest to show instead of to tell, which is why instead of explaining the technicalities between each type of syntax, we’re s

As we all know, with the connected development of abridgement and the connected beforehand of society, the antagonism in the accouterment industry in China is acceptable added fierce. However, as a accepted mining equipment, the ultrafine mill is broadly acclimated in abounding industries, such as mining, metallurgy, etc. Although the appliance ambit of the ultrafine mill may not be added than that of the crushing machine, the ultrafine mill is all-important for the mining accouterment industry.

... and then one day

... and then one day they start slowly falling down,

sad tree losing its pride, losing its crown.

The sun is weaker, the wind is stronger,

all of these leaves can´t stay any longer...

... and then some day golden rain showers the street,

covered path, bench, even my favorite seat.

People dancing on the yellow carpet of leaves,

recalling nostalgic autumn memories...

... and then one day autumn magic will be gone,

lost between earlier sunset and later dawn.

Winter will hungrily eat every

How many days we are logging to see each other,

How many hours we want to share with each other.

It's must be countless

But our reality doesn't allow us

I am sorry about it

Really I am sorry...my little princess.

Writing challenge,

Danny Clark's     write a short story

The idea of this short story came from the dreams of Mr. Danny Clark. I had a terrible dream after writing that horror story, the abandoned house. I have some ability to predict the future according to certain incidents. It is not clairvoyance but depending on the current situations. I woke up suddenly after that nightmare and I decided to write real stories. 

Evangelina's writing challenge

The abandoned house   (the end)

Ten years back, the scene was different. Gene's father was a pilot. He inherited a big fortune from his mother who used to own some lands in the country. He sold those lands and started his own project of the air taxi. His project started with one-engine planes to planes with two engines.

Bob, Sara's father used to work with him as an executive manager. Every single money was under his eyes. He told his wife to get rid of Rod. His wife

Our high efficient ultrafine mill is widely applied in industries of mining, construction, metallurgic, road building etc. When users are about to use the ultrafine mill, our technicians remind users of the following standard operating steps:
Before the installation of this grinding mill, the persons related to the operation should receive technical training and fully understand the operating principle, performance and regulations of the mill.
During the application of the ultrafine mill from th

Dear friends and members here, I thank you for participating in this challenge  .....  but .... now is the time over

AND
now is it my turn to crown the winner:

And the winner isssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss:

ELF-Noor

with the Title:

 It is my Kingdom 

Now is it your turn for the next challenge, dear ELF-Noor.

At the end I will post the photo again with my marks what I have seen within this mountain.

Here you go:

As I was the winner (or victim...lol) of Luci's last challenge I'm coming up w

this is quit interesting to asses the affect of natural environment on the intention of human being.it has been experienced by my friend that the changing natural environment creates material variation in human thought.

as we belong to one the coolest region of the world where almost 6 month of year people wear warm cloth in order to keep their body temperature balance.

it is worth sharing as an interesting note that every night when our body get energy from warm bed our ambition also stand and th

I’m the first to preach that immersing yourself in the local culture is the best way to take advantage of your time teaching English in China. However, during your time abroad, hanging out with Westerners can sometimes be as valuable as spending time with Chinese people.

Befriending fellow foreigners can help stave off homesickness. Being around expatriates (or “expats”) offers you an opportunity to relax, because constantly interacting with foreign people in a foreign language can become exhaust

Is Money the basis of pleasant life?

Money here is meant wealth, material wealth like property, jewelry, currency notes and so on. To elaborate our discussions it is necessary to assess what is a pleasant life. Some may say that possessing of all the material comforts of luxurious living, having a good house and modern households, cars for traveling, good food for eating, high education for children and every such sort of facilities is the basis of pleasant life. If pleasant life actually means a

I wanted to write a story on the topic Blood Red Rose from the list in Eva's Writing Challenge.  But I could not bypass this story of Oscar Wilde which I explained while I was helping a student long time back. So I am copying this story in the response of Eva's Writing Challenge.  (Please be noted that I have not written it. But it is one of my favorite stores based on love).

The Nightingale and the Rose

By (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900) was a famous I

HAPPY DIWALI

Raj was a little boy. No one did not know his age properly. He was living with a rich family in the city of Colombo. That rich family had 2 kids, girl Emy was10 years and boy Dean was 7. Dean and Raj seem to be the same age.

When Emy and Dean were at school, Raj must help servant Mary and watcher Raman with chores and housekeeping. Raj was brought by Raman to the house from a village. Raj could remember, One day his mother and stepfather gave him to Raman. Raman gave a good amount of money to the

Evangelina's writing challenge

The abandoned house (part two)

Rick slowly took the stairs one by one. At the ninth or the tenth step he stopped. The door was shut by itself. Rick's heart began to pound quickly and he looked down at the others. Eva told him to retreat and come back. He was sweating from fear, but he refused and continued cautiously. When he reached the door he started to open it and hesitated to hold the knob of the door.

Finally, he grabbed it quickly and tried to open it. It was i

There is an issue for many peoples about money and time management. I just finished the construction of my new house and at the end i learned how to manage the time and money by dealing the peoples from different fields. During the house construction you have to deal with many peoples simultaneously such as builders, painters, plumbers, labors, etc. Firstly, you have to manage time in a way that you can have look to all of them during the day. Secondly, You have to communicate with everyone in a