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发表于 2012-5-7 09:40:53
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1, Jan. 17th Tuesday
I had butterflies in my stomach while I was getting up today. Why? Because today is my first day of school in America. I would attend the Ocean View Elementary School.
While I took my first step in my school, I knew that I had become a new student in America. I was very nervous, but at least I knew that I would be good in math, because I’ve heard that many American’s students are not good at it.
But things turned out to be totally different from that.
Our first class was math, and our first exercise was a spelling test. My teacher said a lot of words I didn’t understand, such as denominator, numerator, fraction, Least Common Multiple etc. What bad luck! I’ve never heard these math terms in English before!
But, at least, I have learned all of these words, finally. I really enjoyed the classes in this American school.
2, Jan 20th
Ocean View’s Food Drive
Yesterday at school, our teacher, Ms. Sinclair, said that we have to finish our OV’s Food Drive poster. As I was new, I felt strange, so I asked her “What is the OV’s Food Drive poster?” .
She said: “There are many homeless in Alameda County (that is our county), and there is one child among each six of them. They don’t have anything to eat, but we have plenty of it, so we can help them. So we’re supposed to take the poster to the second graders, to let them donate some food.”
Today, we would take our finished poster to the second graders’ rooms. I was put in my classmate Molly’s group. And the first room we entered was No. 8. There were about 25 students sitting there silently.
Molly cleared her throat, and began a long speech about why we should make a donation,and how to do it. All the people, including room 8’s teacher, were sitting there and stared at us without saying even a word. Everyone was so quiet.
In this serious atmosphere, I was nervous again, just like the first day I came to school.
Finally, Molly ended up her endless speech. The teacher nodded, and responded: “All right. We will bring some food. You guys can come back next week to take it.”
That’s how the OV’s Food Drive began. I felt it was a good thing. We were educated by our teacher, and the second graders were taught by us. In China, things like this seldom happen: Who cares about the homeless? This special activity had given me a valuable, unforgettable lesson: we have to pay attention to the homeless.
3, Jan. 23rd
Typing
“Now you may stand in a line for typing, guys!”
We would learn how to type at the school library by using a website called BBC (British Broadcast Company) Dance Mat Typing.
This website has four levels, and we’re going to start at the first level and stage one. There was a goat at stage one: a cartoon goat. It would teach us how to learn the basic skills of typing: the Home Row. The Home Row included 10 letters: a,s,d,f,g,h,j,k,l. You have to practice it many times if you want to type fast.
I became familiar with the Home Row soon. And then I entered stage two. Stage two was an octopus. It taught me how to type the letter E and I. The octopus said a lot of jokes, it was really funny. Just like: one teacher asked Ben: “how many feet are there in a snake?” and Ben answered: “Snakes don’t have any foot.” I enjoyed it.
I really like the Dance Mat Typing. It has taught me how to use the correct fingers to type faster. And I felt happy, because I could type some easy words like “he” today. I am typing and writing now. Maybe I could learn how to type all the letters and all the levels soon, I thought.
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