Happy Chinese New Year The Chinese New Year, i.e. traditional Spring Festival, is coming soon. This is a significant festival for family members to get together. Many people have got back home or are on their way home to celebrate the festival with their families. Several days ago, my younger sister got back home. The day after tomorrow, my younger brother will also get home. However, I can't do this because my wife and little son are willing to spent the time with my parents-in-law. Here I want to say "sorry" to my parents! Where I live is far from my hometown. During the past years, I go back home once a year on average. Last October, I took my wife and son to visit my parents and spend 11 days with them. Since then, I have not seen them for about four months. I really miss my parents. I plan to invite them to visit us for a period this Spring and I also will return to my hometown to spend Chinese New Year with my parents in 2016. Although I can't go back, I here send my best wishes to my parents, my younger brother and sister. I hope everything goes well with them in the following year. Happy Chinese New Year, my dear families and friends.

staying up late is a bad habit Nowsdays, many people are living a fast-pace life. They usually stay up late to finish their work or have fun in kinds of clubs. In their eyes, staying up late is a normal life style. But I think it is a very bad habit. After working for the whole day, we should let organs of our body have a good rest. If not, our immunities might be effected. Then we will get sick easily. What's worse, some pathologies can led to cancers. Medical research shows that staying up later is one of the main causes of kinds of cancers. Frankly speaking, staying up late is like killing oneself slowly. For the sake of our health, I hope everyone can keep away from staying up late.

My lovely little son Thank goodness. I got the most precious present, my little son, in Spring of 2012. With time passing by, he is near three years old now.+ I love him very much. I am a freelancer and do my work at home. So I can spend more time with my son. In my spare time, I teach him Chinese characters and poems. Up to now, he has known dozens of characters. And he can also recite more than 10 poetries of the Tang Dynasty. He likes learning new things. I think he is a clever and studious boy. Sometimes, my son is also a little taughty. When he is bored, he tears up his books or breaks his tolls. He also directly turns off the power of my computer when I am too busy to play with him. Although my wife and I punish him many times, he has not got rid of these behavior. After the Spring Festival of 2015, my wife and I will send my son to kindgarten. I hope he can get along well with the little kids there.

What's the hardest thing about learning a lanague I've registered at ITALKI for several weeks. The main purpose of my registration is to communicate with English tutors and learners to improve my English. But I really did badly in practice. I didn't write an essay in the past weeks. At first, I didn't know what to write about. With time passing, my motivation of learning is not as strong as before. Until I saw the last email from ITALKI just now, I began to rethink of my behavior and how to learn English well. In the email, Mr. Lamar asked me: What is the hardest thing about learning a foreign language? And then he gave me his answer: it isn't lack of access to learning materials. It isn't even access to practice opportunities or language teachers. The most difficult thing about learning a foreign language is STAYING MOTIVATED. I think what he said is very right. I must stay motivated to learn English in the future. Even I am busy with my work sometimes, I will never give up learning. I hope I can master the language one day.