I had a task to describe a tree's life. Please correct me, if I have mistakes. In the beginning it is a small tree with a thin flexible stem. It sways in the breeze. The future oak on the hill. It's bright green leaves as well as long smooth branches strain after the light to be filled with power of the sun, and to hug it. Now He is the best friend for the young tree, and it is unknown yet how much destroying his love could be. The time goes by. The tree is in bloom, it is occupying more and more space. The tree's big leaves with sharp edges are holding and slitting the sky. The tree has become a part of a nature's circle. It has survived hoarse storm and peace of dawn, burning indignation of the Sun and the animals' love. The tree now has enough strength to share it with acorns. But the best part of life is going away, life abandons tree so as it starts getting smaller and smaller. The decline of life has come. Death does not have the one and the only direction. It is pervasive, it penetrates deeply into every cell of the tree, in the end leaving ruins covered with dust. Mouldering piece of wood is left after, liberating space for new creatures.

大家好。我叫晨星。我今年十九岁了。今天是十二月五日，新年就要到了。 我正在准备开始，可是我要告诉你我每天的生活。我告诉你，就去看中国课文。 我是十八岁的时候开始学汉语，已经一年多了学习。我又热情又认真。如果我学习得好, 我就听懂中国人说的话，写清楚，看懂汉语课文。我汉语学习得比我同学努力，但是他们说汉语比我说的快。 我早上八点就起床。我每天去大学，但是一周三次我上汉语课。我大学在超市旁边。我宿舍离大学不远，坐公共汽车要两刻分钟。有时候八点半课开始，有时候差十分中午开始。 我昨天上课了，写了三十生词。下午回宿舍以后，我复习语法，写汉字。我喜欢听着音乐写汉字。我周末上午从九点到中午做作业。我觉得只要我不复习，就考得不好。只有我做作业了，才去休息。再间！

老师正在读书呢。她一个人说着，五个学生都说着她。老师穿着白色的衬衫，牛仔裤和黄色的鞋。学生们一直笑着。

我的宿舍在铁路旁边。这座楼有五层。我住四号楼，我房间号是419. 我不用坐电梯。我的房间在厨房对面。我房间里有二张桌子， 三把椅子，四床位。常常我的床头柜下边有很多书和课本。一张桌子在门口旁边，一张桌子在门口对面。我和我同屋个个都有电脑。它们在桌子下边。桌子下边还有日用品，食品。门口左边有一个冰箱。我们有很多邻居。

我喜欢读书。我早就想当好了口译员. 我在学习汉语一年多了。我从星期一到星期六有汉语课， 我每天一个半小时做作业，复习。 中国人说什么，我不听明白， 可是我又听懂我老师说的话， 又看懂课文。 我喜欢语法课。我不爱口语课，所以口语学得难。我认识很多汉字， 虽然我写汉字写得不好看。我尝试写清楚。 我准备汉语水平考试。有时题太难， 所以我不做完，还写错字。 我不是认真的学生， 但是我要提高我的汉语经过努力学习。

1. 妈妈做好晚饭了/妈妈做完晚饭了。 2. 因为哥哥没有准备开始， 所以写错很多子了。 3. 我吃完所有的苹果。 4. 我听见了你说的话，可是没有听懂。

Part2. I believe, i have to give an alternative and not only paint everything in a negative light. There is one discipline where we have to only listen to the lecturer. We still have to have syllabus, but we are allowed to use and work on the information given on the university’s website, we are allowed to work on electronic devices. I really like it, because my whole attention is concentrated on the content, and after the class, i can work on it again. I read the lecture, underline key words, write definitions and translations of unknown terms. The mix of these two kinds of work is much better and productive. At the end i want to say, that there are other topics about education which matter to me and raise questions. Perhaps it is just me so unique, the one and the only who is not able to wrap her head around the certain topic, nevertheless i was glad to share my experience and thoughts with you.

Part1. The name of my speech is “A room for improvement”. It is, from one hand, about getting an education, which is intended to fill these rooms, and from the other, about a real room, a lecture hall, where we all become better gaining knowledge.  At the beginning, i had chosen another topic for my speech, but last week, sitting at a lecture, i hit my roof, or it was just an inspiration, i chose another, which is of more concern to me.  And in this part there should be a smooth transition from introduction to the main part, but i just say. I don't understand anything at lectures.  What do i mean? Sentences that lecturer dictate become just a repertoire of noises. I hear a word, but i don't think about its meaning, i think about phonemes, if i have heard them right, and what letters i should write down. Moreover, the lecture becomes a disaster when the lecturer begins to hurry or change slides too quickly. To tell the truth, i don't see many chances to change the situation: at the same time, we have to listen to a lecturer, look at the slides, rewrite information in notebooks, or take it down from dictation. Do you agree that our brain is too busy with all the work it has to do? How, on top of everything, we have to acquire information? Of course, as a humble and persistent student i really try to reflect on the content, but its really hard: there’s no much time for it at lectures, and in fact, it doesn't make the whole process better. This raise an issue. Do we really have to spend time on such kind of activities when actually they are useless, as simple rewriting doesn't make sense. My speech is not about ecology, but about our saurses in general. While sitting at lectures with a blank face as mine doesn't worth time, why do we use paper-based forms? The manufacture of technology harms our environment more than paper, but as far as we can't live without our computers, we may reduce the amount of paper usage.