Introduction of my house Maybe I should call it an apartment but not a house, because it's only part of a building. It's located at the 2nd floor of a 20-floor building. If I dropped my iPad out of the window, it could be repaired probably. (laugh) The building is standing in the street of the old French Concession area in downtown Shanghai. Nowadays many expatriates prefer to live here. In the history of 1930s, it had been governed by French for years. They built a church and numbers of nightclubs which also exist now. By planting two lines of Platanus(a type of trees originated from France, which they also plant at the Champs Elysees Avenue in Paris) on both sides of the street, they made the street a boulevard. In this region every square meter is worth a lot of money (for about $8,000 per square meter), and I'm lucky to have a small one here by making a loan. I bought it from an old retired government official two years ago and redecorated it. It used to be allocated freely by the government to their officials. That official has several estates in Shanghai, and new policy about the limit of living area that one can own will be passed soon, he had to sell one and saved some money for his further planning of living abroad. Though it's very small, it still contains five rooms: a big bedroom, the one where I'm staying so often to have the classes and behind my seat there's a big plant called epipremnum aureum (hopefully this scientific name don't make you dizzy); a small bedroom, only for visitors, so friends paying a visit from a distant place are cordially welcomed, because it's convenient for them to take public transport to travel to most of sightseeing places throughout the city; a washroom, a kitchen and a small living room with a sofa and a television on the wall with about 150 different channels.

An naughty English teacher of mine He's a naughty boy, six years younger than me. I knew him from an English education school, and he was a fresh graduate and also a new regular teacher there. But he's really naughty. He doesn't always obey the rules. The duration of every lesson is about half an hour, but when he doesn't have a class after my class, he'll continue teaching (or read as chatting) me for a long time. The longest of all was 2 hours. I really appreciate the time he has shared with me. Moreover, he doesn't teach me according to our textbook, most of the time we have free conversations. He said I was really talkative during the lessons. I can still remember his funny and unrealistic ideas in his mind, but with a big ambition. One day he started to take a lesson with me and looked a little bit strange at the beginning. But I forgot to greet him with an ordinary 'How are you', so he insisted that I had to repeat the sentence: How are you, Alexander? When I repeated it, he finally told me that he was shocked by his last student's rudeness just now and he was eager to share his blue mood with me. I feel that I was really trusted by him. I book his class every day, so we can meet each other every day. I gave him a remark "Such a naughty teacher", and a five-star assessment as well. And then he was taken to HR department of his school to have a serious conversation with the manager, who required him to explain the word "naughty" and asked about our relation during the lesson. He argued that it was his way of teaching and it was a positive feedback from the student: five stars. Then after a short time, he got promoted in that school. I really feel happy about him. That's all for today. To be continued..

how could I find some help of learning English in this website It's hard to find a special person here who wants to learn my mother tongue..Chinese as an exchange for learning English. Maybe it's too challenging. So I search for your advice on how I could find an effective partner of learning English in this website? I joined here today and please give an enough tolerance to me, a fresh beginner~ I'm interested in English literature, poems, lyrics of songs and would like to improve myself both on English speaking and writing, that is, always having the sensitive feelings about the magical English words and expressing my ideas with a lot of accuracy and fluency.

How could I find an partner of learning English in this website?

It's hard to find a special person here who wants to learn my mother tongue..Chinese. Maybe it's too challenging. So I search for your advice on how I could find an partner of learning English in this website? I joined here today and please give an enough tolerance to me, a fresh beginner~

I'm interested in English literature, poems, lyrics of songs and would like to improve myself both on English speaking and writing, that is, always having the sensitive feelings about the magical English words and expressing my ideas with a lot of accuracy and fluency.

How could I find an partner of learning English in this website?

It's hard to find a special person here who wants to learn my mother tongue..Chinese. Maybe it's too challenging. So I search for your advice on how I could find an partner of learning English in this website? I joined here today and please give an enough tolerance to me, a fresh beginner~

I'm interested in English literature, poems, lyrics of songs and would like to improve myself both on English speaking and writing, that is, always having the sensitive feelings about the magical English words and expressing my ideas with a lot of accuracy and fluency.