My 99 Years Old Grandmother There is a place called Bama in our province, most people live there have a longer life than that lives in the other places. You can see a 100 years old man working on the field, or a 98 woman cooking in her little kitchen. Some scientists said that the secret of the people in Bama could live longer is the food they eat, the water they drink, the air they breath and the lifestyle they have. I don't know if the scientists are right. Look at this picture, she is my grandmother. She is 99 years old now and is the oldest person in our village.The second oldest person is a 93-year-old woman, she can do all the house work and some times works in her vegetable filed too while my grandmother couldn't do things anymore. But my grandmother has a very good appetite, she need eat 4 times a day and one full bowl of rice a meal. Sometimes she can eat more than me, but while we tell other people about this, no people would believe without seeing it. My grandmother seldom catches cold, if she catches cold, just take some medicine she will be alright. We all believe that my grandmother will live longer than 100 years with her good appetite and a healthy body. What is my grandmother's secret? This I can tell you, she has a very happy life, and right now we all treat her well and she needs worry about nothing. She has a very good eyesight but is stone deaf now . So even sometimes we said something annoying, she couldn't hear. Hey! Hey! While she has time which she has the most, she will rub her hands, press her ten fingers every inch over and over. According to a famous herbalist in our county, my grandmother is doing a massage on her hands where is full of acupoin. All herbalists believe that if a person keep pressing his acupoint, he will seldom get sick. So if you want to have a longer life, keep doing a massage on your hands, feet and ears from now on. Do you believe me? Hey!Hey!

What is gully mean in this sentence? In his pocket, a piece of pigtail tobacco bitten away at the end, his gully with the crooked handle, a pocket compass. I looked up the dictionary, it defined as" deep ditch cut by running water (especially after a prolonged downpour)" I don't think it is right here.

Lucky Cat Lucky Cat is a mascot in China. A lot of people believe that a lucky cat can bring luck, money, and happiness to them. So many people keep a lucky cat at home especially in a shop, or in an office. Usually, the hand of a lucky cat rises up in the air, keep moving all the time because there is battery at the cat's bottom. Does lucky cat really bring money ? I don't know, but I keep a lucky cat at home.

My Hometwon This is a picture of my home town. I am from Gulin, Guangxi province in China. When I was a primary school student, I learnt a text article called Guilin Shan Shui which means the landscape of Guilin is the most beautiful landscape in the whole world. It described the hills and the water from the river Lijiang in particular way. It was the first time that I felt proud of my hometown. In my hometown,hills are very high in different shapes. Some hills look like a group of sheep walking along the river bank while others stand alone like a bashful maiden,a wild enormous bird or a clumsy tremendous camel. When you face so many high hills, if you have great imagination,you will feel you are in a huge animal country. Usually, hills stand along a river So there is a river beside our village. Most of a year,the water in the river are as clear as a crystal, you can see many schools of small fish swimming through the water, you also can find that a lot of pebbles in the bottom of the river in some shallow part of the river. In rainy season, the river will be full of water mix with some sand or dirt, so the river turns yellow. When the rainy season past, there are many pebbles you could see along the water side where is no water. When summer comes, people like to swim in the river. Children also like to play in the boat which is a bridge to connect two villages. I always feel happy when I talk about my hometown. I hope that one day, you can come and visit my hometown too.How do you feel about your hometown? Do you think your hometown is a beautiful place too? Thank you for your correcting in advance.

Does this word" scalper"means one kind of cattle to you? In my hometown, we have two kinds of cattle. one is water buffalo,I am very sure because they like stay in the water in summer. they are grey and very big with two curved horns on their head.But the other one I don't know if this word scalper can name it.It is slight smaller than the water buffalo,and only two little tiny horns. Its body is kind of brown or earth yellow that is why we call it 黄牛which means yellow cattle. They don't like stay in water at all even though they can swim when they in emergency. They can climb up the high hills while the water buffalo can not. So if I say this is a scalper, will you know what I mean? or do you have any other names for this animal? Thank you for correcting in advance.

Can I say I want shopping? We usually say I want to go shopping. want always follows to do sth. But today I found a book said want also can follow doing sth. It is right? In what situation I can use want doing?

What is the difference between hectic and busy? When I communicate with foreigners,I can only use the easy words. For example, I only know I have a busy day in stead of I have a hectic day. Will there any difference between hectic and busy? How can I improve myself to use some hard words in stead of the easy one? Please help me.Thank you PLS

Does She Have This Kind of Feeling too? Yesterday, I logined to My QQ. I found that one of my best friend had visited my QQzone five months ago,so I went to her QQzone to visit her. Then I read a lot of her diaries and articles which she wrote in the QQZONE. I noticed that she has lots of visitors to visit her QQzone everyday. Suddenly, a sense of alienation rose in my heart.With this strange feeling, I remembered that these many years, we didn’t call each other often,maybe one or twice a year and we didn’t really chat with each other through QQ either. In a word,we don’t really understand each other now. What makes us changed so much? Long time ago, when we were primary school students,we often stayed together like twins. When we studied in middle school, we still were good friends eventhough we had many other friends to play with. When we studied in different universities, we kept in touch by writing letters to each other. At the beginnig of our working year, we always met each other twice a year and we were familiar with each other so much. I can say she is my best friend without hesitation those times.However, I couldn’t remember since when, our friendship had changed. Oh, what an uncomfortable feeling it is! I am just nobody in her life now. Does have the same feeling too?

I am mad today. I don't feel happy today because of only one thing. Ten days ago, I found a job. The job is to teach two primary school students at their house from Monday night to Friday night.It is very easy for me to teach two girls who are the primary students.So I could feel that this two girls like me and love to study with me. I can also say from the way their perants treat me that the perants feel satisfied with my teaching. Usually,I have already known how much money I could get from each class before I teach. But this time,I didn't know.I tried to ask the perants how much a night I could get if I teach their children well. The perants just said money is not a problem,they could offer me a very high wage if I can teach them well. I asked them twice about how much my wage could be, they didn't give me an answer.Then another teaching chance for me appeared, I accpeted it and I told the perants that I could not teach their children anymore and asked if they wanted me to find a teacher for them.They said ok and welcome me to their house someday so they can pay me... I tried to find a teacher for them and have prepared two presants for their daughters and decided to go their house tomorrow.However,when I called her today,she said it is no need for me to go their house,and she could pay me by transfering money through bank.As for the teacher I have found, she said she was busy looking for and no need my help. The most unbelievable thing is that she only can pay me 50RMB a night which is about three hours. How could she do like that? My teaching fee should be at least 65RMB per hour or I won't go teaching. Oh! you couldn't imagine how angry I was when I heard this. AAAHHHHHH....I am so mad today!!!!!