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(Isabella’s writing practice)Last week, I discovered that one of my classmates already had a boyfriend. I was shocked because I didn’t know that a girl who is barely a teenager can have a boyfriend, shocked that the teachers did not find out about it(they are in the same class). The boy was not very serious about his studies, the girl was exactly the opposite. So I was very surprised that they decided to be together.
The girl likes to hang out with other boys. Once she touched a boy’s abs in front of her boyfriend, and the boy she touched was her boyfriend’s friend. That
kind of thing went on and on. The girls boyfriend got kind of jealous and once after the girl hanged out with a boy her boyfriend didn’t particularly like, he
started to get super jealous. He was jealous but could not do anything about it, because the girl did not actually cheat. And so he was stuck between wanting to say something about it but afraid of people saying that he was too possessive. He was not happy and so cried his eyes out in the cafeteria for all to see. I didn’t have the opportunity to see it, but my classmate said that it involved sobbing, snot and big juicy tears.
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Graduate students graduation ceremony was today. Many graduates were on campus, wearing academic gowns, holding bouquets and taking pictures. However, the weather was not cooperating today. It was showing now and day, so the students had to hold an umbrella while taking pictures.
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When I checked the age span of the Tang Dynasty, to my surprise, there was an interval in the Tang Dynasty（618-690AD，705-907AD）timeline. I was confused: how that could be possible? Then I kept checking on the history information and realized the reason for the interval. There was a empress ruled from 690-705AD, who was the queen of her predecessor and the mother of her successor. She changed her title of the country from Tang to Zhou when she ascended to the throne. After 15 years of the reigning, she handed power to her son who shifted the country name to Tang again.
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My daughter was preparing for her final exams today. She will be having seven exams for seven subjects: Math, Chinese, English, History, Geography, Biology, and politics. She kept whining about having to cramping up too much history knowledge. I took a look at her revise outline for history and realized she was not being fussy. China has a history of thousands of years, and it is a big challenge for kids to remember historical events, names, years, and so on. For example, there were 21 empires in Tang Dynasty, which lasted for 289 years. Merely remembering the names of those rulers drove my daughter crazy. We are often proud of our long history, yet we rarely think of the downside of it for Chinese students ;)
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I went to get the refraction examination today. I have been short-sighted for years, but my eyesight has gotten even worse in the last two years. I couldn’t see things clearly with my current glasses. After a few exams, the oculist told me that my eyesight had decreased 125 degrees in two years, which was very abnormal for my age. Even worse, my eyes have progressed to old sight. It was shocking to me because I thought I wouldn’t have old sight since I was nearsighted. I wish I hadn’t watched electronic screens that much and had better protected my eyes before.
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I read a public service announcement printed on the interior side of my package, which was delivered with the commodity I bought online. The announcement was about a missing girl, who was born in 1995. According to the announcement, she was missing when she was only five, and her family had been looking for her ever since then. She should be 28 years old now. I really hope she can unite with her family.
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I know that there are several time zones in the US, but I didn’t know that my country spans at least five different geographical times zones. That’s because ever since I can remember, we followed a single standard time offset that is Beijing time. We learned that time zones are based on longitude, and weathers are based on latitude. Hence, time varies from ares to areas in China, yet I have never thought about it and questioned why we only have one single time offset.
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Dragon Boat Festival is around the corner. It’s accustomed to eat sticky rice buns for the festival. This kind of buns are wrapped with bamboo leaves, so they look green after cooking. There are many kinds of fillings. My daughter and I like meat, and my mum like beans. My mum did a few buns, and today she brought four buns for my daughter and I as snacks. My daughter was always into buns, so she quickly ate two of them. Then, after a little while, I finished the other two. Suddenly, my daughter looked concerned, and she asked,” Mum, were the two buns you had meat buns?”
“Yes. Why?” I asked
“ That’s good. I was afraid that there were meat buns as well as bean buns, and I accidentally ate all the meat ones, so you could only get bean ones. I know both of us like meat buns.” She replied.
Although, she as a teenager sometimes drags me mad, she is still loving and sweet at times.
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I went to a pub and surprisingly see Corona beers, for I thought Corona had gone broke during the pandemic. I remembered reading a news article in 2020, saying that Corona encounter poor sales in US because the brand name of the beer is the same as Coronavirus with which people don’t want to have anything to do. Therefore, the firm went bankrupt. Now that I saw Corona again in the pub, I figured that news was not true.
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I had dental surgery this morning. My dentist is very good at his job, and he always talks to me in a patient and nice way, which is not easy for health care workers because they are overloaded with their work in this populous country. However, today, he made a big fuss when stitching the cut. His original office is remodeling, so he and his assistant moved to a nearby office temporarily. The medical appliances there are not very handy to them, which could be annoying. I learned that some surgeons or dentists stick to their usual tools or gears like their personal lancets or caps. The surgery went smoothly until the final part when the dentist stitched up. He couldn’t get a nipper that he was get used to and had to use a makeshift one, which seemly vexed him. He sighed many times and kept saying that this was not the proper nipper he needed, yet he finished his job anyway. I always admire health care practitioners because they are professional, but today I saw their funny side as well.
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