Nice Teacher

Mrs. Manno comes from California. She is a wonderful teacher who teached me Freshmen English last year. The way she teaches grammar is interesting. First, she'll teach it in the blackboard. Next, she'll give everyone a card and ask us to find our partner. Then we need to make a short conversation which bases on the grammar and talk to our partner. She is also good at making cakes.

Last Christmas, she wanted us to exchange gift with our classmate but we couldn't let others know who gives the gift. She also told us the story of Christmas and some decoration that used in Christmas.

Then she took out the cakes she had baked for all of us. It's really delicious though I thought it's a little bit too sweet. Anyway, it's the most wonderful Christmas I've ever had.

She's very good at telling stories, too. When she shared her own storied to us, all the classmates are laughing by her gesture and facial expression. She's so interesting that I'm really glad to be her students. Although she only taught for one year, I still love her. I think she's the best teacher I've ever met.

Memories of Tomorrow

This is a touching movie. It talked about a superintendent who lived in a happy life. He had achievement in his career and his wife always supported him in anything. His daughter, who was pregnant, was going to marry. But one day, he went to doctor because he had suffered from headache for a long time. He discovered that he isn't in good health anymore.

He began to forget the names of his colleagues, the way of going to work and the meeting time which is made in just one minute ago. Finally, he forgot names of things, his daughter and his beloved wife.

One day, he went to the place where he met his wife. There were some pictures flashed through his mind. He knew what happened between he and his wife in the past, but he couldn't remembered his wife's appearance. His wife also came to this place later because she couldn't find his husband. When she found her husband, her husband had already forgot her and treated her like a stranger.

After watching this movie, I really think I'm so lucky. My memories don't fade away and my beloved family are always around me. People often make promise that thet wouldn't forget someone forever, but promise is unpredictable because they won't know what'll happen next day. All people could do is seizing the moment.

Hands

Recently I found this piece of sculpture "conductor's hands." It was made by me when I was in junior high. At that time, art class was my favorite class. Every time, my art teacher always had different kinds of ideas. He would tell us the long history of art and bring us pictures of those famous painting. Besides, he would let students do the activity, like painting or sculpturing. My art teacher really knew how to combine art knowledge with interesting.

One day, he asked us to fing a picture of hand's gesture from newspaper and brought it to class. All of my classmates brougt one hand's gesture ,but mine was different. My art teacher said we had to make the sculptures of hand. Everyone made only one hand, but I had to make two hands. I was wondering if I could only do one hand. However, my art teacher told me that it wouldn't be a finished work if I only made one hand.

First, we use thin steel sticks and wire. Circle some wire as the palm and use thin steel sticks which entwine a piece of newspaper around the sticks as fingers. Then arrange the sticks in the right order like fingers and combine sticks with wire.Use a chunk of wood as the base and nail the hand on it. Finally, use a big lump of clay to cover the hand and adjust hand's gesture. Then begain to shape it.

This experience of making sculpture was really interesting. Although this work wasn't very pretty, it still had its value in my heart. It always reminded me of my art teacher who love art and enjoy art very much.

Warlords

This movie adapts from a novel of Ching Dynasty. Its background was in the nineteenth century. At that time, China was suffered from internal revolt and foreigh invasion. There was a general who lost all his soldiers in a battle. Then he met two leaders of bandits. All of them became sworn brothers. The general suggested all the bandits become part of government's soldiers so that they could get provisions and stop being bullied by other government's soldiers; meanwhile, the general discovered that the woman whom he met in the way back home and had one-night stand with was the wife of one of his sworn brothers.

The general led them to fight in many wars and got victories. At one war in Nanking, one of his sworn brother made promise that he wouldn't let the surrendered soldiers be killed. But the general killed them for fear that they might revolt. The government ordered the general to be a ruler of Nanking with a condition that he should kill the sworn brother who once disobeyed the rule of army. The general became so ambitious that he planed to kill the sworn brother and had his wife. In the end, the other sworn brother took revenge on the general.

In this movie, I saw the ambitious and tactical, betrayal and brotherhood, sincerity and hate. When benefit of all populaces is conflicting with brotherhood, which one to choose? It's difficult. If we choose the brotherhood, we may lose the opportunity to make benefit for populace. It seems selfish. If we choose benefit of all populaces, we lose our loyalty to sworn brothers or sisters. It seems lacking of loyalism. It's really a dilemma. Besides, I touched by their brotherhood at first. They could sacrificed for each other and never regret. They were all braves indeed. So I enjoyed the movie very much.