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Helen's Cooking Diary

Tuesday, January 30. 2018

This month we had to choose a club. I waited until the last minute. Many of the activities were already full, and I decided to join the Cooking Club because at least I would get something to eat.

Tuesday, February 6， 2018

It was the first time to be here. Most people are in the club for more than a year, so they already know what they're doing. And since they all know each other, they weren't exactly interested in a new-comer.

Tuesday February 13, 2018

What a terrible day! I knocked a bottle of orange juice off the table! Maybe all the other kids would never stop laughing. And it was not easy to get juice off your clothes.

Tuesday, February 20, 2018

One of my bright ideas worked out for a change! Everyone laughed when I handed out the chocolate "panda" cookie I made yesterday, but this time I was laughing, too. It was a great success. We're even planning to make more cookies for the school food festival next week.

    Many people go to school for an education. They learn languages, history, politics, geography, physics, chemistry and mathematics. Others go to school to learn a skill so that theycan make a living.

    School education is very important and useful. Yet, no one can learn everything from school. A teacher, no matter how much he knows, cannot teach his students everything they want to know. The teacher's job is to show his students how to learn. He teaches them how to read and how to think. So, much more is to be learned outside school by the students themselves.

    It is always more important to know how to study by oneself than to memorize some facts or a formula（公式）. It is actually quite easy to learn a certain fact in history or a formula in math. But it is very difficult to use a formula in working out a math problem.

Great scientists before us didn't get everything from school. Their teachers only showed them the way. Edison didn't even finish primary school. But they were all so successful. They invented so many things for mankind. The reason for their success is that they knew how to study. They read books that were not taught at school. They would ask many questions as they read. They did thousands of experiments. They worked hard all their lives, wasting not a single moment. Above all, they knew how to use their brain.

—Thank you. I'll think it over again.

    My name is Vince. My parents are in London UK, but I'm in Florence, Italy. I 1 an apartment with another two boys. It seems that they have much free time. My life is 2. I'm so busy. I usually get up at 5:00 in the morning and then have a big breakfast. An hour 3 I go to the stadium (运动场) and practice soccer for about two hours.

    Then I go to school at 8:00 a.m. I work hard. I 4 be a good student because last year I made a deal (协议) with my parents: 5 I am a good student, I can play soccer in Italy. I have math, science, history, geography, Italian and English. Italian is difficult but luckily some friends always 6 me. They are so kind. 7 lessons finish at 1:00 p.m. and then I go to have my lunch. I do my homework at 4:30 p.m. Then I go back to the stadium to practice 8 again. I finish it at 8:00 p.m.

    I have my dinner at 8:30 p.m. and I go to sleep at 9:30 p.m. I have no 9 to watch TV or play computer games because I have to 10 very early every morning!