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—Yes. It's good weather that I'd like to take a walk.
During my first day at senior high school, I met my new teacher. She looked at me and said, "I am happy to have an international student in my class." I was very excited.
One day, I came to the class about three minutes late, and she told me to write my name on a piece of paper and, beside it, the word "late". In that way she could know I was late for the first time. At first, I was embarrassed and angry. Then I did not complain because she taught me an important lesson: time is very valuable(珍贵的).
I learned another important lesson during one of my classes—the day of the first exam. After I finished my exam, I did not review my answers because it was the end of the exam time. One week later, she returned my exam paper. I found that one of my answers was wrong. Even though the only choices were A, B and C, I chose D instead of C. I tried to explain my mistake to her, "I marked D though I knew C was the right answer." However, she refused my request and told me, "I do believe you, but I am not going to forgive your mistake. This will encourage you to be more careful before you turn your papers in." I was not expecting that from her, but she was completely right.
One girl decided to study judo(柔道) although she had lost her left arm in a car accident.
The girl began lessons with an old Japanese judo instructor. The girl was doing well. But she couldn't understand why, after three months of training, the instructor had taught her only one move.
"Instructor, "the girl finally said, "shouldn't I be learning more moves?"
"This is the only move you know, but this is the only move you'll ever need to know, "the instructor replied.
Not quite understanding, but believing in her teacher, the girl kept training.
Several months later, the instructor took the girl to her first toumament. To her surprise, the girl easily won her first two matches. The third match proved to he more difficult, but after some time, her opponent became impatient and charged .The girl skillfully used her one move to win the match. Still amazed by her success, the girl was now in the final.
This time, her opponent was bigger, stronger and more experienced. For a while, the girl appeared to be overmatched .Concerned that the girl might get hurt, the referee called a timeout .She was about to stop the match when the instructor intervened(干预).
"No," the instructor insisted, "Let her continue."
Soon after the match restarted, her opponent made a serious mistake; she dropped her guard. Instantly, the girl used her move to pin her opponent. The girl won the match and the tournament. She was the champion.
On the way home, the girl and her teacher reviewed every move in every match. Then the girl gathered the courage to ask what was really in her mind.
"Instructor, how did I win the tournament with only one move?"
"You won for two reasons," the teacher answered. "First, you've almost mastered one of the most difficult moves in all of judo .Second, the only known defense for that move is for your opponent to grab your left arm."
The girl's biggest weakness had become her biggest strength.
Kyle Schwartz, a new teacher at Doull Elementary School in Denver, teaches a third-grade class. Most of her students come from underprivileged homes, as 92 per cent are entitled (给予权利) to free or reduced school lunches, she said.
"As a new teacher, I tried to understand my students' real lives and how to best support them. I just felt like there was something I didn't know about my students," she said. To solve this problem, she asked her students to complete the sentence: "I wish my teacher knew."
While some children used the notes to jokingly complain(抱怨) about homework or to ask for more playtime, Ms Schwartz said some of the answers were "heartbreaking", as children showed their hard lives. One student told Ms Schwartz that he did not have any pencils at home, while another said that they hadn't seen their father for six years. And another student wrote, "I wish my teacher knew sometimes my homework is not signed (签字) because my mom is not around a lot. "
She posted them to Twitter in March with the hashtag "I Wish My Teacher Knew". Teachers on Twitter soon noticed how successful Ms Schwartz's trick(策略) was for reaching out to students, and began sharing similar notes they received alongside "I Wish My Teacher Knew."
Ms Schwartz said that since she encouraged her students to share their secrets, students have been supporting each other more, and she hopes the method will connect students and their families with the proper resources (资源) they need to live comfortably. She added that the results have been surprising, and the student that said she didn't have anyone to play with has since been invited by classmates to join them on the school playground.
There was once a man went out to look for a job. As he was passing his neighbour's house, an important piece of paper fell out of the man's pocket.
His neighbour happened to be looking out of the window. Seeing the piece of paper fall, he thought, “What a disgrace！That guy deliberately let that fall out of his pocket. He's trying to mess up the front of my house, and he's being sneaky about it, too！”
But instead of going out and saying something, the neighbour planned his revenge ．
That night, he took his wastepaper basket and went to the man's house. The first man also happened to be looking out of the window, and saw what happened. Later, when he was picking up the papers dumped on his porch, he found the important piece of paper he had lost. It was torn into dozens of pieces. He thought that his neighbour had not only picked his pocket, but had had the cheek to mess up his doorway with rubbish.
He didn't want to say anything ． Rather, he started plotting his revenge. That night he phoned a farmer to make an order of ten pigs and a hundred ducks. He asked they be delivered to his neighbour's house.
Of course, the next day, his neighbour had quite a bit of trouble trying to rid himself of so many animals and their accompanying waste.
Sure that this had been a wicked trick pulled by his neighbour, as soon as the second man had gotten rid of the pigs and ducks, he again started planning his revenge.
And so it went on.
They continued trying to get their own back on each other, and each time their acts of revenge got bigger and more ridiculous. The dropping of that single piece of paper ended up with a rock band, a fire siren, the driving of a lorry into a garden fence, the throwing of a hail of stones at windows, the firing of a canon, and finally the dropping of a bomb which destroyed both men's houses.
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