For the past two years I have been travelling and living abroad. I has become more of a feeling than a place.1 feel at home 2 I am with my family in London, but I 3 feel at home in Italy with friends I 4 , or in Spain with my partner. Home is no longer a picture of a 5 with a front door and some windows. It is more 6 than that.
This is one of the reasons that 7 the New Year has become very important for me. New Year's Eve has become my time to reconnect with the 8 that make me feel at home. Every year we try to reunite, no matter where the world has 9 us, and remember a time when we knew each other so 10 that we felt like a family. It is a moment to reconnect and get to 11 each other again. Last year, we 12 to a cottage( 舍)in Ireland 13 we had no Internet and no neighbours.
In the middle of the 14, away from our big and constantly changing lives, we were able to become like a little 15 again.
This year, we went to Barcelona. It was a very big change. We were 16 by culture and joy. There were bars and parties. It was 17 , but one thing stayed much the same—I felt at home and we felt like a family18.
Two hours into 2019, I realized that I was 19 enough to be with people who didn't mind and just wanted to 20 the first day of the New Year with me even if it was on a sofa watching TV!
When I was thirteen, my family moved from Boston to Tucson, Arizona. 1 the move, my father 2 us in the livingroom on a freezing January night. My sisters and I sat around the fire, not 3 that the universe would suddenly change its course. “In May, we're 4 to Arizona.”
The words, so small, didn't seem 5 enough to hold my new life. But the world changed and I awoke on a tram moving across the country. I watched the 6 change from green trees to flat dusty plains to high mountains as I saw strange new plants that 7 mysteries yet to come. Finally, we arrived and 8 into our new home.
9 my older sisters were sad at the loss of friends, I 10 explored our new surroundings.
One afternoon, I was out exploring 11 and saw a new kind of cactus (仙人掌). I crouched (蹲) down for a closer look. “You'd better not 12 that”.
I turned around to see an old woman.
“Are you new to this neighborhood？” I explained that I was, 13 ， new to the entire state. “My name is Ina Thorne. Have you got used to life in the 14？ It must be quite a 15 after living in Boston.”
How could I explain how I 16 the desert? I couldn't seem to find the right words.
“It's vastness.” she offered. “That vastness 17 you stand on the mountains overlooking the desert—you can 18 how little you are in comparison with the world. 19 ， you feel that the possibilities are limitless.” That was it. That was the feeling I'd had ever since I'd first seen the mountains of my new home. Again, my 20 would change with just a few simple words.
“Would you like to come to my home tomorrow？” Someone should teach you which plant you should and shouldn't touch.
When she was 22 years old, Pat Jones decided to travel around the world and see as many foreign places as she could when she was young. When she finished college at home in Britain, Pat chose to visit Latin America first. She managed to get a job as an English teacher in a secondary school in Bolivia. Pat spoke a little Spanish, so she was able to communicate with her students even though they did not know much English.
A sentence she had once read somewhere stuck in her mind: if you dream in a foreign language, it means that you have really mastered it. Pat repeated this sentence to her students and she hoped that someday she would dream in Spanish and they would dream in English.
One day, Tim, one of the worst students in her class, came up to her and explained in Spanish that he had not done his homework. He said that he had gone to bed early, but slept badly. Pat was quite angry with him, for she did not think that his explanation had anything to do with his homework. But Tim told her that he dreamed all night and his dream was in English.
“In English!” Pat thought. She was greatly surprised, since Tim was such a bad student. She was also jealous (嫉妒的). Her dreams were still not in Spanish, but she decided to encourage her students and asked him to tell her about his dream.
“All the people in my dream spoke English,” Tim said. “And all the signs were in English. All the newspapers, magazines and TV programs were in English, too.”
“But that's wonderful,” said Pat. “What did all the people say to you?” she asked.
“I'm sorry, Miss Jones. That's why I slept so badly all night. I didn't understand a word they said. It is a nightmare (噩梦)!” Tim answered.
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Outside the standard framework of any educational curriculum, there are endless opportunities for students (learn) new skills and ignite (点燃) new passions. Undertaking extracurricular activities has far-ranging benefits that touch on many aspects of a student's (develop).
First of all, a lot of the skills that lie at the heart of extracurricular activities can (use) in core academic subjects. Education (require) problem-solving skills, memory, creativity, and critical thinking, and students can always find an extracurricular activity that has an impact on these areas. has been proved that there is a link between extracurricular participation better academic performance.
Moreover, when (take) part in extracurricular activities, students will be engaging with other children in a social setting. This gives them a chance to develop their social skills and make new friends.
Extracurricular activities also give children a great tool, with students can learn important time management skills. instance, while balancing schoolwork and after-school club activities, students will be gaining skills which will (definite) benefit them at later stages of their education and in their future life.
