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1000国庆节初中英语
全文共 853 字
+ 加入清单十月一日正好是国庆节,也就是祖国妈妈的生日。
每当国庆节来临之际,单位的门上挂起了灯笼,甚至上面都插上了彩旗,门上还张贴了“欢度国庆”四个大字。公园、大街小巷的树上都挂了灯笼。街道两边都摆满了五颜六色的鲜花。到处洋溢着节日气氛。
为了迎国庆,我们有的写作,有的画画,并且要从里面选出几个最好的作品贴在后面,办一个国庆专栏,作为送给祖国妈妈的生日礼物。
祝祖国妈妈生日快乐!
October is just the National Day, that is, the mothers mothers birthday.
When the National Day approaching, the unit hung on the door of the lantern, and even above the plug in the banners, the door also posted the "celebrate the National Day" four characters. Park, the streets of the trees are hung with lanterns. Both sides of the street are filled with colorful flowers. Filled with festive atmosphere everywhere.
In order to meet the National Day, we have some writing, some painting, and from the inside to choose a few best works posted in the back, do a national celebration column, as the mothers birthday gift to the motherland.
I wish my mother a happy birthday!
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篇1:初中英语满分
全文共 597 字
+ 加入清单Since I was very small, my parents often took me to the animal zoo. I have
seen many animals and opened my vision. But as I grew up, I started to realize
that it was not reasonable to keep the animals in the zoo. They belong to the
nature and should live in the forest. But it is human nature that capture them
and then keep them in the zoo for earning money. Nowadays, animal park is
advised to be built. It can protect the animals in the nature, at the same time,
people can see the animals. It is better than the old zoo. Animals and human are
part of nature, and both share the same right to survive.
篇2:初中英语作文大全
全文共 597 字
+ 加入清单My grandparents came to visit me in the weekend. I was so happy because I
hadnt seen them for a long time. I missed my grandmas delicious food, because
she always knew what my stomach liked. My job was to take them to hang around
the city. I took them to the famous sites, where were so leisure and full of
local features. Walking on the old street with historical materials, they had so
much feelings, and thought about the old times and taught me to cherish the
things I had. I kept their words in mind. At night, I helped my grandma to cook
dinner. All the people sat in the table and had a nice talk.
篇3:初中英语作文题目
全文共 864 字
+ 加入清单Dormitory Clean Duty In China, when students go to middle school, most of
them need to live in school from Monday to Friday, they can go home on
weekends.
Students have to spend most of their time in school, they start to learn to
get along with others.
Everyone has roommates, there are always four people live in a dormitory,
without parents’ caring, students need to take care of themselves.
The first question needs students to think about is the dormitory clean
duty, while most of them are princes and princess at home. Students need to do
the house work, they should take turns, in that case, the dormitory will keep
clean.
It is reported that boys’ room are dirty, because they never clean
dormitory.
It is everyone’s duty to clean the dormitory, we should not keep silent
about the problem, students need to realize the clean environment can make their
mood comfortable.
篇4:我最喜欢的动物初中英语作文
全文共 4017 字
+ 加入清单My favorite animals are swans.they are white.They can swim very well.I think they look like a beautiful girl in a white dress.They have a pair of wings and they can also fly well.I believe they are angles from the sky.They bring us love and make us happy.They are always friendly to us.We cant hurt them,because they are our friend.I love them!I like dogs,too.They are not beautiful,but they are the best friends.They keep the thieves away.Dogs have the best listening and eyes.They can hear in the noisy ,see in the dark.If we are in danger,they will help us at once.And they dont mind their lives.So,I love them.
我最喜欢的动物是天鹅。它们很洁白。它们很擅长游泳。我觉得它们看起来像一个穿着白色连衣裙的美丽女孩。它们替一对翅膀,并且可以飞。我相信它们是从天上来的。它们给了我们关爱,并且让我们快乐。它们对我们总是很友好,我们不能伤害他们,因为它们是我们的朋友。我爱它们!我也喜欢小狗,它们并不美丽,但他们是最好的朋友。它们可以防小偷。小狗有最好的听力和眼力。它们能在吵闹的环境中辩听出来,在黑暗中辩认出来.如果我们处于危险之中,他们将帮助我们脱离危险.它们从不吝啬它们的爱。所以,我爱它们。
我最喜欢的动物2
l like small animals, like the small animals to count my little black dog.
My little black dog she is cute! In black, shiny hairs, eyes with two white spots, like two white beads. On the head and on his thighs hair is very long, like a horse head to the ground. Straight ear, as if time in listening to what passed around. Thick and long broom tail swing, from time to time as a cleaner for free! More funny is that it always speaks with a wet nose toward me, like a sick child, seems to be very poor, in fact, I know it really want to play with me. In the invitation to me!
The little black dog temperament is very docile, very human nature. I get along with it for a long time, in love, it seems very understand me. Whenever I am angry, it squatted beside me quietly motionless and seems to want to accompany me through the sad time. I am happy, it will run up to and around me, "an auf" cried, very agreeable.
The puppy experience dangerous also have several times. Is the first time fell into the river, fortunately, was found to pull up, feed it to take medicine, good soon. And on several occasions by poison poison dog several times, but also by early treatment, will have to escape. From then on, it can sniff out those toxic food, what food non-toxic. Later, our dog never in poison. It very sharp!
I love my dog. I hope it will stay with me, to accompany me joyful growth!
我喜欢的小动物,最喜欢的小动物要数我家的那条小黑狗了。
我家的小黑狗可逗人喜欢啦!一身黑亮亮的绒毛,眼睛上面有两个白点,颇像两颗白色珠子。头上和大腿上的毛很长,像马鬓一样拖到地面。直楞楞的耳朵,好象时刻在倾听着周围有什么动静。又粗又长的扫帚尾巴不时摇摆着,像一个免费清洁工呢!更逗人的是它总翘着潮湿的鼻子向着我,像一个生病的孩子,看起来似乎很可怜,其实,我知道它很想和我玩。在向我发出邀请呢!
小黑狗的性情很温顺,很通人性。我和它相处久了,产生了感情,它好像很理解我。每当我生气的时候,它就静静地蹲在我身边一动也不动,似乎想陪我度过那难过的时间;我高兴的时候,它就会围着我跑来跑去,“汪汪汪”地叫着,很讨人喜欢。
小狗的经历危险也有几次。第一次是掉进了河里,幸好被人发现拉了上来,喂给它吃药,不久就好了。还有几次是被毒狗的人毒了几次,幸好也被及早治疗,才得脱险了。从那以后,它就能嗅出那些食物有毒,哪些食物无毒。后来,我家的狗再也没中过毒。它够机灵吧!
我喜欢我家的小狗。我希望它永远伴随我左右,陪我快乐成长!
我最喜欢的动物3
My home have a clever dog flow li, it has a beautiful name - the ball ball.
Ball ball body white as snow, two big eyes, nose and smooth detour, tail short, chopped far look like a small ball.
It particularly fond of sleep. One time, I take a shower, its in the sitting room east and west, then walk to a bedside table, really boring lives had a good stretch, belly up, carefree lying on the ground. Surface tilted his head to left, two small claw tightly embrace together, very intoxicated with close my eyes and fell asleep. When I take a shower, when he was looking for it to play, see it was fast asleep.
It is not only love to sleep, also very greedy. Remember once, we eat the delicious ribs, the ball ball saw this, he swallowed the mouth water, see it, I really dont have the heart to, had to throw a bone to the ground, the dog jumped up, quickly, he grabbed the bones, climbed to the bed, the Wolf to eat it, eat with relish.
This is my familys good sleep and greedy ball ball, do you like it?
我家有一只聪明怜俐的小狗,它有一个好听的名字—球球。
球球全身毛白如雪,铜铃大眼,鼻子滑漉漉的,尾巴短短的,远看就像一个小茸球。
它特别喜欢睡觉。有一次,我去洗澡,它在客厅东走走,西逛逛,实在无聊了便走到床头柜下,抻了个懒腰,肚皮朝上,悠然自得的躺在地上。小脑袋向左面歪着,两只小爪紧紧的抱在一起,很陶醉的闭上眼睛睡着了。等我洗完澡,正想找它玩的时候,看到它已经呼呼大睡了。
它不但爱睡觉,还很贪吃。记得有一次,我们吃着香喷喷的排骨,球球看见了,馋得直流口水,看到它的样子,我真的不忍心,只好向地上抛了一块骨头,小狗跳了起来,迅速地叼住了骨头,爬到了床底下,狼吞虎咽地吃了起来,吃得津津有味。
这就是我们家贪吃好睡的球球,你们喜欢它吗?
篇5:初中英语
全文共 381 字
+ 加入清单Of all the colors, I love white best. White is the color of snow and cloud.
Snow in winter is clean,pure and holy. When it is melted, it moistens everything
and the whole earth. White clouds are hanging on the blue sky. We can dream a
lot on such a nice day. White is a color of purity and calmness. It can make a
harmony picture with any other colors. This is white, a selfless color.
篇6:关于微信的利弊初中英语作文篇
全文共 529 字
+ 加入清单Wechat is a new app that almost all the people use on their phone. you can video chat when every you want and its for free. also you can talk through that app. its very convience. You can sreach for people who live around you who are using the same app. but at the same time, people are addict to it. they can not live without it. and people are having less and less conversation face to face. even worse, some people got tricked in this app, and lost lots of money. so this app can be good or bad, depend which way you using it.
篇7:我的暑假初中英语
全文共 600 字
+ 加入清单The summer vacation had come round again。 I was happy that I could forget about school at least for a while。 Lest I fool around all through this summer vacation, I made a plan as to how to spend it。 First, I thought I should go over all those things my teachers taught in the previous term so that I could have a better understanding of them。 Then I thought I should take up some forms of exercise, such as walking, running rowing, to keep me physically strong。 It stood to reason that with such a good plan I should make the best of my vacation time。 I did, because I lived up to what I had planned。
篇8:寒假英语作文初中
全文共 1054 字
+ 加入清单Once a child asked such a question: What can I benefit from being "a good
child"? Among the many answers he received one ran like this: "A good child" is
the most precious gift God gives to you. And the same can be said for being
honest. It pays to be honest.
Yes, its true that dishonesty exists almost everywhere in the society.
Consumers often found themselves being blackmailed by those merchants selling
shoddy products; and there are students
Cheating in order to pass the exams or get high marks; moreover, we are not
short of examples that many rich professionals evade the taxes by sacrificing
the interests of government.
But havent we seen their results? "A fall into the pit, a gain in
customers wit", which would surely drive those dishonest merchants out of
business. Regret of wasting time yet being
Empty-handed would accompany those dishonest students all their life. On
the contrary, we could have all they lost, especially a good reputation and a
clear conscience, which are the best qualities of human beings. Thats why we
say "It Pays to Be Honest".
篇9:初中生英语
全文共 484 字
+ 加入清单Recently, there has been a terrible virus, the coronavirus. All the news is
about the pneumonia caused by the new coronavirus, which is an acute human to
human pneumonia. The source of the virus is said to be small wild animals, such
as badgers, bats, snakes and so on. Doctors said that the new virus has a fast
and strong infectivity, can spread through breathing and contact, and the
epidemic development is particularly rapid. People are getting infected every
day all over the country.
篇10:寒假初中英语
全文共 701 字
+ 加入清单My winter holidays plans me studying for my English , I will make great efforts to learn English. Persist in listening to half hours of English every day. I will accomplish the school assignment that the teacher arranges best with the quickest speed. I can not forget to take the body exercise certainly also , I may take the body exercise coming drawing out 30- - 1 hours in time in every day. I play with the once computer coming certainly may draw out one small Duan time , watch one meeting TV or. Certainly need only 1 hour. This it is my winter holidays to plan!
我为了我的英语学习,我将努力学英语。坚持每天听半个小时的英语。我将以最快速度最好的完成老师布置的作业。我当然也不会忘记锻炼身体,我会在 每天的时间中抽出30——1小时来锻炼身体。我当然会抽出一小段时间来玩一下电脑,或者看一会电视。当然只要1小时。这就是我的寒假计划!
篇11:初中英语作文:第一次成为班长
全文共 815 字
+ 加入清单Being a monitor is my dream, because I think it is so cool and I will have the power.
So when I go into the middle school, I make my effort to be a monitor, luckily, all of my classmates trust me and elect me as their monitor. I am so happy, my little dream has come true, but I never expect that the monitor’s duty is so heavy.
I can’t do what I want, every decision I make needs to consider so many things, if I go the wrong way, my classmates will have loss. As the saying that the more power, the more responsibility, I have pressure, but I learn many things, I become mature and can deal things well.
成为班长是我的梦想,因为我觉得班长很酷,我也会有权利。因此当我上初中了,我努力成为一名班长,幸运的,所有的同学都信任我,选我为他们的班长。我很开心,我实现了小小的梦想,但是我没有预料到班长的责任是如此的重。我不能随心所欲,我做的每一个决定都要考虑到很多事情,如果我走错了路,我的同学也会遭受到损失。正如有句话说,能力越大,责任越大,我有压力,但是也学到了很多事情,我变得成熟,可以把事情处理好。
篇12:初中英语满分
全文共 653 字
+ 加入清单Water is the source of life.We cant live without water.However,with the
increasing population and industrial development,water pollution has become a
serious problem.Large amounts of wastewater go into rivers and seas directly
without being treated,which can be dangerous to people.Also lots of people pay
no attention to saving water in daily life,while in some place water is badly
needed.
Its time for us to take some measures to improve the situation.Factories
should treat the wastewater before letting it go into rivers.We can play a
positive role in saving water.For example we can reuse the water for wishing
rice to wash vegetables and then clean a mop.
篇13:过圣诞节英语
全文共 1655 字
+ 加入清单The stars look forward to the moon, and at last we look forward to Christmas.
Christmas is a happy holiday. As soon as I think about it, my heart will bloom a brilliant flower, happy and excited.
On Christmas day, all the days of the cold, raining outside snow. But the cold weather could not stop the happy steps of Christmas. There are beautiful Christmas trees in front of the shops in the street, and the staff in the supermarket are also wearing a lovely Christmas hat.
This evening my cousin, aunt and uncle, walked out of the door, everywhere can see the "floating" in the window of the shop "Snow", shops on both sides of the Christmas tree full of Santa Claus and toys, and lights in a riotous with colour light, people crowded a bit crowded, people holding many to buy things, the car to and fro, The stream never stops flowing. We walked on the street and heard a lot of Christmas songs, and I started to humming.
We walked into the clothing store and the clerks were busy entertaining customers. I left the right choice, that is, I cant find my favorite clothes. Suddenly, my eyes found a red and blue dress, then uncle brought a look dark clothes, with funny tone: "good looking?" I see, head shaking like a rattle. I took this piece of blue and red clothes and said: "I have to dress." Uncle agreed without hesitation. But uncle saw the price, with the manager a lot of bargaining, finally put 450 yuan the price becomes 300 yuan. So I returned home with satisfaction.
At home, I couldnt wait to put my socks beside the pillow. I slept in bed, while I waited for Santa to hide the gift in my socks, close my eyes, and I fell asleep unconsciously.
篇14:家乡的变化初中英语
全文共 894 字
+ 加入清单My hometown used to be a backwardplace, because it was deep in the mountains, where there were no nice buildingsand the roads were so narrow and dirty. People lived a poor life.
我的家乡过去是一个落后的地方,因为它在深山里面,那里没有漂亮的建筑物,公路也是又小又脏的。人们的生活都很贫苦。
While in recent years, with thedevelopment of society, my hometown has been greatly changed. Now the roads aregetting much wider. There are many different cars and buses running on theroads. Trees and flowers are planted on the two sides of the roads. They canprovide us with oxygen and fight against the pollutants. So the sky becomescleaner and brighter. Whats more, you can see many modern and beautifulbuildings everywhere, and the living conditions are improving. People areenjoying a comfortable life now.
近年来,随着社会的发展,我的家乡发生了很大的变化。现在的路是越来越大了。有许多不同的汽车和公交车在道路上运行。道路两边种满了树木和鲜花。他们可以为我们提供氧气,与污染物抗争。现在天空变得更清洁、更明亮。更重要的是,你随处可见到许多现代和美丽的建筑,人们的生活条件也得到了改善。现在人们在享受舒适的生活。
篇15:关于清明节的英语作文初中
全文共 1367 字
+ 加入清单The tomb-sweeping day as a holiday, are different from pure solar terms.
Solar term is a sign of phenology change, seasonal order in China, and it is
more a festival of custom activities and some memorable.
Tomb-sweeping day is Chinas traditional festival, is also the most
important memory of ancestors and the grave. This grave to commemorate the dead
mans a kind of activity. The han nationality and some minority are mostly in
the tombs. Grave, people to carry goods such as especially fruit, paper money to
the grave, will be food for offering in the family tomb, to use paper money on
fire new soil up to the grave, fold a few branches pale green branches ed in the
grave, and then kowtow worship salute, finally eat especially home. The tang
dynasty poet tu mus poem "qingming" : "rains fall heavily as qingming comes,
and passers-by with lowered spirits go. Restaurant where? Boy pointed apricot
blossom village." Write the ching Ming festival special atmosphere.
Ching Ming festival, also called TaQingJie, according to the solar calendar
for, it is in every year on April 4 to 6, between, it is beautiful spring
scenery spring-out of season, also is a good time to people spring outing, so
the ancients had qingming outing, and carry out a series of customs sports
activities.
Until today, tomb-sweeping day ancestor worship, mourning the late
relatives customs still prevail.
篇16:初中英语作文自我介绍带翻译
全文共 805 字
+ 加入清单Hello, everyone. I can tell you about me! I am a happy girl. My name is Nina, I am 12 years old this year. My hobbies are singing and dancing. I usually play basketball on Saturday. I want to grow up to be a doctor .I didn’t like playing video games, but I like reading some books .I ride bike to school .I go to school from Monday to Friday. I am a good student in my school .Because I so like study .I am good kid too, Do you know? I usually do homework, help my family. My cook food is tasty .I like cat my favorite season is fall. I like warm and sunny. I so like red. This is me! What about you?
大家好。我可以告诉你关于我的!我是一个快乐的女孩。我叫妮娜,今年12岁。我的爱好是唱歌和跳舞。我通常在星期六打篮球。我想长大后成为一名医生,我不喜欢玩电子游戏,但我喜欢读一些书,我骑自行车上学,我从星期一到星期五上学。我是一个好学生,因为我很喜欢学习,我也是一个好孩子,你知道吗?我通常做家庭作业,帮助我的家庭。我的烹调食物很好吃,我喜欢猫,我最喜欢的季节是秋天。我喜欢温暖和阳光。我很喜欢红色。这是我!你呢?
篇17:初中英语写我的同学作文
全文共 825 字
+ 加入清单我的同学My Classmate
请以"My Classmate"为标题写一篇记叙文
要求:1、主题明确,语言流畅,思路清晰。 2、字数在100字以内。
思路点拨:
写记叙文要按照事物发展的客观规律叙述,所叙述的内容要交代清楚,条理清晰,重点突出,主次分明,详略得当。
这篇文章也是记叙文,主人公应该用第三人称,时态以一般过去时为主。本文以主人公为中心线索,以一、两件事件为重点内容去组织材料,反映主人公的形象特征。整个内容情节要合情合理,有真实感,叙述时可按事情发展的顺序进行,同时加以点评。
参考范文
My Classmate
Liu Kai is my classmate. He is a good student and always ready to help others.
One day on his way to school,he saw a little girl crossing the road. A car was coming towards her quickly and the girl was too frightened to move. The car nearly hit her. Just then LiuKai rushed up to her and caught her by the arm. The little girl was saved. She told him where she lived,and he took her home. When LiuKai hurried into the classroom,the teacher had already begun his lesson. He told the teacher why he was late. He was then praised for what he had done.
[初中英语写我的同学作文
篇18:关于初中生活的英语作文
全文共 1273 字
+ 加入清单I began school at seven in accordance with the law in a remote village. Short of funds, the school had only a few classrooms, all poorly constructed. to say, our teachers were few, too. As a pupil I preferred the playground to the classroom and often liked to play tricks on girls, as by hiding insects in their desk drawers. On one occasion, I even grimaced behind the back of our teacher, caing the whole class to break into laughter; however, instead of becoming angry, he merely asked why we were laughing and wondered whether there was anything wrong with him. On ather occasion, I punctured the tires of a parked inside the school by ing something sharppointed, leaving the principal frightened and bewildered after he had ticed that. Such were the happy moments in my life at that school. The happiest moment, to me and to all of my schoolmates, however, was the one when the school was letting out at the last bell of the day and we were rhing home as if we would never be back. Once, on our way home, a bunch of naughty students found a crickets hole and exerted themselves to inject water into it with loud cheers. The girls were less frantic than the boys when they were having a good time at such games as jump-rope, hopscotch and battledore and shuttlecock.
篇19:我希望初中优秀英语作文
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+ 加入清单每次我放学回家,都会看见几个小孩坐在马路旁边乞讨。我不知道他们的父母是谁。他们多么狠心呀!他们差不多跟我一样大作文 你也可以投稿,也是上学的年龄了,但是他们不能。似乎没有人关心他们。我多么希望他们的父母能带他们回家啊。如果他们的父母真是穷得不能送他们去学校,那么我希望整个社会能够伸出援助之手。他们可以求助于希望工程呀。
Every time I come home from school, I see several children sitting beside the road and begging. I don’t know where their parents are. How coldhearted they are! Every time I will think so. Those children are just of the same age with me. It’s the age for school. But they can’t. It seems that no one cares for them. How I hope that their parents come and bring them home. If their parents are really too poor to send them to school, then I hope the whole society will help. They can go to the Hope Project.
篇20:圣诞节活动英语作文:美国怎么过圣诞?
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+ 加入清单"We wish you a merry Christmas, we wish you a merry Christmas"Have you heard that song? Yup! Its Christmas time! This Christmas, I stayed with my "host family"1. It was an amazing experience to see how a typical American family would celebrate the biggest western festival of the year.
Christmas, like our Spring Festival, has a meaning in itself. Christmas Day, which is on December 25, is the birthday of Jesus Christ--the son of God. Thats why it is called Christmas. On that day, Christians would get together with their families to celebrate the birthday of Jesus. But nowadays, the religious meaning of Christmas has become less emphasized. To many families, it is just a time of family reunion and the ever-exciting present-giving.
Our school had been on winter vacation since December 11. I stayed at my friend, Stephen Stapczynskis house--his family was my "host family". Although Christmas was still more than ten days ahead, the festive spirit had already been teeming everywhere. The Christmas tree had already been set up, and on every windowsill, there were Christmas lights. On the first day I arrived at their house, Stephen and I helped Mrs. Stapczynski put decorations on the Christmas tree. The tree looked so nice with all the lights on and the beautiful ornaments dangling from its branches.
As Christmas came closer, the whole neighborhood had made preparations too. Some people would hold parties at their houses, inviting all their neighbors to come. So every night, if you went out, you would see a long line of cars parked in front of some house--a partys on!
Whats more, the Christmas decorations that some people put on their windows and in gardens were just amazing. On one night, we went out in our car for a "tour of lights". There was one street that was so famous for its lights that it got its way into the local paper. We had a hard time finding the well-hidden street, but it turned out to be worth the effort. Lights shone brightly in front of nearly every house, on trees, bushes, doors, windowseverywhere, taking different shapes, making it seem almost like daytime. Huge inflatable figures in the front gardens were waving to us: there were Santa Clauses2, of course, chuckling merrily away; and there were also other Christmas figures, like Rudolph3--the red-nosed reindeer--with his red nose gleaming ever so brightly; even Bart Simpson--a character in the famous comedy The Simpsons--had joined the jolly party, wearing a Santas hat. The street set off a lot of "ooh"s and "aah"s inside the car.4 When we left, there was a line of cars in the street, all there to see the lights.
Christmas is the time for exchanging presents. Stephen and Niko had been thinking about their Christmas lists (a list of things they wish "Santa"to give them for Christmas) for a long time. I didnt want to ask for anything, but the Stapczynskis were so kind to "force"me make one list as well (Mr. Stapczynski told me if I didnt make one he would chop off my legs). So I wrote down a couple of things that I would like to have, and gave the list to them--sorry, my mistake--to Santa.
Finally, Christmas Eve came. There was a special Christmas service at the church at 6 p.m. It was certainly a very interesting experience for me. The priest started the service reading and sang out extractions from a holy book--The Divine Liturgy. For several times, we would stand up and pray.
Sometimes, the church choir would start singing. The atmosphere was very quiet and holy. Then there was a ceremony called "The Receiving Communion". People waited in line to "receive"a spoonful of food from the priest. It was a very special Christmas tradition. The food was made from bread and wine. The bread represents the body of Jesus, and the wine represents his blood. After this ceremony, the priest had a speech. He reminded us not to forget the true meaning of Christmas, and let Jesus really live inside us--that is, to love the people around us wholeheartedly. I think that no matter if you are a Christian or not, this principle should be part of our lives. After the priest finished his speech, the part that I enjoyed most came: Christmas carols5. Christmas carols are songs that people sing at Christmas, such as "Jingle Bells", "We Wish You a Merry Christmas", "Silent Night"and so on. Some were very merry, others sounded quite holy, but all of them were beautiful. I closed my eyes, and let all the peacefulness and happiness that were in the songs flow through me. What a feeling it was!
We went to sleep earlier that day for we had to get up early on Christmas Day to open our presents. Sure enough, when I was still half-way during a sweet dream, Stephen burst into my room and told me to get up and open presents. There were a huge pile of presents under the Christmas tree, and there was such a mysterious mist shrouding them that made me eager to see what they all were. So one by one, we went through all the presents. Mr. and Mrs. Stapczynski had bought me everything I had written on my Christmas list--and a lot more! I got music CDs, film DVDs, clothes, books I was very happy, and I didnt know how to express my appreciation for what they had done for me.
Stephen and Niko had gotten a lot of presents too, and they had already been trying out their new games!
In the afternoon, we went to Mrs. Stapczynskis brother, Uncle Stans house. They had prepared a marvelous meal for us. A lot of their friends and relatives also came. I saw Stephen and Nikos grandparents, Yiayia and Papou (words of grandma and grandpa in Greek--Mrs. Stapczynskis parents came from Greece, so they like the boys using Greek words to call them). They were very kind to me, and treated me just like one of their family members. We had a very luxurious meal, consisting of turkey, beef, pork, and all sorts of other food.
After the meal, when all the stomachs were full and everyone was feeling drowsy6 from all the food, we just sat around the table and chatted, just like what we Chinese people do at the Spring Festival. After all, Christmas, like the Spring Festival, is a time for us to get away from our busy lives, a time for family gathering, and a time to have some fun.