我的学校同学英语作文热门20篇

On January, 2013, the public started a campaign called Clean Your Plate. This campaign aims to call on people to save food instead of wasting anything on the plates. The main theme of this activity is do not waste any food, starting with me. This campaign was first started from Sina weibo. Just a few days, tens of thousands people in China have joined in this meaningful activity.

In my humble opinion, everybody should join in this campaign. As we all know, the Chinese traditional virtue is to be thrifty even we are live in a better life. According to the latest survey, more than 50 million tons of food is being dumped in China every year. This wasted food can feed about 200 million people for a year. The old generation usually appreciates the leftover, if there is any food in the plate, they will eat them up; while the younger generation will dump the leftovers into the dustbin, they rather spend the money on other food instead of eating leftovers. I think such behavior is not only waste of food and money, but also broadcast the wrong idea that wasting food is acceptable. People should come to realize the importance of saving food. The governments should also take measures to reduce food wastage and encourage people to eat at home. What’s more, people should put an end to the expensive feasts and banquets.

I think this campaign should be moving on. Saving food for our offspring is everybody’s responsibility. Even if you’re a wealthy man, you still need to eat up the food on your plate. Waste is not a good habit.

他是我们班里的一个怪人，他坐在教室最偏僻的角落……

他每天都不穿校服，我们都不喜欢他，他也不常和我们来往，我们看他的眼神，就像看外星人一样。他总是将废纸往地上一扔，什么也不管地坐在位置上，让人觉得这里并不是教室的一部分，而是他的家，他也不怎么好好学习，总是考“0”分。

然而，有一件事却让我改变了对他的所有看法。

在一个阴雨绵绵的日子里，我在出门上学时，因为一时粗心忘了带雨伞，到了放学时我只能无助地坐在雨棚下。雨似乎下得更欢了，同学们纷纷撑着雨伞往校门外走。就在这时，雨雾中，我看到了一个“逆行”的人，他轻声对我说：“你没有带伞吗？”原来是他，我只得尴尬地说：“早上忘记在阳台上拿伞了。”他对我说：“没事，我送你回家吧！”我看看他，顿时觉得惭愧不已。就这样，他一直送我到了家，看着他往回走的背影，天哪！我忘了我和他的家隔着一个很大的公园和两条长街，没想到，他为了送我回家，绕了这么长的路，我暗暗地对他有了感激之情。

虽然他还是坐在教室的角落，与之前一样，还是不爱与大家来往，仍然是一个怪人，但正所谓“金无足赤，人无完人”，人从来都不是十全十美的，应擦去他的“尘土”，使他越来越亮丽。

The Dragon Boat Festival comes from the story of qu yuan, a patriotic poet qu yuan out a good idea to rich countries qiangming, but not adopted by the king, he was kicked out of the palace. Qu yuan was so angry that he jumped into the miluo river. The local fisherman learned that he rowed a boat to the miluo river to the miluo river. Later, the bamboo tube was changed to zongzi, and the boat was changed to the dragon boat to commemorate qu yuan. Our family is very impressed with qu yuan, so we celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival every year.

The traditional custom of the Dragon Boat Festival is eating zongzi. Our family has a really good zongzi -- my mother. Every year during the Dragon Boat Festival, our whole family can eat delicious dumplings. Momma always said: the rice dumplings with reeds are the most fragrant. Therefore, every year, the mother of the Dragon Boat Festival USES the leaves of the reed to make zongzi. Before making zongzi, she prepared herself: boil the leaves of the reeds in the water and wash them separately. When the reed leaves were cold, she began to make zongzi. Her first three leaf, this three leaves into a cone, then put a date first, and then put on inside glutinous rice, middle to clip a few dates, the last thread tied leaves, a rice dumplings wrapped. Her dumplings are fat and big, like the old Buddha sleeping. After the dumplings have finished, mom put them in a pressure cooker for 40 minutes, then another three or four hours to make it taste and then eat it! My mothers dumplings are very fragrant, so that when I see the zongzi, I will eat them. So, when eating zongzi, I always eat a lot!

The Dragon Boat Festival besides the need to eat zongzi, also the dragon boat!

I like watching dragon boat RACES the most, and dozens of mariners, with their OARS, struggling to make their way to the drum, beat the drum and beat the drum. "Come on, come on! The outside cheerleaders were enthusiastic, thundering and cheering, and the sailors were forced to row harder. The scene of the dragon boat race was spectacular and enthusiastic.

Eating zongzi and racing dragon boat racing, the two traditional customs jointly knit together a hot and noisy Dragon Boat Festival.

With the development of information industry, there are more and more

people shopping online. Shopping online means shopping on the Internet without

going out. Therefore, on the one hand, shopping online has its advantage. One

the other hand, shopping on line also has its disadvantage.

First of all, shopping online is very convenient. People can buy thing only

they have a computer, which can surf the Internet. They don’t need to go out on

a rainy day or under the shining sun. Meanwhile, people can save their time to

finish their work or other things. On the contrary, as people just decide what

they buy depending on the picture placed by the shop owner, they can’t see the

quality before they receive the product. Sometimes people maybe buy the things

are in low quality, or some fake products.

In general, shopping online has its advantage and disadvantage. In my

opinion, I prefer shopping online than shopping on the street.

internet slang be prohibited (互联网俚语应该被禁止……)

目前，一些诸如gg, mm, xia mi 等网络语言在青少年中极为盛行，并且出现在家庭作业报告，甚至全国入学考试的作文中。请你以 “should internet slang be prohibited (禁止)?”为题，根据下表内容用英语写一篇短文，并谈谈你自己的看法。

一些同学认为网络语言生动、时尚，网络语言充满幽默与智慧，使网上聊天更快捷。

另一些同学认为，网络语言缺乏思想性，没有被大部分人理解、接受，过多使用使人不解，甚至误解。

你的看法?

注意：

1. 短文开头已经给出，不计入总词数;

2. 词数：100左右

3. 参考词汇：生动的vivid;智慧intelligence

should internet slang be prohibited?

at present, internet slang, such as “gg, mm, xia mi”， has become popular among the teenagers.

there are different opinions on internet slang. some students think internet slang is vivid, fashionable and full of humor and intelligence. besides, it makes chatting on the internet quicker.

however, some other students think internet slang lacks depth of thought and is too simple. also, it is hard to understand and not accepted by most people. the words sometimes might make people confused, even resulting in misunderstanding.

every coin has two sides. in my opinion, living in the information age, if we don’t know the internet slang, we seem to fall behind the times. it will be ok as long as these terms are used correctly in proper situations.

Since I went to college, I have made many friends and we shared the same interest. My friends and I liked traveling so much. We decided to travel abroad. The destination was Thailand. We spent ten days there and had a nice trip. It was such an unforgettable trip, and I learned a lot.

自从我上大学后，我认识了很多朋友，我们有着共同的兴趣爱好。我和我的朋友们都很喜欢旅游，所以我们决定出国旅行。目的地是泰国。我们在那里逗留了10天，旅途很愉快。这是难忘的旅行啊，我学到了很多东西。

Firstly, it was my first time to travel abroad. My friends and I had made many preparations. We read the travel guide and chose the information that was useful to us. I classified the information and wrote down tourist sites. During the trip, I become much independent. Sometimes I even walked down the foreign street by myself, appreciating the beautiful scenery.

首先，这是我第一次出国旅行。我和我的朋友们做了很多准备工作，我们看了旅游指南，选择对我们有用的信息。我把信息分类并写下与旅游景点相关的信息。在旅途中，我变得更加独立，有时我甚至可以独自走在国外街头，欣赏美丽的风景。

Secondly, I broadened my vision and enrich my mind. Before I came to Thailand, I needed to read some information, then I got to know this countrys culture and their tradition. When I was in Thailand, I could feel its religious belief. Whats more, there were so many foreigners here, and I talked to them happily.

其次，我扩宽了我的视野，丰富了我的思想。来泰国之前，我需要提前阅读一些信息，然后我了解了这个国家的文化和传统。我在泰国的时候，我能感觉到它的宗教信仰，更重要的是，这里有很多外国人，我可以跟他们愉快地交流。

Traveling is a good way to learn knowledge, and I know the importance of English. It is the key to know about the world.

旅行是一种很好的学习知识的方法，而且我也了解英语的重要性，它是了解世界的关键。

今天，我们外国语学校举办了一年一度的活动——英语节。

说起英语，这可是我们学校的特色，在新密占有霸主的地位，是无人能够媲美的，所以，校长每年都为我们举办英语节。这不，激动人心的时刻即将到来，现是二年级小朋友们的节目，他们那优美的舞姿，稚嫩的歌喉，使我仿佛又回到了几年前。不知不觉中，表演就结束了，小朋友们的表演博得了我们的阵阵掌声，接着是一年级小朋友带来的表演，他们手中贴着红纸，在动听的旋律下，那红纸片就像随风摇曳的红花，在阳光下，自由的摆动。样子优美极了，赢得了大家的喝彩。接着是就是四年级，他们的舞蹈也很棒，还继承着英语歌的传统舞蹈，所以也很受欢迎。五年级的学生也不甘示弱，那叫一个赏心悦目，手中的乐器伴着音乐成了好听的节奏，传入我们的耳边，再加上那整齐的舞姿，是我们更加的佩服这群“花骨朵儿”了，接着就是压轴大戏的其中一个：杰克·迈克的《Beatit》那叫一个酷啊！潇洒的转身，酷酷的甩头，帅气的踢腿，真让人眼红啊！

英语节过得真有意思！

Down the night of snow, the next morning the snow stopped, everywhere is white, a thin layer of ice on the ground. In order to make people convenient, my grandfather and I decided to go downstairs to shovel the snow together. Put the mask on the channel of snow shovel out and clear. Grandpa strength, with shovel snow heavily, so my strength is small, with a washboard gently to shovel snow. We first shovel the snow in front of the home, I use a washboard shovel snow shovel very fast, because my door snow has not been frozen. Shovel ready before we garage shoveling, then to shovel to other places. Grandpa labor for about half an hour, and I feel very tired, so grandpa go home and rest first. After I had a short rest, we started to make a snowman ` ` ` ` ` ` until mother down we began to shovel the snow again. Mom shovel to quickly, then on the home front of the light snow to shovel a path, and then we go to another shovel the snow on the road, where the snow is so thick washboard shovel out at all, because that a lot of people walking on the road, snow and very hard, shovel and heavy, so my mother and I two people take turns to shovel. After more than an hours hard work, we finally completed the task set in advance. Although I feel very tired today, also flow a lot of sweat, but feel very happy, because this kind of work is very meaningful, hope next year and that labor opportunities.

下了一夜的雪，第二天早上雪停了，到处都是白白的一片，地上结了一层薄薄的冰。为了使行人来往方便，我和爷爷决定一起下楼去铲雪。把被掩盖的通道上的雪铲掉、扫清。爷爷力气大，所以用重重地铁铲铲雪，我力气小，用轻轻地洗衣板来铲雪。我们先铲家门前的雪，我用的洗衣板铲雪铲地非常快，因为我家门口的雪还没有结成冰。铲好了我们车库前的雪后，接着又到其它地方去铲。我和爷爷大约劳动了半个小时，都感到非常累，所以爷爷先回家休息了。我休息了一会儿后，就开始堆雪人`````` 一直到妈妈下来我们又开始铲雪了。妈妈铲地速度很快，一下子就把家门前的那一条路上的雪给铲光了，接着我们又去另一条路上铲雪，那里的雪比较厚所以洗衣板一点儿也铲不掉，因为那条路上走过的人很多，雪结的很硬，铁铲又重，所以我和妈妈两个人轮流铲。经过一个多小时的努力，我们终于完成了预先定下的任务。今天我虽然觉得很累，还流了很多汗，但却感到很开心，因为这种劳动还是很有意义的，但愿明年还有这样的劳动机会。

I have a wonderful dream in my heart. Its to speak English very well.

Since English is everything for me. English is my best friend. English is my

soul. English is my power. Without English， Im nothing at all. Nothing. Now， I

can think in English， speak in English， and write in English. Some people think

Im an Indian. Some people regard Im a Pakistan. And some people even consider

that Im an Egyptian. But if I could speak English as good as an American， my

future would be brilliant. So I work very hard.

他是一个能把周围人都逗笑的“开心果”;他是一个上课爱做小动作的“调皮蛋”;他是一个爱帮助别人的“小热心”;他还是一个总被冤枉的“倒霉鬼”。他是谁呢?他就是我的同学――吴晨雨。

吴晨雨长得胖乎乎的，干什么都在笑。他的解释就是：“笑”就是他的普通表情，他很难做到不笑。他笑起来会使本来就不大的眼睛变成一条缝，很容易使人联想到“蜡笔小新”。

有一次上英语课，他因为不停地说话，被英语老师扯着耳朵揪到了教室后面的墙角。可他的嘴还是不闲着，仍旧跟坐在后面的同学大聊特聊。老师被他气得无奈了，只得让他坐回来。

但语文课上，他的嘴仿佛就被粘住了似的，不出声了。为什么呢?哈，他可不敢在语文课上说话。否则，就会被语文老师罚跑步的!一次，他上课说话，被语文老师罚跑步。跑了大半节课了，语文老师才派人叫他上来。只见他的脸红得像秋天的柿子，表情告别了笑，皱着眉头，瞪着眼睛，那表情好像谁欠了他几百万现金不还一样，逗得全班同学都笑了起来。

同学们不论惹了什么事，都往他的身上扣，于是，他就成了一个总被冤枉的“倒霉鬼”。

一次，几个调皮的同学追打着在教室里玩，一不小心撞翻了冯童童的桌子，在冯童童来之前逃跑了。这时候吴晨雨来了，同学们一时找不到撞翻桌子的人，便一起嫁祸吴晨雨：“是他，是他把桌子撞翻了!”“他刚才跟别人打架，撞翻了桌子。”“就是就是，就是他!”吴震雨一脸的委屈，却又找不到为自己辩解的理由，只好逃跑了。

这就是吴晨雨，一个超级个性的同学。你们不觉得吗?

England is the best place I’ve ever been. Everything is so beautiful. I

spent about one and a half days on the plane. When I arrived at Heathrow Airport

in London, it was evening and the GREat trip was starting. there were many

places I v is ited in London, like Big Ben, Westminster, the Tower of

London…….those are very famous.

Most of the time in the afternoon, my parents and I sat and walked in the

park. Have you seen“Notting Hill”before? the story in the movie happens in

London. the Brit is h museum, Musee de Louver and the Metropolitan Museum of art

are the three largest museums in the world. I’ve v is ited two of them. then we

left London for Cambridge, Windsor Castle, York and Stonehenge. they were

excellent . Every small town has a h is tory of one or two thousand years. there

was an art festival called“Tutto”in Edinburgh, and there were many street

players who their lives to the shows. then we went to northern Scotland. It was

dangerous! then we went back to London, and sat in the park, and the fat geese

were so cute. That journey was the nicest memory of my life. I won’t forget

it.

Why to find suitable for you at the center of the target, you must ask

yourself these questions: where I know I to go and why? I why want to do is do?

What I want to stand and believe what? I get up every morning is for the sake of

what? The things I do every day is for the sake of what? In my life the most

important value? In fact, the reason why you set a goal is far more important

than the goal itself.

Dedicated to the pursuit of their goals and life value is clear why I have

these dreams. They spent a lot of time to think before every important aspect of

his life, they will think about who you are, what they want to do and want to

make what kind of contribution. If you do not have clear goals, also could not

find support for the urgent reason, finish your dream, you cant like

myself.

No dream, no hope, you cant do any meaningful things. If your whole life

just go with the flow, there is no goal that you cannot really love or respect

yourself.

If you just mix one day for a day, every day after work and weekend

holiday, are made with TV and boring dinner party to pass the time, then you

cant get any sense of achievement, there will be no satisfaction, let alone

happiness.

We all need to have a goal to release the full potential. The target is

larger, the greater the can inspire the potential of the. Studies show that many

people are not happy, feel pressure big, like the debate and argumentative,

because cant find meaning in life, goals and direction. They think life is too

boring!

我的同学叫车言铭，她是我们班的班长，也是我的好朋友。

车言铭留着一个蘑菇头，整齐而油亮，还随着她的动作一闪一跳的，远远望去，一眼就能在人群中发现她。她那双机灵的眼睛，像两颗黑色的珍珠。她温柔起来像一只可爱的小猫，发起火来，却像一只凶猛的老虎。

她的朗诵和背诵能力特别强，曾经获得过很多的奖项。这都是因为她特别特别爱看书，在上一个暑假里她居然看了128本书，成为我们学校的新记录。她经常在学校里向我们讲起自己看过的书，比如《笑猫日记》，杨红樱童话她都看过了，是杨红樱的超级粉丝。

有一次，下课了，车言铭在座位上看一本刚刚才出的笑猫日记——《樱花巷的秘密》，我去找她玩，说：“车言铭，我们一起去玩吧！”她却干脆地拒绝了我：“不去，我要看书。”我那天真想拉她出去陪我玩，因为我刚刚学会了一个新游戏玩法，没有她还真玩不成，我就想了各种理由，做她的“思想工作”，没想到，她嫌我打扰她看书了，就冲我大吼了一声：“不去就不去！别烦我！”我被她弄得灰头土脸，哎！没办法，只好跟别人一起去玩了。

这就是我的同学车言铭，一个十足的小书迷。

Serious Floods

The Yangzte River is the longest river in China. And its important and helpful to us Chinese. But these days the Yangtze River is bringing us serious floods.

Many villages were destroyed by floods. The floods made hundreds of millions of people lose their homes, relatives and friends. Many children cant go to school as usual .Now the foods have drawn the attention of the whole world. People from abroad have offered their help too. In China, millions of soldiers are busy fighting against the floods. They are working very hard. Many of them have lost their lives in their attempt to save the villagers.

Though we cant help them to fight against floods, we should help them to rebuild their homeland. We can present them our pocketmoney and clothes. I believe most of the people will return to their homeland in the near future.

严重的水灾

长江是中国最长的河流。它对我们中国人十分重要。但现在长江给我们带来了严重的水灾。

许多村庄被洪水冲毁于。洪水使成千上万的人失去了家园，亲戚和朋友。许多孩子不能与平常——样去学校了。现在洪水引起了全球的注意。国外的人也给予了援助。在中国，上百万的战士忙于与洪水搏斗。他们努力工作，许多人在救村民时献出了自己的生命。

尽管我们不能帮助他们抗洪，但我们可以帮他们重建家园。我们可以捐出零花钱和衣服。我相信在不久的将来大多数人会回到家乡。

The shared bikes like Mobike and Ofobring great convenience to people. You

needn’t lock them by simply using your smart phone. They can take you where the

subway and bus don’t go. And they can be left anywhere in public for the next

user.

However, bad things happen. Some people damage the QR code on the bike, or

use their own lock, which causes trouble toother users.

In my opinion, it’s difficult to turn these people’s ideas in a short time.

Therefore, bike-sharing companies like Mobike and Ofo need to do something. For

example, those who damage the bike should pay for their actions. Also, because

people use their real name to registeras a user, it’s a good way to connect to

one’spersonal credit.

In the end, what I want to say is to take good care of public services.

My mother high stature, not fat or thin, a few silk shallow wrinkles on the

forehead, often hang a smile on his face.

Mother is kind, she taught me at an early age to be honest, treat people to

be generous, since the childhood to cultivate my good character.

Remember there is one thing I always forget. It was a hot afternoon, the

sun like aball of fire to bake the earth. I do in the room, fan fan, but sweat

kept rolling down. I said to mother: "mom! The weather was too hot, hot as hell!

I want to eat Popsicle." Mother said: "go, Ill take you to buy some ice stick."

Then picked up a wallet.

Where to buy, I chose a Popsicle, mother from the purse and took out a

piece of 50 yuan to buy the ticket of uncle, uncle to find the money, my mother

and I went hurried home.

At home, mother put back counted, soliloquize ground to say: "yi? Well,

there are 7 yuan, how do I find 45 yuan?" Once I listen to and happily say:

"good! People buy really confused, looking for more 3 yuan. Mom, the 2 yuan to

me?" Mother stared my one eye, said angrily: "find the 2 yuan more, we should

give the money back, do not want the covet petty gain! Besides, somebody else

sell Popsicle more not easy!" Say that finish, mother take fire up the sun, give

somebody else sent 3 yuan.

Courage is very important. Everyone needs it. We will meet many

difficulties in our life and sometimes we will fail, but we can’t lose courage.

If we lose courage, we can’t do anything, because we don’t dare to do anything;

we are afraid of failure. This is my Chinese teacher me in the first class. I

agree with him. For example, we don’t have the courage to hands up to say our

answer, how can we know we are right or wrong. I will remember his word

forever,” never lose courage .”

More and more people now show their great interests intraveling, because

traveling can bring us a lot of benefits.

To begin with, having worked hard for a few months, traveling can release

us from high pressure. More importantly, traveling can help us acquire more

knowledge. No matter how many books we have read, there is still plenty of

knowledge for us to learn from traveling, like history, culture, custom, and

geography of the places we visit. By the way, through traveling, we can meet

many new friends and taste different kinds of delicious food.

While some people are not interested in traveling at all, since traveling

will cost a great deal of money on transportation and accommodation, and they

may feel tired after sightseeing as well.

As far as I’m concerned, the advantages of traveling are more than its

disadvantages, so if our time and finance permit, we can travel to some nice

places every year, in order to make our life more colorful and vivid.

I sit at the same table, ZhongWenJuan call. She is not high, the figure some fat, round head, big eyes, very lovely. I took a privately to her nickname: aunt clock. Why give her such a laoqiguangqiu nickname? Because she like big niang do anything.

First, her tone as big niang. I slightly procured（招惹）， she is a hit me. Sometimes the fork wear a waist said: "the kid, old niang, want to live."

In addition, she also like the big niang warrn-hearted behavior. Remember this semester, I wrote, approved by the teacher didn’t approve her pen to write, she had to write? GangBiZi. While I go to the toilet that day, when she secretly to help me write with a pen finished homework. Clock woman! You don’t help me, because it is kiss! I still have to redo again…

Aunt clock normally giggly（嘻嘻哈哈）， loquacious character is like a woman. The thing about the clock too big niang, three days and three nights also does not say. Oh, mama! Clock woman comes, I slipped quickly…

[中学英语作文My classmate(我的同学)

People often say that gold and silver are the most valuable things in the

world.But

I dont think so. In my opinion, to read books is more valuable than

anything else.

The old saying “To open a book is always helpful” clearly tells us how good

it is to read a book.

Books are our friends. They introduce us different kinds of knowledge. They

lead us down the road to success.

Books are our teachers. They teach us troth, science, literature, and

philosophy of life. Besides, they increase our knowledge, enlarge our

experience,strengthen our character and do many other things which we can not do

without them.

Books tell us what is good and what is evil. And only books can tell the

good from the bad.

Therefore to read more books is the best policy for our young students.

For the first time in everyones experience! For example: the first time to

ride a bicycle, write a book, play a computer for the first time, keep a dog for

the first time, etc! And my first time is climbing!

On a sunny holiday, our family unanimously decided to take exercise -

climbing Maanshan! Maanshan ecological park is located in the south of Yangwu

village, Daling mountain. The main peak is 329.2 meters above sea level. It is

divided into two small peaks at the front and back. It is named Maanshan because

of its shape similar to Maanshan. It used to be a quarry. All the stones mined

were transported to all parts of the city as building materials, bringing

considerable economic benefits to the local area and seriously damaging the

ecological environment. In order to build a civilized, harmonious and ecological

home, the village committee decided to close the quarry and invest 5 million

yuan to build it into an ecological park. Now there are Jinling, Qixingling,

Jiti stone, Qilin mountain and other scenic spots. When I came to the foot of

Maanshan, I stared at the top of Maanshan stupidly. In my mind, I thought of the

complacent expression of climbing to the mountain. After that, I cant wait to

follow the route to the top of the mountain!

At first, I was a living tiger, just like a hungry tiger, flying to the top

of the mountain! The road is getting steeper and steeper, and the fork road runs

across. Its half the way to the top of the mountain. After a long time, the

physical strength is naturally consumed and the knowledge is not much. Im

sweating!! Seeing thousands of houses, cars and pedestrians under my feet, I

secretly encouraged myself: there is still a little way to go, stick to it, and

soon climb to the top of the mountain, dont be discouraged, learn to stick to it

on this road! Only persistence can make people succeed! Time flows silently on

me. I climb to the top of the mountain. I am ecstatic and rush forward in one

breath. Finally climbed to the top of the mountain! Ah! The scenery at the top

of the mountain is so intoxicating and impressive!

As if everything under my feet is my world! The whole village can be seen

clearly. I learned a truth from it, that is: in life, whether it is laid-off, or

encountered difficulties, or be fired and so on. Dont be discouraged. As a human

being, we should learn not to be discouraged in the face of difficulties. In all

kinds of tests of life, just like climbing a mountain, we cant give up halfway,

as long as we stick to it, we will succeed!