初二年级英语作文(经典20篇)

Low carbon life is a kind of environmental protection, saving and fashionable way of life. Electricity saving, water saving, fuel-efficient, throttle can help us to low carbon life into reality.

At present, our earth mother is "fever", warming the earth. Caused by the earth mother catches the "disease" culprit is a huge carbon emissions. However, to "cure disease" is not without its way. Nowadays, low carbon era had pulled, is changing our lives.

In fact, low carbon in the us. Such as: summer, we use air conditioning dont use too long, a few hours to shut the air conditioner, to open electric fan, it can save 50% of the electricity; Keep food in the refrigerator, the amount of food the best accounts for 80% of the volume, with the bag after the water cooling in freezer, such, can not only extend the downtime, can also reduce the boot time, saves the electricity; Created by the DIY craft again, you will find that the original waste is treasure, household environment that healthy and full of creative little joy.

Often start work at ordinary times, diligent brain, also can achieve low carbon life. Adds up the rest of the tea tea at ordinary times, can do a tea pillow; Do with short pencil, a pen cap, set in the above, you can then use; The rest of the small soap with soap, accumulate over a long period, also can into a soap.

In addition, travel, try to walk, ride a bike, ride the bus and subway more, less private cars; To use less disposable things; Open the computer or TV time not too long, about a few hours off.

低碳生活是一种环保、节约又时尚的生活方式。节电、节水、节油、节气可以帮助我们将低碳生活变成现实。

目前，我们的地球母亲正在“发烧”——地球变暖。而导致这次地球母亲染上这“病”的罪魁祸首就是巨大的碳排放量。不过，要治“病”也不是没有办法的。如今，低碳时代已经如约而至，正在改变着我们的生活。

其实，低碳就在我们的身边。比如：夏天，我们用空调不要用太长时间，几个小时后就关上空调，再开电风扇，这样可以省50%的电;在冰箱内放食物时，食物量最好占容积的80%，用袋子装上水制冷后放入冷藏，这样，既能延长停机时间，也能减少开机时间，更省电;经过手工DIY的再创造，你会发现原来废物也是宝，这样的家居环境健康且充满了创意的小欢乐。

平时勤动手，勤动脑，也可以实现低碳生活。平时喝茶剩下的茶叶积攒起来，可以做一个茶叶枕头;用短的铅笔，做一个笔套，套在上面，可以接着用;用肥皂剩下的小肥皂，日积月累，也能成一个肥皂。

另外，平时出行尽量步行，多骑自行车，多乘坐公交车和地铁，少开私家车;少用一次性的东西;开电脑或是电视的时间都不要太长，大约几小时就关掉。

This is the way I maked all the students happy.

One Monday. Tom and I went to Simons office. Suddenly, I was slipping and fell, because there was some water on the floor.

When I stood up I thought: If I took the mop and dry the floor, nobody would slip and fall. then, I took the mop and dry the floor. Tom also helped me drying the floor.

So I maked all the students happy.

Panda has a black and white coat.Adults measure around 1.5 meters long and around 75 centimeters tall at the shoulder.It has a body shape typical of bears.It has black fur on its ears,eye patches,muzzle,legs,arms and shoulders.

The rest of the animals coat is white.

The lovely panda is one of the few animals that has been surviving for millions of years on the earth.Its a moving antique now.

Care has to be taken though as the number is dwindling due to deforestation by mankind,hunting by unscrupulous hunters for money,reduction in food (baby bamboos) and also difficulty in conceiving.

每当我看到楼下孩子们拿着冲锋枪追打嬉笑时，我就不禁想起自己童年那次“比武大会”和那时那个幼稚的我……

在我很小的时候，曾经看过爸爸收藏的一本繁体武侠小说，看着里面的插图，觉得那些手持棍棒刀剑行走江湖的大侠实在是酷极了。渐渐地，我开始模仿他们的样子，连一支扫帚都要被我摆弄上半天。

一个晴朗的下午，我和我的伙伴们刚从幼儿园回来。我的好朋友约我去后院参加孩子们的“比武大会”。我们搬来大石头，堆成一小山堆，争着摆出各自拿手的架势。不知谁说了句：“谁敢用轻功跳下去？”伙伴们立刻炸开了锅，相互不停地议论着。这时，无知又无畏的我走上前去，说：“让开让开，你们不行。我学过轻功，我可以从上面跳下去！”众人的目光一齐汇聚到了我的身上。

我大步流星地走上前去，得意地攀上石堆，披上旧报纸“披风”，头上插着一对狗尾巴草，学着大侠的样子仰天长啸了一阵。这时我仿佛感到我就是个盖世无双，所向无敌的大侠！我做出超人的pose，大喊一声：“本大侠要飞起来喽！”话音未落，我便纵身一跃，“飞”了下去。

虽然当时的天气并不寒冷，但我还是清晰地感到一股凉风掠过我的指间，我的头发也被风撩乱了。惊魂未定的我正准备用漂亮的着地姿势弥补我表情上的“不协调”，忽然“趴”的一声，只觉得脸上火辣辣的疼——我坠落在了地上，还摔了个“嘴啃泥”。我从泥堆里爬起来，拍了拍满身的灰土，勉强地对大家说：“不好意思，献丑啦！”

“何依然!吃晚饭了！”呀！这是爷爷的声音！哇，这下可惨了！爷爷看到我浑身是土的样子，哭笑不得：“你怎么变成这个样子啦？快回家去！”我一脸懊丧地被爷爷“拖”了回去。临走时，我还不忘朝小伙伴们拱手作揖：“哇……本大侠要走啦！后会有期！！！”

多年以后，尽管那片“比武台”已经成为一片停车场，可我仰望那曾经有过我们欢笑的那一角蔚蓝的天空，仍会回忆起我童年时的零星记忆。我想，它们也许不会因为时光的流逝和地域的改变而随风散去吧！想当年我们手牵手数星星、跳皮筋的日子，是那样熟悉，又有些模糊。我闭上眼睛，生怕这些记忆消逝在三月的阳光中。童年重临于我的心头。

mid-autumn day

mid-autumn day is a traditional festival in china. almost everyone likes to eat mooncakes on that day. most families have a dinner together to celebrate the festival. a saying goes, "the moon in your hometown is almost always the brightest and roundest". many people who live far away from homes want to go back to have a family reunion. how happy it is to enjoy the moon cakes while watching the full moon with your family members.

Last day off , I had a great time, In the morning, I got up very early,

after eating breakfast,I went to Wenzhou Zoo and saw some seals , sharks and

dolphin’s show. I bought some souvenirs. Then I went out playing basketball with

my good friend Jim for one hour, then we swam at the pool , We had some

hambergars and coke for lunch at KFC. We also had some fruit ice-cream.We had a

rest for one and a half hours, then we went to Xinhua bookshop and read some

books.we went to Zhongshan Park , we bought some souvenirs,and the park is very

beautiful, we took lots of photos there. We enjoyed ourselves very much.

Guangzhou is the capital of guangzhou. it is the biggest city in south china. and it is one of the most important cities in guangdong.

the population of guangzhou is more than 700 million. just like many cities， there are a lot of cars， buses and trucks. so the air in the city is not clean. guangzhou is a noisy and crowded city. but i like it best. because guangzhou is my home.

Human, science and nature, the three phase was quoted rates are inseparable. The wonders of nature, a little thing, through the baptism of the time, and meticulous observation, often can give a person with enlightenment.

Vast forests, sunshine give plants grace, to be able to get the nutrients and thrive. Such as the morning sun open the eyes of animals, everything is ready. Squirrels, squirrel, embarks from the house, looking for full sweet red pine nuts, all kinds of plant seeds and slowly by seeding them to other places. While the weasel feed on smaller herbivores, sable and then ate the weasel... As if people eat the big fish, big fish eat small fish, small fish eat shrimp, shrimp eat plankton, interlocking between RACES, interdependence restricts each other.

Foreign scientists have done an experiment: introduce the sheep in a rare nature reserve, where the bamiyan, natural environment is superior, and there is special personnel to the group of kids to their natural enemies, Wolf, moved to another place. So the sheep started in the breeding. Until grass and low shrubs are eaten, the number of sheep instead of less. Because they live too comfortable, there is no enemy attack, the number that is too carefree life let their constitution also fell. Then the scientists tried to introduce wolves again. The result is in the relationship between predator and prey, good robust species to survive, wolves eat sick defect part. Natural selection and evolution, has been the nature and even the survival of human society the same criteria.

Cut down some trees, is to destroy a part of birds and insects; Killing of bees, small fish, can also cause cannot spread pollen, fish cannot reproduce problem... Sabotaged a part of the food chain, will bring ill-defined disaster. Because in front of the natural fair, each species, each independent individual organisms is so beautiful and full of value.

Because of the diversity of species and colorful nature. Want to live in harmony with her and get the kind of treatment, will be good to nature, to understand the nature, and have good at discovering and innovative mind.

人类、科学、自然，这三者相生相息密不可分。大自然的奇妙之处在于：一件小小的事物，经过时间的洗礼以及细致入微的观察，往往能给人以启示。

广袤的森林中，阳光雨露给予植物恩泽，使其能够得到养料然后茁壮成长。等清晨的阳光掀开动物们的眼睛，一切也准备好了。松鼠、灰鼠从居所里出发，寻找饱满香甜的红松子，各种植物的种子于是慢慢的被他们带到其他的地方落地生根。而此时黄鼠狼以体型较小的草食动物为食，紫貂继而吃掉了黄鼠狼……就好像人吃大鱼，大鱼吃小鱼，小鱼吃虾米，虾米又吃浮游生物一样，各种族之间环环相扣，相互依存相互制约着。

外国的科学家曾做过一个实验：将一种稀有的羊引进自然保护区，那里水草丰美，自然环境优越，并且还有专门的人员为这群天之骄子将她们的天敌——狼，迁往另外的地方。于是羊群开始在此生息繁衍。直到草和低矮的灌木被吃光了，羊群的数量反而越来越少。原来是因为它们生活的太过安逸，没有天敌进犯，数量过于膨胀，太过悠闲的生活让它们的体质也下降了。后来科学家们尝试着再一次引进狼群。结果是在捕食者与猎物的关系中，健壮优良的品种得以存活，狼群则吃掉病弱残疾的部分。物竞天择，优胜劣汰，一直都是自然界乃至人类社会不变的生存准则。

砍掉了某种树林，就等于灭绝了一部分鸟类、昆虫;捕杀蜜蜂、幼小鱼类，也会造成花粉无法传播，鱼群无法繁衍的问题……大肆破坏生物链中的某一环，都会带来难以言说的灾难。因为在公平的自然面前，每个物种，每个独立的生物个体都是如此的美丽而富有价值。

大自然因为物种的多样性而五彩缤纷。想要与她和谐相处并得到其慈祥的对待，就要善待自然，了解自然，并拥有一刻善于发现与创新的心。

在维持自然平衡中，每种动物都有其作用。下面就是小编跟大家分享一篇初二英语作文保护动物，欢迎大家阅读！

保护动物初二英语作文一：Protect endangered animals

There are more and more endangered animals at present,so how to protect them has been our task of top priority . Its wrong for people to hunt animals for their meat and feather,for they are our good friends.We should protect them instead of killing them.Giant pandas,which are one of the endangered animals,live in the forests and live on bamboo lealves.They can just live safely in the natural protection zones.We should stop killing animal and protect them.

保护动物初二英语作文二：How to protect the animals？

Animals are our friends.But how to protect them? government is working to protect all animals in danger,and has made lots of plans to save animals. On the other hand, we shouldn’t eat wild animals.We should keep them away from our dinner. That way,there will not be wild animals on sale. I think the hunters and killers will become fewer and fewer.

Last, we should protect the environment.We should stop people from cutting trees down. Without trees, wild animals will lose their home. And we will lose our animal friends. All of us should try our best to protect animals.

We need to protect animals better.We should give them fresh water to drink.We should make the forests bigger for animals in danger to live in.We should advice people not to kill animals beacause they are our friends!

保护动物初二英语作文三：Save the Wild Animals

Many wild animals are facing the danger of extinction, because the environment that they are living in has changed greatly. For example, with the developmet of cities, the using of insecticide and serious pollution, their living areas have become narrowcr and narrower. Many of the wild animals, now are confronted with food crisis. At the same time, man is killing off species just for getting their fur, skin, horns, teeth and meat.

In order to protect our resources of ecology, people should realize that the loss of any species is at least the loss of source of knowledge and a source of natural beauty. There fore, measures of the following should be taken: pollution standards are made to keepdown poisons; killing off certain rare species is prohibited; national parks should be set up as wild life, reserves.

Only if we human beings take some drastic measures can wild animals be preserved.

保护动物初二英语作文四：Protect Panda

The giant panda is known as the national treasure of China. The panda was a kind of ordinary animal in China long ago. However, for some reasons, too many of them have been killed. So the number of them is falling quickly.

At present people are taking an important measure to save pandas. People want to find a home for them, and recently, they have set up a nature park for them in Sichuan Province,which is called "Pandas Home. "There pandas can enjoy their life happily. There is a bamboo forest near the Pandas Home. So the pandas can find bamboos easily which they like to eat very much. .

Because pandas are well protected now, the number of them is increasing every year. We hope that one day we will have enough pandas to set them free and let them live in the wild again.

Pandas are good friends of man. Man should try to protect them and ]et them live in the way they like!

[初二英语作文保护动物

There have been many environmental protection problems in recent years . One of the most serious problem is greenhouse gas emissions have caused climate change ,At the same time ,lots of trees have been used and wasted.So our earth is becoming warmer and warmer . .That brings us illnesses and death.

Luckily ，,many countries have done a lot to stop environmental pollution。Its the most important in the environmental protection today.

In my opinion ,on the one hand ,through education we should make people realize that destroying the environment means destroying ourselves,..On the other hand ,we should try to do something to produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions.

In a word .we must develop low-carbon economy

现在这些年已经有很多关于保护环境的问题。其中最严重的一个问题就是温室气体排放已经造成了气候改变。同时，很多树木被砍伐掉了，而且大量别的资源已经被用完或者浪费。所以我们的地球变得越来越温暖(热)。这样带给我们的是疾病和死亡。。

幸运的是，很多国家已经采取了很多措施来控制环境污染问题。如今，这是最重要保护环境的措施。

我认为，一方面，虽然教育我们应该让人们意识到破坏环境就是伤害人类自己。另一方面，我们应该尽力做一些事情来控制温室气体增长。

总之，我们必须发展低碳经济。

Every body wants to succeed. But when it comes to the question that which

factor leads to success, opportunity or hard-work, different people will offer

different answers.

Some people think that opportunity is the first factor leading to success.

They hold the idea, as a proverb saying, “Man proposes, god disposes”. Because

almost all successful people have good luck and have caught their valuable

opportunities, they believe that opportunity is a leading condition of the

success. If seizes and makes the best use of opportunity available, one can

succeed surely. In summary, to them, chances and lucks play the most important

role on the road to success.

However, others maintain that “no pains, no gains” .Without exerting

oneself, one could never expect to achieve success in no matter what one is

doing. As is known to all, there is no royal road to the summit of success. One

is likely to succeed only when one has worked with whole-hearted devotion and

perseverance. Those who are lazy, sloppy and indifferent to their work, those

who never concentrate on work will definitely end in failure. On the whole, as

far as they are concerned, hard-working is the decisive factor to success.

In my view, both hard work and opportunity eventually matters. They are

inseparable from each other, and put together, they make a great success. Hard

work is to luck what fish is to water, and can be seen as an interior

precondition of success. It lays the corner-stone for building a house while

luck serves to cement it, to make the building bricks adherent to one another.

They are the twins that contribute to success together. They are the factors

from within and without respectively. We must work hard, make efforts and get

prepared. When opportunities come, meet and make full use of them. Only in this

way can we succeed one day.

Do you know thanksgiving day? do you know why human thank god?

Thanksgiving falls on the fourth thursday of november, a different date every year. the president must proclaim that date as the official celebration.

Thanksgiving is a time for tradition and sharing. even if they live far away, family members gather for a reunion at the house of an older relative. all give thanks together for the good things that they have.

In this spirit of sharing, civic groups and charitable organizations offer a traditional meal to those in need, particularly the homeless. on most tables throughout the united states,foods eaten at the first thanksgiving have become traditional.

What should we thank?

The thankful great universe provides the environment of existence for us and give us sunlight,air, water and everything in keeping with we existence of space, bring storm to let us accept to toughen for us, bring to us mysterious let us look for.

The thankful parents give us the life, make us feel the merriment of the human life, feel the genuine feeling of the human life, feel the comity of the human life, feel happiness of the human life, also feel hardships and pain and sufferings of the human life!

The thankful teacher works with diligence and without fatigue everyday of teach, give us knowledge ability, put on the wing which flies toward the ideal for us.

The thankful classmate and friend grows up road of, let i no longer standing alone in the itinerary of life; the with gratitude is frustrated and let us become in a time the failurestronger.

How time flies, it is a year, this morning, the winter holiday will begin school. I like past holidays, there will always be on the first day of the holiday started, make a plan for the feasible, purpose is in order to be able to make myself in the holiday, have a more happy and substantial, and can learn more knowledge outside, and after a joy.

I want to develop my interests and hobbies, I want to practice calligraphy, together with dad grow up can also write good word. See the TV news report, understand the society. I more exercise and keep healthy.

I want to insist on keeping a diary, composition. Before, I write diary "dry", mainly is the lack of observation; Later, Im going to look at 30 minutes a day of extra-curricular, put some thoughts and recorded during winter vacation, and some meaningful person or thing written in the article. See some excellent composition, learn other peoples writing strengths. To find on the Internet to write good articles, learn from somebody elses learning. In addition, I have a brochure, called "diary of a small material", at ordinary times is trivial to observe, record some wonderful things, writing an article that is a good material! When the time comes to write something, then dont worry about "theres nothing to write"!

Visiting relatives and friends, do civilized manners, respect their elders, to the relatives and friends about their own learning, to their peers share their experiences in learning.

This is my winter vacation plan, I not only want to strengthen learning, also want to do more to help parents, do you think I do this winter holiday plan?

时间过得真快,转眼又是一年,今天上午，学校开始放寒假了。我与以往放假时一样，总会在假期开始的第一天，订一个切实可行的计划，目的是为了能够使自己在假期中，过得更加的充实和快乐，并能学习到更多的校外知识，欢欢喜喜喜过个年。

我要培养我的兴趣和爱好，我要跟爸爸一起练练书法，长大以后也能够写一手好字。多看电视里的新闻报道，了解社会。我还要多锻炼身体，保持身体健康。

我要坚持写日记、作文。以前，我写的日记“干干的”，主要就是缺少观察;以后，我打算每天看三十分钟的课外书，在寒假期间把一些所见所闻记录下来，并把有一些有意义的人或事写成文章。看一些优秀的作文，学习别人的写作长处。在网上查找写的好的文章，向人家学习学习。另外，我还要一个小册子，起名为“日记小材料”，平时发生一点小事都要留心观察，把一些精彩的东西记录下来，那可是写文章的好材料哟!到时候要写东西，那就不愁“没事可写”了!

走亲访友，做到文明礼貌，尊敬长辈，向亲戚朋友介绍自己的学习情况，向同龄人交流学习心得。

这就是我的寒假计划，我不但要加强学习，也要多帮爸妈做事，大家觉得我这个寒假计划怎么样?

陪伴着我生活的人，有把我放在口里怕融，托在手掌会怕我冷的妈妈，有把我当成宝贝的爸爸。但外婆给我的印象最深刻。

我的外婆一生算是活的精彩活的有价值。她是一位清洁工。职位低微，当确为着人们默默奉献。在社会上是那样，在家里又是一位出色的母亲，把我妈妈，大姨，舅舅们寒心如苦的带大，饱经风霜后又把我带大，直到我懂事。

她是那么的慈祥、和蔼。她的脸上的皱纹就仿佛是那用笔勾勒过的不显示出她的年龄而显的她的一生是多么坎坷。就是经过那那么多的坎坷之后她把所有的经验，给于了我们，是那么的彻底，明白。

她对小辈的付出真是恩重如山，相比之下，我的那点可怜的回报却显得多么的渺小、多么的单薄、多么的苍白！我常在心里说，外婆，将来我会竭尽全力孝敬您老人家的，您就等着享清福吧！

Last Monday when I stepped into my classroom, my monitor told us that our class teacher, Mr Sun, had passed away in a traffic accident. It seemed so unbelievable because he used to give us lessons on Monday morning. I couldnt accept the fact until the headmaster came to tell us the truth.

Mr Sun was a middle-aged teacher. He was full of sense of humour. We all liked him very much because of his excellent teaching. His lessons were usually very lively and interesting.We all liked to attend his class. He was an experienced teacher.

Mr Sun will always live in our hearts!

There is the famous saying of live and learn, which inspires so many people

to keep moving on when they want to give up. Age is always the reason for people

to give up, but some people insist on doing what they want and enjoy the

success. An old woman took part in a famous show. When she started to dance, the

judges felt a little bored at the beginning, so he gave a "no" for showing his

opinion. The old woman continued to dance, then the audience was shocked by the

old ladys wonderful action. She was like a cheerleader, jumping and turning

over her body. The judge apologized and gave her the great applause. The old

lady just picked up her dance after her husband died. She found the pleasure and

all her families supported her.

A long summer vacation will soon be past, reviewing this summer, colorful, mix, with hard work, have a happy outcome, sightseeing, enjoy leisure... Really it is productive to harvest the results summarized as follows:

1. Getting to know a lot of xiangjiang safari park I have never seen the animals.

2. Back will be a lot of tang poetry.

3. Learned to origami.

4. Learned how to swim, do nothing to hard.

5. Read a lot of outside reading.

My biggest harvest is learned to play chess, chess is not difficult, the rules are simple, want to win each step must be careful, otherwise, will not win.

My summer vacation life is sunshine, a bright and happy. Do you like me?

漫长的暑假很快就要过去了，回顾这个暑假，丰富多彩，劳逸结合，有辛苦的耕耘，有幸福的成果，有观光游览，有尽情的休闲……真可谓的是收获多多把收获结果总结如下：

1。去香江野生动物园认识了很多我从来没见过的动物。

2。背会啦很多唐诗。

3。学会了折纸。

4。学会了游泳，动了做什么事都要刻苦。

5。阅读了很多课外读物。

我最大的收获是学会了下国际象棋，国际象棋并不难，规则很简单，要想战胜对方必须得每步谨慎，否则，就不会胜利。

我的暑假生活是阳光的、灿烂的、快乐的。你们和我一样吗?

My best friend is Li Ming. We are in the same class.

He is as old as me, but he is taller and stronger than me. Both of us have black eyes and black hair, but his hair is shorter than mine.

As for hobbies, we have something in common  in some ways. I like the friends who have the same hobbies with me. Both of us like sports. We often exercises together after school. But he is more outgoing and better at sports than me. Besides, collecting stamps is our same hobby, too. We often exchange our stamps with each other.

About the learning, I think I’m a little smarter than him. Most of my subjects are better than his, so I often help him with his study.

My hometown is in Gansu Lixian, there are many mountains.

In the distance, the mountains look like a green planet surrounded by forests. The stone on the mountain dressed the mountain as a world of stone.

The trees grow more luxuriantly in summer and dress up as green cashmere. The mountain terraces like people walking the steps, also like the mountains in Grandpa smile.

The mountain became a yellow world in autumn, and the fruits and crops were ripe, and the mountain was like a magician, constantly changing crops and fruits for human beings.

In winter the mountains covered with a white dress, like an angel, in the fog, the mountains like a bottomless mountain, no matter how you cant see the mountain bottom.

This is the mountain of my hometown all the year round, I love it.

Before the summer vocation coming , I expierence so much,Such as being a teacher ,holding ceremony for our graduate ,joinning cet 6,I recon that I am more and more mature and confidence.

The last summer vocation ,I should have been gone to Guangzhou and open my horizon like feel the sense of sitting train ,subway ,seeing sea and soon on,I have ever done so many daydreams in my life,however ,unfortunately,I have to stay changsha ,due to a succession of subjective and obejective reasons.

Never mind ,I don’t care abot where I stay , as long as I happy with my life,I can learn some communications means enough.

The last summer vocation deserve to me treature,I should depict colourful and marverlous frame ,adding kinds of tastes into my daily life ,It lead me optimistic more.

My mother is sixty-three years old, and for the last forty year she has

been the village doctor. She has a small clinic that she prepares medicine and

treats small injuries, and also sells canned powder milk. Our house has people

in and out at all hours of the day and night. The villagers always like to come

to her clinic to see the doctor and to meet their neighbors, too. Almost all the

villagers come to my mother when their baby is due. My mother is very good at

predicting the day the baby will come. Sometimes my mother will not get enough

sleep if the babies come late at night or early in the morning. There are

special rooms for the mother and baby, and usually they stay at the doctors

house about twenty-four hours. We always like to see the new babies get their

first bath because they look so red and small. All the village people know and

trust my mother because she is such a quiet, kind, and experienced friend of

theirs.