感谢朋友的英语作文以信的方式【汇总20篇】

亲爱的小朋友们：

你们好!

虽然我们之前从来没有见过面说过话，但是我觉得我的这封信寄到你们手中的时候，我们便已经是朋友了。我的朋友们都说我是一个好相处，活泼开朗的女孩。如果我们成为朋友相信我们也会相处的很愉快。

我曾经和爸爸妈妈一起去过你们的家乡。虽然很贫困，但是却有我们这里看到的美景。你们那里的空气很好，我觉得一到你们那里心情就变得畅快了很多。虽然你们的生活很艰辛，但是你们却很乐观很积极的生活学习着。

你们因交不起书费，只好背着沉重的箩筐去卖菜。而作为同龄人的我呢?坐在宽敞明亮的教室里读书。在生活上养成了衣来伸手，饭来张口的坏习惯。更不要说自己去背筐买菜赚钱了。看到你们生活艰苦，我为自己的行为感到惭愧。

我的家乡很繁华也很喧嚣。如果你们能来到我的家乡，我会带你们到风光秀丽的荀子公园，带你们到一片金黄的黄花岭，红如火焰的红叶岭……去参观游玩。我会随时欢迎你们的到来。

刚开学不久，我们班就举行了和远方小朋友“手拉手”的活动，同学们都准备捐铅笔，橡皮，书本，铅笔刀……虽然这些物品对你们来说是杯水车薪，但这是我们的一点心意。

祝你们

身体健康快快乐乐!

John is my good friend. John is my good friend. He is twelve. He is English. We are in the same (同一个) school. We are not in the same class. His father Mr Black is a cook. He is forty-five. His mother is not a cook. She is a nurse. She is forty-two. John has a sister. Her name is Alice. She is twenty-one. She is a new teacher at our school.

In the Northern Street of Paris, there sat an old man with white hair and a

stick. He was blind, and nobody wanted to help him. One day a noble man came to

this street and saw the old man with blind eyes, he asked, “Excuse me, don’t you

bother? But, I just want to ask how much did you get today this morning?” “Oh! I

didn’t get anything!” cried the old man in a sad tune, and then the noble man

realized that next to the old man was a cardboard paper, and on were the word,

“I can’t see anything!” and also realized that the people who passed this place

will just look at the paper, smiled; and went away to do their own things. Since

this man was a noble man, he knew what to do to make everybody happy.

And so he took all the money he had in him which was $12, and placed it in

a bowl near him; and then he took out his pen which he had in his hand all

along, and wrote the some words in front of the words that are already on; and

these were the words, “The spring has come, but;” these words, and then went

away. In the evening, the noble man came visiting this place again, he saw the

old man sitting down as usual and asked him, “Well how much did you get this

afternoon then?”

The old man smiled, “Noble man, I don’t know what you did but the people

that gave me money this afternoon were so many that even god couldn’t count

them!” and then the noble looked at the bowl with money and stroked his beard

while he smiled.

“The spring has come, but I can’t see anything!” these words could be so

much use, it might produce that the noble man in this story has technology,

which made the poor blind man happy.

Although this noble man which we are talking about helped the old man, but

he also remembered what the other people did. People asked him many other

questions, and the noble man of course answered them all. Some of the people in

town that didn’t want to help the blinded old man were locked up in jail for

their cruelty instead of kindness.

The moral of this story is, when you see somebody that is in need, go and

help them and you will feel better in the end.

My summer holiday is coming soon, I start to make some plans about my

vacation. I go to travel every year, this time, I want to travel to Tibet, it is

the place I always want to go to. I have heard about Tibet many times, my

mother’s friends tell me so many wonderful things in it, so I want to go to

Tibet. This summer I will go to Tibet.

Dear teacher,

Hello!

It is also a harvest season and a safe season. On this special holiday, On behalf of all the students in the Class of Business School x, I would like to extend my most sincere holiday wishes to the teachers!

Time travel, the passage of time, in the blink of an eye we from a naughty child to sensible youth. Two years ago, it was the teacher who brought us to the university gate. In the past two years, we have felt the care of the teachers relatives.

As a Chinese saying goes, "teachers are teachers, so they impart knowledge and solve doubts". In the classroom, I can still see the busy figure of teachers. They impart their lifes knowledge to us without reservation and patiently teach us. I remember that one of our international trade professional teachers often give us lessons in sickness, listening to her hoarse voice so far I can not imagine; We did not have water to drink in the training room. She brought us water to drink by boiling it herself and took care of us like a kind mother.

"A day as a teacher, a lifetime as a mother," in the life of the teacher meticulous care to take care of us. Just entered the university we are not used to the university life, teachers often come to our dormitory to visit us and chat with us. I remember one time when a student in our dormitory got sick at 2 o clock in the evening. After dialing the teacher, the teacher immediately came to accompany him to the hospital. He didnt come back to school until 7 o clock in the morning. When we thank, the teacher said such a situation often happen, you do not need to thank, this is what we should do.

"Happy to go home, safe return to school" every holiday home, business school will be under the leadership of Secretary Xu visited each dormitory, exhort ten thousand safety first.

Out of the school, review the reading career bit by bit, campus events in mind. The heart of gratitude, the presence of exhibitors: do not forget the hard work of teachers, teachers do not respect the teachings. According to the preliminary understanding of the X class of business school internship situation is optimistic. Ask 13 classes of students, most of the number has been in the unit internship. There are internship in foreign trade companies, logistics companies internship also some in the factory tracking orders, like a large number of students chain classes are in the supermarket internship...... Different students are distributed across different industries. They are conscientious in their posts and study hard to live up to their teachers expectations.

Remember that President Wang once said to us: even if you go out of the school but the teachers and students love continuous, always depend on; On campus, you are proud of your school. On campus, the school is proud of you. We will return the teacher with excellent results, live up to the teachers expectations of us.

"Spring silkworm to the death of silk, wax torch ashes tears before dry", looking back yesterday, looking forward to the Ming Dynasty, we thank the teacher for our dedication. Finally to all the teacher sincere tunnel 1: "hard work, teacher!" And I would like to express my highest respect to you! May teachers flourish and peaches and plums fragrance all over the world!

advance

Salute!

Since the swallow had brought back the prince’s red gem, he could at last

stay; but one night as soon as he was about to return to the Egypt, the happy

prince said to the little swallow, “OH little swallow, please stay with me for

one last night?” the swallow replied, “Oh dear prince, I couldn’t stay with you

any longer, my friends are waiting for me and…” “Oh please little swallow, you

must obey me;” the swallow sighed and said, “All right I shall stay with you for

one last night.”

The swallow then took a breath, after that he continued, “What is the

request that you want me to do dear prince?” the prince said to the swallow,

“See that poor old man writing a story, he is very hungry; and I could tell by

his face,” “What do you want me to give to him dear prince?” asked the swallow,

as if he had so many questions to ask; “I want you to take out my blue eye ball,

it is like a gem, and bring it to the man so that he could finish his act; and

be happy once more.”

At these words the swallow said, “OH my dear prince, I couldn’t do that! I

swear! Because…” “No little swallow, you must do what I say, and help that poor

man!” at these words, the swallow had no choice but to obey, he took out the

other prince’s eye; with a squeak, as if he was helping the poor prince to

recover from his pain.

When the swallow flew to the man with the blue sapphire gem, he felt the

warm wind of the spring dancing around in his brain. When he arrived, he placed

the gem under the man’s face, and flew back to the prince. When he returned, the

prince asked the swallow, “Did you succeed?” asked the prince joyfully, “I did,

and I hope the man enjoys it too.

The man awoke eventually, when he saw the blue sapphire gem; he said

happily, “What on the world is this? somebody actually likes my plays, yes! Now

I can finish my play;” and he began to write. The next day, the swallow flew

away to Egypt and before that he said to the prince, “I am going to fly away to

Egypt today and…” “Oh please little swallow, oh please can you stay with me for

one last night?” but the swallow was very satisfied, “But, dear prince; I can’t

do that, my friends are waiting for me and it is getting colder and colder here;

I have to go to Egypt, where the sun is hot, and it is warm and cool there;”

“You must little swallow, you must stay with me for one last night,” “Dear

prince, I couldn’t and…” “Swallow this can’t be, you have to stay with me; I

command you!” the little swallow had no choice but to obey.

“Okay prince, what is your command?” “See that poor little girl on the

road, she is selling matches; it is Christmas day, and she hadn’t even sold one

match. But she dares not to go home; because her father was a cruel man, and he

would punish her and hit her hard and say mean words to her if she doesn’t bring

home any money. She is crying bitterly, and I want you to do something that I

want; which is very important, I now realize that helping people is good since

it feels good.”

“Well what do you suggest me to do dear prince?” “I want you to take my

sword’s red gem off again, and give it to her so that she can bring home,” “OH

my dear prince!” shouted the swallow in the loudest voice, “I can’t do that, you

will lose your sword’s red gem and…” “No swallow, you must do what I tell you,

or face your doom!” and so the swallow brought the red gem to the little girl by

wings, the little girl looks at it and smiled, “That is nice! But it is still

not enough as my father wished me to give it to him;” then she began to sigh and

cry again, the swallow heard what the girl had just said; he said to himself,

“What a picky girl!” when he flew back, he didn’t tell the prince the message

that he had just received from the little girl; but he still was very cold.

He knew that since he did not help the poor little girl, he felt bad; and

so that was the reason why he was cold. He was very sad; and when he was about

to fly to Egypt, the prince said to the swallow, “I see that you are very sad

these days; I wonder what is the matter, tell me?” the swallow did not speak,

the prince forced the swallow to tell him; but he still didn’t say anything. At

last the prince said, “If you don’t tell me I will put dynamites on your head

and blow you up! I was trying to help you!”

At these words the swallow was so scared that he said out loud, “I heard

the little girl say that that wasn’t enough to pay for his father, and so I

didn’t tell you because I thought that you would not like it and…”

“Oh my dear swallow, why on earth would you think I will not help a little

girl? And why on earth would you not tell me about this?” the spell was broken,

the prince turned to real life, and jumped down from the statue’s stand, “Thank

you dear swallow, you have broke the spell, and now I can live on land once

more.

That was the end of the happy prince. During the lives when he was a golden

statue, he realized how important everybody was to him, and that how important

helping people is.

Dear Director，

I’d like to apply for the post of assistant which was advertised in the newspaper. I found this position quite appealing to me.

I’ve just graduated from high school. Luckily I am good at English and I can speak English fluently. In addition, I have previous experience. During my stay in middle school, I used to be a volunteer and looked after the old people in a nursing home on weekends.

In short, I believe my experience and fluent oral English will be a great help for me in doing the work. I’m available for interview at any time. It would be appreciated if I can get your offer.

Yours sincerely,

Li Hua

远方的朋友： Friends in the distance:

你好!

我叫龙凌暄，今年九岁了，来自绵阳东辰国际小学三年级六班。我长着一头乌黑发亮的头发，鼻子上戴着一副小眼镜，长着一对“招风耳”。我有许多爱好，如：打乒乓球、游泳、围棋和象棋……每周周末，我都要去八一少年宫去打乒乓球。每当看见乒乓球如同翩翩起舞的蝴蝶在桌上飞舞，我的心里充满了欢乐与自豪。如今，我已经开始进行滑步打训练了。

我的家乡风景十分秀丽。如果你来的话，我可以带你去绿树成荫的千佛山和山势险峻的窦团山;或者带你去北川羌寨和白马王朗的白马藏寨去玩耍，了解少数民族的风土人情;还可以带你去亚洲最大的风洞群和九院科技馆，了解中国的科学技术……

我们家乡的小吃也有很多，如早上吃的米粉，梓潼酥饼和各种拥有绵阳特色的火锅……总之，你来到绵阳，我会给你当小导游的，让你度过一个愉快的假期。

祝你：学习进步!

远方的朋友：龙凌暄

After a short time, a green parrot hopped out of the enchanted zoo, and

back towards the town. As he was hopping about, the animal control came and

shouted to the green parrot; the parrot understood, and started to fly up. The

van of the so called, “Animal controller”, followed until the gas ran out. He

had no choice but to give up.

Now of course, the green parrot escaped out of sight, and found some twigs

that were going to help him be comfortable during the whole time freedom. When

the pirate Captain Cook came back from his journey; he stopped a while to find

treasure on an island during his way pass. Once or twice a time he would turn

back and sail for land, and so he couldn’t make up his choice. At last he got

the treasure from his mates, and started for land immediately, they kept the

treasure in a box, which had a code of handsome Ship. None of his mates knew

that, so that whenever they wanted to steal some gold from the Captain, they

would have to enter the code.

Now let’s go back to the parrot; the parrot was actually having a pretty

good time, but his nest became a pretty kettle of fish. His eyesight was not too

bad either; nor his ears, except they were as small as an ant. When Captain.

Cook’s ship came closer to land the parrot was all ears to hear what he was

saying. “Mates, you go down and fetch as many gold as you can, while I stay

here, I had a long week of sailing this ship; and so I’m going to stay in my bed

and kick back.”

His mates were like servants and obeyed immediately, the parrot however;

heard his every word, and wanted to stay with the captain and live. He had a

plan, and then he flew down and tickled a mate’s toe. The mate laughed, and the

parrot stopped. When the mate paid attention to the parrot, the mate said, “How

are you doing?” the parrot answered, “Great; how are you doing?” “Not too bad,

thanks;” “Take it easy,” they soon became friends, and chatted all along, “So,

can you give me a home to live on the ship?” “Sure thing, piece of cake;” when

they got the parrot on the ship; the captain came out, and became friend with

the parrot also.

The parrot gave him advice, and he became wealthy and returned all the

gold, but kept the treasure he found himself on other islands; and when people

trouble the parrot, the captain with which will defeat those guys with his

mighty sword.

Dear Zhangxuan:

I am writing this letter to thank. First, I must thank the god, for letting

me meet with you, my best friend throughout my life. And then, thank you very

much for staying with me all the time.

From the time we know each other, every time when I meet with troubles, you

always try your best to help me. When I am sad or unhappy, you always comfort me

to make me forget the sad things. And you usually share your good and happy

experiences with meAll these make me delighted. Although you are in Tianjin now,

I believe we still stay together.

Because of you, I feel the life is wonderful. Meeting with you is really a

good thing. At last, I have only a sentence want to sayMy dear friend, thank

you.

Sincerely,

Linluo

Dear Miss Wang

How are things going? Thanks for you very much. You make your English class

so interesting that we all like you and your class very much. I still remembed

when you was my English teacher at the beginning, I was so weak in English and I

nearly gave up. It was you that talked with me and taught me how to learn

English well. You often helped with my English after school. With your help, I

have made great progress in English. Now, I am good at English and I always get

good grades. Thanks so much for your help and your education. I will study hard

in the future.

Yours

Zhu__ He is my good friend. She has a pair of big eyes, watery like two big

grapes, and her eyelashes are dense and long, very beautiful. She has black and

beautiful hair, and her little face is always red, like a big apple. She wears a

ponytail every day. Its very cute!

We often play the game of Eagle catching chicken together. At the beginning

of the game, we always use the form of stone, scissors and paper to decide who

is an eagle. Once, when Cheng Rui was an eagle, her movements were very agile. I

blocked left and right, and I did my best to solve the skill. I couldnt protect

my chicken. She caught her. We had a good time every time, and happy laughter

spread all over the campus.

We often run together, jump rope together and draw together... We do a lot

of things together. We are a pair of inseparable good friends.

朱__是我的好朋友。她有一双大大的眼睛，水汪汪的像两颗大葡萄，睫毛又密又长，非常漂亮。她有一头乌黑亮丽的头发，小脸总是红彤彤的，好像一个大苹果。她每天扎着一根马尾辫，可爱极了!

我们经常一起玩老鹰捉小鸡的游戏，游戏刚开始时，我们总是用石头剪刀布的形式来决定谁当老鹰。有一次，程睿当老鹰，她的动作非常敏捷，我左挡右挡，使尽浑身解术，也保护不了我的小鸡，被她捉住了。我们每次都玩得很开心，欢乐的笑声传遍校园。

我们还经常一起跑步，一起跳绳，一起画画……好多事情我们都一起去做，是一对形影不离的好朋友。

Dear Ben,

How is everything? I am going to travel to England with my parents after finishing the final exam. We’d like to be away for about ten days. But I don’t know about England. I hope you can provide me with some information about the customs of England. I would like to travel to exciting places in England. Please introduce some interesting places to me.

Yours,

Li Hua

看到这封信时，我已经回珠海一段时间了。选择回珠海发展之于我比选择去任何一个陌生的城市都显得要困难，如果你还记得我从前一直都念叨着不要回珠海。珠海并不是那么讨厌的一个地方，甚至很多人看来都那么宜居，可于我而言，却总觉得这样一个城市少了点什么。不过，总归是回家了。从新西兰回国后选择去清远发展是个让很多人摸不着头脑的路径，不过我知道自己要什么就好了。现在回想还是庆幸上一年那么拼命地努力让一切看起来那么值得回忆，拿项目获奖状这些现在回想起来其实都变得微不足道了，只是前两天，那个我去清远工作接待的第一个案主，那个双股骨头坏死需要换骨的女生终于做了手术可以自由行走，才觉得在清远奋斗的日子终于可以有一个完满的句号。当我想要回珠海发展时，才觉得这个自己从小生活的地方竟然是这么陌生，不过为人子女终归要尽点责任，回家似乎从来就是无法避免的旅程。于是，所有的陌生又变得微不足道了。这些年，生活总是给我一道又一道的选择题，去台湾不去美国，去新西兰不留深圳，离开清远回珠海，每一个选择的背后都是一次成长，在社工的路上越走越远，在公益的路上开始有了自己的想法，这些于我而言其实都是这么珍贵！而庆幸这些年的成长，都可以和你分享。而今，你看到这封邮件的时候，我又开始没日没夜地为自己的新计划努力了，在珠海开一家青年旅舍，听起来是不是和我从前做的各种事情一样各种不“靠谱”？呵呵呵，不过，我想你是了解我的。青年旅舍的近期计划中，有一项是“照片SHOW：见证梦想的旅图”，26岁的生日临近，如果我厚着脸皮让你“写下你的梦想，Email我一张照片”，我想，你习惯了我的恬不知耻吧？流离浪荡了这么久，这个青旅总归有点家的感觉，下次聊天不在篮球场就来我家吧，呵呵呵……好奇心不死，折腾劲不灭，我折腾着回珠海了。酷酷的小墩@珠海

There was once a boy and Henry who were both very good friends that lived

very close to each other. Each day they would go outside and play. One day their

parents decided to let them go to school to learn lessons. Of course they both

loved it very much.

They were in the same class and studied very hard to earn a reward.

One day when they were ready to go to school, their parents told them never

ever to walk on the ice; it may melt since spring was starting here.

They both agreed, but did they really keep in mind of it? Well, they went

off to the pond since they were going to cross it. They were too lazy to walk

the other ways; and they didn’t think that it was even possible that the ice

would melt, so they went on the ice slowly to cross it.

Suddenly, they both felt a crack under their feet, and the ice was to crack

and melt. They were very nervous and regretted not following their parents

advice.When it was time for school to start, they still didn’t cross it. When

they were about to reach shore; boom! The ice cracked, and both of them fell

into the cold icy water. They struggled for a while, at last Henry found a

little spot where both of them could hold and pull them up from the icy

water.

They slowly swam to the beam, and stepped on a rock which was lying there,

Henry lifted himself up and the other boy did the same thing and both of them

got on shore.

They went to school all soaked wet and goofy, their teacher scolded them

for not coming to school on time. Of course they had extra homework for the day;

but both of them didn’t mind. When they got home, they went to their parents and

cried. Their moms saw them all soaked and wet, they asked them; “How did you get

so wet?” and the boys cried out, “We didn’t obey you!” Then they told them the

whole story. Their moms were glad that Henry figured out that there was a rock

that could bring them both safe onto land.

They all learned a lesson, and it is:

Always obey your parents no matter what happened. If you don’t obey your

parents, the terrible things that never happened might even come to life…

敬爱的布朗老师：

我谨以此向您表达我最真诚的谢意，感谢您在过去两年里对我的帮助。在过去的两年里，成为您的学生，我学到了许多。首先，您对教学和学生的认真态度使我深受感动。您鼓舞着我不断地努力学习。其次，在您的影响下，我深深地喜欢上了英语。作为一名理工科学生，我以前一直认为英语对我毫无用处，但您使我认识到了英语的魅力所在，带我走进了一个全新的世界，培养了不同的思维方式。最后，您的鼓励总在我遭遇困难或挑战是鼓励着我。您曾经说过：“每一件事情到了最后都会变成好事，如果不是，那说明还没有到最后。”每当想起您说过的话，我就有了坚持下去的动力。

最后，请允许我再次向您表达我的感谢，接受我真诚的谢意。献上最美好的祝福。

My science teacher is a man， he is tall and strong. He has short black

hair， he is our good friend.

My science teacher is cute， he often tells lovely stories to us， he also

likes play Ping-pong with us， we are very happy!

My science teacher likes shirt with the jeans. He will buy some coke for us

when we get good score.

May Day is coming. I?m so happy because my father and my mother take me to

WuQuan Park this holiday. In the park, I see many trees and beautiful flowers.

There are many children and many happy playing games, too.

My parents take me to the zoo. There are lions, tigers, eagles, bears,

deer, monkeys, and so on. I like the monkeys best because they are very clever

and they make us laugh. How lovely they are!

I have a good time that day. What a beautiful and happy holiday.

【参考翻译】

五一节即将来临。我很开心,因为我的父亲和我的母亲带我去五圈公园这个节日。在公园里,我看到很多树和美丽的花朵。有许多孩子在快乐的玩游戏,。

我的父母带我去动物园。有狮子、老虎、鹰、熊、鹿、猴子等等。我最喜欢猴子,因为他们非常聪明，他们让我们开怀大笑。他们是多么可爱啊!

那天我玩得很开心，多么美好快乐的假日啊。

April 5, 2002

Dear Mr. Brian,

Thank you for your letter of March 20. As Spring --- the best season of a year --- has come, everything is nice here. The weather is always fine and comfortable, trees become green and various kinds of flowers are in blossom. We, therefore, invite you to visit our city from April 28 to May 5.

If you accept our invitation, please inform us in detail of the number of your people, their names, and your suggestions of your visit. We will try our best to arrange everything according to your plan, and we hope that you will enjoy every minute of your trip here.

We are looking forward to your reply.

Sincerely yours,

Li Xiao-hua

My Darling McGeorge

You said that things seemed clearer when they were written down. Well, here

with a very boring letter in which I will try to put everything down so that you

may read and re-read it at a horror at your folly in getting involved with

me.

Deep breath. To begin with ,I love you. With a depth and passion and I have

felt for no one else in this life. And if it is astonishes you, it astonished me

as well. Not, I hasten to say, because you are not worth loving. Far from it.

Its just that, first of all,I swore I would not get involved with another

woman. Secondly, I have never had such a feeling before and it is almost

frightening. Thirdly, I would never have thought it possible that another human

being could occupy my waking and sleeping thoughts to the exclusion of almost

everything else. Fourthly, I never thought that even if one was in love one

could get so completely besotted with another person so that a minute away from

them felt like a thousand years. Fifthly, I never hoped,aspired, dreamed that

one can find everything one wanted in one person.

I was not such an idiot as to believe this was possible. Yet in you I have

found everything I want: youre beautiful, gay, giving, gentle, idiotically and

deliciously feminine, sexy, wonderfully intelligent and wonderfully silly as

well. I want nothing else in this life than to be with you, to listen and watch

you, your beautiful voice, your beauty, to argue with you, to laugh with you, to

show you things, to share things with you, to explore your magnificent mind, to

explore your wonderful body, to help you, protect you, serve you ,and...bash you

on the head when I think you are wrong...

Not to put too fine a point on it, I consider that I am the only man

outside mythology to have found crock of gold at the rainbows end. But, having

said all that, let us consider things in details. Dont let this become public,

but, well...I have one or two faults. Minor ones,I hasten to say. For example I

am inclined to be overbearing. I do it for the best possible motives, all

tyrants say that, but I do tend, without thinking, to treat people underfoot.

You must tell me when Im doing it to you, my sweet, because it can be a very

bad thing in a marriage.

Right, the second blemish. This actually is not so much a blemish of

character as a blemish of circumstance. Darling, I want you to be you on your

own right, and I will do everything I can to help you in this. But you must take

into consideration that I am also me in my own right. And that I have a head

start on you. What Im trying to say is that you must not feel offended if you

are sometimes treated simply as my wife. Always remember that what you lose on

the swings you gain on the roundabouts. But i am an established ‘creature’ in

the world, and so on occasions you will have to live in my shadow. Nothing gives

me less pressure than this. But it is a fact of life that has to be faced.

Third, a very important and nasty, blemish. Jealousy. I dont think you

know what jealousy is, thank god, in the real sense of the word. I know that you

have felt jealousy over Lincolns wife and child, but this is what I call normal

jealousy, and this to my regret, is not what Ive got. What I have got is a

black monster and any goodness that I have in my make-up. It is really a Jekyll

and Hyde situation... my Hyde is stronger than my good sense and defeats me,

hard though I try. As I told you, I have always known that this lurks within me,

but I could control it, and my monster slumbered and nothing happened to awake

it. Then I met you and I felt my monster stir and become half-awake when you

told me of Lincoln and others you have known, would you like to end with your

letter my monster came out of its lair, black, irrational, bigoted, stupid,

evil, malevolent. You never know how terribly corrosive jealousy is; It is a

physical pain as though you have swallowed acid or red hot coals. It is the most

terrible of feelings. But you cant help it at least I cant and god knows Ive

tried. I dont want any ex-boyfriends sitting in church when I marry you. On our

wedding day I want nothing but happiness both for you and me, but I know I wont

be happy if there is a church full of your ex-conquests. When I marry you I will

have no past, only a future. I dont want to drag my past into our future and I

dont want you to do it, either. Remember I am jealous of you because I love

you. You are never jealous of something you dont care about.

Okay enough about jealousy. Now let me tell you something. I have seen a

thousand sunsets and sunrises, in a thousand sunsets and sunrises on land where

it floods forest mountains with honey-coloured light, at sea where it rises and

sets like a blood orange in a multi-coloured nest of cloud, slipping in and out

of the vast ocean. I have seen thousand moons. Harvest moon is like gold coins,

winter moons as white as ice chips, new moons like baby swans feathers. I have

seen seas as smooth as if painted, coloured like shot silk or blues as a

kingfisher or transparent as glass or black and crumpled with foam, moving

ponderously and murderously. I have felt winds straight from the south pole,

bleak and wailing like a lost child; Winds as tender and warm as a lovers

breath; Winds that carried the astringent smell of salt and the death of

seaweeds; Winds during the moist rich smell of a forest floor, the smell of a

million flowers. Fierce winds that churned and moved the sea like yeast, or

winds that made the waters lap at the shore like a kitten. Ive known silence:

the cold, earthy silence at the bottom of a newly dug well; The implacable stony

silence of a deep cave; The hot, drugged midday silence when everything is

everything is hypnotized and still moved into silence by the eye of the sun. The

silence when great music ends. Ive heard that summer cicadas cry so that the

sound seems stitched into your bones. Ive heard a tree frogs in an

orchestration as complicated as Bach singing in a forest lit by a million

emerald fireflies. Ive heard the Keas calling over the grey glaciers that

groaned to themselves like old people as they inched. Their way to the sea. Ive

heard the hoarse street vendor cries of the mating Fur seals as they sang to

their sleek golden wives, the crisp staccato admonishment of the rattlesnake,

make the cobweb squeak of the Bat and the belling roar of the red deer knee-deep

in purple heather. Ive heard wolves baying at a winters moon, read howlers

making the forest vibrate with their roaring cries. Ive heard the squeak, purr

and grunt of a hundred multi-coloured reef fishes. I’ve seen hamming birds

flashing like opals round a tree of scarlets blooms, humming like a top. I have

seen flying fish skittering like quicksilver across the blue waves, drawing

silver lines on the surface with their tails. Ive seen Spoonbills flying home

to roost like a scarlet banner crossed the sky. Ive seen Whales, black as tar,

cushioned on a cornflower blue sea,creating a Versailles of fountain with their

breath. I have watched butterflies emerge and sit, trembling, while the sun

irons their wings smooth. I watch tigers, like flames, mating in the long grass.

I have been dive -bombed by an angry Raven, black and glossy as the Devils

hoof. Ive lain in water warm as milk, soft as silk, while around me played a

host of Dolphins. I have met a thousand animals and see a thousand wonderful

things.

All this I did without you. This was my loss. All this I want to do with

you. This will be my gain. All this I would gladly have forgone for the sake of

one minute of your company, for your love, your voice, your eyes, hair, lips,

body, and above all for your sweet, ever surprising mind which is an enchanting

quarry, in which it is my privilege to delve.

Gerald Durrell

I have a good friend. Her name is Li Hua. We know each other when we were

five years old, because we have so many things in common. We become partners

soon. I like to go out for fun with her. She always knows my idea and we can

enjoy our time. I cherish our friendship so much. I hope we can be best friends

forever.