December 21, 2018

Dear Mr. Smith,

How are you now?
I’m writing to express my sincere thanks to you for your big help in the
improvement of my oral English.

Two months ago,
I came to the training center with great hope and admiration. I still remember
my oral English then was so poor that nobody could understand my self-introduction,
which was really a great blow to me. In the following courses that day, I did
not even open my mouth. However, after class you told me that nobody would
laugh at me, what I need to do was to speak, and speak loudly. Under your
encouragement and guidance, I began to speak in the class gradually and
corrected my pronunciation consciously. Two months pass quickly and now I can
talk with English-speakers fluently and naturally. All these are due to your
kind help and excellent teaching, so thank you!

Now I am back in
my own country, and I will begin my work tomorrow. However, no matter how busy
I will be, I will insist on practicing my oral English. So believe that, next
time you see me, you will find that I speak English so well just like a native
speaker.

Best wishes to
you.

Yours sincerely,

Jack Peng

December
21, 2018

Dear Sir or Madam,

I’m writing this letter to express my
dissatisfaction with the terrible situation I have faced lately. I’m a resident
on Donghu Street.
I have been living there for more than ten years and enjoy my life all the
time. However, some unhappy things happened recently and have bad influence on
my life.

Near my house, a few restaurants have been
founded in the past few months. These restaurants offer food to the residents
nearby, but meanwhile yield a large amount of rubbish, which seriously pollutes
the living environment of ours residential districts.

I understand that these people need to find
some way to make a living, but they should not damage the interests of other
people. Therefore, I hope the relevant government departments would send
someone to discuss some solutions with those people, clean up the rubbish, and
return a clean, pleasant and healthy environment to us.

I am looking forward to your reply.

Yours
sincerely,

Jack
Peng

Tomorrow my husband is going to have a
surgery which may cure him, or may not. Nobody could give us a confirmative
answer. “It’s all up to you.” The doctor said. However, do we really have any other
options?

In the past six month, we visited 6
hospitals, consulted about a dozen of doctors and tried almost all the
treatments except the surgery—which most of the doctors don’t suggest, but now
it seems to be the last straw for us to clutch at.

For God sake, having a slipped disc (锥尖盘突出) doesn’t
necessarily mean you have some serious, deadly disease. However, nobody could
give us an explanation why he still couldn’t walk, sit longer than 20 minutes. If
there was any sign of recovery, we would not make this decision. However, he
has stayed where he is for several months, even when all his MRI, CT tests
suggest quite the opposite.

Pressures keep mounting up. I can’t help
but wonder: would it be different if he tried harder? That doubts almost eat me
alive. Just a couple of days ago, I was diagnosed as nephritis and the doctor suggested
15-day intravenous infusion. I made it 5 days—the longest time allowed for me
to be sick. There was a fire in my heart. I want to prove that if you got
spirit, you won’t be defeated by disease and you could make a miracle. That’s
why I got off the bed even when I was running a fever at 39 degree Celsius and
why I forced myself to finish my study when my temperature was as high as 40 degrees.
It’s stupid, and I know it.

It is like a
vicious circle, every time hope raises up with each treatment, but only more
disappointments and pains follows. I dare not to think about the future now.
What would happen next? What the fate has stored in for us?

In the remaining of 22 days until I go back to UK, I have to use the time wisely to improve myself. Thus, time management seems vital to me. I always afraid of certain matters, such as pain in my period, and future life in my university：How to communicate with local student, how to make new friends, etc.Having said that, although I am worrying about unhappened things, I am still a brave guy, I believe that I will have a brilliant future if I pursue and work for it. Because I am a lucky girl as always.I put in my best effort to pass today, and I will continue to do it in my future days, because I have already realized the strong power of insisting.Good night and sweet dreams everyone.God loves us and god bless.Every hardworking and virtuous one will be lucky !!Dee20/08/2018Ningbo

Man can pursuit or pick up lifestyles which they like, but they can never deny the nature of the life. In my eyes, life just like a cup of pure water, you can touch it, feel it ,taste it , but it just keep the way as it should be—always keep the same way: no colorful, no variety flavors, no feelings. I like the word :” When the God offer you a cup of water, then you get your life from drinking it.”Life just like water, it has no special meanings. What so called “poor or rich” , “honor or humble” are nothing but condiments which we add to life according our attitude and ability. Some people like colorful and exciting life, they just stir life into multi flavor sauce; Some people enjoy themselves despite poverty, they stir life into coffee; Some like add honey into life, change it into sugar water; Some make life into tea, they like tasting the life little by little; Some don’t know what to add into life, they just leave the life alone, and add nothing; And some people change their life into poison without knowing , and buried their life by themselves.Some people lead an aimless life, they don’t know what they really need or want, then they just follow anyone like a sheep, at last, they gain nothing but misery. In my opinion, if a person set up a goal, learn to grasp chance, learn content and be grateful to anything, then he or she is not far away from happiness. Life is just like a pure water, it need us to taste , to appreciate , to change it with our heart, then we may create our great life through that very water.搜索复制

I’m listening to audio book named “The
Strange Power”. It’s a X-men kind of story, one of my favorites. It starts with
a high school girl living in a small town, who has a very special talent: she
can draw the picture of the future. Personally, I think it’s a pretty cool
power but obviously her class mates, teachers and neighbors don’t think so. She
became an outcast, she was called as witch and no one would invite her to any
social event. Then one day a woman showed up and brought her to a lab where
there are several other special kids, all with this or that superpower. I didn’t
have text of this book, so if I want to know about this story, there’s only one
option: listening to the audios. If I stay focused, I could get the most part
of the story. The problem is when I am listening, my mind is so easy to wander
around. So I have to listen to it again and again.

Believe it or not, we are losing our
listening, and here I’m not just talking about English learning. Study shows
that we spend roughly 60 percent of our communication time listening, but we
retain just 25 percent of what we hear.

And every day, there is someone in this
world committing suicide because of depression, and almost all of them sent their
cry for help before they made that fatal decision, however, no one truly and
really listened, no one received their messages for help.

When it comes to communication skills, many
of us have already heard advice like look, nod, and smile to show that you’re
paying attention during the conversation. That’s crap because if you really are
paying attention, you are paying attention and you don’t need to show it. If
you try to pretend that you are paying attention, you really think that people
would not know it?

Listening might be the single most
overlooked skill we fail to cultivate. And do you know how much you can possibly
earn by simply listening carefully? I can give you a rough answer: probably 400
yuan per hour.

Seriously, that’s what I paid an online
psychologist, for listening to my headaches with an understanding ear, without judges
and prejudices. Sounds quite simple, doesn’t it? But I assure you many of us
can’t do that.

Unconsciously,  I  find the DioEnglish Home recently,  then, so many old memories emerged gradually. I must go back my space,  but unfortunately, I've forgot the login password. With some impatience, but many happiness,  after trying 4 times,  I login successfully. Then, I, immediately, browse all sections , including friends、 blog、 activities、home... , here and there.  Just look for and enjoy  lots of old memories.    Actually, life contains pass, today and future. Nowadays, when I see the words and informations recording the status and thought in the pass time,  I feel that it is amazing and proud of me who was in the pass, and I have already grown up today.  What's more, today is the expectations of the pass, and already walk on the future road full of  ambitions, dream, family.    Em..., I don't know what I've said, what I should say, or what I wanna say, just enjoy and remain the dribs and drabs in your life...

You can experience four seasons in a week, you can even have it in a day right here. The sudden and unpredictable change of weather really makes you no choice of the what the next step you could move. While in another way, it is the beauty of life to have this chance to view the picture of sunshine, rain, wind in a short time. It polishes your heart and trains your mind. Meanwhile it hardens your will to face everything in the trending of changing. Otherwise, you can hardly live peacefully because you are likely to be mad due to the constant weather changing. It is getting warmer. Trees and flowers are seizing the ideal moment to grow up. Cute buds of trees and flowers are telling people about the arrival of spring. Girls make fully of this time to have their colorful clothes in this wonderful season. They never miss this kind of a chance. That curvaceous figure naturally impresses you a lot at the noticeable moment. Usually after a night of rainfall, petals scatter to the land. Opening the window, you see them there as if they were saying MORNINIG to you. If you say hello to them you have the feedback of their honesty and innocence. Your have a good day with the company of their selflessness.

A reporter asked Kobe: Why you are so successful?Kobe asked back: Do you know Los Angeles morning four-points looks like?This is a famous story from Kobe, the NBA star, which has encouraged many people including me to fight for their own dream. Furthermore, his words not only express positive energy, but also provide us a reasonable explanation to his success. We could imagine that someone might ask himself: why haven’t you got such a success? The answer would be simple: Because I’m not working hard enough. God is fair who doesn’t give preference to anyone. That would be perfect if the story ends here.Unexpectedly, the wife of Kobe revealed: he just happens to wake up at 4 a.m. sometimes. All the naps during the day help. It immediately makes the story lost glory. Why? Because we expected that Kobe could get up at 4 a.m. every day. The habit like this would be legendary and distinctive, which could be more encouraging for us. But it is not reasonable!Normally, we could be free to get up early at even 4 a.m. when necessary, the same to the famous men. To keep an unsupportable habit mechanically is meaningless, which might be driven by kind of anxiety. In a sense, this mentality is from the toxicity of the soul chicken soup.As common people, I’m used to do some important things in early morning, even 3 a.m. if necessary. Because I find this is an efficient and healthy working method of avoiding staying up late. I know what the SH looks like at 4 a.m.