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Wenchao Ye: Live Like a Tree

When I was a little girl, I would always took an umbrella out when there was big wind blowing. No matter how many times my father carried me back into house, I would still do it the next time. Deep...

Meixian Ye: Hold My Head Up High

Hold my head up high no matter how ugly I am, and others can see the beauty that is inside. I believe in it. I’m a girl with light-colored stain on the right face for 20 years, from the moment I...

Lanqing Peng: I Believe in Smile

I believe in smile. Smile is like the sun. It can warm and lighten a cold and gloomy heart. I didn’t realize the power of smile until my last year in high school. As I was lowering my head and...

Zhanting He: Dreams Are Our Best Motivations

I believe that our dreams are our best motivations. We should know what we like clearly, and what we want to be in the future. However, the thought was not so strong in my mind in the past. I was...

Shiyun Ma: The Excitement of Trying New Things

My name is Stephanie. I use this English name just because I think it sounds cool. But then, one of my friends in America told me that all the Stephanies he knew were either weird or fat. I really...

Sisi Zheng: Eliminate the Inner Obstacles

As a child star in a small city of northern China, I became a principal dancer and had received many honors for the city at age six. People around me were proud of me and treated me as a princess....

Jia Yu: Every Why Has its Wherefore

I believe everything happens for a reason. When your new jacket was broken, you want to know why. Then you ask your family members and know that it was your cat Tom who had torn it up. In our life,...

Rong Yi: A carriage rattles most noisily when it is empty

A carriage rattles most noisily when it is empty. People are respected not because of their loud voice, but of the power and strength of their character. Reach me via email:...

Xiangfeng Peng: How the Real Me Was Created

At the times when I am upset, I would hear a strict voice around my ears, “Life is just like a piece of mirror. What matters is how you look at yourself and your past, those things make a real...

Fan Wang: The Two Angels in My Life

I love writing and music, no matter in Chinese or in English. Throughout the colorful passages in my young life, these two angels have built up my personality and spiritual world that growing...

Chengrong Bao: Words Can Heal Pain

Chengrong Bao In everyone’s life, there must be a moment that you are looking for a friend or even a stranger rather than a doctor to help you get out of pain. For physical pain, a doctor may...

Yanjun Lin: Make my voice heard

When I was a little kid, I was so curious that I just couldn’t help myself touching all things around. Later after I went to kindergarten I received a present—crayons, from then on I...

Zeyi Fang: Challenges, My Living Style

I come from a small town. In my memory my family is always struggling with financial burden. My mom and dad could hardly believe that they are supporting my sister, my brothers and I to receive...

Weiling Huang:I Have Found My Way

I enjoy being a journalist. Practicing journalism is a passionate and challenging career. I think passion could release more energy than a bomb. When you make up your mind to do something, it’s a...