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This page contains all of the writing submitted by Senior 3 students. Feel free to browse everything or to find certain pieces using the table of contents. You can mouse over blue words to see a translation.
Table of contents:
Essays
....Crash - 李慧 (124) - Anything Is Possible
....Alice - 曹顺 (116) - Never Forget OYY, Never Forget 116
....Elaine - 王芸 (117) - Air Pollution
....Christina - 谭艳 (116) - Keep Happy
....Nancy - 卢淑琴 (117) - Green. The Best.
....Kathy - 旷文鑫 (117) - Love Our School
....Sally - 罗群洁 (120) - Beauty
Stories
....Luna - 阳坤 (116) - Believe In Yourself
Poems
....Lily - 谭婉丽 (116) - No ifs, ands or buts
....Nina - 袁水兰 (116) - A Grateful Heart
....SiQi - 曾思琪 (116) - Touch The Sky
....Cherry - 龙云 (116) - Touch The Sky

Essays


Anything is possible, we must have secure ideals. Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer, said, “Ideal is the beacon. Without ideal, there is no secure direction; without direction, there is no life.” And, as the saying goes, “Great hopes make great men.”

Anything is possible. We must have a firm confidence. “You have to believe in yourself. That’s the secret of success,” Charles Chaplin, American actor said. Besides, “The man who has made up his mind to win will never say ‘impossible,’” Bonaparte Napoleon, French Emperor said.

Anything is possible. We must work hard. As the proverb says, constant dropping wears away a stone. “Genius only means hard-working all one’s life,” Mendeleyer said, Russian chemist.

Anything is possible. Facing difficulty or failure, we must be optimistic and say to ourselves, “Keep on going, never give up.” Also, “Don’t, for one repulse, give up the purpose that you resolved to effect,” William Shakespeare said, British dramatist. Because the belief that failure is the mother of success.

If you stick to these, success will belong to you.

English Name: Alice
Chinese Name: 曹顺
Year: Senior 3
Class: 116
Title: Never Forget OYY, Never Forget 116
QQ: 994122616

I still remember when I first came to OYY. I felt it was a beautiful park. Since then I had a dream that is to be a student here.

Now, I am a senior three student. And I have lived my formal dream. But there is a few days away from GaoKao (高考). Looking back on my student's life – six years in OYY, there are endless happy memories remaining in my heart.

The beautiful environment helps me a lot. Every time when I walk under the little avenue, I feel the energy of green and life. The wind brushes softly. Close my eyes, it seems that I can be trapped in my own world, a silent but enjoyable world.

And the sky in the school looks more beautiful and wild, giving me plenty of elegant thoughts. I believe my dream arises from that. It's the spring of my inspiration.

The most unforgettable thing is the class 116, which accompanies me for three years, in my heart even life long. Everyday I will meet fifty five different but warm smiles. And everyday I will get along with six brilliant but kind teachers. All these precious memories put together the most beautiful scenes. Forever in my heart.

Thanks for OYY, thanks for class 116, so I can reach to today's stage. But I will still try my best. I will set sail with my dream to the far-away to set my sky.

Elaine
English Name: Elaine
Chinese Name: 王芸
Year: Senior 3
Class: 117
Title: Air Pollution
QQ: 524431764

Under the blue sky, nowadays people in the world are facing many environmental problems, for example air pollution. What contributes to the pollution and what should we do to improve the present situation?

What causes it?

With the development of industry, more and more poisonous gases are emitted in the air. But the directors of those factories still don't' take measures to reduce the pollution because they want to make a fortune. They may have never thought that the pollution is not only harmful to others but also to themselves.

In order to make paper, chopsticks (which are just used one time), and other things, people have cut down many trees while they wont' plant trees after that, so the water and soil are running away and trees aren't able to improve the air pollution.

On top of the two reasons that I have listed above, there are many other causes such as burning plastic bags and straw.

Solutions

     •     The government should make laws, which forbid the factories from pouring polluted water into the river and letting polluted gas out.

     •     People can plant trees to improve the air and keep the water and soil from running away.

     •     Reduce to use plastic bags and make full use of straw.

People, Eastern or Western, rich or poor, should try our best to prevent our environment from being further damaged, so we can enjoy ourselves under the blue sky.


With the development of the world, there are more and more people being occupied in work and study. It exists the idea that you ought to work diligently, or you will be left behind. So some people are forced to work rather than be enthusiastic about their occupations. Supposing that they find happiness in their lives to make their work effective, they should appreciate it.

Different people may have different views on happiness. Actually, pure happiness can be obtained by proper means. As we all know, happiness contributes to health, which is better than wealth. There is no doubt that in some ways, wealth brings happiness in modern society. But wealth doesn’t always go hand in hand with happiness. Therefore, those people who think wealth is happiness should get rid of thinking wealth is what they are seeking.

If we have a sense of happiness towards everything regardless of whether it’s good or not, we will find happiness is around us. Then we will possess optimistic attitudes towards any obstacle or trouble. We will be more confident to climb up the peak of over lives.

From now on, smile at life, and you will get what you never expect.


     •     Regardless of what color others like best, The green is the best in my sky.

     •     It’s so light when coming out in spring;
           So thick during summer;
           It ornaments the colorful fruits in autumn;
           But withering, falling like dreamlike butterflies covering the ground to wait another life.

     •     I like green as it’s the most ordinary one and still remember a word, “when we keep hope alive, hope keeps us
alive.” Green stands for hope in my dictionary. It teaches me to calm my impetuous heart down as green trees
stand like honest prayers.

     •     I like green for its firm and tenacious character. Look at these plants growing from huge stones or standing by the cliff, even after a cold winter, a big fire. IT seems that the harder the environment is, the more beautiful green shows to me.

     •     I like green thanks to its bravery. It stands uprightly and firmly no matter how bad the weather is outside. The green washed by a heavy shower, it turns an emerald green, The green experiencing a storm or lightning, it becomes thicker and more determined.

     •     I like green because the green is much helpful and has a holly job – to refresh the endless dirty air. It’s willing to sacrifice itself for the exchange of enjoyable space.

     •     I like green, it spreads almost everywhere, even the isolated desert. Every time I see it, a sense of peace springing out from my soul. I like green, light green or dark green, no matter how others think about it.

     •     Here, at last. I’d like to express my thankfulness to my school, where I have been staying for six years. I have to leave soon. I won’t forget the happiness in it, as well as this green ocean. Goodbye, my old school, as well my loving green there.

Kathy
English Name: Kathy
Chinese Name: 旷文鑫
Year: Senior 3
Class: 117
Title: Love Our School
QQ: 446993852

With the National College Entrance Examination drawing near, I am reluctant to leave my school.

I have stayed in OYY for almost six years. In the past I did not love my school at all. Because there are so many bad things. I complained that my school didn't have more holidays. I complained that school's canteen food is too bad. I even complained about why my school is not the most famous one….

I am not the only one who had such thoughts. But at the last few days I realized many things.

In fact, as a student, the most important thing is to study, so there are only few holidays. We are not the rich person, so we should be accustomed to our school's food. I also am not a top student, so I have no rights to blame my school's disadvantages.

On the contrary, our school is so beautiful. There are many kind foreign teachers in our school. With the time passed, I fall in love with my school gradually. I am glad to have obtained a lot here. Not only knowledge but how to be a good person. What's more, I have made many friends. Thanks to their help, I have the encouragement to face setbacks.

There are two parts of sad times in my school life. The latest one is during Senior 2.

At that time, I feared the coming of nights, because I attached to insomnia. While all my roommates were sleeping deeply, I was fighting with the darkness alone. Once the nights came, I can't hold back my tears. I often felt tired and hopeless. I even wanted to be a truant. Fortunately, there are many friends around me. They listened to my endless complaints with patience. Thanks to them, I can release myself from that hardest time.

Thinking back to my middle school life, I got much experience. I want to give some advice to junior ones.

Firstly, you should accustom yourself to the situation you are in when you can't change it. Secondly, learn to value the relationships between you and your classmates. Thirdly, try your best to concentrate your attention on studying. Only by doing this can you have a difference life. Finally, I want to tell you: Please love our school. Even though it's not the best one.

There are many memories which are important to me. No matter happy or sad things, all helped me grow up. Without those rare experiences, I wouldn't be so strong-minded now.

My school gives me so much. The love will be fresh in my mind forever. OYY middle school. Whatever you are, I want to say: You are the No. 1 in my mind.



Art bt Zhou Chen 周晨. Click here for more information and a bigger picture.
Sally
English Name: Sally
Chinese Name: 罗群洁
Year: Senior 3
Class: 120
Title: Beauty
QQ: 924177936

As the saying goes that “No pains, No gains.” I appreciated it very much, because it proved in our school.

In the past year, our school welcomed Mr. Huang’s two daughters. Mr. Huang is the most important person for our school. We can say without him, we wouldn’t have our school today and we also can’t get together in the big family. Living a happy life, enjoying the education. So we should be thankful to Mr. Huang and respect his daughters.

Mr. Huang’s daughters are very kind and patient. I heard a story about the two mothers in our school. When some student walked in the avenue, the daughters ask the student many questions: How do you find your school? Do you like your school? How do you find your school’s food? And so on. Students answer all questions and complained a lot to the daughters. In that time, nobody thought who they were, where they were from. Some students thought maybe they are students’ mothers. In my opinion, they weren’t strangers. The same skins, the same language, who thought the problem, now the story has become a good “talk topic.”

In order to make students take an active part in the English Corner, the foreign teachers thought of many measures to develop this situation. The English Corner was wonderful in this time. IT became my memory in my heart. Jon carry out his favorite guitar playing moving music, students around him and singing with him, the smiling faces so sweet.

Natalie, was talking movies with the senior students. I also remember the student describes a movie, in which the girl is very beautiful and kind and helpful, her name is BeLa. The boy whose name was Aidei Hua comes from a big family that drinks people’s blood, but the boy was very kind and didn’t drink people’s blood. He can know what people think but he doesn’t know what BeLa thinks. Because the girl was also kind and didn’t desire to acquire many things that she didn’t own. Natalie likes the boy very much. So do I, and it addicate deeply.

Ingrid was talking about some questions with the junior students: how to study grammar well, how to write compositions, talking about what habits they like and dislike.

One of the Huang daughters was talking with some students about the economy. They are talking about the difference between America and China, and different cultures, in America and China. That made some students very excited, also me.

The other daughter brings many pictures of American buildings, food, movies – it’s very vivid, I think. She also describes the difference in China and America, why America is so popular.

From this activity, we can learn a lot from the foreign teachers and the daughters. It made me understand an idea is that, it doesn't matter where you live, your heart belongs to your country.. That is love’s power, it encourages all the people.

All the things happening and I must go to the classroom for study. When I walk in the stairs, I look back at the English Corner full of students. The English Corner looks like beautiful flowers, some students running there and here, they are seen, found the different happiness in different places.

Yeah, all the things are very interesting, if you make your heart understand. Watch carefully and you can find all the beauty from all the things.
English Name: Nancy
Chinese Name: 卢淑琴
Year: Senior 3
Class: 117
Title: Green. The Best.
QQ: 1605476545
Nancy
English Name: Christina
Chinese Name: 谭艳
Year: Senior 3
Class: 116
Title: Keep Happy
QQ: 549353731
Christina
Alice
English Name: Crash
Chinese Name: 李慧
Year: Senior 3
Class: 124
Title: Anything Is Possible
QQ: 897617082
Crash

Stories


Art by Lily 唐利 (129). Click here for more information and a bigger picture.

Do you often believe in yourself?

In the last, I’m rarely confident about myself, but now, I am full of confidence. What changes me a lot? If you want to know the answer, please read the story as follows:

When I was a little girl, I didn’t lead a happy life. Because I was not able to do what my mom and teachers wanted me to do. I didn’t get high marks. I felt myself stupid from time to time. I liked doing things that they thought not proper enough. Only dad was on my side. He encouraged me to do what I liked and cheered me up. What’s more, he told me to believe in myself and never give up. He knew that I loved playing the violin, so he bought one for me and asked someone to teach me, during which, I looked for my confidence and have a positive attitude towards life. Now I was very good at it. I would become an excellent violin player if I worked hard and always believed in myself. I wonder whether you learn a lesson from my story.

As a saying goes: “Failure is the mother of success.” Confidence is as important as it. Confidence is the first step of success. From now on, believe in yourself. I believe that you will be a success in the future.


English Name: Luna
Chinese Name: 阳坤
Year: Senior 3
Class: 116
Title: Believe In Yourself
QQ: 531600738
Luna

Dreams

Poems

Lily
English Name: Lily
Chinese Name: 谭婉丽
Year: Senior 3
Class: 116
Title: No ifs, ands or buts
QQ: 1596954227

If I were a bird, I hope I can fly in the sky,
     and then anxiety would fly away.
If I were a dog, I feel like running in the field,
     with the hope to amuse myself.
If I were a tree, I would try to grow rapidly,
     so that I could stand out in the forest.

but I'm not. They were just assumptions.
I'm a person, a common person.
I run after my dream, yet it fled from my sight without looking back.
I stand behind it, cried loudly,
But it doesn't make a difference.
I attempt to break with my bad temper,
     evil sticks on me.
It seems that I can never get rid of it.
I'm going to die as I think I'm nothing.
I keep thinking: I'm bad, I can't fly, I can't run, neither can I grow.
     Only one thing I can do is stay with evil.
Sad and helpless, I ask god for assistance.
He told me what I can do is to enjoy life.

I begin to enjoy my life.
I throw myself into the sea of knowledge.
Help others out of kindness.
Forgive the offense.
Accept the stress from the world.
Play music with friends.
I get the sense of life.

The world is fetching as long as you love it.
Don't complain too much,
and you will get more than you have expected.

Nina
English Name: Nina
Chinese Name: 袁水兰
Year: Senior 3
Class: 116
Title: A Grateful Heart
QQ: 1079086162

Smile at yourself when you get up every day.

Keep a grateful heart and you will have a happy day.

Thankful for my family. It’s you who give me the courage to face all difficulties in my life.

Thankful for my teacher. It’s you who teaches me how to be a wonderful person.

Thankful for my friends. It’s you who teach me how to grow up.

Thankful for those people who hurt me deeply. It’s you who teach me how to become strong.

Because you stand in my side, I never feel lonely.

Thankful for everyone, smile at others in return.

Please keep a grateful heart. The world will be more beautiful.


For a Chinese translation click here.

SiQi
English Name: SiQi
Chinese Name: 曾思琪
Year: Senior 3
Class: 116
Title: Touch The Sky
QQ: 404028262

There is a dream in my heart
My heart is always like a child.
A child who likes crying

There is a dream in my heart
My heart always sings a song
A song which sounds beautiful

There is a dream in my heart
My heart always brightens a beacon
A beacon which leads me to the sky
I am not afraid to die.

There is a dream in my heart
My heart always keeps young
Keeping young that I can touch the sky.
I can't wait to fly.

For a Chinese translation click here.

Cherry
English Name: Cherry
Chinese Name: 龙云
Year: Senior 3
Class: 116
Title: Touch The Sky
QQ: 739077464

Looking up to the sky,
there is my dream,
I tried my best,
but it's always out of my reach.

Looking up to the sky,
we look for our dream together,
supporting me with your hands
though high the sky is,
standing on tiptoe,
striving and climbing.
touch the sky
We arrive the amazing future.


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