Build-a-bear Workshop (2)

The next step is giving the bear a bath, which take place on a table equipped with fan and brush. You can brush the bear's hair and blow it. And then you can choose it's clothes, which is the most interesting step. There is a little table with lots of mirror, and you can change the bear's clothes on that table. After changing three dresses, I decided to buy my bear a pink dresses with a pair of

Build-a-bear Workshop (1)

I got an unique teddy bear from Build-a-bear Workshop today!!!
I saw an article on the newspaper reporting about Build-a-bear Workshop several years ago, and I found it really interesting. Everytime I walked by the store, I would admire the cute bears and those pretty accessories. However, I never bought one.
Well, I got one as my birthday present tonight! I went to the store and started my amazing journey of making my own teddy bear.
There are many kinds of teddy bears, dogs, rabbits, hippoes, and even dinasours in the shop. The first step is choose a bear you like, and you can touch or hug the bear to choose your favorite one. Then, you can record what you would like to say in a machine, and whenever you press the teddy bear in the future, the bear will say those words. After you record the words, you have to stuff the bear with cottons, and all what I mentioned above are DIY!!! Before you sew the bear's bear closely, there is a very important step that cannot be forgot. You have to pick a red heart and twist the heart to make it hot, simbolizing giveing the bear temperature, and then you should flop the heart, which simbolize giving it heartbeat. After bringing the heart to life, you can stuff it into the bear's body and sew it up.

My dreaming career

When I was a child, many people asked me what I would like to do in the future, and I always answered that I wanted to be a teacher. However, when they continued to ask me the reason of becoming a teacher, I just couldn't give them an answer. Maybe it was just because that I didn't have enough knowledge about all kind of careers, but as a child, teacher is definitely not a unfamilair career.
When I was in my room, I would imagine that there were students, and I was standing on the stage. I even made a text book myself and a notebook to give students grades! I taught Chinese and English on my imagine classroom, and my major was English. The teacher-and-student game satisfied my teaching desire, and I really hoped that one day the game may come true.
In the junior high school, we had a dog. Because of my love to my cute dog, who is named blackbaby, my dream switched from an English teacher to a vet. I thought that working in an environment full of dogs and cats would be excellent, and what's more, I can save lots of pet's lives or reduce their pain. However, one day I accidentally read an article on the newspapaer which was written by a vet. It said that they had to kill dogs and cats in their anatomy classes because there weren't enough sources of animal's corpse. Although I really wanted to become a vet at that time, I think I couldn't endure the cruel learning process. Since then, I gave up the dream of becoming a vet, comforting myself that I can donate money for street dogs.
Then, as my parents and my wish, I became a medical student last year. I don't know whether this is really what I want or I was brainwashed by my parents and teachers, but I had walked on this road, and I am trying to find my own passion in this field now. I hope one day I can!

The Situation of Myopia In Taiwan

In recent years, more and more people in Taiwan suffer from myopia, and it’s nearly impossible to find a person who is not nearsighted. When you see a person without glasses, they often wear contact lenses most of the time. People who are not nearsighted have become really rare. Televisions, computers, stressful working environments, and lack of time for going outdoors are the four main causes for modern people to have myopia so easily.
In the past, people seldom suffer from myopia, a disease which the patients cannot see things in a long distance clearly. According to research from National Taiwan University, the older the children are, the more severely they suffer from myopia. Experts say that the population of nearsighted people is far less than that in Taiwan, and the average degree is less, too. The reasons why Taiwanese tend to have myopia more easily than foreigners are the four causes mentioned above.
Nowadays, People spend too much time watching TV or working on computers. Unlike before, people enjoy watching TV in their leisure time, making them couch-potatoes, and they don’t even care to look away from TV every an hour or so to let their eyes have some rest. Also, people are more dependent on computers while working. We use computers to calculate, catalog documents, contact with clients, and looking for information, etc, and it seems that our lives cannot do without computers now.
In today’s working environment, people are under too much pressure to take a rest when necessary. In order to catch up with deadlines and compete with co-workers, people have no choice but to sacrifice their time to take a rest, and their eyes just stick to computer screens all-day-long. According to a paper written by Chien-Jen Chen from department of public health in National Taiwan University, myopia are associated with environmental factors closely, and extreme stress may cause the myopia to become worse.
Last but not least, due to the tight schedule, overloading workload, and the exhausting bodies people have after a whole day of hard-working, people don’t have enough time to go outdoors. Or we may say, to be more precisely, people don’t have the mood and the spirits to take part in some outdoor activities. The outdoor activities can help us wash away pressure and annoying thoughts from work, and the natural colors of trees and mountains are beneficial to our eyes. Thus, besides working hard, we ought to spend more time outdoors and relax.
In conclusion, to improve the poor situation of myopia in Taiwan, we should always remember to take a rest after a while of hard-working to maintain the health of our eyes, which is nicknamed the windows of the spirits. Go outdoors more often when you have free time, and don’t say that you don’t have time. Bear in mind that nothing is more valuable than health!

Summer Vacation

Time really flies. It's already June and the summer vacation is coming soon. Originally, I planned to go abroad with one of my best friend in junior high school, but because of many reasons, the plan failed, and I am very dissapointed.
Now I have to find something else to do in my summer instead of spending my vacation in Canada. I am going to Chung- Kung medical camp in the begining of the vacation, and I'm really looking forward to it although the preparing work is tiring. In the middle of August, I have a week of training for badminton. I am planning to go to English conversation classes twice a week duing the vacation as I always did before, and going to the conversation classes have already become my interest.
Maybe I will consider to take a part-time job since I have wanted to work part-time in Starbucks long time ago. What I would like to get is not just the salary but the working experience, because if I don't go to work there when I am young, I may never have the chance to experience this kind of work and end up working in the hospital for a life time.
I want to practice the piano harder, too. In fact, I feel regret for not practicing hard on piano when I was a child, and I really want to make it up.
There are still many other things I can do duing summer vacation, and I will think about them later. I think it's also very important to spend more time with my family since I have been in school this whole year!

Interview Questions

1. When do you start to wear glasses?

Ans: Judy says that she started to wear glasses since she was three years old.

2. What kind of inconvenience that glasses bring to your life?

Ans: Lilian says that she often forget where she puts her glasses and has to find it back.

3. Do you know what causes myopia?

Ans: Catherine says that watching too much TV and playing computer games are the main causes.

4. Do you know how to prevent myopia?

Ans: Eric says that eating more vitamin A can prevent myopia effectly.

5. What do you do to improve your eye health?

Ans: Owen says that he doesn't do anything to improve his eye health.

6. If you are near-sighted, will you try eye surgery? Why or why not?

Ans: Bill says that he won't because he is afraid that the sugery may fail.

7. When you have your children in the future, what would you do to improve your children’s eye health?

Ans: Angel says that she will prohibit her children from studying often.

free writing

Last weekend was Mother’s Day, and I went back to Taichung to celebrate it with my family. We bought a cake secretly planning to give my mother a surprise, but clever as she was, she found out soon. Later that day, we went to a nice restaurant to have a dinner together. After the meal, the waiter took out the cake with shimmering candles on the top. In the dark, the whole family, the waiters of the restaurant, and even customers sitting at the nearby table clapped together. Even though my mother had already found out our plan, she was so moved that she couldn’t help crying. When I went to university, I know the importance of family. Of course, at first, I still sock in the freedom and went home seldom, but when I clam down I suddenly realize that family are the biggest supports and my closest friends. I could always share my feelings , rely on them with a hundred percent trust. I know I am a grown up now, and it’s time for me to learn to be independent, but there’s something invisible binding us closely that can not to be departed. Sometimes I will tried to wonder how it will be if I live in the world without them, and that night I will dream some nightmare. Obviously, there’s no doubt that I can not leave them. I love them so much, and cherish the memory with them.