Hi Amy!I‘m Beverly from china. I'm a high school student,and my English is not very good. I have many hobbies, such as play football, dance, listen to music, and playing video game.
I'm a striker of school football team, I love my team, and we won the championship last semester. Although the practise is so hard, I insist on my practise, and get a lot of wonderful memories.
I used to learn dance in korean. I like Urban dance. Also, I can lose weight by dancing. I created a dance club. We dance once a week at school dancing room. Sometimes we have dance performance, we will practise many times during the week.
Dancing and listen to music make me feel relax, and passion for life. I like pop music, but when I do my homework I usually listen to music with a slow tempo.
I like playing a video game called League of Legends(LOL).I feel happy when I play it with my friends. My idol is a game player. He called Meiko. He is nineteen years old. He got a world champion when he sixteen years old. He always positive and optimistic. In April, I will go to ShangHai, and watch his game. I'm really looking forward that.
Remember to write to me when you are free.
Best wishes
Hi Beverly,
Amy is unable to post this week, so I'll post for her…. I'm actually her teacher, so I'm sorry that your penpal this week is a teacher…. I have never been to China but I do have a good Chinese friend who lives in Shanghai. Actually she lived in Canada near me for four years and become a Canadian citizen then moved back to China to work…. I miss her a lot, especially on Chinese New Year when we would make dumplings together. And always we went to the country to pick blackberries and to make jam. This is a Canadian tradition in the summer. We also went to the honey farms to buy organic honey for her to take to China.
I love to travel and I was an English teacher in Japan for one year, and then I also lived in Africa for ten years…. Now I teach here in Canada. My hobbies are kayaking, camping, using a stand-up paddle-board and snorkelling. You can see that they all are for summer and involve water! My favourite place to travel is Hawaii. I love to swim with the turtles.
Thanks for writing. I hope Amy will be able to write to you next week. Louise
Louise Green teaches Academic Writing to first year international students at Trinity Western University in Langley, B.C. She also teaches in the TESOL Certificate Program and in the MA TESOL program.
Hi Amy,
I hope you can write to me this week. After read your teacher's post, I think the life in Cannada is very comfortable, in china, It's difficult to find somewhere to pick fruit or find honey farms but we also have many place to have fun.I lived in Suzhou international park. Here is very modern, a lot of high buildings, the traffic is convenient, so it won't take me too much time to go to my friends home. In the evening, the lights in the city is really preety, When I lived at the top of the building, always I like looking outside the city, I am enjoy it: However I moved to a quiet place where can't look beautiful night scenes now, because my parents think it's really noisy to live in the downtown district.
These days I was getting ready for school talent show, we will dance. We usually practise after school,and running before we go back to dormitory. It makes me feel a little bit tired, because it just the first week we do it. Another reason make me tired is I can't sleep well. My roommates always get up early,and make noise. This is my first year accommodation, I still can't adapt to dorm life very well but I will try my best. Now, my wish is to go home lie on the bed, drink a cup of milktea,and watch videos untill I fall asleep.Hope to come over the weekend. How about your school life? Beverly
Hi Beverly,
I'm Amy, and I enjoy reading what you wrote. I see that you like to play LoL, and I just told Tony that I tried to play it once before but it did not work well. I remember about two years ago, our school hold a competition to play LoL, and we had students from another campus, Richmond, to compete with. I didn't want to go first because I didn't know anything about the game, but I went anyway to support my friend, and it turned out to be really fun. I hope you will have a good time when you watch Meiko's game. Also, I see you like dancing, do you dance with Korea songs? Recently, I like BTS and Exo, I don't know if you know them. My brother taught me how to dance a piece in Boy in Luv this summer, and it was so hard, so I am really impressed that you can dance and run a dance club. I hope the best for your talent show.
I am sorry that you can't see the beautiful night scene now, and I know how you feel because I moved last summer. In my old house, there is a park across and the view is green and comfortable, often I can see the squirrels on the tree, and that is gone now in the new house. I feel sad and frustrated, and I know that living environment can really affect a person, so I really hope you can get along with your roommate well. Started from grade three, I lived in a dorm for nine years totally, and till now I still have a roommate. Living with others can be hard sometimes, but it can also be memorable, and I wish you will feel safe and joy in your dorm.
P.S. To answer your question, my school life is a bit stressful now, and I am learning to work and function under the pressure. What do you do when you feel stress? Do you dance or listen to music?
Best regards,
Amy
Hi Amy,
Long time no see,maybe this is my last time to writing to you. Sometimes I have stress,I want to stay alone,listen to music and sleep a whole day,but they can't help me to solve my problems, running away from the reality can not help me with anything,so I always told myself:This is not a big problem in my life, I can do it little by little.Everyone have stress, they can overcome, why not I can’t? Also go to dancing is a effective way to relieve stress for me.Do some interesting things, and I believe you can solve the difficulties.
I dance with many different kinds of songs, such as Korea songs, pop songs. I love powerful dance, and I love BTS too! There songs are really nice, I can dance many of their songs. My favorite person is JiMin and J-Hope, I love them dance. Recently there are many things I need to do, so I don’t have too much time to dancing like before, I hope I can have a lot of time to practice dancing in the nearly future.
Last week, I went to Shanghai with my mother, and watched a LOL match. My favorite team EDG won this game. I feel happy about that. The atmosphere was really excited.Everybody were screaming for their team, because it is a important match for each team who can be the first.I see Meiko, he looks handsome than pictures. After the game, I was waiting my mum to pick me up.Guess what? I see Meiko come out! He wear EDG’s team uniform.I am really excited, and I want to take photo with him, but I am was too shy, just look him until he get on the car.I feel so sorry,why I am not go to take photo with he?:( If I have the opportunity to talk with him in the future I won't miss it. I hope they can win the world championship this year.
I’m pleased to be your pen pal. Hope you can successful graduation,and get great results.
Best wishes,
Beverly
Hi Bev, this is Louise, Amy's teacher. She is sick this week so she can't email you herself. Your life sounds interesting with dancing and shopping and studying. We are in exams now so teachers are marking and students are studying. Not very interesting. Warmly, Louise
Louise Green teaches Academic Writing to first year international students at Trinity Western University in Langley, B.C. She also teaches in the TESOL Certificate Program and in the MA TESOL program.