I went to a small and poor elementary school. I remember the first time a computer showed up in class. It was 5th grade and the computer was an Apple. It was the only computer in my school. This was the 80s and it was a $2, 600 machine.
Before I discovered computers, I took typing class on old typewriters and I was the kid in class that repaired the typewriters. I remember spending hours trying to figure out what each typewriter needed to fix a stuck key. I was also the Audio/Visual geek (狂热的人). This meant I was the only one in the class who can thread (穿过) film onto the projector.
Anyway, when this Apple showed up, I immediately opened it. I had to see what was inside. This totally freaked out the teacher but it seemed clear I wasn't going to break it. I quickly learned how to get out of educational games and write things in BASIC. This was all in 5th grade.
My 5th grade teacher and I stayed in touch until her passing. I honestly don't know what I'd be doing if she hadn't done something extraordinary. She let my father and me take the Apple home. I'd spend the weekend programming, reading the massive notebooks. This was a $2, 000+ computer in the middle of the 80s—the pride of the school—and they let me take it home. A year later, I came home from school one day and the family car was gone and there was a Commodore 64 left in its place. My parents had sold the car and bought a Commodore.
Now, I think about this crazy journey. I am standing on the shoulders not only of computer science giants, but also heroes like my parents and my 5th grade teacher. Thanks Mrs. Hill, for introducing me to computers even though you were breaking rules. Thanks, Mom and Dad, for bringing a computer home even when there wasn't money for one.
A school in the UK is giving boys lessons in zumba and ballet to encourage the idea that PE is gender neutral (不分性别的). Steve Frenzel, a school officer, says that boys should be offered different activities in sport including dance. They should see dance as something they can enjoy just as much as girls.
However, giving boys more choices will not solve the problem of girls' disengagement (不参与) with sport, since for years, girls have been kept from playing sport like football and cricket.
A research done by Women in Sport showed that girls begin to lose interest in sport when they are as young as six. “At around the age of six or seven girls start to drop out of sport. What is interesting is that this is the same time that boys start doing more,” said Ruth Holdaway, the chief executive of Women in Sport. “What seems to be happening is up until that age, boys and girls feel the same—they just run around, they don't think about what they are doing, they will explore, they will climb.”
Teachers should not make any assumptions (假定) about which sport girls or boys would like to play. Often teachers will be surprised if they ask girls what they want. There will be an assumption that they want to do dance and many of them will, but they might also want to play football or cricket.
Other steps schools can take to encourage girls to play sport could include making adaptations (适应性变化) to changing rooms.
Girls may think, “If I am going to get hot and sweaty, I need to put my hair up, I need to take it back down, and if I don't have a mirror, I can't do that.”
Small changes like allowing girls more time in the changing rooms, and putting up mirrors, may encourage them to run around and get hot and sweaty during PE lessons.
When you set a foot outside of your door to drop trash, go to a social event or go for a walk, thoughts like “I hope I don't see anyone I know” or “please don't talk to me” may run through your mind. I've also said such things to myself. Sometimes the last thing you want to do is to talk with someone, especially someone new.
Why do we go out of our ways to avoid people? Do we think meeting new people is a waste of time? Or are we just lazy, thinking that meeting someone new really is a trouble?
Communication is the key to life. We have been told that many times. Take the past generations, like our parents, for example. They seem to take full advantage of that whole “communication” idea because they grew up talking face to face while Generation-Y grew up staring at screens. We spend hours of our days sitting on Facebook. We send messages to our friends and think about all of the things we want to say to certain people that we don't have the courage to actually do in reality.
Nowadays, we are so caught up in our little circle of friends—our comfort zone. We love it that they laugh at our jokes, understand our feelings and can read our minds. Most importantly, they know when we want to be alone. They just get us.
Holding a conversation with someone new means agreeing with things that you don't actually believe and being someone you think they want you to be—it is, as I said before, a trouble. It takes up so much energy, and at some point or another, it is too tiring.
But meeting new people is important. Life is too short, so meet all the people you can meet, make the effort to go out and laugh. Remember, every “hello” leads to a smile—and a smile is worth a lot.
We all hope to achieve success in many areas of our lives.. The following steps will help you clearly define what it is that you hope to achieve in life so that you can make your goals and dreams become a reality.
Stay focused on your goals once you've set them. Set clear long-term and short-term goals. Make sure that you're motivated by the goals you've set for yourself so that you're willing to take the necessary steps to successfully reach those goals. , and you can work towards them every day.
Overcome obstacles (障碍).. If you truly desire to achieve success in life, you must be willing to overcome obstacles on the way to reaching your goals and dreams.
Approach your goals and dreams with a positive attitude. Having a negative attitude and thinking that you can't achieve your goals and be successful in life will only slow you down., and you'll be much closer to achieving success.
. Eat healthily, exercise regularly, get adequate sleep and allow your mind to rest from time to time so that you'll be in top physical and mental shape when pursuing success.
A. Keep your goals in sight
B. Take care of your body and mind
C. Think of more efficient ways to reach your goals
D. Stay positive even if the road to success gets tough
E. No one ever said that reaching your goals and obtaining success were easy.
F. But the road to success seems to be full of difficulties that we haven't planned for
G. Knowing how to get on well with others will greatly serve you on your path to success
Many years ago, I saw a homeless woman, who was wearing only thin clothes, coming in when I was working at a college. She started coughing as she sat down on a sofa in the student public room.1, she wasn't well. Without 2 too much about it, I went to the Student Affairs Office where I knew I could find 3 in the “Lost and Found” box. I gathered her up all clothes and made my way 4. A co-worker told me I should not help this person 5 it would only lead to her wanting 6 help. I ignored (忽视) her and carried on, in spite of the warnings.
Two weeks later a lovely elderly man came to my 7 and asked to speak with me in private. Curious, I gave him my full 8. He went on to tell me that he had overheard (无意听到) the 9 with the co-worker about helping the 10 woman. He wanted me to know that it was always okay to help people, and that was 11 he wanted to give me a check for $1000! I burst into tears, not only because I really 12 the money at the time, but also because I had never been 13 in such a way for helping someone! We became good 14 and, twenty years later, he called me up 15 and told me he wanted to help me 16 my first home! He gave me $120, 000 to buy my 17 house in my home town.
I asked him why he wanted to give me such a large 18. And he said it was because I was a “giver” and that I deserved it. I was able to 19 the perfect little home for me, all because one day I 20 a homeless woman without hesitation.
Travelling around the Sydney district (地区) is a wonderful experience.
The sightseeing options (选择) are (end), but most travelers begin on the harbor at the Sydney Opera House. (know) as one of the wonders of the world, it is a photographer's dream.
There is a huge (choose) of accommodations available in the city and its surrounding area. Darling Harbor is famous its restaurants and four-star hotels. Under the famous Sydney Harbor Bridge is the Rocks shopping district, which (call) “the heaven of shoppers”. You can spend at least a half day (wander) through the alleys and side streets to take in everything the shops offer. On the other side of harbor (lie) another must-visit spot, the Taronge Park Zoo. With an exciting collection of native animals, including lions and giraffes, is rare to find a zoo with a view of Darling Harbor and the city skyline.
The Royal Botanic Garden is within walking distance of the Opera House, and is an absolutely perfect place for a picnic lunch. After lunch, take a walk to Sydney Tower, you can get 360-degree (forget) views of the city.
1）祝贺新社团成立；
2）提供社团发展建议；
3）表达祝愿。
注意：1）词数80左右；
2）可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
