The winter vacation and Spring Festival are on the way! That means delicious food and family gatherings (团聚). Other than celebrating the festival, do you have any other plans for the holiday? Here's what some of our readers will be doing — maybe they'll give you an idea! Ding Peiqi, 13, from Shanghai "My holiday plan is ambitious (有雄心的): writing my first novel. I want to write about 10,000 words! It will be a fantasy (魔幻) story like the Harry Potter books. But the characters in my story will be four lovely girls. They live ordinary (平凡的) lives but one day magic changes their lives forever… " Liu Yang, 14, from Shanghai "I am a Junior 3 student. I'll need to spend most of the winter vacation taking extra classes. I'll try to improve my Chinese composition skills. My dream winter vacation would be to enjoy Spring Festival the same as everyone else: eating delicious food, visiting relatives and getting lots of lucky money!" Wang Lichao, 14, from Tianjin "I'll have an adventure this winter! My friends and I will spend a day taking the train to Beijing by ourselves! I've been to Beijing many times. But this time, without my parents' company (陪伴), the trip should be different. We may visit some parks in Beijing. " Wei Yaxue, 15, from Guangxi "Bad luck! I have to spend half of the vacation in extra classes. If I had time, I'd travel to Tibet. I want to see the snow, the blue sky and animals there. It should be easy because we now have the Qinghai-Tibet railway. I could get on the train at Liuzhou. " |