宝宝多大可以学下棋:An English Conposition About 500 Words

Holidays and festivals
Nowadays, we are getting on so much stress and presure. Endless work takes up most of our time we try to do something to get away from it like doing some sports or have a trip or picnic
But at times these make things much worse so we need holidays.
Walking along an art show or seeing some pictures of a theme show, you may think about something beyond you but about you. Think about that there are still so many children are suffering from the starvation, there so many people devoting their lives to laying the basis of our bright life today. We can see some other people fight with the unfair fortune to encourage ourselves. We can do something we are interests in to change our focus. We can stop to think something about life, about what we really need and what really deserve us to spend all our life to seeking for. We cannot lose ourselves in the sea of work.
Some holidays help us remember something
Some holidays help us forget something
But most holidays can bring us happiness
For our Chinese people, the most important holiday maybe spring festival. Young and old, get together to celebrate it. But I always think it is for senior people, not for our parents or us young
That day, we have to do things that please our grandparents no matter we like it or not. It is good manners. Yeah, in our country, always being regarded as the home of good manners, we can never get rid of these traditional tired "good manner" so hate these traditional holidays
I like natural day or people's day
We can have a good vacation in the outer place or further some place to travel. This is great. Being far away from the place we have get tired of. Just imagine that you are beside the flowing stream, listening to the bird's some and wind' churos. Take a deep breath of the fresh air of the nature. Put yourself in hug of the nature
You may just think about the poem of some certain people. Yeah, this may another world beyond the world we know, and we are perhaps another people living in a world
So I say some holidays are for you to relax
Some holidays are for you to help others to relax
So I say a little prayer, and hope my dream will take me there where the skis are blue, the fields a re green. Over sea from coast to coast, we should reach that paradise, which is a where our dream laying.
So all in all, we need holiday to make us find that we have a bigger world above endless work.

New Year’s Eve
Jan. 28th, 2005, the last day of lunar calendar
You know, spring festival is the most important festival. But today isn’t spring festival, yesterday will be. And you also know the last day of lunar calendar is important as well---New year’s Eve. Chinese always get together and celebrate it.
Today, everybody didn’t have to work, now, if you went to the street, no shop was open. This morning, I got up at ten o’ clock, the sun was very high. Then I went out with my father want to have breakfast, but no shop was open. We were all despond. So we went home, mother cooked the breakfast for us. It’s 11 o ’clock, we even had breakfast. But today was the last day of lunar calendar, it didn’t matter! My father and I read some books after breakfast. At noon, we ate dumplings.
After lunch, it’s time to clean the house. All Chinese families do this to sweep away bad luck, and make room for good luck. We made sure to hide the brooms before New Year, otherwise good luck might be swept away. Mother cleaned the windows, I swept the floor, father waxed the car, now everything was new! After that, father and I decorated the house with red couplets and paper cutting. They had words like ‘Good Luck’ or ‘Happiness’ written on them. My father hanged them upside down and said:” Good Luck has arrived!” That was because the word for ‘upside down’ sounds like ‘has arrived’ in Chinese. Couplets went outside the door too. There were poems on them to protect us from a monster, Nian, and other evil things. I helped my father did these things, we were all happy!
Oh, it’s 5 o’clock, we had to eat Family reunion dinner then. We had to go countryside to have this important feast with my grandmother and grandfather, because my mother is a nurse, and she have to work all the time. After an hour, we arrived in grandmother’s house. When I arrived, my little brother was shooting off firecrackers. The noise was bad! Then my aunts and grandfather gave me red envelolpes. They had money inside. My brother used to say, ’Gong Xi Fa Cai, Hong Bao Na Lai’, it means ‘Happy New Year, now give me my red envelope’. He was very naughty! In Family reunion dinner, there was a lot of food, meat, vegetables, lamb and so on…My grandmother is good at cooking, I think.
After dinner, I went home on time, because I wanted to watch Spring Festival Gala Evening. Of course, my father played the cards with my nuncle, aunt and a friend. At midnight, everybody counted down,’5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0!!!’ At the same time, everybody lit firecrackers. The noise scared away all the monsters and evil things. Then father opened all the windows and doors to make sure that they ran far away. The old year leaved, and the new year is coming!!
By the way, I think the Spring Festival Gala Evening this year wasn’t better than last year, isn’t very good…What do you think?
Happy new year!!