Letter 12 - Merry Christmas

Dear Tim :

     Merry Christmas! I had tried my best to draw the Christmas card, I think it still look pretty good ;)

I took this Christmas tree in the cram school, a pretty cool location right?

     I still remember, when I was in kindergarten, teachers will take out the Christmas tree with decorations and decorate all the classroom, I was actually growing up with that Christmas tree every year. Until now, they'll still take the Christmas tree out. At Christmas Eve, teachers will go caroling to every student's houses and bring them gifts,because me and my younger brother and sister all studied at the same kindergarten, some teacher who have been taught me before will bring a "extra" gift for me!(only remember a Hunger Game novel XD)
                   Wish you have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
                                                                                                                                             Best regards
                                                                                                                                                               Vivian  

Letter 11

Dear Tim:
     About the Christmas tree's shortage, I remembered I've saw that on TV before, it said that luckily that Taiwan have plant some similar trees but shorter(about half  height of an adult?) might supply as a Christmas tree for the shortage.
     And the recipes......, I really shouldn't read them at 10:00 P.M., they made my belly "awake" again......, but maybe I will try them someday, as long as I won't make them have some terrible looking.
                                             Best regards
                                                                Vivian
Study questions :
No14
2.Their own calendar but filled with holy days.

3.Least for four weeks. A time for people get into the Christmas season slowly and gradually.

No15
1.In Mexico: different kinds of peppers In US: a dish

5.How many peppers are add into.

Write For Human Rights

Supporting for human rights!

Made Homeless For Defending Housing Right -- Ni Yu Lan

Saving rainforest in Madagascar- Clovis

Demanding The Right To Be Who He Is -- Sakris Kupila

Facing A Life Sentence For A Facebook Post – Mahadine

Reflection

Brave is stand up for the right things even the whole world is against with you.

Letter 10

Dear Tim:
We've been working on MV Book trailer for a while, and we finally finished it! I teamed up with Amy and Angela. We choose Jane Goodall's story for our topic, it really took us a lot of effort to do it, I hope you can enjoy it !
Link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXj_Xc4fye4

This Wednesday we went to World Press Photo 2017, it was a special experience, those photo were really shocking,I'm just going to put them down below.

Study questions
3.He have to be on active duty in the military, or is a veteran.
7.It is a little farming town of about 700 people and there may be only one paved street.
9.Because people didn’t like the smell of the smoke,or the smoke bothered their allergies. Or they thought burning leaves in the street was“too dangerous”, for drivers driving through the smoke, or for people parking their cars over a still-smoldering pile of leaves.
                                                                                       Best regard
                                                                                                      Vivian

Letter 9

Dear Tim:
     I remembered when I was in kindergarten, our teacher did took us went trick o' treating around the nearby residents and convenient stores I only remembered that time, so I actually can't sure if that was the only time I went trick o' treating. My costume was a vampire, that was a really memorized experience also can got candies!!! Therefore, I'm still kind of looking forward to Halloween,maybe I'm too old for trick o' treating but I still can get candies from our teachers ;)
                                               Best regards
                                                                 Vivian

Study questions
3. I would only find two little kids dressed as cacti for Halloween.
7. They clean the graves of their relatives or put candles.
10. Huston Astros won the World Series.
   

Letter 6

Dear Tim:
     We finally end our exam ! I think I can do it better ,but for the time we had I think I already tried my best.
     This Friday is the choir competition again. We only had three teams for the north of Taiwan.Our school and another school have the same coach  teaching us,and the other school 's coach is coincidentally our coach's classmate,even more,both three of teams chose the same assigned song ,so , while waiting for the result,all three of the teams sang the assigned song together! there were almost a hundred students!even the judges recorded it after they came back and saw it ,it was really fun and a special experience,I really enjoy it.
                                          Best regards
                                                           Vivian

Letter 3

Dear Tim :
     About the flowers, I love that picture ! I would loved to have my own garden in the back of my house, with verities of flowers and plants, sounds great, isn't it?
     The nature disaster sometimes is really a big problem, somehow, I'm glad we only have typhoon in Taiwan.
     And next week we are going to watch TAS's performance again! I'm so excited!
                                                                            Best regards
                                                                                           Vivian

Letter 4

Dear Tim:
     Those disaster were horrifying, I'm glad that we don't have to been through those things this year.
     For Chloe, I'm so jealous that she was so freedom being as a cat, actually, I think I'll have a cat after I moved out from my family. I love cat so much! I've even named my cat in the game Chloe!(such a coincident!).
     For TAS's performance, I've got to say, they surprised me again! They've become even better from last year! I hardly recommend you to watch a show of them, they are so talented!
                                                                                         Best regards
                                                                                                         Vivian

Letter 5 -Moon Festival

Dear Tim:
     The names for the full moons of the year were so cool! Just like there are different names of Valentin's Day at 14th of every month.
     And it's about the time for us to prepare our exam, so there won't be our respond next week.
     For some personal reason I'm apologize that I didn't have time to type more,hope I can get back on the trail as soon as possible.
                                          Best regards
                                                            Vivian

Letter 7

Dear Tim:

     Happy Halloween! It's another holiday! I always loves those holiday origins stories you've write on the newsletters, especially the one that I never heard before, they are always attract me.

     Speak of the Halloween, costume is really important, this year I played as the Joker, my make up was really a disaster so I didn't took a picture of it, well......I'm still learning it. But I made a injury hand with my mom, it was really tiring, but it ends out pretty good,what do you think?

                                                                                         Best regard

                                                                                                     Vivian

Letter 8-Dubbing competition

Dear Tim:
     Speak of the day of the dead it instantly remind me that I've saw some information in a comic book before it was really interesting .I am really excited that I can know more about it from newsletter.
     Last Friday, all of us went to the English dubbing competition ,well, some of us didn't join the competition,(cause there's limited teams for each school) but it's still a great experience for us, some students even practicing for three months! And they really get paid off, some teams are awesome! I even thought they're playing the original clip from the movie!
     Also our school fair is on this Saturday, we really want to settle everything down ,but we've been really busy lately,wish I could buy everything we need in time(sigh)
                                                                                           Best regards
                                                                                                            Vivian

Letter 2-New things mention

Dear Tim:

     Summer is about to end, but it's still hot in here. I wonder when will it end, however, I'm sure that I will miss summer a lot when the freezing winter comes.

     Here's the news, we're having a voice over competition again! I'm in the same team with Melody, Angela, Otto and Jay, we choose "Shrek 2" for our clip to use. I hope it ends out great because I think the part we choose was pretty interesting, but also hard to keep up the speed in the clip. Also, Doris's drawing are amazing, there are still someone who's talented in our class,and their works are really shocking.

     By the way,I'll started to reply your comments under the response, just letting you know. About your last comment I'll probably reply it on Saturday night.(cause our PTA is helding in this Saturday morning,I'm going to help,and I have class in the afternoon) And my favorite K-Pop group it's about to release a new album in these days, maybe I'll mention them in my next response. Are there any celebrities you're crazy with?

                                                                                                                      Best regards 

                                                                                                                                    Vivian   

Letter 1-Changes

Dear Tim :
     It's been a long time for me to post something on my blog ,it feels nice to start writing response to you again!
     The news that you had a surgery really touches me a lot ,my grandma also had a surgery for her knees in May.She suffered a lot, which made me felt really bad,the first time that her legs got problems was because taking care of me, she slipped down from the stairs.(when I was still a baby, I always cried with babysitter taking care of me, that's the reason why we did't hire a babysitter)  I hope your body already feel full of energy ;)
     Also,you've might already know that there are some new faces in our classroom, freshman for the EHP family! I'm really excited for the chemical reaction between you guys
                                                                                                         Best regards
                                                                                                                            Vivian

Letter 29

Dear Tim:

I never been to the Arboretum,actually ,I 've never been to a lot of place before(sigh).Anyways,it still attracts me , I like plants and trees,they are beautiful!

It's about the end of our semester ,also the annoying plum rains season,your shoes will be wet for all day! Especially our school is very,very,very easily to get flood ,and the suddenly rain......literally just like pouring a liter of water from your head! 

And there's our presentation video! It really took me a lot of time to put links on it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gil2fTj8yU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcqytv6qB7U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76F-yf3ICww

                                                                        Best regards
                                                                                     Vivian Huang

Letter 28

Dear Tim:
The Changhua club sounds really nice ,I wonder if somewhere else have this kind of club too! But it is great if someone from your hometown can give you a hand in other city.
And I never though about there's other details from Dragon Boat Festival , it is cool to know more and deeper about it

About the yearly presentation from EHP ,I think you've already received some information from Cindy right? It was really tiring for those preparation and other works,but we all enjoy with it (expect for the pouring rain and lots of termite) It is such a pity that you can't join with us

full of ZZSH's students!

In case if you don't know ,Ericson play as a statue (there were lots of girls wanted to take a picture with him)

by the way it's the biggest rain in Taiwan in 16 years!

And about the video I've promised ,well...... have a little technical problem ,so it might have to put off , at least until next response.And I tried to upload them on youtube and I'll check it later ,hope it can success !
                                                                      Best regards
                                                                                   Vivian Huang

Letter 27

Dear Tim:

The memorial day just like our tomb sweeping festival and 228 incident right? I think this kind of day(festival) is important for countries ,for memorize the one who we loved ,also remind the history which brings harms to us.

This Sunday was our club years' presentation with Taipei Municipal Heping Senior High School ,it was quiet fun! Although it was tiring during the practice ,but it totally worth it ! I will try to find some video and pictures of our performance and put links on letter 28th respond.

And EHP's  years' presentation is going to be held on next Friday ,though most of us are only staff ,but I'm sure there're still a lots of things to share with !
                                                                                        Best regards
                                                                                                       Vivian Huang

Letter 26

Dear Tim:
  At first when I saw the school name I though you're just kidding.After I read all of the story and click into the link,finished the whole video,their story really shocked me.Those students are so talented!watching the process of how they made the system makes me feel so uneasy for them,also I'm very appreciate the sprite that they wanted to help solving the problem for the residents and protect the animals.Actually,that reminds me that we saw a few video about global warming on class today,they made me realized what I know about global warming was too less,maybe what I can do right now is just a tiny improve,but I still want to do my best trying to save our earth,just like those students want to help their hometown.
                                                                     Best regards
                                                                               Vivian Huang

Letter 24

Dear Tim :

Thanks for putting us in this week's newsletter!I'm so proud of my classes,they not only practicing very hard but also put lots of efforts on thinking how to defeat our enemies.Seriously,their really paid anything tried to win the champion,even Red's hand got hurt,she still insist to finish the race!

And I do pretty jealous about finding those Easter eggs,my elementary school's english teacher once had let us finding the Easter eggs that hiding by our classmates,it's so much fun!After that time I've never played anymore,I still wish I have a chance to finding those eggs,maybe we can tried to held one in our class!

                                                                                    Best regards

                                                                                            VivianHuang

Letter 25

Dear Tim:
Mentioning about the media,we do have a lesson about the influence of the press in our textbook,though I didn't pay much attention on national news,but I think it is important for the reporters to make the news what we really need to know,not what we want to watch.I think it is the responsibility for them.
Also we will have a pause for the respond for once because of our mid-term exam,and we're going to participate a competition lately,maybe some of them had mention it already?
                                                           Best regards
                                                                   Vivian Huang

Letter 23

Dear Tim :
Sorry for responding late, but I really wanna share my sister's birthday pictures with you.
Well, accidentally I found out that it's also William's birthday too!

And those information about Easter were so interesting! The parade sounds so cool ,I would really like to join those people and wear some weird clothing, it seems to be fun.

                                                                               Best regards

                                                                                        Vivian Huang

Letter 22

Dear Tim :
Thanks for sharing those information! I'm interested in those creatures so much! Harry Potter from J.K. Rowling,and Greek mythology had both written mysterious creatures, I especially like Greek mythology, those stories are so attractive!

Last week, we had a four days holiday,I'm not really sure if it's a holiday,but we have to clean the tomb of our ancestor.(well …I just forget the holiday's name) For us it's a gift! Finally can get away from school and studies! Me and my family had visited Konig tourism factory, my younger sister and I had made cookies and macaroons together, it was so fun! （We just combine the materials together ,still fun though )I took plenty of pictures,so I've put them in my google account.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B3rVkkHKdHPOckhFZjZVOHpsRmM?usp=sharing

                                                          Best regards

                                                                           Vivian Huang

Letter 20

Dear Tim ：
Answer for last respond :
I wish he could be Melvyn too, unfortunately, he is not.
The song is actually rewrite from a Chinese poem
I standing in the front, but I tied up my hair, and......not really smiling, well I am still practicing to smile more happier
Our class are practicing for a singing competition lately, it's on 4/26 maybe you can get some of our practicing pictures from summer
                          Best regards
                                Vivian Huang

Letter 21

Dear Tim:
     Well,I still own you a respond from last newsletter,don't I ?I'm been very busy lately,not only preparing the next week mid-term exam,also had to prepare the exam from EHP,anyway,maybe I can share with you some of our course in the next respond.
   

My aunt,my mom and I having a brunch last Saturday,though it's a bit expensive,but totally worth it!
       Best regards
                                     Vivian Huang 

Letter 19

Dear Tim
Thanks for your concern, I pretty enjoy the holiday that I had.(although I spent most of time at cram school)

 Me and my family had had a dinner together at a Korean restaurant, there were so many people waiting for the seats outside!Glad that we had made a reservation(that day is really cold!).Most of their dishes are spicy ,but I got to said it is SO DELICIOUS!!! We had spicy rice cakes,seafood pot,spicy fried chicken and Barbecue  

The Portfolio of My Literature Circles --Vivian Huang

Book: Loser 

Author: Jerry Spinelli

LC1 Summarizer  Discussion Director

LC2 Connector  illustrator

LC3 Passage Picker  Word Watcher

LC4 Summarizer  Discussion Director

LC5 Summarizer  Discussion Director

Reading Reflection

Book: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Author: Mark Haddon

LC1 (pp 1-32)   3/5  Discussion Director  Connector

                                  

LC2 (pp 32-67)  3/12  Passage Picker  illustrator

LC3 (pp 69-115)   3/21   Word Watcher  Summarizer

LC4 (pp 115-158)  4/11 Summarizer  Passage Picker

LC5 (pp 158-198)  4/25 Summarizer  Connector 

LC6 (pp 198-221)  5/2  Summarizer  Word Watcher

Reading Reflection

Letter 18

Dear Tim
     The house that I live with my family sometimes will have a "big visitor" ,they are getting smarter and smarter,it turns out that traps seldom catch them.When they appears again we have to put cages in the corner (yes,they have to use cages!) and corridors.It is especially noisy at night when you cannot fall asleep,it 's squeak will be so clearly that sounds just right beside you! Fortunately,they won't come back again in a short term.
     And I do have an awful week, feeling tired ,anxiety,I don't even know what had happen to me ,just feeling really bad...anyway,I wish I can share something about our for days holiday in the next response
                                                                                               Best regards
                                                                                                            Vivian Huang

Letter 17 -Handmade Book

Dear Tim
This is my handmade book, actually it's our homework, you can choose to write anything , a plan for traveling, diary etc.
I choose to write my daily life,technically, it's the first time I keep the diary for that long.So....it might not as good as you expected.
There is it!

Letter 16 -Chinese New Year

Dear Tim :
     Almost EVERYWHERE were crowded during Chinese New Year,department store, theater, restaurant,usually will full of people.

   Me and my family had enjoy a big feast that was prepared by my mom(my younger brother and I also had helped her prepared the feast)It is common to see fish on the table, but in our tradition, we won't eat up all the fish, it means that we will remain a lot of  good things in this year.

     We will also play some gambling games for fun during Chinese New Year ,there are plenty of them, so I won't describe them one by one, there is a link below.
http://www.worldofbuzz.com/plan-gamble-chinese-new-year-read-first/
     There are some people will play firecrackers  during Chinese New Year too, but for the safety,there do have some confine about playing firecrackers.
     I wish that I can type more about Chinese New Year, but unfortunately I don't have much time,hope those information can let you know more about  Chinese New Year!
                                                                Best regards
                                                                            Vivian Huang

Response to Tim's Letters

Letter 1: Hello Tim!

Letter 2: Typhoon Day

Letter 3: Favorite Season & Responsibility

Letter 4: Preparing for the exam

Letter 5: Halloween Surprise ! 

Letter 6: Visitors & Survey presentation

Letter 7:Activities Pictures

Letter 8: Thoughts of the America president election

Letter 9:School Anniversary&Selfie

Letter 10:Thanksgiving p.1

Letter 11:Thanksgiving p.2

Letter 12:Opinions Of  Same Sex Marriage

Letter 13:Fight For Human Rights

Letter 14:MV Picture Book

Letter 15:Christmas cookie