“first base ” mean to hand in hand ,”second base “mean more closer action than before…like “touch”,then third base?some American here?
now i know most American are so implicit for something…

I arrived at the city in the evening last autumn. Many imaginations and expectations about this city was replaced by this restful night, the cool tempreture made me calm down momentarily. Various grievances before going abroad, and the difficulties on recieving visa, the troubles of preparing for piles of procedures…etc.In a word, everything was put behind. I was just deeply immersed in the eyes of a perceived silence. Compary to my hometown, this city brings me another feeling, which cannot be described in simple words. I think I fall in love with the city at that moment.

“C’est la vie.” A popular french sentence. It means” This is life.” To some extend. It indicates the French attitude towards life.

Mentioned France, people always associated with two words: Romantic, and Arrogant. There must be a reason. The French have good social welfare subvention. No matter they are unemployed, or having the new-born babies,or go to school,or see a doctor, if they need, they all have the right to apply a social welfare subvention from the gorvernment. This policy reduce the numbers of porverty and also the pressure of the Frenches. Therefor, they have more time to enjoy life and to think about the life. They have more time to stay with lovers ,friends. There is a little park oppsite the appartment I lived. After school, or in my sparetime, I ‘d like to sit on the bench in the park, to read, or to listen to my MP3. and at the same time, I always see the Frenches are in the park, no matter it is the day time or the weekends, they are just there. They wander and wander in the park with friends, with pets, with family. Some time, I find some people just lying on the grass and do nothing. They just enjoy the sunshine and the life relaxly. I always confused that whether they indeed had a job.Why they always seems free. This is a kink of romantic attitude. They are arrogant on their life styles, and they cannot understand how people cost their life time to be busy and not to give a minute relax to their life.

Getting along with the French for a long time will become make people patient and comprehensive. Coz waiting and using to be waiting is a normal behavior. After I arrived there, I cost three weeks to get my check and a month to get my networking. If you are in hurry and ask them why the process need so long time. They give u a sympathetic smile and tell you that: “Sorry, I ll try, but you have to wait…”

In the supermarket, It is easy to find out the long lines are standing in front of the the check out counter, but no hurry and no one complaines. The cashier will say:”Bonjour(hello)”to everyone. And after they finish, they will say” Au revoir(goodbye), and Bonne Journee(wish u have a good day).” to send you off. Everything is in order. Everything is without hurry.

This year impressed me so much, there’s happy, there are tears. I learned how to live alone and how to grow up.

C’est la vie. Not only in France.

Girls, wake up and time for Big G word: Gossip.

It is not about money, really. If he gave me something pretty—even it was from some shabby stall at a flea market, although I doubt there would be anything interest there. Anyway, the point is, as long as he gave me something with a little taste, I would be grateful. BUT NO. It was the ugliest thing I ever seen! Whats wrong with him? To give me a nasty cheap plastic strap like that —I am not saying I am trendy or something, but at least I have some sense of beauty, am I? —and he presented it to me in such a serious manner as if it was something very special, I was really speechless!

Sis told us a story about how one of her admirers bumping his head into the wall, and we burst into another round of good laugh.

Tell me, who is this guy? I really want to know. Snow gave another try to grill Sis on this mysterious mans name; unfortunately Sis had a very tight month about this.
No, thats the problem. You see, we work together, which complicated things.
Snow threatened to do a human flesh research, but Sis kept ignoring her. Whats next? I was anxious to know the result.

Taking another sip of beer, Sis continued her story.

What can I do? Its a delicate matter. I started ignoring him, but obviously he took it pretty badly. He complained a lot about me in his space and required me to give him a reason. Can you believe it? We hadn’t started yet! Not even at gradual getting-to-know-each-other stage. Yes, he asked me out, and yes, I agreed to have a dinner with him—as a coworker, just once, thats all, no string, no attachment, and definitely no commitment. Whats the reason I could possibly give to him?

There was a short break, but soon we found something else to cut the silence. We talked, giggled, drunk beer and eaten everything we could get our hands on. Vaguely I realized that it had been a long time since I did this. Being a mother, a wife and an employee have eaten most of my time and energy. Of course, I have getting-together with my friends, but the topic is always the same: our child. And during this short business trip with two of my colleagues (both unmarried), I relieved a part of my life that I had lost long time ago—a girly part, sensitive and reckless. I never realized that I actually missed that part.

The above is parts of a letter named “A Letter to Heaven”, written by a survivor of Yushu earthquake, who is a junior high school student, missing his teacher who lost her life in the 7.1 magnitude earthquakes that have taken away more than 2,000 lives.

After the disaster, a lot of people reached out their hands donating money, tents, clothes, quilts and so on to help the homeless. Last night, CCTV held a large donation activity raising money of 2.175 billion yuan for the post-disaster reconstruction. Many aritists, athletes, celebrities and ordinary people attended the activity and donated their money as well as their love.

All people in China are immersed in the enormous grief. In order to remember the victims of Yushu prefecture, the State Council stipulates April 21 as a National mourning day, lowering national flag at half-staff, and stopping all public entertainment activities.

We may not have a lot of money to donate, but we have love. We can help them indirectly by doing our work well. For example, you can make sure the donation goods will be delivered as soon and safe as possible if you are involved in the activity, just like that.

Let’s pray for the victims and do what we can to help the survivors. God bless.