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　　 I told my daughter last Friday that she could go to her grandpa’s home next day. She was so excited that she jumped and ran with joy, even shaking my body, and said:”You are the best daddy in the world.” afterwards, she began to arrange her things for the next day’s short trip. She packed two big bags.
　　
　　 My daughter hadn’t gone to visit my father for a long time. She had been keeping asking for it. But I wished she could go there together with me. After I was told that I had to go to ChangSha on errand, I knew that she wouldn’t have time to go any more if I didn’t let her go to the countryside.
　　
　　 The another important reason why my daughter wanted to go to my father’s home was that her cousin, her favorite playmate, has been already there for a week.
　　
　　 I don’t allow her to spend summer holiday at her grandpa’s home, because she always eats all kinds of junk food and eats least healthy food. My parents always let her do what she wants to do, and eat what she wants to eat. I will be uneasy while she is in the countryside. After all, she is a little kid. She can’t take care of herself and my parents spoil her too much.
　　
　　 I phone her every evening. Most time she doesn’t answer my call, just telling my mother who gets the call that she is busy. Sometimes she answers my call, but, before I can say any words, she has hung up the phone after saying a word of ’bye-bye’. I can imagine that she is eager to join up with her cousin for some games.
　　
　　 My mother told me that my daughter didn’t read the story books of English. Although I packed the book for her, I knew that she wouldn’t read a word of the book. But I can do nothing. She is just a bird out of the cage, a fish into the deep and wide sea, a wild horse without rein.
　　
　　 As a matter of fact, I worry her safety most. My father house stands by the joint of two streams. It’s a good place to live, but it’s a dangerous place for a child as young as my daughter. I warned my daughter again and again before she set off. I will beat her if she did something dangerous. I also call my parents, asking them to put close eyes on my daughter.
　　 How can I get relieved when a little unfledged bird fly in the wild forest full of danger. Perhaps, I magnify the danger, but I can’t help it.

　　 When I saw the photo yesterday that a girl was selling vegetable with a back-basket on her back, towering her little body, somehow I think of the girl who sold matches in the cold winter.
　　
　　 How could it happen ? I guess that she must have lost her parents, or her parents couldn’t let such a little girl do that. In addition, the girl was with her grandpa in the photo.
　　
　　 In recent years, I have seen many photos like this, showing little kids doing things that they are not supposed to do. From my own experience, I can tell what the photos tell us is true. There are still a lot of pathetic family in our country, though the economy is growing fast. Especially, in some families with only kids and old grandparents, or and invalid parents, their condition are very miserable. In my knowledge, I have never heard any official policy to protect those families so far. They are always in the shadow of life, no matter how many policies come on from the government.
　　
　　 while Government put them in the oblivious corner of life, fortunately, the society doesn’t forget them. Now more and more non-governmental organization are trying to do something for people in bad condition.
　　
　　 In our city, YouTaoJuShi is such a organizer who created ZhangJiaJie Union of Love with other two young fellows. JuShi is more than 60 years of age, his son has asked him to live with him in BeiJing for many times, but he didn’t go. He feels that it’s his destiny to do something for the children who are facing the threat of failing to attend school, because they have lost their parents, or their parents are very ill.
　　
　　 JuShi often visits faraway villages and country schools, gathering information of excellent students who are in awful economy condition. Perhaps, some people will wonder about such situation, and they would like to ask:”Government has freed students in elementary school and junior high school of all kinds of tuition. Why are there still so many kids who can’t afford to attend school ?”
　　
　　 Now, in the countryside, most schools are boarding schools. A student in junior high school needs to pay about 2000RMB to school for food. A lot of poor families can’t pay for that.
　　
　　 The donation of money from individual or firm is limited. Although JuShi wants to help all poor kids, what he can do is to choose the kids who are need help most.
　　
　　 Just like many other people, I wonder what Government has done for those poor kids ? I can’t come to the answer after racking my mind. Perhaps we should forgive the government just like they forgive themselves with some absurd unconvincing excuses. After all, people can’t do nothing but think the government will do better in the future.
　　
　　 Since Government stand aside on something, we need more ‘YouTaoJuShi’ to organize efforts to help the poor children who aren’t able to attend school without help of money.
　　
　　 Oh, God. Please put the time run faster and let’s get into the future when Government can take some real actions to help poor chilren.

　　 At sight of her grandpa, WangZheng couldn’t help smiling happily. Having lived in my home for about 40 days, WangZheng doesn’t still get used to live with us. After all, she is just a girl of 9 years of age.
　　
　　 Last week, I called WangZheng’s grandpa who lives in a faraway village, and told him that I had at present no time take care of WangZhang as well as my daughter who would go to my father’s home. He asked me if it’s possible that WangZheng could attend school in the city together with my daughter. Regretly I told him that I had no time to meet her granddaughter and walk her home after school. Then he said that I can take WangZheng when I took my daughter home after school.
　　
　　 I did tell him that WangZheng could attend school in the city if she could get used to live with us. But after 40 days, I found that I didn’t have the confidence of taking good care of her who have really worried me for some times. To have a little girl attend school in the city and live with us means not only money but also many responsibilities, her safety, her health, her education. I don’t have the confidence of guaranteeing all of them.
　　
　　 In addition, It’s my mother-in-law to meet my daughter after school every day. my wife is strongly against my plan of having WangZheng attend school here. Therefore, I can’t ask my mother-in-law to take care of WangZheng.
　　
　　 So I told WangZheng’s grandpa that her granddaughter can’t attend school in the city, because it’s inconvenient to meet her after school. He sounded sort of disappointed on the other end of the line. But I didn’t have other choice. I had taken thing too lightly and carelessly.
　　
　　 This is my second time of trying the same thing, and failed again.

　　 After finishing work at my office early this morning, I went home by bus of No.1. There was less than five people in the bus, so I could take a seat by a window. When the bus stopped WengChangGe(文昌阁), which is a busy place, so many people crowded into the bus that I was almost breathless even though I took the advantage of the open window, through which breeze kissed my face. A pretty young lady in a loose skirt stood nearby. Her bulging abdomen impressed me immediately. Unluckily, just at the moment when I wanted to get out and sign her to take my seat, she threw the core of pear that she had just finished out of the window. I swallowed my words, looking at the waste of pear on the ground instead of her baby-housing abdomen.
　　
　　 I pretended to look outside carelessly, but I was struggling inside with myself. “Am I right to do this ?” I kept asking myself, “After all, she is a pregnant woman.” But I didn’t really want to give my seat to such a lady.
　　
　　 ZhangJiaJie is famous for not only its exotic nature scene, perhaps, but also the dirty city. I often see some people in elegant dress toss the waste whenever they have eaten something. A pregnant woman can drop waste at will, how can she be expected to tell her baby the right thing on public sanitation in the future ?
　　
　　 It seems that we have a long way to go before our city can match the beautiful natural scene.
　　
　　 The struggle of whether I did the right thing or not took my mind all the way home. I didn’t rise up until the bus came to the stop that I should get off.

　　 Before human being knew how to make fire, human beings ate uncooked food. Crude food was hard to eat and unhealthy. Human being had ever been trying for a long time to preserve fire after some woods caught fire. Finally SuiMuShi invented the way of making fire. He used long sharp stone to drill in wood quickly, and put some dried grass under the wood. During the process of drilling, whick could make sparkle, the flammable grass would get ignited.
　　
　　 SuiMuShi’s invention was so important that human being’s civilization got greatly improved. Thereafter, human beings could eat cooked food that was tasty and healthy. Human beings didn’t ate crude food like wild animal any more, I think, which is big step that primitive lived in real human-like style. SuiMuShi was thus elected king because of his great invention that was a milestone in human history.
　　
　　 Fire always means warm and existence of human. Sometimes when I camp out with some fellows, we always make camp-fire that not only make us feel warm but also let us feel safe. When a single person walks in the desert or deep forest, the sight of fire always makes him expect some people after the long lonely journey.
　　
　　 Fire also means livingness. In the summer moonlit night, people who camp out like to make fire, sitting around it. The fire makes the joyful face more lively. The fire is not for warm and safety, but for putting more livingness into their heart.
　　
　　 Fire means nice things. When we say some girls are hot, I reckon it means that people will catch fire in their hearts when they see the hot-girls. When some books is hot, people like to buy them, I guess, which may stir some sparkle inside their souls. Fire means passion that make people’s hearts hot, fire means love that make people’s heart live.
　　
　　 While fire is great helpful to us, it can be also harmful because of the evil use of it or the carelessness to it. XianYu(项羽) had the legendary Palace burned down , A Pang Gong (阿房宫), which is said to extend 800 miles. The terrorist crashed the World Trade Center, the fire burned down the grand buildings into a ruin. Just couple days ago, the fire burned the forest nearby Athens, threatening to ruin a lot of precious relics.
　　
　　 While we watch movies, the fight-themed movies are always full of sublime fire that destroys everything that it can burn down. Fire means destroying, ruin,mercilessness.
　　
　　 Fire, if being evil used, burns things, love burns heart. Love gives people happiness. But sometimes, love hurt people the most. The betrays of lover, breaking up with friends, the loss of beloved, when love turns into bitterness, love also can ruins anyone.
　　
　　 It seems that what gives us the greatest happiness sometimes hurts us most if we can’t use them in the right way.