The summer came right after the winter passed. Spring did not show herself except that damn pollen! I almost died with it! When the summer comes, people always have some special things to do again: turning on air condition, go swimming and certainly, eating ice-cream! These a a famous ice-cream company called Ben and Jerry’s,and its Chairman of the Independent Board of Directors, Jeff Furman ‘61, will come to Cheshire Academy to join the 221st Commencement Address.(cheshireacademy.org)

Work Cited

“Our History” BEN & JERRY'S ICE CREAM N.p.,n.d. Web. 06 May 2015.

http://www.benjerry.com/about-us

"Meet the Staff and Trustees." Ben & Jerry's Foundation. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 May 2015.

http://benandjerrysfoundation.org/who-we-are.html

"News Detail | Cheshire Academy." News Detail | Cheshire Academy. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 May 2015.

http://www.cheshireacademy.org/page/News-Detail?pk=973582&fromId=206150

"Ben & Jerry's Official to Give Commencement for Cheshire Academy."MyRecordJournal.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 May 2015.

http://www.myrecordjournal.com/news/latestnews/7199843-129/ben-jerrys-official-to-give-commencement-for-cheshire-academy.html

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Those were normal mornings I miss

My phone shocks on my desk. “All right... I must get up...It’s six o’clock now.” With my body shocking, I walk to bathroom after I find my slippers. My mom always gets up before I do, because she needs to prepare breakfast for my father and me. Toothpaste and wet towel are already prepared in the bathroom and I have been accustomed to it. “Mom, what is for breakfast today?” “Fried dumplings and boiled eggs.” Fried dumplings are always delicious,especially fried dumplings with Chinese cabbages and pork as stuffing. And how should I eat boiled eggs today? With “hot pickle mustard tuber” or sauce oil? Both of them are so gooood! I can wait to eat them, so I rush back to my room and start to dress up.

My phone shocks on my desk. “Oh I hate get up...” I refused to get up although I am made up by my phone. “Mom, what we eat for breakfast today?” I ask with expecting. “Vegetable topping soup noodles(I translate by myself, because the name that kind of noodles will not appear in the dictionary absolutely). I bought it back 10 minutes ago.” Before she ends her talking, I am already brushing my teeth in the bathroom. “ I will eat all the noodles!Even the soup!” I must be satisfied when I walk out the door I think. Tasty breakfast forces me to get up, or I am attracted by the tasty breakfast. Whatever, I just got up for breakfast. 

It is Saturday morning, I wake up at 8:00 a.m. Although school life is very tired, I still wake up quite early. I don’t get up for NBA match on TV, I get up for steamed stuffed buns. My mom told me she would go to buy them this morning. A box of milk and steamed stuffed buns will be fantastic for the morning! “These are vegetable stuffing, these are meat stuffing and these are three... My mom stops talking after she sees half of a bun in my mouth. Whenever it is weekday or weekend, breakfast was so attractive.

My iPad rings beside my bed. “What time is it now? Oh, it’s 7:00 o’clock I think, I can keep sleeping for a while even I should go breakfast. Let me set an alarm at 7:30..” “I hate get up in the morning! What are we going to eat for breakfast? Fine, let’s just stop imagining. It must me scrambled eggs and potatoes. How about set an alarm at 7:40? If brushing teeth and washing face will take 5 minutes, dressing up will cost 5 minutes and walking to class will cost 5 minutes will cost 5 minutes... OK I can sleep until 7:45.”

That is how my life looks like now, I missed my 

past life in China!

This 30 day challenge is completely different from my assignment before. I haven't have a assignment that last for one month and I have to do everyday. The final exam will be fine because we used one month time to finish it, so we have the truth experience to write with. It is always good to write about the true feeling and experience in the essay. The choice of three post is very suitable for us either. Sometimes we have nothing write about but there must be some shining point in these several blog post. From the beginning to the end, we can see the change of ourselves. What happened during these 30 days? Did anything become different than before? Are all the aim finished at last? These are all questions we must consider about. From the process of the final essay, we can see the growth of ourselves. When we look back after we finish the challenge, we must have something to say. I learnt something from the challenge. I hope everyone can say that after they finish their challenge. Everything we do in the 30 day challenge are worthy, if we learn something from it.

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A story of getting up
It's easy to open my eyes but hard to move my body all the time. Finally, spring is coming.   I hate the weather! I need to wake up in the most sleepy season, spring. I hope the summer can more sooner, then I have a reason to get up earlier: to have a cold shower. My spring allergy is getting worse, so it harder for me to go sleep. Why people must sleep when they don't want to sleep, but get up when they don't want to get up?
The challenge is coming to the end. At the beginning of the challenge, I dreamed about the challenge can change my habit. I might have a standard time table every day: Get up early, go to breakfast and go to class with full energy. Now I understand, that was a dream that I can not finish ever, unless in high school.
I changed my mind at last! The day right after the challenge, I will sleep until my bed repel me away, which will never happen. Someone says that sleeping is kind of wasting time, but for me, my life relies on it.
Lots of stories talk about some famous people slept only 4hours a day. How could they work when they didn't have enough sleep? Every time when I wake up in the morning, I consider about the meaning of getting up. "If I do not have challenge after these days, will I get up for
Breakfast any more?" It is very sad to get the answer no. Although I do not feel anything wrong with sleeping longer, I still feel disappointed about giving up right after the challenge. Is 30 days the longest time I can bear? I decided to choose this challenge not by one sudden idea, but thinking for several days. I chose it because I think I can finish it, so when I give up after the challenge is finished, does that mean I over looked myself? On the other hand, I already had this thought of giving up, so I failed at this challenge?
From the first blog post, I mentioned that my aim was not going to breakfast, but forming a good habit. Well, I completely failed. These days breakfast did not leave me some deep memory, but these days' pain will stay in my memory for ever. Every day i suffered from getting up oh my god. This Saturday I slept from 9:00p.m. until 10:00a. m. next morning, to fill my deletion of sleeping. My mood changed easily these days, and I looked so fickle. This situation last for all day long. I know that the straight cause is it is nearly the end of my junior year and the weather is getting so hot, but I still want to blame on getting up early.
As I said at the beginning, the challenge is getting harder and harder when the time keeps going. This is the 10th blog post of our challenge, and I feel nothing to write with now.

Original:

CA is a college-preparatory school that challenges its students.

Quotation:

By pushing its students getting prepared for their college, CA is a "college-preparatory school" .(cheshireacademy.org).

Paraphrase:CA is a high school that help and push their students; the aim of CA is  giving students assistance to get to college.(cheshireacademy.org）

Cheshire Academy Mission

Founded in 1794, Cheshire Academy is a college-preparatory school that challenges its students, who come from all over the world and enroll in grades 8 through PG, to maximize their potential for academic achievement, to discover and hone their unique talents outside the classroom, to become culturally sensitive and internationally minded, and to develop the critical thinking skills, confidence and character that enable them to succeed in college and as citizens of a global societ

Cheshire Academy is a private high school(preparation for college). The student from lots of place of the world come to the school and finish a complete academic achievement( grades 8 through PG). (Cheshire academy homepage)

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How much salt should we put?

“Ouch! I put too much salt into the meal!” “Wait a second, maybe i forgot to put salt into the meal.” Do these things often happen in the kitchen of dining hall? I guess all Chinese people will say our dining hall is subject to changing salt. Today’s scrambled eggs is usual taste.

I guess most of the restaurants have black pepper and salt on their table, but I have never seen people add all the salt by themselves. The clearest memory in my mind was miso soup last year. That was a dinner, and I wanted to eat some rice in soup. Like usual, I added some miso soup, steamed rice and chopped green onion inside the bowl. Everything changed suddenly after I ate the rice in the bowl. I rushed towards the drinking machine and rapidly drank two cups of apple juice. It was just the rice, but I didn’t have courage to taste the soup. I was afraid i would become a dry sponge, as the correct in the chemical experiment, extracted all the water out. As a contradiction, our famous star scrambled eggs seems like never have salt inside. They are always pure and harmony without any taste, so you must add sauce ,pepper or salt inside. Pepper and salt are the saviors of our meal.

In Chinese food, salt are looked as one of the most important role in the cooking process. How much salt you add straightly affect the taste of the dish taste.

There is a Chinese story talks about salt. A man thinks everything is tasteless, and wants to find some delicious food. One day when he is eating a meal in his friend’s home, he says the dishes are tasteless. After hear it, the host adds some salt inside, suddenly it becomes tasty and delicious. The man starts to think: “After the dishes adding the salt, it become delicious.Why I just eat salt? Will it be more tasty?” Then he runs back home and starts to eat salt, but it tastes bitter and awful.

Our last dining chief does the thing like the man. He thinks Chinese food must have salt and ginger. In fact, our dining food is improving these days. If let me compare dinning hall’s food with Dragon Buffet, I will choose dining food. (It is because I ate too much Dragon Buffet, but it can also prove that dining hall food become able to eat.) If I can choose to eat breakfast at 9:00 a.m. I will go. So, challenge until now is not eat breakfast, but came back to get up. In the next days’ challenge, the main point is going to be getting up, but not talking about eating dining hall food any more. I must tell that this week was pretty good. I had a lot of sleeping, and well prepared for next week.