Thanksgiving- Time to Give Thanks

感恩节－感谢的时间到了

昨天是感恩节。我有一个挺好的人生。如果我没有了这些愿意关心我，帮助我指导我的生活的人，我的生活可能是最糟糕的。

首先－我想感谢上帝。谢谢你给我很多人来关心我而且给我一个很好的人生，然我有一个机会有一个成功的人生，机会去帮助别人。

我还想谢谢我的寄养家庭招呼了我八年。谢谢我在中国最喜欢的老师，郑老师，她让我明白了世界上最好美丽的东西，也在我刚刚来到新家庭的时候，让我知道和适应我的家庭的爱。谢谢其他的中国老师在我被欺负的时候保护了我，尤其是刘老师愿意找时间跟我同学说话。谢谢我的朋友葛亚超，苏楠楠，还有其他的，她们在我伤心和不高兴的时候安慰了我。谢谢高阿姨能够理解我而且从来都没有小看我。

谢谢我的父母收养了我而且还继续收养，没有停止。谢谢美国的朋友和同学帮助了我很多，还愿意跟我说话，而且不会看不起和排斥我。谢谢我美国最喜欢的老师教我很多的人生道理，而且让我知道什么是一个好老师，她也帮助了我很多，而且即使我有时候不礼貌，她也会认真听完我说的话。我希望我没有把您弄得很疲累。谢谢其他的美国老师对我很有耐心。我知道有时候我挺不好对付的。谢谢所有的SPMS(Severna Park中学）试着安慰我当我得到不好的成绩而且也鼓励我。谢谢我的姐妹叫我很多的道理，而且当我来到了美国之后，我的的同学在中国欺负我的时候，她会替我出气。

最后，我谢谢那些老是一见到我对我微笑的老师，大人，朋友，同学。还有，谢谢你们对我的好。有很多人关心我而且喜欢我的感受是最好的了。我真希望世界会能这样，那那些孤儿就不会度过很多的东西了。

Yesterday is Thanksgiving. I had a pretty good life. My life could be worst if I didn't had those people who willing to care about me, and help me guide through in my life.

First, I want thank to God. Thank you for give me many people who care about me and give me a wonderful life, let me have a opportunity to be successful and help people.

I also want to thank to my foster family, who took care me for eight years. Thank you to my favorite teacher in China, Mrs. Zheng, who let me realized most beautiful thing in the world, and also guide me through when I'm getting use to my new family. Thank you to other teachers in China, who protect me from being bullied, especially Mrs. Liu, who is willing to take the time to talk to my classmate. Thank you to my friends, Ge Yachao, Su Nannan, and other, who comforted me when I am sad or not happy.  Thank you nanny Gao, who understand me and never underestimate me.

Thank you to my parents, who adopted me and kept going instead stop adopting. Thank you to my American friends and classmates, who help me a lot, and willing to talked to me, and never look down or discriminate me. Thank you to my favorite American teacher, who taught me a lot of life lesson and show me what's a good teacher is like, who also kept helping me a lot, and always to me even sometime when I was little rude. I hope I didn't make you so tired. Thanks to other American teacher, who are being very patient with me. I know some times I'm hard on the teachers. Thank to all SPMS teacher, who tried to comfort me when I got bad grade and encourage me. Thank you to my sister, who taught me a lot of lessons, and also help me to stop being bullied by my classmate in China after coming to America.

At last, I thank to the teachers, adults, friends and students who smile at me every times. Also, thank you being so nice me. Having many people who care about me and like me is the best thing. I wish the world could be like that, so other orphan couldn't have to go through that many things.

News about Family

家庭新闻

在2011年11月29日，我知道我有家了！

那是在周二。在清河一小，我们周二和周五是下午3点放学，周一，周三，和周四都是3:40放学。如果我们3点放学的话，那我们就可以看到我们的区长。

那天下午我听到那些去学校接我的阿姨说关于我有家的事儿。我挺高兴能听到这个。等我们回到福利院，区长李阿姨就告诉我我有家了而且给我看了照片书。我很高兴而且很兴奋。

如果孩子要被收养的话，区长会让他们看照片书，然后给他们父母送给他们的糖，（可能）玩具给他们。如果家长送他们别的东西的话，那些小孩可或不可能看或拥有。

所以阿姨给我我家长送给我的糖和玩具。我把这些和在福利院的孩子一起分享。有的阿姨和孩子为我很高兴。我可能是最兴奋的吧。

On 11-29-2011, I knew that I have a family!

It was Tuesday. In Qinghe #1 on Tuesday and Friday we finished school at 3:00PM (other days we finish at 3:40PM). If we finished at 3:00, then we can see the supervisor of our area at the orphanage.

Anyway, that afternoon I heard the nannies who came to pick us up at school say something about me having a family. I was a little happy to hear this. When we came to the orphanage, the supervisor nanny Li told me that I have a family and showed me the photo book! I was so happy and excited.

If the kids are going to be adopted, the supervisor would let them see the photo book and give them the candies and maybe toys that their parents sent. If the parents sent other stuff, the kids may or may not get to have or see.

So the nannies gave me the candies and toys that my parents sent me. I shared those with the kids who were in the orphanage. Some of the nannies and kids were very happy for me. I was probably the most happy.  

Smile-Is the Best Thing

微笑－是最好的东西

在中国，我并不是整天都会有很大的笑脸。我一般都不会笑的。但是我已经不是那种的人了。

当我上三年级的时候。我有一个很喜欢我的科学老师。后来她成为了我在中国最喜欢的老师。我很喜欢她，而且她帮助我明白了世界上最美丽的东西。

当她教我们的时候，她的脸上老是充满笑脸。这老让很快乐。然后我们四年级换了一个老师。但是，我还能看到我最喜欢的老师因为她教三年级。当我上四年级的时候，三和四年级都是在同一个楼层。所以我每天都能看到她。在中国学校，那里有一个规矩：如果我们看到一个老师，我们得鞠躬说：“老师好。”每次当我跟她说好的时候，她的脸上老师充满笑容然后用很甜的声音对我说好。她的名字是郑老师。从那以后，我才明白微笑是世界上最美丽最好的东西（从人们里面）。

当我来到了美国，有的老师像郑老师一样。我美国最喜欢的老师（数学）脸上老师充满了微笑。我超喜欢她的微笑。她有时候告诉我我的微笑能让她高兴！其实，她的微笑也让我开心！我第二最喜欢的老师（科学）也老是对我微笑。她告诉过我我有一个很漂亮的笑脸！

现在我住在美国而且我是一个很快乐的人。当我看到别人，我会把我的笑容放在我的脸上而且我特爱别人的笑脸。这就是让我我特高兴。

In China, I didn't have a big smile all the times. I usually didn't smile at all. But I'm not that kind of person anymore.

When I went to third grade. I had a science teacher who liked me very much. Later she became my favorite teacher in China. I like her very much, and she helped me realize the beautiful things in the world.

When she teach us, she always put a smile on her face. That just makes me very happy. Then in fourth grade our science teacher change. However, I still can see my favorite teacher because she teach third grade. When I was in fourth grade, third and fourth grade are in the same floor. So I can see her every day. In China school, there was a rule: when we see a teacher, we have to bow and say, "hello. teacher." Every times when I say hello to her, she always put her smile in her face and use her sweet voice to say hello to me. Her name is Mrs. Zheng. From that later, I just realize smile is the most beautiful and best thing in the world from people.

When I came to America, some of the teachers are like Mrs. Zheng. My American favorite teacher(math) alway have smile on her face. I like her smile so much. She sometimes told me that my smile makes her happy! Actually, her smile makes me happy too! My second favorite teacher(science) always smiles at me too. She told me that I have a beautiful smile!  

Right now I live in America and am a very happy person. When I see people, I will put my smile on my face and I love other people's smiles. It just makes me so happy.

What I Want

我想要什么

在我知道我被收养之前，那些人会问孩子好多的问题。

他们问我好多的问题，有的问题倒是挺难回答的。他们问了我很多那种“什么是你最喜欢的”问题，对于我来说，我没有很多最喜欢的东西。我不怎么喜欢这些问题。那时候有两个问题我倒是挺喜欢回答的，一个是我长大想做什么，我说老师。那时候我想我是一个好学生（因为大家都说我是），所以我就认为：如果我是一个好学生，那好学生就应该当一个老师。我不怎么太了解老师除了知道他们应该教东西。

第二个问题就你想要什么样的家庭。我说：“我想有我的朋友和父母。”那时候我在想葛亚超（我在我最好的朋友提过她），因为我很想她，而且我很想再能见到她。但是，那个问我问题的人没有听懂我说的话。所以他说：“那哥哥姐姐呢？”“好吧。”但是，我真的不是很想说行，我的意思是我想有哥哥姐姐，但我最想的是我最好的朋友。这就是我想要的。

Before I know I was going to adopted, the people would ask the kids some question.

They asked me a lot of questions, some of questions is kind of hard to answer. They asked a lot of "what's your favorite" kind of questions, for me, I don't have a lot of favorite. I kind don't like those questions. There were two question that I like to answer, one is what I want to be when I grew up, I said a teacher. At that times I thought I was a good student(since everybody said I was), so I thought: If I'm a good student, then a good student should be a teacher. I really didn't know a lot about teacher except that they are suppose to teach.

The second question what kind of family do you want to have. I said, "I want my family have my friend and my parents." At  that times I was thinking about Ge Yachao (I mention her in My Best Friend), because I do miss her a lot, and I want to see her again. However, the guy who ask the question didn't understand. So he said, "What about brothers and sisters?" "OK." However, I really didn't want to said OK, I mean, I want to have brothers and sisters, but mostly my best friend. That's what I really want. 

New Students

新学生

当我去四年级的时候，所有的恶霸都渐渐消失了。那里不是有很多的恶霸，但是还有一些。

那儿有一个女孩我不喜欢（我在学校作业里面提到了她）。她老是在我后面说我坏话，那时候我离她也不是特远。有一次我告诉了老师，然后她说她再说其他的东西！当时我就想：“你以为我是笨蛋呀。我耳朵还挺好的。你不用在那儿装了！”我就是不喜欢她。她很吵，老是抱怨。有时候当该她的组干活的时候，她老师大声嚷嚷那些人然后告诉他们应该做什么。所有人都希望她可以闭上她的嘴。她就是特烦！

那还有一个同学也挺烦的。当我上四年级，他和另外一个男孩是新来的。但是另一个男孩很好，但他不是。

每次当我们要排队去体育或是运动的时候，他离我不远而且老是跟我说我的不好。我很不喜欢他。我都快要讨厌死他了，我真希望他可以一天不说话。

当我们运动的时候，他对我说：“不许碰我！”我想：“谁愿意碰你呀”有时候我不小心碰到他了，甚至有时候是他先碰我的，然后他说：“都告诉你了，不许碰我！”我很生气。那时候我的脸都充满了火而且我不能再忍了。

他也对不我公平。有一次在午餐的时候他（轻轻的）打了我而且告诉我我应该说对不起。我说这是意外。然后那儿有另一个女孩也碰到了他然后她跟他说对不起，然后他说没关系。之后我就问他为什么他没有打她。他说因为她说对不起了。我当时特不高兴而且我就是不能说对不起。他不能这样对人！他就是不能对一个人特怀，然后当另一个人来了，他就对她们就像他是一个很好的男孩，但他不是一个好男孩。不管是什么，我是不会说他是好人的。

现在我回想了，我可以就说对不起然后就走了。我可以听他们的话。有时候当我回想的时候我老是觉得我老乡别人的坏。或许有的阿姨是对的，我是有坏脾气的。

When I went to fourth grade, all the bullies faded away. There weren't too many bullies, but still some.

There was a girl that I really didn't like (I mentioned her in school work). She always was saying bad thing about me and I wasn't far away! One time I told the teacher, and she said she was saying other things! At that time I thought: "Do you think I'm stupid. My hearing is good. You don't need to pretend!" I just don't like her. She is noisy, always complaining. Sometimes when it was her group's turn to do chores, she was always yelling at the people and telling them what do to. Everybody wished that she could keep her mouth shut. She was so annoying!

There was a another classmate who were also very annoying. He and another boys was new to the school when I went to fourth grade. However, the other boy was very nice, but not him.

Every time we lined up to go to PE or do some exercise, he stood not too far from me and he would say bad things to me. I very very don't like him. I almost hated him. I wished he could stop talking for a day!

When we were doing exercise, he said to me, "Don't touch me!" I thought: "Who want to touch you anyway." Sometimes I accidentally bumped him and sometimes he bumped me first, and he said, "Told you, don't touch me!" I was so mad. At that time my face was fill up with fire and couldn't take in anymore.

He also treated me unfair. One time at lunch he hit me (gently) and told me that I should say sorry. I said it was accident. Then there was another girl who bumped into him and said sorry, and he said it's OK. Then I ask him why he didn't hit her. He said because she said sorry. I was so unhappy that I just can't say sorry. He can't treat people like that! He just can't treat one person really mean, and when another person come, he treat them like he was a very nice boy, which he was not! I would not say he was nice no matter what!

Now I'm thinking back, I could just say sorry and be done. I could listen to them. Sometimes when I think back I think I am always looking negative about people. Maybe some of the nannies are right, I am a quick temper.

Let's Talk

让我们来谈谈

在二和三年级的时候，我有一个班主任刘老师，她倒是挺喜欢我的。她知道有些学生经常欺负我。当学生欺负我的时候，我一般都不会告诉老师因为即使如果我告诉了老师，他们也不会停止的。但是，我会告诉阿姨的。有一次我告诉了她们，有一个阿姨带我去告诉刘老师。第二天，刘老师告诉那些学生停止。

但是，学生并没有停止。有一次当我们下课的时候，有一个孩子正要用他的外衣打我，但是我没有让打到我。刘老师看见了而且她很不高兴。下一天在午餐的时候，她跟四个男孩说了话。我听见了他们的谈话。刘老师再问他们我身上那部分可怕。（我的同学老师对待我像一只老虎－他们一看见我就跑。）然后她会问另一个问题关于他们为什么对我不好。那些男孩什么都没说。

等午餐和教室的活弄完了，刘老师说今天她会说关于我的事儿。她告诉那些孩子他们应该对我好一点，然后说我是很有帮助的。（我喜欢帮助别人，所以刘老师让我擦黑板。我不是一个特别高的人，所以我就用一个凳子帮助我。有一次我差点摔倒了，所以她就让我干别的活。）当我说完了，我就流眼泪了。然后她就叫那四个男孩跟我说对不起，然后我说没关系。

当话说完了之后，所有人开始对我好了而且我很高兴。但是这件事没有坚持了很久。

In second and third grade, I had a homeroom teacher Mrs. Liu who liked me fine. She knows that some of the kids are bullying me. When the students bullied me, I usually didn't tell the teacher because even if I told the teacher, they weren't going to stop anyway. However, I would tell the nannies. One times when I told them, one of the nannies bring me to Mrs. Liu and told her. On second day, Mrs. Liu told the students to stop.

However, the students didn't. One time when class finished, one kid was going to use his coat to hit me, but I never let him. Mrs. Liu saw that and she was very unhappy. The next day at lunch, she talked to four of the boys. I heard the conversation. Mrs. Liu asked them which part of my body was scary. (My classmates always treated me like I'm a tiger - running away from me.) Then she asked another question about why they treated me badly. The boys were silent.

After lunch and all the classroom chores were done, Mrs. Liu said that today she was going to talk about me. She told the kids that they should be nice to me, and  said I was very helpful. (I like to help people, so Mrs. Liu let me clean the blackboard. I am not a very tall person, so I used a chair to help. One time I almost fell, so she let me do other chores.) When she finished talking, my eyes were filled up. Then she told the four boys to say sorry to me, and I said it's ok.

After the talk, everybody started being nice to me and I was very happy. But this didn't last for very long.

How do you deal with life?

你怎么面对生活？

好了，现在每个人都知道我受到很多的气。也许有些人很好奇我是怎么面对（解决）的。那好，我现在就会告诉你。

因为他们对我很不好，可能很多人觉得我不是特高兴。这个是对也是错。当别人欺负我的时候，我会尽量不浪费我的力量去生他们的气。如果他们对我动手的话，有时候我会假装把这个当成游戏，然后用有精神的脸跟他们玩。不过可能有的人会说我是一个坏人，但是这就是我面对的方法。我不喜欢跟别人交敌人，因为我想成为一个快乐的人。

如果别人跟我说坏东西，我会抗议他们。现在我又是一个坏脾气的人。有的孩子这样说过我。他们也不是错的。我应该忍在心里，然后耐心地问他们停止。但是，我实在忍不住的。别人怎么对待我，我就怎么对待别人。

当我上一年级的时候，所有的孩子都对我不好。在中国里，我们有一句话：你敬我一尺，我敬你一寸。想到这儿，我老是认为他们对我不好是因为我对她们还不够好，所以我就继续对她们好。但是时间过去了，我不能再忍了，而且我不会再听他们了。

现在我想想，我应该怎么对待别人？有时候我觉得我应该对他们好一点。我真希望我能得到答案。

Well, everyone now knows that I have been bullied a lot. Maybe some of you are curious about how I dealt with it. Well, I am going to tell you now.

Maybe most of you thought I wasn't a happy a lot because of how they treated me. Well, that's true and false. When people bullied me, I tried not waste all my energy to be mad at them all the time. If people are physically hit me, sometimes I would act like a game and would play the game with my face light up. Although that maybe saying that I am a bad person, but that just how I dealt with it. I don't like to make enemies with people, because I want be a happy person!

Now, if people say mean things to me, I will argue with them. By doing that, now I have a quick temper. Which some of kids say to me. They aren't wrong. I should take it all in and ask them to stop nicely. However, I just can't take anymore. I will treat people however they treat me.

When I was in first grade, all the kids were mean to me. There is a quote in Chinese: You respect me one inch, I respect you ten feet. Thinking about that, I always think they are mean to me because I wasn't nice enough, so I just keep be more nice to them. But over times, I just couldn't take anymore, and I would not listen to them anymore.

Now I am thinking, How I suppose to treat people? Sometimes I think I should treat them even nicer. I wish I can know the answer.