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My Saturday routine is that wake up in ten or eleven o’clock in the morning, go to town to see a movie in the two – five o’clock, then eat dinner in Macdonald’s , take the bus home.

I love new movie like news, I cannot wait to watch it three months later on line after it was released. So I usually watch them in movie theater. They are 9 pounds, really expensive normally. I rarely think about that, because in uk in university, each meal cost more than seven pounds. That is expensive for me due to nothing can water my mouth. What you love is deserve its money you pay, if you don’t crazy about it , that will waste you money.

One Monday, I occasionally talked to my school teacher excitingly and pleasingly, that I had watched two lovely movies that weekends. You cannot imagine what my teacher said make me feel disgusting. He said, you have voucher as in China? I didn’t. He questioned your words and your values. Because maybe he didn’t like movie as me so he thought going to movie theater is unbelievable . And he disgraced my spirit values too. His values is like some Chinese people in China. Chinese people just get rid of starving for decades years. If something cannot be eaten, they may think it’s no use or less useful. When I was little, I bought a book using my pocket money 1.16 Chinese dollar. My father threw my book and made it broken. I am so scared because my father was cultured and knowledge-respected.

Go back to today Saturday, after movie, I entered into Macdonald’s. I love it, because it was the first western food ‘invading ‘ China and I am used to it for many years and I think it’s fresh and delicious.

I hold my dish to upstairs, some sections were closed, there not much seats left. Six or five teenager big boys( possibly middle school students)occupied most area. Near them have a seat available. I heard district voices which may mean don’t sit next to us. My listening English is not so good, I am afraid of making mistakes, so, I don’t pay more attention. I looked around and sure only that seat left. I have no choice I prepared to take that seat. One of these teenagers said ‘sorry ‘. It is the sorry make me assure they really said something impolitely. Why you say sorry? I don’t understand you. After I said that I think I should I faced the conflict. I added, you are so young, I forgive you. And one of them said thanks. They talked with each other, I only understand one sentence “you are racist “. Later, one asked me, where are you from? I didn’t answer. If I replied, they would humiliate my country too( not myself only). He continued, what is your nationality? I never spit one word. They didn’t deserve my answer. I only want beat them! But I could not, they are six and almost adults tall, I am one and female. One phyloser said, infants are angels, juveniles are evils.

They are not like the persons of Uk.

My teacher of philosophy and history, Willam , is eager to learn chinese. By the end of the class, one of my classmate Sun and me wanted to teach him some.

Sun draw two horns and two crosspieces intersecting the upright represented the chinese word cow. It lookes very easily to write and remeber.

I want to teach my teacher more and made him feel chinese words much easier than that he thought them before. He had learnt three words dramatically quick, which are one two and three, a horizontal row is one, two of that is two, three of that is three.

Sun progressily taught him another easy word ‘person’, which word has two strokes, one stroke to the left and and another to the right. I let him go farther. I taught him two persons written together is follower. He teach us history and familiar with leader and follower that kind of words, so easier for him to remember the meaning of word.  Continuously, I taught him three person written togather make  a new word- commoners. He teach philosophy,  he uses this word reprensent normal people, citizens, very often.

Only about ten minutes, he learned seven words, which are told the most difficult words in the planet. He felt confident and decide to go on learn chinese from now on. I hope so.

What I really want to do is to make fun of him. But I will never let him know the truth, I donnot intencious to frustrate other people when they feel happy.

I tell you the truth and that is a ancient story. A boy from a rich and iliteray family, the school day, he leared one word, “one”. The sencond day, he learned ‘two’, the third day, he leared ‘three’. As you know the three words are one horizonal row, two horizonal row, and three horizonal row. The rich child told his father on the forth day, I need not go to school, I know every thing, I graduate. In fact, he thought, the word four must be four horional rows, which is not. His father didn’t know words really. His father was very happy and thought his son was a genius. He treated the whole village people a big feast.

During the feast, one guest asked if his son can write his son’s name on the paper. He said of course, but what your son’s name? His son’s name was thousand handred and ten hundred thousand. There are too many rows for his son to write the name down. He used comb dipping into the ink wrote a whole day.

In chinese poet history, there are many poets named ‘no name’, even no ‘title i’, no title ii, till no title viii. In post-Tang dynasty, the king Li Xu had written many famous poets titled ‘no title’. They passed on one genration to another generation. These poets are all about the feelings in love. Had red his poets, every young girl would fall in love with him, needless to say he must handsome. But a king should be a politician other than a poet, that was why he was replaced and lost his territory.

There also are many beautiful poets were not recorded their authors. In school books, they identifiedly named ‘no name’. During my primary school, many students including me regared “no name” was a famous poet and he had written the most number poets in ancient china.

My classmate said to me, I can’t survive here, there isn’t green chilly here. I said, there are green bell pepper here and I saw one kind of tall and slender chilly. He said, no, the first is too sweet, the second is too spicy. They are all not as the same tasty as my hometown. I can’t live here. Fortunately, I can. I cannot live without lettuce and peas princess. I love Grimms’ Fairy Tales since I read them as a child. I have been fascinated by lettuce girl and peas princess. I am alway wondering how they are doing now and how about their lovers. They are still alive now in somewhere in Europe, maybe in Colchester town. I often fancy of that I am lettuce girl, I am peas princess. Naturally, form childhood, I love lettuce and peas. For coincidence, in tesco, there are big lettuce and green peas, better than in China.Oh, my goodness!

My right foot, my right ankle, and my right shank are swelled. I am afraid I will dying here and trouble my Chinese students to donate money to transport my corpse to china. That will be a huge deal of money. I couldn’t do that. And most importantly, my room is messy and untidy. After my death found, the school security members would come into it and they will say we must block this news and this girl looks so clean and decent and it is unbelievable she cheated us all.

I know swelling is the worst symptom of fatal diseases related to kidney or heart or brain. The most severe disease is thrombus when it blocking vessel move to heart, that will triggers a heart attack or myocardial infarction. I am so feared and sweat throughout.

I encourage myself: maybe because I ate too much carbohydrate food, maybe I burned night oil every night, maybe I do exercises too often, the most possibility is I am cursed. My dad and my favourite teacher all died at young age. To show my loyalty and respect, I could not live longer than them. In china, that is a tradition. Mencius lived little less than his teacher Confucius, son empire’s presidency could not last longer than his father’s.

Someones who already book the tickets of afterlife in the heaven in advance, some others unfortunately might be forced to go to the hell, the rest ones are hesitating about whether ascending or descending.

Irreversibly, with 100 percent certainty, sooner or later, we all would be stripped off our identities, e-addresses and post codes and leave this inhabitable earth.

We’re all temporary tourists of this lonely watery star, no matter where you are limited to.

You are passing through the time-narrow void day and night.