朱家兩大兩小在美國的生活 The Chus from the East

馬先生對外國媒體發表的高見：

ITV:
Should Taiwan not have been more prepared for this weather of coming?

Ma:
No, this area, this is the first time in many years.
That is why, they are, there were not fully prepared.
If they were, they should have been evacuated much earlier.
Just because they stay in where they live and, but you see,
they didn’t learn, they didn’t realize how serious this disaster was.

So as you all know, Saturday was Independence Day, better known as the 4th of July. For the first time in my memory, my family and I went to Boston to watch the fireworks. The last time I had gone to see fireworks was a distant memory (I was about five) so I was looking forward to a fireworks experience I could remember properly.

We left the house at 8, which I thought rather unnecessary at the time seeing as the fireworks didn’t start until 10:30. We set off for Alewife, with a quick detour to pick up some family friends, then parked our minivan on the top floor. The other four levels were jam-packed with cars, and we felt rather lucky to have secured a spot. After entering the building and squeezing through the gates, we boarded the T and hunkered down, ready for what my mom had predicted to be a forty-minute ride. Needless to say, us children were feeling more than a bit pessimistic at this point, as we had not had the foresight to bring any form of entertainment. Fortunately my mom’s dark prediction went the way of most of the recent weather forecasts and we were off the T after a considerably shorter time, of about 20 minutes.
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Last Saturday was the 4th of July, Independence day. To celebrate, my family and I went to Boston’s Charles river to see the fireworks.

First, we drove to Alewife and took the subway to Kendall in Cambridge. Then we walked to the river. We didn’t actually go to Boston, we watched it on the Cambridge side of the Charles river.
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For the first time in a long while. Seven new drawings, by me! Just go to the albums, then go to the second page and click on the album with the drawing of a girl wearing pink on it. After that, click on the album with the same girl, and you’ll see all my drawings! The new ones will be near the top, starting with the JGMS yearbook cover as the earliest one. Take a look please!

Oh, and BTW, I’m thirteen. *unnecessary information* Just in case you think I’m older, ’cause my drawings are so good. Just kidding!

See you later,

芸芸

Reading and writing camp is finally over! Today is my last day. Today we watched a movie instead of reading packets and writing paragraphs. We watched Cars. I’ve already seen this movie before but I liked last time so  didn’t mind watching it again.

We would usually read, write in our journals, do half a packet, have break, finish the packet and read again, all in this order. I am happy camp is over.