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2015-07-01 
【Game of Thrones】 Valar Vorghulis What do we have left once we abandon the lie? It doesn't matter what we want, once we get it, then we want something else. If you waste time trying to get people to love you, you will end up the most popular dead man in town. Eloquent men are right every bit as often as imbeciles. A lion does not concern himself with the opinion of sheep. Old stories are like old friends. You have to visit them from time to time. A mind needs books as a sword needs a whe
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2015-07-01 
【Game of Thrones】 The more people you love, the weaker you are. The man who fears losing has already lost. Nothing someone says before the word ‘but’ really counts. There is only one God，and his name is Death. And there is only one thing we say to Death: “Not today.” Laughter is poison to fear. The things we love destroy us every time. Nothing burns like the cold.
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2015-07-01
【Aiden in English】 Conquering land seems like managing your money. You gain a few countries through bloody and costly battles and reap great rewards of land and more goods. But just how far do you invest in a country, or in this case, 316 square km/196 sq. miles of barren land. The archipelago of Malta is not rich in resources at all. You might even have difficulty locating it on the map. Ho |
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2015-06-29
【Aiden in English】 The city of Nessebar in Bulgaria is a life-size maze of cobble streets and a Byzantine neighborhood. I believed that it was one of a kind. However, when I arrived in the Cycladic Mykonos of Greece, my original theory was proven far from correct. Similar to Nessebar, Mykonos had a tiny little island built like a labyrinth for the same reason. Piracy was common when the island w |
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2015-06-29
【Aiden in English】 To be honest, I don’t know too much about the god Apollo and the goddess of Artemis. Sure, they’re one of the 12 Olympians in Greek Mythology. Well, as for the details, let’s just say I learned a lot on the island of Delos in Greece. Delos is an island 7.0 kilometers/4.3 miles long and 2.5 km/1.6 miles wide. Like the town of Mykonos, everything had to be white since the he |
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2015-06-28
【The Essential Rumi】 Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī (1207—1273) Soul, if you want to learn secrets, your heart must forget about shame and dignity. You are God’s lover, yet you worry what people |
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2015-06-27
【Aiden in English】 The mosques of Turkey are huge and spectacular. There is a great variety of them in Istanbul where the Muslims worship and pray. The Blue Mosque or Sultanahmet Camii in Turkish becomes one of the most exquisite paradigms ever since it was built in the early 17th century and looks absolutely unique in the world. Well, the Blue Mosque is blue, hence the name, if you haven’t noticed. |
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2015-06-27
【Aiden in English】 Water, to the start of the universe, meant life. Everyone needs water and unfortunately, dehydration was and still can be fatal. About 1,500 years ago, the Byzantine Empire wanted a water source when they were being held under siege to quench their thirst. The underground cistern was established. It not only provided a water filtration system for the Great Palace of Constantinople and other buildings on the First Hill |
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2015-06-26
【Aiden in English】 Churches are a fine way of demonstrating art. The architectures of some are simply unmatched by the Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman Empires. While arriving in Europe, there was no way we were escaping all the lush history of religion. Religion sort of … is the history in an exotic area. Among all the religions in the world, one emerges from the rest, and this one is Islam. |
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2015-06-25
【Aiden in English】 The Christian Orthodox have always been a huge part of the ancient city of Nessebar in Bulgaria. As a matter of fact, Nessebar was the very center of the Orthodox Church between the 13th and the 19th centuries. Nowadays 250 icons, or paintings of Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary, prophets, apostles, evangelists, and numerous saints or angels, have survived. When the Ottoman Empire took control of Bulgaria, Nessebar was ab |
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2015-06-25
【Aiden in English】 Not to confuse Zanzibar of Tanzania, the other ancient city of Nessebar in Bulgaria is spelled with an N, not a Z. However, if I didn’t know any better or hadn’t visited this stone city in Africa, I probably could pass those two for the same place. Zanzibar is an ancient city of winding and narrow streets paved with cobbles situated in the Indian Ocean. The walls of the c |
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2015-06-24
【Aiden in English】 Bad rulers have always existed in society. I believe sometimes how you win the votes in elections is how good you make a “duh” idea sound, or fill the people with empty promises. And when you win, well, let’s just say with a nation to your command, there’s nothing you can’t do. Ceausescu became a ruler of Romania with an iron fist in 1965. The massacres of his Communist re |
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2015-06-22
【Aiden in English】 The geography of a place is always the deciding factor that history revolves around. There wouldn’t be an Egyptian civilization without the Nile River. There wouldn’t be Mesopotamia including Turkey without the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers. And there wouldn’t be Greece without the mountains. Yesterday, we experienced the Meteora’s monasteries built on rock pillars 400 |
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2015-06-22
【Aiden in English】 People know Shakespeare and his poems. Although the language is a bit… quirky to say the least people adore him. People also adore Greek history. So they should also love Homer. Homer was a great teacher and famous poet of the ancient epics Iliad and Odyssey. These two epics are composed of long poems that tell a story or in this case, multiple historical stories. Ob |
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2015-06-22
【Aiden in English】 When something is turning old, it is usually taken as a bad sign. But sometimes, being old and crippled can mean a resurrection, a boast of good revival. The medieval village of Pyrgi was set up as the best example. It was built with its present form of heavy gates and narrow but winding streets in the 13th century. As the oldest village in Khios, the aromatic lentisk trees flourish on Khios and produce the “tears of |
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2015-06-22
【Aiden in English】 The island of Khios is part of a huge ancient empire stretching back to 7,000 B.C. So it’s safe to say that not all villages have survived, but the few that still stand, well, don’t seem as if they were built before the year. The semi-fortified medieval village of Anavatos becomes the oldest quaint ruin in Khios. It’s sadly affected by Turks’ slaughter and has been |
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2015-06-21
【Aiden in English】 Imagine having a house up in the mountains hovered in the air. Wow, imagine living in it. Imagine surviving with no internet, no roads, and no cars, and to reach any other civilization meant a walk straight down. That came around about 400 years ago. Nowadays, a road allows tour busses to reach Meteora of Greece. Its spectacular landscape has derived from extensive o |
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2015-06-20 
【Aiden in English】 Mount Olympus is the place of the Greek gods. There are twelve, to be exact. They are the Twelve Olympians, rulers in each aspect. Everything revolved around these gods, the Earth, and beyond. Zeus, the king of basically everything, rules with his specialty as the god of the skies. In Athens, Zeus is a celebrated god since he’s the king. Zeus was the son of Kronos, a Tita |
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2015-06-19
【Aiden in English】 It's hilarious how some things after being destroyed can start again. At times, it becomes impossible to even exist anymore. What goes around comes around, and the return can be amazing. In 1650 B.C., a massive earthquake struck Santorini in Greece. The island would never be the same. This most beguiling island of the Cyclades was sitting on two clashing continental pl |
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2015-06-18
【Aiden in English】 In ancient times, the city of Ephesus in Turkey stretched 4.3 miles/7 kilometers and bustled with more than 300,000 people. As a major trading post with the Middle East, its archaeological sites were rich in Greek to Roman history. Some of the fascinating buildings of the time were the ruined Temple of Artemis, the sacred House of the Virgin Mary, and the great Basilica of St. John right up against the Aegean Sea. |
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2015-06-17
【Aiden in English】 Today I went to the Island of Rhodes, the most easterly island of the Aegean Sea in Greece. You shouldn’t be confused with Rhode Island on the east coast of the USA, or a “road” as in the strip of land cars travel on. They are completely different. How much? Well, you’ll know it after reading this. This sunny Aegean gem was once the site of the Colossus of Rhodes created to honor the sun god Helios, a statue at lea |
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2015-06-16
【Aiden in English】 And I thought the lemons were taking over the world. Well, when witnessing the activity on Crete in the Aegean Sea of Greece, the olive headquarters of the operations, a contest was quickly approaching for those two plants. Crete is the most southerly point in Europe and is filled with lush olives, and I think that they might have a shot at beating the lemons to a common goal: world domination. &nb |
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2015-06-14
【Aiden in English】 It doesn’t seem as if you wake up in the morning some random day to be covered in a sheet of burning ash. If you know what I mean, I’m talking about the Pompeii of Italy and reacquainting myself with the timeless power of nature. It was so tragic that the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius took place in 79 AD and completely buried the entire city. Pompeii was a thriving Roman city that |
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2015-06-14
【Aiden in English】 If you have a fear of lemons, then one place you shouldn’t go is anywhere in the Southern Italy area around the Mediterranean Sea. Lemons literally control society there, and it’s a huge export. And just saying, I love lemons from the bottom of my heart. Tangy lemons look so cool. But when they’re the size of my face, it gets… strange. People planted lemon trees around t |
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2015-06-12 
【Aiden in English】 The anticipation of another trip out of the Continents is even greater than the last day of school today. The very air seemed to spark as we made our way onto the Philadelphia Intl. Airport, and so here we go. This trip is to take us to places filled with lush culture and rich history spanning Southern Europe for more than three weeks. We would explore the remnants of the 7,000-year-old mythi |
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2015-06-11
【Aiden in English】
As the countdown to the end of the school became single digits, many boring assemblies are bound to strike, including the Year-End Awards Ceremony. Kids are given awards for their achievements throughout the year, hence the name. Sure, getting certificates is exciting but come on! It’s only a piece of paper with fancy symbols on it. The more worthwhile part was the event that gave you the award. This is just pr |
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2015-06-08
【Aiden in English】
Aiden: Humans are part of a force that controls everything. Frankie: Yes, that is true, and the Japanese were the first to realize this.
A: Ah… you mean a haiku.
F: Yes, a haiku. This type of poem originated in Japan, rising to its greatest peak in the 1600s.
A: Tell me more.
F: Well, a |
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2015-06-07
【Aiden in English】
It’s not every day that a kid can go to Carnegie Hall and perform in NYC, but a lucky few like me are able to go. It is an amazing experience, and its very history of it is evident. Standing at West 57th St. on 7th Ave., Carnegie Hall is a name known worldwide. Presenting an average of 250 performances in a year, this place has world-class artists who show their talent. Now th |
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2015-06-07
【Aiden in English】 A 4-star restaurant usually has ridiculously high prices in NYC and food that could be eaten nearly anywhere. Pair it with some wine and bam! The food just got a 4-star quality. The Russian Tea Room sounded like a different breed, and I was about to find out just how much. Russians enjoyed caviar. In fact, I’ll say it seems like their only condiment. So going to a 4- |
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2015-06-07 【Aiden in English】 It’s not every day that a kid can go to Carnegie Hall and perform in NYC, but a lucky few like me are able to go. It is an amazing experience, and the very history of it is the evidence. Standing at West 57th St. on 7th Ave., Carnegie Hall is a name known worldwide. Presenting an average of 250 performances in a year, this place has world class artists show their tal |
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2015-06-06
【Aiden in English】 Discovered in 1872, Crystal Cave in the borough of Kutztown, PA was a natural phenomenon that captured tourists hundreds of miles around. Smack dab in the middle of nowhere, what used to be an empty section of the map now contains a vast cave system underground that puts it on the map. The middle of nowhere can contain some very wonderful scenes. So when I say “I wish I c |
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2015-06-01
【Aiden in English】 Dear my 5th graders, The sixth grade is nothing like your expectations. Work is hard and grueling. The teachers are fast pace and if you aren’t paying attention, bang! The teachers send a lighting fast and brutal question to you without any warning. So if you wish to leave Montgomery ES on a good note, you just might want to listen to my following advice.
First of all, the sixt |
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2015-05-31
【Aiden in English】 Graduation is a critical milestone in life, especially for a Chinese school. This is because the more boring it is, the more satisfactory learning Chinese forever is. The only thing that was painful to witness graduation was when you were not finished yet. Unfortunately, that was the case for me anyway. The term “bitter-sweet” is a weird phrase because sometimes, it' |
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2015-05-30
【Aiden in English】 The future of Earth was bleak. Overpopulation filled the cities. Nature was non-existent. Humans voted for a stupid, selfish jerk for office, dooming the world. Now, after that jerk was fired, the people of Earth fell into riots, and the Dark Ages began. Humans looked forward to Genetic Modifying Labs, aka GML, to bring back nature. Humans went too far, and we wanted a restart. Yet in the GML headquarters, one creation |
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2015-05-29
【Aiden in English】 As the school year of 2014-2015 winds down and the final weeks are in sight, Montgomery ES hosted a series of fun events for the 6th graders. It began with the social, and now the last main event arrived with the pool party. It seemed as if the school wanted to butter the 6th grades up prior to the kill, letting us enjoy the final moments at Montgomery ES. To really give us a “good |
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2015-05-28
【Aiden in English】
The Art Show at the North Penn High School is really something worth going to. The halls of the school are transformed from a learning facility into an art museum, and I’m telling you that we have a lot of talented students across all grades. Now, I’m not gonna talk about my piece of artwork because I don’t consider it one. How did my name tag enter an art sho |
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2015-05-22 【Aiden in English】 Neil Alden Armstrong grew up like any other kid, not knowing what life would hold in store for him. It was a world of unknowns and opportunities. Born in Wapakoneta, Ohio on August fifth, 1930, Armstrong probably didn’t know that one day he would be the first man on the moon, carrying the Americans, along with the rest of the world, to a whole different level of possibilities. Yet the stage was set for his road to fam |
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2015-05-21 【Aiden in English】 Olympic Day can’t be an Olympic Day without races. For us, Montgomery has its ever-famous 50-yard dash. Everyone loves this time of day, except when you lose about every single race. Right off the bat, the Mountaineers seemed like the only worthy team for the last place. Race after race we lasted, grabbing a few 2nd and 3rds, but those weren’t enough either. Whoever chose |
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2015-05-21 【Aiden in English】 Family Feud is a fun game show that our school’s gifted teacher, Mr. Hinz, hosts on Olympic Day every year. The 6th graders get the privilege to play, while the lucky 4th and 5th-grade classes have the opportunity as well. So now, I announce to you, welcome to Montgomery’s Olympic Day Half-Time Show! At halftime, the Mountaineers were in a solid 2nd place out of four teams. Yet |
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2015-05-21
【Aiden in English】 Welcome, readers, to Montgomery’s annual Olympic Day. This day consists of three parts: the games, the half-time show, and the classic races and tug-of-war. Each and every year, a new theme is chosen, but this year, well, everyone has a limit to his/her ideas, you know? Here is a hint: four teams are the Mountaineers (Blue), the Rangers (Green), the Scouts (White), and the Trailblazers (Red) across all grades from Kin |
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2015-05-21
【Aiden in English】 Nothing can stay amazing without constant polishing. The Math24 Tournament is no different. Since my last victory in the tournament of NPSD, I haven't been to the weekly practice at my school for math in the morning. Maybe that's why the first place eluded me this year. Math24 is a game of quick thinking that uses simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division fa
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2015-05-20
【Aiden in English】 All things have a beginning, such as a person, a book, and even the universe. But not all beginnings are pretty and some hurt the ear quite a bit. I'm talking about hearing sounds I've never heard before. Yep, those are the 4th-grade beginner band member for ya! To set this straight, I'm not saying that I wasn't a bad player in my first year. It& |
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2015-05-15 【Aiden in English】 The 6th-grade social is legendary in my school, and you can't graduate from the 6th grade without truly experiencing it. It is crazy fun and certainly, a great way to say bye to school. This is one of the rare events in which people are required to dress impressively. As always, there are a few students who just absolutely don't try at all and wear jeans |
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2015-05-09 【Aiden in English】 On the day before Mother's Day, Mom and I did the only thing a normal mother and son would do in the early morning before Mother's Day. Even though it's before Mother's Day, I'd rather celebrate it now than on Chinese School Sunday, and lucky me, Montgomery Elementary School's Flapjack Fundraiser was going on, so we were totally down for it. The Fla |
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2015-05-06
【Aiden in English】 Ms. Covelens (Language Arts): Every kid thinks that reading is simply saying the words on a page. With Ms. Covelens, students are able to dive deeper than that state. Reading is a fun, imaginative thing, and if done correctly, it can seem like a miniature movie. Ms. Covelens, mixing in some amazing energizers, lets kids get to the next level of reading with, well, reading! And Ms. Covelens plans on making the journey co |
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2015-05-04
【Aiden in English】 “Remembering is just an invention of the mind”, excepted from Freak the Mighty. I, Max as big and slow, can never imagine not knowing the memories that had been inside this thick head of mine, and Freak as small and quick showed me the key to unlocking them all. Now, I can remember everything, including Freak’s tragic …… leaving. His … passing has torn a hole in this world, but his thoughts, feelings, and memories |
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2015-05-01 【Aiden in English】 Seasonal allergies are not nice. They torture and strip away the beauty of spring. Ironically, seasonal allergies are a work of nature, which leaves me to wonder why nature would cancel each other out. Karma isn’t it. When exploring Fairmont Park's nature beauties in Philadelphia, like math, things cancel each other out. Cherry blossoms are a beautiful sight in t |
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2015-04-23
【Aiden in English】
Pop music is just a bass, a beat, and a melody, with an occasional quiet harmony. It's simple, yet people of the new generation absolutely adore it. But when written down, practiced, and closely inspecting it, the music that I loved suddenly seemed so much duller than ever before. Now, everyone hates pop music just because of Justin Bieber, (which I do). I mean th |
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2015-04-23 【Aiden in English】 After Mom's episode of being laid off from Merck, and also finding her another arguably better job, I have never seen much GSK. From the facts that Mom tells me, it sounds really nice. Take Your Child to Work Day is a great opportunity to see how good of a replacement it was, and Merck had really set a high bar. Right away, GSK earned some easy points. On the outside, |
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2015-04-19
【Aiden in English】 There are just some experiences in life that are etched into your memory like when a nail went into my knee or when I went on Space Mountain in Disney World. I can never forget these images, and another image was about to be included. Green Lane Park is just about as peaceful as any other quiet, peaceful, and old-people-sitting-on-bench park. That was until the Guang Hua C |
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2015-04-18
【Aiden in English】 The road to perfection is a road that doesn’t exist like Kentucky Wildcats. Sure, there are many people who pursue it, but following the road seems like learning to sprout wings and fly, which I’m certain someday will be possible. Yet having a Chinese yo-yo performance without our star, without an abundance of time to practice, and with a large audience, the foundation of disaster has already been set. All my yo-yo c |
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2015-03-31 【Aiden in English】 I Am Everywhere, Anywhere From the deepest point of the ocean, To the farthest reaches of the universe, From the darkest corner of the closest, To the climax in a child’s nightmare. I Am the Evil &nbs |
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2015-03-29
【Aiden in English】 Annually in the spring, a feast is held at Lai Lai Garden in Blue Bell, PA. When I mean feast, I mean food fit for a king. Tonight it is a Guang Hua Chinese School (GHCS) event for Teachers’ Appreciation and whoever works like a dog, volunteers for a good cause, or teaches with a passion is invited. The food at Lai Lai Garden is precious like gold, so not just anyone |
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2015-03-25
【Aiden in English】
Being a saxophone player in a band is something that will be engraved into my mind. The way music is made by organizing different instruments is a fascinating experience. When the concert time arrives, I want those people who hate music to hear how beautiful it can be. The Pennbrook Middle School auditorium is a very, very large room, and there you have it, |
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2015-03-21
【Aiden in English】
Hunger seems like an animal, raging inside. A beast is waiting to eat itself if it has to. At the time, to be honest, my hand looks pretty appetizing when I’m hungry. Like a monster’s hunger, a single meal can really fill me up at the Chinese restaurant Margaret Kuo’s Dragon's Lair in Wayne, PA. We arrived at the restaurant just in time before I began biting off my fin |
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2015-03-21
【Aiden in English】 Warm-blooded animals require warmth to survive like us. We wear winter coats to trap heat and turn on the heating at home during the long freaky weather in the Greater Philadelphia Area. With birds, warmth is just as critical because they do not possess the technology, science, and items to do so. The only remaining way would be to migrate to another place that has a warmer climate. |
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2015-03-21
【Aiden in English】
Religion is a belief in the unexplainable. When people lose themselves, religion gives direction. It is a way of life, and many of us believe in God because the way to live is somewhat laid out, the ethical rules setting boundaries of the things you can do. On this sunny day after the blizzard, Mom took my grandma and me to Faith Hope Love Chinese Church in the G |
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2015-03-19
【Aiden in English】 The nervous tension before something important always makes people want to snap. Anything that moves or speaks seems so frightening to you, and there’s always a need to tap your feet or whistle. In these situations, everyone feels like the slightest push can send you over the edge. The author of the book Head Above Water gives you the feeling because of the descriptive words and the perspective. It’s about a girl nam |
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2015-03-15 【Aiden in English】 School is a sore subject for most kids, and even the word carries around groans and sighs. Kids are bored at school for the majority of the time, and learning seems like torture. So, many kids don’t like to wake up and go to school just because they have to learn or are too lazy, even though they know their parents are still going to force them. What you don’t know is how easy getting to the bus stop on time is with |
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2015-03-07
【Aiden in English】 "The sunset is magnificent as dusk is approaching." The older you get, the more valuable life is. Life at this point isn’t just about living with happiness, but keeping the quality with a strong courageous heart as the ending is creeping closer each and every day. In contrast, we are immature like really, really young naive kids, and think that life is so long and boring. When another year goes by, however, it seems shorter tha |
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2015-03-01
【Aiden in English】 Today I just went to a piano audition for the Golden Key Music Festival of USA in Princeton, NJ, and played Sonata in G Major, Op. 49 No. 2 1st Movement by Beethoven. I didn’t write about it because there wasn’t much to mention. Sure I was nervous, and my judge took forever to write her comments about the previous performance. But I don’t want to talk about it, in case of jinxing me. After a |
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2015-02-28 【Aiden in English】 Every year, my piano teacher, Lena Chen hosts a recital at Jacobs Music in PA. It’s so that we students can hear other music, and even more importantly, practice before the huge event for me coming up tomorrow. I’ve been to the Golden Key Music Festival of the USA two times before, and the feeling is very natural already. The fest is a competition to place and evaluates a |
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2015-02-27
【Aiden in English】 Motors are all around us. There are cars, fans, blenders, and many other things. They make our lives simpler, but barely anyone wonders what motors are made of and how they work. We just ignore a crucial invention that helps us. In science class for the past few weeks, we have been studying and building different kinds of motors, such as the straw compass motor, the spinning coil motor, and the armature motor. All of t |
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2015-02-25
【Aiden in English】
Birthdays are accounted for as holidays by those who celebrate them. Everyone has a birthday, and everyone celebrates it in a different way, large or small. So for my 12th birthday, Mom and I went back to Lai Lai Garden for another delicious meal. Considering we have been to Lai Lai Garden two times in the past week, we know pretty much what to order for our dinner. The very first thing we pu |
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2015-02-24 【Aiden in English】 In our present-day life, we would turn on our heating like it was nothing. We go to the grocery store and buy some green beans for dinner without thinking much about it. We would toss a piece of crumpled-up paper into the recycling bin and pretend you’re LeBron James shooting from downtown. All these things we do without much of a second thought, but thousands of years ago during the famous Stone Age, these things wou |
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2015-02-22
【Aiden in English】 The Year of Sheep has arrived, and with it came happiness, celebration, and performances. Last weekend, I performed with my Chinese yo-yo at China Grace Christian Church. Today, we were to do so at the Spring Festival Gala of Guang Hua Chinese School (GHCS) again. The only difference in the performance was the number of people watching. At the church, there were about a hundred or a hundred fifty. When more than |
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2015-02-21
【Aiden in English】
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA) wasn’t just a learning opportunity but also a daily exercise. Walking and standing for three hours really get you tired, you know. So prior to our grand finale of a concert in the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, we decided to have a delicious dinner to refill my batteries. Chinese cuisine gives a ton of energy to those who seek |
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2015-02-21
【Aiden in English】 New York City (NYC) is one of the coolest cities on earth. People jostle around the streets. Every ten to twenty feet would be a restaurant, and cars honk and beep as they are in a rush to go somewhere. Chinese Spring Festival also just passed, so going to NYC seems appealing enough. Mom also decided to share a wonderful day with my friend. It was never a good thing |
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2015-02-21
【Aiden in English】 For as long as writing was invented, the East and West have been divided. Both became rivals, separated at war. They had huge differences in ideals and music. So as our final treat of the night, Mom bought the tickets to a concert of Sacred and Transcendent led by the Cellist Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble and debuted with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra (NYPO) for Chinese New Year in Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. |
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2015-02-21
【Aiden in English】 The Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA) has more in store for all visitors’ expectations. Not only do they have European Paintings, but the MMA dedicates huge sections of the museum to other cultures. At first, three hours seemed like plenty. However, time became an issue after using up two-thirds of that in Greek/Roman Art and European Paintings. MMA’s Chinese section looked pretty impressive. My favorite wa |
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2015-02-21
【Aiden in English】 As we walked out of Serafina Fabulous Pizza with full, yet queasy stomachs, Mom led us to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA). I don’t know about you, but world history isn’t a 12-year-old boy’s favorite to learn on Saturday if we even learn on Saturday. Even if history were our favorite subject, the library would have 24-hour service. Besides, the MMA only has art. So if we were going there, it would take hours to read the small |
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2015-02-20
【Aiden in English】
On the 2nd day of the lunar month, Mom continued to take advantage of the festivity and had a holiday lunch with her colleagues at Bamboo Modern Szechuan Cuisine. Right after coming back, she took me back to Lai Lai Garden for a dinner party again. Lai Lai Garden is an impressive a-la-carte Chinese cuisine in our area in terms of food flavor, dining style, and cooking quality. Therefore, Mom |
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2015-02-19 Spring Festival
【Aiden in English】
Lai Lai Garden was certainly a sensational experience on Chinese New Year’s Eve. It has been quite a while since my mouth has been lit on fire like that and I really appreciate it. Mom took a break from work specifically for the Chinese Spring Festival today. She joined a group of her friends from GlaxoSmithKline. They gathered together for lunch at Pin Wei Chin |
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2015-02-18 Chinese New Year's Eve
【Aiden in English】
Chinese New Year is the largest celebration all year round for any Chinese on earth. It’s a time when happiness spreads to every inch in China and abroad. Therefore, one of the best ways of celebrating the greatest Chinese holiday of all is to have a great feast. Lai Lai Garden in Blue Bell, PA is a terrific Chinese and Japanese re |
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2015-02-16
【Aiden in English】 If you are reading this, then you’re probably researching the life of the king of the world. That’s right, it’s me, the one, the only, the immortal Sir Marco the first. I’ve decided to keep a journal on the events of my life leading up to my kingship to remind me of the distance I have come. To start off, I want to say that I am not a traitor. I’m just a man who is searching for his purpose in life, and my road ha |
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2015-02-14 【Aiden in English】 Chinese Spring Festivity is the largest celebration in China. Traditionally people spend crazy money and kids get out of school for a month. In the US, however, the celebrations don’t sound even half as big. Although they aren’t as big, Chinese New Year still has rituals and performances in the Greater Philadelphia Area. Especially this year, I’ll experience a lot of them. So for the first performance of the week of |
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2015-02-11
【Aiden in English】 Students are in a growing stage. These stages are the times when kids thrive in education and sports. It is the time when kids really begin to advance into adulthood. In the middle and high school areas, they are challenged so they can maximize their skills for the future. However, it comes with a price. Students are bombarded with loads and loads of work in and out of school. Stress levels are raised, and social time |
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2015-02-05
【Aiden in English】 The auditorium at North Penn High School is enormous. The red seats in the audience spread out words on the stage like ripples in water. Look up, and you’ll see a giant balcony that is a looming towering wave, just waiting to crash down and swallow me. This was because I was not in the audience. I was a part of the North Penn Elementary Wind Ensemble Band that the audience looked upon. &nbs |
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2015-01-25
【儿歌执笔(Aiden in English)】 妈妈对我管教严格，别看她从不督学，可一旦发现放学后我不是先把从学校带回来的家庭作业做完再干其它事情，而是玩够了之后才想起功课，肯定会板起脸来凶巴巴地批评我。在我看来，她把标准提得太高，往往说起来容易做起来难。大多数情况下，我觉得自己已经够尽力了，但妈妈还期待我做得更好，天天向上。 就拿数学来说，自从进入初中六年级以后，因我跳三级插班学习中级代数，所以妈妈认为我不应 |
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2015-01-23 【Aiden in English】 What is Science? Science is all about asking questions. Why? How? When? Where? However, asking scientific questions means asking a question of purpose and asking a question for knowledge. Yet scientific questions aren’t always nerdy ones like formulas and blueprints, but simple, easy questions of normal daily life. A dove deep into it can prove to be a great scientific question and may not seem to be as simple as thought at first glance. &
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2015-01-11
【Aiden in English】 Nothing interesting ever happens on Mulberry Street, Mike thought. There was nothing ever to keep him occupied. He had no video games because his parents didn't allow him to play. No television because there wasn't any cable. No parties because no one ever saved enough money. The only fun there was on Mulberry Street was the next-door family. They had a daughter named Sarah Whitham, and she was just as bored as |
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2015-01-03
【Aiden in English】 Charles Dickens, as I have said before, had a huge influence over the globe. So influencing the Byers’ Choice, a company in Chalfont of PA, made a mini Dickensian village described in Dickens’ novella of A Christmas Carol in its museum. When I meant mini, I meant really, really mini like a person was the-size-of-a-pencil-mini. Byers’ Choice has a store that sells handcrafts their artisans create to those
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2015-01-02 【Aiden in English】 2014 has said goodbye and 2015 has arrived. One of the best ways to celebrate the achievement of surviving in one piece would be to invite some friends over. Kids of the 21st century are seriously addicted to the videogames. All the friends I invited, as soon as they walked through the door, were right upstairs to the computer room. We played Minecraft, and I introduced my friends,
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2014-12-31
【Aiden in English】
The holiday spirit is in the air and I’m not the only one that’s affected. At work, Mom’s department hosted parties, and colleagues gathered together for the holiday. It was a wine tasting and a flavor pairing. Oh, you don’t have a clue of how much I wanted to be there. Mom brought home the splendid pictures of the parties, which just made me jealous, well, hurt my heart. I saw people ea
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2014-12-28
【Aiden in English】 Charles Dickens (Feb. 7, 1812-June 9, 1870) was probably the best author in England in the 19th century and wrote a lot of novels and hundreds of short stories. And this holiday season, Macy's in Philadelphia continued to make the setting of the story “A Christmas Carol” by Dickens. Dickens was renowned for his humor and how he based his stories on real-life problems. This style
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2014-12-28
【Aiden in English】 Vienna is the capital city of Austria, which is famous for its lavish music concerts. “Salute to Vienna＂ brings joyful waltzes to the New Year and has become so popular that it has affected people all around the globe. This performance is being done everywhere during the holiday season as a gala goes on like it was in Vienna back in 1899. Today, Salute to Vienna is taking place on its grand stage at the Verizon H |
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2014-12-27
【Aiden in English】 It doesn’t sound normal for winter to be lenient in the Greater Philadelphia Area, especially at the end of December. Today, the weather was crazy with the temp over 60oF or 15oC. Dad thought that staying indoors was a waste of perfect weather. So he decided to take me to Fairmount Park in the City of Brotherly Love. Fairmount Park is huge and stretches for miles and |
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2014-12-26 【Aiden in English】 People always put up lights during Christmas. So the streets during the holiday season are brightened like a day. And every year, there are always some people who decide to overdo their decorations. This time, Mr. Jack Yoask, the President of Acteon Networks, made his house and front yard a showcase of lights in Ambler, PA not only for him to have fun but for his community to light up a life. & |
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2014-12-25
【Aiden in English】 Every year, there is a time for celebration and it’s called Christmas. People have fun, relax, and enjoy this time of year. So in celebration of Christmas, Mom took me to Longwood Gardens in PA, a place where nature rules. Longwood Gardens are famous for their nature, and also the lights on Christmas. There is a conservatory-like greenhouse. It’s packed with differen |
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2014-12-24 【Aiden in English】 The best, most wonderful season has arrived, bringing joy, happiness, and parties. So Mom took me to China Grace Christian Church (CGCC) for the annual Christmas party. Parties are cool and all, but no party is a party without spirit. The CGCC certainly had Christmas spirit in the air and I could just feel it in about everything. As soon as I entered the church, the very sound of th |
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2014-12-20
【Aiden in English】
Electronics are the modern world's poison to kids. It makes us cranky and less interactive. Worst of all, we always are addicted to whatever type of technology around us. So when Mom took me to a holiday party at her friend’s house the Saturday before Christmas, I brought my trusty iPad with me. I guess everyone else had the same idea because all the kids at the p |
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2014-12-18
【Aiden in English】 Krypton is the number thirty-six on the periodic table. The atom can be found in liquid air after evaporating, and the residue left behind is krypton. This is the method that Sir William Ramsay and Sir Morris Travers used in 1898 which led to the discovery of krypton. This noble gas has been used in certain electrical lights as well. The name “krypton” comes from the Greek word “the hidden”. 【红霞译文】 |
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2014-12-17
【Aiden in English】 The air was cold and crisp when I walked out of Wu Liang Ye Chinese Restaurant. The busy streets in Midtown Manhattan seemed as crazy as ever. Mom and I, with full stomachs, got in with the current of the crowd. The next stop she had planned was the famous Rockefeller Center, which was just around the corner. It sounded great to me because my stomach was three times heavier than normal. As we turned at 5th Ave., the first thing I saw was a gi |
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2014-12-17 
【Aiden in English】 Life in a city is so different from the one in the countryside. The city bustles with people, cars, shops, and vendors. Even the lively atmosphere flourishes so distinctly from my peaceful neighborhood. And best of all, it's always this way day and night, especially in a metropolitan city like New York City or NYC that never sleeps. NYC seemed absolutely chaotic. I stepped out of Penn Station and into anothe |
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2014-12-17
【Aiden in English】
Everything that has a beginning has an end. Mom and I had spent an entire day in NYC. Now the finale came upon us, and this awesome day was going out with a huge bang. Mom had brought the tickets to Andrea Bocelli’s concert at Madison Square Garden (MSG) tonight. I wasn’t so surprised that Mom had planned early this year because she already basically idolized him as a die-heart classical music fan with all his collec |
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2014-12-13
【Aiden in English】 Ahhh! The City of Brotherly Love. A center of culture was the perfect place where Dad and I spent our Saturday. Dad parked the car at Penn's Landing Bridge, which surprisingly was free in today. We then briskly walked to the places we were going toward the central city.
The first stop was the Reading Terminal Market. Dad and I strolled through eleven streets to arrive at the entran |
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2014-12-06 【Aiden in English】 There's nothing like ice cream. There's nothing like being with friends. And there's nothing like having ice cream with friends. Today, our soccer team was invited to Christopher Dock High School (CDHS) for an ice cream party hosted by Montgomery United Soccer Club. Not only I was excited about ice cream, but I was also really pumped to be with my buds. When Mom and I arrived at |
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2014-11-30 【Aiden in English】 Qualities make characters, and characters make a story. Each unique character has his or her unique quality that makes them special. In the book Urban Outlaws, the main character Jack Fenton works with a group of orphans to help the city of London. They are the Urban Outlaws and have their secret base located under an abandoned train station. It has computers, a kitchen, a bathroom, and anything that Jack and his frien |
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Thanksgiving Day，2014-11-27 【Aiden in English】 Thanksgiving is a time to have fun, relax, and give thanks for what we have. It's time to rest. However, that's the one thing my mom and I didn't do on this snowy thankful day. She dragged me along for a walk to a park after a snowstorm. I didn't want to go partially because outside was a winter wonderland and also there was live football on TV. But Mom's word was the law at home and so I had to go no |
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