This year's summer vacation was most enjoyable.
I spent fifteen days helping my grandparents doing farm work in the countryside,where I saw mountains and fields covered with green plants.Sometimes I went swimming in the river to the west of the village,the water in which was quite clear.I kept a diary every day.Besides doing farm work,I help the children in the neighborhood with their lessons.All of them showed much interest in English.They could read and write well,but they could hardly understand simple English.So every day in the morning I spent about two hours helping them improve their listening and spoken English.They all made great progress.Their parents all thought highly of me.I now realize that knowledge is very much needed in the countryside.
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My Summer Vacation-我的暑假生活
At college,I missed my parents a lot.As the term was drawing to an end,I eagerly looked forward to going home.And I planned to do a thousand and one things during the vacation.Above all,I wanted to help my mother with housework.I also wished to read many hooks which my teachers had recommended.
However,at home,my mother would never let me do anything.She completely deprived me of sharing her work.As soon as I opened a book to read,she would sit down beside me and ask me about all kinds of things at the college.To please her,I told her one thing after another,and soon I forgot all about books.Even when I was actually reading,she would,now and then,insist that I should eat an egg or drink a cup of tea.
When I left home at the end of the vacation,not a thing in my plan had been carried out.But I felt very happy.I believed much more deeply than before in the old saying:Home,sweet home.There's no place like home!