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You don’t have much time, but you want to remember your important days in life. Nine Square Diary works. Lisa, a 12-year-old pupil, wrote an interesting diary on Children’s Day.

Do you know Beijing? It’s the capital city of China. It’s in the north. It’s very big. It has got about twenty million people. There are many big parks, museums, libraries and stores there. You can eat food from many other countries. The Beijing Roast Duck is very famous. I like the Great Wall. It’s more than twenty thousand kilometres long. Do you want to visit Beijing?

Christmas Day always begins before breakfast. The children wake up very early, and they can’t wait to open the presents in their stockings. Then they wake up their parents and say, “Merry Christmas!” Christmas Day is the birthday of Jesus Christ. People like presents, but they think it’s better to give than to receive.

Can you play the piano? How many times can you hit the keys (敲击琴键) in one minute? Hungarian musician (匈牙利音乐家) Balzs Havasi can hit the piano keys 490 times a minute. Havasi began to learn the piano when he was four years old. He practiced playing the piano eight to ten hours a day. In November 2009, Havasi broke a Guinness world record (吉尼斯世界纪录) and became the “Fastest piano player in the world.”

In 2010 Havasi gave a wonderful performance (表演) at the Shanghai World Expo.

Lingling is a Chinese girl. She likes collecting stamps. Lingling has got some friends from Canada, the UK and the US. They often send her letters. So Lingling has collected many stamps from Canada, the UK and the US. She has got a stamp book. She puts her stamps into this book. Some stamps are very new and some are very old. She likes the stamps in her stamp book. She can tell many stories about the stamps. Do you want to be her friend?

There are seven days in a week. On Sunday, I play football with my friends. On Monday, I go to the library. On Tuesday, I often do my homework. On Wednesday, I study Maths. On Thursday, I go to the park. I run On Saturday.

In many English homes people eat four meals a day: breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner.

People have breakfast at any time from seven to nine in the morning. They eat eggs or bread. English people drink tea or coffee for breakfast. Lunch comes at one o’ clock. Afternoon tea is from four to five in the afternoon. And dinner is at about half past seven.

But not all English people eat like that. Some of them have their dinner in the middle of the day. Their meals are breakfast, dinner, afternoon tea, and supper. All these meals are very simple.

Maths is very important in our life. I like Maths but lots of girls don’t like it. They say Maths is very difficult to learn. I think it is very interesting. Maths teaches me about life. It tells me that there are many ways to solve the problem (解决问题). I am a student in Grade 6 now. Maths began to be one of my friends when I was in Grade 2. I spend most my time on it. Every time I find a Maths problem. I will try to work it out. I am not afraid of the difficult ones. I enjoy thinking about them. Sometimes I know the answer but I still want to find another way. I want to be a Maths teacher when I grow up. I will be kind to my students. I will let them become interested in Maths.

Tommy hates school and is always looking for excuse (借口) not to go. He spends more time at home than at school. On the days he has to (不得不) go to school, he looks for excuses to come home early.

One day he comes home from school in the middle of day. His father is surprised, “You're home early, is the school closed (关闭的) today?”

“No, Dad,” Tommy says, “It’s open. I came home early.”

“How can you do that? What do you say to the teacher?”

“I told her that I had a new baby brother and that I had to come home and help you.,”

“But your mother has had twins (双胞胎), “ his father says, “you’ve got a baby brother and a baby sister.”

“Yes, I know, Dad,” Tommy says, “I’m saving up my baby sister for (为…而储蓄) next week.”

The Great Wall of China is the longest wall in the world. It is about 6, 000 kilometers long, 7 meters high and 5 meters wide (宽). The Great Wall has a history (历史) of over 2,000 years. It was very difficult to build such a great wall without any modern (现代的) machines. Thousands of men died while they were building the wall.

Have you ever been to the Great Wall? It is very famous in the world. Many foreigners (外国人) come to visit it every year. They like it very much.