Dear Mr. Rupp,
The day I met you was the first day of high school. We liked each other immediately. You gave me a lot of advice over the next four years, like how I should get my ass to Berkeley where I belonged. I'm still there, by the way. I wish you were still around, too.
I remember your laugh, which would start with a rough guffaw(狂笑) and end with a hacking smoker's cough that would make even the most rebellious (叛逆的) teenager decide to lay off the cigarettes. I remember the way you didn't lower your standards, yet still refused to give up on us. You were tough on us, and we were tough on you. Love is tough sometimes.
The last time I wrote you a letter, it was 2005—four years after I graduated. I had just become a teacher, like you, and it had given me a new appreciation for the work you did with countless high school students over the years.
It's hard to say what I'll miss the most about you. There are simply too many memories to sort through those four years, and it hurts to think you'll never read this letter. I want to believe that you knew how much you meant to your family, your students, your community, and your colleagues, but that would be a lot of realization to handle, even for you.
You changed the lives of everyone around you. Even now, you are reminding me to cherish life and its brevity and beauty, and to tell the people I love how much they mean to me before it is too late.
Dear teacher, dear mentor, and dear friend—I miss you and all that is about you. God bless you in Heaven.
To infinity and beyond,
Teresea
A Guide to the University
Food
The TWU Cafeteria is open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.It serves snacks（小吃）,drinks, ice cream bars and meals.You can pay with cash or your ID cards.You can add meal money to your ID cards at the Front Desk.Even if you do not buy your food in the cafeteria,you can use the tables to eat your lunch,to have meetings with your friends and to study.
If you are on campus in the evening or late at night, you can buy snacks,fast food,and drinks in the Lower Cafe located in the bottom level of the Douglas Center.This area is often used for entertainment such as concerts,games or TV watching.
Relaxation
The Globe, located in the bottom level of McMillan Hall,is available for relaxing,studying,cooking and eating. Monthly activities are held here for all international students.Hours are from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., closed on Sundays.
Academic Support
All students have access to the Writing Center on the upper floor of Douglas Hall.Here,qualified volunteers will work with you on written work,grammar,vocabulary and other academic skills.If you heed help,you can sign up for an appointment by finishing the sign-up sheet outside the door,two 30-minute appointments per week maximum. This service is free.
Transportation
The TWU Express is a shuttle（班车）service.The shuttle transports students between campus and the shopping center, leaving from the Mattson Centre.Operation hours are between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m.Saturdays only.Round trip fare is $1.
Diamonds are considered the most famous and valuable jewel in the world. The precious stone for its great value is believed to be the symbol of wealth. Diamonds were made as a result of great volcanic beat and pressure. When a volcano is active, it sometimes explodes and causes great damage to the nearby towns.
However, at the same time of such a disaster, diamonds were pushed towards the surface of the earth by a number of great volcanic explosions millions of years ago. Thus, it may be very likely to find a diamond after a volcanic eruption. Besides, diamonds are also found among the sand and stones of certain river beds, and in a few places on the floor of the sea, for they were washed down the mountain sides by the rain.
Diamonds are very rare. There are not many places that produce such precious things in the world. During the last century adventurers from Europe went to Brazil, because they had heard that there were diamonds in the River Amazon. Many of these early diamond miners died of illness or were lost forever in the great forests. But some returned home rich.
The earliest known diamonds were found in India many centuries ago. The most recent and exciting discoveries have been made in eastern Russia. But most of the world's diamonds now come from the Congo, from Tanzania-which has the largest diamond mine in the world and also from South Africa.
Children's Activities (6—13 years) — Summer 2017
There is no chance of children getting bored in the holidays with these action-packed weeks of fun and games. Days begin with team building activities to help“break the ice” and get the children in the mood. The wonderfully safe and secure environment of Port Regis enables the children to explore the woods and enjoy their own creative play.
WEEK 1: Festival of Sport (Monday 12nd July to Friday 26th July)
The summer activities kick-off with a wonderful week of sporting fun including cricket, athletics other great team games. Swims in the pool and games in the gym.
WEEK 1: Let's Go Wild (Monday 29th July to Friday 2nd August)
A Whole week in the great outdoors with treasure hunts, camp bed and cave building along with amazing team games in woods. This week guarantees to be like no other. Navigate yourself through the huge spiders' web and guide balls through the huge ball maze… this is a great week for making new friends.
WEEK 3: Sporting Madness (Monday 5th August to Friday 9th August)
A wild and strange week of tournaments and twin (both traiditional and a few of the homemade variety) games, but be warned, you might get wet! Arts and crafts, fun in the gym and swims in the pool make this a hard week. Besides exhaustion you'd better learn to get used to challenges and accept any result. Activities will be dependent on the weather.
WEEK 3: Make a Racquet(球拍)（Monday 12th August to Friday 16th August）
What a racquet this week brings with all the bat, racquet and club sport you could wish for…crazy golf, tennis, hadmintion, cricket and table tennis to name but a foe for the children to enjoy.
WEEK 5: Having a Bull (Monday 19th August to Friday 23rd August)
Quizzjes, arts and crafts, fun in the gym and swims in the pool are not to be witnin this week of Fun.
WEEK 6: Mgdal Medley (混战）(Tuesday 27th August to Fridy 30th August)
This week re-runs the best bits of the last five weeks with great team games and tournaments, action-packed ball sports, floaty fun in the pool and adventures in the woods.
Children will need to bring:
Swimming kit, plenty to drink and break snacks. Dependant on the weather, children will need either sunscreen and sun hats or wet weather gear.
In Hollywood, as in war, truth is often the first casualty. Stories told on screen demand heroes, devils and a clear plot line. Real life, on the other hand, tends to get messy—the lines between good and bad often cross. Two years ago, director Oliver Stone was severely criticized in the press for playing fast and loose with certain facts in JFK. Jim Sheridan's In the Name of the Father has largely escaped such criticism in the U.S., but only because Americans are unfamiliar with the story it is based on.In Britain,where people have lived with the case of the Guildford Four for 20 years,the film's reception has been considerably stormier.
The movie tells the tale of Gerry Conlon,who along with three other youths was falsely accused of killing five people in a 1974 I.R.A.bombing of two pubs in Guildford,England.The four—three men and a woman—served 14 years in prison before their convictions（定罪）were overturned. Seven friends and relatives of Conlon's (the Maguire Seven),including his father,also served many years on false charges of having made the bombs.
Though Sheridan never set out to make a documentary,he has been attacked for needlessly twisting the facts of the case.The film,for instance,shows the Maguire Seven on trial with the Guildford Four,though the cases were tried separately.In some of its most affecting scenes,it shows Conlon,played by Daniel Day-Lewis,sharing a jail cell with his father,though the two were often not even in the same prison.A grand and heroic part is carved for actress Emma Thompson,playing Conlon's lawyer,Gareth Peirce,but in reality Peirce was a minor figure and another lawyer, Alastair Logan,deserves most of the credit for freeing the Four.An important scene in which Peirce steals a crucial piece of evidence from a police file was fabricated for the film;it was a police investigation that uncovered the buried evidence of Conlon's innocence.
Sheridan insists that he was seeking an "emotional honesty" and that the real subject of his film was a son's changing relationship with his father.But if that was his intended subject,say some close to the case,the director should have used someone else's story."The truth is that Gerry Conlon had very little time for his father,"says Sean Smyth,an uncle."It's a good film,well acted and everything,"admits Conlon's aunt,Anne Maguire."But I think if they'd put more of the true facts in,it would have been a much more powerful film."
BOOTS AND HEARTS 2018
TICKET INFORMATION
After a purchase you will receive a confirmation email from Eventbrite on behalf of Boots and Hearts.
No electronic tickets will be issued for Boots and Hearts. All admission ticket purchasers will receive their festival wristbands and camping certificates by post.
If you are having any other technical issue with your order, click www.bootsandhearts.com to contact Eventbrite.
Orders cannot be separated once purchased- the entire order will be provided to the account holder.
If you are currently under the age of l8, you would need your parents or someone over the age of 18 to purchase the tickets.
NOTES
All Boots and Hearts ticket purchases are final sales, no refunds or exchanges.
DON'T damage, stretch, cut or change your wristband in any way. Altered wristbands will be of no use and the bearer will be likely to be forced out.
Full event wristbands cannot be shared (i.e. different people using them on different days). Performers and the program schedule are subject to change without notice. The festival takes place rain or shine.
TENT CANPSITE RULES
Camping opens Wednesday, August 8th at 12:00 p. m. Any vehicle arriving before the gate open times will be turned away.
Tent campsites are strictly for tents. Tent trailers of similar must purchase an RV campsite. Each campsite offers parking for one regular sized vehicle (smaller than a 12-passenger van).
Campsites will comfortably accommodate 4-6 people, with maximum of 8 people per site. Campsite prices are per campsite for the entire event and NOT per person.
Pets and other animals are not allowed on the festival grounds and in the camping areas. STILL HAVEANY QUESTION? Please visit our FAQ page or contact Boots and Hearts.
My Favourite Books
Jo Usmar is a writer for Cosmopolitan and co-author of the This Book Will series(系列)of lifestyle books. Here she picks her top reads.
Matilda
Roald Dahl
I once wrote a paper on the influence of fairy tales on Roald Dahl's writing and it gave me a new appreciation for his strange and delightful words. Matilda's battles with her cruel me parents and the bossy headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, are equally fumy and frightening, but they're also aspirational.
After Dark
Haruki Murakami
It's about two sisters-Eri, a model who either won't or can't stop sleeping, and Mari, a young student. In trying to connect to her sister. Mari starts changing her life and discovers a world of diverse "night people" who are hiding secrets.
Gone Girl
Gillian Fynn
There was a bit of me that didn't want to love this when everyone else on the planet did but the horror story is brilliant. There's tension and anxiety from the beginning as Nick and Amy battle for your trust. It's a real whodunit and the frustration when you realize what's going on is horribly enjoyable
The Stand
Stephen King
This is an excellent fantasy novel from one of the best storytellers around. After a serious flu outbreak wipes out 99.4% of the world's population, a battle unfolds between good and evil among those let. Randall Flagg is one of the scariest characters ever.
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The structure of the sentence is ______.
I saw a girl reading books in the next room.
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