Name（中文姓名）：康迪
School Attending（所在学校）：第五十三中学
Age（年龄）：16
Courses Attending in Leewen（在利文所学课程）：新概念英语第二册

Storm Makes Me Stronger
Most people are afraid of storms, especially girls. They’re terrified of its sound and lightening. When it comes, girls always shout. But I am an exception. I love storms. When I was a little girl, I believed that there must have been ghosts in the world, so I used to hate quiet and dark nights. Then I couldn’t fall asleep. But if it was a stormy night, I would feel very safe and went to sleep easily. Now I have grown up. I know there aren’t any ghosts in our life. But the storms in my childhood made me stronger.
In my future life, I know, there will be more and more “storms”. But so long as we regard the difficulties as challenges, we will be confident and successful.
To change difficulties into challenges, we should have an optimistic attitude. Optimism will make it easier to do our work. Meanwhile we can also feel happy during our work. If we treat our work with this attitude, we will be more likely to be successful.
As a middle school student, study is the most important work. So we should persevere in our study. Maybe we sometimes meet difficult problems that we cannot work out; maybe we sometimes fail an exam…but anyway, do not lose heart. Be optimistic! Failure is the mother of success. Failure tells us that we should study even harder in the following days.
Let’s become brave girls and boys, let’s overcome the difficulties in our lives bravely, and let’s face the challenges courageously. At the same time, we taste colorful lives and our dreams will come true after all.
暴风雨使我更坚强
大多数的人都害怕暴风雨, 尤其是女孩。她们因雷声和闪电而感到恐惧。当它来临的时候，女孩子们总是大呼小叫。但我却不这样。我爱暴风雨。
当我还是一个小女孩的时候，我认为在这个世界上肯定有鬼, 于是我曾经痛恨寂静而黑暗的夜晚。因为那样我就会无法入睡。但如果那是一个有暴风雨的夜晚，我会感到非常安全，而且很容易就进入梦乡了。现在我已经长大了，知道生活中并没有鬼魂之类的东西。但是童年的暴风雨使我变得更加坚强。
我知道在我未来的人生道路上，一定会有越来越多的“暴风雨”。但只要把这些困难看作挑战，我们将会变得自信，将会取得成功。
将困难转变为挑战，我们应该有一份积极乐观的心态。因为乐观的心态会使我们的工作变得更轻松。而且同时可以感受到工作的乐趣。如果用这种心态对待工作，就更可能成功。
作为一名中学生，学习是首要任务。所以我们也应该在学习上做到坚持不懈。也许有时遇到了一道解不出的难题；也许在考试中成绩不理想……但无论如何不要灰心丧气，乐观一点！失败是成功之母。失利只能说明我们在今后的日子要更加努力学习。
那就让我们做勇敢的男孩女孩，让我们勇敢地克服人生中的挫折，勇敢地面对挑战。与此同时，我们也拥有着丰富多彩的人生，我们的梦想也将会实现.
学习经验介绍： 多看英语电影, 着重培养语感,对英语产生一种亲切感.
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