I moved from the busy downtown to the countryside around Shanghai when I started elementary school. At first, I thought I was going to hate it, but to my surprise, I found that I preferred the quiet country life to the noisy city life.
The next move was more of a surprise for me.I was having a good time with my friends at school. But all of a sudden, my mom told me that we were going to move to the United States. Can you imagine how I must have felt? My English wasn’t that good, though I did know the basics.
The day I arrived in the US was a snowy day. For a girl who grew up in Shanghai and hadn’t seen real thick snow on the ground, it was a big thing.Compared with my school in China, there were a lot more creative thinking questions, which I was better at anyway.
Time flew by and it had been almost four years since I moved there. Then again, I was told we were going to move to Singapore.
As I’m writing this article, I am still new here and have been going to school for about two and a half months.I found out that the education here is quite special. Different from AP system in the US, the Singapore CIS uses the IB system.
This switch drowned me in constant stress. I was confused about the new curriculum, and I knew it would take me a long time to adapt. But what I’ve gotten out of my experience over three countries is that no matter where you are studying, you are always learning. And a piece of advice to people who are going to move around the globe:It’s always best to just roll with the punches.
【小题1】What did the writer think of life in the countryside?| A．It wasn’t as interesting as she expected. |
| B．It was no better than city life. |
| C．She wished she had moved to the countryside earlier. |
| D．She loved to live in the countryside. |
| A．It would be difficult to make new friends. |
| B．Language would be a big problem for her. |
| C．She wouldn’t get used to the weather there. |
| D．She wouldn’t like the schools there. |
| A．Positive. | B．Negative. |
| C．Critical. | D．Doubtful. |
