After I read your letter, I know that you are worried about _________ your friends. You used to have lots of friends, but you stopped talking to them after you made friends with Li Hua, who _________ your class a few months ago. Now Li Hua has moved to another city, and you have no friends _________ your old friends think you were mean to them.

As we all know, it is not easy being new, and it was nice of you to be so _________ to Li Hua. You did the _________ thing when you made friends with him. However, it was not such a good idea for you to _________ talking to your old friends. What happened is in the past, and there is no need to _________ this now. I suggest that you talk to your old friends first instead of waiting for them to talk to you. At an appropriate time, tell them you are sorry and give them a(n) _________ for your actions. They will be happy to see that you _________ value them.

You have learnt a valuable __________ in life, make new friends but keep the old ones.

Yours aunt

Every Saturday, Grandpa and I walked to a nursing home. “Whoever visits the sick gives them life,” Grandpa ______ believed.

One day Grandpa was suddenly ______ to hospital. Worse still, we were told he was ______ to recover, deep sadness over our family.

Saturday came. I had not ______ to go there, but Grandpa’s words rang in my head. So alone I went. Everyone was happy to see me but ______ when not seeing Grandpa. When told his ______, they comforted me in tun, “Do your best and God will do the rest.” They all tried in their unique way to cheer me up and ______ for Grandpa.

For days, neither could Grandpa sit up, nor would he speak or eat. The atmosphere was awfully ______. Suddenly the nurse came in, saying, “You have visitors.” I ______. The guys Grandpa and I visited every Saturday were all present.

They all showcased their best to the fullest, thus making grandpa’s day. Visiting hours went so fast that they had to ______ and told grandpa they would come again soon. I was ______ in tears.

That evening, Grandpa sat up and asked the ______ what he could eat. Day by day he ______ for the better. Grandpa’ recovery was a medical ______, the doctors thought. But I knew the truth: His friends’ ______ had made him well.

I think this was my most impressive experience so far. I volunteered for two weeks in a guesthouse by the sea ________ by a Mexican mother and son.

I’ll always remember when I got to the bus stop and the son came to ________ me up. He was my age and I just knew this would be something different and fun. We ________ on the way to the house and I was welcomed to a Mexican lunch by the mother and another ________, K, who was younger than me. We quickly ________ a little group and even with the mother.

The most ________ part of this experience was the room I was ________ K: Our beds were separated by ________; we had no door to our room and we had holes in our ceilings. There was an only table in our room where we all had lunch. The water from the tap ________ from the sea and there was one stove and the WiFi ________ worked. We played card games at night, and best above all, ________ and talked for hours and hours. I loved every minute of this ________ but simple country life.

I was sad to leave but have kept ________ with all of them since then and definitely plan on seeing them again. This ________ made me understand why you should volunteer, whether it’s in your home country or anywhere else in the ________.