I live in a small town near Xing’an in Guilin. There are not many tall buildings in our town. The tallest building is in our school. There are four hundred students and twenty-five teachers in our school. In the front of the school, there is a playground. I often play basketball with my classmates on it. There is a small garden behind our school. And we can plant (种植) beautiful flowers and trees there. Next to the garden, there is an orange orchard (果园). Birds sing there every day. There is a river (河) not far from our school. In summer, we usually play with water with our teachers. We love our school.

Yours,

Alan

In the USA, about 450,000 school buses take more than 25 million children to and from school. The yellow school bus is a US icon (象征). Yellow became the color of the school buses in the US in 1939. Dr. Frank got the good idea. He said it was easy for people to see yellow buses and letters on them in early morning or late afternoon. That would make children safer.

There are not many school buses in Britain, and they are not yellow. They have trackers (追踪器) on them so kids are being tracked while they travel to and from school by bus. The trackers let parents know where the school bus is and whether their kids are on the bus.

Going to Kindergarten (幼儿园) is a difficult time for some kids. It’s the first time for them to go away from their parents. To make kids love their school, Japanese kindergartens and schools have colorful buses. The buses can easily make children want to take them—and then, go to school. Even some parents want to take them, too!

School buses are becoming more and more popular in China now. It saves a lot of time for students to take a school bus.