A smile is the best language. The truth of a smile is that it’s like a seed that can grow in a garden called “life”.

If there is one thing I have missed the most is the past 3 years, it is to see other people smile. When every face has a mask (口罩) on it, you might feel safer. But your mind might start to feel sick. Over these last months, I’ve learned to notice the “stars” in people’s eyes that they still have when they smile from behind a mask. Still, it isn’t quite the same.

Every smile is like a gift. As I grow up, my mom’s smile always warms my heart. I am so happy that it appears on the faces of my children. My grandparents’ smile always has a happy “Hello!” along with it. My dad hardly smiles to us, but I always loved seeing it.

Over the years, I have also learned a lot about smiles. I have read that “We don’t smile because we are happy. We are happy because we smile.” I also read that
“I have never seen a smiling face that wasn’t beautiful.” And I know that both of these things were true. What I remember most, though, is something from my teacher. He said, “If nobody wants us to be happy, why does smiling feel so good?”

It doesn’t matter is you are wearing a mask or not. It doesn’t matter if your teeth are white or not. Show the world your smile. Smiles share our love. Smiles spread our joy. Smilles make the world’s better place. One of the greatest, kindness and most loving things you can do is to give another person your smile.

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An artist went to a beautiful part of the country for a holiday and stayed with a farmer. Every day he went out with his paints and his brushes and painted till evening. And then when it got dark, he went back to the farm and had a good dinner before he went to bed.

At the end of his holiday, he wanted to pay the farmer, but the farmer said, “No, I don’t want money. But give me one of your pictures. What’s money? In a week it will all be finished, but your picture will still be here.”

The painter was very pleased and thanked the farmer for saying such kind things about his paintings. The farmer smiled and answered, “It’s not that. I have a son in London. He is interested in art. He wants to have the same job as you. When he comes here next month, I will show him your picture, and then he will not want to be like you any more, I think.”

“I’m ready”, said Alyssna Carson, a 17-year-old girl from Louisiana,US. She is taking an astronaut-in-taking training. She is a great and lucky girl. If all goes according to her plans, NASA* will send her to Mars* in 2033, making her the first human to step foot on the planet. She will spend two to three years doing something on it, growing food, performing a science experiments, and searching for signs of life. “The Martian is actually very amazing,” she said, “I saw a lot of things in the movies and they are going to happen.

__________. When she was 3 years old, she watched a cartoon called The Backyardigans.It’s about many adventures in their backyard including one part to Mars. “I thought this red planet is so cool,” she said, “I started watching videos of rovers landing on Mars, I had a large map of Mars in my room. I started getting telescopes *so I could look at space.”

At 7 her father took her to U. S. Space Camp in Huntsville Alabama. “That was the weekend of my life,” she said. “I got to learn everything I had been wanting to know and more. I got to see a life-size rocket.” She was crazy about the rocket so much that she returned I8 times. At the age of 12 she became the first person in history to attend all three NASA space camps. Then she started to learn about the basics of space and how humans have over explored it. As she got older she started trying to reach a gravity-free zones, a situation like in Mars.

When she was 9 she met NASA astronaut Sandra Magnus. The experienced astronaut told her she was the same age as her when she decided to go to space. At that moment Alyssa knew her love of space was not a passing hobby. “I did the same thing as other kids, like thinking about the future jobs, wanting to be a teacher or the president one day,” she said, “But the way I always thought about it was I would become an astronaut, go to Mars, come back, and then be a teacher or the president.