I’m Anna. My family often go to the park for a picnic on Sundays. We often take some oranges, apples, bananas, eggs and hamburgers with us. We take drink like milk, cola and orange juice. My father likes eating oranges and he likes drinking cola. Apples are my mother’s favorite fruit. She never（从不）drinks cola. Her favorite drink is milk. I like hamburgers and orange juice. I like fish, too. My father and I often go fishing in the park. Then my father gets water. My mother likes to cook for us and she cooks fish and eggs. After lunch, I fly a kite with our dog, Maomao. Then we sing some English songs. We are all very happy on Sundays!

My friend Mary lives in the middle of our city, but her family has lots of hives full of bees (满是蜜蜂的蜂箱) behind their house. Last Saturday she invited me for a visit.

Mary’s dad took us through a door in an old fence (围栏). He told us, “The neighbors live nearby. We have to make sure that the bees don’t bother (给……造成麻烦) them and that they don’t bother the bees. So we put the hives behind a tall fence. The bees have to fly over it, far above the neighbors’ heads.”

Then Mary’s dad led us close to a bee hive. “We come to see our bees every day,” Mary said, “but we only harvest (收获) honey once a year. We don’t take it all, though. They need to eat, too.”

Mary took some honey with a spoon. “Want to try some?” she asked. I put my finger in. When I was going to taste the honey on my finger, a bee flew to me and landed on my hand! “Stay still!” Mary said. “Don’t worry. It eats honey, too.”

“So I’m feeding it!” I laughed.

Before I went home, Mary gave me some honey and a candle she made from the bees’ wax (蜡). I put the candle in my bookcase to remember my day with the bees!

Alicia doesn’t like weekends because she has to get up at 6:30. On Saturday morning, her mother takes her to learn to play the violin. On Saturday afternoon, she learns drawing. When they get home, the eight-year-old girl is very tired. She goes to bed quickly after dinner.

On Sunday morning, Alicia learns to dance. After they get to the club, her mother does some shopping. Classes are over at twelve o’clock. When they get home, Alicia’s father gets ready for lunch. They have it at about one. Alicia starts to do her homework at two. It usually takes her four hours. After she finishes her homework, it is time for dinner. Alicia doesn’t have time to play with her friends. She hopes there are no weekends in the world.