My name is Julia. I am a girl from Canada. Now I am in Beijing with my parents. My father is a cook. He works in a restaurant. My mother is a doctor. She works in a big hospital.

Yang Han is my pen pal. Yang Han lives in Anhui. Look! This is a letter from her. In it, she says she has a nice family. Her father and mother are farmers. And they work on the farm every day. They plant (种植 ) rice and vegetables. On their farm, they have a big apple tree. They have many chickens, two dogs and two cats, too. Yang Han is good at English. She likes to read different English books with nice pictures (图片). She often helps her classmates with their English at school. They like her a lot. Yang Han has a brother. His name is Yang Chen. He is very cute. He likes to play with the dogs.

Yang Han says she wants me to visit her. She will ask her father to cook nice food for me.

Paul is a 12- year - old boy from Australia. He has short blond hair, blue eyes and a big nose. He comes to China to study with his parents. He likes to be friends with others. He can speak Chinese well. And everyone in his class likes him, so he is always the center of attention （关注）. His best friend is Lucy. Lucy is from Canada. She says Paul is handsome and nice. Jessica is a beautiful girl. She is thirteen years old and she is from the USA. She is tall with big blue eyes. For her, basketball is really interesting. She dreams of being a basketball player of national team（国家队）. But her parents want her to be an actress because she has good looks.

Scott is a Chinese boy. He is 13 years old. He has short black hair and black eyes. He is short. He lives with his grandparents in a village because his parents are working in Beijing. He can only see his parents once（一次）a year. He doesn’t like that. He misses his parents very much. To see his parents often, he spends much time studying and he wants to walk out of his village. He is a great boy!