Li Aichun is a girl who comes from Changchun, Jilin. She is studying at a college in Changchun now. Over the past few years, she has posted more than 200 short videos online. They have touched many people’s hearts.

When Li was 7 months old, she had a high fever. After that, she had difficulty walking and speaking. Luckily, Li didn’t lose heart.

Li always dreamed of studying medicine at university. In order to make her dream come true, she studied hard from primary school to high school. Finally, she made it.

In her first year at college, Li joined a speech club. She told her own experience to her listeners. Although she spoke slowly and with many pauses（停顿） her listeners listened carefully and cheered her up.

Li isn’t able to control her hands completely, so she has difficulty writing, but she has got excellent grades in her exams over the past three years.

Also, Li worked as a volunteer. She helped in the city’s nursing homes and special education schools. Since last year, Li has made short videos and posted them online. In the videos, she smiles and speaks confidently. A video lasts only a few seconds, but Li spends lots of time carefully preparing it. She hopes to help more people like her.

Mary Donaldson is worried about her 16-year-old daughter, Sophia. Six months ago, Sophia came back from a party, upset and unhappy. From then on, she thinks of nothing but how to lose weight and become beautiful. She refuses to eat and keeps on doing exercise. Sophia had always been a little heavy, so when she decided to go on a diet, Mary encouraged her. She felt that her daughter would look more attractive if she lost 10 kilograms. However, Sophia has lost over 20 kilograms until now. Her eating and exercising habits are having a harmful effect on her health. She is too thin and is often sick.

Her mother is trying to prevent her from going on a diet and losing weight, but Sophia thinks that she is still too heavy and refuses to start eating as usual. Sophia’s mind is full of the idea of looking like a model. Every day she goes to a club to do exercise. When she is not there, she spends her time reading magazines like Fashion & Beauty. The models in these magazines are very thin and beautiful. Sophia says, “If I look like these models, I will be happy and all the boys will like me.”

Mary doesn’t know how to help her daughter. She feels sorry for having encouraged her at first, because Sophia no longer feels good or pleased with her body. She’s afraid that Sophia will never be happy if she keeps comparing herself with the models in the magazines. Mary tries to tell Sophia that true beauty comes from within. Common people are not supposed to look like models. The most ordinary face becomes beautiful when the person behind it is filled with confidence, wisdom and the joy of life.

All the students in Mr. Wang's class are happy this morning.   They received a letter from Mr. Green who taught them English every Thursday for three months last year. He went back to the United States last summer and started teaching at a high school in New York. He told the students that all the students in his class now want to make friends with Chinese students and they are interested in China. Now the students are talking about the letter and how to become friends with Mr. Green's students.