Last Sunday, it was sunny. My mother took me and my sister Helen to visit the Hong Kong Museum of History. The museum is in Kowloon Park(九龙公园). First we went to the swimming pool in the park. Helen and I swam for two hours in the pool.

We got to the museum at eleven o'clock. We saw an old store, a village house, an old boat and many other old things. We learned about what Hong Kong was like 100 years ago. In the past, Hong Kong was a small fishing village (渔村). Most people were fishermen.

Helen and I took some notes (笔记) about the history of Hong Kong. We also took some photos of the old things. We left the museum at two o'clock in the afternoon.

Julie Willis is an artist from San Francisco who moved to London ten years ago. We asked her to compare life in San Francisco and London. Here’s what she told us.

San Francisco is a lovely city in a beautiful bay in the USA. It’s got lots of great buildings and places. It’s smaller and much more modern than London, but it’s less interesting. London has a lot more theatres and museums. The Americans are usually more interested in money than culture! The buildings and streets in London are very great, and the parks and markets are wonderful. London is not as dangerous as San Francisco. I feel much safer living here—nobody carries a gun. The police don’t carry guns either.

(2) The living

People have a higher standard (水平) of living in San Francisco because it’s much less expensive than England. For example, petrol is less than half the price and the things like food, clothes and cameras are much cheaper. It’s a shopper’s paradise and I always spend a lot of money buying things before I go back to London! It’s a bit more expensive to rent a house in London and my bills are much bigger than they were in San Francisco. So, although my salary in London is about the same as it was in the United States, I have to work harder to get the same quality of life as I had before.

(3)________

In San Francisco you can walk everywhere because it’s a small city. There’s less traffic than in London, and the public transport is great. There are cable cars to go up all the hills and electric buses which make the city much cleaner. Public transport in London is terrible and really expensive. It takes me an hour to get to work and the journey is usually stressful (紧张的). London’s dirtier too and much more polluted. The traffic is bad, because there is too many cars and the streets are narrow. But English drivers aren’t as bad as American drivers.

(4) Food

Food in the United States is much better. It’s fresher, cheaper, and there’s much more choice. Restaurants aren’t as expensive as in London and the service is much better. In some restaurants they put a clock on the table when you arrive, and if they haven’t served your meal in five minutes, they’ll give you the food free!

Cats wearing shirts with QR codes（二维码）meet at Miaoxiannv in Hangzhou on July 16th, 2018.

A cat café named Miaoxiannv in Hangzhou is really popular now, with many people driving one hour from the other side of the city only to enjoy a new service（服务）: scan a cat to order a meal.

Luo An, a very smart young man runs the café. Because Luo doesn't often stay at the café, his only employee（职工）is often busy working.

Luo lets all the 15 cats wear shirts with QR codes. So people can use Koubei and Alipay to order their meals.

Cat lovers can also buy cat food on the apps and feed the cats, and a cat named Axtael is the café's top star.