Greetings to everybody!
A new year and a new decade is here! For many, the last decade was dismal and we look forward, with hope and promise, to a new decade of peace and understanding.
The New Year celebrations are now over in the USA, but the Chinese New Year celebrations will start soon all over the world. China is a big country and has a huge population, and many Chinese live around the world. In the USA, there is a big Chinese group living in New York, and in San Francisco (and in many other American and Canadian cities). Wherever I travel in the USA, I always find a Chinese restaurant! Even in remote, small little villages. It has been my experience that the Chinese are very hard working and ambitious for themselves and for their children. What do you think?
And I am looking forward to watching the Winter Olympics when they begin next week in Canada. I especially like to watch the skiing, the ski jumping and the ice skating. One has to be very coordinated and graceful to skate like a champion, and one has to be fearless to ski down a mountain at 80 miles an hour! Have you ever tried any of these winter sports? Since I live in a cold climate, I have tried most of these sports, but only go snowshoeing now. It is fun to put on a pair of snowshoes and go into the woods; if you are lucky you will see some animals, or at the very least, animal tracks. Today, outside, I saw
rabbit tracks and deer tracks; it must be hard for them to find food in the winter when the ground is covered with snow.
Do you have winter in your country? Do you like it? I hope that you have the opportunity to enjoy winter some time in your lives. It can be a very beautiful, magical time. And you always know that spring and summer will come...bringing flowers, green grass and opportunities to walk, swim, play games in warmer weather.
I will leave you with one of my favorite poems from one of my favorite poets.
DUST OF SNOW by Robert Frost
The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.
This is a simply written but eloquent poem. Did you know all the words?
Did you understand it? let me know
I hope that you all are looking forward to a happy, healthy and prosperous 2010!
Comments
I live in Vietnam, Vietnam is a tropical country so we don't have snow in the Winter. I don't know what does it feel when it's snowing, maybe great ^^ One day, I'll go somewhere to enjoy the Winter, Snow, Skiing and Skating, hi hi.