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My best friend is my classmate at school. She and I have been studying together since we entered school in kindergarten. We have studied together all these years. We also travel by the school bus together because we stay close to each other. Her home is only a ten minute walk from my place.

My friend is kindly and sweet-natured. We are always happy to be with each other. We enjoy studying, playing and eating together. If I am sad she will do all she can to make me smile and feel happy.

She has always been kind and helpful to me. When I miss school because I am unwell she comes to my place to share with me all that has been done at school. When she misses school I too help her with all that has been covered at school. We also play badminton together in the evenings.

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My bedroom is the most comfortable place in my house. It becomes my favorite room since I lived in this house five years ago. Actually it is not too large, the width is just 4 x 4 meters, but it is clean enough. It looks like a small cottage with a bed placed in the corner of this room. The color of the bed cover is pink, so soft and calm. On this bed, there are a pillow, a bolster, and 15 cute dolls that always accompany me when I am sleeping. If you enter to my bedroom, you can see a table and a chair next to the bed as my place for study. You can feel the wind blowing from a big window that always make my room cosy and bright near the bed. You can also see a beautiful garden that is full of wonderful flowers from this window. It can change your bad mood to become more cheerful. At the opposite of the window, there is a large cupboard with Bali’s carving. The carving is so smooth and gorgeous. It looks like a carving in the great temple. If you see around my bedroom, you will find a colorful wall. It is combination of attractive colors like pink, violet and blue. The colors are mixed perfectly and it shows the girlie room. It is also completed with some artificial flowers near the window that decorate my room beautifully. I like to spend my time in this room. For me my bedroom is my little palace.

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My school is ten kilometers away from my home, and I go by the school bus every morning. I love to go to school. I learn so many new things at school every day. There are many different subjects I study at school. I study languages like Sanskrit, Hindi and English, and other subjects like mathematics, science and social studies.

My school is very beautiful. There are nice, lush gardens with beautiful plants and trees. In spring time the blooming flowers are a spectacle. My school has a well equipped library, and I enjoy reading books. There are also computers in the school for our use.

I love my school and my teachers. My teachers are very caring. They teach us with a great deal of patience, and they want us to become good and responsible human beings. I want to make my school and my teachers proud of me.

Da Lat city is the provincial capital of Lam Dong Province, is located on the Lam Vien Plateau, Central Highlands, Vietnam. Since ancient times, this land which is the area of ​​residence of the residents Lach, Chil and the Sre ethnic Coho. Late 19th century, when looking for a place to build a resort station for the French in Indochina, Governor Paul Doumer decided Lam Vien Plateau at the request of the doctor Alexandre Yersin, who explore arrived here in 1893. In the first half of the 20th century, from a deserted place, the French plan and build a beautiful city with villas, offices, hotels and schools, a tourist and educational center intercourse of Indochina. Through periods of ups and downs of the two wars with the difficult period of the 1970-1980 decade, Dalat is today a city of 211 thousand people, grade I under provincial urban center role politics, economy and culture of the province of Lam Dong.
With an elevation of 1500 meters above the sea and the mountains and surrounding forest flora populations, Dalat inherited a temperate mountain climate with cool year round. History of more than a century the city also left a valuable architectural heritage, is like a museum of 20th century European architecture. Natural resources and abundant human help Dalat became one of the famous tourist spots of Vietnam, each year attracts millions of tourists to visit and vacation. Da Lat is also a center of education and scientific research, a city of religious diversity in the presence of hundreds of temples, churches, monasteries ... a special rich agricultural area with vegetables and flowers. Thanks to the mild climate, beautiful natural scenery and rich architectural heritage, Da Lat is also known by many other names such as "foggy city", "city of", "The city of flowers "," Land of Sakura "or" Little Paris ".
Although it is a famous tourist city, but Da Lat city is a lack of cultural venues and diverse entertainment. Massive urbanization process that today's cities suffer many consequences. Many pine forests disappearing, replaced by the construction or agricultural areas. Do not be well protected, many of the city's sights and monuments fell into ruins, ruins. Unplanned growth of the recent decades that urban architecture Dalat suffered deformation and become trash bin. In the city, many villas with many of the buildings subject to the ravages of time without conservation, preservation.

 

Van Mieu (The Temple of Literature) was constructed in 1070 during Ly Thanh Tong's dynasty. Its original purpose was to honor Confucius. In 1076, the first university of Vietnam called Quoc Tu Giam (The Imperial Academy), was established within this temple by Emperor Ly Nhan Tong. That's the reason why the complex has the name of Van Mieu – Quoc Tu Giam up to now. Initially, Quoc Tu Giam was the school for princes and children of royal families and then expanded in the following year to admit top students from around the country.

Nowadays, Van Mieu – Quoc Tu Giam is one of the most famous tourist destinations for both Vietnamese people and foreigners. It's also a place to celebrate doctorates and high ranking scholars of Vietnam. One special thing about this place is that there are 82 Doctors' stone tablets. They are tombstones with names and origins of 1304 doctors placed on the backs of stone tortoises. If you come here at the beginning of the year or in May, when many important examinations take place, you will catch sights of numerous families and students who come and pray for luck.

Van Mieu – Quoc Tu Giam opens daily from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and the entrance fee for each adult is 30,000 VND.

Bat Trang Ceramic Village

“I wish I could marry you/ I will buy Bat Trang bricks to build our house” are the beautiful folk words honoring Bat Trang ceramic & pottery quality, the pride of northern Vietnam
Bat Trang, a small village in the north of Vietnam, is about 13 kilometers south east of Hanoi center, on the other side of Chuong Duong Bridge.

Why is its name popular to most tourists to northern Vietnam? The answer is its ever famous ceramic and pottery products of high quality. If you have known about Vietnam, you may not be surprised that Bat Trang’s vases, bowls, dishes, and many other kinds of ceramic products have been exported worldwide. Should you would like to contemplate workers making ceramic products by hand, just come here! What’s more, you can also try it yourself!

Bat Trang village is said to be established in 14th or 15th century in several documents. However, according to the villagers, the village perhaps appeared earlier. There are always two stories concerning the village origin.

One of these tells that under Ly dynasty, in 1100, when the nation was in its independence and initial growth period, there were 3 scholars who came back from their mission trip to China bringing the ceramic craft industry learned there back to Vietnam and taught the people of Bat Trang.

In the other story, in the village history dates back to the 10th century, when King Ly Cong Uan relocated the capital in Thang Long. With the establishment and development of the capital, many businessmen, crafters from many areas come to settle down here to work and trade. In Bat Trang, there was a lot of white clay, so that many potters, among who was Nguyen Ninh Trang family, came and built the kilns here.

Accordingly, Bat Trang has gradually changed from a normal ceramic and pottery village into a famous ceramic and pottery centre until now.

Van Mieu (The Temple of Literature) was constructed in 1070 during Ly Thanh Tong's dynasty. Its original purpose was to honor Confucius. In 1076, the first university of Vietnam called Quoc Tu Giam (The Imperial Academy), was established within this temple by Emperor Ly Nhan Tong. That's the reason why the complex has the name of Van Mieu – Quoc Tu Giam up to now. Initially, Quoc Tu Giam was the school for princes and children of royal families and then expanded in the following year to admit top students from around the country.

All of the special holidays in my country, I like Tet the most. Tet is an occasion to everyone get together in warm atmosphere. Before Tet holiday, Everyone prepares many things and decorates their house. I plant a lot of flowers in front of my house and buy many things such as clothes, foods ...

Besides, most of the streets also are decorated beautifully with colorful lights and flowers. During Tet, I spends more time on visiting my relatives, friends and colleagues. Especially, I give to each other the best wishes for the new year. Tet is an opportunity for children receive lucky money. There is a funny thing that people try to avoid argument or saying any bad things at Tet. I love Tet holiday!

3)If the peach blossom is symbolic of New Year in the north, the peach blossom is symbolic for the snowy New Year in the South, and white apricot is a very beautiful apricot. White flowers with thin wings, often clustered in the wings. Multi-layer flowers, look very fragile but bring in his vitality extremely powerful. Growing in the high mountains with cold climate, the colder the more suitable for White Mai development, perhaps because of this that the ancient people often take pictures Mai White to compare with the air of the military .Maybe white is in many countries but is best known in the island nation of Taiwan, even Mai White is also considered by people Taiwan as a symbol for the country and people here. These conditions have formed in the subconscious of every Vietnamese people hardworking, hard-working, hard-hearted, spirit beyond fate. People often say "Same life easy to make friendships" may be the main thing that makes the people of Vietnam look Mai white as friends and see the flower as a symbol to rise.

3/ Apricot blossoms:

Every year, so close to the New Year, you and Dad come together to the garden for the leaves of the tree tomorrow. This tree has been planted by my grandfather for a long time. When the Lunar New Year was over, the apricot trees gave me beautiful flowers as if I wanted to get into the air.

The branches look slender, but the stalks are very strong, strong. The tree was put into a pot made of porcelain, the tree was bent into dragon phoenix looks graceful. In the morning of the 1st, I was surprised when the apricot blossomed in full bloom. Hidden in the yellow color is a few green leaves are growing up strong. The small flower buds next to the fresh flowers are eagerly waiting to be blossomed bursting. I was fascinated not to look at the beautiful flowers. The apricot blossom consists of five thin, soft leaves interlaced around the yellow stigma like wings. Flowers attracted a lot of butterfly bees to the honey making the spring air more and more exciting, the more human heart eagerly. My father told me that people love the apricot blossom because it exudes noble qualities, elegance but still beautiful, gentle, close to ordinary life. The yellow apricot blossom in spring also symbolizes the joy, happiness, luck, love and spirit of solidarity, sticking everyone in the Lunar New Year to spring. Flowers bring good luck for the new year, abundant health and prosperity, wealth, prosperity prosperity. Apricot blossom was associated with the straight, clean spirit of the ancient grape. Cao Ba Quat - a famous grapevine who has made two verses to express a life worthy of contempt, a life just devoted to the good, because of beauty:
The load always serves the ancient sword
Most born Bai Bai flower flowers

This delicious dish is very easy to make. First you need to soak sticky rice with water in more than 5 hours. Then you rinse rice and drain it. Next you mix rice well with tumeric extract and wait for 10 minutes. After that you add coconut and salt and mix well. Finally, you steam them in 30 minutes and check cooked. Remember to serve it hot.

My Dream House

House is a place where we can shelter and it gives us a protection from rain, heat , storm etc. Everyone has their own choice on what type of house they feel comfortable to live, so do I. I enjoy to live in calm and open environment, so house built on small land won't be my choice. I want a large open space surrounded by compound where I can stroll especially when I feel bored on my job. I want the garden in front of my house which will give me natural environment. One more thing to mention here, I want the house which is far from main city and industrial area since I don't like the noisy environment.Oh, yeah, what about the size of the house? I prefer the medium size house having 2 or 3 floors. I don't like very large building because I have small family and I don't like to rent my home. I prefer to stay in second or ground floor during the summer season because the top floor is excessively heated during the very season whereas I like to stay in second or third floor during the winter as ground floor will be excessively cold during that period. Next thing is about gym room, I would like to have a fitness center within my premise as I am a young boy and I want to be a healthy person.

I have mentioned so many physical needs in my above paragraph but I would like to conculde my writing saying cool and amicable family environment is must to make our home like a heaven. Otherwise, it will be a hell and we would like to spend most of our time outside the home rather than with family.

As I approach the island on which my dream house awaits, I catch a quick

glimpse of it. It is huge, and is the most noticeable building in the area. My

private plane lands on the air strip next to the house. I get out of the plane

and start my journey through a heavily wooded path leading to my dream house.

I walk with anxiety toward the house at which I will spend the rest of my life.

All around me lie the most beautiful trees and plants you have ever seen. It

is peaceful but you can hear the sounds of birds chirping and small forest

creatures frolicking in the under brush. As I continue to walk along the path

the end starts to appear. I now see my house for the first time up close.

Nothing could have prepared me for the moment I was about to experience.


My house that I designed is all I imagined and more. It is a four story

dream on a huge fifteen acre lot. As I approach the stairs at the entrance to

the house I am surrounded by four columns leading to the most elegant doors I

have ever seen. They are made of mahogany and have a stained glass window in

the center. The handles and the frame is made of brass. As I continue around

the house I come across three windows overlooking the entrance to the house.

There are black shutters on each window. As the porch continues to the south

side of the house I am now looking over the Pacific Ocean. A huge eight foot

picture is facing the same way I am. As I look down and observe the ocean I

see two piers jutting out into the Pacific. On either side of the piers are

huge boulders protecting the coast line from erosion. The house's walls are

made of stucco and it has an old fashion shingles that are a clay color.


As I walk into the back yard I am surrounded by the best things a man

could ever want. Well not quite everything! But a lot of things. I walk

toward the road and I first come across a basketball court. To the left of the

basket ball court is a tennis court. There is a bar in between the two to take

a break at between games. On the opposite side of the yard there is an in

ground swimming pool that is connected to the pool inside the house. As my

journey comes to a close I notice a white gazebo off to the east of the house.

It is in a position such that you can see anyone entering or leaving the lot if

you are sitting in it.


As my plane leaves to go home to pack I take one last look at the house.

I think to myself, "Yes this is my dream house, My dream house."

In the future, my dream house will be a palace.It will be in the mountains. There will be ten rooms in it. It will be big and beautiful. It will be surrounded by many tall trees and flowers. Living room in my dream house will have a wireless TV, two sofar, a table and a smart phone. A wireless TV will help me watch TV prgrammes from space. A smart phone will help me call friends, surf the Internet and contact my friends. Bedroom in my dream house will have a ward robe, a desk, a laptop, a chair and a bed. There will be some hi-tech robots in my dream house. They will help me do the housework, such as : cleaning the floors, cooking meals, washing clother,...

I live in a big house in the countryside and it is very beautiful. It has a living room, a kitchen, three bedrooms and two bathrooms. In the living room, there is a table, four chairs, a television and an air conditioner. My bedroom is very nice. There is a computer, a bed, a lamp and two pictures on the wall. And a bookshelf above the table, some teddy bears on the bed and a wardrobe next to my bed. The kitchen has a refrigerator, a stove and a sink. Next to the kitchen is the bathroom. It has a shower, a washing machine and a tub. I love my house very much.