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“Aquamarine”

 I saw a film called Aquamarine on DVD today. It is a comedy about a fish out of water.

  Aquamarine is a story of Claire and Hailey, two 13-year-old girls, and they are best friends. One day, they found a mermaid in the swimming pool when they were swimming. The mermaid is called Aquamarine. Of course, she’s beautiful. The 2 girls began to have an adventure life after they met Aquamarine.

  In order to search the real love, the beautiful, 18-year-old, blue-haired mermaid swam from home before her arranged marrige. If she could prove to her father that love is not a story, her father could let her get rid of the wedding under the water. But her father only gave her 3 days. So, Aquamarine asked Claire and Hailey for help. The 2 girls thought themselves as love experts, and they learn form the pages of magazines that they read and quote daily.

  Aquamarine sets her sight on a Club’s lifeguard, Raymond Calder. And Aquamarine promised, if Claire and Hailey could help her reel in Raymond, she will help them to realize whatever wishes. So the girls accepted the opportunity with pleasure.

  At last, the 2 girls hope that as long as Aquamarine can keep her land legs and avoid sprouting her massive, mythological tail, everyone will see their wishes come true. More important, they learn some important lessons about he power of friendship, the true magic of love—and the importance of standing on your own 2 feet.

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A trip to Qing Huangdao

I went to Qing Huangdao on Saturday. It is a city beside the sea. It is a beautiful city. There are not many cars in the street, so the air is pretty good, not polluted. And the climate is good. When I was there, the weather was extremely good, the sunshine was beautiful and the wind was vool, not too cold, not too hot.

  I lived in a hotel which was beside the sea. In the evening, I went to the seaside with my friends. We walked along the seashore, enjoying the wind blowing from the sea. Although the wind was a bit cold in the evening. When I saw the sea, I began to think of nothing about the cold wind. The sea is so big, and I felt that I was too small when I faced to the sea.

  I began to think of something. Sometimes, we often quarrel about trifles. When I saw the sea, I found that the things compared with the sea were too small to think about. Friends are far more important than anything else. It is not worth quarrelling with friends becouse of trifles. We should be more kind to our friends.

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A tiring day

  I went shopping this morning and it was really a wonderful but tiring morning.

  There were another 2 girls with me. We got up at 7:00 am. It was really too early for me to get up, especially on Sunday. We took the bus 105 to get to our destination. When we got there, there were already many people in the street. I thought, “How can these people get up so early?”

  During the morning, we went to 3 shopping departments. After barg

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Cultivate my own sense of fashion

  In my spare time, I read fashion magazines and collect pictures that are gorgeous to me. I don’t aspire to be a fashion designer. One really needs to struggle to make her way in the cut-throat world of fashion. There is much more to this job than just a sense of fashion. I only hope to cultivate my own sense of fashion.

  I’ve always wanted to be unique and my style of dress reflects that I like clothes that are over the top, which nobody except special people would ever consider wearing, or would have the confidence to wear. If I wear simple colors, then the design of my top must be creative and my shoes have to be imaginative. If I wear multiple colors, then my clothes are in a very straight line. I admit that, to most people, my outfit would look a little odd. But that is because ther’re used to seeing the safe, which blends them into the background, among the “majority”. I, however, look for this oddness to bring out my personality.

  Everybody struggles with building something that can be identified as his or hers. In my view, Descartes’ words “I think therefore I am” should be updated to a more aggressive line:”I design(my look, attitude, life goal) therefore I am.”

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