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Time flies. One month has passed and I have enjoyed my summer vacation for more than 30 days.   

It is the most relaxed and enjoyable summer vacation I have ever had, with no tiring assignments, no extra teaching in scorching weather, though well-planned.   

I spend my mornings   with Coco. I take her to morning exercise, help her to have the breakfast, then teach her English. She shows great enthusiasm in learning English. Everytime I say: “Coco, Let’s learn English together.” She will jumped up with joy and say happily: “OK!”   

I know that her interests in learning partly comes from the materials I downloaded from the internet. They are animated and interesting, including an children English teaching program for learning  , some English children songs for entertaining  , and an interesting cartoon “Make Way for Noddy” for listening  . Coco learns very fast. It is said that the age bracket of 3-5 is the prime time for learning language. I do agree. Coco shows great memory for what she has learned everyday. She is good at listening, too. When shown the English cartoons, although she doesn't understand the whole story, she can pick up the words and phrases she has learned, repeat them and say the meaning of the words and phrases quickly and correctly.   I am so proud of her.  

I spend the afternoons totally for myself. After taking the nap, I get up and go to practice piano   . At the very beginning of the summer vacation, I make a wise decision to learn piano. I pay money for it, so I have to persist in doing it. I want to force myself out of the house and learn something new. And paying high fees will make my lazy-self more active.   I won’t waste money, anyway. I make progress day by day, indulging myself in the luxury periods of music and privacy. You won’t understand the importance of privacy for a woman if you don’t have a baby. I feel myself refreshed every afternoon when I come back home after playing the piano, so that I will have enough patience and courage to become a mother again.

For the evening, I am quite busy, feeding Coco, bathing her, taking her to bed, playing games with her, telling bedtime story…     now she is in sound sleep. Here I am. I can enjoy my time again, writing my own blog…  

That is my July, with something very routine, and something interesting and challenging…   

Now here comes the August.   

What is my plan?   

The Olympic Games, of course.   

And the routine,   

and the piano,   

and hopefully an academic writing…