La Perouse Sunset

This afternoon we drived to La Perouse. There was a wonderful sunset. The transpositional cloud was so great, and the sun light painted various of colour to the cloud. The whole vision looks like a beautiful painting!BubbleShare: Share photos - Powered by BubbleShare

Bundeena Excursion.

This album is powered by BubbleShare - Add to my blog Last week my classmates and I had a great time in Bundeena and Cronulla.

It was my first excursion, and with all my new friends in Sydney, it was really exciting^-^.
That morning we went on the cute little green-and-yellow ferry from Cronulla to the Royal National Park , Bundeena. I enjoyed exploring the upper reaches of the Hacking River, until the hard wind started blowing.

After 20 minutes on the waterways we arrived at Bundeena. The Royal National Park is the second oldest proclaimed park in the world (after Yellowstone in the US). First we walked through a beach. Then we climbed hills and walked through the forest and arrived at the famous Dharawal Engravings. The Dharawal people lived here possibly 30 000 years or more ago. The engravings could be from 200 to about 5 000 years old. There are several big and small fish on the rocks. We had to walk very carefully to avoid stepping on the engravings.

On our way back there was a big shower, but it was short . We just stood under the trees a while. After that went to a club and had lunch there. Sally walked very fast and joked " who ever is the last doesn't get lunch!".

When we finished lunch, and got back to Cronulla it was already 2:30pm, but we still wanted to hang around. Some stuends went back on the train but my friends and I wanted to stay and go around Cronulla shops. Before we went back to the train station we all had some big delicious icecreams there ^-^.

I was little tired when I back home, but I had a wonderful day.

The Chinese Animal Zodiac

Last week in Marion's class we were talking about superstition. The Animal Zodiac was the most mainstream superstition in China. So I searched Internet try to explain the Chinese animal zodiac.

The Chinese animal zodiac is a rotating cycle of 12 animals (Rat, Ox, Tiger, Hare, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Sheep, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Pig. ), a different one for each year. These recurring animals represent a concept of time, traditionally used for dating the years in China. The Chinese lunar calendar is based on the cycle of the moon, somewhat different to the western solar calendar, with the beginning of the Chinese year falling somewhere between late January and early February.


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With good knowledge and memory of the Chinese animal zodiac, it is possible to estimate a person's age, by asking what animal of the Chinese zodiac they are born in - this would place the person's age within the cycle of 12 years. It is a more polite way of discovering someone's age than asking them directly ^-^. For example my animal zodiac is Hare, do you know how old I am?

Here I'll give you some method;
2001 is the Year of the Snake,
2002 is the Year of the Horse,
2003 is the Year of the Sheep,
2004 is the Year of the Monkey,
2005 is the Year of the Rooster,
2006 is the Year of the Dog,
2007 is the Year of the Pig...
Can you numerate what Animal Zodiac you are right now? Waitting for you to reply ^-*.