Dear friend:

　　I still can’t believe what have happened yesterday. At about nine o’clock, school want every classroom turn on the TV, said there’s something happen in American. Some of my classmates are saying“oh, oh, sounds bad!”When I know the first plan Crashed into the building, I thought it was a normal one then, the second plane crashed again. I became confusing: why did the planes crashed in the building again? Then the third one and the forth, the TV in my classroom is broken, we can’t here the sound, but the teacher call her mom, ask what have happened. She wrote something when she’s on the plane.“At 9:00 the first plane crashed…we don’t know who the enemy is.”Then, suddenly, I saw the building cracking. It’s on TV, like watching the movie“Independent day”(ID4) I can’t imagine how many people are working in the building it’s really horrible, I felt sad. All the students were talking about it during the lunch. Since nine o’clock, we’ve watched the movie for three periods. When I arrive home, host mom told me to call home to let my parents know I am safe. That’s about three in the midnight. Today I go to school I saw the American flag is in the middle of the flagpole. The first period is world history, but we didn’t teach the lesson. Teacher spent hole class to tell us the information and the background he searched in the Internet, we’ll have some more tomorrow.

　　I think I’m going to drop the world humanities. It’s really strange. The class I take should be world history, but they separate it into two classes. The first one we’re now teaching Greece, the second one are using the literature text book, and we’ve spent three classes reading the line of a drama. Last week we had a quiz, I only fill two blanks because first, I don’t know quiz is a test, so I didn’t prepare it, second, I use dictionary to check the words I don’t understand, so I remember those things in Chinese, I can’t spell the words, I felt very bad. Because it makes me felt I’m a bad student. After the test, teacher told with me. We both think I should change another class (The other reason is I’m not interesting in literature!) I also ask my host mom, she think literature is really too hard for me. She doesn’t know they put literature in world humanities when I choose my class.

　　All the students in my Physics class are in 12 grades. I don’t know why, but I felt they are not as nice as other 11 grades student in my other class. They are not mean, but they seldom talk with me. I guess they are two reasons: First, they already know each other before. Second, I guess they are not happy that in 11 grades student take Physics. I’ve heard other students told me that they think Physics is difficult. Even when students are in 12 grades, most of them choose Chemistry or Biology. I can’t remember how many times did students use surprised eyes looked at me and said,“You take Physics! What grade are you in?”When I told them I’m in 11 grades. They’re like“God, how can you do that?”They are even more surprise when I told them I’m the exchange from Taiwan. They said:“Even though we’ve using English for 16 or 17 years, we still don’t take Physics. And you, you’re just here for about two weeks but you take Physics!”Lots of students ask me is it hard. I said“English may be the hardest part for me in any subject.”I’m going to have a quiz for Physics on Friday. I was starting to prepare it since two days ago. I hope I can do a good job. So far I’ve got full mark on world history and Algebra2. But it’s because we’re only testing the part we just learn in world history. The Algebra is very easy for me. I’ve learned it when I was in 7 grades. When we are having the test, teacher asked me did I finish the questions, because I finish them too quick and was watching around the classroom. I ask host mom should I change to another math class. But she told me other subject I choose are difficult and need time to study. If I take another hard class, I may spend all my time in study and need time to go out with friends and enjoy American life. She suggested me to help other students to solve the problems. I’ll still stay in that class.

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亲爱的朋友：

　　我一直不敢相信昨天发生的事情。大约9点钟，学校要求我们打开电视机，说美国出事了。开始看到建筑物倒塌的画面，我以为是正常的飞机坠毁。可第二架飞机又连续撞楼，真的把我弄懵了。我不禁问自己：“飞机为什么要撞楼？”接着是第三架，第四架。班里的电视突然没声音了，老师忙打电话回家，问她妈妈发生了什么。看到电视中大厦在倒塌，象是在看电影“独立日。”我不敢想象有多少人正在大厦里工作，太恐怖了。午餐时间，同学们都在谈论这场灾难。当我回到主人家庭，家庭父母亲让我马上打电话给国内的爸爸妈妈报平安。已经是夜里3点了。今天，我看到了学校里的美国国旗降了半旗。第一节是世界历史，但我们没上。老师给我们讲了昨晚他从网上查到的一些相关新闻。

　　我打算放弃陌生的人文科学，转修世界历史。上周，我参加了一次人文科学的考试，但只完成了两部分。原因有二，第一：我事先没作准备；第二：考试时一直在查不懂的单词。其实中文的这段知识我在行，但要用英文表述，很多英文单词我都得现查字典。感觉遭透了。考试后，老师找我谈话。我们都觉得我该换个课程(另有原因：我实在时不喜欢文学)。问过主人妈妈后，她也觉得文学课尤其是涉及世界人类学对我来讲是难了点。当初选课没弄清楚。

　　物理班上的同学都是12年级的。但我觉得他们不如我选修其他课班里的11年级的学生友好。他们到不坏，但很少跟我说话。估计原因有二，一：他们彼此间已经很熟悉了；二：他们不喜欢班里有11年级的学生(我本身是11年级的学生)。我曾听说：他们认为物理课很难。即便是12年级的学生，他们通常会首选化学或生物课。所有的学生都对我要选修物理课表示震惊，但更吃惊的是知道我是从台湾来的交流学生。他们简直不敢相信我这个刚来两星期的交流生竟敢选修他们说了16、17年英语的学生都不敢选择的物理。周五我们会有次物理考试。两天前我就开始准备了。希望有个不错的成绩。到现在，世界历史课我拿了满分，代数2级。代数考试时，老师直问我答完了没有，因为我做的太快了。我曾向主人妈妈提议我要换一个高一级数学课，但她告诉我：“那样会花我很多时间和精力去学习而没时间和朋友玩，享受美国生活了。”主人妈妈建议我可以多帮助其他同学解决学习上的困难，所以我仍在原来那个班里。

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