The Colosseum is in Rome. It is now, in ruins, but once it was a great arena. It looked like our football stadiums. It could seat about 45,000 people. It was mainly used to watch gladiators fight. Most gladiators were prisoners of war. They were made to fight with swords and other weapons. They fought until one was killed. Then the winner was set free. The Colosseum was also used for another spectacle. An unarmed man would be thrown into the arena. A hungry wild lion would be released, and the spectators would watch the man being torn and eaten. Here's an account of one such event. The cage was opened. A starVed, almost crazed lion sprang forth. The prey was in the center. The man stood with only a rock in one hand. In the other was a fist¬ful of sand. That's all he had. The lion never paused. It made long and powerful bounds. With each leap, its claws set forth showers of sand. The stands were silent. People held their breaths. With one more leap, the lion would be on the man. But that last leap never came. The lion skidded in the soft sand. It stopped a mere step away. The lion raised its head. It looked at the man and licked his hand. It seemed like a miracle. Who was the man? He was Androcles. And he remembered. Years before he had saved that lion. He lifted its right paw and saw the scar. Then he wrapped his arms around the lion's neck. Together, like partners, they walked around the whole arena. The crowds had never seen such a miracle. They cheered uncontrollably. It was the greatest show they had ever seen.　

What kind of place do you like? Where some people like to visit is a beach. Where some people enjoy visiting is a lively park. Where some people prefer to go is a shopping mall. But the place I love to visit is in the sky. Since I was a child, I had had a dream about which I wanted to figure out the differences between admiring the sky in the middle of it and from the ground below. Finally my dream came true in November, 2003 when I came to Canada. That it was the first time I ever took a plane. Before I got into the plane, I was so excited because I thought I was going to visit the space! I didn’t sleep much during my fourteen-hour flight because I hated to miss any beautiful scenes up in the sky. The clouds reflected by the sun through the window into my eyes. I found that scene was one of the most beautiful places I had ever seen. That the clouds all over the sky looked like a sea which was covered by snow, and that some extra large clouds looked like some mountain standing in the sea, and that some clouds looked as if millions of animals were moving on the ground… finally I was so tired that I fell asleep. As soon as I woke up I gazed out the window. I found that everything had changed. The lights were on in the plane, but it was all brown and gold outside. The sun had changed to a huge brown and gold ball, and the cloud color had been changed to brown and gold. The sky and the clouds were divided by a fire red and brown horizontal line far away. The moon was in the area above the clouds-the wild sky without clouds. It seemed the plane was flying outside of the earth and we were going to the moon… Finally, I fell asleep again. When I woke up, I found that the plane was landing on the Vancouver International Airport. I was a little upset because I didn’t catch the scene about which the sun went down. But I thought: “There must be another chance to see it.”