{"id":88,"date":"2008-02-22T12:02:39","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T12:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web02.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters2\/archives\/88"},"modified":"2015-05-24T06:47:46","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T06:47:46","slug":"the-little-boat-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/archives\/88","title":{"rendered":"The Little Boat Girl\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reflections after Reading<\/p>\n<p>The girl Mei-ling in the book &lsquo;The Little Boat Girl&rsquo; impresses me a lot.<\/p>\n<p>Mei-ling was a girl living on a junk with her parents, grandma and siblings.&nbsp; She didn&rsquo;t like fishing.&nbsp; She loved dancing.&nbsp; Living on the sea was full of dangers.&nbsp; One day an accident came and this nice family was separated.&nbsp; Mei-ling held her baby brother in her arm and fell into the sea.&nbsp; Fortunately, they were safe.&nbsp; Finally, Mei-ling realized her dream &ndash; learning to dance, with the help of a woman.&nbsp; The ending was a happy one.<\/p>\n<p>After reading the story, I asked myself if I was brave enough.&nbsp; I was not!&nbsp; I loved crying very much when I was young.&nbsp; When I felt sad or someone hurt me, my tears would fall down at once.&nbsp; Now, I still cry easily.&nbsp; Yet I know that bad things or unlucky things may still happen in my life.&nbsp; I believe that they are given from God.&nbsp; The difficulties are to check whether we can solve them.<\/p>\n<p>Besides bravery, the book conveys another message &ndash; we must &lsquo;hold on to our dream.&nbsp; Never let it go &ndash; not even for a moment.&nbsp; All we must do is believe in ourselves.&nbsp; Everything that happens to us in life is for a reason&hellip;&rsquo;&nbsp; These are the words Mei-ling was taught.&nbsp; While I was reading them, my heart was warm and full of energy.&nbsp; Right. Everyone has a dream.&nbsp; It is so nice that we can think, speak and have dreams.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reflections after Readin<\/p><p>The girl Mei-ling in the book &lsquo;The Little Boat Girl&rsquo; impresses me a lot.<\/p><p>Mei-ling was a girl living on a junk with her parents, grandma and siblings. She didn&rsquo;t like fishing. She loved dancing. Living on the sea was full of dangers. One day an accident came and this nice.........<\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/archives\/88\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":8474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","language-en","schoolyear-6"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2411,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/2411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}