What was my hobby in London?

　　Reading was and still is my hobby. I really liked to go to local libraries near our home. The first time my father helped me ask for a library card so you can borrow twelve books at one go. I started with picture books with more pictures than words, and later I could read books with more words than pictures, some with no pictures at all. I also started to borrow audio books so I could listen to them at home. Sometimes my parents took me to the bookstores so that I could read newly published books. I usually sit on the floor while reading. I could always find some books of my liking. My favorite author is J. K. Rowing. She wrote the book Harry Potter series. I have read all the English version of the seven books now. Roald Dahl's books are good too: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator are the most entertaining. I also like Enid Blyton, David Henry Wilson, C.S.Lewis and Lemony Snicket. I like reading because it can make me more imaginative and give me more knowledge.
 

　　How do you spend you holidays?

　　In the school holidays I traveled with my parents to different places in or out of Britain. We've been to the capital of France-Paris and climbed the Eiffel Tower; we visited France's Disneyland too. Then we traveled to the capital of Italy-Rome and ate pizza on the street. Venice is a beautiful Water City in Italy. It is a marvelous place to have a holiday, but in the summer the mosquitoes were very bothering. I got stung twenty times in three days.
　　Once, me, my mother and my father went to Edinburg for the Easter
　　Holidays. We stayed in an old house which had once been the home of the famous author of Treasure Island-Robert Louis Stevenson. The book is about a boy called Jim Hawkins going on an adventure with pirates.
　　Cambridge is a good place for education and boating. My father steered the boat when we went boating in Cam River. He had the oar and was standing on the deck all on his own. Me and my mother were afraid that my father would fall into the water! He didn't fall in the water; he didn't even scrap the sides of the boat when we were under the bridge.
 

　　How do you like the food there?

　　When I was in Britain I really liked western food. At our school we could choose between eating school dinners and bringing packed lunches. English children like to pack sandwiches, crisps, biscuits, fruit and vegetables and sometimes a handful of sweets in their packed lunches but school dinners are different. We have fish and chips twice a week with carrots and peas. Sometimes we eat garlic bread and shepherd pie, and sometimes we ate mashed potato. There were sauces to make the food taste better: gravy, ketchup, mayonnaise, etc and delicious puddings. There are puddings that I disliked too, for example custard and rice pudding. The rice puddings were not anything compared to my mother's porridge. Although I ate a lot of English food I still liked Chinese food. When the Spring Festival came, my father's colleagues would come to our flat and made Chinese dumplings together. They were delicious.liuxuepaper.com