Famous Festivals Worth Attending in London
BFI London Film Festival
The 66th celebration of the BFI London Film Festival takes place at South Bank and the West End, with some events also screened on BFI Player after the festival, for those who can't make it in person. The full programme has yet to be announced, but will include red carpet nights, gala screenings and a special exhibition.
Tickets：Adults：50 dollars each；Children under 6：free；Students：half price
Time：5—10 October
Bloomsbury Festival
Vitality（活力） is the theme of this year's Bloomsbury Festival, celebrating creativity of the locals. It begins with a garden party on Store Street, opens to everyone, and includes guided walks, a silent calligraphy session, live music and singing workshops, across the nine days.
Tickets：Adults：70 dollars each；Children under 6：free；Students：half price
Time：14—23 October
London Literature Festival
A highlight of the literary calendar, the annual London Literature Festival at Southbank Centre never fails to bring in big names. Minnie Driver, Graham Norton, Rob Delaney, Nick Cave and Greta Thunberg all feature this year, along with creative workshops and games, kids' events, and a chance to hear from the newly-announced Booker Prize Winner.
Tickets：Adults：80 dollars each；Children under 6：free；Students：half price
Time：20—30 October
EFG London Jazz Festival
Get down with the trumpets（小号） as the EFG London Jazz Festival returns. It takes place at areas including Barbican, Royal Festival Hall and Cadogan Hall, and the programme features South African pianist Abdullah Ibrahim, composer and saxophonist Binker Golding, and Malian singer-songwriter and guitarist Fatoumata Diawara.
Tickets：Adults：100 dollars each；Children under 6：free；Students：half price
Time：11—20 November
"Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are …"
The sweet sound of the well-known childhood song came out of the village office in Gaozhuang in Zhongwei, Ningxia Hui autonomous region. Inside, a small group of children were learning to play the guitar with Song Hao, deputy curator（副馆长） of Zhongwei Museum.
Song is 48 years and was born into an artistic family. He received strict musical training as a child and was quite good at playing the guitar and composing music. He had a wish to do what he could with his own music to make the world a brighter place for the children. In June last year, he found an opportunity to turn that wish into reality.
He was chosen to take part in rural vitalization（振兴） work in Gaozhuang for two years, and in his spare time, he started teaching village children to play the guitar.
"There's something really magical about music, " he said, remembering that when he played for the children, many had twinkles in their eyes.
Song asked them if they wanted to learn to play, and they all said "Yes", so he started a free class to teach them on weekends and during the summer and winter holidays. He paid for 20 guitars and music textbooks from his own pocket and began to teach them the basics, like how to pluck（弹拨） the strings and read music.
The children loved the classes so much that they would arrive at the village office early to wait for Song. Over the past six months, a number of children have learned to play entire pieces, and Song said that he could feel the happiness and confidence that learning to play music had brought to them.
Shen Mingyi, Shen Huihong's father, spoke highly of Song and his guitar class, saying that his daughter had become more extroverted as a result.
The history of Azerbaijani cinema dates back to the end of the 19th century, during which, many excellent movies have been filmed, which are still watched and admired by everyone.
These movies were filmed in many beautiful places：from the comfortable and winding streets of the Icharishahar（Old City）—UNESCO World Heritage Site in Baku—to the beautiful fruit gardens and forests of beautiful areas of Azerbaijan.
Here, on these streets, one of the most famous Azerbaijani films, Arshin Mal Alan, directed by Rza Tahmasib, was filmed.
Filmed in 1945 and characterized by its amazing plot, beautiful music, great singing and acting, Arshin Mal Alan quickly became a box office sensation （轰动）.
It remains an important cultural touchstone across Eurasia and has been translated into 86 languages and shown in 136 countries.
The film is about pure love, women's rights, and a young couple's dreams for a modern way of life.
The plot tells us about a rich young man named Asker. One day, he decides to get married. However, according to the Eastern rule, a bride （新娘） needs to cover her face before the wedding. But soon he finds a solution to this problem. On the advice of his friend Suleyman, Asker dresses up as a street seller of cloth. By selling goods, these sellers can enter houses where the women and girls choosing their cloth don't cover their faces. Now Asker can go into any yard and choose a bride.
The film has a lot of entertaining moments, songs and humour. The black-and-white version of this film has also been restored and can now be viewed in colour.
However, this is not the only movie that was filmed in the Old City. For example, in the films Amphibian Man and The Diamond Arm, you can see the streets well known to every Azerbaijaní.
Everyone has "down days". Maybe it's because of the bad weather, or the disappointing grades on a difficult test, and some days teenagers just act uninterested in life or school. But these symptoms（症状） often pass quickly, as teens move on to new school subjects, or meet with friends to prevent themselves from thinking what troubles them at the moment. But if a teenager displays symptoms of sadness for more than two lasting weeks, it might point to something serious.
As teenagers develop, they push new boundaries（边界）, complain about rules and look for more free rights from their parents. According to the online Health Guide on Adolescent Development, parents must be lasting figures in their teenagers' life, providing safe boundaries for teens to grow, even if the teenagers act like these boundaries are unwanted.
Parents need to provide rules, while also remaining flexible（灵活的） and respectful of the growing teens' need for freedom. For example, teenagers will often feel frustrated, embarrassed, and even angry that thought they want freedom, they still need to ask their parents for an agreement to go to a friend's house, or need their mothers to take them to school.
The US Department of Education says that parents should respect and support their teen's choices as long as those choices won't have long-term harmful effects. For example, even if a parent doesn't enjoy the music his or her teen listens to, it's unlikely that the choice of music will prevent that teen from entering a good college, or lead to health problems. However, if that teen is drinking alcohol and driving, parents must get through strict punishments to teach that there are bad results for poor choices that come with increased freedom.
How to Train Your Brain to Show Kindness
It is always good to learn new things, especially kindness. , here are some ways for you.
Show kindness to yourself first
You might think that the first step should be helping others, but that won't make a lasting change. If you keep being strict with yourself, that attitude will show how you treat others. If you are always in a bad mood, this feeling will also influence others in your actions..
If you want to be kind, you need to listen to people. Most of the time, if a stranger on the street asks for some money, you may first think they are trying to cheat. But what if you're wrong? You'll never know unless you listen. Therefore, from now on, make an effort to listen actively.
Build positive thinking skills
A positive thought is one of the most important things you can do when learning to be kind. If your life is full of negativity, you will never be able to spread positive emotions into the world. How to build positive thinking skills? One of the best ways to do it is to practise gratitude., always try to see the good in things. Make an effort to take some time and enjoy the small things.
Be active
Practice makes perfect . And kindness is a skill you need to learn, much like riding a bike. All it takes is just a little bit of practice. Once being kindness becomes part of your daily routine, you'll internalize（内化）it.
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A. Make an effort to listen B. Offer to help strangers C. If you try your best to do it D. If you want to train your brain to show it E. No matter how dark the world might seem F. This saying is true when you want to gain any new skill G. So, to make a lasting change, you must learn to be kind to yourself first |
All every child wants is to feel like they fit in. But it can be hard when they find little representation in the world around them, including their1 .
Amy Jandrisevits, a social worker in a welfare home for children, 2 well how therapeutic（有疗效的） it is for kids with disabilities to see their3 reflected in the things they play with, namely, dolls（洋娃娃）. That's what4 her to create "A Doll Like Me ".
"In my time working with the kids, I used dolls to help the children5 themselves, "Amy said. " Dolls are an effective6 to share kindness and show acceptance, especially when the doll looks like you. "
So she began making her own non-traditional Raggedy Ann dolls for children with disabilities. Each is7 and looks just like the child it's made for, matching their8 physical characteristics and medical conditions.
Each costs about ＄100 to make and ship. If families can't afford to pay, Amy covers the 9 with funds raised through her GoFundMe campaign. She's also10 with a children's hospital to provide other kids with dolls for comfort as they11 their medical care.
Amy says her final12 is to be able to give out all the dolls for free. " If we' re going to look at mental health as a13 part of medical care, this is key. "
So far, she's made over 300 dolls, and her admirable efforts14 aren't going unnoticed. In fact, she was15 with GoFundMe's Hero in 2022!
Rescue efforts are ongoing after a massive earthquake and （power） aftershocks strike southeastern Turkey and northern Syria. The quake is one of the （deadly）worldwide in over ten years.
Thousands of people have been killed, and the numbers seem certain （rise） as rescue teams are hunting for survivors. In hard-hit Turkey, over 6, 000 buildings have been destroyed. Rescuers have been working overnight in cold, wet weather while also （face）the threat of aftershocks since the 7. 8 magnitude earthquake rocked region early Monday.
Amid the horror of the natural disaster have been reports of miraculous（奇迹般的） rescues.
Among the survivors, an entire family was rescued the province of Idlib, western Syria on Tuesday. Footage of the rescue showed two girls and a boy pulled from a （damage）building by the group's volunteer to loud cheers from the large crowd gathered. The （child）were rushed to a hospital. Two adults also appeared to be carried out from the building.
A more bittersweet rescue （happen） in Jindires, Syria, on Tuesday. A baby girl had been born amid the earthquake rubble（废墟） was rescued, though none of her family survived. The baby was transported to a hospital, where she was in an incubator（恒温箱）in good condition.
Recently I got a job. It was exactly what I needed. The only challenge was that child care was really expensive in the UK. So I signed up with a nursery for my baby and paid over £1, 300 for just one month. I signed all the necessary documents, among which stated that they had a no refund（退款） policy, so in case you missed some days, the money was not refunded regardless of the reason.
My baby was there for three days and got ill. I was forced to leave work to care for him. I was so worried as I had just started the job, but I had to take a few days off. By Friday he was so sick that he couldn't cat, drink or walk, and I was terribly anxious. I had tests done only to find out that he had tested positive for COVID-19. We then had to self-isolate（自我隔离） for ten days. As the ten days were coming to an end, I got the virus from him and I tested positive, just as his repeated test results came back negative. So I had to self-isolate with him again for another ten days As 20 days had passed, the month was over and it was in December. The rest of the year was holidays and the nursery was not open during the holidays
Just like that, I had lost £1, 300 in three days and I was at home, not working. It meant that I didn't earn anything either. I was so annoyed at first as it did not seem fair at all, given that my baby had gotten COVID-19 at the nursery. I called Ms Clark, who runs the nursery, and she told me they have a no refund policy which I had signed. I felt so helpless at that moment.
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My friend advised me to talk with Ms Clark in person.
Knowing my situation, Ms Clark offered me a job in the nursery.
