Best Things to Do on Maui
Maui, Hawaii is a dream destination for visitors, home to wonderful sandy beaches, a choice of activities and a relaxed lifestyle. Whether you are looking for adventures or water sports, there is plenty to choose from.
Awapuhi Adventures
Adventure tours suit single travelers, couples, and families, and are run by professional tour guides who will take care of your every need. Tours include trips to West Maui, hiking tours, snorkeling (浮潜) adventures, as well as tours to E Komo and Hana.
Phone: 808-269-6031
Hui No'eau Visual Arts Center
Visitors can enjoy the inspiring surrounding gardens, take self-guided tours of the grounds, and visit the historic sugar mill, professional artist studios, and wonderful exhibitions. The Hui Gallery Shop has a variety of art-based things such as glass, paintings, drawings, and photography.
Phone: 808-572-6560
Hawaiian Paddle Sports
Explore the beauty of the ocean and its marine life (海洋生物) on guided boat tours that are organized by professional guides. These tours are for single travelers, couples, and groups.
Phone: 808-442-6436
Maui Arts & Cultural Center
The center hosts a variety of performances that show the finest of Hawaiian and local artists, and it also offers a range of educational and cultural programming, workshops, and free events for creative artists. The center is home to the Schaefer International Gallery, an exhibition space for visual (视觉的) arts that has a number of exhibits throughout the year. The center partners with the government to host free events.
Phone: 808-242-7469
As a child I was one of the 125 people at our family gathering for New Year. These days we were a much smaller group in Belle Valley, Ohio. I insisted (坚持要求) on acting as hostess and wanted to bring back the joy I'd felt at my childhood New Year that filled with love.
As family members arrived at the hall, I handed each one of them a numbered card and said, "Time for the alphabet game." "What kind of game is that?" one of my great-grandchildren asked. "Well," I said, "who's got number one?" A cousin raised her hand. "Tell us something you never forget," I said. "Something that begins with the letter A." My cousin smiled. "Apple pie!" she said. Great-granddaughter Mindy was next. "B," she said. "I am impressed by Buckeye Country." "Cookies!" Number 3 shouted.
Until Number 17, "The next one's a challenge," I said. "Who's got 17?" Ryan, my son, slowly raised his hand. "Q," he said. "Quaker City Carnival (嘉年华)." The room went silent.
"It's one of the oldest traditions in Ohio," Ryan said. "Grandma and Grandpa met there. That's where they fell in love. That's where this whole thing started. This whole family." Ryan looked around the room, making eye contact with everyone. "We wouldn't be here celebrating New Year together if it wasn't for Quaker City Carnival."
The room burst into laughter and was full of the love that had kept us connected to our Ohio traditions. "This is the best New Year we've ever had," a great-grandson said to me secretly. Whatever their New Year would look like when they grew up, they'd remember this one. And for me, I had an unforgettable New Year to treasure — a memory where love started with the letter Q.
Who says that being roommates with someone from a completely different generation has to be strange? Lately, more and more Americans are becoming intergenerational (代际的) roommates, and they're changing the way people think they should be living.
Explained as those that are separated by at least one generation living together, there has been a major increase in intergenerational roommate arrangements (安排) within the United States since 1971. In fact, statistics show that this number has actually quadrupled (增长四倍) since then. In a Pew Research Center article, it shared that by March 2021, there were at least 59.7 million Americans that had many generations living under one roof.
There are a ton of reasons that come into play for these types of arrangements. For some, it's because of the increase in the average life-expectancy age (平均预期寿命), a decreased birth rate, a rise in college tuition, the ever rising rentals in almost every coastal city, and more. But if anything, many say that one main reason behind the rise is that older people have space to rent out and that having younger people around just makes them happier.
According to a 25-year-old robotics student living in Massachusetts, Nadia Abdullah, who moved in with her 64-year-old roommate Judith in 2019, "It was perfect — Judith has become like my family."
Their arrangement was $700 a month from Nadia, plus the promise of her doing some help around the house. This also allowed Nadia to live just 6 miles from Boston and 30 minutes from her robotics job located in Beverly Mass. Nadia was matched with Judith through website, a renting center specifically created to find intergenerational roommates.
Another young renting center reviewer, Kaplan, also gave some opinions on the service and why it's so special, saying, "Through this, I lived with Sarah while attending Harvard. She provided the type of knowledge you just can't Google — showing me how to garden, how to cook fish, and add French Romanticism to life."
The standard school field trip often includes an outing to a museum, but a new resource provides guidance on how to bring a museum into the classroom. As part of the Mobile Museum Project, the Royal Holloway, University of London, and the Kew Royal Botanic Gardens teamed up to create a Curating (管理) a school museum: Teachers' handbook. The project, which can be used for any age group, turns the traditional understanding of a museum on its head: "The primary aim of object-based learning should be to learn from rather than about objects."
Asking questions such as, "What do you want people to learn and why?" and "Who are you hoping to attract and why?" help students understand the purpose of their exhibit. Collecting the objects for the museum is a learning process in and of itself: "culturally significant" objects, such as an object passed down through a family or an object from a student's home country, can generate storytelling and help students build a sense of historical understanding and empathy (共鸣). Such a process can encourage students to think independently and critically, thus making their mind quicker and sharper.
Once gathered, students can practice thematic (主题的) grouping by dividing the objects into different kinds, "scientific, thematic, or geographic," before organizing the collection for final exhibit. Students might be asked to create an explanatory series to show the relationship between objects. For example, an exhibit description might show the changes of an object: "wheat seeds to wheat seedlings, to flour, and to flour products". Designing and writing labels (标签) provide another way to incorporate storytelling into the curating process.
The museum concept is a broad form that can be used — and reorganized — to combine different subjects. After the project's completion, be sure to collect advice, even criticism from students. Did students learn new things from the objects? Students can work together to explore "what worked and what didn't work, and what might be done differently next time". This gives students a chance to critically grade their own work.
After ten years of teaching at a primary school, and always dreaming about my next travel adventure, I decided to follow my heart and combine it with a career (事业). I have loved travel for as long as I could remember. My parents started travelling with me at a very young age. Our summer holidays, and a lot of our weekends, were spent travelling in our car. We made not only a lot of local trips but also some long journeys. Therefore, Social Studies was always my favorite subject in school.
I was badly bitten by the travel bug (迷恋) in eleventh grade, when I took my first foreign trip to Paris. It was the first time I had ever been on a plane! And then I fell in love. Not a temporary preference for a new movie or a new dress. The kind of love makes me truly happy.
Was I in love with Paris? Oh yes! But more so. I could not get enough of it. I wanted to see as much as I could, learn as much as I could, and make the most of every minute. Travelling by bus, I even enjoyed simple scenes as they were flying past my window.
I've tried independent trips, group tours and package holidays. While there are advantages and disadvantages to each type of travel, I have discovered my travel preferences. I tend to prefer travelling independently to places that have a mix of beautiful scenery and historic heritage. Travelling makes me happy, and I find it to be extremely satisfying on a deeper level.
A. And I became a travel writer.
B. That was why I came to love travel.
C. This was true love that lasts forever.
D. I tried to take one big trip and a few small ones every year.
E. I was actually in love with this entire experience of travelling.
F. I loved seeing new places and learning about the history and culture.
G. Since that first trip, I've travelled to many places in many different ways.
"You're very talented, dear. I hope everything turns out great. I'll tell my friends about the animal shelter (避难处)," a kind old lady told Conrad, who smiled 1 as she left $20 in his hat.
Conrad was proud of what he was doing and people in the 2 loved hearing him sing and play his 3 . The 11-year-old didn't know 4 how much money the local animal shelter needed.
His mother, Sandy, worked at the shelter and had always been a(n) 5 animal lover. Therefore, he grew to be fond of animals as well. 6 , he recently heard his mother telling a friend that the shelter was not doing well. It 7 purely on donations, and not much donations were 8 . This made the boy very 9 . So he grabbed his guitar and 10 the local town square to sing and play.
He placed a 11 to tell people he was doing it to raise money for the animal shelter, which helped greatly. People 12 and gave him mostly $1 and change, and others, such as the kind old lady, were more 13 . He was grateful to everyone and continued playing songs and
14 money.
Raise your kids to love animals, and they'll be better people. Caring for innocent animals makes people more selfless, 15 and caring. That's why Conrad used his skills to raise funds, knowing how vital the shelter was.
Kites nowadays can be seen in parks throughout the world. But is believed that the first kite was invented by the Chinese more than 2,000 years ago. In the beginning, the kites (use) for military (军事的) purposes and defense. Since the Qing Dynasty, kites have been used mostly for (entertain) and celebrations.
For a long time, kites were used only in China and nearby countries. Businessmen visited China took kites to India, Korea and other parts of Asia. Marco Polo was the first person (take) Chinese kites to Europe, after one of his famous trips to China in the 13th century. He was also one of the first (author) who wrote about the kites, (explain) to the Western audience how to use them. They spread from Europe to North and South America as well.
During the 20th century, kite flying festivals became very popular in China. Weifang, Shandong is considered the kite capital of the world and the Weifang International Kite Festival (attract) many tourists from around the world.
Weifang is also home to (famous) Kite Museum in the world. In the Weifang Kite Museum, it is possible to see impressive collection of kites from all periods. Professionals are able to figure out the period just by examining the materials and decorations used.
You Can't Judge a Book Report by Its Cover
"To conclude, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the best book I've read in my ten years on this planet." Toby clicked Save and then Print on his computer. After rereading each page, he put them neatly into a blue folder (文件夹). But somehow the report felt unfinished. So Toby taped a sheet of white paper to the front of his blue folder, wrote the title in purple and drew a scene from the book — Huck and Jim on the raft (木筏). When Toby finished, Daddy was full of praise for it.
Friday came — the day that Mrs. Bickle would return the graded book reports. Toby usually feared getting assignments (作业) back because his grades were average. But this time, he couldn't wait. "Nice job, Toby," Mrs. Bickle said, placing Toby's report face down on his desk. It was his first "nice job" from Mrs. Bickle. He turned over his report. A+!
"What have you got on your paper?" Franklin asked and grabbed Toby's report. "Wow! A+? That's a book report? It was supposed to be a book report, not a drawing contest!" The words sounded unpleasant, but Toby didn't care. After all, it was his first A+.
One month later when the next book report was due, the class whispered in excitement. Word had been spread about Toby: it was the cover that had helped Toby get an A+. As the students turned in their work, Mrs. Bickle wasn't smiling. "I appreciate everyone's creativity, but this isn't an art project," she said. "I hope your reports can stand on their own."
Cynthia's report on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland could stand on its own. It had legs that turned over to form the table from the Mad Tea Party. Darla's report on The Secret Garden gave off sweet smells, and had plastic flowers stuck all over it.
"Where's your report?" Darla whispered to Toby. "This is it," Toby said, holding up a few plain pages. "It's about young Abraham Lincoln." This time he didn't have time for the painting.
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"Where is your cover?" Cynthia asked in surprise. …… When the day finally came, Mrs. Bickle placed the reports face down on the desks as usual. |
