Three artifacts

                                                          Three artifacts for me



There are many things go through in everyone’s life time. Some of them just like wind and blow away. But few of them are like a diamond shining in your memory permanently. 

The first thing that is indispensable for me is a letter from my sister. She is one year older than me. I got this letter in my 16-year-old birthday. It was the first year i lived in the dorm so we can’t meet each other everyday and also we no longer have that much time to chat whatever we want. Suddenly I felt disappointed as there is an important part of my life are lost. I lost a good friend who can share with our funny stories in weekdays. One day, I was told I have a mail and it was so surprising when I saw it. In this letter she memorized many stories happened before. Some of them were funny. Some of them were impressive. But no argument and blame. Almost never. 

Secondly, it’s a picture that took before basketball final game. In this picture every teammates showed their happy smile in our own bright pink color’s jersey. From the left to the right, the man at last line is our Center Yixing—about 6.4 feet. He is a defending monster. At least 12 rebounds and 2 blocks and 1 steal per game.  And he is also good at offense in free-throw lane and sometimes got slam duck!! He is our MVP. The guy stand near him is Xingze, our sixth man, a power forward. Really strong and aggressive. His personal offense is good and get three-point play easily.  The handsome boy next to him is Yuyang, our swingman. He a great long-distance shooter and usually make foul. Next one …the boy with a glasses, that’s me. The small forward of the team. In the front line, The left one also with a glasses is the most defensive player of our team. And also a good wide open shooter. The middle one  in the line is our point guard Qiukai. A nice 3 point shooter. Last one is our shoot guard. A crazy 3 point shooter and a fantastic breaker. On one day, our school announced that the in-school-basketball game will be hold soon! Every class founded their own team and competed with each others to chase the champion. And we got well prepared for it and entered the final successfully. There was an episode happened on the final: In the last 20 seconds in final game, we were still 1 point fewer than our opponents. My teammates trusted on me and let me made the last shot. I got the ball and with a fake hesitation and got a wide open shooting chance! I shot it with out hesitation. The ball was almost in the basket but turned around and went out!!! My heart was stop beating!! I was so disappointed. At that moment, a “giant” jumped up highly and put the ball in !!!!!! It’s our center Yixing!!!! With a sound of whistle, the game ended and we won the championship!!!!! All of players and supporters went crazy. That was so exciting!! It is the best reward of our enthusiasm on basketball. 

The last things that I seem as an artifact is a “building” made by spaghetti and marshmallows by ourselves. It was made on August 15th, the first night that I lived in the dorm in NBPS. It’s a totally strange place for me at that time.  I did’t know anybody. On a meeting at night, our dorm parent——Mr. B asked us to use spaghetti and marshmallows to make a building as high as we can. I was in a group as 5 guys in it. This work seemed boring at first but later we found that a single spaghetti is too weak to build up. So we need to design the shape of our building first and then cooperate with our teammates. It was a tough progress. The building collapsed two times and ww trying our best to figure it out. We got a stable building at last. It looks like a pyramid. Beautiful, isn’t it? It was the first work that I did in NBPS. And I also made friends with my teammates. It’s a good beginning of my brand new life.

 Today I started to read my new book------<<Foul Trouble>> It's a book about basketball. The book talks about two high school boys Danny and Terrell’s stories related to basketball.