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September 21.1999,was the most unforgettable day in my life. It was the first unforgettable earthquake I had experienced in my life. I remembered the day I was very sleepy but my older brother wanted to read his Harry Potter; he didn't turn off the light so that I couldn't sleep. I was very upset at that moment and quarreled with him.

Two hours later, I felt the bed started shaking slightly ,so I said to my bother angrily "Don't shack the bed! I want to sleep. He did not answered. After a while, the bed shake violently and I yelled at my brother " If you shacked the bed again I will tell dad". Afterword, he shouted at me " Earthquake!". Suddenly, the light went off. I was stunned and got off the bed quickly. My dad took a emergency flashlight in a hurry and told us go downstairs to the ground right now. We escaped from our house to an open space, and my relatives had already been there. Then adults started discussing the earthquake and my aunt turned the transistor radio on to follow the news and we children surrounded a circle.

It seemed like a family party--everybody all got together and chatted with each other. We should have been very scared but the power of gathering made us nothing to fear. About 4 am in the morning, the shake became weak and we went back to sleep. Fortunately, our family are all safe in this disaster.

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I hate doing labor education because I have to get up in the early morning and start to clean the campus. It is very hard to get up in the early morning and you cannot wear nightclothes and slippers, so you have to get up earlier to dress yourself. It's very difficult for a person who goes to bad late to get up early. However, it also has advantages on labor education. Firstly, you can make more friends with people from other departments. Secondly, in the end of echelon, labor leaders will prepare some snack for us. Thirdly, we can make our campus more beautiful and our mood will also be better.

In my opinion, I think labor education on campus is meaningful; it trained us to do our job well. But it is not necessary to do it every day. Maybe we can do it just once a week or twice a month. Finally, my freshmen labor work is going to the end. In the beginning, I was very confused about why we have to do this job every day and it is also a compulsory course. But when I knew other campus's students are the same as us, I felt more comfortable at least we are not the only school having this compulsory course.