春光明媚，鸟语花香，春天又再次如期而至。今年有一群远方的好朋友来到七初，和我们一起迎接这春暖花开的初春时节。

四月二日的下午，我们期盼已久的英国杜伦中学交换生的回访终于来到。三号上午，两位可爱的杜伦学生来到了初2016级2班和二班同学一起度过了愉快的三节课。没有国界，没有陌生。在七号中午，二班同学为Robert和Alex的到来特意准备了一次特别的班会。

由华明浩和张铎耀两个同学为两个朋友介绍成都悠久的历史、灿烂的文化，介绍九州平台优美的校园环境和丰富多彩的校园活动，介绍2016级2班优秀的老师团队和可爱的同学们。

听完了介绍之后，由Alex和Robert为我们介绍杜伦中学和他们的情况。杜伦中学是一所有着六百年悠久历史的英国私立学校，他们同时给我们阐述了学校的教育制度，初中高中的不同处，还有他们的生活和作息，包括他们的梦想，今后的打算。也许有同学会羡慕他们的生活和学习方式，中西方的教育确有许多不同。在国外，或许中学会读的很轻松，但是大学却是很辛苦的。在国内，我们的基础知识掌握的牢固程度远超于西方。但不管怎样，想要成为优秀卓越的人才，都需要艰苦地奋斗与智慧的付出。

很难得有这样的机会和特殊的朋友们一起学习，同时了解到各个地区不同的文化，也能让每个同学更加明确自己的目标。这样的学习交流过程我们也很开心，很感激Robert和Alex来到二班和我们一起学习，共同进步。

2班欢迎你们，亲爱的朋友们！

                              2016届2班 唐瑞 供稿

                                              金子琪 译

      A deep friendship with Durham in spring

The spring is on the horizon again.  Now it is a fine spring day, birds sing and flowers give force their fragrance. This year, the 7th middle school will meet her friends far from Durham School in England.

On the afternoon of April 2nd, the long-awaited moment finally arrived. In this day, the exchange students of Durham School paid a return visit to our school. Two of the lovely students of Durham School, Robert and Alex, spent a happy three classes together with the students of class 22016 grade 2016 on the morning of April 3rd, without Country boundaries and strangeness. The students of class 2 held a special class meeting for Robert and Alex on the noon of April 7th, on which Joe Hua and Christine Zhang introduced the long history and splendid culture of Chengdu, the beautiful surroundings of school yard,  rich and colorful school life respectively of the 7th middle school. They also introduced the excellent team of teachers and lovely students.

After hearing the introduction of them, Alex and Robert introduced Durham Middle School and their situation for us. It’s a British private school with long history of six hundred years, they also told us the education system and the differences between junior and senior high school, their lives and schedules, including their dreams in the future. There are many difference in Chinese and western education, so some Chinese students will admire their lives and learning. In foreign countries, perhaps they study easily in high school, but it’s very hard to study in the university. In China we study the basic knowledge much better than the students in West.  But anyway, if you want to become a good outstanding talent, you have to need hard work and to pay wisdom.

It’s very glad for us to have such an opportunity to learn with our friends, understand the culture of different regions at the same time, also can certain their goals. We are very happy for such learning communication process. We are very grateful to Robert and Alex came to class 2 and we learn together, make progress together.

And once again, our dear friends, welcome to our Class 2!

  2016 Class 2 Krystal Tang for Chinese, Support Kim for English.