现在正是二月假期。我做完了所有的作业，然后便无所事事了。我以为我又要独自在家了，因为妈妈又要去工作。但是很幸运，今天是星期三，妈妈要去教堂参加女士俱乐部，她们要做一些玩具和东西给教堂，还有来自远方的孤儿。她在那儿做义工。“耶，我不用再吃辣椒酱拌白米饭了！”我心想。

　　很快，我们来到了教堂。珍妮特带我们来到了女士房间，我看见所有人都在认真地工作着。有些人在给孤儿们做布娃娃，有些人正在把卡片的部分剪下来，准备挂在明年的圣诞树上，其他人则缝缝补补，织好布娃娃的头发和衣装，或是收集从世界各地写来的信上面的邮票。我喜欢收集东西，尤其是收集钱币和邮票，所以我选择了和妈妈一起剪邮票。

　　我赶紧抓起一把信封，仔细地沿着邮票的边缘剪下来。当我自豪地对妈妈展示自己的成果时，妈妈却笑笑，摇着脑袋说：“这可不对，你应该在边缘处留一些空白。还有，这些连在一起的邮票也要一起剪下来。哦对了，顺便说一句，记得要剪得直一点哦。”哇，剪邮票还有这么多讲究呀。嘿，妈妈正在把不同的邮票放在不同的位置上。我则小心翼翼地剪着邮票。不一会儿，我的手就又酸又痛了，因为剪刀太大了。唉，我看看四周，除了我之外，所有人都很熟练，也很有技巧。

　　不过，在另一方面，剪邮票的过程中也有许多乐子。当我发现一些很有趣的邮票时，我就会把它们放在一个口袋里，把它们带回家放到我的集邮册里。我还找到了很多很独特的邮票。看呐，这是一套卡通邮票，嘿，这些邮票来自美国的十多个州呢。我从这些邮票中还学到了不少东西呢。除此之外，我也找到了一些有趣的明信片。这张明信片是从二十世纪二十年代传下来的。

　　快看哪，这张明信片的花纹和图案全都是由各种各样的树叶做成的，真好玩。在教堂度过的假期怎么样啊，它肯定很有趣吧，“再见，伙计们，下星期三见！”

　　February 17, 2010

　　February vacation, volunteer at the church

　　It’s February vacation now. I finished all of my homework and had nothing to do on the vacation. I thought I would be home alone again because of my mom had to work. But luckily it was a Wednesday, my mom needed to go to the church at the women’s club of the church to make toys and things for some orphans. Actually she volunteered to do something for them. “Yeah, I don’t need to eat chili pastes with rice again!” I thought。

　　Soon, we arrived at the church. Janet led us to the women’s room and I saw everyone was working. Some people were making dolls for the orphans, some were cutting the parts of the cards and to put them on the Christmas trees of next year, others were sewing hair and clothes for the dolls or collecting the stamps from the letters which were written by people all over the world. I loved collections, especially  I quickly got a handfull of letter bags and cut them right at the sides of the stamps. When I showed my mom my work, she shook her head unexpectedly and said, “It’s not right; you should leave some paper beside. And also, when there are many stamps together, you should cut them off together. Oh, by the way, remember to cut them straight。” Wow, so many skills needed on cutting stamps. Hey, my mom was putting different kinds of stamps in different places. I used the scissors and cut the stamps carefully. Soon my hands were tired because the scissors were too big. Aye, I looked around; everyone was skilled at doing these works except me。

　　On the other hand, there were also lots of fun in cutting stamps. When I found some good ones, I always would put them in a bag and bring them home for my collection. And I found many special stamps。

　　Look, it was a set of cartoon stamps, and here were the stamps from more than ten states of America. I learned a lot from the stamps as well. I also found some interesting post cards, for example, there was one that was from the 1920s. And look, the colors and patterns of this one were all made of different kinds of leaves。

　　How was the vacation at the church? it's good for sure, “See you next  Wednesday, guys!”