期中考試在週一開始，直到週三結束；而後我們的課程便停止了下來，到下週二才又重新繼續。期中考試的內容很有意思，無論是英語課還是寫作課，雖然都有規範的格式，然而文章的類型和主題卻都是自選的。英語課的文章要求至少寫一千個英文單詞，而寫作課是兩篇三百詞，再之後便是要寫反思。而十年級的課程有個任務似乎是要做視頻，想象自己三十歲接受採訪時的樣子。
Mid-term began on Monday and ended on Wednesday; afterwards, our courses stopped, but would continue next Tuesday. Mid-term evaluation’s content is interesting. No matter ENG4U or EWC 4U, we could choose genres and topics as we pleased though every genre had its own format. ENG4U asked us to write an article of at least 1000 words, and EWC4U required two of at least 300 words, after each of which we had a reflection article. For Grade 10, there was a task seeming to require a video from each student, in which one has to imagine their being interviewed when they are thirty.
因為考慮到我們會沒有書看，所以叔叔讓虎哥打印了許多的書。聽說再過些時間，曾在西安的書就會被運過來了。那裡邊有我看過許多的金庸，也有許多因為偷懶我還沒怎麼看的人物傳記。令我印象最深的是本叫《動物莊園》的小說；記得內裡的首頁上寫著張藝瀚三個字，聽那時小山說，是位他稱作北哥的剛畢業不久的學長的名字。後來不久，我好奇地買來了《一九八四》，像看《動物莊園》那樣喜歡地看完後將它放進了書架，於是喬治·奧威爾的兩部小說便在我們的書架上俱全了。也許它們在以後也會被某個正想著不知道看什麼書的同學在無意中讀到吧，不知道這位同學會想些什麼呢？
Considering that we didn’t have many Chinese books in hand, uncle told Brother Hank to print some books for us. It had been said that, before long, the books back in Xi’an would be transported here. Among them, there were many Jin Yong’s books, most of which I had read, and many biographies, most of which I hadn’t read because of laziness. The book that made me most impressed was a novel called Animal’s Farm. I remember that on the first page, three words, Zhang Yihan, were written, which, according to Classmate Mountain’s saying then, was the name of a fellow student, whom he called Brother Bei and who had just graduated. After a while，I bought Nineteen Eighty-four. After I had read it enjoyably as I read Animal Farm, I put it on the bookcase with Animal Farm. This way, George Orwell’s two novels exist together in our bookcase. They may be read by one student later, who, knowing not what books to read, comes into them and whose feelings I wonder.