23、Dear Peter,

    How are things going? We have been busy preparing for the coming Olympics recently, Last Sunday we had an activity — to search for mistranslated or incorrectly spelt English on street signs, Early in the morning my classmates and I gathered at the school gate. With a camera, notebooks and bottles of water in our backpacks, we soon set out on our detective trip by bike, In the street, some of us took pictures while others took notes of the signs we thought were wrong or questionable. A busy , but delightful morning soon passed.

    In the English class next morning, we presented in class all the mistakes collected including“Welcome to Beijing”and“Take Notice of Safe”. With the help of our English teacher we discussed and finally came up with the correct translation---“Welcome to Beijing”and“Caution!”

etc, Then we wrote to the newspaper and told the editors about our findings. We hope our effort will be of some help to the Beijing Olympics.

                                                                  Yours,

                                                                  Li Hua