"I'm sorry I'm working on your birthday，" Tom's mother says while leaving. Tom's sister is leaving for shopping. Tom wants to go with her，but his sister just asks him to enjoy his birthday. Tom finds his father also busy working on his computer. Tom feels sad. 

Tom phones his best friend Neil. Neil's mother answers， "He is playing football in Winston Park. " "No one has any time for me，" Tom thinks. 

When Tom comes to Winston Park，he sees lots of mothers and fathers with their children. Everyone looks happy. Neil says "Happy birthday" to Tom and goes back to play football. Tom watches the game for ten minutes，but Neil doesn't speak to him again. 

Tom sits down on a seat and finds a black bag. There is a camera. Tom uses it to take a photo of the black bag，but he doesn't want it. He deletes it. However，when he puts out his hands to take the bag，he finds it nowhere. He doesn't understand. 

He takes a photo of a squirrel and then another of some flowers. The same thing happens when he deletes the photos. Tom puts the camera down. He feels afraid. 

Tom wants to play with Neil. He takes a photo of their football secretly and deletes it. As he expects，the ball is gone. But they soon have a new ball to continue playing. 

Tom sighs. 

Later，Tom walks to his mother's coffee shop. Thinking about having an afternoon with Mum，he takes a photo of the dirty plates and cups and deletes it. 

"Tom？" Mum says， "Where are the cups and plates？" His mother is angry now. "I can't close the cafe，Tom!" she says. "This is my job! Now，please，tell me where the cups and plates are？" 

The door opens. Tom's sister comes in. "What's this？" she says and takes the camera from her brother. "Is it new？" 

"Give it to me!" Tom says. 

Annie doesn't listen. She puts the camera to her eye and presses the PHOTO button. "This isn't a good photo of you，Tom，" Annie says. "No! Don't press any buttons!" Tom shouts. But it's too late. Annie presses DELETE. 

With schools closed and restrictions(限制) on public activities, it can be a difficult time for young people, who suddenly can't spend time with their friends and family in person.

However, the situation has already led to some creative ways of using technology to keep in touch with those people, from video calls and group chats(聊天) to online games.. Experts say that young people might find the social restrictions on seeing their friends in real life stressful(有压力的), which is why technology can be helpful.

"Keeping relationships(关 系)is very important for health, "says Dr Amanda Gummer, creator of Dr Gummer's Good Play Guide. She adds that this is more important the older you get." Not maintaining these friendships can make it more difficult for you to get back into school when the time comes," she says. Chezy Kennedy, from a training program called Confident Kids, agrees. "Staying connected to those we care about is even more important now than ever before, " she says. "We can suddenly feel quite lonely. "

Messaging apps and video calls are good for checking on friends, or organising group chats to keep in touch. "Video chats are a great way to keep connected with your wider friendship group," says Gummer.

Experts agree that there are plenty of ways to be creative with video chats besides talking to friends. Gummer suggests, "A virtual (虚拟的) film-and pizza night can work well.

Sharna Jackson, an expert on young people and technology, has lots of ideas too. She suggests taking turns to teach friends something you're really good at-such as painting and drawing, perhaps. She also thinks that online games, including Fortnite and Minecraft. Can play a really good role.

"It's good to play together. It's social. There's problem-solving and turn-taking, and it helps you develop different skills," she says.

"Military-style" travel has become the latest fashion among Chinese college students, who spend as little money as possible to travel to as many places as they can during the weekend, hardly taking a break or even sleeping.

To save money, they usually catch a normal-speed train on a Friday night, arrive at the destination city on Saturday morning, travel around in the city, sleep at a 24-hour restaurant for a few hours on Saturday, then repeat the same busy schedule on Sunday before returning to their university in time for classes on Monday morning. These young travelersare less concerned with in-depth(深入详尽的) experiences and more focused on checking off popular tourist destinations on their schedule. 

Hu Die, a student at Inne r Mongolia University of Technology, is one such traveler. She put together a 10-day holiday during the recent May Day holiday period and traveled to six cities. 

On April 26, she took a high-speed train to Beijing and then from Beijing to Tai'an, Shandon g Province, to climb Mount Tai. To save money, she spent 4 hours climbing up to the mountaintop rather than using a cable car. After watching the sunrise from it on April 27, she visited Dai Temple at the foot of the mountain. She then went to Jinan in the afternoon, visited Daming Lake and Quancheng Square in the evening, and on the morning of April 28 went to Baotu Spring and Heihu Spring. She traveled to Zibo to enjoy the famous barbecue in the city, went to Yantai and Weihai before May 4, when she arrived in Luoyang, Henan Province. There, she visited the Longmen Grottoes and then returned to her school on May 5.

Most people can hardly imagine how she traveled extensively in only 10days. "We do not think we are doing something ‘crazy' or ‘amazing'. We are young and energetic enough to experience such a tight travel schedule, "she said. "Moreover, when you travel with your friends, you are happy and you do not feel tired. "

Videos of them taking such trips have been posted on social media platforms, such as TikTok, Red, with much praise for their energetic spirit and high ability to achieve their plans. Others, however, question whether such a busy schedule is healthy.