Pupils gather to appreciate a cross-stitch pattern elaborately wrought by one of their classmate in the summer vacation, as pupils enthusiastically present their versatile talents and skills in hand-making, painting, calligraphy, etc, which they learned and improved as a result of less home works and more social practices during the summer holidays, in the very first day of the new semester, at the Junshan Road Elementary School, in Zaozhuang, east China's Shandong Province, Sept. 1, 2009. [Xinhua]