有没有英语好的啊，帮我写篇作文，叫an extraordinary year

2008 was an extraordinary year to me.Many things have happened.
On may 12,2008,our country had suffered from a big earthquake and many peple were died.What was worse,many children lost their parents and they were very sorrowful.It made people in China sad.
But it also had a great thing that is Olympics had been held in Beijing and it was successful.As chinese,I'm proud of this.
Of couse,there were something else happened but i think these two things make sense to me because they are representive.
In 2008,I really know more about our country,and i had learnt something that made me grow up.
2008,it was really an extraordinary year to me.