Seventeen Again

    

     Recently, I watched a movie named “seventeen again”. The story is telling about a man, who used to be a charming basketball leader in his high school. At the same time, he gave up his favorite basketball on account of that her girlfriend was pregnant. He chose to get married with her without hesitation. Many years passed, the man gradually had no confident in himself and started complaining everything in their lives. He thought that if he could get back to his high school again, he would not give up basketbal.Life is short and cannot repeat again. Hence, we should make our lives to the fullest and have no regret about what you have done. But, sometimes, you cannot burn the candle at both ends.

      The story touched me very much. If I were a high school student, I would not give up playing the flute. I would tell my parents that I could take good advantage of the time for studies and practices. I used to play the flute in wind band in my senior high school. However, my parents asked me to give up playing the flute, which needs too much time to practice, in my second grade. They just wanted me to focus on my studies and prepare for the upcoming College Entrance Examination. I chose to obey their opinion though I was very upset. 

The Breath-Taking Site-Chih Sing Tan

      My family seldom travels on account of that my parents are busying in their job. In my childhood, the most impressive trip for me is going to Hualien. I live in Taichung country, so I have few chances to see the sea. In this case, when I was a child, I had longed for someday I could touch the fresh water of the ocean. It was not until in my eight grades that I realized this dream. My family and I got up early that day, and then my father drove us to Hualien.

      The first stop we arrived was Chihsingtan. The peaceful of the ocean was especially set off by the few travelers on that day. As soon as I went to the seaside, I was surprised by the beautiful scenery. The sea surged high and swept forward. The waters and the skies merged in one color. It also stretched as far as eye could see. “I shall never forget the beauty of that sea.” I thought in my mind. I hope I can go to Chihsingtan again soon!

The Poem We Wrote

    Tina, Jean, Annie, and I wrote a poem in English poetry class. We chose “chocolate” as our topic. Then we found some adjective for these words, and made them into several sentences. After brainstorming for a long time, we finally completed it. This is our poem－

Awake from sadness,

Drunk by sweetness,

Twinkling, twinkling, twinkling

Just like diamond in the night.

Charming, charming, charming

Just like a girl with the smile.

Crying, crying, crying

No more swim ring comes to me.

I got a sense of achievement when I finished the poem because I have never thought that I could make a poem one day!

College Should Not Take A Roll Call

     College is a place emphasized learning independence. It is also an important period for independence of personality because we have no chance to learn independently in elementary and high school. Besides, college students are adults; they are old enough to be responsible for their behaviors. If you make a roll call, it will not only destroy the system of learning independence but also deprive their right of choosing. Forcing students to go to class by making roll calls; otherwise, they will lose some points or fail the class. The result of making a roll call only shows that who comes and who do not come to the class. However, it cannot solve the problems. For example, some students have to give up learning to take a part time job for supporting their life. Besides, learning is not always happened in the class. It exists in different kinds of experiences and activities. In this way, some students feel that they cannot learn from the class. They think that if they take part in other activities, lectures, they will gain more. Since college students are adult and they are the one who know what is good to them, why do we need to make a roll call in class? College students have choice to choose what they want!

Mad Men

     In fact, when I first saw the episode, I couldn’t make myself understand the story. I think that they are alike, so I always made the mistakes about their characters. But I think I understood the plot clearer after the second episode though the relationships between them still make me confused. I can’t understand that why did they still have extramarital relations after they are married. And it seems that getting an illegal love affair is a normal thing at that time. If it is the truth, then why did they get married? To have a family or have someone do the laundry for you? Maybe it is the director who exaggerates the plot; however, we still can realize the discrimination and inequalities toward women at that time from the story.

English Poetry- Since there's no help

” Since there’s no help” was the poem Tina and I presented today. The poem was written by “Michael Drayton”. Since chapter ten is talking about tone, it must be special. When I first listened to the sound, I was surprised by the tone. It was different from the past I had heard. In the first eight lines, the speaker used a free and easy tone to express the feeling after he broke up with someone. We can find the happiness instead of any sorrow from his words. However, in the lines eight to twelve, the speaker slowed his tone and used personification to describe the scene of the end of love. In this way, we can see that his previous happiness is not real. The sadness is real absolutely. The speaker uses this way to make us easy to perceive the contrast of his feeling.

The Impressive Accident

        After the 921 earthquake, one side of my house’s wall was loosening. And it might fall down anytime. It was so dangerous that it must be torn down immediately. Therefore, my father asked assistance who worked for my house to demolish the wall. When the wall was in the process of construction, my father passed by and wanted to see the engineering. He was behalf drunk, and didn’t pay attention to his surroundings. At that time, I had already gone to bed. Suddenly, I woke up by a wretched crying of woman.

        It was my mother’s crying. Soon, I heard the whistle of ambulance, which was becoming closer and closer to my house. Then, I walked out and saw my father was taken to the ambulance with his body filled with blood. He was pressed down by a heap of rubble which suddenly collapsed when my father passed by. My mother and my brothers also got into the ambulance. And I was taken to my grandparents’ house by my aunt. I remembered I kept crying all the way and asked my aunt whether my dad would die or not.

        This is the first time for me to realize the feel you almost lost your family. Besides, the accident gives not only great attack to me but also serious problems to our home’s financial condition. My parents used to manage a KTV. Although it built up from nothing, we still made a fortune at that time. As a result, we lived a wealthy life for several years. However, the accident turned the tide. My father stayed in the hospital for a long time, and the huge expenditure made my family in financial difficulties. For this reason, he had no choice but to close the KTV, and we moved. To pay the debt, he also sold two buildings he used to buy.

        On account of that my father temporarily lost the ability of making a living, my mother started to look for a job. Therefore, I began to learn how to wash clothes, do the housework, and cook meals. I must to be independent because my mother was busy in working. The accident deeply changed the life style of my family. Nevertheless, I think as long as my family is safe and sound, it is enough. And we don’t need so much money to adorn our lives.

Love or Bread

       Love or bread, which one is important? Young people tend to choose love. However, when time passes, they may prefer bread. This question can always initiate a long and minute argument, while it never seems able to draw to a conclusion.

        There are some reasons for young people to choose love. They think bread is just material, and what matters most is heart. Bread cannot buy time, happiness, and especially the person who you want for the rest of your life. If the person is poor, as long as he is willing to work hard, will he stay poor forever? Nothing is impossible when you are with the one you love so much. Without love, even if you have all the money in the world, you would not be able to enjoy it. Moreover, love is an emotion supporting our life. When you lose the person or the thing that you regard as the most precious, it is so miserable. You can overcome all bad feelings when you are with your lover, even when you are in different places. Just knowing that you love, and are loved, and then it can make all the differences. They think to find a true soul mate is more important than to find bread.

        However, sadly to say, bread is the staff of life. Real life is a direct pressure, and it is said that poverty makes a couple pessimistic. Money cannot do everything, but you can do nothing without it. When you have trouble in daily life, will you still only think of love? No matter how steady the love is, it will finally be defeated by reality. For example, as a mother of three children, putting food on the table and providing a roof over the lovely babies are very important. Hence, it is true that love is important, but bread is far more important than love.

        You may first recognize what you truly want. Seriously, I believe that there is a need for both love and bread. Isn’t it because of the love for your family that you want to survive and bring home the bread?

A Good Roommate

        Most of people have the experience of living outside for studying or working in other city. To relieve the burden of rent, we may find someone to live together. In this way, getting along with your roommates well becomes and important thing.

        Some people said that a good roommate brings benefits to you. For example, when you are sick, your roommate can take care of you. I live in school dormitory with three of my classmates. At first, we didn’t know each other. However, we became intimate friends when time passed. We do everything together and try to share many things with each other no matter happiness or sadness. Besides, when I am sick, my roommates are always willing to give me a ride to see a doctor and remind me to take medicine on time. I feel that I am so lucky that I can have such good roommates.

        However, if you live with bad roommates, I am sure that it is the beginning of your miserable life. Since I live in school dormitory, I have heard many complaints from other classmates. They complained bitterly their roommates about using hair dryer while someone was sleeping, talking on the cellphone loudly in the midnight, and making their room in a mess. My classmate said that she couldn’t endure anymore. As a result, she kept arguing with her roommates every day. The only thing she wanted the most is to remove from that dormitory.

        Is it quite different to live with good roommate and bad roommate? Both type of roommate influence you a lot because they live with you and have such a big relationship with you. From my point of view, I think respecting each other is the most important behavior and is also crucial to those who want to have a good dormitory life. If we know how to respect others, I think there won’t be so many problems. And last but not the least, making yourself a good roommate is much more important than praying for a good roommate.

As An English Tutor

From this semester, I stared to take a part-time job to serve as an English tutor. The student I teach is the daughter of my mother’s friend. My student is a nine- grade girl, and her name is 若瑩. She is taller than me and has a long hair. She studies at 均頭 junior high school, which is located in Nantou. She lives in Taichung, so the school is far from her home. Therefore, she has lived in the school dormitory since she entered junior high school. I think she is brave enough to live in the school at such a young age.

        若瑩is not good at English because she doesn’t like to memorize words. She recognizes few words, so I will ask her to memorize some words as homework and give her a mini quiz when the next time she comes. Moreover, I will sort out grammatical key points as my teaching materials. I think it is helpful for me to sort out those grammatical materials because I can review and make myself impressed at the same time! I really hope that若瑩will progress steps by steps, and love English more.:)

The Hunting House

        Holding a hunting house is one of annual activities in our department. This is my second time to take part in the activity. Dressing up as a ghost to scare people is so funny that I had expected the day very much. However, the day French students came was closer to the hunting house. Thus, we don’t have enough time to prepare the things for hunting house. We were worried whether we could do it well at first. Fortunately, we successfully caught up with the schedule we decided before.

        We asked for leave in the afternoon in order to decorate our classrooms which would become hunting house several hours later. It was tired for us to prepare all of the things needed. After finishing everything, the activity started and all of the staffs stood by order. The topic of our room was classroom, Tina and I acted as elementary students. We squatted down and kept playing the ball. When people entered our part, I would throw the ball and asked them to pick it back for me. Then Tina would rush to the person who picked the ball to scare him. We thought it was funny to see someone was frightened. HAHA….. But it was not always succeed, boys tended not to be frightened, and they turned out to snatch our ball. Nevertheless, the hunting house still be my favorite activity!

The plan for holiday

        We have seven days for holiday from April 4 to April 10. Tina, Miya, Fanny, and I make a plan to Taipei for two days because we think that it is the most appropriate time for us to take a trip to other city. We have started to search some information by Internet, such as hotel, delicacies, shopping places, and so on.

       The first stop is Dan-shui, we will visit the famous old street. Of course we will buy some fish crisp. Then we would like to take a ship to bali to enjoy beautiful sight. In the afternoon, the most important and interesting destination is wu-fen arena. It is famous for cheap and fine clothes. I think it is a good place for those who are students. Finishing shopping, it is time for night market. We will go to shi-da night market to find some delicious snacks. Then we go back to our hotel to rest.

       

       The second day, we will go to mao- kong to take the cable car. And we may also visit zheng-zi university. For lunch, my friend who studies in Taipei will take us to the restaurant which is very popular. Then we may take the bus back to Taichung in the afternoon. I am expected for the trip very much!

The trip to Lu-Gang

        We made some plans for the French students. And I joined the trip to Lu-gang, which was led by Irene. We met with each other at 求真building on Friday morning. We went to the bus station on foot when all members arrived. On the way to the bus station, I talked with Abour. She is from North Africa but she went to France for studying when she was twenty-one years old. She said that her parents encouraged her to go to France for studying. I asked her that why she chooses France rather than America and England. She said that the tuition of America and England are too expensive. Besides, French is one of her mother languages. And her brother is studying in France now!

        When we arrived Lu-gang, we visited many places, such as Long-shan temple, old street, and Tian- hou temple. The French students love our temple very much! Just like what Careline said, “ How wonderful! ” At the old street, they were interested by some traditional toys, like bamboo dragonfly. I also bought a pack of 仙楂 for them to try. However, it seemed that they didn’t like it. They thought that it tasted like medicine. The place they expected the most is mo-ro lane. However, most of us were too shy to pass the lane.

It had been a long time for me not to visit Lu-gang, and it is also the first time for me to go with foreign friends!

Welcome Party

Today was the first day I met the French student. I was so excited that I couldn’t wait to see them. We took the same class with them in the afternoon. First, we introduce ourselves. When I told them that my name is Jaguar, the French students were shocked. I think I make them confused. HAHA….

After introducing, professor gave us some articles and asked us to divide into four groups. We needed to use our creativity to adapt the story. Our group is to put ourselves into Taiwanese shoes and try to imagine a Taiwanese girl who goes to France. Cedric, Isabel and I were in the same group. We present our story by acting. Our story was so funny that most of the students in our class were laughing.

        As for dinner, we went to “十分有味”, which is a Chinese restaurant to have a welcome party. We ordered many dishes for the French students to have a taste. I remembered that Charlotte loved beef the most, especially with sweet-and-sour sauce. During the dinner, I found that most of the French students love sweet food very much! After eating, Isabel, Cedric and Paw sang some Taiwanese songs and danced for them. And the French students also sang and danced for us! We all had a good time with them.