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.

2010 Christmas

     I still remember last Christmas Eve I spend the time with my friend. We went to MOS burger to have dinner and exchanged gifts with each other. I sent my friend a card and a bag, and he sent me a bottle of lotion and a little card. Then we have a happily talk that night. This year we still celebrate this holiday together! It is because I think he is an important person to me.

     I loved Christmas so much since I was a little girl. Till now I still love this holiday though I won’t write dozens of Christmas cards just like what I did several years ago.

In the past, I used to cost a lot of money to buy cards and chocolate, and spend them to my friends. It is because I love the surprise and happy expression from them when they receive my Christmas gift.

     Maybe many hard final reports make me not have the free time to prepare Christmas presents, I still want to wish all of whom I love could be happy and healthy forever! Thanks GOD! J

Do the volunteer

From November Fanny and I have gone to Taichung Baptized Church to assist elementary students’ homework. It is because we both are members of remarkable teacher education in NTC, we need to do volunteer for at least thirty-six hours each semester. We didn’t get the chance to go to elementary school which is at remote districts by groups this time, so we have to find other organizations by ourselves.

Luckily, by way of senior’s introduction, we soon found there are some vacancies for volunteer at Taichung Baptized Church. So Fanny and I start to do volunteers at night. Every time the jobs we do are different. Sometimes we check their homework. Sometimes we help them do arts. And when they take the pop dance classes, we help maintain the class order. I think every time is a challenge to me. However, their innocent and pure faces always make me happy though most of time they are noisy!

By the way, most of the students there are from minority family. It means that we need to put in more energy on them, and be more patient when we teach them. We will keep doing volunteer until next semester, and I think the experience here will be an important and special time for me.